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the storm Dr. Hoy, of the White Cross Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, came to examine fractured bones and to help in corrective work, that being his specialty. Dr. Hoy examined over 300 fractures and pronounced the work that had been done by Miami physicians under the circumstances to have been remarkably efficient, but among the odd incidents of his visit was the discovery of an aged man who had a broken neck and was unaware of it. He complained that his neck had been stiff ever since the storm, for which he was unable to account. Dr. Hoy at once insisted on making an examination, and found, much to the man's surprise and consternation, that his neck had been broken. The most singular feature of the incident was that the man could not tell when or in what manner the accident had occurred. Needless to say, remedial measures were taken at once with the likelihood that the man with the broken neck will have had the unusual experience of passing through an ordeal which, under the excitement of the storm, proved to me without pain or very much inconvenience.

Another storm freak, and there are too many to recount, was that attending an old shack on Northwest Fifth street, which had been condemned some time before the storm. It was feared that the ramshackle building would collapse and kill someone. Accordingly the streets were roped off about it to keep pedestrians well out of range until the shack could be razed. But the storm struck before this was done. As we are told in biblical language, the storm raged, the winds blew, the water rose, and everything else took place that seemed possible, but the old shack stood, and after the storm the building that had been condemned had to be taken down by main strength and awkwardness.

HOME OF J. J. COLLINS , MIAMI BEACH.