South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-05-19

across it. This faculty he attributed to
some highly developed sense of touch pos
sessed by the wing. DR.. Scholl has re-
peated these experiments; but for the put
ting out of the eyes he has substituted the
less painful method of covering them with
sticking plaster He has kept bats, thus
treated, for year alive in his room, and
has confirmed Spellanzani's results.
THE agent of the Central Railroad
Company, at Seneca Falls, has in his pos
session picture of the first train of cars
run in the United States. 1t was an ex-
1881, and on the Mohawk & Hudson Rail
road. The body of the cars was made of
the style of the stage-cOaches in use at that
time, and of those who participated in the
excursion but one of the number is alive
to-day. That one is Thurlow Weed.
A CURIOUS and beautiful effect was pro-
duced by one of the ice-making machines
built lately in Philadelphia This was a
cake of manufactured ice, in the center of
which, completely enclosed by the trans
lucent material, was q bouquet of fresh
flowers Every leaf and flower was per-
fectly visible, while the brilliancy of the
colors was enhanced by the refraction
through the ice. This specimen of sum-
mer entombed by winter was produced by
the Care ammonia process, a French in
vention, under which these machines are
operated.
A GOOD story is told in the Hartford
C0urdnt, of a young couple who wanted
to hear Dickens read; they could hardly
afford it, but screwed up their extrava-
gance to the necessary pitch. As they had
concluded TO invest, they bethOught them
selves of poorer family near by, who
were suffering from lack of work. So
they gave up Dickens, and gave the price
of the two tickets to their Impoverished
neighbors. The poor couple took the
money, bought tickets with it, and attend
ed the readings They had a good time
going, and the others enjoyed an approx
ing conscience-until the next day.
A SINGULAR character, Isaac Nye,
known as the Hermit of Champlain," /"
died recently at Burlington, VT. Fifty
years ago he was a merchant in that
place, and over thirty years since he
closed the shutters of his store, which, it
is said, were never opened afterward. In
this store he had lived the life of hermit,
although he possessed sufficient property
to enable him to exist comfortably. The
goods in the place when closed remained
and nodded upon the shelves; he would
sell none of them. He was laid out, by
his own request, upon the counter of the
old store. His age is supposed to have
been nearly eighty years. He was unmar
ried; latterly rarely spoke unless spoken
to; attended no gatherings of his fellow
men. except funerals, at which he was a
frequent visitor.
WHEN Ezekiel Webster Daniels
brother) was in full practice at the bar he
was employed to defend the will of Roger
Perkins, of Hopkinton. The physician
made affidavit that the testator was struck
with death when he signed his will. Mr..
Webster subjected his testimony to most
searching examination, showing, by quot
ing medical authorities, that doctors disa-
gree as to the precise moment when dy-
ing man is struck by death, some affirm
ing that it is at the commencement of the
fatal disease, others at its climax; and
others still affirm that we begin to die as
soon as we are born, 81 should like to
know said Mr.. Sullivan, the opposing
council, "what doctor maintains that
theory% "Dr. Watts" said Mr.. Web
ster, with great display:
1.-THE moment we begin to live,
We all begin to die
The reply convulsed the court and audi
ence with laughter.