The Princeton union., 1891-03-05

ers submi5 themselves to cruel suro;.
cal operations and successive mut;-
lations that give the exact measure
ments of human sensibility. Some
days ago q young Russian had =
quarter of his head sawed off: he
survived exactly three hours and fiftv
minutes. The house doctor, MI
O'Neil, was wild with JOY. What q
splendid experiment. he cried"
The stranger tried to share Mr.
O'Neil's enthusiasm, but his teeth
chartered.
"The Chamber of Lost Diseases Is
also very popular" continued the
clerk, poiuting g to the door. ''If YOU
apply your nostrils to the wall YOU
will notice that it is isolated by a
perpetual interior bath of phenol.
We have the finest collection of virus
that there is in the world. At the
present moment a leprosy patient in
extrcmis behind this wall.''
The young man started back in
horror, but he quickly recovered him
self and followed his guide up IL few
steps:
1.-THE Stake Chamber-the death of
Hercules! The walls and the ceiling
are in precious paste and ere fire.
proof. The quaruering-all you have
to do is to place your ankles and
your wrists in these collars, held to
walls by electric bands; this stool,
upon which the person sits, rests up
on button, the pressure on which
starts four equal and contrary cur
rents. Submitted to the action of
forces vigorously symmetrical, the
limbs are at once torn apart. The
Decapitation Chamber-''
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 manner that he would
use to beg you to excuse the trick of
a child, opened a wardrobe:
"We reserve here, Tor the use Of
imaginative persons, the costume of
Louis the Sixteenth. Besides, the
blade, in falling, touches a music
box, which at once initiates the his
torial railing of Santerre's drums.
The strangulation Chamber-two
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 finger upon it. Electri-
city also plays the principal role in
death by laughter This is a con-
cealed method, a bed thatlooks COM
Portable and invites you to sleep, but
as soon as a living person is streatch-
ed upon it he is riveted by irresista-
BILE grapnets, while the Elusive coach
is decomposed into multitude of
minute brushes, very soft and
not yet very stiff, which run over the
patients body initiating the prick
lings of millions of insects, stopping
by preference on the joints, and new
er ceasing to play strange and skip
ping 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 aud was leaning against it for
support. Suddenly it seemed to
him-pure hallucination, of course
that the artificial insects just de-
scribed by his guide were making
wild excursions from his head to his
feet. a>.. ......r..... -,
"Here is the Inquisition Chamber,
reinforced by the subtle invention of
the Chinese, Turcomans, Apaches
and Caribs, the whole manipulated
by electrical Wallets. This chamber,
| must admit, is little frequented.
1t is not of very pure taste, in
my humble 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 al
most confidential tone, "awaits you.
Kindly follow me.
These mysterious manners made
an impression upon the young man;
his lips and hands trembled, his brow
was covered with icy sweat. Nolong-
er able to resist, he did not know how
to say that che 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 anything; then, in the
greenish air he saw the rigid forms of
naked walls IN a large, unfinished,
and silent room. The room was ST.
lent. But a murmur came from the
deaf walls, a murmur that can only
be compared to the distant report of
a storm, or the hoarse resounding,
increased hundred-fold, one of those
shells wherein vibrates the obscure
roaring of the ocean. The clerk went
to the wall, and, with the gesture of
a magician making passes. touched
it rapidly here and there. Immedi-
ately the right side of the wall disap-
peared and the report redoub1ed; it
was like the confused echo of lines
seething in the waves; and there they