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Show FIND QUEER HOARD t IS LITTLEST BABY OF ALL Champion Lightweight Babe of Medical Medi-cal History Is Born In New York. New York. The champion lightweight light-weight baby of the entire history of medical practice, according to New York physicians, is being carefully guarded in an incubator at the Lying-in Lying-in hospital, Second avenue and Seventeenth Sev-enteenth street, for fear the faint spark of life It possesses may expire at any moment. Nevertheless, its chance for existence seems favorable. It weighs only twenty ounces. It owes its present nold on life to Dr. Charles H. Goldsmith of 1910 Lexington avenue, who, first believing believ-ing the little girl, born prematurely, had come into the world dead, later noticed a slight twitch of one of the eyelids. He then revived the Infant by breathing into ' its mouth. Mrs. Mary O'Connor of 2595 Eighth avenue is the mother of the child, and at the time of its birth was suffering with whooping cough. After Dr. Goldsmith had been hurriedly hur-riedly summoned to the O'Connor home he told the parents, after careful care-ful examination, that the baby was dead. The physician was astonished at the diminutive size of the Infant. An eight-pound baby is not considered consid-ered a large one, yet this little newcomer new-comer was only' one-sixth the weight of an eight-pound baby. As It lay on soft material arranged on a table, the father, hearing the doctor's verdict, started out to find an undertaker. A few minutes afterwards the physician noticed a slight movement move-ment of an eyelid. The father returned return-ed a few minutes later, having arranged ar-ranged for the burial, to find the physician working to revive the child, though the appliances usually used In such cases were lacking and there was no time to send for them. . ? Interesting Discovery in an Old Texas House. Dagger, Crimson With Blood Rust of Centuries, and Ancient Spanish Pieces of Eight Found in Old Pot. San Antonio, Texas. Still crimson with the olood rust of centuries, a dagger was found in the walls of an adobe building in San Antonio, and in another, part of the house was found a copper pot containing pieces of eight. It is regarded as the most historical production which Texas has yielded in many years and the coins liave been sent to Tiffany in New York for valuation. Charles Arnaud and Gu's Loeloff, his orother-in-law, were tearing down an undent structure, used in bygone days us a fandango hall, when their picks came in contact with something that rang differently from the flint rock which composed part of the walls. They took their pocket knives and Ecraped away the mortar and discovered discov-ered what resembled a teapot. Extracting this vessel from its cpat-Ing, cpat-Ing, they dug a flint rock from Its opening, where the lid should have been. At first spider webs obscured their view, but after wiping these away they could see dimly that there was something at the bottom of the pot. It proved to be eight Spanish coins, covered with dust. How the dust got there it is impossible to say, as the large opening of the teapot was closed and the spout was so small that only a few drops at a time could have been poured from it. And in addition ad-dition the hole was inclosed in the solid wall. Local scientists will tackle the problem prob-lem of how the spiders entered the pot whether they were in it before the wall was closed, or whether they crept through soma infinitesimal crack and thence into the spout of the pot. Quien sabe? The dagger has a pearl handle, carved by hand, carrying a feathery design on one side and on the other a shield and leaves. At one end it has a guard almost as large as those of the swords used by the crusaders, bearing a bas relief of a wolf's head. At the other end it has a similar ornament, orna-ment, the head of some animal which has not yet been identified. The blade is seven inches long, sharp on one side and thick on the other. Its point is yet in fine shape and could do deadly work. It has peculiar pe-culiar red stains, believed to have been caused by blood. This weapon was found near the top of the wall, hidden by mortar, and it is thought it was tossed there for the purpose of concealment. |