Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-11-30
TAKES ONES BREATH AWAY. !
Sensation Felt when Falling From q
Dizzy Height.

Sensation Felt when Falling From
Dizzy Height.
Would you hear beautiful music
Then throw yourself from the roof Q
a sky-scraper. A cliff will do, or
church steeple, or the basket of q bal
loon, the point is that II you fall f,on
a great height you win experience yer.
agreeable sensations.
The only drawback is that you prob
ably won t live to remember them.
Several persons who have miracul
ously lived to remember how they fell
under such circumstances have de
scribed their sensations to Prof. Herr
of Zurich, who became interested in tn.
subject after sliding and falling mile
in the Alps and hearing beautiful
music all the way until he landed on
his head.
Agony? Not hit of it! The pro-
fessor has exploded that idea. Allthe
testimony he has collected goes to show
that falling is real treat. about mill
lion times nicer than tob0gganning,
and that if it were not for the painful
and often fatal consequences it would
eclipse golf and actomobiling as fash
ionable diversion.
Although unable to collect evidence
from persons who have been killed out
right by falling. Prof. Heirn is salts
fed that they felt no more and no less
than his witnesses of whom were DASH
ed into unconsciousness at the end of
their trip.
His conclusion is that the act of fall
ing brings no pain, no paralyzing ter
ror, no anxiety, no despair. In a word,
it is far less disagreeable than almost
any other mode of death, and as a
sensation is greatly to be preferred to
presence in theatre when some fool
shouts, Fire %
Ligrist, the Alpine climber, fell:back-
ward from cliff and was nearly kill. |
ed in the valley below. He told Prof.
Heirn afterward that he was conscious
from the beginning to the end of his
fall and enjoyed the sensation of being
waited like thistledown through the
air. His brain worked with great |
There was no breathlessness, there |
was no suffering from shock, there was |
no pain, even when Ligrist struck the |
ground and lost consci-
BUSINESS. Not till he was brought to
his senses did sufferings begin.
Others who had recovered from the
effects of falls told the professor that
they seemed to be floating through
pink and green clouds, lulled by ravlsh-
ng music.
The shock of striking ground in
'ach case was heard as a sound, not
perceived as pain.
Prof. Heirn's greatest experience
vas to slip from snow-covered crag
nd fall feet first. The wind dashed
lin against an inclined cliff and be
lid down this on bis back, head first,
Or nearly a mile, lacerating bis hands
D the attempt to check his speed. |,
Throughout all this sliding and fall
ng bis thoughts were clear, his mind
aim, and his ears delighted with celes-
ial harmOnies. He thought of the I
hook when he should strike the bot
ON. and he foresaw that his opening /
scture at the university five days Y
hence would have to be postponed or 8
When he struck the ground he clear
? heard the sharp click of his head and t
DO thud of his body. 1t seemed to him
hat large black object was rushing 4
asst him and he cried out: lc
ut didn' t hurt me a bit 1t didn't Y
urt me bit !" Ii
Great was bis surprise to learn that
lis exclamation was not uttered until
fter half an hour of Inconsistencies.
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