Show preventing premature burials Bu Burl rials als the fear of being burled buried alive always has been and is so BO widespread that the french academy of 0 science some years ago offered a prize equal to 0 o for tile the discovery of somo means by which even the inexperienced might at once determine whether in a given case death had ensued or not A physician obtained tile the prize lie ile had observed the following well known signs it if the hand of the dead person Is held towards a candle or other artificial light with the fingers extended and ono touching the other and one looks looka through the spaces between the fengers toward s the light there appears a scarlet red color where the fingers touch each other due to the blood still circulating it shows itself through the tissues which have not yet congested when life 1 1 sal i entirely extinct tile the phenomenon of spaces between the ho fingers at once ceases the roost most exten alve olve and thorough trials the truth ot of his bis observation |