Show balling from front a great it will bo be remembered that mr whimper who had bad a severe succession of falls once in the alps without vit hout losing his consciousness declares emphatically that as he lie bounded from ono one rock to another lie felt absolutely no pain the same thing happens on the battlefield the entrance of the bullet into the body is not felt and it ia is not till ho he feels tho the blood flowing or a limb paralyzed that tho the soldier knows lie is wounded persons who have had several limbs broken by a fall do not know which limb is broken till they try to rise at tho the inome nf a fall the whole intellectual activity Ts Is increased to an extraordinary degree there is not a of anxiety one considers quickly what will happen this ii is by no means the tile consequence oi of presence of mind it is rather the product of absolute necessity A solemn composure takes possession of the victim death by fall is a beautiful one great thoughts fall fill tho the victims soul they fall painlessly into a great blue sky drakes magazine |