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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1894-12-14, Page 7DzoN190411 14, 1894 TF110 BItTSSBL$ IOST"`. Paromorarougarrumaciwoossoulowsq A NUDE COLOSSUS, TWENTY YEARS WITHQUTQLOTHES IN ALL CLIMES. fold In HIS Ycntlt He 'Wouul ince or On, s'nnptletn, 11110 Discarded lila Olotbee and $a Now a Giant or Strength. A tawny giant, who has' been naked for twenty years, is lord of the Oakland este- ary, Hie wardrobe is a belt end a pair of cotton trunks. In hie belt he wearsa long dagger, and he oarrios a Wincheeterin hie swarthy arms. Hedietates the movements of ail the ferryboats, yaohta,, tug:, aohounero,and mate of every sort that 49 H Mum his Way, This naked colo: us is booked by the War Department of the United States, On the prow of hie huge contrivance anchored in tho attune' he stands areal' like a bronze statue of Ajaw. He is tall and superbly proportioned measuring 6 feet 3 inches and weighing 200 pounds. For twenty years he Mao braved the climates of the world without a shirt or a ooab to protect him. Who and what is this phenomenon' Ile is Capt. Edward A. Von Schmidt, and except upon passing 000asione, when he has appeared in the streets of cities, he has gone almoat STARII NARED for twenty years. A newspaper oorroepon deet called upon him the other day. I response toa knack a voice rang out above the din of the machinery, "Coma in!" and the visitor entered. Before the giant with in easy reach were two knives and rifle. " Many people have wondered why you wear on clothes. Do you object to telling me why 1" was the first question. Von Schmidt put down a volume of Kip- ling's tales and replied: Well, briefly, for my health." Then in answer to question be went on for two hours reciting the details of a most singular career. "Don't I ever feel cold?" he repeated. " Why, Bloss you, I have gone as you see me now for twenty years, in all kinds of climates in every part of the world. It is a mistake to think that it is natural to go naked only in the tropics, Hittell, in his history of California, calla attention to the effect of civilization upon the Indians When the Spaniel, padres, after converting these natives to Christianity, began to "I DAVE DRESSED AS YOU SEs ,11E NOW FOIL TWENTY YEARS." clothe them the Indians began to die of pulmonary troubles. My philosophy of dress, or undress, is blinded ou soienlifio principles. The pores of the skin breathe the air and are intended to take in the sun- shine ; especially should the pores over the respiratory organs have free access to, the sun and atmosphere. In foot, German scientists are now advocating waxeDN&SS AS A OOnE Fon CONSUMPT1ON. I some from a consumptive family, and when I was a boy 10 was predicted that I would die young because of my weak lungs." Here the giant took a long breath, and the superb expansion of bis chest showed how indifferent events are of the reputation of prophets. "Yea," continued the strongman, "and I studied medicine awhile, and my fellow empirioists said I had weak lungs, and when I went to sea my friend', said I would never come back. Well, down in the tropics I naturally wore but very little, and the lees I wore the better Itelt, and when I put oa v more olothiog again I didn't feel so well. A year later, to bringinga vessel through the Straits of Magellan, Inoticed the Tierra del Fuegans going naked in the snow. I saw old men, stalwart and rugged, and mothers nursing their babes—all naked, and all quick in notion and sturdy of limb, and I said 1 have found the secret of health. Ever since I have dressed about as those rugged natives of that bleak country dress, or as you see me now." DISAPPOINTED (NLOVII. From years of exposure bo sun and wind his akin is the color of the Berkeley hills in autumn, and the scars on his body, being of a lighter shade, are quite conepictious. Ile is married and has four children. "Ib was a disappointment in love," he observed, "that made int go to sea. Then, too, I inherited a love of adventure. My grandfather was a sea Captain, and traded with the Californiau Indians in 1823, In the South Seas I married a half-caste girl —au educated ggirl, however, the daughter of an English. officer, She died, My present wife I married in Melbourne, She shares m�r bizarre notions about clothing, Of course eheoosn't go about as I do, but so far as sociity will permit her she oboye the same natural laws. We dress our children with regard to those prinoiples, too, and WO have never spent a penny for medicine or for a physician's care in our household." Although the Captain doeen b own a white shirt or a pair of Duffs or n suit of olotites that would pan muster in parlor e he .man or on a boulevard,olth is a wealthy , controlling with hie father the dredging bueinees of the coast, and owning ships on the Atlantic and Pooffio, and also consider able lend in California, "Do you go, into sooiety at all 1" he was