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Show TINY DAj) Y: '-" OSSIPYING Body Is Hardening: Gradu-ally; Gradu-ally; Effect irf Scrcrc Burns.' NEW ORLEANS, La., Pec. IS. Pearl Touchstone, the four-months-old child jo a couple at Beaver Dam, vMIss., has Teen brought to the Charity hospital In this city for treatment V The condition of the child is a puzzle to all physicians who have seen her. A few days after the child was born her father's hquse burned down and the baby had a narrow escape from being Incinerated. Within a weak after this tire it was noticed that the flesh of the child was gradually growing hard. The unknown disease spread rapidly, and when the child was examined by the physicians at the hospital here It was found to be almost completely ossified. ossi-fied. The local doctors are unable to diagnose the disease of the child, and they say there Is no chance o( savlhg Its life. ' |