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Show LION OFFERED FOR SOUL THEORY TEST NEW YORK, March 30. Do animals lose weight Immediately after death? Dr. Duncan Macdougall of Haverhill, Mass.. declared this Is the case with human hu-man beings, and cites it as a proof of the existence of a soul. In an effort to solve the animal end of the problem the Barnum & Bailey management man-agement has sent the following question to the Haverhill scientist: "Would you entertain a proposition to make, with one of our animals, experiments experi-ments of the same nature that you have conducted with human beings?" Charles K. Hutchinson, one of the directors di-rectors of the big show, when questioned about the matter, said: "We would be glad to assist Dr. Macdougall Mac-dougall In extending his tests to the brute creation. We have at the Bridgeport winter win-ter quarters a sick lion that can only live a few days at the longest, and as the animal ani-mal Is In a lethargic condition it could be placed on the mattress scales and kept-there kept-there without difficulty. With this lion Dr. Macdougall can make his test." - |