asked, "Ifardly," said he, ad lie folded iiia souseulerarms and glared at a passing tog. "I have been so long away from the beau Monde that should feel loot now, and be. aides my dress might 001 bo teoherolio, don' Yea Beef However, as a young man, and hotinted signiiloantly to a few grey hairs in ifs heard. ""it was mid that I way a heavy :well," FEMALE CONVICT VANNY, '!t'ite hitting seam,' Stroug Liven Hellin Pelson Mara. One woman created quite a',aniation among the female (=vlote in 1Voking prison by reason of the brilliancy of the color of her cheeks and lips, One day she boaamo quite frieadly with a young convict to whom s e took a fancy, and during the ten minutes' that (female eon. yiota are allowed to oonverse with each ether for this piloted time) she confided the secret. It wan soon all over the prison; d very soon on o o the h oke f the 4b e Ymost f C 0 q women could be found traoee of color, The "paint" was obtained in the following ingenious manner :—ln the aprena that the women were wearing there was sunning through the pattern a bright red stripe, and this was carefully drawn out, ,When unravelled and chewed in the mouth the color or dye was released, and thus the paint was obtained which decorated their faces and lips. In the same prison a convict had re- peated tainting fits. One day she was attacked in the chapel, and, upon her re- moval to the infirmary, she was undressed, when, to their astonishment, the authori- ties tound the fits produced from tight lacing and from the effects produced by the pieces of wood and wire which the convict had managed to fordo into her staya in order to make her waistslender. A convict will spend hours in tearing out bite of wire from the window guard and afterward bending them into the required shape for use as hairpins. Leaves from the Bible are often torn out to make the old-fashioned "cracker " curls, but this pratice,if found out, involves a very serious punishment.' Even the "life" prisoners are not exempt from this desire to make the best possible appearance, and they will scheme, plot and plan for months togeth- er in order to became possessed of a palm of broken window pane in order to make a looking glass. While out in the exeroioe yard a convict will rapidly scan the ground hi the hope of coming across apiece of glass. Once pos- gassed of itshe will run the risk of solitary confinement on . a bread -and -water diet in order to get it into her cell. A pekoe of blank olothat the back of the glees makes an excellent mirror. TURNED THE DAGGER'S POINT. A Corset Saves time l.lre or 0 N1'emau Front au Malignant wife. Strong.minded ladies raise their voices periodically against the wearing of the cor- set, decant on the evils of tight lacing and claim that female form divine ought not to be cramped in whalebone and the usual accompaniments,eaye a Paris letter. Apart, however, from the dictates of fashion the much maligned stays may sometimes serve a very useful purpose, as the following story will show: The wife of a civil official discovered in a drawer in her husband' study a certain document which had no connection with the allairs of state, On the contrary, it was rather a flighty missive,for indited in a feminine hand, it bade the gentleman in question to a rendezvous on the morrow. The lady remembered tha her husband had absented himself from the domestic hearth at the precise hour named in the note, and, boiling over with fury and Indignation, she donned hoc bonnet and mantle and hurried off to the house of the writer, who ie also a married woman. The two families, it should be added, were on very intimate terms. There were some verbal interchanges, which had nob the effect of calming the irate wife, who, whip- ping out a small dagger, struck two blows with all her might at the lady's breast. In each mss, however, the dagger glanced off the corset, inflicting only trifling injuries. Loud screams brought the servants to the spot and soon the indignant wife, who in the meantime had had • a violent fit of hysterics, was being conducted in her own carriage to his office by the police commis- sary. Some hours afterwards she was set at liberty, as the lady whom she had at- tacked had, with her huabani, decided that no complaint should be lodged on amoeba of the goeelp to whioli the affair would inevitably have given rise. But fbr the protection afforded by the stays the ad- venture would probably have tet masted in a very tragic manner. WELSH PROGRESS. Wales Patting Herself In Ev'dc nee -Car din Wants a Large Grant mor E000a11onal. Purposes. Little Wales is becoming very moth in evidence, She is not only tutting some- thing of a figure politically in the affairs of the United Kingdom; but it branching out commercially :lid edtcabionally. Car- diff, one of her most enterprising towns, ia now demanding substantial recoguition from the Government. It wants a build- ing grant of $600,000 for its university college. The request has