"NO USE FOR 'EM."

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 299, 18 December 1877, Page 4

"NO USE FOR 'EM."

At the meeting of the Sazerae Lying Club recently, the medioal member, when it came to his tura to spoat, delivered himself of the following, which, whether it be original or not, is worthy of publication : — " Once when I was practising over in Sierra County, Califoroy, a feller | got caved on >by a bank and got hia skull fractured clean out of shape. They picked him up and brung him to me, and I made a diagnosis of hia C 999 and found* that hia brain which waa | exposed, was full of dirt -and bits of I rock.... There .wasn't nothin* to dp bat to take it out and clean it; the idea of a raaa goia' around with the action of J his braiu beia' ioterferred with by i three or four pounds of clay and gravel, j was clear put of the question, and I set, too much store by my medical reputation to consent to any auch Join's, i I took out the brain and put if in a tin pan, and while I waa washin' of i& | the patient seed a feller acros the street what he had some bizoeaa with, and went over to have a talk with him. He forgot to aome back after hia brains and I dido's see him again for two months when one day, bein' in the jinin' county, I seed him. I hailed him, I (old him as his brains was up at my office,.and if he wanted 'em he'd better come and git 'em. "'Don't want 'era said he. "'Why not?'said I. "'Wai, you see,' said he, 'I'm runnin' for office now and I don't need 'em ; got no use in the world for 'em ; fact is, they'd be an incumbranca, under the circumstances.'"

Cotopaxi, in Ecuador, bag .recently been iv eruption. A letter from Lotacunga, of July 30, in the New York Herald, has the following:— «'Qn the 25th of. this month the volcano of Cotopaxi gave unmistakable symptoms of an eruption. Adensecload of ashes completely concealed the peak, and in the evening the lightning-like fishes of the subterranean fires, aa they fitfully pierced or were reflected in the asby cloud, added to the majesty and terror of tlie scene. The first rays of dawn of the 26th showed the mountain covered with a thick black garment. At eight o'clock a hoarse noise waa heard, distant at first, bat gradually approaching, until the entire population were in motion, one and all dominated by the feeling that something dreadful was about to take place. At ten o'clock there wag no longar any doubt that the always increasing noise was the forerunner of an eruption. Streams of water poured from alt the craters on the Callao side, sweeping ' away everything in their course down to the 'potreros'.of San Augostiue. Another irresistible torrent followed the course of the Saquimala River, destroying everything before it. It is too soon to determine with any certainty the destruction of property, bat the total loss of life will reach, if it does not exceed, one thousand persons. At least two thousand head of cattle have been destroyed, and of smaller animals the loss is much greater. I had forgotten to state ibaS m the midst of the roar of the waters and the crashing of houses, the voloano poured out enormous quantities of cinders, which gradually daVkenad the whole face of the heavens, and left us in the profoundest obscurity from 1 o'clock in the afternoon until 10 at night. To-day the whole face of the country is covered with ashes, and in addition to other miseries we have hunger staring us in the face. Always apeak well of the dead, and once in while a good word for the Jiving, if you have time.