New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-17
save them. The moral OF the situation is that
those who live by the public are under some
obligations to consult the public interests.

! A SOARING INVENTOR md SCIENTIST.
What is the world prepared to do for a man who
stands ready to show il how human life be pro-
longed beyond it's natural term how TO 60 to sleep
for ono or two centuries and then again see the
world and how to preserve the dead permanently
and without Disagreement For the first boon no
doubt much will be given; for the second not so
much but still good deal, particularly by scicn-
fc men and philosophers; for the third secret 1t
is doubtful whether there would be many bidders
But who offers of these wonderful things Mr.,
j. G.. KOnvalinka. Astoria Long Island City,
New-York. is the soaring inventor and scientist
NJ he modestly terms himself, who for the good of
humanity and his own incidental profit announces
his determination to deve forthwith into
49, mine of original ingenious IDEAS" in a series of
pamphlets. and who, in the first number of the
series. philanthropically presents to the world
gratuit0usy the three remarkable secrets referred
to above.
Investigation we are compelled TO say, detTacts
somewhat from the merit of the inventors ideas.
Thus his plan for proOnging life consists IN an
elaborate scheme for TRANSMISSION of blood; an oper-
alton difficult, dangerous and uncertain under the
best conditions, and plainly beyond the reach of
the mass of men who desire to prolong
their lives. The project for going to
sleep couple of centuries and then waking up
again cannot we regret to say, be patented, mas
much rs the prior claim to its origin belongs
to VI. Edmond AbOut, to 60 no further back. In
a word the process described by our Astorian
friend is precisely that by which the " Man With
the Broken Ear was reduced to the desiccated
condition in which nc continued until Science
stored him to conscious existence and world he
was no longer capable of comprehendlng 1t is pos
sibe that Mr.. Konvainka never read AbOuts
story but it is certain that his process IL there de-
scrbed. He himself. however is evidently not ut
allsure of the outcome, for having given directions
for burying his patients he says: Will the mere
thawing restore the body to life 7 Perhaps we
would find that we have but n dead corpse"
And 50 he proposes TRANSMISSION of blood and gal
vanism as auxiiares to the thawing process
But it Is clear that he has never tried the
experiment either personally or upon any OF his
friends and in so important a matter merely
theoretical knowledge is not sufficient Mr. Kon-
valinka therefore. would do we'll to have himself
frozen for couple of centuries so, and if at the
end of that period he can be resuscltated, his
theory will be established: if he does not thaw into
vitality. so much the worse for HIM.
His third proposition is for the preservation of
bodies by subtcrraneaD vaults, apparently
something after the fashion of the " Dom
daniel cavern. under the roots of the ocean,"
Here he would store the bodies and keep them per-
petually below the freezing point by certain ingen-
lous contryauces lie thinks this better than ere
nation or inhumation, but the world will not agree
with HIM. For it Will suspect in his joint plans for
keeping people in n frozen state, and storing them
IN Domdaniel cavcrns, a malignant purpose to con-
found all the rights of succession, and they will act
the French people acted in the case OF Cagiostro
That redCubtable magician once appeared in
small French town. and announced that on a GER
tain day he would repair to the churchyard and
then and there Tcsurrect all the ancestors of the
townsfok Nhcreupon universal CONSERVATION
ensucd and heirs, legatces, widows and widowers
united in petition to the sorcerer to
abstain from bringing those undesired depar ed
ones back again. CaglioStro IL Is s2ld suffered him.
self to be persuaded-by substantial consideration
and the townspeople broathed freely again. 1t is
TO be hoped that the Asorian inventor and scientist
has not been taking n leaf from the notebook OF
the once notorious Joseph Basamo, but even sup
posng that his motives are of the highest it is not
The less fact that such OF his schemes are true
are not now, while those that are new are not