THE TIMES, NEW BLOOM FIELD, PA., MARCH 2, 1880.
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V H ANOI KMKNT OF PABSENGKHTHAINB
NOVEMHKlTToih, 1870.
trains l.eare llarrlsburj n Followi :
For New York via Allontown, at 5.15, 5.05 . m.
ml 1.45 . in. .... . ., .
Kor New York via Philadelphia and 'Bound
Brook Hotite," tf.Siu, (Fast Hl ) 8.S5 a. m. and
' M'rough car arrives In New York at 1J noon.
Kor 1'hliadtilpliis, at 6.15. 6.2u (KaBtKap) SM,
.RSa.m.,1.45and4.Uup. m. . ....
Kor Keadlim.atMS, 8 i (Fast Exp.) 105, 9.55
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Kor Pottsvllle. U.lft.8.M . m. and 4.00 p m.,
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' Kor' AHentown, at 5.15, s 05, 9.55 a. m., 1 45 and
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riving at Hsrrlabnrg, 1.50, 8.20 t. in., nml 9.211p.m.
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Secrets of a Disaocting Room.
WHEN' dlnseutlon of human bodies
waa legalized In this Stale by the
Legislature In 1800 It was also enacted
that the bodies of all friendless paupers,
criminals and unknown persons that
remained unclaimed and for whose In
terment no one provided should he dls
trlbuted among the different medical col.
leges of the city In the Interests of
dissecting purposes. This enactment
had the double effect of putting an end
to the city's expense lot cartage and
burial of the remains, and to remove, to
a certain extent, the temptation of
" body snatching" and the hideous
trafllo In "stlfls," as the subjects are
designated by the medical profession.
The Increased supply by this means,
white It aiTorded a larger and better va
riety of bodies lias also reduced the
prices from as high as $15 and $20 per
subject, at which these were held In
former years, to about $3, and for this
sum no one would assume the risk and
labor that attended the robbing til'
graves.
"We used to pull up sixty 'stlfiV
every spring and full," said a retired
member of that ghoulish fraternity, and
who now keeps a concert saloon In a
certain part of this city, "and I've 'ad
as 'igh as $50 for some. Twenty and
twenty-five dollars was a fair price, and
I never touched a job for less than fif
teen. I remember one time I was of
fered $100 to fetch a chap that died kind
er sudden and queer like, and whose
people was rich. We tried to get 'lm
twice hut It was too risky and we 'ad to
let It drop."
" Where dltf you operate principally V
asked the" News" man.
" Well, the old Lebanon cemetery, ou
the Passyunk road used to be our cheese.
We 'ad the sexton of the place all right
and got enough " h tills " from that place
to supply the doctors ; but they were
all darkles, and when a while one or
something extra nice was wanted we'd
take a hack at some other grave yard ;
but the Lebanon was our standby. There
are some spots In that old cemetery that
are almost depopulated, and no one is
any the wiser for It I guess at least I
never 'eard of anything being missed
yet.
"But how did you know whether you
struck the grave of a body that would
beur handling V"
" Well, I'll tell yer," replied the man,
giving the reporter a tremendous wink
from behind the flash of a match, while
he lit his dirty little pipe. "We 'ad a
sexton all right aud we never risked
making a mistake. Hut when something
extra nice was wanted we'd watch the
funeral and saw where they planted the
body,aud when the track was clear we'd
fetch It up."
" Can you remember the names of
some who you resurrected lu those
days ?"
" Ah, but to print them lu the paper
would be giving me away. I remember
only one. I can never forget it. It was
an old man, died very sudden,aud whom
the doctors wanted very bad, aud there is
a man in this city now if I'd tell you
his name you'd know him he got
some of the old man's money, and that's
what started him In the business he has
to-day. Well, we watched where the
old man was laid, aud a few days after
ward, when everything was safe we dug
for him. You know how that's done,
don't you V Well, wo dig down on the
end where the head lies, and when we
strike the box we saw It across, about 13
inches from the top ; then this part of
the lid is pried open, a rope slipped
around the neck, and a little steady care
ful pulling fetches the body out. Then
we shove It Into a rubber bag, and if we
ain't disturbed we fill the hole and
smooth everything over as we found it.
Well, in the case that I was going to
tell you about, we got the lid off and
put the rope around the neck, but when
we pulled only the head and part of the
shoulders came, and on closer Investiga
tion we found that the rest of the body
had been consumed by quicklime. What
did we do then y Why we just drop
ped the whole thing, covered up our
tracks and skipped."
