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ANNIE ROSSMAN Is be
ing treated at the Arapahoe
County Hospital in Denver af
ter having broken the record In som
nambulism During her excursions
while asleep she has been rescued from
injury or death by the police more
than 150 times Bolts bars handcuffs
and chains have all failed to keep her
within her room and clad in a night
gown she has roamed the streets of
Denver night after night
Everything possible -was done to cure
the young woman but to no purpose
until she was placed in the hospital
There she has been watched by an
attendant and cold water has been
thrown in her face every time she has
sought to leave her bed or escape This
plan seems to be proving efficacious
-and for the present at least her sleep
walking career has been closed
Many methods have been unsuccess
fully adopted to restrain her from her
nocturnal excursions The windows of
her room have been locked and the key
to thp door hidden but to no purpose
At other times she nas been tied in her
bed In releasing herself she has ex
hibited the skill of the conjurer for no
soiot could be tied that she was unable
to loosen Handcuffs have been at
tached to her wrists and then chained
to the bed but her hands slipped
through the rings in her sleep in a
fashion that she could not explain
when she awoke At another time the
key to her room was placed at the bot
tom of a barrel of water but she se
cured the key and the contact with the
chilled fluid did not awaken her
About the only instance when she
-distinctly remembered having a pur
pose in view was the time when she
was found seated on a letter box with
her arm around the lampost when she
declared she had believed herself to be
seated on a rail at the theater with her
arm about one of the supporting pil
lars
One of the most narrow escapes she
has had was on the occasion of a trip
on which she started to North Denver
She reached the bridge which crosses
Cherry Greek but instead of crossing
the structure made her way down by
its side and apparently was going to
walk through the water It so hap
pened that the creek was not booming
to any great extent just then and a
policeman happened to see her action
and rescued her from drowning Even
the shock of the water did not fairly
waken her and it was several mo
ments after her rescue before she en
tirely regained consciousness
It has always happened that when
ever Miss Rossman has left her room
and home at night on one of these
sleepwalking trips she has never stop
ped to don any clothing besides the
nightgown and has been guiltless of
shoes or stockings Just how she could
so often make her way about Denvers
streets in this costume unobserved is
a matter of almost as much mystery
as the real cause of the affliction which
has rendered her miserable for eight
years
One night she left her home about
midnight and wandered down 21st to
Curtis street When in front of the
Curtis street hosehouse a cable car
came upon her unexpectedly and she
was knocked down and to one side en
tirely escaping injury except a few
slight bruises
Once she walked from her home to
the Onion railway station This time
however she had lain down without
removing her clothing and so attract
ed less attention She sat in the sta
tion awhile where her peculiar actions
were noted but there was no suspicion
that she was asleep Finally she went
to the ticket agents window and
bought a ticket for Cheyenne Then
she left the tracks divested herself of
most of her clothing and walked up the
track toward the approaching train
jFortunately the engineer saw her in
time t stop before he reached her al
though she was walking toward the
Hocomotlve all the time
Again she made her way down to
lGth street early in the morning when
there were heavy wagons passing up
the street and calmly walked In front
of one of the largest that was going
west at a lively gait The driver saw
her and pulled up his horses but she
would certainly have been badly in
jured had not a policeman seen her just
in time and pulled her fairly from be
neath the horses feet She was not
even scratched
Once she attempted to leave her
room in the third story of her home
via the window She crept through the
window having raised the lower sash
and grasping the sill with both hands
swung herself out As fortune would
have it a policeman happened to be
passing and saw what she had done
He made his way into the house rush
ed up the stairs broke in the door of
her room and seizing her by the wrists
pulled her back
Another of her experiences was the
first and only time she gaye an exhi
bition of dancing on the street That
evening to the amazement of several
children and two or three pedestrians
she began a series of movements very
like the double shuffle of a negro min
strel No officer chanced to be near
and no one interfered On one of her
trips she apparently imagined herself
to be a lineman for she climbed a tele
graph pole and had succeeded in mak
ing her way well toward the top be
fore she was discovered She was rest
ing near the top of the pole when a po
licemen happened to see her Here
was a quandary If any one shouted
to her she might awake and fall to the
ground The officer could not climb
the pole Finally a ladder was procur
ed from a neighboring fire engine house
and placed against the pole A stal
wart fireman mounted it and a mo
ment later had Miss Rossman in his
arms She awakened almost instantly
and in a terrible fright She was taken
