Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1897 — Making Wild Men. [ARTICLE]

Making Wild Men.

There are many' curious irw4ea In the world, the most strange must surety be the “artificial manufacture of wild men.” Yet a well-known English doctor In China has just certified from bls own personal experience that this art Is regularly practiced In the Flowery Kingdom. First, a youth is kidnaped, then bit by bit ho Is flayed alive, and the skin of a dog or bear grafted piece by piece upon him. His vocal chords are next destroyed by the action of charcoal to take him dumb; and the double purpose of causing “etiolation” of the skin and utter degradation of the mental facilities is affected by keeping him Immured in a perfectly dark hole for a number of years. In fact, by treating him like a brute for a sufficiently long time he is made into one. At last he Is exhibited to the entirely credulous Chinese as a wild man of the woods, and hls< possessors reap a rich harvest. The priests, it seem, are adepts at the art. When a kidnaper, however, is caught by the people he is torn to pieces, and when the authorities get him they torture him and promptly behead him. Such is life under the rule ♦f the Sod of Heaven. wlabs witn a wire oarn is a new mats*al made in Dresden, ths glass being fused to the wire while in a plastic state. Xhe adhesion is said to remain perfect under severe fluctuation of temperature. A medical discovery reported from Edinburgh Is that severe inflammation of the brain, due to blows on the head, •an be cured by lubricating all the internal membranes of the nose wltk g'yoorlne. This gives relief to the brain by causing the water to desosnd by the nose and throat. J. Q, Stewart, the well-known commedian, owes an Island in the mouth At Chesapeake Bay, on which there is clay that wcu d turn out pure aluminum at sixteen cents a pound. The clay has been, examined by a Philadelphia chemist, and at the end oi thv sea on a company is to b«> organized to manufacture -me metal. A new gunboat of the Swedish navy •as the combined qualities of breaker, tugboat, fire engine, waUr listUler, torpedo repairing ship, and man-of-war. She is one hundred and twenty ieetloug ftnd twenty-one feet wide, is equipped with four Nordenfelt guns and torpedoes, and has engines of one hundred and fifty horse power, giving a speed of twelve and three-fourth knots. White lead is poisonous to most people; but there are examples of individuals who are unaffected by it. John Jarvis worked for over years in ths well known white lead establishment ot Wetherlll <fc Brother, PhiladelphlaT-and. always enjoyed good health. He lately died of old age. Thomas McCann waa wther example. He worked over fiftytve years in the same concern.