Show by electricity scientists think that death by electricity or lightning is painless they do not know that it is so bat infer that it is from these facts the nerves communicate the sensation f pain by their vibrations or movements which are at the rato of 98 feet per second electricity moves in a copper wire at the rate of miles per second hence it is probable that a strong current of electricity kills a man before his nerves can mako him con scions of the shock professor tyndall while lecturing at the royal institution london accidentally touched with his shoulder the conductor leading from 15 leyden jars charged with electricity he thus describes tho effect on his body 1 I am extremely sensitive to electricity tri city yet a charge from such a powerful battery as 15 jars seemed to have no disastrous effect upon me I 1 stood perfectly still wondering that I 1 did not feel it but I 1 knew something had occurred after standing for a moment or two I 1 seemed to open my eyes which probably open all the time I 1 saw a confused mass of apparatus about me I 1 felt it necessary to reassure the people before me so I 1 said over and over again I 1 have wanted this battery to be discharged into me and now I 1 have had it although I 1 appeared unaffected really tho nerve in me waa so affected that I 1 saw my arm severed from my body I 1 soon however recovered proper eight aud saw that I 1 was all right tho battery was not powerful enough to cause death nor did it cloud professor dalls intellect while distorting his vision but he felt no pain though hock affected him because the nervous agency by which tha consciousness of pain is excited traveled tra voled like a tortoise while the electric current ran liko a hare |