Show MAN TACKS ff he ats airo chow s acid u bs hugh gloucester ot of li who bites nails in halt half as if they the Y were lumps of cl cheese who eats with the ease of an invalid of 0 an egg hop flop who swallows yardsticks and chews aluminum almo A reached the limit yesterday by a needle into his chest with a hammer hant says the chicago journal tho the last mentioned feat cirame near resulting in the undoing at hugh gloucester ile he Is in the Ha hahnemann linemann hospital where by a most delicate ope operation ratton two physicians removed the needled need lei blood poisoning may result and cadio tile the mans death but at present gloucester suffers cutters no train the injury had the needle penetrated an eighth ot of an inch higher the physicians declare the man would hare been killed almost instantly the tha needle needie 6 would have entered his heart A as 3 the physicians began cutting away thet flesh to extract the needle which had broken off the patient remarked remar lied asked if it hurt it is no nothing Lhing gentlemen cut away at your pleasure this was a piece of foolishness on my part A man bet me 53 3 that I 1 drive this needle into me and live in a moment ot of recklessness sneza I 1 accepted the wager pull me through it il you can the operation over gloucester reached for a threefoot three foot rule lying nearby and in a twinkling it had almost disappeared down his throat he pulled it out and asked for nails the nails were provided and he bit several in half ile he then swallowed half a dozen tacks and afterwards taking a piece of at aluminum from his bis pocket chewed it as if it were gum ile ho declared that since last friday lie he iad had swallowed tacks |