Mower County transcript., 1889-01-30

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they are harmless Or toxical; ;others SUBJ
nit themselves to surgical operations
and successive mutilations that give
the exact measurement of human SEN
sibility. Some days ago a young Rus
sian had quarter of his Uranium
sawed off; he survived exactly three
hours and fifty minutes. The house
doctor, Mr.. ONeil, was wild with JOY.
What a splendid experiment! he
cried. "
The stranger tried to share Mr..
ONeil's enthusiasm, but his teeth chat
tered.
"The Chamber of Lost Diseases is
also very POPULAR" continued the
clerk, pointing to the door; IF you
apply your nostrils to tho wall you will
notice that it is isolated by aperpetual
interior bath of phenol. We have the
finest collection of virus that there is
in the world. At the present moment
leprosy patient is IN ertrenais behind
this WALL"
The young man started back in hor-
ror, but he quickly recovered himself
and followed his guide up few steps.
'Ihe Stake Chamber-the death of
Hercules! The walls and the ceiling
are in precious paste and are tire-proof.
The quartering-all you have to do is
to place your ankles and wrists in
these collars, held to the walls by elec-
trio bands; this stool, upon which the
person sits, rests upon a button, the
pressure on which starts four equal
and contrary currents. Submitted to
the action of forces vigorously SYM
metrical, the limbs are at once torn
apart. The Decapitation Cham
ber--"
The visitor remained stupefed at the
sight of marvellous guillotine in cedar
wood, with a keen and cleaning knife.
The guide, with the half smiling man
ner that he would use to beg you to
excuse the trick of a child, opened a
wardrobe.
1--WE reserve here, for the use Of
imaginative persons, the costume of
Louis XVI. Besides, the blade,
in falling, touches music-box,
which at once initiates the historical
rolling of oanterre's drum. The
Strangulation Chamber-two bow
strings fixed to a small board at the
height of the bed, fly to the ceiling and
remain there if one puts the weight of
his feet upon it. Electricity also plays
the principal role in death by laugh
ter This is a concealed method; q
bed that looks comfortable and invites
you to sleep, but as soon as living
person is stretched upon it he is riveted
by irresistible grapnets, while the it,
lusive couch is instantly decomposed
into a multitude of minute brushes,
very soft and yet very stiff which run
over the patients body initiating the
pricl1lings of millions of insects, stop
ping by preference on the joints, and
never ceasing to play strange and
skipping marches upon the soles of the
feet-but what is the matter, sir?"
The young visitors face was white;
he had slowly tottered back to the
wall and was leaning against it for
support. Suddenly itseem ID to him
pure hallucinatlon, of course-that
the artificial insects just described by
his guide were making wild excursions
from his head to his feet.
Here is the Inquisition Chamber,
reinforced by the subtle inventions of
the Chinese, Turcomans, Apaches and
Caribs, the whole manipulated by
electrical Wallets. This chamber, I
must admit, is little frequented. It is
not OF very pure taste, in my hum
BILE opinion, but Mr.. Utterex did not
want his house to lack in any of the
numerous suicidal methods. But a
curious spectacle, and one that will
certainly interest you," pursued the
guide, in a soft, insidious, and almost
confidential tone, ''awaits you. Kindly
follow me-"
These mysterious manners made an
impression upon the young man; his
lips and his hands trembled, his brow
was covered with icy sweat. No longer
able to resist he did not know how to
cay that she would like BETTER" that
he 'would, perhaps, PREFER to remain
there. His guide took him by the
arm and led him on. A door opened.
At first he did not clearly distinguish
any thing; then. in the gre ,nish air he
saw the rigid forms of naked walls in
a large, unfurnished and silent
room. The room was silent. But
a murmur came from the deaf walls,
murmur that can only be CON-
pared to the distant report of a storm,
or tho hoarse resounding, increased a
hunlrel-fold. Of one of those shells
wherein vibrate' the obscure roaring
of the ocean. Tho CLERK went to the
wall, and, with the gesture of a
magician making passes. touched it
rapidly here and III re. Immediately
the right side Of the wall disappeared
and the report redJubled; it WAS like
the confused echo of lives seethiog in
the waves; AMI thoro tn y were swarm
ing in the foo led walls-fi4 shes, crus-
t;acc;a, molluslzs and all submarine ami
Ire