" Why do you suppose quickllme was
put on that body V"
" I don't know ; perhaps he was pois
oned, and the lime would destroy all the
proof."
About 300 bodies are annually furnish
ed by the city to the colleges, but that
number Is not equal to the demand,
which Is constantly growing with the
increased number of students. In addi
tion to these are also a number of bodies
of very poor people bought from the
still poorer relatives, aud cases are
known where a man's wife died, and
after the physician's burial permit was
given, the man would sell the body to
some college for $5 or $10 and go on a
spree with the money. Of course these
cases occUV only among the lowest class
es of people, but such sale I nothing
unusual.
The vault of oue of" the wdleges lu
this city, where the bodies are received
and kept and to which none but students
are admitted, was Visited by a " News "
reporter a few days ago. A dim light
Illumined the large, gloomy room, on
whose bare stone floor lay three subjects
that had been brought lu from the Alms
house a few moments before'. A large,
brown blanket covered the naked forms,
and only the bnre feet with cramped toes
protruded from beneath the cloth, which
ou being raised disclosed the emaciated
and rigid forms of two aged white-haired
women, and a man about 40 years old
with dark hair and full beard. On the
other side of the room stood three bar
rels, filled to the rim with brine, and In
which when the scum of the surface had
been cleared away the uplifted and
ghastly faoe of oue dead man, and the
arms and legs of others beneath him
were seen. The bodies after being satur
ated with the chloride of lime, are pack
ed away in a strong brine and kept until
they are wanted, when they are taken
out, and after they have been washed
clean and the hair cut of the head placed
lu a noose and the body drawn up thro'
the hatchway Into the dissecting or an
atomlcarroom, and to which the report
er next made a visit.
About thirty tables were arranged
along the sides and In the centre of the
room, and on which the subjects, each
covered with a cloth lay stretched. The
tables are long and narrow, aud along
the sides and ends of the top a groove Is'
cut which catches the liquor that oozes
from the body and conveys it to a point
where It trickles th rough a hole and drops
Into a pan on the floor. HufTloient space
Is left around the tables to enable stu
dents to make their Investigations. A
gas pipe, directly over and running par
allel with the horizontal position of the
body, has a bunfer on each end, so that
the light Is thrown on the entire length
of the figure. Heated on high stools
besides the subjects are the students,
wearing glazed leather aprons, smoking
and laughing while their scalpels are
'busy with cutting away the skin of this
one, opening the arm and laying bare
the muscles of another, or otherwise en
gaged In studying the wonderful anato
my of the human body as represented
by the subject before them. The skin
of the bodies hangs shriveled over their
shrunken frames, the eyes are gone and
the empty sockets stare, while an expres
sion of agony Is stamped on every face.
The atmosphere of this room Is Impreg
nated with the sickly odor of the corpses
but the. students seemingly oblivious to
the awful sight, relieve the monotony of
their studies with talking and joking.
Once in a while some deeply-interested
student places his lighted cigar upon the
body before him and gives his entire at
tention to some delicate turn of the
knife. Then he picks up his cigar again
and unceremoniously places it In his
mouth and puffs away.
" Why do you call them stiffs V "
asked the reporter of a student, referring
to the bodies.
" Well, the name Is derived from the
state of the body about twelve hours af
ter death takes place and when rigor
mortuts, or the stiffness of death sets In.
In that condition It it Impossible to
bend a body, hence the name. The rig
or, however, passes off shortly after
ward and the body becomes as limp as
a rag.
A gentleman of considerable experi
ence in the medical profession, upon be
ing asked what became of the remains
of the subjects after the students were
through with them said :
" It would be hard to follow them up
In the various shapes that they finally
appear. When we get through with a
subject the meat is scraped clean from
the bones and thrown into a place built
for that purpose, and carted away at fre
quent intervals and made into R fertil
li.er, which is eventually spread over
somebody's garden, and from which
perhaps, the richly perfumed rose.or the
bright little forget-me-not that your
sweetheart loves to wear, derived their
lieauty and enchanting fragrance. The
bones are then boiled until every parti
cle of flesh Is' gone, whereupon, if the
student desires a skeleton, they are
etherized ; that is placed In ether, which
bleaches them to a snowy whiteness,
after which they are laid away some
where to dry. Otherwise they are given
away before they are boiled and re-appear
In the shape of handles for table
cutlery, so-called Ivory toothpicks, col.
lar-buttous, etc., to that the father of a
family when dissecting the Thanksgiv
ing turkey may at the time be unwit
tingly grasping the shinbone of one of
his ancestors, and the youths who are
daily seen composing that assemblage In
front of the Continental Hotel, known
as the toothpick brigade,' may be at
times engaged in but this subject is too
suggestive to be pursued further.
