The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-22
SOME HARD TO SHAY.
Men Recover from Apparently Fatal
 Accidents.

Neither hole in the brain nor a broker | neck necessarily is serious matter, according | to the every day reports of the newspapers 4 | good life risk could be taken upon either b, | a most conservative company only that tht | companies judge by the rule and not by tht August Rlemsher of Hartford, Wis, Mrs F. Il. Wilder of Wilton, Pa, and Thomas Degoiycr Of Indianapolis, Ind, living ex. ainples Of the insisnificance of mere broker | neck.
 Relmsher fell and broke his neck on April 1 i6. physician put his neck in cast and
 the patient is accused by his friends of beinq able to "rubber-neck" now with all his old
 time ease and confidence. In the case of Mrs | Wilder who Is the wife of the postmaster oi the village of Wilton, Pa, she was going down I flight of stairs when she tripped and fell | to the bottom She was picked up unconscious. but after consultation of doctors the dis
 located vertebrae were set and she is recov- ering. Thomas Degolyer, the Indianapolis operating table. and he is partially paralyzed because of the shock of his fall. But his phy-
 sicions say that he will get we'll
 AS 10 the small matter of a hole in the brain, a SlF-year-old son. of Joseph Wagner. near Wautoma, Wis., Is a striking example The
 enl,a ia brother; ID years old, was playing with
 Ing the ball through the little ones head 4 skiagraph showed that the bullet had passed from the right temple back lodging against the bone at the base of the skull. But he will get we'll.
 Albert Henry. an Indian from Iowa. got drunk in La Crosse, Wis. and proceeded to walk over the railroad bridge at that place.
 choosing dark night for the trip When
 SaS h,6ert & struck M bottom in hard place he still
 tor found hole in Alberts skull as big as
 al a hali 1. dollar i9 which Abert's think-tank
 was badly exposed. But Albert Is using the
 fall. '''o
 Miss Janet. Appleton of Arcola. Ill.,. went
 10 Aiton short time ago to have Din eX-
 traeted from the base of her right lung Sev-
 era years before she had swallowed the thing.
 and as 1t was nearly three inches long if had
 gwen her much pain. The lodged fin the lung the diaphragm and
 was extracted through an incision in her side
 suffered several years with something varfously
 diagnosed as tuberculosis chronic tyspensia
 ana catarrh of the stomach. Some of tile best
 physicians had treated him Intellectually. In
 | fit of coughing tho other day however
 three grains of wheat were raised in the ef-
 fort. each of the grains having sprouted while in his bronchial tubes. Then Dickson recalled that he had first begun to suffer after hay ng
 helped to thrash wheat crop several years ago.
 Dying of an Liberated tooth Archie Wallace or La Crosse left legacy of superstitious dtead among ms friends regarding the number
 IS. Wallace was employed on the Milwaukee's new steel bridge and the last pay check that ne ne received was numbered 3. He was the thirteenth man on the pay roll and 1t was just thirteen days after he received the check that he was troubled with the tooth. His death thirteen days after the first attack has lett a score of his acquaintances too super see one in the road
 A nlllt uduBnteF or '. E. Johnson of Pax ton. Ill. holds the record for sneezng in her vicinity at least. She began at 6 o'clock on Sunday morning and kept 1t up without a break until o'clock Monday morning. when physicians relieved her. When relief came the child was fin state of collapse, and it was several days before she recovered
 rMs. Philo M. Pierce of Belot, Wis. had lost her power of spech thr months agoe, when suddenly the other day her husband was seized with a dangerous illness. When he saw that death was near he said to her that he would be content to go if only he might hear her oice again. In a moment the long lost speech came back to her tongue and from that time she has been able to talk as if nothing had ever happened
 At St aMry's Hospital in Quincy the other day A J. Clark surprised several surgeons by putting himself into hypnotic sleep just before they were to operate. upon his injured from the bac kof his hand. and he objected t1 taking either chioroform or ether while il should be dressed. He was told that the op- eration would require at least an hour. and after being assured of the time necessary hs said he would put himself to sleep for just that length of time Then the wondering doc tors looked while, rubbing his head with his unnjured palm. Clark dropped into a childlke slep. eAll the tendons in the hand ters and the doctors cut and sewed and tied until the time limit was almost up. Then with the job complete they sat back to await the mans awakening. He was lying like log but at the minute the hour was up his eyes opened. he stretched himself, and finally sat up, perfectly rational. He had heard nothing and felt nothing from the time sleep came upon him.
 As a full graduate from the knife of inc surgeon, George Burns of Rome, N. Y seems to have few bones left which may be cut l away q possible afterthought. He has lost 1 the following portions of his anatomy:
 The entire bony vault of the skull the top | Of his head and the entire left side down tn | the ear being covered with a silver plate The | scars are plain, and by placing the hand on the | side of his head the points of the plate may | be felt where the,' come in contact with the upper jaw. Five ribs were removed by the | surgeons from his left sid. and portion of | his right hip has been removed. Both of his | legs were fractured in two places. both elbow | Joints are missing. that he can twist his | forearms in all shapes. and the right kneecap | s gone. Owing to the absence of the ribs on i he left side his heart was moved over to | he right side for protection, and on that | tide the pulse-beats of the heart are plainly | elt Imbedded in his breastbone is a bullet | which could not be removed on account of | Is too close proximity to the main artery. He s blind in his left eye, but this fact can lot be noticed Burns is a veteran of tho 'nited States Navy of lS6l64.