Democratic messenger., 1889-05-18
UNDERNEATH THE GROUND.
DIR. Tanner About to Try the
Information Act.

Dr. TanOor ABOUT 10 Iry Ine
Information Act.
The celebrated DIR. Henry 3. Tanner
who nine years ago made himself a forty
days wonder by trying TO starvc himself
Is about to come 10 the front again ant
set the people agog by getting into I
coffin and being buried under ground. Il
was early In 1880 that DIR. William A
Hammond offered certain Mollie Fan
cher, of Brooklyn. who claimed to hay'
lived IA years without food, $1,000 u sh,
would consent 10 he watched for ON,
month, and moi take any food during tha
period. DIR. Tanner, living at the time IL
Minneapolis, saw the challenge, aud offer
cd TO perform the experiment. DR. Ham
mond agreed, and on the 2Sth day of June
1880, at noon. began fast which lasted
not thirty. but forty days. lie lost 10
pounds Of flesh during this period, hut did
not suffer In health. lie took no food
whatever, but drank all the water he
wanted. On the m0rniug Of the fOrtieth
day he sat with peach in his hand, peel.
ing IL at u few minutes before noon. At
IL O'Clock he ate the peach, which was
followed by other fruit and more subsian.
tial food. The experiment was perform
cd TO the satisfaction Of the watchers, and
DIR. Tanner won the 81 900.
Tanner has experimental upon himself
and dicicl with view Ia gaining sufli.
cicnt strength and control of his forces to
enable him To gain every advantage. One
of the acts which enables one To live In
this cOmatOsc condition Is throwing the
tongue into the gullot. so that a radical
change Of the circulation Of the blood Oc.
ours. the conditions thus effected being
similar to those just before birth, where
there is no respiration.
Sir Charles Martin Wade, governor
general In the Lashorc district of the
British empire in India, has given state.
mcnt of the resusciiati0n of Brahman
fakir who had been thus buried. Sir
Charles had not seen the intcrmcnt, hut
witnessed the resurrection. lie accom-.
panied an Indian prince, Runjcct Singh,
who testified 10 the burial, 10 the building
In which the body lial been incl0se,l The
only door to the scpulchcr had been clos
ell with hard, dried mud. the paddock Of
which had been sealed with the private
seal Of Runject Singh. The seal which
was found unbroken, was taken of. the
door unlocked. and the place where the
fakir was buried entered by Runjeci Singh,
Sir Charles Wade and a servant, who de-
scendcd with torch to the cell where the
body had been placed in wooden box.
sealed and locked. The writer thus lie.
scribes wha, followed:
ION being opened by the servant we
saw n figure enclosed in a bag Of white
linen, fastened by string over the head
The servant liitc'l the body ont. and Run.
ject Singh and descended further into
the cell, which was so small that we were
only able Ia sit On the floor in front Oi the
body. and so close 10 il that our hands and
knees came In contact with Il.
"'Thc servant then began pouring warm
water over the figure, lut To satisfy my
self against fraud | tore open the bag.
which looked mildewed. as though il had
been long buried. The legs aud arms
were still and shriyclcd, the lace full and
the head reclining on the shoulder like
that Of corpse. then summoned me,ii.
cal gentlemen. who came and inspected
the body critically. but could discover no
pulsaiion of the heart. the temple or the
arm.
THE servant then recommended hath
ing him with hoi water AMI gradually re-
laxing the legs and arms from the rigid
state in which they were contracted. Run.
ieci Singh taking the right and the lett
leg. to aid hy friction in restoring them
the servant placed hot wheaton cake
about M inch thick an the top Of the
head. renewing II two or three times. He
then pulled out Of the ears AMI nOstrils
the wax aud cotton with which they were
stopped. and after great cXerti0n, opened
his mouth 10y inserting the point of u
knife between his teeth. and. while hold.
ing the jaws open with his leit hand. drew
the. tongue forward with his right, in the
course of which the tongue flew back sew.
cral times to its curved position upward.
in which il had originally been. To close
the gullci. lie next rubbed the eyelids n
while with clarified butter until he sue
ccedcd IN opening them, when the eyes
appeared quite motionlcss and CLASSY.
AFTER the hot cake had been applied
the third time To the top oi the head, the
body was violently cOnvulsed, the nos.
trials became inflated when respiration en-.
sued, and the limbs began To assume n
natural fullness; but the pulsati0n was
vet family perccp,ibc. The servant then
put some butter On the tongue and made
him swallow il. 4 few minutes AFTER the
cyeballs became dilaied AMI assumed
their natural color. when the fakir, recog.
nizing ltunjcct Singh sitting close 10 him,
articnlaicd in hollow. scpnlchral tone.
scarcely audible: do you believe me
now.' Runject Singh replied in the af-
firmativc, and invested the fakir with an
elaborate pearl necklace. costly gold brace
lcis, pieces of silk, mllslins, shalls. &c."