home and was prostrated by the shock
for several days
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MISS ROSSMANS WONDERFUL ESCAPES FROM DEATH WHILE ASLEEP
Miss Rossman is a native of Paola
Kan When she first began to walk in
her sleep the attacks were not fre
quent and it was only after she be
came a resident of Denver that her af
fliction grew upon her Physicians
who have studied Miss Rossmans case
say that her trouble is largely due to
the sluggish condition of her blood
During the time she is under the influ
ence of somnambulism her face is al
most as pale and cold as that of a per
son who is dead
The President and His Salary
I shall not attempt to answer the
question How much of his salary does
the President expend writes ex-President
Harrison in an article in the La
dies Home Journal on The Social
Life of the President But those who
think he can live at his ease after his
retirement on the income from his sav
ings should take account of several
things First that the net income from
safe investments does not exceed 4 per
cent second that the amount invested
in a home yields no income and
third that he must have a private sec
retary for his mail will be so large
that he cannot deal with it himself A
son of one of our most eminent Presi
dents who had lost all of his means
told me that it was pathetic to see his
father who was in ill health laboring
beyond his strength to answer the let
ters that came to him But if the Presi
dent retains a fair measure of health
he will take care of himself If he was
ever capable of directing the affairs of
the nation he may be trusted to admin
ister his own business and if he has
won the esteem of his fellow citizens
and has rightly valued it he will not
barter it for riches To any vocation
from which a man may be suitably
called to the Presidency he may suit
ably return
What has become of the old-fashioned
woman who made her children
drink sassafras tea every spring
NOTES ON EDUCATION
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO PU
PIL AND TEACHER
Estimate of the Cost of a College
Education Give the Boy a Room of
His Own The Teacher at His
Post
A College Education
Possibly the first question which a
parent who has a boy whom he wants
to send to college asks himself is one
as to the cost Certain colleges to
which he might be glad to send his boy
he regards as closed because of the ex
pense In a general way the cost of a
college education can be easily settled
Certain colleges exhibit in their cata
logues four scales of annual expenses
denominating them low moderate
liberal and very liberal The same
conditions obtain within the college
that obtain out of the college I con
sider that for a boy of good habits of
high aims appreciating properly the
purchasing power of money this is a
fair method of estimating what he
ought to spend in college Add together
the fee for tuition the fee for room and
for board multiply the resulting sum
by two and you have what it is best
for him to spend It is best for him to
spend this sum to get the best out of
the college to live the most vital life in
the college to have the largest number
of interests to be the most useful and
to form a character that shall fit itself
most exactly and fully into the condi
tions which he may be called upon to
fill Many a boy in college spends very
much less than what is best for him to
spend he is obliged to spend very
much less Yet it is far better for him
to come to college and to be economical
economical even to the danger point
of suffering and of decency than not
to come at all Not a few boys also
come to college who spend very much
more than twice the expense for the
three fundamentalelements of tuition
room and board The large number of
boys of lavish expenditures are grave
ly injured through their extravagances
Upon this basis which I have indicated
one can go to excellent colleges upon
sums not exceeding 350 and receive
the largest benefits One can go to cer
tain colleges and be obliged to spend at
the very least 350 and one can get a
first class education at certain colleges
too for as small a sum as 200 but the
basis I have indicated contains the es
sential elements for making a judg
mentReview of Reviews
A Room for the Boy
A room of her own is a customary
privilege with girls at home while the
boy of the house even under the same
roof has what might be termed only
bed and board He ought to have a
place he can call his own furnished
after his own tastes or at least after
good taste suitable for growing jolly
fun loving boyhood
In it should be places for all his loved
possessions his bats and balls marbles
and games shelves for books and a
neat writing outfit with plenty of white
paper its cheap enough in these days
and his inclinations should be regarded
and any inherent tendencies for special
work encouraged to the utmost
Does he not handle tools See that
he has them Encourage him to gather
them paying him for certain work
about the farm to enable him to do this
with his own money if necessary He
will enjoy their possession the more
Does lie love music Strive to secure
an instrument he likes and let him mas
ter his own voice and sing with the
family or the girls Music hath power j
not only to sootn tne savage breast but
to refine and soften the rougher ele
ments and boisterous nature of the av
erage boy to his lasting benefit Does
he like natural history The study of
birds and flowers The grass of the