caused some exprseeions of astonishment, but the Min- istry are anxious to turn every brick in these days of elusive majorities, and a liberal grant will doubtless be forthoom- ing. Where Death Makes All Equal. There is atilt one place in France in whish gravestones and funeral epitaphs are all an- kuoWn. According to Armand, title is the village of Bouzoias in the Maritime Alps n the Arondissement Puget.Theniers, The Village consists of some fifteen houses. Isere the dead are not buried, but thrown into abone. hetse. This is an old building covering a superHolai area of three square metres, and roofed with elate. The door is open to all. The interior is quite empty, in the middle of the firmly trodden floor there is abroad board which one can lift with a walking stink. A bout five feet below, one sees bones and naked corium. At a dia. theca of about 30 metres from tho building tsa spring, but its waters are, regarded with suspicion. The proposal to construct, as the great feature of the Porta Expoeition in 1000 a monster telescope able to show the inhabit- ants of the inoon if there are any hag been revived. M. Biseboffshelm is said tobe will Mg to advance $400,000 toward the cost, IT IS A CERTAIN DEATH, EXECUTION IN AN ELECTRICAL QXIAIR SURE AND SUDDEN. 111011th Go, rovoras'eu 0IW rose901l#ly01 ltesttseltiulnu 0111,110'0:04 0110 to lguot'auoo or the S1104001 -81 101Y Other Oases 7YheP° no imitation 1s .Passible. T1te question of roeuaoitation of oriminale executed by eleotrioity is thrown Into the utmostconhlsion by the half -way know 10055, not to say the :Meer ignorance, of the medical men and the eleotrioians. The proposition of a Dr, (hipbone, of Syracuse, to operate on an executed criminal with some sort of an understanding that if he allows himself to be brought to life ho shall be the subject of exeoutive olemenoy,'looks to the defeat of justice, and to that aloile. It is entirely unnecessary far any purpose ofseienoe, and it proceeds upon nothing hutbbe iguoranee of the prompters of the scheme. ' An experiment of the most on arkable character Mae been made in - the case of a man of Pittsfield, Maas., who. ou Oat.23 received through hie arms and body the chock of a culprit of 4,000 volts, and upon being apparently killed was brought book to life in seven minutes by treatment for resuscitation similar to that which is used with one drowned. WiIAT A VICTIM EXL'ERIEN06D. The victim of this shook oontradicts Nicholas Tesla's assertion of the herrlbl excruciating character of a severe shock, or rather, a killing shook. He says Por a brief instant there was a serration as if I was being drawn downward by the arms and then everything became black. For seven minutes there was no sign of pulse beating, and there woe everysigu of death. Then slowly I began to regain consciousness and to make incoherent remarks about the accident. Half en hour afterward I could recall every incident before and after the seven minutes' interval, which was a total and painless blank. The accident occurred about 10 o'olock fn the morning. For the remainder of the day I kept quiet, but on the following day I was around as usual. I have experienced no ill effects other than the soars from theburos,one of whish went to the bone. This exposes the ridiculous exaggeration, of Mr. Tesla'( Desertion that the oriminale who have been pub to death by electricity " were burned to death"; that " the our - rent cooked the blood"; that " the current is thrust into the system with auoh power that it stops the flow of the blood and this clogs the Heart and stops its action"; that ." even if the man was resuscitated he would be partly, if not wholly, paralyzed" and that "the current would kill the power of the spine, while it would leave the mind as sound as ever." The man of this iovoluntary:experiment " took hold of two terminals carrying the high pressure of 4,600 volts and was im- mediately completely prostrated." The charge taken in this way was more likely than may outer would be to go 'through without killing beyohd hope of resuscita- tion; and it was espeoially likely to cause pain. If it had gone iu by the brain the victim would not have known any sensation at all, and in all probability his resuscita- tion would have been utterly impossible, or at leant much more difficult, not because the brain would have been cooked, but be- cause of a rendering effect sufficient to dis- able the brain cells and fibers. It is, however, not impossible, that even by way of the brain the charge might have passed without destroying Via POSSIBILITY OF nESUSCITATIO.. Bub the possibility of resuscitation is no proof whatever of the unreality of the kill- ing. It is from ignorance of what resuscita- tion means and hoW it may be effected that the eleotrioians and medical men argue that death by electricity is not real death. Tho fact ia that the death by eleotrioity meet perfectly meeting the demands of humane exeoutiou would