The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-19
SWISS CANTON CAN'T
FIND A GUILLOTINE
Man Condemned TO Lose Head
May Escape for Want
Of Machine
YOUR BODY rs WORTH SO
French Scientists Calculate
Value of Iron, Salt and
Other Ingredients.
YOUR BODY rs WORTH SO
Special co-respondence 10 Tnr sr~

PARIS, July o.-The officials In the can.
ton OF Valais. in Switzerland are hunting
high and low, far and near, for a gull
lotine with which to carry out tho sen.
tenoe Of death imposed on a man named
Mag. who killed his neighbor. the father
OF nve children. The Judges OF valaia
the only Swiss canton where the death
penalty has not been abolished, gravely
imposed the sentence of death by guillp-
tine on the man. forgetting, however, that
there 10 no such machine in the canton.
Now the difficulty lies In the fact that
none can be found anywhere Meanwhile
the murderer Is laughing up his sleeve at
the excellent chances OF saving his neck.
The canton officials first appealed to the
other cantons OF Switzerland. bu' the
death penalty having been abolished there
a guilotine was OF no use TO them and
those formerly in use had been destroyed
or had disappeared. Then all appeal was
sent to the museums to mad an old one.
No better success. Advertisements were
inserted In tho newspapers but such q
machine Is not one that is kept around
the house AS AN ornament. The laws
would have TO be changed ~ execute Mag
any other way but by the knife, aad so
the officials are In "A sorry plight
In France, II is recalled, The last OF
long line of famous executlont's, VINO was
known as Samson, was addicted TO games
he pawned tho Governments Euillotine
known as ia veuyc.' to rCcuup himself
a few days later Il man was condemned
TO death and samson did not have enough
cash to redeem his business associate. lie
was forced to confess his action and the
Government finally got the machine out
of "hock.'
No doubt many q scientist has I'm com
rnunion with himself asked the questions
Whence cometh the bedbug? There 10
10 need Of smile Tor this Is u very
serious question, more serious perhaps
in Europe than In America.
DR.. HUrwarth, director Of the Geological
/ Museum In Budapest and an entunolog ct
of high repute. sought to ind out how
man mad inherited this little insect known
| 10 suvants as "Cimex lectularius." These
! insects have no wings and therefore, II
would seem, their area of travel should DO
, linn ted
! DR.. Howarth has decided that we are
! indebted to the winged bat for the bcdbug
| Tie bug, by nature parasite and .
| sucker, was confined In early historical
| times to the basin OF the Med terranean
| Sea. Then the bat having met man in
| the caverns and primitive dwellings, Cimex
! lectularlus gave w his aerial voyages Tor
II more sedeatary life on the body OF man.
The advantages OF this change OF habit
! can readily be seen. There are. all told.
| twenty different species of the bug and
they are to be found in every part OF tho
world.
How much is the human body worth7
| The calculation II not ihcult and the
answer is about IS. The human body,
| French scientist calculates. including skin.
bones flesh nerves, blood fat and carti-
lagos. Is reduced by analysis to iron. salt
sugar, lime, phosphorus, magnesia. al
bumen, fatty substances and res duo
which can be used.
| II this body weighs $50 pounds. an
| average weight, there would be enough
by-prUducts of the body to make an or
| binary iron nall, enough salt to M,
table salt cellar. enough sugar to I'LL
| small sugar bowl, enough !lmu to white
wash Il chicken coop enough phosphorus
to make n dozen matches, enough ma g
nesia for one dose The albumenoids OBJ
tained could bo used by tr cky baker
TO replace the whites of n hundred eggs
and there would be enough fat to fiji q
ten pound pot
Eight dollars, then. Is mans real worth
and there are many understood and III
nourished men who would fan far short
Of the mark. The most beautiful woman
is worth. then, only IS too? No. ii cannot
be.
At the disappearance OF the famous
old norgue behind Notre Dame, which
modernism abol!shes to make place for
]
the great sculptor Fremiet earned his
first cent sous" In tho old building AZ
. u painter. When Fremiet was a sculp-
tors apprentice lie got out OF job and
some friend sent him to see DR.. Socquet.
the physician In charge OF the morgue.
Young man." said the doctor "aro YOU
clever enough with colors to give a hu-
man look to bodies which have been too
long In the water"
Fremet, almost dumb with astonish-
ment managed to stutter Yves" de-
c!sion dictated by his empty stomach
rather than by his mind.
The first JOB was Hrewsofne tasll
The body OF the wife OF coal man,
both arms and legs OF. had been found
In the Seine BY tile pickering uncer-
tain light OF a candle Frem!et set about
his work with trembling brush Tho
doctor stood by and watched with salts
faction this artist IN "stil life" Ha
then substituted glass eyes for thus.
which had served the woman IN life and
sent for coifreur. who was comma nded
to put a wig on her.
Fremet's reputation. however, WAS not
gained In this little building that Poo
made famous. He soon turned 10 sculp-
ture. In which he became a master.
New York stands third IN the list 81
cities using gas for lighting. according
to the statistics compiled by Englshr1en
and lust published here London rs iirSt
and Paris comes second. Amsterdam II
fourth. The gas consumed by the entire
world last year Is estimated at 2l500,-
600, 900 cubic meters. while TO rnanutac-
ture this enormous quantity 10000, 900
tons of coal were necessary. This amount
corresponds to the annual output Of coal
| In France.
London. II Ia said. consumes eoG cubic
meters Of gas per person, while in ths
metropolis there are lJ7i 900 gas stoves
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