An Extraordinary Cask

-A soldier iti Mierman s army, w;tli bis throat out from ear to ear, was thought to be mortally wounded by a oounoil of surgeons; hut the ono uridcr whose iminediate care he was, thought, he was justifica in makinr an experiment for the good of oUuTs, at the samo time having great hpcs of saving the man. Hu first commeuced bis task by outting through where the two upper ribs ment the sterlium, and through this orifice for forty days he hns been l'ed ñve gallons of milk per week, and someiimes his appetite roiju'red five per duy. He is fat and liearty, and the surgeou tiiinkn in two weeks he wil! have him able, and the ïqside of his throat so nuarly heuled, as to í.ilow ti ï ui to Hwailow by the natural passage. He at first iutrodueed a stomaeh pump, and thiis fed his patieut, and after a few hours would olear his stomaeh ia I the samo manner, thus produeing artificial digestión, till it was 110 loner necessary. A silver tube is novv used to feed him.