MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 580, 30 May 1873, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

—o— A strange story' comes from Pans. A German professor—the nationalty is to be noted—begged two condemned Communists named Dodu and Brun fromM. Thiers in order that he might, as a scientific experiment, kill them and bring them to life again at the end of three months after death. Kis plan was to inject solution of calx in the system, by which decomposition was to be prevented ; and according to his theory, the patient might be revived, not only at the end of three months, but of 300 years, according to desire. In the presence of medical men an! public functionaries, the professor, having administered chloroform to each of the men, injected the solution, and then bled them till they died. The corpses were then dessicated by the heat of furnaces till they shrivelled, and till the skin became yellow, like leather. In this state they remained in a moderate temperature for the prescribed three months, and the process of revivification began by injecting the blood of two healthy laborers, and by the application of the galvanic battery. 'The process completely failed in the case of Dodu: Bub in that of Brun the result was, to say the least, surprising. First the opaque ey'eballs rolled in their yellow sockets, the muscles began to twitch, the heart to beat; and at last, after fourteen hours of treatment, Brun spoke, rose from the table, swallowed a bov/l of beef tea and several ounces of brandy, and audibly complained of soreness in the limbs, and of pains in the regions that had rested on the table. He is now alive and well in Switzerland,'under the assumed name of Fourbe, while a post mortem examination showed that fatty degeneration of the heart had prevented the revival of Dodu. So anyone who wishes to’see how The world looks a hundred years lienee, has only to apply solution of calx, and to leave word when he is to be called. It is singular that the "history rf so important a scientific discovery made so near home should have reached ns via New York, and Louisville, Georgiabut as everybody knows, it is to America that we must always "look for the very earliest information about everything, more particularly inexplicable nonsense. A San Francisco paper tells the followin'*: —A gentleman about 23 years of age, ruddy complexion, and curtly ted hair, who had an intricable and painful ulcer on the left arm, resisting all previous modes of treatment, yielded to the request of trying the effect of transplanting a piece of skin to the ulcer from another person. The ulcer was prepared in the usual manner by his physician, and a bit of skin about an inch square was taken from the arm of a fine healthy negro man, and immediately spread over the ugly ulcer, and then carefully dressed and bandaged. The skin transplantation had the desired effect; Healthy granulation sprang up, and the unsightly nicer soon healed. A few months afterwards he went to the physician, and told him that ever since the sore healed, the black skin commenced to spread and it was increasing. About one third of his arm was completely negroed. The doctor himself is alarmed. The high probability is that the whole skin of the white man will become negro. Tins is a new thing under the sun. It would be rather difficult to explain the physiological process which takes place to bring about such a change as this. The problem is, bow the coloring matter of the skin is so radically changed ? and how is this pigment change propagated? It is certain that the law of capillary attraction plays no insignificant part in the spreading process. Giafting pears on an apple has communicated to the apple a pear taste. Two members of Mr. Spurgeon’s Tabernacle appeared in one of the Loudon courts lately in a breach of promise case. The plaintiff, thirty-one years of age, was the daughter of a commission agent, and the defendant a wholesale stationer. The promise was not denied, and the jury awarded the young lady 4320f. damages. In the course of the trial counsel referred to one or two letters to show the relations between the parties. In one of the earlier letters the defendant said “ Dear Lizzy, I hope you don’t feel foggy this morning, I thank you for the pudding, and may you have as many years of happiness as there are plums in it. Drink, pretty creature, drink! In another he said—“lam not myself at all, from having a conjloption in my head and chest - (laughter)—butnothing very serious.” The engagement between the parties continued for about twenty-one months. A Melbourne paper relates the following :—Two warm hearted sons of the Emerald Isle, on either side of Elizabeth-strcet, north, after a severance of many years, recognised each other yesterday afternoon. Oblivious to the fact that innumerable vehicles and equestrians were passing and repassing with more than ordinary velocity and pace through this great thoroughfare, the men ran towards each other, and had scarcely shook bauds in the centre of the street, when one of them named Brophy, residing at Flemington, was knoked down and trampled upon by the horse of a Mr. Miller, which that gentleman was driving in his buggy to the city. Great was the consternation of the fallen man’s friend, who, in place of permitting the horse to go on, seized the winkers, and amidst the imprecations of the crowd, kept the horse prancing on the body of his mate for some seconds. Another Irishman standing by, observing the danger of poor Brophy, thinking the end justified the means, and doubtless recalling the apothegm, “ save me from my friends,” dealt tho man at the winkers a well aimed blow, which f elied him also to the ground, and then extricated the friend. Alter some “ barneying,” they adjourned, not to the hospital, but to a hostelry hard by. Brophy received a severe bruising and an ugly scalp wound on tire forehead.

Mark Twain, iu speaking of cannibalism, grows serious for once, and solemnly declares that, for his own part, he " would rather go hungry for two days than cat nn old personal friend.” This is the way Texas whisky affects one not accustomed to it, if we may judge from the following, which we findin aji exchange. —“A traveler in Texas was invited to drink at a small town where he had stopped. He says, ‘ I woke up next morning, and found myself on the top of a haystack, with my coat on, and myself with both arms inserted through the stirrups of my' saddle, and the surcingle around my neck, acting as a necktie.’ ” Goldsmith's Work.— The process of fine-art manufacture in this branch of trade is strikingly exemplified in a little / work published .''by MJ.I W. Benson, of No. 25, Old Bond-street, and of the City Steam factory', 58 and 60, Ludgate-hill, London. It is enriched and embellished with designs, by Italian, French and English artistes, of brooches, bracelets, ear-rings, and other articles, suitable for personal wear, or for wedding, birth-day, or other presents, with their prices. Mr. Benson, who holds the appointment to 11. 11. 11. the Prince of Wales, has also published a very interesting pamphlet on the Else and Progress of Watchmaking. These pamphlets are sent, post free, for two stamps each, and they cannot betoo strongly 7 recommended to those contemplating a purchase, especially to residents in the country or abroad, who are thus enabled to select any article they may require, aud have it forwarded in perfect safety. Dr. Bright’s Phosphodyne’ Multitudes of people are hopelessly suffering rom Debility, Nervous and Liver Complaints, Depression of Spirits, Delusions, Unfitness for Business or Study, Failure of Hearing, Sight, and Memory, Lassitude, Want of Pow'er, &c., w'hose cases admit of a permanent cure by the new remedy—Phosphodyne (Ozonio Oxy'gen)— which at once allays all irritation and excitement, imparts new energy and life to the enfebled constitution, and rapidly cures every 7 stage of these hitherto incurable and distressing maladies. Sold by all chemists and storekeepers throughout the Colonies, from whom Pamphlets, containing testimonials, may be obtained. Caution. —Be particular to ask for Dr. Bright’s Phosplm. dpne, as imitation are abroad ; and avoid purchasing single bott'es, the genuine article being sold in cases only. Hollowpy’s Pills.—When inclement weather checks to a considerable extent the natural exhalations of the skin, alternatives is required to expel them entirely from the body through some other channel. Holloway’s Pills can be confidently' recommended .as tbo easiest, sorest, and safest means of attaining this desirable end without weakening the most delicate or ineommo ling the most feeble. When from frequent chills or impure air the blood becomes foul and the secretions vitiated, these pills present a ready and efficient moans of cleansing the former and correcting the latter. By this salutary proceeding, disease is arrested at its outset, its pains and iuonnve lienees averted, aud the nervous structures saved from the depressing efforts entailed upon them by an illness.