fields the insects of the air the leaves
of the trees the life of the woods and
meadows Then thank God for it and
aid the efforts he may make to the end
of better facilities for knowing the won
ders of Nature which lie so near to his
hand in his everyday life and occupa
tions See that he gets a microscope
of good power of enlargement Nothing
in all the world of wonders but may be
come more wonderful by the added
knowledge possible in its use The drop
of water under a magnifying glass in
stantly assumes a fascinating field of
study and interest an ocean teeming
with myriad life and vegetation The
commonest flower beneath the magic of
this larger vision offers hours of pleas
ant investigation and study Stretched
at length on the summer ground by and
by he may with this marvel of human
ingenuity observe the more than hu
man ingenuity of the tiny ants and dis
cover strange things especially if a
good natural history is at hand as it
should be by all means Clifton S
Wady
A Good Suggestion
Mayor Hooper of Baltimore it is
said advocates the purchasing of en
tire squares of ground at suitable in
tervals on the outskirts of that city to
be used first as playgrounds and ulti
mately as sites for school buildings
The lots are to be 300 or more feet
square They can be bought now at a
comparatively low price When the
population justifies the erection of
school buildings at these points the
city will not have to condemn property
for that purpose and then have school
houses flanked and shaded by other
buildings with no playgrounds around
them worthy of the name The vacant
squares will be excellent playgrounds
for the youth of the city until needed for
school buildings Then isolated roomy
structures can be built admitting light
and air on every side and leaving suf
ficient unoccupied ground for the chili
drens healthful exercise
This strikes us as a suggestion
worthy of adoption in other cities as
wll as Baltimore Vacant squares la
the outskirts of the city and converted
into playgrounds or ballgrounds for the
present with the intention of making
them schoolgrounds in the future The
suggestion of Mayor Hooper is a far
sighted and wise scheme which the
Mayor of Baltimore has brought for
ward It should be adopted there here
and in all other growing cities The
cost would not be very large while the
benefit to the health and happiness of
the children in years to come would be
immeasurably great Educational
News
Dr Timothy Dwlcht
The rumored retirement of Rev Tim
othy Dwight from the presidency of
Yale JJniversity ihas caused widespread
comment Dr Dwight Is the twelfth
president of old Yale His grandfath
er Timothy Dwight was president of
Yale from 1795 until 1817 and the
grandson is the worthy successor of
his ancestor Dr Dwight has always
said since he took his seat as president
In 1886 that he would never consent ot
occupy the place when he could be no
REV DK TIjrOTIIY DWIGHT
longer useful Although GS years ox
age he can by no means be said to be
useless now Indeed he is regarded as
being in the very zenith of his power
and wisdom He was born in 1828
Nov 10 at Norwich and was grad
uated from Yale in 1849 as the saluta
torian of his class Two years after his
graduation he served as a tutor in the
university and studied theology in the
Yale school until 1855 Then he went
abroad to spend two years at the uni
versities of Bonn and Berlin and when
he returned he was ordained a minister
of the gospel In 1S5S Dr Dwight was
elected professor of sacred literature in
Yale Theological Seminary and filled
that chair until he became president of
the university in 1SSG to succeed Noah
Porter He has been honored with the
degree of D D by Yale and by the Chi
cago Theological Seminary and with
the degree of LL D by Harvard and
by Princeton Dr Dwights long life
has been spent in the cause of educa
tion and he well deserves the rest which
it is said lie now proposes to take dur
ing his remaining years
Whistlitijr to Some Purpose
He is not a boy in a book he lives in
our house He seldom says anything
remarkable He eats oatmeal in large
quantities and tears his trousers and
goes through the toes of his boots and
loses his cap and slams the doors and
chases the cat just like any other boy
But he is remarkable for he asks few
questions and does much individual
thinking
If he does not understand he whis
tlesan excellent habit on most occa
sions but at the table or in church it Is
liable to be misinterpreted
There was much whistling in our
yard one summer It seemed to be an
all summers performance Near the
end of the season however our boy
announced the height of our tall maple
to be about thirty three feet
Why how do you kuow was the
general question
Measured sententiously
How
Footrule and yardstick
You didnt climb that toll tree his
mother asked anxiously
Nom I just found the length of the
shadow and measured that
But the length of the shadow
changes
Yesm but twice a day the shadows
are just as long as things themselves
Ive been trying it all summer I drove
a stick into the ground and when the
shadow was just as long as the stick I
knew that the shadow of the tree
would be just as long as the tree and
thats thirty three feet
So that is what you have been whis
tling about all summer
Did I whistle asked Tom Bright
Jewels
The Teacher at Hia Post
HIS ROOM
Let the room be clean and attractive
Have a clock that keeps correct time
Alow no refuse on the floor have a
waste basket
