Too Successful.

Bruce Herald, Volume VII, Issue 650, 17 November 1874, Page 6

Too Successful.

The ' Virginia, City Knterprise ' has the following . — •• A gentlenvin who has just arrived from the bomx. fieHs of the desert reyi >ns surrounding ihe town, of Uolumbus, in the eastern part of this State, gives urn the following account of the sad fate of Me Jonathan Newhouae, a man of considerable inventive genius. Mr JSewhouse had constructed w hat he called * solar armour,' an apparatus intended t. o protect the nearer from th.c fierce liea.fc oE the sun in crossing deserts and burning alkali plains. The arm'>ur consisted of a long ciose-fiitiag j tcket made of common sponge, and a cip or hood of the Bauia material ; both jacket and h od being about an inch in thickness". Before smarting across a d aert this arm mr w:is to be saturated with wa er. U idar the righ r . arm was suspended an in'iia-ru'ih-r sack titled with water and having a small guttapercha lube Iwaii'ig to the t ip of, r.lie h-iod In nrrlei 1 to keep ih- arm uir moitb all that was necessary to be done by the traveller as h-) urogrussid over the burning aan is, ' was to press the s<ck occasion illy, wh'-n a small quantity of w*t>-r won d be fiire.-'d up and th'H.'-'ii'jh.'y s*Miras"e »he hood and the j-icket below it. Thus, by the evaporation <>f the moisture in the. arm >r, it u'hs «a'c;iilaT,ed mi/h<; »c p odnoed aim >st any d.'gree of cold Mr Newh-ms* w«nc down to 1> a *■•'» ViilKij', determined v, try the exi.;eri:n«nt <>f ci»s.<Liii» rh-tt terrible place in armour He .starred out into ! h* valfyone •n- nil ing fr<nn the camp nearest its b -rde'S, twlliim tiie men at the camp, as he laced his armor on his buck, that h« would return in two days. Next day an Indian, wh • c uld apeak but a few words of English, cune to the camp in a great state of excitement. He made the men understand that he wanted them to follow him At the distance of about 20 mile* out into the desert the IncHan pointed to a human figure seated ayainst a rock. Approachinir, they fGU dit to be Nevihouse, si ill in his armour. He was dead and frozen stiff; his beard waa covered with frost, and — though the noonday sun poured down its fiercest rays — an i»'i«-le >>yer a foot in length hung from his nose. There he had perished miserably because hi 3 armour had worked but too well, and because it was laced up behind, where he could not reach the fastenings."