The ribs from discarded skeletons fur
nish excellent material for the 4 bones '
used by the end men in minstrel shows,
ond who prefer theui to anything else,
the two upper ribs Iwing eMpecially well
adanted for the pui-ioe,and every night
at Curncross' minstrele, Matt Wheeler
may be heard to rattle the bones which
enme from the right and left upper rib of
Jim Hugging, a noted colored wag of the
7th ward who died about twenty years
ago, and this explains the fact why so
much hilarity accompaules the antics of
this incomparable ' bones,' because he Is
actually tickling the ribs of a man who
Is dead but not altogether gone, and so
Jim Hugglns, who In life caused many
a laugh by his funny sayings, Is still In
strumental in making merry rlppllngs
In a minstrel show." Vhlla. Evcnlnft
Post,
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Origin of Fractional Currency.
THE origin of the fractional currency,
which has been in the past few
years superseded by fractional silver, is
somewhat peculiar and not generally
known. The appearance of this curren
cy, which at first was always spoken of
as " postal currency," was due to the
premium on specie. In 1HII2 small
change became very scarce. Gold being
up and taking with It Bllver, these coins
disappeared from circulation. Block
ings were brought out, and the precious
metals found their way to the heels and
toes. It was more than a day's search
to find a five-cent tllver piece or any
other small denomination of the coin.
People could not find exchange for small
.transactions. In buying a dlnuer in the
market change had to be taken In beets,
cabbage, potatoes and what not. Gen
eral Bplnner was then treasurer of the
United Btates. He was constantly ap
pealed to from all quarters to do some
thing to supply the demand for small
change. He had no law under which
he could act. Hut after buying a half
dollar's worth of apples several times
and receiving ' for his half-dollar in
change more or less different kinds of
produce, he began to cast around for a
substitute for small change. In his di
lemma he bethought him of the postage
stamp. He sent down to the post-ofllce
Department and purchased a quantity of
stamps. He then ordered up a package
of paper upon which government securi
ties were printed. He cut the paper In
in various sixes. One of the pieces
he pasted stamps to represent different
amounts. He thus initiated a substi
tute for fractional silver. This was not,
however, a government transaction in
any sense. It could not be. General
Bplnner distributed his Improvised cur
rency among the clerks of the Depart
ment. They took It readily. The Idea
spread ; the postage stamps, either de
tached or pasted upon a piece of paper,
became the medium of small exchange.
It was dubbed " postal currency." From
this Gen. Bplnner got his Idea of the
fractional currency and went before
Congress with It. That body readily
ace epted It, and, but a short time after
General Bplnner had begun pasting op
erations, a law was on the statute book
providing for the Issue of the fractional
currency which became so popular.
The fac-simile of postage stamps was
put upon each piece of currency, and
for a long time it was known lis " postal
currency." The Introduction of postal
stamps as money entailed considerable
loss to those who handled them. In a
short time they would not take a letter
on its way, and were therefore worth
less. A Strange Discovery.
Vulcanite, the waterproof-making sub
stance discovered by a New York man
recently, has been briefly alluded to In
the papers. Kight years ago the discov
erer thought of utilizing the sticky juice
of the common milkweed. He bought
a ten-acre lot and cultivated it, let the
gum dry and harden in the stalks, then
extract it, and by the process which he
has patented produced a vulcanized rub
ber, and from It t solution in which to
soak the most delicate fabrics, render
ing them perfectly waterproof. As a
Cincinnati Gazette correspondent says,
they are not injured in the least, either
in texture or appearance, and yet their
qualities are so completely changed that
whereas before treatment they would
have been Irretrievable ruined by a sin
gle drop of water coming In contact with
them, they can after treatment be thrust
into a pall of water without injury.
The Gazette man saw it tested on deli
cate colored silks, broadcloth, velvet,
cotton and woollen goods, and cloths of
various kinds, and the articles such as
kid gloves, furs, ostrich plums,etc. The
action of the solution seems to be such
as to incase every fibre of the material
in a film Impervious to water, yet this
film is Invisible. The pores of the tex
ture are not filled up, as is the case with
the waterproof goods known heretofore,
for water can be forced by pressure into
them, but the capillary attraction is en
tirely destroyed, and water standing on
the goods gathers Into round drops like
mercury upon a flat surface, and runs
off almost as quickly when the level Is
changed.
