Immortality.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 14, 3 April 1902, Page 19

Immortality.

Those who have been endeavoring to find the abode of Rider Haggard's ' She,' or to discover the Fountain of Youth, vainly sought in Florida by Porce de Leon, had better come home and return the portmanteaux they borrowed. The secret of immortality has been discovered. Those who have rich uncles or who have crotchety mothers-in-law living with them will try to bear the announcement with becoming fortitude. Perhaps, after all, it may not be true, you know. Anyway, an American scientist claims that he can distil from a sea-urchin's egg a map:io fluid that will prolong life to any length, and make undertakers and oetu"tries as superfluous as a mackintosh on the Darling Downs. If anybody has a private hearse I advise them to realise on it as soon as possible. And if anybody happens to have a job lot of coffins about the house that he bought at some sale^the best thing he can do is to utilise them as mignonette-boxes for the front windows. Either that or tie them up in fours and sell them to tho39 Civil servants who are low down in the classification lists. Those poor fellows, considering that those above them will live for ever, might be induced to take a coffin or two. The liquid that effected the regeneration of Miss Semaphore is not in it with the distillation from the seaurchin's eifg. And it only ne3ds to become as cheap as beer to turn each of u<3 into a Wandering Jew or a Tjnnhamer or a Thomas of Ercildonue. Which he wen for fen 1. The American discovery also means a cold day for the cremationists.