The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-03

dent, they will have reason to hope Mormon
ism and despotism in Utah will be checked, if
not finally extinguished, during his term of
Office.
Wicked Mr.. Weiss.
A recent number of Henry Ward Beecher's
paper makes the assertion that the Rev. John
Weiss, who is presently to lecture on Shak-
speare in this city, was prevented deliver
ing his Shakspearian course in Association
Hall on account of the ''unsoundness" of his
theology. We hope that this rumor is not
true for the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation is too valuable and decent a body to
incur deserved ridicule without deep pain
being given to thousands of very excellent
citizens. But if Mr.. Weiss is not to be
happens not to have precisely the same re-
ligious belief as that of the officers of the
society in question perhaps it would be as well
for these gentlemen to attain consistency by
subjecting to rigorous catechism every lee
turer whom they permit to speak in their
hall. 1t would be interesting to learn, for
instance, what Mrs Scott-Siddons thinks is
the chief end of man, and what are
Mr.. Yates views on original sin and justi-
fcaton by faith. Mr.. Bellew ought
to be required to print his confession
of faith on the bill boards, and Bret Harte
and John Hay should be compelled to explain
by what means the sacraments become
effectual means of salvation. Let us have no
loose way of doing this business. If Mr..
Pickwick's heartless warming pans and tomato
sauce were merely an ingenious symbolism for
expressing erotic frenzy, who knows but that
MIR. Weiss lectures on Shakespeare are
dark pretence concealing the theism of q
Theodore Parker or the optimism of Froth-
ingham? If ''soundness'' of religious doc
trine is to be the condition of lecturer be-
ing permitted to appear upon the stage of AS
ISOLATION Hall, let the officers Of that associa-
ton prepare theological test formula at
once This will simplify matters, and, while
freeing us from the pernicious liberalism of
wicked Weiss, not subject us to the pious
vagaries of Harriet Beecher Stowe or the
picturesque paganism Of the author Of ''Little
Brooches"
The Physiologic Effects OF Intense Cold.
The recent terrible snow storms of Mime
sofa, in which SO many human beings persisted,
suggest several important and impressive les
sons, which physiology will value, and which
may be of great service to the public. The
graphic reports Of the fate of the frozen suffer-
ers, as given by the HERALD recently, are
replete with instruction upon the physiologic
off Of into fho hur frov
If, amid the frightful and deadly visitations Of
heat and cold which annually assail him, man
can find no secure retreat, he may at least
learn to mitigate their horrors. Although in
capable of enduring any great change of tenn
perature in his body, he is known to be capa-
BILE of passing safely through many excessive
changes in the atmospheric medium which
surrounds him.
It is well known to PSYCHOLOGISTS that when
the heat Of the body is reduced to point
where freezing begins the blood globules be-
come thoroughly disorganized, and when the
disorganized fluid, thus poisoned, re-enters
the circulation it corrupts the blood. Expert
ments on animals indicate that the deadly
effect does not occur while they are in
semi-frozen condition, but subse-
quently, when the heat is increased and
circulation quickened SO far as to allow the
disorganized matter to penetrate the blood
vessels and thus overwhelm the nervous sys-
TEN. 1t has often been noticed that the fatal
moment arrives just when relief and comfort
reach the sufferer. Sir John franklin related
instances in which fishes in the polar regions
when laid on ice became inanimate, but, when
removed, recovered vitality after few days.
Travellers have sometimes observed that some
kinds of fishes in the shallow Siberian lakes
(Which freeze to the bottom) are restored to life
on the very gradual melting of the water in
Spring, and it has been said that even the
gold fish revives from frozen water in which he
has been confined While the delicate human
frame is, Of course, unable to bear such Their
NAL variations it has been inferred, from such
capabilities in other animals and from the other
circumstances mentioned, that, by allow
ing the frozen parts to thaw by almost in
finitesimal degrees, sudden alteration of the
life blood may be prevented, the shock TO the
nervous system averted and life saved. Among
those who were overtaken by the late snow
storm in Minnesota we read of newly-mar-
ried couple, who when the crisis of their fate
arrived, though driving ON the highway,
turned loose their horses, overset the sleigh,
and then crawling under it wrapped them
selves in the buffalo robes A wiser and
holder thing could not have been done, and
after two days Imprisonment they were
rescued alive. The very element that threat
ened them with speedy death proved their
deliverance. From its looseness of texture,
and from its harboring within its Aeecy folds
about ten times its bulk of air. the snow is an