The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-07-08
Bringing the Dead 10 Life.

The London correspondent of the
Manchester Examiner says: 1t is dan
gerous 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
ont 10 be true, and TO make those who
mocked and ieered feel small. There
fore, IL will be well to wait before
smiling at the extraordinary account OF
a recent discovery which the Times OF
this morning copies from the Brisbane
Courier. For the benefit of such of
my readers as have not seen this ac-
count, / may explain that il announces
that a certain Signor ROtura, a gentle
man who knows great deal about
COuth American botany, has found out
a method of suspending animation in
living bodies for an indefinite time.
and OF bringing them to life again
whenever he likes, unless certain acci-
dental circumstances prevent the sue.
cess Of the experiment in hand. Aided
by MIR. James Grant, Signor ROtura
has been operating on dogs, cats aud
sheep with most marvellous results, II
the story is true. He makes n slight
puncture in the animals ear, and poors
in few drops of some South Ameri-
can vegetable extract now known only
to himself, and the dog or sheep imme-
diately becomes rigid, and, 10 all pres
ent intents and purposes, dead. Then
the animal is put away on shelf to
keep. Not in this state, however, for
IL il said that the resemblance TO death
is SO complete that decomposition soon
sets in. This, therefore, is TO be avoid
ed by freezing the subjects into the
hardness of stone and brittleLess of
glass, and in this state the beasts are
TO be sent over TO England or any
other country which may want them.-
As soon as they arrive another little
hole is TO be made in the neck, n few
drops Of the poison injected, and the
animal will Immediately regain con
sciousness and begin 10 skip and frolic
about. Sometimes. il is said, the sub
ject succumbs 10 the operation Of freez-
ing, but not often. For even such
delicate creatures as newly. BORN lambs
have been resuscitated after being ap-
parently dead for nineteen days.
The immediate object and applica-
tion Of the discovery is the transmits
sion of the surplus stock OF Austria
lian sheep and cattle 10 Europe, bEt
Signor Rotura expects 10 work still
greater marvels than that. He has not
yet experimental upon n human be-
ing, because. ] suppose, no human be-
| ing, not even himself, has been found
who cared 10 risk martyrdom in the in
/ terests OF science. but application is
said TO have been made by Sir Henry
Parkes 10 allow the next felon con
/ demned TO death in the colony TO be
operated upon. 1 suppose the Grimm
al would not object. At the worst, he
could only die, and IL the experiment
succeeded he would probably receive a
pardon for his services. II Signor Ro-
/ tura gets the man, he proposes To in-
/ iect the poison, put the felon in n re-
/ frigerator for a month, and then take
him out aud bring him 10 life again.
The most extraordinary part OF the
story is that the Signor believes that
the time the person or animal experi-
mented upon remains unconscious, aud
this time may be years, II 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, aud wanted
10 leave the world aud come back an.
other day. would only have 10 get him.
self entrauced and frozen up, aud bs
brought 10 active existence at an ap.
pointed time. II all this ia invention
Il at least shows that the world posses
ses a writer Of romance before whose
astounding Imagination Baron Nun
chausen himself must pale his ineficct.
nal fires.