be as exactly se possible favorable to resuscitation, yet be none the less real death. Real death never absolute- ly excludes the possibility of resuscitation unless the body has suffered a killing in- jury. The stoppage of the breath may be in very many oases from causes involving no such injury, and in all snob oases resusci- tation might be hopefully attempted, It has been understood in regard to the drowned, and practised with a measure of success. It 10 now suggested that it oould be successfully attempted with persons killed by electricity. There can be no doubt of it. But only gross ignorance can draw the inference that the victim of eleo- trica! killing billet really dead. The simple faot is that what we may sail initial death is in every ease only the suspense of ani- mation, and that under favorable circum• stances such death leaves resuscitation perfectly possible, initial death is in most cases not final death.' The body, and eapeetally the brain, Is more or leas full of vital energy. Rigor mortis is a manifesta- tion of vital energy. The hunted animal, which has run until it falls in .death rigor, through a self-poisoning of the system whim causes the dead body to putrefy immediate• ly, dies with final death and corrupts at once. Killing by a stroke of lightning corn. monly works in the same way; a sure proof that eleottlaity can do the most terribly effectual killing. RESUSCITATION OFTEN POSSUMS. In a large proportion of oases of death there is at least some chance of reeusoita- tton The suspense of animation or stoppage of the breath may take plate from camas whlah would yield at once to efforts to re- suacitate or bring back the action of the animating breath. When the Prince of Wales appeared to die of typhoid fever, and would beyond a doubt have remained dead, his physician, the 'celebrated Sir William Gull, threw himself upon him with the ut- most energy of resuscitation measures and brought him bank to life. It only requires getting the oxygen of respiration at Work again, and that is easier than 0embnon knowledge supposes. The fact ie, that death by drowning, which happens to have been dealt with for resuscitation, leaves the o s in man cases of c snot as good a Chau e g Y death by other onuses ; and chief among the causes which leave the chances asgood as they possibly eau ba, is the right sorb of a killing charge of eleotrieiby.. Benjamin Franklin used to stand half a dozen men, each with a hand on the head of the other, and by sending a email charge through their !reads drop them all as if ebruok dead; anis instead of falling over full length they would sink down in their traoke,like so many into bags. The passage of the oharge seemed to instantly (dear the whole brain and nervous aytesn of power to control the inmates, But ae blatantly the llow of blood through the brain gave fresh power, and the 'nen would be on their feet again without knowing that they had been hurt, Any charge taken 1(110(0010 Von WWII, Whether a mild charge or a terribly rend• ing and burning oharge aboliebos emulation to begin with and so instantly that the v10. tjm gannet be consoioue of anything, Elven if on (upending the current there fol, lowed an ineteaeely painful eeneatlop, it would be from the returning life,aad would not prove that the entrance of bho current had been felt,. It is wholly unneoeesary to keep on with a klilina charge. The right charge does, the work in a flash, But it may be advisable to take some simple measures for preventing natural resuscitation, ouch as a wet cloth over the mouth and nostrils, and planing the body in a laboratory closet from which the air can be withdrawn and carbonic) acid gas substituted. But the exeoution itself, to be absolutely without shook and without pain, ought to be carried out by means of such a labora- tory Closet, a cell in which carbonic acid gas can be made to displace the air. The withdrawal of the air, to begin with, would bring on painless insensibility and the admission then of the noxious gas Would in aperfectly harmless way secure the completion of the death,procese, As the victim would not under this arrange• mentbreathe the noxious gas resuscitation would be a thing of so absolute certainty, perhaps for a day or two even, as to be a ready merino of either defeating justice or remedying a mistake. IN A JUNGLE STORM. 