Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1885 — Etruscan False Teeth. [ARTICLE]

Etruscan False Teeth.

There is nothing new under the sun, repeats the Pall Mall Gazette, and not even the modern inventor of artificial teeth can lay claim to the honor of having been the first to supply gaptoothed humanity with the subtlest of mastication knives. This has recently been proved by Italian antiquarians, who have discovered false teeth in a skull which has been excavated in an ancient Etruscan cemetery with many other curiosities at present safely stowed away at the Museum of Antiquities at Corneto, in Tuscany. The sepulcher out of which the skull was taken dates, according to experts, from the fifth or sixth century, B. C., and the false teeth are nothing but animal teeth attached to the human teeth by means of small gold plates. There is said to be one lawyer in heaven. How he got there is not positively known, but it is conjectured that Irepassed himself off for an editor and slipped in unsuspected? When his dodge was ’ discovered they searched the realms of felicity in all their length and breadth for another lawyer to draw up the papers for his ejectment, but they couldn’t find one, and of course he held the fort. What’s the world coming to? Several of our most respected men and women have lately taken the habit of posing in almost any position for the astonished gaze of a crowd of spectators. “At the rink.” ?