The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-12

smart looking woman in a well-set- up trap and wearing a leaf-green gown and hat.
 Two women lolling in a Victoria and carrying striped parasols; their hats pink-plumed.
 More touring cars.
 Two women riding cross saddle
 mountain party returning in wagons.
 Tourists loaded down with travelling bags
 An exceedingly fat gentleman waddling along in tan shoes.
 Two women in sheath gowns and dhec- toire hats.
 Dozens of men in white linen White gown worn with pale blue coat.
 Garden party clothes worn in the shops.
 Women with hats much too large for them, others with hats much to youth full looking.
 All kinds of coiffleures padded out ones hideous puffs. the exaggerated pom padours, the ultra modes of every de- scription and color Women playing bridge on hotel veran- das.
 Fruit vendors.
 Orientals displaying their curious look ing stones.  windows.
 Mexican things and old brasses.
 Hundreds of photographs.
 Palmists wanting to read your char | acter.
 Arts and crafts of native women dis played in shops. Tourists from all parts of the country sauntering through narrow streets. Actressy looking people whom you turn to stare at. Charlotte Corday hat on a grandmother. Every color of parasol shading every color of hair.
 Bored looking people wandering aim lessly about
 Blase men overly fed and comatose. Elderly clubmen.
 Women dragging around tired children.
 Country folk peddling their products.
 Women with loud voices. Japanese servant following an Eng lish-looking woman. All these and many other types along the crowded little streets. | I met a young southerner today who knows the distinguished scientist, Dr. A. C. Gribbe, of Louisiana, whose recent experiments may make him the talk of the continents. Dr. Gribble, as the result of his experiments has discovered what he calls the mummy fluid. It Is quite in- teresting to hear what this young south erner says of the experiments which 1t is thought will result in preserving per fectly the human body for ages by inject ing fluid through the mouth after death, secret buried for centuries with the Egyptians. This young southerner, a New Or leanese. tells me that this scientist has been experimenting for several years with a fluid which he calls a dentifrice, and from which he has obtained these re- markable results. Among the experiments was submitting his finger to the flame of a match for a full half minute and then plunging it into the preparation. No blister resulted, nor did the finger appear in any way different from the rest understand that this scientist has been | experimenting for several years with i fluids with preservative qualities, and | that in the summer of 1894 80 this young
 southerner informs me, he made con- | vincing test One day he found a chicken
 in dying condition in his yard and about | 15 minutes after its death he opened Its
 mouth and poured down as much of the
 exposed to sun, rain and weather. It re- l mained perfectly fexed and no change | took place in the flesh for month. Grad 1 ually, however, from exposure and evap- | oration, the skin grew darker, and with | time, perhaps year. all the fluids of the | chicken, combined with the preparation, | necessarily evaporated, leaving 1t a per feet mummy. l This scientist says that this fluid is so combatible with the blood that its anti