Life — October 13, 1898 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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* LEP E impoverished noblemen at large rates of interest, but a sports- man in all the lines where large sums may be won and lost. J Like its predecessors at the same theatre, it is handsomely mounted, and has many changes of elaborate scenery. The company is a competent one, including actors especially fitted for melodrama on a large scale. Among these are Miss Elita Proctor Otis in the congenial réle of a society adventures, Mr. Robert Hilliard equally well cast as a sporting nobleman, Mr. R. A. Roberts as a humorous London policeman, und Mr. Frank Burbeck as the very smooth and gentlemanly money- lender. Anyone who has fallen into the net of thinking that this life is one dead, dull level of monotony, can see this piece with profit, and with a new understanding of how many strange things may happen in a very short space of time. “OTIS BETTER TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE.” Metcalfe, SNORE tee The Healing of a Wound. Tz following experiments on cicatrization, or the forma- tion of scars, performed by M. L. Ranvier, are described in the Reoue Scientifique (Paris, February 19th): ** If we make in the eyeball of a rabbit two parallel cuts, one simple, takin, upa third or a half of the thickness of the membrane, an the other penetrating to the interior, the latter will heal more quickly than the former.’ To observe with greater ease this paradoxical phenomenon, we must make the two incisions of nearly the same length and at the centre of the cornea, about a millimeter apart.” — Translated for the Literary Digest. A later experiment of Monsieur Ranvier upon his own eye (the left one in thisinstance, for he operates with his right hand) demonstrated conclusively that a linear scar is almost invariably accompanied by a slight burning sensation, such as may be noticed if a cinder or a drop of lemon juice be inserted under the lid, while the sim. plecut, when cicatrized (if no complication su- pervenes), is usually followed by a pecu- liar defect in the sight, often blurring the objects viewed. and not infrequently dis- coloring the ball of the eye. Query. HEN horned owls toot Their sad salutes, While still the wicked flea ; If in pursuit, Tho arrow roots, Why can’t a cat nip SMALLEST THING THE WAR HAS PRODUCED. tea? comicbooks.com