The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-07-11
BRINGING THE DEAD 70 LIFE.
WONDERFUL DISCOVERY MADE LONG
WAY OFF. ia

i 1t is dangerous nowadays to laugh at any
of the wonderful stories which are from,
dme TO time narrated in the columns of the
I press, because these stories have acquired
% awkward habit of turning out to be true
md TO make those who Knocked and jaered
bslsnalk Therefore, it will be well to
/ wait before smiling at the extraordinary
ccount OF recent discovery which the
Times Of recent date copies from the
brisbane Courier. For the benefit of such
# my readers as have not seen this account
lmay explain that it announced that Ger
i tain Signor Rotura, gentl man who knows
agreat deal about South American botany,
has found out method of suspending ami
nation in living bodies for an indefinite
tune, and of bringing them to life again
whenever he likes, unless certain accidental
circumstances prevent the success of the
experiment. In hand. Aided by James
Grant, Signor Rotura has been operating
on dogs. eats and sheep with most marvel
ous results, if the story is true He makes
o slight puncture in the animals ear and
pours in few drops of some South Ameri-
can vegetable extract now known only to
himself, and the dog or sheep immediately
becomes rigid, and, to all present intepts
and purposes, dead. Then the animal is
put away on q shelf to keep. Not in this
state, however, for long, for it is said that
the resemblance to death is so complete
that decomposition soon seis in. This,
therefore, is TO be avoided by freezing the
subject into the hardness of stone and brit
t'eness Of glass, and in this state the beasts
arc 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, few drops Of the aniidote to
the pvis N injected, and the animal will
iUmedi. .teiy regain consciousness and be-
gin to skip and frolie about. Sometimes,
it is said, the subject succumbs to the ope-
ration Of freezing, but not often. For even
such delicate creatures az newly lambs
have been resuscitsted after being appar-
emily dead for 10 days.
The immediate object and application of
the discovery is the transmission Of the
surplus stock Of Australian sheep and cat
tie to Europe, but Signor Rotura expects
10 work stillgreater marvela than that He
has not yet experimented upon human
being, because, Tsnppose, no human icing,
not even himself, has been found, whoeared
Co risk martyrdom in the Interests AZ sol
encs, but application is said to have been
made to Sir Henry Parkes to allow the mex
felon condemned TO death in the colony TO
be operated upon. suppose the criminal
would not object. At the worst, he could
only die, and if the experiment succeeded. he
would probably receive a pardon for his
services IF Signor Rotura gets the man,
he proposes TO inject the poison, put the
fellow in refrigerator for month, and
than take him ont and bring hlm to life
story 10 that the Sfgnor beIoSUS U1a vs.s- y sne
time the person or animal expe eriDented
upon remains unconscious, and this may be
years, Ia not taken out of his ordinary life,
no bodily change viii ever take
place while the trance lasts, so that a per-
son who was tired OF life now and wanted
to leave the world and como back another
day. would only have TO get hims"f en-
traced and frozen up, and be brought back
TO active existence at an appointed time.
II all this is invention, it at least shows
that the world possesses writer OF romance
before whose astounding imagination Baron
Muuchausen himsef must pale his ineffect-
ual fires.-London Corr. Aanehestsr ESana-
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