Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1890 — One Boy’s Record of Accidents. [ARTICLE]

One Boy’s Record of Accidents.

The marvelous capacity of the small boy for breaking himself up is amusingly illustrated in tbe case of Alexander Chambers, son of T. W. Chambers, of Brooklyn, whose twelve years of life have been made exhilarating by the following disastrous incidents: Broke his nose falling off a plank, seven feet, on the flagging of an alleyway. Sprained one of his anus. Fell on the sidewalk and broke his nose; second calamity of the kind. Ban over by a truck; left thigh broken. Fell between the wheel and body of a truck, lacerating left leg and crashing ankle bone, caus ng nn aoscess to form. Shot in the foot by a playmate, who had snapped a pistol at him sixteen times, and had at last succeeded, on saviug, “Here she goes. Ally." Broke a finger whil* at play. Cut his head by getting knocked down in :i skirmish. Left arm badly braised by a similar difficulty. Long gash in the skull, acquired by beiag tripped up and whacked on the head by another boy. This is the record to d ite, but Alexander hopes to lengthen it as he grows older.