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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 42, 12 February 1864, Page 3

\ oP the 13th has the MQWif^; W fLi of ori^et^ite been exempli^: iAfl'occaAiWS^^it of ,#e present Sel I^i^|feiio^iv-o«t^ of « m yews- ■ B<MtoijN d fl% m fW* l* d bis JwA gate *s&*s W S noticed MfJW &W quietly .Seated Met the- mng t ;p£ >tlie sqorers; .tent ILjna theHßaUarat^atchj'imdiif eve* Ki^estiion was^riused as to whatps IS* qf vtio $Wip^vifamwMf ISVasSWwSfU-tlie'lfi&fcaay S3 .the matoli ISifl South Mstraliaii '"border, and'- had ILvelled bvep Fi 2Bp^iles-rloo of #ieK li walked^Mlft&eyto 'remind liishself bof old times-. alSf^ohn'? fforfety pai'S' J liie.-p%e.d;jat iniieryals tithe most popular of all [Englisliigamej, Me *«* at 'the- matoh* iUati-Melbourne, i^ljeu at BaUatat, ajW'l^;fii<iw^ r goes I'to the AiWt'lini#Qs Mrpitie.iGr, his Home. As soou/as. thp Englishrplayers 'heard Q f the iold,maa^. devotion^ itlw j ffl ino, Locljyer* and one or tw others ii'fthe Eleven eaflae'across tothesborjers' u t and; !! :hands'!:iv;ii^timi and sunanimons%; voted Bm to Jbe^in^ieir Jeffords,- Aa^olly^old^cpefcA^ | •■■--- EotPTrAN " MujrMiES.-^-'Three -«? very perfect rnufliojies' have recently beenfront Alexandria, and are ;at a 'house in '-'Great*' ; Gfebrge'^-street, BerLondsey.'TMy are the property ofMr. i|bead engineer ■ }o.f Scotia, f|screw steamer belonging,. to r the Greek land iOriental! SteapA " j Comnany .^ - The f late ■"Pisha put a stop to the practice of j exporting miiriimies^ Egypt, |and mfliiitained 7 a'Very strict 7 watch over, tlie' -tombs, which ! is^ still- supposed to be kept up ; and -these bodies were not re•m'ored without nuicli^fouble,;ii6r with;oat the exercise" ' of i'lsptnef iugenuity. are in="excellent !j preswyatioii,| but :all -,the bandages; iamf been ;The nails of the.^fingers and toes. are •perfectj and - on. two of them a portion ? of black hair still^remains. -..* They' are s?id to have been removed from stone Iroffins, and the present owners produce -paper said to be a translation from the !inscriptioriß on the aarcophagi. On the Sfaitii of this they statethat one of them !J3 the body of Ptolemy Philadelphus, who founded the Alexandrian Library, |and under whose auspices the SepInagint translation of the Hebrew^ scrip - ttures was made. Another body is said ;to be that of Apalnea, wife of Seleous — toot a ypfcy probable assertion,- seeing she/was the : ■daughter of Aftabarus, Persian satrap'; and .we have no account !ofher ever having been in Egypt. The f third mummy, which is ihat ;of a boy, with still less probability, to be .the body of her son j^ntiichus i Spter. jlf it ; be so, it will -be ;a case, ; liike the small skull which the : shbwmaii told the. •public had been Cromwell's when a boy ; ; forwe, can scarcely that the 'conqueror- of ' the' Galatians, aiid one of the ! greatest pririees of ; his tim ie, f inhabited ■ -sosihall a caVeasel ' "Whatevel* may be ;the age of these mummies,, theyi are } furious and 'intetestirig^especiklly as it •is now so difficult to proenre such rel ies. 1 'Doctor; that'ererats's-baaie'of'ypiirn is iast-rate;\said a Taiikee-to a village., 'apothecary: l r En6w'd ijfc I ' lmow'd f it ! said the pleased {.vendor I 'of x ,drugs, fDon't keep but first r rate doctor's stuff '^ Aiid, jdpctpr,, said the Qoker' cobly," f Iwaiit> to .buy another {pound of ye. Vr-'Aipthierr,, pound l b — - vleß, r sir • ;.I 1 ;-gin: r itliat.'Tponnd I bought ithe.iother dafyuto;'^ nibbling mouse and it made himvdreadfuiv.siclc, and I am sure another^ pound-would 'kill him ! "• GjriPHTSicii/jiPiAij!?:^ 1 -^ is obyiotisi that an immense field "-'* lie- open for research as'to -i&he nefcessary conclitidn' of.pliysical pam.; ! ; H6w ihueh may be ,3one'in the coursefof tKe'next few years it is'''-^ji'^Bftier;Jb','^ay^ sinc^ we bave ab:e^y .^akWja^gireat '., stride v in r idvance. of lpremu8 J JmQ\YleQ%e,jD^v^g ] to the researches ;of?Dubpis,.!Reymond, jHumboidtj^.]J^a|teupci,^ and, ptliers, Vpob. the" 1 natural Electricity 'oT 1 ' nerve and muscle7lT : 3nifeTdepartment 6f inJiuiry is barely, niore than opene^, as it^ere; but 'feWg^hysiQlo^stsrghavmg; cfairly engaged,. y in these" few are iliusiTibjis { -yet* "already we are in posp|sioii /r qf- priceless' facts.We'ihiow^^msiande^lha^th^ (electrical con'&itibnHJf nerve which 4 x .i?t. 8 j during painj- is ?/ a;^ rejersal r: pfj the ordinary elecib^ai'siatel^anidtnere is Ac ; .steongest^^pdssjbleJi for ?ÜBpecting ; t^t^he,abnprmal electrical is . t the , sign s< of a 3 . lowered ritality. ' If f^eShly-ampuktedj limb of a ,frpgl/lie3p.laced in such^a; position that its, pjincip^nervje forms part of .the circnit ot a gaivanomleter, and. the indicating^ needle be allowed w settle 'into the position whicKrepre- ; ; scuts the naturals eiectficity ofj thej fler^e ; andrrif now *t?a.T hot iron , Jbe_ approached sufficiently "near to) the nerve to inflict a physical damage on *t)by removing some of its -moisture, {lie needle will swing to a position indicating a'xeversal ■> of* th*6* ordinary electric state ; < but 'unless the damage lias been too* extensive it may'ibe' Covered from, ! and the normal electric state resumed, 1 on ' al^wing fte nerve to reimbibe moisture^ — in other words, to be're-noutished. 'This is only one, fact from aVumber of equally striking ones which' might be adduced from the annals of .modern experimental* researeh,\tlie" tendency ,«f which, certainly, 'appears to be .Wards the conclusion, that, pain is a reflex of lowered vitality; v ' <*> i , ?r ' A. pair of sweet lips, a pressure of ffo delicate hancs, and 'a «pinkjwaist fibbon will do ,' as ( mucH to^njiliinge a sensitive man as ' thr,ee\ fevers, ,/bhe toeaales--thejwhooping^ccmgns>«aap^aji;«of *ock-jaws, severalrhydrojpb.obl.as, 1 and doctor's bHlk" 1 >*'~'j*v>si I