A RECORD OF FRACTURES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 21, 4 June 1908, Page 11

A RECORD OF FRACTURES.

MAN'S EXTRAORDINARY CAREER. Kliji 'A. rHeilerj.-of Gilgandra, N.S.W., who vhad < his jrleg . fractured recently vrhilti\ ,bosingi | :."has ".'(according to theSydney;' "Herald") a unique record for. Ho is but 25.-.years of .'age,, has already experienced :19'..breakages'.„>'When, nino months old ho broke his'wrist; at two years, "ruptured the muscles.!ofnhis <thigh, and broko. his collarbone ;C3jo fractured his collarbone again when three yeafs old; at four years he dislocated ,and fractured his collarbone'; fori months, when five, six, and seven/'Jib. fractured his .oollarb'one, also rupturing 'the' J 'tfuisr.leß of the. (.high; his shin was fractured at ten, his instep at-cloven, audi a(Pthirtcon he recoivcd a sprained ankle ; at-'fifteen I 'h'e had tho cup knocked. off an elßßVj' a'Hiftiilar accident happening again at sixteen; _ and, at... nineteen his instep was again, of. his jaws were broken and within the last six months "lie lias had both legs broken. Mr. HoilcrySwho, looks none' the worse for his experience,'; lived for a considerable time at Moree; :a>nd is carrying on.a tailoring business'here, in partnership with Mr. Hill.

The boy stood on tho school house step, When the master opened the door. "Hollo!" I'said the master, "You'ro first at ■ ilastY . , , , ■„ ■ You were always behind before!. "I'm early because," replied the lad, "I've taken the health-renewer To cure the' cough that was so bad—■ It's Woods' Great Peppermint Cure." 12