Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-09-14
WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.
How to make n White Man a N.

Soalpet.
WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.
How TO make n White Man a Negro
The West Alabamian, an Alabama pa-
per, says that DR.. Leiburgh, after MANY
years close investigation into the nature
and laws of color pertaining to the hu-
man family, has at length discovered, by
chemical analysis of various ingre-
dents, a compound liquid which, by re-
peated applications. according to pre-
scribed rules, will invariably, except in
few cases of chronic disease, in several
days. time turn the fairest skin of the
white race to the deepest color of the
Congo African. The same liquid, by
adding thereto two other ingredients,
and making three more applications, will
effectually black and knk" the straight
est red hair; thus, in ten days. time the
falreSt red-headed person may effectually
be turned, so far as outward appearances
indicate, into jet black, kinkly-headed
Guinea negro. The learned professor is
very humane philanthropist, and an
abolltlonist, very much opposed to slave
ry In the abstract, and is quite sanguine
in the belief that he will finally succeed
in discovering some process BY which
the Ethiopian may be made to resemble
the Caucasian. Many persons, no doubt,
will disbelieye in the prscticability of any
permanent change in. the human color
being made, but we cannot tell what n
day may bring forth. Very few at first
gave the least credit to the most miracu.
lous electric telegraph, yet the whole in
telligent world was soon convinced of its
reality by occular demonstration. To
test the effect of this new discovery in
the trans-colorization Of the human spe-
cies, the scientific professor has made
several experiments on different persons.
The first was on newly married couple
of white servants in his own employ,
who agreed, for the sum of five hundred
dollars, to let the doctor take his own
course. He first applied the fluid to
every part of these two persons for seven
days, at the end of which they were Q
beautiful jet black. In about twelve
months the woman had son who was
as black ac ~ny colnred child, but his
hair was perfectly straight. The learned
doctor then added two other ingredients
to his first compound, with which LIQUID
he bathed their hair for ten days, at the
end of which they both had kinky hair.
Preparatory, however, to changing the
hair, he had a skilled barber to cut the
hair very short. In eighteen months
after the woman had a fine daughter,
black and kinky headed. These extra
ordinary and almost miraculous results
so much excited the professor that he
must needs try another experiment. Be-
ing desirous OF securing patent right
for discoveries, and living in a thinly
settled and almost unoccupied part of the
Mississippi bottom, he has, UP to this
time, succeeded in keeping secret-out-
side of his own, and an old bachelors
premises s-the results of his very extra
oro,n--rv experiments. Being one day
on the bank ~ the river, where snagged
boat had put ashore number of Ger
man emigrants, he engaged two Quakers,
who were to be married as soon rs they
procured employ ment in the New Werld.
Being acquainted with the German Lam
guage, the doctor, en- their way to his
residence, told them some of bis efforts to
permanently change the natural appear
ance of persons. They laughed st what
they called the doctor wildness, arising,
as they supposed, from living in such q
thinly settled country, and expressed
their willingness, for small sum, to let
the professor experiment upon them as
much as he pleased. The new corners,
on arriving at the doctors residence, were
very much pleasedwith the plenty around
the premises, and in short time were
married. The doctor had central line,
fore and aft, struck upon his new subjects
with his compound liquid he then, to the
right side of the woman, and the LEFT side
of the man, proceeded to apply his color
ing and kinking fluid for ten days; at the
end of which time just half of each one
was completely changed; and they were
to all human appearances exactly hall
black and half white. In about thirteen
mon tbs the woman had fine son-and,
what is perhaps one Of the seven won
ders of the world, be is on one side q per-
feet Ethiopian, and on the other as fair
as a red headed Irishman; is now three
years and five months old, and has Sis
ter Of precisely the same species, eighteen
months old; both very hearty, promising
children-right and left sides black As
the color of their parents. The doctor
expects to make large fortune out of his
discoveries but, until he makes . few
more experiments, is very much opposed
to any one finding out anything that he
has done and but for an accident, per-
haps, would have succeeded in keeping
all a secret for some time yet.
RAT SToRY.-The Boston Herald
tells story of a family moving into q
house that had not been occupied for .
mon tn, and moving in late they were an
able to get up their beds, and the mother
and two children-the father compelled
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