The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-26

Manchester Examiner says: 1t is danger
our nowadays to laugh at any of the
| wonderful stories which are from time
to time narrated in the columns OF the
press, because the stories have acquired
an awkward habit of turning out to be
true, and to make those who mocked and
jeered feel small. Therefore, it will be
well to wait before smiling at the extra,
ordinary account of recent, discovery
which the Times of this morning copies
from the Brisbane Courier For the
benefit of such of mF, readers as have not
seen this account. / may explain that il
announces that a certain Signor Rotura,
a gentleman who knows q great deal
about South American botany, has found
out a method of suspeHding animation in
living bodies for an indefinite time, and of
bringing them to life again whenever he
likes, unless certain accidental. circum-
stances prevent the success of the ex-
pertinent in hand. Aided by q Mr.. James
on dogs, cats and sheep with most
marvellous results, is the story is true. He
makes a slight puncture in the animals
ear, and pooIs in few drops of some
South American vegetable extract now
known only to himself, and the dog or
sheep Immediately. becomes rigid, and, to
all present intents and. purposes, dead
Then the animal is put away on shelf to
keep. Not in this state, however, for it is
said that the resemblance to death is so
complete that hatdecomposition soon sets in.
This, therefore, is to be avoided Ly
freezing the subjects into the hardness Of
state the beasts are tOlibe sent over to
England or any other country which may
want them. As soon as they arrive an
other little hole is to be made in the neck,
q few drops of the poison injected, and the
animal will Immediately regain con-
sciousness and begin to skip and ffolic
about. Sometimes, it is said, the subject
succumbs to Incorporation of freezing, but
not often. For even such delicate
creatures as newly born lambs have been
resuscitated after being apparently dead
for nineteen days. 5.;i = Hies. s
The immediate object and application
surplus stock of Australian sheep and
cattle to. Europe,f but Signor Rotufa ex-
poets to work still greater marvels than
that. He has not yet experimental upon
a human being, because, / suppose, no
human being, not even himself, has been
found who cared to risk martyrdom in. the
interests of science, but application is said
to have been made by Sir Henry Parkes
to allow the next felon; condemned
to death in the, colony to be operated
upOn.r I suppose. the criminal would
not object. At the wort, he could only
die, and if the experiment succeed
ed he would probably receive pardon for
his services. If Signor ROtura gets the man,
he proposes 10 inject. the poison. put the
felon in q refrigerator for month, and
then take him out and bring him to life
again. The most extraordinary part Of
the story is that the signorx believes that
the time the person or animal experiment
ed upon remains unconscious, and this
time may be years, if not taken out of'his
ordinary, life, because no bodily change,
will ever take place while the trance
lasts, so that person who. was tired Of
life now, and wanted to leave the world
and come back another day. would only
have to get himself entranced and frozen
up, and be brought back to active exist.
ence at an appointed time. If all this is
invention 1t at least shows that the world
possesses wrisefiof romance before whose
astounding imagination Baron Mum
chausen himself must pale his Intellectual