Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-05-23
Does a discovered Head Retain
Semsibility

Much has been written, and many con-
flicting opinions expressed, as to whether
the head, after decapitation, retains any
sensibility, and the question has been re-
vived in Paris aDrOp0s of Lemaire' s execu-
ton. M. Bonnafunt gives the following
account of an experiment on the discovered
heads of5two Arabs, which will probably
set the question at rest. He says: l was
in Algiers. in 1888, where met with mill
tary surgeon, M. de Faliois, who asked me
what thought of the assertion of Dr.
Wilson, of New York, that a discovered
head retained its sensibility for two or three
minutes maintained the impossibility of
the asserted fact on physiological grounds;
I heard that on the following day two
Arabs were to be beheaded, and obtained
leave to make some conclusive experiments
on the subjects. For this purpose had
placed on the execution ground small,
low table, on which was placed a large,
shallow vase nearly filled with powdered
plaster then went to the place of execu
ton, provided with small ear trumpet
and a very sharp lancet. 1t had been
agreed that the charus should place the
head, Immediately after it was cut off, upon
the plaster of Paris, so as to stop the hem
orrhage. M de Fallois was to speak to
the first head by name, placing the ear
trumpet to the ear, whilst l examined what
occurred in the eyes and on the other fea-
lures. This was done but notwithstand-
ing all the shouts into the ear, could not
perceive the slightest sign OF life. The
eyes remained CLASSY and motionless; the
face discolored. The muscles gave scarcely
any sign of contraction under the lnf1u-
ence of the lancet. We changed places
= ,,,r+;rcr with tho coo0p6 head
and M. de Fallois convinced himself that
death was undoubted and instantaneous.
It could not be otherwise, physiologically
speaking, for Immediately after the diyl-
sion of the large arteries which convey
the blood to the encephalon, a sanguineous
depletion takes place, which must necessa-
rily bring ON syncOpe." aLC50Ns =
THE SPRING TnE.-The opening OF
snrine is well described in these lines of Lowell,
which though made for New England will, like
most Yankee products, bear transplanting to the
Northwest: w -
Fust come the blackbirds catt'ring in tall trees,
An settlin things in windy Congresses
Fore long the trees begin to show beneI-
The maple crimsons to coral-reaf -.
Then safern swarms swing off from all the willers
So plump they look like yaller caterpillars,,
Then grey hosschess nuts leetle hands unfold
Softer n a baby's be at three days old:
This is the robins amanick; he knows ~
That arter this Their g only blossom-snoWs;
So choosin' out handy crotch an spouse,
He goes to plast'rin his adobe house re- =. r.
Then seems to come a hitch,-things lag behind,
Till some fine mornfn' Spring makes mp her mind,
An; ez when snow-swelled rivers cresh their dams
Heaped up with ice that doYetails in an jams
| leak comes spirtin' thru some pin-hole Cleft
Crows stronger fiercer, tears out right an left,
| Then all the waters bow themselves an come,
| Sudden, in one greet slope o'shedderin' foam,
| Jes SO our Spring gifts everythIn' IN tune Oh
Lean from AOril into June:
| Then ali comes crowdn in; afore you think,
The oak-buds mist the side7hill woods with pink
The catDird in the laylock- bush is loud. --'A-
The orchards turn to heaps o rosy cloud,
| In ellum- shrouds the fashin' hangblrd chngs,
| An; for the summer vy'ge his hammock sings,
An down the loose-walied lanes In archn bowers,
The barb'ry droops its strings o. golden mowers,
Whose shrnkin' hearts the schoolgirls love to try
With ns,-tbc IN worry yourn 60, boys a bime-by
| ,Nuff sed Janes bridesman, poet o Inc year,
/ GIsdness IN wings the bobolink is here;
aaifb:d in tiptop apple blooms ms, he swings
Or Climbs against the breeze WIZ qirSefih WINGS
/! Rms down. a brook O. laughter. thru the air.
/ aMy Roy DRUNK." -" Drunk! my boy
drunk % and tears started to the mother
ewes. and she bent her head in unuttera6le
sorrow. In that moment the VISION OF a
| useful and honorable career were Destroyer
land one Of worthlessness, II not aDsoiuIe
disbonor, presented itself. Well dld sne
know that intemperance Walks manu- ~
hand with poverty, shame and death; a. and
his mothers heart was pierced as with q
sharp pointed Steel All! young man, II
the hoiy feeling Of love for her who bore &c
Won Won is not dead within you, shun that
Which giyes her pain-adhere to that which
gives her joy. If she is with her Father
| in heaven, shun that course OF iiIe Whlcn
/ sbuts the gates of heaven against you, and
debars YOU from her society forever, The
drnnkard can never inherit the Kingdom OF
God. .-.-