The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-11
TIE LITTLE MOUSE
And His Lucky Resu sCitation-A Labora-
 tory Experiment and It's Unexpected Ne-

And His Lucky Resu ,oitation-A Labora-
 tory Experiment and It's Unexpected Ne-
 suit.
 New York, Feb. 10,-That the Roenta- gen rays, or the electrical force which throws the shadows of an invisible ob- ject on sensltized plate, may be of ser vice in effecting the resuscitation or seemingly drowned persons, is indicat- ed by an experiment made in the labor atory of Columbia college a few days ago by Max Osterberg, E. E., A. M,, fellow of the college.
 One day last week he determined to make a picture of the skeleton of mouse and directed some of the at- taches of the college to catch one for him.
 The experimenter threw the mouse in pail of water and weighted 1t so that the mouse was not only in the water, but under it. And it was Kept in that water, MT Osterberg declares, for ful- ly fifteen minutes. When taken from the water its appearance gave every evidence. of death--it was cold and clam my, it's body was flattened out and it's chest collapsed,
 MT. Osterherg put the mouse to one side for nearly two hours while he went about some other experiments. When he came back to the mouse it was ex- actly as he had left it.
 He now prepared to throw the shadow of the mouse's skeleton on a sensitized plate, and placed the body on black board over the plate. Above the mouse, and six inches from it, he placed the Crockes tube, that was connected with very powerful induction oil, and turn ed on the electric current.
 MT. Osterberg then busted himself for more than an hour and q half with some other experiments, and in that time paid no attention to the mouse. Finally he looked at it, and was amaz- ed to see its tail had stiffened out He forgot his other experiments, and look 1 ed at the mouse in a maze of wonder. And, as he looked, the forefeet of the mouse began to twitch convulsively and then to stretch out as if their owner
 
 mouse did was to slowly rock it's body as if endeavoring to get on it's feet--it was lying in an uncertain, weak sort of way, and stretched its head up as though wanting to get nearer to the Crookes tube, six inches above it. MT. Osterberg. put the mouse back in its trap and placed it to one side, while he went to dinner When he returned to the laboratory the mouse was as live 1 ly as it ever was, and has since been I perfectly sound and healthy and able l to eat all the cheese the attaches of the college can give it.
 | Asked if he had any theory to ac- count for the resuscitation of the mouse 1 he said: "Wheneyer we have an elec- 1 trical current flowing or a discharge of | electricity, as we have it in Crookes 1 tube, we generate in the neighborhood an electrostatic field; we also generate l by these discharges a large amount of ozone, The bombardment of the electri l fled particles in the electrostatic field may act on the mouse in the same way and produce the same results-the ex- pansion of the lungs-as when the arms l of human being are moved backward and forward so as to produce breath 1 ing. l do not think the Roentgen rays l had anything to do with the phenome- non, but it is hard to say definitely"