The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-23

As has often been reported by reliable
eye-W- THESES, the howhng and dancing
dervlsnes and certain Mahometan sects,
Wheh N a state of ecstatic frenzy, walk
on anu handle red-hot iron, pierce their
mesh with swords or lances, swallow
nalS, glass, scorpions, poisonous snakes,
etc. Without apparent pam or injury
This tnsensibil:ty to pain, says Neue
BIatt. IS due to hypnotism.
One Guyot, called in for twenty-e:ght
GAYS lmllHJary service at Lyons, France,
begged for reprieve on account of his
WlteS Serious Illness and because she
needed his care. The petition was refused
suicide.
Switzerland proposes to have a state
match monopoly. The monopoly IS not
Tor profit, but merely "a pretext for the
PHOSPHORUS matches. an industry which
means painful disease and an untimelv
deatn TO the poor work people who are
engaged IN It. The horrors of the phos-
pnCrouS d-SeaSe are as revolving as those
of leproSy.
In Thessaly a priest of the Greek
church died lately at the age of 12O years.
During The last year of his life his MEM
DRY became much weakened, SO that Of
len he didn't remember whether he had
d:ned or not, and as a consequence he
sometimes dined twice in succession or
didn't dine at all.
'Intransigeant. published at Paris.
protests against the barbarisiu OF shoot
ing private soldiers for tri1ing acts of
live and Sin such executions in one week.
In one case soldier was shot because
he threatened to throw button at the
colonel presided over court martial.
One night iyately portion of a glacier
on the eGmml, IN Switzerland. became
detached In its descent it hrst eneoun-
tered q large forest and carried il along
and then the immense mass of snow and
ice, earth and trees, dashed down about
a mile on a meadow, where it's course
was abruptly stopped by a perpendicular
wall of rock. But the rebounding SHOW
developed l monster avalanche, which
shot down i'll another direction, on an
other meadow. An area of two square
miles, where before the catastrophe hun
dreds of cattle were grazing On luxur-
ant pastures, is now covered with ice and
snow many yards deep. Four herdsmen
and two boys We're killed and 200 COWS
persisted IN that awful night.
Discoursing on the French campaign in
Madagascar, Henri Rochefort sarcastic
ally says that certain high officials have
the post OF commanding general on The
African isle become vacant. For instance.
says he, during the war in TOnquin Cen
eral de NegrIer at one time gave orders
to cut off the heads of SAC dead Chinese
soldiers, wherew!th TO erect a pyramid
nobody ever learned for what purpose.
During the war with the king Of Daho-
mey. the French mulatto, General Dobbs,
issued strict orders to shoot all the
wounded AID prisoners, without mercy
not excepting the AInazons.
AS was reported some weeks ago. a lei
ter sent 10 Rothschild at Paris exploded
on being opened There was nothing new
in that. Years ago many missives thus
loaded were sent to members of the Brit
ish parliament and others known to be
opposed to Irish home rule. 1t is an old
trick, and Is resurrection at this late
cate has excited the scorn of the pro-
the Anarchists as fellows. If you want
to kill somebody, send him an urgent
letter and ihclose n poisoned stamp for
return postage. The man who moistens
the stamp with his ton5ue-presumatly
the right man-expires instantly" He
proposed to tell the name of the poison
to be used, but is now probably lin care
Of the Police.
The crudity of human justice is being
more and more clearly recognized. In
Germany ana France, the view gains
ground thac all judges before entering
visit and examine jails, prisons and PEN
itentiaries, so as TIC fully understand the
nature of the punishment which they
thereafter infiict. 1t is also held that
Judges should be more competent to dis
tinguish between mental soundnesS and
Competent German physi-
clans assert that a large percentage of
the persons sent from penal institutions
to lunat;c asylums must have been III
sane at the time they committed the decd
for which they were sent to prison and
should therefore at once have been
treated as lunatics instead Of as crimi-
nails.
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