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Dr. Miller said: ‘<I form my ideas in regard to the Doctor more on my pri- 
vate chemical analysis than on anything else. I have found that for the last few 
days the waste of poisonous matter from the system has been steadily decreasing, 
hence this poison must be accumulating in the body and will inevitably lead to 
blood poisoning.” 
On the twenty-eighth day the evidences of nervous and muscular prostration 
were more apparrent than on the day before and his stomach was too irritable to 
retain water. Pulse 74, temperature 982°, respiration 16, weight 129% pounds. 
On the twenty-ninth day all his symptoms were more favorable. Pulse $4, 
temperature 98,°,°, respiration 14, weight 130 pounds. 
On the thirtieth day everything favorable. 
On the thirty-first day the symptoms were decidedly alarming and indicative 
of speedy collapse. 
On the thirty-second day, however, there was some improvement. Pulse 
72, temperature 982°, respiration 15, weight 127. 
The history of this case is very remarkable, for while other cases are upon 
record where the fasters are reported to have abstained from food as long as Dr. 
Tanner, and some even longer, this is perhaps the one in which the greatest pains 
have been taken by really scientific men to prevent imposition and to note all the 
conditions, at regular intervals. And it must be admitted that most of the symp- 
toms in this case have been quite different from those expected and predicted by 
the skillful physicians in attendance, as well as those taught by our best physiological 
authors. - The temperature of the body in particular, instead of being materially 
lowered, in accordance with medical teaching and experience, has remained near- 
ly normal; while the pulse and nervous system, since the first ten days have been 
regular and healthful in action. The weight too has been far less reduced than 
any one could have expected. 
Of course there is room for suspicion that food has been supplied in some un- 
known manner, but the probabilities in favor of this manner of solving the problem 
are very few indeed, and we must turn to some other source for an explanation 
of the facts. 
THE HUDSON RIVER TUNNEL. 
This is one of the greatest undertakings of modern engineering science. 
The tunnel has been carried a little more than 300 feet from the great well at the 
‘foot of Fifteenth street, Jersey City, or about 200 feet out under the river. The 
work of sinking the well on the New York side is soon to be begun near the foot 
of Morton street, whence the laborers will bore westward under the river and 
eastward to a point near Broadway, where the New York entrance will be. The 
tate of progress on the New Jersey side will soon be about eight feet a day, bu 
on the New York side, where they must penetrate about a thousand feet of rock, 
the progress must necessarily be slower. Operations are continuous, night and 
day, seven days a week, there being three sets of laborers, relieved every eight 
hours. Only one tunnel has been begun. There are to be two. — Originally it 
was planned to bore one enormous tunnel, and on both sides of the river there 
