Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-25
The Sleep ofDeath.

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mails are subject is that by anmsthe-
sia, notify suffocation or asphyxia.
Physiologc there is q distinctive
difference between these modes of
death. Death by an@sthesia IS death
.bysleep; death by asphy xiaisd death by
deprivation Of air. Death BY an@s-
thesia is typically represented IN death
by chlorof form; death by asphy xia lis
.typically represented in roWning, or
in immersion III carbonic acid gas.
When properly carried out. death. by
aiisesth hesia issby FAR the lost csft tain.
and least violent OF the two processes,
although both are probably painless.
It is worthy Of record, however, that
all animals are not equally suscepti-
bic to the action of the
narcotic vapors. Cats. for in
stance, lie asleep much longer then
dogs before they cease to breathe.
They fall into sleep as rapidly as dogs,
but do not pass SO quickly into the
final sleep. There is difference be-
tween different animals of the same
kind. Some dogs die almost instantly
in fact as they fall asleep; others fall
asleep and continue to sleep for sever
al minutes before they cease to live.
In the first observations, before | had
rendered the narcotic atmos-
phere overpoweringly active for all
cases, there were q few instances, nine
in the first seven hundred, in which the
animals slept on from half an hour
until an hour after all their comrades
had died. Finding out this strange
popularity, increased the amount Of
narcotic vapor until all succumbed
very nearly at the same minute, and
in the last six thousand there has
been no recurrence of the prolonged
insensibility. The animals are now
commonly all asleep in from two to
three minutes, and have ceased to ex-
list in q further period of the same
duration.
Not Good Market.
Washington Letter Chicago Tribune
Washington cannot be considered q
good matrimonial market. Theyoung
women do not find husbands easily in
the society of this place. The proof Of
the fact is that there is hardly lead
ing official or wealthy family here that
has not one or two old maids upon
it's hands. This is notably true OF
some of the most prominent and dis
tinguished. Here are daughters whose
fathers have large wealth and hand
some positions. Yet their daughters,
who are thoroughly trained, we'll
hammered, and educated, do not find
husbands. Whether it is that these
young ladies aim to high or not is
unknown. 1t may be that their faith
ers are not able to give them money
enough to set them up in establish
ments equal to their own, and as a
natural consequence these young
women may prefer the prestige and
comfort of their fathers handsome
positions to the obscurity of marrying
an humble citizen or the uncertainty
involved in marrying a man who is
not rich. Icould name at least twenty
young ladies who have been bellies in
Washington society for at least ten
years. There are very few marrying
young men in Washington. The army
and navy fellows are the principal
| candidates for matrimony. You may
! add to this list thirty or forty half
starved attaches OF the different lega~
tions. But all these young men are
| thrifty and are looking out for rich
wives. The noble and energetic young
man who is making his own way in the
! world and who is growing up with the
country does not come to Washington
| The men who do come here and who
have money are generally already
| provided with a family or are beyond
| middle age, when men do not act
hastily and are not apt to set up new
establishments or incur new ties. The
only real eligibles are the widowers
They are considered as fair candidates
and every now and then one of then
succumbs. The number, however, il
limited, and outside of their none,
and position would not be considered
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