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Show PREMATURE DU.St.VL. I'ntnom Men lVlio llavo Lert Illrectloni to Ouwrtl Amtlint It. Wllklo Collins left a m:ijlyc anions his papers directing that when ho died a thorough examlnatloln cf his body wns to bo made by a skillful Etirscoa. Uatly Burton, wife of Captain Sir Rich-an' Rich-an' Durton. ordered thnt her body should be pierced with n necdlo In tha region of the heart. Edmund Yates of the World. Mls3 Ada Cavendish, Miss Harriet Martlncnu, tho nuthoress, nnd'HanB Anderaon, tho writer of so many fairy tales, may bo mentioned ns Instnnccs of min and women who have lert Instructions that they should not bo Interred until everything possible had been done to mnko suro thftt they were lifeless. In Bomo cases It was tho sovernnco of a vein, In others even decapitation de-capitation that was resolved upon. Others, with n slmljnr end in view, ,mvo adopted different means. The signaling Invention of Edgar Allen Poo, who wrote this subject up in his characteristically weird fashion, Is fa-mlllW fa-mlllW to all readers. Then, there I tho apparatus of n Russian Inventor, which consists In a mechanism placed in the throat of the corpse. If cpn-scloiiEness cpn-scloiiEness returned, and an offorr, were made to breathe, tho effort set in motion mo-tion cortaln wires, which resulted In a ueu ringing in tho cemetery keeper's keep-er's lodge. In "Jezebel's Daughter" the Idea Is very similar, save that instead of a throat apparatus wires were fas-ton6d fas-ton6d lo tho hands of. tho corpae. Last year. Sir Henry LUtleJohn told his stu. dents nt Edinburgh of a fancy coffln, flttod with patent springs so constructed construct-ed that on tho slightest Indication of returning life they would Immediately open tho cotfln nnd thus savo tha victim. vic-tim. This may have been a reference to tho Russian Invention, seeing tint the idea !b the same, thouch there ia a alight Clfferenco in detail. Chambers' Cham-bers' Journal. ' |