Maine News.
Hop Bitters, which are advertised in
our columns, are a sure cure for ague,
biliousness and kidney complaints.
Tbose who use them say they cannot be
too highly recommended. Those a fillet
ed should give them a fair trial, and will
become thereby en thunluntle in the praise
of their curative qualities. Portland
Ad. . 10 nt
SUNDAY REAEIN3.
NEVER OUT OF SIGHT.
'I know a little saying,
That Is altogether true ,
My little bny, my little girl,
The laying la for you.
'Tli this. O blue and black tyei,
And grey so deep and bright
No child In all this careless world
Is ever out of light.
No matter whether Held or glen
Ot clty'i crowded way,
Or pleasure'! laugh, or labor's hum,
. Kntlce your feet away
Some one Is alwayi watching you,
And wliother wrong or right
No child In all this busy world
Is ever out of light.
Borne one li alwayi watching you,
And marking what you do,
To see If all your childhood's acts
Are honest, brave and true (
And watchful more than mortal kind,
God's angels pure and white,
In gladneii or In sorrowing
Are keeping you In light.
U, bear In mind, my little one,
And let your mark be blgti !
Ton do whatever thing you do,
Beneath some seeing eye
U, bear In mind, my little one,
And keep your good name bright,
No child upon the round, ronnd enrlb
Ii ever out of sight.
A Curious Discovery.
Hecently Mr. Newton Davis, of Went
Alexandria' Ohio, cut down a tree about
six feet In circumference, In the centio
of. which was a cavity of about seven
inches squsre, partly filled with somo
rotten kind of wood and a roll of cloth, '
which erumbled when touched. Inside
of all was a German Catholic prayer
book, bound in leather and much worn.
The book was printed In 1720, and hail
a Latin introduction, while some of the
blank leaves are filled with writing In
French, part of which Is unintelligible,
but enough Is easily read to show thut
the owner was a French soldier, telN
what battalllon, and mentions the name
of oue of the officers as De La Mange.
It may be of interest to members of tho
Historical Society. A growth of at
least five inches over the whole where it
had been slipped Into the tree' hermetic
ally sealed and preserved the book. The
book taken from an ouk tree by Mr. Da
vis is a collection of Cathollo prayers
printed In German. It Is called "Tho
Holy Field Trumpet," and was com
posed by Casper Krbaud, printed by
Franciscus Eysenbarth, under a dispen
sation from Alexander Blgismund, an
Augustine Bishop, bears date 1720. It
seems to have been prepared especially
for soldiers and travelers. It contain-
morning and evening prayers, prayer
before mass, before confession, before ait
engagement, after a victory, etc., etc.
Fly leaves contain German and French
writing, but no name of the owner.
The name of his commauder, division,
and battalllon are, however, given. The
book was evidently put into a tree by
one of the soldiers passing from one to
another of the French trading post
which extended from the lakes to the
mouth of the Mississippi, 150 years ago.
(3 How easy is pen-and-paper piety,
for one to write religiously I I will not
say itcosteth nothing,but it is far cheap
er to work one's head than one's heart
to goodness. Borne, perchance, may
guess me to be good by my writings, and
so I shall deceive my reader. But if I
do not desire to be good, I most of all
deceive myself. I can make a hundred
meditations sooner than subdue the least
sin in my soul. Yea, I was once In the
mind never to write more ; for fear lest
my writing at the last day prove record
against me. Aud yet why should I not
write, that by reading my own book.tbe
disproportion betwixt my lines and my
life may make me blush myself (if not
Into goodness) into less badness than 1
would do otherwise. That so my writ
ings may condemn myself; that so God
may be moved to acquit me. TifOJfAS
Fuller.
More " Never " to Remember.
Never fail to be punctual at the time
appointed.
Never make yourself the hero of your
own story.
Never pick the teeth or clean tbe
nails In company.
Never fail to give a polite answer l u
civil question.
Never question a servant or child
about family matters.
Never refer to a gift you have uiudr ,
or favor you have rendered.
Never associate with bed compnay.
have good company or none.
Never look over the shoulder of an
other who is reading or writing.
Ntver apiwar to notice a scar, deform
ity, or defeat, of any one prevent.
Taking a penny that doc uot I
long to one, remove I lie I arrit-r trt-i
Integrity siud ra-&lity.