Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1895 — No Blood in Him. [ARTICLE]

No Blood in Him.

The human puzzle struck Washington the other day. His name is Nixbeno, or Harry Beno, of Port of Spain, Trinidad, and he is en route to New York, where, he declares, he has been offered $25,000 and a ticket back to Cuba for letting the doctors amputate his left arm in the interes of science. The human puzzle is a short, stocky looking knight of the road, and his great specialty is self-torture and mutilation. He sticks pins and needles into any part of him he can reach, and he is decorated all over with scars inflicted by obliging individuals who at his request have experimented on him. The puzzle says he has no physical sensibilities and no blood in his body. This last is very thoroughly disproved by a strong, healthy pulse at the wrist, but the former one might believe from the fact that he sticks darning needles through his tongue and hatpins through both sides of his jaws, while he invites anyone w bo is interested and skeptical to run a long bonnet pin through his biceps or his leg or any part of his body they choose. He has a hypodermic syringe needle that he has fixed up for a cigarette holder, and this he thrusts through his windpipe and smokes a cigarette with his mouth shut. He declares that he does not mind being burned and shows a number of scars which he says are from recent electrical experiments. The puzzle is shy a third finger on his left hand. This, he says, was amputated in New Orleans just to show that he would not bleed, and the proposed amputation which he says is to take place at Bellevue Hospital in New York will be the consummation of a long and interesting public career. After that the puzzle says he will walk back to New Orleans on stilts for a wager and sail for Cuba to enjoy in an affluent old age the fruits of his youthful travel and adventure. Beno says that he is a half caste Spaniard, his mother being -‘an Englishman,” but he looks the pure article of Bowery Americanism and bears on his arm a number of patriotic emblems in tatooiug.