A Wonderful Discovery.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1778, 4 January 1886, Page 3

A Wonderful Discovery.

An American gentleman is said to have made a discovery by which the existence of the human soul can be scientifically proved. He reasoned that within this body of bone and sinsw was yet another body existing in a vapoury form which death alone shou'd free, and that by a simple microscopic device the dull sight of human eyes might penetrate the minutest particles of the air we breathe, and see the soul take form and flight to the boundaries of another world. His attention was first attracted to this, he says, by a man lying on the sofa suffering with a pain in his foot, and yet there was no foot there to suffer, the leg having been amputated nearly to the hip. .For years," says Mr. Holland. ” this incident ran through my mind, until at last I resolved upon an experiment. I pi floured the most powerful lenses I could hud, and completed an invention of my own, a id when I bad my light arranged perfectly, so that I could examine the microbes of the air, I called upon a friend who had lost iiis arm and explained that I wanted him to pnt his imaginary hand where I direct ;d. He laughingly accompanied me to :ny rooms, and did as I desired. The mom ;nt I adjusted the glass a .vorld o? revel a i on broke upon me. The dual hand lay oencath my glass. I asked him to m ike letters with his imaginary finger. lie did so, and to u.s uoader and astonishme it I spelled out the sentences he wrote. That was conclusive evidence to me,” contis led Mr. Holland, “and you know the rest.”