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Show An exchange t-ayf: "The worst joke that was ever perpetrated on -cientific men took place recently at Luisiana, Missouri, A man wan t-ick with rheutnatim, or somethinjr, and a fellow weotan-und to tho doctors and profenors, and told ibem it was tbe queeet case on record. He said tbe man bad no feeling. You could slick pins in his body all oyer, and he pairi no attention to lb tin at all. He was perfectly numb. So the doctors go1 U'ge'.her and called on the aick man w experiment. All arrived wub pi and budkius. The man was asleep and they got around him aod ennh w siuck bis p;o in 'be patient. Tbe siok man rolled over and looked ac the crowd, Hnd tboucht n hey had cme to di.-sect h'tu, fo be took the chair in one hand and bed p st in tbe other, and drove the crowd thence, Tiyan-aroocd Tiyan-aroocd Trith tbeir beads tied ud, lonk-iH2 lonk-iH2 for the tcsq who s&id tu&t tb: sici ruaD bad no feWine. |