Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1884 — A Delicate Question. [ARTICLE]

A Delicate Question.

One afternoon, as the Hon. W. C. Raines, a lawyer well known in Western New York, was traveling over the Central, he was approached by the conductor, who was one of his innumerable friends, and who announced that he wanted his advice on a rather delicate matter. “Well, what is it?” said the lawyer. “Well, Mr. Baines, the fact is, there’s a big two-fisted fellow forward lh the smoker that won’t pay his fare.” “Well?” “Well, what I want to ask you is: Had I better let him ride free of take a lioking ?”— Brake’s Magazine.

M. Charcot describes an hysterical patient who slept uninterruptedly for fifty-four days. The noise of a gong beaten violently at her bedside was upperceived, yet she was able to eat and drink, and all the functions connoted with nutrition were performed without difficulty. The awakening was spontaneous, and found the patient in good health. Bhe did not know she had been unconscious for nearly eight weeks.