Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-08-01

caused it such evident suffering that the
experiment was relinquished. A plas,
ter cast OF one of its arms WAS made
which showed the most beautiful and
/ perfect proportions, the hand especially
being finely nodded, dimpled, and pref,
tv. 1t was amusing, considering the
fact, how the child could have strug,
gled as it did when it WAS first conquer.
ed. The temperature of the body, as
shown By thermometer placed in the
axilia, was sixty-four degrees Fahren,
heit, and its breath deposited moisture
on n mirror placed over the mouth,
Aside from inarticulate cries it emitted
no sound, and even after it had been
kept and kindly treated for over n
month it showed no trace of human at
fiction, although it would some
times place its hand ON MIR.
Saxe's knee as he sat painting ~
his easel. OF course, such re-
markable occurrence as the appearance
of the child could not be kept entirely
secret, and Mr.. Saxe's room was visited
daily by numbers of people, only a few
of whom, however, were admitted and
| would say, not over fifty. At first Mr.,
SAKE had been unwilling to sleep In the
same room with the child,hu rs it gave
no evidence of spite or malace, AS such
thing might, perhaps, have been ex-
pected to show by people who believe
in demons, his fear gradually wore
away, and the child slept quietly all
night on the rug, while Mr.. Sake occu.
pied the bed. Among the speculatiouS
caused by this strange being was one
with which some of us were At first dis
posed to agree, and which was to the
effect that the child's body consisted OF
some substance like flexible crystal OF
non-rigid glass-that is TO say, OF some
substance in which physiological func
tons could not be carried on, but which
was transparent to light in higher de-
gree than any substance known to the
books. 1t followed from this that, since
light is DETECTED in passing from q
medium of one density to medium OF
another, and as the body of the child
was rounded symmetrically, an ohjec,
seen through it would appear distorted
unless the body were of the same den,
sity as the air. There was no such dis
tortion, nor when the hand was sur
rounded on'the palm side with an atmos
phere of pure hydrogen was there any
and as of course, the body could not
be precisely as dense medium as the
air, and at the same time precisely ~
dense as hydrogen, the theory proved
untepahle, and there was none better tC
substitute for it. During all the time
(about five months) when the chile
was in Mr.. SaXe's possession it ate anC
drank absolutely nothing, although, Sc
far az we could tell, it seemed to be il
good health up to within two weeks
ago, when one day it showed signs o
pain as it lay on the bed, and in the
evening it moaned most piteouslv
Near midnight of the same day, whel
its bed was surrounded with number
of men and women, it suddenly gaspeC
convulsively, and even while my hanc
was upon its head it utterly fell away
The bedclothes collapsed, and undel
our hands there was absolutely nothing
to mark that ever the child had beer
there. 1t had died-perhaps into
another world.
In this case the evidence Of the
senses of hearing and feeling-and o
sight, indirectly, as shown in the tnrn
ing of the scales when the child was
eighed-showing that it had an oh
jective existence capable of recognition
by many sane men. Yet had it sucI
an existence? If it had not, how ar,
the facts to be accounted for.