The Weight of a Soul.— Five American physicians have been experimenting to determine the existence or non-existence of a soul in tbe human body. These Boston scientists say that through their researches tbe human soul has at last been catalogued upon scientific principles as an actual material thing; that when this soul flits from the body it diminishes the weight of the body by a certain measurable amount, and that this amount can be weighed in actual ounces. The difference between the weight of a live human body and a body the moment after death, or when the soul has quitted it, was found to be from half an ounce to one ounce, and to this, it is said there can be no other possible explanation than that this is the weight of the human soul. In every case, it is'declared, the loss was shown after all known scientific deductions had been taken into consideration. HUMBUGS DIB. Valuable preparations are Immortal. After 60 years 1 trial, Wolfe's Schnapps is the most popular liquor (he worltf has §v& seea t
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Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11925, 3 May 1907, Page 2
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179Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11925, 3 May 1907, Page 2
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