A RESURRECTION YARN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2017, 16 June 1885, Page 2

A RESURRECTION YARN.

. Some wonderful stories gains; therounds about the reanimation of dead dogs have brought to mind the story of what was said to havo taken place in America some few years ago,. The South American narrative was to the effect that an enu> ent doctor obtained leave to experiment in rovitfilisation upon the bodies of a couple of criminals, These wereguil. lotined, and the moment the heads fell<• > into the baskets, heads arid, trunks were - snatched up and carried, into a prepared ■ room. The heads, wore refitted on at. once. A few stlchcs and strong plasters, hold the recently severed parts together, aud then commenced tho pumping process, by which lungs and hearts,"which ..'.. had scarcely ceased to beat, were made V to do their work again. Ina few hours', life came back, and within a weok the ' men ware back at their homos, none the ' worse, save a stiffness in the neck, from, their terrible ordeal But the sequel & to come. In' the hurry of the moment, when the heads were fixed to % bodies ',' by some mischance the byo. had gob'"' mixed, and it,was found afterwards that ; • the wrong heads had. be,cr, put on. : There' ■■ they had to remain. The men's wives were sorely puzzled. It was not the ' voice of Jacob and the arms of Esau, but even worse than that. It was the body . of her own husband and the!; head of ' another. How tho business wded know not.—' ',Home Paper,'!''/■. ■ .■' : >'.-; .■• ■ '•!