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LAMMERT BROS.
AUUTIONEFES, ÄFPRAISERS
AND SURVEYORS.
Public Auctions-
THE Undersigned have received inbrae To all by Fable Auction,
од
WEDNESDAY, Decembar 22, 1820, commencing at 12 o'clock (noon)
their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street,
· INTIMATIONS
YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.
JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive food for Infants which keeps good e quality during Hot weather (2) LAC TOSE (Yak Sugar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (3) MILFORD MCGRATH FLUID INSEC- TICIDE the Best Flaid for destroying Feas, Mosquitoes, Bungs. Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days, and
JOHN CAHILLS GOLDEN
35 cases Heidseick Extra Dry Cham-FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA
•pagne, (qts)
15 cases Dac de Maaco Champagne,
# (qts)
50 cases Salamander Brandy, •.
500 cases Salamander Brandy, NoĻI.
** cases Australian Block.
4 cases Old Tom Gin,
it cases French Vermouth. -
fin lots to suit all purchasers).
Da view now.
Tarms: Cash on deâvery,
LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers.
ON
THURSDAY, December 23, 1920, Commencing it 11 am.
at their Sales Rooms, Dudiall Street,
A Osasigument of High Clara
Ladies' and Gent's Boots..
and Shoes
And
A Selectina of Talis
Cestamen,
Dresses, Cloaks in Silk and other
materials, (from Paris).'
farms-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers.
*B
THURSDAY, December 23, 1820
commencing at 5 p.
their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street.
▲ Fine Selection of High Class
Cut Crystal Glass-ware
comprising i
ls, Distes, Doganters, spiris
-buttles, scent bottles, vises, jugs, etc |
Daview from Wednesday, the 22nd
in-L
Catalogues will be issued.
Terme-Cash on delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.;"
Auctioneers
Googkong, Dwežber 16, 1823. «
FOR SALE
MILNER'S SAFES
Apply to. "LAMMERT BROS.,
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THE DEAD REVIVE,
*COMING BACK TO LIFES
SOME REMARKABLE CASES.
Catalepsy can usually be diagnosed, however, for the reason that the rigid legs and arms will remain in any position in which they are placed.
Animals have been bled to “death” and restored to life; persons have been "killed" by drugs and brought back to life again after doctors had Occasionally we read of apparently worked over them many weary well authenticated instances of per-hours; others have been completely stas who have been "officially pro-asphyxiated
and revivified by nounced dead starting their friends artificial respiration, carried on by a by "coming back to life." In many wonderful system which science has cases these subjects of modern resur perfected, and animals have been rection relate amazing experiences "killed" by electricity and revived during the "death" period. They again by the same means. have been in heaven" and have seen This naturally leads to the ques- and talked with departed friends and tion: What is life?" It is safe to relatives, they assert. Others con say that no one knows yet; but any fess that their sole experience was number of persons are ready to say, complete oblivion; they have nothing it is electricity. The trouble is they to relate.
cannot prove it. But even if no one Speculation and much heated dis-knows what it is, there is, at least, cussion as to the probable where one man who has come near to creat abouts of the souls of the temporarily ing it. He is Dr. Jacques Loeb, a departed inevitably follow, and the scientist of international fame. He origin of life, its nature, death and has progressed so far with his creative its causes, are correlated, subjects experiments that he is able to pro- that inevitably crop up in the sub- duce healthy, normal frogs without sequent arguments among physicians, the intervention of a male parent. psychologists, scientists generally, The method he finally devised is [and theologians-
simplicity itself. He removes the A late case of this sort is that of ovem or egg from the female, makes a Mrs. Elizabeth Blake. She was small cut on the surface of the egg seventy-two years old and had been (a mere pin-prick will do) treats the well-known locally since childhood as egg with weak acid, and when it has a spiritualist. She declared that she undergone certain chemical changes bad been possessed of mediumistic It is placed in a prepared nourishing powers since the age of ten. Late in chemical solution where a tadpole is March she apparently died. Her produced which ultimately becomes a doctor pronounced her dead. The frog.
rizidity of death had supervened, and The most marvellous and astound neither pulse, heart action nor breathing fact about this evolutionary pro- |ing could be detected. To allintents cess is that the sex gland of one of! and purposes she was actually dead. these artificially created frogs, which She remained in this state for eight had no male parent, actually contain hours. At the end of that period ed ova or eggs. It will be seen at the watchers detected signs of life once, therefore, that this creative Her eyelids twitched, she stirred, process could be repeated indefinitely opened her eyes and her lips moved, "I bave been in the beautiful spirit world, were the first words those who bent over her were able to understand, "I have seen and talked with my husband and eleven children." She Ismented her return to earthly life.
