Miscellaneous Items.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1505, 13 November 1885, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items.

" Majou, Prdses&r of Physiology Jat jG^enoa,havipg produced at Parisan^inyestigationof the results of ,the' gutllb--tin¥, fctates that^jbavinig^ exposed* the Heads; ' a quarter of at i hour after /decap:itatibn^tp a krorig HgHi, 1 the , eyelids closd suddenly ; the tongue, wTtjich .protSiaeHTfom the" lips, beiug pricked, with was 'badkirito the and the' countenance expressed sudden .pain. -The- head- of -a- criminal > named Tillier, being submitted to; ;-^Xr X iininaijioin. after the guillotine, turnedfip eVerydireoJiipn from whence ; it was called by ./; name. A? .report hitherto treated as fabulous, may, therefore^ be believed I—that'1 — that' when the executioner gave a lilow on Charlotte Corday's hfe|d.V the countenance expressed violent iiidignation. Fonteoelle asserts that he had frequently seen the heads of guiUotifaed' persons move their lips, and his memoirs contain many ' other f apparently 'injcre^l ttile', but- :r eqdalfy. autKenticated facts, Siveling declares that by touching the , spinal cord the most horrible demon- ( Btrationsi of agony "Btfcfa6ed."i— Pe'rsi^ul? Yearsleyi in Knbioledge. ■•] . ; ' , /./ Au accident of a somewhat alarming < character occurred early m September it the Arsenal, fWbolwichJ A tank contain-' ing several thousaud gallons of oil or fat took fire. In this the <'• tubes' 'for the steel guns arejboilod with the object of toughening tljem.. , , the tank< tqqkj fire it beeame, evident that it would have; ■ to r be aflowpd to burn itself :iouti.; All that could be done was to remove and extinguish the burning wooden covers, and to close the blaaing fat down with - sHeets of iron. The iron sheets were covered with ashes, and the openings < covered np: with loam. f The substitutipn ' o^iron covers (/ tor ;Wboden/;Qneß was a work occupying four liours, and was attended with.a good jipafj s of rdarigeivandj diffibnlty^ as the iffames at times reached* ihSTbdfbftheironshed^in^ M!c|{ the" tank: was placed. Happily, t^erd was noboilding' of p- an •■-. inflammable-- -nature nea,r,vwith the •xoep^ion !of a arsmall wopden shed, from which the 7 wind,!fortunateiy blew the fire away. After, tke, .; tl^k 'had been covered np, the^ji^at .was to intense that the iron .covers and' ashesbedamere'd'hot: The fire burned ; for over *'Mreek: ; '»■ ■ / - ; ' ! :■'■'-■■ '■■' i^^ Whehfwe'think of What happen if thei ann 'We niajf, <r wel| ' trefeble. Witoin .gome 'three daybiof its ' ext{pption?a)l life would' jbare iceased.^ The,re« .y,ould, n w ; sciefl^f speaking; i thron^h Tjfldall and .Herflchell^ , awurpß. : ahoTsuffenng, during which every drop, of moistorb m the reservoir of the sky would be < precipitated' upon ' 'the ' earth m deluges of sleet and snow, and' thereafter, would setm such a, fierce glacial ooldc, as uthej arctic ifegions themselves nevi^r knew.. jit by pur thermome^er,^tne intensityj , wpnld represent jome wb degrees Fahrenbeit belowzero; and neither animal i\or vege£aDle could ' exist'init for Mlf-an- ; hpnr. 1 whole ' etrtli would lie dead as 4f ! under the »wf ql weight 6ft an ice; avalanche frozen hard -Into # solid > block. The orbi rthat now, bright, iwajmtbrgiwjng,: and Me* inspiring keepj ite, D lae,e tb^firinar,} ent, rfwTngs the. planets round .if with irrisistible forc6'fn Wyioiab'le 7 sequence, would lose ; all .'-J |power, 'and the planets,, -released . f rom ' their genial enchantments, ,woald desert ihelt'^brbitfl i ■nd scatter wliiazing through the bitter life-killing space, each on an infinite journey m the direction m which it happened to be moving when the sun died.