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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 414, 25 January 1909, Page 6

■A successful claimant for an old , age pension at St. Germains, Cornwall, has: £800 invested in a bank, but his'yearly income! does not exceed the specified sum. : There has died in the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, John Young, a workman, had swallowed (he said) seventeon_.npjl3. In the workshop there had been a discussion about swprd swallowors,'and one, of ; the workmen, making pretence to swallow nails,, challenged Young to imitate himi Youiig accepted the' challenge, and swallowed a quantity of nails. Five days later he became ill,; and by means of X-rays seven nails were located .andthen extracted. At first he seemed to improve, but a relapse set in with fatal results. ..'. The famous Russian, Dr. Zabarin, whohas died in Moscow, and left over £200.000, v,-as noted for his eccentric methods: When summoned to attend; Tsar Alexander lIL in his last illness, Dr. Zaharin required the same preparation for his visit to thoiPalace as to any of .his patients'' homes. ■■ That .is .to say, all dogs had to be kept oiit of tho way, all clocks stopped, and every door thrown wide open. He left his furs in the hall, his ovorcoat in the next room,, his goloshes in toe third, and, continuing, arrived: at the bedside in ordinary indoor costume. He sat down after walking every few. yards, \ and every, eight steps ingoing'upstairs. ; From . :ho. patient's relatiyes, and everyone else in the house, he required absolute silence until he spoke to them, when his questions hod. to.be answered by "Yos" or ,1 No" nud'. nothing JMtffcw... . ■■'..■