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Show BABY'S DIET. ITe fiwallowed the Kntlre f'ontenta of I AVork Kaaket, nnd still Uvea. Lo. the ll-jiionths-old baby of Os- car M. Spnrrier, registrar of Mount ' Airy (Md.) district, fwallowed a number ; of needles, pins, buttons, etc., Saturday : jnorning, whilo Mrs.1 Spurrier was iloin i her usual cleaning up for Sunday. About () o'clock sho idiu-td the little fellow is an adjoining room on the floor to play while she did her work. She gave him It glance quite often to nee that he did" dot (,'et near tho stove. She saw that he was quiet and contented beyond tht tablri, tnd considered him quite safe from harm. She did not notice that he bad pulled off the table spread, with the tiw iiiK basket on it. I The li' tin fellijw swallowed paper, but-i but-i ton, ticks, and ven took pins from a paper and swallowed them without complaining, com-plaining, 'i he mother later on d iscov-ned iscov-ned what he 1 neon done. She examined his mouth and found nothing in it, aud felt sure that he had not swallowed anything any-thing until about 6 o'clock in tho after- noon, when the child cried with pain ; and emitted from its mouth a number of i buttons and pins. Dr. Ben Todd was immediately sent for, but could not du i anything much beyond giving an emetic I and let ti nir nature take its course. Within With-in thirty-six hours afterward the little fellow emitted Hixty-x various articles, They had to keep moving the little fel-; fel-; low constantly, and ho bore the pain heroically, scarcely crying. At 8 o'clock next morning ho was quietly sleeping. Here, is a list of the things he swab lowed; eighteen pins, four needles, eight tacks (tinned), seven wads or particles of ! paper, two wads or particles of inuslia, ' eight china buttons, one test button, i four pearl buttons, one shoo button, one piece of bark, five pieces of cork, one pice of feather, one piece of match, one j shank button, one brass trousers button, i two pieces of chips, ono piecouf wrapped i cotton. Baltimore American. |