Show Preventing Premature Burials The fear of ot being buried burled alive always always always al al- al- al ways has been and is so widespread that the French Academy of Science some years ago offered a prize equal to for the discovery of some means by which even the Inexperienced Inexperienced Inexperienced might at once determine whether er in a given case death had ensued or not A physician obtained tho the prize He had observed the following well-known well signs If the hand of ot the suspected dead person is l held field ld towards a candle or other artificial light with the tho fingers extended and ono one touching the other and one looks through the spaces between the fingers towards toward the light there appears a scarlet red color where the fingers touch each other due to the blood still circulatIng circulating ing it shows Itself through the tissues tissues tissues sues which have not yet congested When life Ute Is entirely extinct the phenomenon phenomenon phe phe- of scarlet spaces between the fingers at once ceases The most extensive and thorough trials established established the truth of or his observation |