Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1875 — Remarkable Preservation of Life. [ARTICLE]

Remarkable Preservation of Life.

A strange story of the preservation of life under circumstances which seemed to render death inevitable comes from Nevada. In a secluded mountain vale two friends were hunting game. They had killed a large cinnamon bear and dragged it to the hut they had made their headquarters. One of the party had the misfortune to accidentally send an ounce ball through his heel, shattering it to fragments. They hurried back to the hut. The nearest settlement was forty miles off, and so weak was the wounded man from loss of blood that to ride it was out of the question. His friend resolved to leave him and bring, as speedily as possible, the medical assistance which seemed imperatively necessary. Leaving the unfortunate man two days’ provisions and tucking him into a bunk in the jnost comfortable way possible the mend rode off A tremendous snow-storm set in, and though, with a doctor, he made superhuman efforts to return, he was unable to do so. The idea that he must leave his companion to die of cold and starvation nearly crazed him, but to reach him was a physical impossibility, and reluctantly he abandoned the attempt, resolving, however, to decently inter his bones in the spring when the trail would be passable. Seven weeks afterward a party of tfee unhappy captive’s friends set out to bury him. They arrived at the cabin and were met by the man himself. He had nearly recovered from the wound, which he had kept dressed with snow until mortification had disappeared. For provisions he had the raw bear meat, and though the cold was intense his own clothing and a double supply of blankets had kept him from freezing. „ At Niigata, in Japan, the latest rage is one for breeding a kind* of goldfish caUed kol, which has a white body and light red head. .A fish a foot long sells for $87.50. The-cause of ihe fancy, is that a rumor prevails that gold can be extracted from the scales. Borne people have turned their fields into fish-ponds.