Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1888 — A Bug in His Ear Twenty Years. [ARTICLE]

A Bug in His Ear Twenty Years.

Edward Green, of Carpenter.tp., was among the old soldiers who were examined by Dr.' Lopp, the pension agent and physician, last Wednesday. One of his troubles was a deaf ear, in which was a gathering, which, at times, gave him considerable annoyance. The doctor operated on the affected ear with a syringe, for a short time and directly there floated out a small bug, about the size of the familiar lady-bug. Tim ear had troublesome for more than twenty years and Mr. Green supposes that he has carried the bug in it during all that time. The insect was dead, of course, and the wax in the ear preserved it perfectly. Mr. Green’s soldier friends tried to make him believe that the bug was only an extra large specimen of the old-time graybacks, but they failed to convince him.