'ou Hear It, but Caul gee It. Until It Can. Also be Felt. People who have never been in a jungl talk of the sky ae a pointer talks of the horizon or a seafaring man of the offing—as if when you wanted to see it you only need use your eyes. But in the jungle you don't sea the sky—at least you only ase a few scraggy patches of it overhead through the openings in the twigs and leaves. Neither do you feel the wind blowing, nor get burned or dazzled by the sun, nor even see that luminary, except by momentary glimpses about midday. From which it follows that a jungleman does not usually pretend to be weabherwise. If lie does be is even a greater humbug than the rest of the weather prophets. On the after- noon about which we are speaking I re- member setting forth on my walk in the still glow of the tropical calm and wonder- ing rather at the intense stillness of the surrounding forest. Then the air grew cooler, and the green of the foliage in front seemed to deepen, and presently there was a sound as of a giant waterfall in the dis- tance. Waterfalls do not, however, grow louder every second, whereas the noise in front did so. Then there was a loud, angry growl, as of a dozen lions. A minute more and the whole jungle began to mar as if fifty squadrons of heavy cavalry were corn- ing up at a gallop. Then came a drop of rain and a peal of thunder which seemed to make toe world stop. Then the storm began. The sky above darkened, the trees clattered, the brush- wood beneath hissed and bowed itself.' A deluge of raindrops blotted out the narrow view. Down it came, soaking through the densest leaves under which one fled for re- fuge, striking the grass and sand with mil- lions of dull thuds,dashing furiously against the leaves as if they were so many hostile shields, streaking the air with innumerable perpendicular lines,and hurling itself down with the force of bullets. In such a downpour one may as well walk and got wet as staud still and get wet. Unfortunately One did not know where to walk to. The " eircumbendibus system" presupposes the foot that the wagon wheels and bullock freaks can be seen and roted. But when the cart track is no longer a cart track, but " all turned to rushing waters," such tracks oannot be seen ; and unless you have apocket compass you may as well try to fly as to get back to where you came from. When one reads of travellers lost in the backwoods they always steer by the sun—and probably very badly ; but when there is no sun what are you to do ? HAZING AT COLLEGES. Few )Scutal Incidents have Been Re- . ported This Fall. Tho fatal termination of a students' prank at a college in the United States. lent year,' the legal investigation that followed and the severe newspaper com• ments upon. the act have had a marked influence upon college student§, and few brutal teasing incidents have been reported form the oolleges at the opening of the fall term this year. Unusual at- tention has been given to the subject in the address of several college presidents, and in some instances the students have resolved to co-operate with university authorities in keeping the record of their institutions olea rot the oharge of hazing bru- talities. A wide margin must be allowed for the elt"Ifltion of youthful spirits and much mlts0 011 amused in the conduct of young teen who congregate by hundreds, in our colleges and universities, but a sutlioient outlet for the restless disposition of students sen bo found fn the atltelebic oonteets and games of the period, which should be encouraged within proper limi- tations, The authorities of our colleges, as a rule, exorcise liable control over the A Veteran's Story S[r. Joseph Hoops utorick, an old soldier, 620 E. 148th 6t., E. Y. City, writes 0s volun• tartly. In' 1862, at the battle of Fair Oaks, lie was stricken wttk typhoid fever, and after a long struggle 1n hospitals, hating Sev- eral years, was 410- J'os.1bimn0erieh. charged as Incurable whit' Caiientnption. floetprs aid both lungs. Yere affected and he it um 90 11 0.1 long, ii0Ub. 00m10(10 urged hint g had ri Pt. 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Snob roe• epponsibiliby,in most inatanses, developer, ohmmeter andself•contrel, Thiscnofidenoeis, ltowover,sometimes abnsed,and when itis,it is the duty of the college authorities to en- ! n a' good and en - form discipline for the ebuds t the fair name of theoollege. Iu flagrant cases the law must be invoked also for the stn- dents must be taught that the general lawn of the community apply to them, The regal investigation of the ease mentioned above cleared the atmosphere of college life all over the enuntry, and was a much more powerful agency for the reformation of college man- ners than the trial of the caro by Mil. vomit), authorities, Locating Water by Eleetrlelty. An Austraian nobleman, a000rding to a German technical paper, is said to have located 300 sources of water it all parts of the world, with but twelve failures, by means of ateotrio apparatus, somewhat in- distinctly described, but apparently 00n - slating of platinum ohaina and bails wore opofto ti fn chain ebody,one end the la 1111 c 11th terminating on the finger, another nonnec' bion being with a platinum plate en the foot. The other hand holds a magnet and a watch. In Walking over a place where there is orator in the ground one of the Balla "b000tnes active" and follows the Water course, indicating also the depth. The article adds that he alio mattes a care fill study of the topography and geology of the currier, which facilitates" his work.