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...dreams he is a bellhop in the hotel. Weird guests arrive-a black man in white tie and tails with a gorilla, a headless man carrying his head, a magician who scares Schenectady by materializing a goldfish bowl on his head, a "Lonesome Ranger" astride a goat, an invisible man who keeps appearing, and Brutus Blake (Maceo B. Sheffield), who holds a mortgage on Schenectady's hotel. Most of the horseplay centres around Brutus, who tears up floors and walls hunting for hidden gold, scares the chambermaid, gets chased by the gorilla, by his wife, makes love to lovely...
...mean a carny show where the play is for the sucker. You can't put a show on like that any more. You got to give. So I'm gonna give." Mike is even going to give Elmer "for free" a peep at the Girl in the Goldfish Globe. After that, Mike thinks, Elmer will not mind giving a little something himself...
...Wells had a partner, a cautious, experimental man, William Morton. He had no trust in laughing gas, but tried ether for years, independently of Long, on countless bugs, goldfish, rats, worms and dogs. Finally he successfully anesthetized himself and several patients. In 1846, he gave an ether demonstration before the staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Said famed Surgeon John C. Warren to his amazed colleagues: "Gentlemen, this is no humbug." Doctors soon took up anesthesia with enthusiasm, but forgot Morton. For a while, he went into partnership with Charles Jackson, a noted chemist and physicist, but finally, homeless...
...publicity and because the men who are now running St. John's flatly state that it is the only college in America now providing a "liberal education", its students are necessarily a little self-conscious. They haven't acquired that imperviousness to public attention of the proverbial goldfish in the bowl. (Their interest in the business of education and distaste for what are called extra-curricular activities would never let them gulp the contents...
Half-century ago, a lush-bearded storekeeper in What Cheer, Iowa developed a passion for collecting goldfish bones. From fishbones, Daniel David Palmer turned to human vertebrae and founded the spine-tickling business of chiropractic. Today chiropractic is a $70,000,000-a-year industry, with 20,000 practitioners in 44 States legally manipulating everything from colds to high blood pressure. Instead of the old-fashioned manhandling of "Fish" Palmer, modern chiropractors use a glittering variety of labor-saving devices called by such impressive names as "Neurocalcograph," "Electroencephalomentimpograph," "Neurotempometer...