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‘ A New Bodie Industry.—Over two years ago Louis Sammons, the veteran pioneer ol Mono lake, sank in that extraordinary sheet of water the dead bodies of three native born sons of the forest with a view to their petrifaction. The other day he brought in one body to land and sawed off a portion ot the scalp, which he left, at the Grand Central Hotel in tins city. It is just as fully a piece ot petrified humanity as ever was seen. The remainder of the body was again committed to the turbid waters of the lake. Louis intends to let the bodies remain in the water six months longer at which time he expects a perfect petrifaction of the whole of them, one of which he will send to the Academy of Science at PhiN adelphia and another to the Medical Musuem at San Francisco. There is probably no better use that the Indians could be put to than immersion in Mono lake with a view to their petrifaction. Mlt;«no bike is capable of petrifying a million ®f aborigines, and we advise the ini-meision of a thousand squaws. Friend Sammons has struck the right business, and it is to lie hoped that his first instalment of Indians may lead to u large demand from European countries. If it only takes three years to petrify, an immense future is in store for a company who will fallow up the husines.—Bodie Du Hi/ JTeics.
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Seattle Puget Sound Dispatch
Seattle, Washington, US
Mon, Aug 16, 1880
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