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without fertilization by the male element..
MOST TIRING THING.
WHAT IS IT↑
A COLLECTION OF OPINIONS.
After completing a round of autumn exhibitions, a lady expressed to a friend her decided opinion that the most fatiguting business on earth was attending shows.
The friend men. tioned this view to a Daily Chronicle representative, who obtained com
ments from various sources.
City pavements tire me more than anything." said a man who thought little of a ten mile country walk; "and the most tiring pavements are those outside the shops in which my wife is buying things."
"Walking upstairs, I should say, beats everything bar the old tread- mill, which I never had the chance to try," was the view
a busy housewife,"
A frequent playgoer declared that a seat in the gallery was easily first In wearisomeness, especially if one could not see or hear properly, and had spent an hour in the queue.
“Looking for a job," was a work. man's verdict, endorsed directly by a clerk, who had no cash left for buses.
"It all depends," was a physician's comments, "in the mental attitude. Muscles respond to mind stimulus, and a two hours wait to see the Prince of Wales-tired one less than 20 minutes" "hanging about' for a shopping consort.
Job-hunting is fatiguing mainly on account of its hopeless anxiety; brain and brawn are wearing down at once. After a long walk brain workers should rest and cool down. before donning the thicking cap."
When wallding for exercise choose soft roads or turf, where possible, and take easy, jerkless strides at a medium pace. Very slow mouching" the doctor thought more tiring than a steady pace, but an occasional standing rest" helped one to resume the walk more briskly.
"Don't forget," added the expert, that healthy bodily weariness is good, but mental fatigue has no compensations."
Having thus briefly considered the question of life, lef um revert to the deaths". A case analogous to that of Mrs. Elake was that of a young medical man, who took some thirteen grains of morphine and died. It Mrs Blake seemed to be her normal may well be believed that he died, self in a few days, when she was teasmuch as one grain of the drug again stricken, again pronounced is considered a fatal dose. More dead and again remained in a coma- over, the distinguished medical men tose slate for hours. She also reviv.who examined him pronounced bin For a tired brain cycling or swim- ed again and reproved her husband dead. Nevertheless, these doctors ming were, he believed, among the for allowing her soul to reinhabit berwent to work employing every known best cures, sometimes even better enfeebled body. On April 10 method of treatment in morphine than sleep. Speaking profes however, the news was given out that poisoning as well as a means of sionally," he concluded, the most she had finally died for the third time, artificial respiration. They laboured tiring thing on earth is indigestion, 'People are at liberty to believe tirelessly for twelve hours and at the and the best cure, for it is getting as what they please," remarked a physi. expiration of that period had the tired as you can, in fresh air.” cian to whom an sccount of Mrs satisfaction of detecting signs of Blake's death was shown. "You life They persisted in their may believe that she died," and that efforts, and patience and hard her spirit went to heaven and return- work triumphed; the young doctor ed later to her body. The medical was restored to a life of usefulness. WHEN your child has booping viewpoint is that she was a victim of The fact of the case was vouched for cough lose and expectoration essy by cough be careful to keep the our of four things: Hysteria, self- by Dr. Samuel J. Meltzer, of the giving Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as hypnotism, catalepsy or syncope. Rockefeller Institute, who had devised may be required This remedy ilalas Syncope means simply general weak, the method of artificial respiration. lignify the tough mama ni maka it ness, such as fallore.of all bodily employed. He says that the doctor maler to expectorate. It his -boen used functions. We call a profound faint was dead, and that he was restored fully in many epidemics and arit ing spell an attack of syncope. Such The revived man had no memories substances it is perfectly safe For sale contains no narcotic or other injurious a condition may last for hours.” of his "dead" staté..
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