Of The East Side of Washington Street, Boston.
By a Fast Young Puppy.
Allegorical Representation of the Month of June.
About the beginning of October, turkeys, young and old, move from their breeding districts towards the rich bottom lands near the Ohio and the Mississippi.
Above we give a representation of a portion of the work which occupies the New England farmer at this season of the year.
The subjoined engraving, the design of which is from the graceful pencil of Rowse, is more eloquent than words.
Allegorical Representation of January
May-Day
Spaulding & Rogers’s Floating Circus Palace.
A characteristic group, representing Chang and Eng, the Siamese Twins, with their wives and Children.
Winter Pastime – A Skating Scene.
Kate Warne, America’s first female detective.
The Eye that Never Sleeps.
New York, New York, 1887 - The horrible curiosity just imported form Italy by a prominent New York surgeon.
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A well-known New York surgeon has just imported form Florence, Italy, a table which for originality in the matter of construction and ghastliness in conception, is probably without rival. It was mad y Giuseppe Sagatti, who passed several years of his life in the manufacture. To the casual observer it gives the impression of a curious mosaic of marbles of different shades and colors, for it looks like a polished stone. In reality it is composed of human muscles and viscera. No less than a hundred bodies were requisitioned for the material. The table is round and about a yard in diameter, with a pedestal ad four claw feet, the whole being formed of petrified human remains. The ornaments of the pedestal are made from the intestines, the claws with hearts, livers and lungs, the natural color of which is preserved. The table top is constructed of muscles artistically arranged, and it is bordered with upward of a hundred eyes, the effect of which is said to be highly artistic, since they retain all their luster and seem to follow the observer. Sagetti died about fifty years ago. He obtained his bodies from the hospitals and indurated them by impregnation with mineral salts.
From The National Police Gazette, October 1, 1887