Have pupils keep their desks in per
fect order
Keep a mat at each door
Clean the blackboard every day
Requisites towels soap basin mir
ror
Use a low toned call bell
Have pupils assist you in keeping the
room in a proper condition
Set an example for the pupils
HIS TEXT
Do I greet my pupils
Do my pupils read
What do they read
How can I cultivate a taste for read
ing
Do they love to study
Do I encourage them
Do I try to improve the school
An Italian peddler from whom a
New York policeman demanded a li
cense showed confidently a certificate
of discharge from Sing Sing prison
which he said he bought believing it
was a license
YOURE WORTH SI 44900
Eyea Ears Ieus Toes and Nerves All
Have a Cash Value
Every person who is brought into the
world sound in wind and limb starts
the battle of life with a prospective
fortune of 144900 This estimate is
based upon the valuations placed on
the various portions of the human anat
omy by juries in different States which
have given damages for the loss of a
limb or other physical injuries
A jury in trial term of the New York
Supreme Court awarded to Antonio
Gargiulo the sum of 2000 for the loss
of an eye
It is probable that not one person in
500000 would agree to part with his
eyes for ten times 4000 but this
amount being the legal valuation it
follows that every man starts life with
a capital of 4000 when he possesses
sound eyes
To be born with eight sound fingers
and two sound thumbs means that 32
500 is to be added to the capital of the
man In the performance of his duty
Brakeman Peavey of Kansas City had
the misfortune to be deprived of the
thumb and one finger of his right hand
He promptly sued the Kansas and Pa
cific Railroad Company for damages on
the ground that their negligence caused
the accident that deprived him of his
digits A jury decided that the value
of the missing members to the owner
was G500 and although the company
appealed the case to the Supreme
Court they failed to get this figure re
duoed At this rate a mans fingers and
thumbs represent a cash value of 32
500 quite a small estimate when the
importance of the members is taken
into consideration
Strange to say the value of the whole
hand is only estimated to be 4700 or
9400 the two according to a jury that
decided the amount of damages against
the Central Railroad when James Verde
Bpay a Georgia man who was injur
ed in a smashup sued the company for
the loss of that member It would have
been to m iisid he lost all hu
fingers instead of a hand could that
have been arranged but as he lost the
whole hand the jury decided that he
had been deprived of only 4700 of his
natural life capital For two hands the
normal number allowed to a human be
ing the legal valuation would there
fore be 9400
In the case of the loss of the whole
arm the dollar value according to the
ruling of the courts is even less than
that awarded for the hands alone Mrs
Davidson a lady 57 years of age was
deprived of her right arm in a railroad
collision for which the Texas Railroad
Company had to foot the bill A jury
decided that the loss meant about 5000
worth of damage to the injured lady
but the Supreme Court overruled the
decision and reduced the amount to
4000 This places the value of two
arms at S000
Ribs are costly Father Quinn of
Long Island who sued for damages
when he had three ribs broken in a
Long Island railroad collision recover
ed damages to the extent of 5000
This being the quotation for three ribs
it follows that every man with the nor
mal allowance of ribs is possessed of
20000 in that portion of his frame
Thigh bones are also valued at fancy
figures Charles Thompson had a thigh
bone broken in a collision on the line of
the Louisville Railroad Company and
a sympathetic jury came to the conclu
sion after learning that a leg had to be
sacrificed that the injury to the thigh
was worth to Thompson 15000 A man
with two sound thighs can therefore
congratulate himself on being worth
30000 in those two members
Legs can be quoted at various prices
according to the position of the break
that necessitates their removal Thus
William Moore who sued the Atchison
Railroad Company for the loss of a leg
below the knee got 8000 damages to
repay him The railroad company
thought that was a pretty high quota
tion for human legs and they took the
ease to the Supreme Court There it
was decided that a leg was worth 10
000 Two legs will therefore be worth
20000 to their owner The toes are
valued at 1000 apiece or 10000 for
ten toes The 1000 figure was the de
cision arrived at by a jury in Norfolk
Pa in the case of David Burge against
the Norfolk and West Virginia Rail
road passing over his foot
The hearing of a man is valued at
2000 which John Hamilton got from
the Third avenue cable road for deaf
ness caused by being thrown from his
wagon in a collision between the wag
on and a cable car Two ears 4000
Nerves are not valued at a high price
Simpson Waldron managed to secure
only 2000 from the St Paul Railroad
Company when he sued for damages on
account of his shattered nervous sys
tem after a wreck in which he was
badly Shaken up Most people would
be glad to part with their nerves for
less than this but according to the jury
valuation this is the figure at which
they should be quoted The lungs are
priced at 5000 James Hand sued the
Lnion Pacific Railroad Company for
damages after an accident that caused
the weakening of his lungs and a jury
concluded that lungs were worth to a
