Show AS ns TO HEART BEATS The London Daily News tells how Mrk Mr William showed in a i lecture at the Royal Institution tion that heart beats can can be measured by electric electric- ity it To prove it ii he put Dr Wellers Weller's bulldog Jimmie Jim- Jim Jimmie mie nile on the table with his feet in water The lights were turned down and the shadow of a thin wire was projected on a screen The wire jerked forward forward for for- forward ward and backward Those jerks Mr l explains represent the motive electro-motive force of Jimmies Jimmie's heart You will notice they are very unequaL un un- equal This T lis ho said was not due to excitement through Jimmie finding himself in the presence presence pres pres- i ence once of a large audience but is the natural I action of 01 a dogs dog's heart The lIThe beatin beating of the hearts of all animals is in fact unsteady he lie says Now we have heard of cases where a young lady and a young man were in a room and when the lights were turned down clown there was a visible increase increase increase in in- crease i in l their heart beats although their feet were not in in water It did not show on a screen but they were both conscious of it and it did not take I Ia a scientist like 11 1 to understand it It came to them the l just as natural as life There is a great deal of or humbug in these scientists scientists selen- selen and unsteady hearts when the lights lights' are are turned down are not peculiar to just dumb anim animals ani ani- m mals ls they strike the like god-like intellects and they affect young ladies sometimes worse than does oes the reading of their own own first spring poems What do these old curmudgeons know about heart beats anyway 1 |