The possibilities, in this advanced era of electric mechanism, make fraud and deception so easy that it is extremely difficult to pronounce on the genuineness of any of the modern exhibitions of human electricity.
The Effects of Cold .-- Gmelin, the famous scientist and investigator of this subject, says that man has lived where the temperature falls as low as -157 degrees F.Habit is a marked factor in this endurance.

In Russia men and women work with their breasts and arms uncovered in a temperature many degrees below zero and without attention to the fact.
In the most rigorous winter the inhabitants of the Alps work with bare breasts and the children sport about in the snow.

Wrapping himself in his pelisse the Russian sleeps in the snow.

This influence of habit is seen in the inability of intruders in northern lands to endure the cold, which has no effect on the indigenous people.

On their way to besiege a Norwegian stronghold in 1719, 7000 Swedes perished in the snows and cold of their neighboring country.