Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1910 — Mysterious Electricity. [ARTICLE]

Mysterious Electricity.

Death from electricity may come from paralysis of the heart or by stoppage of breathing. In some cases, after getting the shock the victim has been able to get up, walk and talk about his accident, then falling stone dead directly afterward. Sensibility to electricity is very different in animals. In Vienna experiments have been made on ten different species. The horse was killed instantly on 100 volts; the strength of the common house current is about 100 volts. Dogs are almost as easily killed. A rabbit stood a much stronger current But the experimenters not kill a frog with all the current they had. Looks like a butt-in-place for antlvivisectionists —If any are left