Suspended Animation.

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

Suspended Animation.

Barnum, in his autobiography, tells a story of a district in Alaska, where the air is so pure chat a person can never die. Sometimes an enfeebled old man gets blown out of the charmed circle, and dies like other people, but whilst he remains inside the worst he may expect is to become <m interesting case of suspended animation. There is a museu-n there in which the envelopes of decayed trappers and hunters are duly numb-Jrel and hang up in bags in dry places. Should a rjlitive happen aljn^ anl inquire for some one who is missing, the polite alrea la,;it will look up the register and say: 'Oh, yea; that is number 1407. John, take down number 1407, and put him in the bath.' After l."> or 20 minutes in the tepid bath the resuscitated one is able t) converse for half an hour or so, when he usually says : ' John, I feel a little tired now. I think I shall go back to my bag.'

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