man the sum of 5000 New York
JournaL
Natals Wonderful Lamp Snake
The natives of Natal South Africa
have an implicit faith in the existence
of the lamp snake which they call
umningi This reptile is supposed to
frequent swamps or lakes and is of
a size so vast that on an occasion when
one of the species was attacked and
killed by a boer hunting party its car
cass filled a couple of wagons In fact
the umningis proportions are almost
unlimited The light emitted by this
monster is bright and dazzling in the
extreme and can easily be discerned
from a distance of a couple of miles cr
more Naturally this radiance is visi
ble by night only Many natives call
the lamp snake Ivlmbela but usually1
this name Is applied to a serpent whose
dwelling is In the sea and whose pow-
era though great and marvelous arel
not displayed in rivers or fraught with
magic light A native says he has
often seen the lamp snake In the pools i
of the Uinvoti river where it passes
through thorn country He says it Is
not uncommon and In color Is very
pale almost white with brown patches
about it It is rather a large snake On
a dark night it makes a light In tab
pool which shines so brightly that
when one first sees it ones eyes blink
Sir Martin Conways book on tha
Spitzbergen Alps will be published in
this country
Clark Russell has written a new nov
el which he entitles A Noble Haul
that has of course the inevitable fla
vor of the sea
Prof C D G Roberts has taken up
his residence in New York and has as
sociated himself with the editorial
management of the Illustrated Ameri
can
A new edition of Harold Frederics
novels is to be published uniform with
The Damnation of Theron Ware
The name of this edition is In the
Sixties
Richard Watson Gilder is soon to
bring out a new volume of poems It
will be called For the Country and
will be especially patriotic in its con
tents embracing poems on Washing
ton Lincoln Sheridan Sherman and
other heroic themes
The fact of the matter is accord
ing to the Ladies Home Journal that
not one tenth of the entire literary pro
fession makes sufiicient money to live
authors receive enough for their work
to support them
Miss Anne Hollings worth Wharton
whose colonial sketches have given her
a pleasant reputation has written the
volume on Martha Washington for the
series of Women of Colonial and Rev
olutionary Times
Pierre Laffitte is preparing for pub
lication a long series of letters ad
dressed by Auguste Comte to Mrs
Austin an English lady of great in
telligence whose answers are also to
find a place in the volume The corre
spondence runs for the most part on
philosophical and political subjects
A correspondent writing from India
states that the Amir of Afghanistans
religious work entitled
has just been published at Kabul
but that at present it has only been
distributed to the Kazis and provincial
governors One of the principal sub
jects it deals with is Jehad or holy
war
Maj Ponds daughter has taken Paul
Laurence Dunbar the negro poet to
England for the season He will read
and recite from his own poems Miss
Pond has been associated with her
father in the lecture managing busi
ness for some time but this is her first
venture alone When she engaged Mr
Dunbar she asked him ii he was a good
swimmer for if business was had
they might have to swim back to Amer
ica
Oldest Race Name
The population of the globe may said
to be primarily divided into three races
the yellowman the white man and the
black man Any other race compared
with these is unimportant and may
be considered a modification of one or
more of them Anderson says that
the yellow men have immemorially
occupied the great central and north
eastern plains of Eurasia and are
therefore called Mongols or
For countless centuries they far
outnumbered all the rest ol the world
and even now the white men of Asia
form only a tenth of the population
From their number position and other
considerations they appear to have
first existed the other two races being
derived from them by emigration
change of climate and mode of living
The writer then goes on to say later
Thus the great racial types may have
sprung from the Mongolian stock
Rawlinson seems to confirm this view
and in that case the Egyptian for ex
ample is not so old as the Mongol The
term Mongolian does not mean as has
been supposed that the race originated
in Mongolia but only that the physi
cal characters of the race are pre-eminently
displayed in the Mongolians
For this reason therefore this race
holds to the ancient name the most an
cient among many
Norways First Ironclad
An ironclad for the Norwegian gov
ernment was launched lately from the
shipbuilding yard of Sir William Arm
strong Co England This is the
first seagoing ironclad owned by the
Norsemen who in the old days swept
the seas with their Viking ships This
modern vessel was christened Harold
Haarfager after the first king of Nor
way by Mme Stang who is herself a
descendant in the thirty third genera
tion from King Harold The ironclad
is heavily armed and has a conning
tower and two torpedo tubes and the
armor belt is from four to seven inches
thick The builders have an order for
a second ironclad for the Norwegians
Trees Two Inches High
On the summit of Ben Lomond are
the smallest trees in Great Britain
They are dwarf willows and when
mature are only about two inches in
height
It makes a woman feel chagrined to
express admiration for an article la a
store and find out afterwards that th
article is cheap
