Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-07
Arctic Explorations.

| A French scientist has discovered ;
process by which corpse can be KEEP
in an excellent state of preservation
for an almost indefinite time, by run
ming the remains through new patent
freezer, that freezes them as solid 4;
the New York democracy.
This plan has been adopted in the
morguc at Paris, where persons of un.
known or obscure parcntagc, are kept
on exhibition for the accommodation
and amusement of the surviving friends
and relatives, and the general public
A Chicago man in Paris, who felt
| that he needed cheerful company and
pleasant associations, was shown
through the morgue by the polite su.
perintcndant, who called the strangers
attention to the hardness and durability
Of the remains on exhibition, which had
been run through the freezer. The
American was disposed to be incredu-
lous about the Soldity of the remains,
whereupon the superintendent borrowed
| the American cane and smOte one of
the frozen bodies whack that would
have reflected credit on New York
policeman clubbing an inollensive citl-
zen. The body gave forth ringing
sound, rs ii rock had been struck.
As the bodywas frozen so hard that the
American seven dollar and half
cane was badly sprung, he admitted
hat the freezing process was Il success,
| md he wanted to order a consignment
uf remains of assorted sizes to set up
Us statuary in his front yard at Chicago.
II has occurred to rs, on reading
the item referred to, that freezer Of
that kind could be used TO advantage
in this country on would-be Arctic eX-
plorcrs, and, in fact, on all objection
able characters. The great ambition
of the Arctic explorer is to be frozen
to death as near the North Pole as pos
Sible. This whimsical notion is very
expensive to the government. All the
Arctic explorer furnishes is the re-
mains, and he does not even deliver
them himself, but puts the government
to the additional expense OF hunting
them up, and he seems to take great
pleasure in hiding those remains in
the most 0ut-Of-thc-way places,
where the express companies have no
Offices. The government has to send
out another expedition to fetch in the
bodies, until ii finally costs the govern
mcnt almost rs much to freeze an Arc
tic explorer as ii does to kill IN Indian.
There is no telling how much money,
under the present system, it is going to
cost to freeze an Arctic explorer SUE
ccssfully. The ship in which he is go
ing to be frozen has to be specially pre-
pared for the business, and it costs Il
great deal, as does also the fitting ii
up, including provisions 10 last the cX-
plQrcr until he gets near enough the
North Pole to freeze TO death. A SIM
liar expense is incurred when another
ship is sent out after the first explorer.
Then comes the expense of bringing
the frozen explorer back home, and the
subsequent Investigation Of the sur
viving explorers. if unfortunately any
such there be. If the new patent |
freezer is used there will be no sur |
vivors.
Now IL uoes !ioI scGli ictsontp!c 10
us, thar an Artic explorer should insist
on putting the government 10 such ey-
pcnse, when, If he will Inly listen TO
reason, he can be frozen just rs solid
n,;N, thi9 new patent lroeHIr; ,:,;, rlSnt NJ
w a'hin2toh NY III inc lh,uule iI, Oh sum
Lher one Oh inc great advantages Oh
our system Is tiat Wlieh 'hcgoVerhmehV
OF prlVale lhulVlli'ls' wan. 10 know
"hcie 'IV eNp'oT'r IS' ot HOW nc Is
coming on they Tlo" flSni Whcre 10
NUM- nm up ana see ior themselves
II the Nor,n foIe explorer makes any
unreaSohaoIe III lu'S' OF ooJectS 10 gong
mo lhe lrrc@er' tne %3!erhiheht can
lilre coupe Oh ao,e-pooieu "arhles 10
c'e nm up anu SHo'c MN Into t,lc
Freezer ana keep MN 'nere uh'iI thG
process IS eompIe'eu, q gfeaI ucal
more information can De obtained rom
an tAplorgr WHO t nus peer, ~, ['i'l li,fIough ,Ig
nyuInrnr n,-nu If thn lottr,, IL olivn and
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the Information Is Just rs reliable ana
particularly as an explorer
who has been run through the freezer
never survives to such an extent that
he is able TO lie. a freezer could be
made large enough to accommodate all
the officers at once There would be
no jealousy and pickering among them
after they once managed to get inside
of the freezer. They would not be
putting each other under arrest, and
that feeling OF dread and uncertainty
about their fate would be entirely done
away with.
The saving to the government by the
new process would be so great that the
United States could well afford TO give