The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-20

n1ghef price for coal.
NO finds v what Is happening. it always
Give us rest! Let nothing ever happen
| any more.
Mosquitoes in New Jersey bite a maxnate
on the wing
Result: The poor consumer feels that
The shelters song is siienced. but in
something like an hour
Inc grocers understand that it requires a
A house burns down in Texas and a
IT, stove blows up in Maine,
prices show a gain.
Effects must follow causes-which is what
hope and pray that nothing ever hap
w. D. Nesbit
Two Odd Hospital Patients.
As they lie side by side in the I
ward OF the city hospital the nickname
OF the Stamese twins does OF seem in
appropriate to Irwin Lee and Fred
Bush. There is space Of about three
feet between their respective cots, but
coils OF rubber hose connect them, ant
that Is the reason they were given the
nickname.
On May Bush was admitted from
his home, suffering from an old stab
wound which had caused his right
lung to collapse. Two weeks later Lee
was admitted from his home, with his
left lung collapsed. due to injuries re-
ceived in cavern at the Eagle White
Lead works. The lungs, of course,
could not be repaired, so the only
thing for the doctors to do was to de-
veloped the sound lungs of their pa
tients.
This is being done in a unique man
ner by means of what is called the
Wolf bottle. named after the inventor,
a German scientist. Two of these bot
ties rest upon a commode between the
two beds. Rubber hose pass through
the corks of the bottles, the other ends
being in the mouths of Bush and Lee.
At stated intervals during the day
they are told to blow into the hose
with all their might and main, which
forces the water from the Wolf bot
ties into other bottles, showing Just
how the lung development is progress
ing.
Sometimes Lee and sometimes Bush
Is the more vigorous blower, and the
victor in this strange match is corre-
spondingly elated or depressed. The
other patients in the ward, number
Ing about 80, have taken a great in
terest in the water tournament, which
possesses the uncertainty of a horse
race. Bets are daily made and many
dime and quarter has changed hands
on the result. On visiting days visitors
to the ward become drawn into the
COHIeSt anu lay WdReTS on the twins.
ENQUIRER
The Horses Power of Smell.
The horse will leave musty hay I'M
touched in his bin, however hungry
He will not drink of water objection
able to his questioning sniff. or from a
bucket which some odor makes Of
fensive, however thirsty. His intellf-
gent nostril will widen. culver. and
query over the daintiest bit offered by
the fairest Of hands, with coaxfnEs
that would make a mortal shut his
eyes and swallow nauseous mouthful
at a gulp. A mare is never satisfied
by either sight or whfnny that her colt
is really her own until she has a GER
titled nasal certificate to the fact. A
blind horse, now living, will not al
low the approach Of any stranger
without showing signs of anger not
safely to be disregarded. The dis
of smell and at considerable dis
lance. Blind horses, as rule, will
gallop wildly about pasture without
striking the surrounding fence The
sense of smell informs them of its
proximity.-Horse and Stable.
Plight of Amateur Knife Swallower.
Emulating professional sword and
knife eaters who travel with the side
shows of the circuses and dime mus
Gums. Charles Henry. a young miner
Of West Hazleton. swallowed a large
table knife today and had to submit |
to an operation to have 1t removed |
from his stomach.
Young Henry, who is 20 years of |
age and single, frequently amused his
friends by making knives disappear !
In his throat, but until this time had |
the knack of getting them out. Today, |
as he was giving an exhibition with a |
Ia L., he tel 1x-e
It. He saw a doctor, who, after being |
told the size of the knife, said an |
operation was the only means of relief |
Henry was afraid to stand the or
deal and returned home: but the knife /
gave him SO much pain that he went |
% the state hospital The knife was |
ten inches long, with a wooden handle
and a six inch blade one inch wide,
and sharp.-Hazleton dispatch to the
Record.
Death Duel in NIidair.
The story CT a thrilling midair bat
lie between chicken hawk and a
weasel is told by James Fillmore, of
spring Grove. who witnessed it from
tart to finish.
Fillmore was going along country
Dad toward his home when he saw
he hawk dart rapidly to the ground
lose to stone fence and arise with a
mall animal in its ta1ons.
AS the man continued to watch with
interest he noticed that the bird APP
,eared to be in difficulty, and finally il
anne Tapping to the ground. fillmore
an forward and found that the hawk
lad its talons fastened in the body OF
! weasel, which had managed to
quirm about until it's sharp teeth
we're imbedded in the birds neck. In
lis position the little animal had been
ucking the blood of its captor.
The hawk was already almost dead
nd the body of the weasel was SO bad
y torn that Fillmore dispatched both
nd took them home to show to his
(Pa-l dispatch to
Record.