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Show He Changes to Stone. One of tho most remarkable lmman curiosities ever seen lias been examined by M. de Qnatrefajjes, the French natur-ulist. natur-ulist. Ho i.s a provincial named Simeon Aiguier, and is 'M years old. Aiguier, thanks to his peculiar system of muscles and nerves, can transform himself in most wondrous fashion. At one moment, assuming the rigidity of a Htalue, his body may be struck sharply, tho blows falling on a block of stone. At another ho moves bis intestines intes-tines from above and below and right to left into the form of a large football, and projects it forward, which gives bim tho appearance of a colossally stout personage. person-age. He then withdraws it into the thorax, eiiening like a cave, and vhe hollow look of his body immediately reminds ne of ' a skeleton. Aiguier si ccessfully imitates imi-tates a man snbjected to the tortures of the rack, us also a man hanging himself, nnd assumes a strikingly cadaverous look. What most astonished M. de Qnatrefages was the stoppage of the circulation cir-culation of the blood, now on the left and now on the right sido, which was effected by muscular contraction. Ciu cimiuti Commercial Gazette. |