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Show ? - "' 1 Painless Dentistry Tried on Lioness nary methods of pulling It were unsuccessful. unsuc-cessful. The dentist waa compelled to crush the tooth and extract It In more than a score of fragments, the Hon meanwhile enjoying a fitful sleep Induced by the narcotic With the tooth once out of the way the socket was soon cleaned and disinfected and Ihe animal released, minus Ihe tooth ache which had been distressing ber for days. Many a worthless man has a good disposition. Life's Lift I Ironic ! When lu(eri Burnv iMy . on hit, outhlie;l In Dumfries he is said to have declared lu Ills wife: "I will Ite better known a hundred years from uow Jenn than I am lodny " More I prophetic words were never uttered. The poet who died tortnenled with a debt of S.'s'i hnngina oer hi in thai he .was iinahle to meet Is known everywhere todny. while the sale of one copy of an early edition of his poems brings enough money to hsW1 kept Burns in alllueoce all his life. A bit of dentistry In which the den fist rather than the patient might ; have beeu expected to llee the ollice as the futai hour npprouched Is re . ported by Prof. Osknr Burgt of the ' Unherslly of Zurich. Switzerland. The , pattenl was a twenty-year-old lioness, resident of the zoo at Seebncb. and suffering from "an ulcerated toofb. First Doctor Itiirgl administered a dose of narcotic sufficient to keep the I atiltual without : pain and virtually asleep. Chains and ropes were then list'' to tie the patlenl so tightly that escape was Impossible The Jaws were propped open and tied. Not until then did Doctor Burgt begin his dental operations, op-erations, but his troubles were not over. The ulceration affected one of the great canines or "eye teeth" of the giant cat. So firmly attached to tbe jaw was this great tusk that ordi- j |