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Show PREMATURE OUntAl, 1'iunnni Men Who Hnvo tett IMrncUoa to (lunril ARiilnit It. Wliklo Collins lott a missive among his .papers directing tha when ho died a thorough oxamlria'tMqlu of hlo bbtly Ffaoto bo mado by. a. skillftiV aurKCon. ,Udy Burton, wlfo of Captatn Sir nich-ard nich-ard Uurton, -ordered that her body should ho pierced with a ncedlo in tho rcKlon of the heart. Edmund Yate3 of tho World, Mlas Ada Cavendish, Miss Harriet Murllnean, tho authoress, and Hans Andercon, the wrltor of bo njaiiyfalry tales, may bo mentioned as, Instanceo of men and 'women bo havo loft liiotruetlon that Hiey thould not bo Interred until everything posslblo had been done to mako nuro that they woro lifeless. In somo cases h was tho severance oa vein, In othcro .oven de-captUttlon de-captUttlon 'that was josolvcd upon. Others, with a slmjllHr end In view, havo adopted different meanu. Tho signaling . Invention of Edgar Allan Poo. who wrote this subject up In his iharacteriBtlcally walrd fashion, a fa-miliar fa-miliar to all roadcra. .Thoo, there la tho apparatus ot a Russian Invcutar, which conalst8 In a mechanism placed ln thn throat of tho corpse. If con-uclousuefia con-uclousuefia returned, and-an effort wero made to hreatho, too effort eot In motion mo-tion certain wires, which resulted In bell ringing .in the cemetery keeper's keep-er's lodge. In ''Jetobol's Daughter" tho idea is very almtlar, Bave that" Instead of a throat uppanttua wires were fao-tonod fao-tonod to tho hands of. tho airpao. Last year fJIr Henry Littlojohn told his students stu-dents at Edinburgh pf a fancy coflln, fitted with patent springs no constructed construct-ed that on tho slightest Indication ol returning life thoy would Immediately open the colfln and thua save tho vlo-tlm. vlo-tlm. This may have been a reference to tho Itusalan Invention, seolug that tho Idea Is the same, though there !a a HllRhl dlfforenco in detail. Chambers' Cham-bers' Journal. s |