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MAGIC IN NUMBERS.
SUPERSTITIONS FOUNDED ON THE
NINE DIGITS.
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Very many superstitious and curious
Ideas hare been and are still connected
with numbers. Great hopes have been
founded upon certain combinations of
numbers in lotteries, in horoscopes, or in
predictions regarding important events.
Important undertakings have awaited
favorable dates for their inception, and
the lives of more than one leader of men
hare been more or leas influenced by a
regard for certain numerical combina
tionti. supposed to have a Ahirtc
power in shaping a sum imafyl cavam "'
There have been superstitious notions
C4uuxul with nearly every one of the
nine digital numbers.
The number 1 was held to be sacred
because it represented the unity X)f the
(fikiiicnd. Hits cumber is esteemed as
wry lucky by the Javanese, whoallot but
one uay to each of the several operations
of liii:;'iaidry. leaving that portion of the
cnj that could not be gathered in one
duy.
DAD I5F.PUTAT10N OF M7XBEB 2.
Thesecond digitocquired an especially
evil reputation among tho eariv Chris
tians, Ix5catise the second day hell was
created.' along with heaven and earth.
The CabalisUt said it typified the hypo
static union of Christ. It seems to have
been a number unlucky in English dynas
ties. Harold II was. slain in battle;
William II and Edward II were mur
dered; Ethelred II, Richard II and James
II were forced to abdicate; and Henry II,
diaries II ami George II were unfortu
nate in many ways. The number seeins
to liave been an unlucky one to the sover
eigns of other European countries. The
Spain, of Anjou and of Savoy passed or
ended their reigns unhappily.
The number 3 lias an abundance of su
perstitious connected with it. It was the
perfect number of the Pythagoreans,
who said it represented the beginning,
middle and end. A greater importance
was given to the number because it rep
resented the trinity, not onlv in the
Christian religion, but in many others.
There was but little mystery attached
to the numbers 4 and S. In folk lore the
four leaved clover is especially lucky.
The four of clubs is on unlucky card,
and it is named tho devil's four post bed.
The Cabalisl asserted that the number
0 was potent in mystical properties. The
world was created in six days, the Jew
ish servant 6ervcd six years. Job en
dured six tribulations, ana hence tho fig
ure typified labor and suffering. The
rabbis asserted that the letter vau, which
represents 6ix, was stamped on the
manna, to remind the Jews that it fell
on six days only.
Tho number 6 was an unlucky one at
Borne. Tarquinius Sextus was a brutal
tyrant, the church was divided under
Urban the Sixth and Alexander the
Sixth was a monster of iniquity.
SEVEN AN IMPORTANT NUMBER.
The number 7 has been invested with
more mystery than all the other digits
together, and to it were ascribed magic
and mystical qualities possessed by no
other number. Several learned treatises
have been written on this number, and
septenary combinations have been
sought everywhere. In an old writer of
two centuries ago we may read why, in
his opinion, the number is peculiarly ex
cellent. First, he says: "It is neither be
gotten nor begets;" secondly, "it is a
narmonis number and contains all the
harmonies;'' thirdly, "it is a theological
number, consisting of pcrfecuon;"
fourthly, it is composed of perfect num
bers, and "participates of their virtues."
He may find better reasons for the im
portance attached to this number. Much
of it is doubtless due to its prominence
in the Bible. The seven days of creation
led to a septenary division of time to all
ages. Several of the Jewish feasts lasted
seven days. Elisha sent Naaman to wash
in the Jordan 6even times, and Elijah
sent his servant from Mount Carmel
seven times to look for rain. For seven
days seven priests with seven trumpets
invested Jericho, and on tho seventh day
they encompassed it seven times. There
were seven virtues, and seven mortal
sins.
The ancients not only noted tho im
portance of seven as an astronomical
period, but also connected with tho seven
planets tho seven metals then known.
Tho soul of man was anciently supposed
to be controlled by tliis double septenary
combination. It was also an ancient be
lief that a change in the body of man
occurs every seventh year.
The Koran enumerates seven heavens.
There was on old Russian superstition to
the oime effect, and a ladder of seven
rounds was placed in the grave to enable
the defunct to ascend these seven grades.
WHAT YOU MCST DO ON THE NINTH.
Says an old writer: "Augustus Caesar,
as Geliius saitli, was glad, and hoped that
he was to live long, because he had
paax-d his C3 years. For olde men seldom
paiifo that year but they are in danger of
their lives. Two years, the seventh and
tho ninth, commonly bring great changes
to a man's life, and great dangers; there
fore 3, that containeth both these num
bers multiplied together, containeth un
known dangers."
Leases, now granted for a period of
ninety-nino years, were formerly given
for 9M.
There were nine earths, according to
mediaeval cosmogony; nine heavens, sine
rivers of hell, nine orders of angels, etc
Tho number being perfection, since it
represented divinity, was often used to
signify a great quantity , as in the phrases:
"A nine days' wonder," "A cat has nine
lives," "Nine tailors make a man," etc
In Scotland, a distempered cow was
cured by washing her in nine 6urfs. To
see nine magpies is extremely unlucky.
Kine knots made in a black woolen thread
served as a charm in the case of asprain.
When a servant maid finds nine green
peas in one pod she lays it on the window
sill, and the first man that enters will be
her "beau." Nine grains of wheat, laid
on a four leaved clover, enable on to see
the fairies. F. & Bassett uf St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
ONE PUZZLE SOLVED
Why Palate Clocks
Peiat to
EIc
After Eight.
A reader of The Sun, who was also, as
all Sun readers are, an observing man,
recently sent a letter to this office asking
why it was that every clock and watch
makerwho slung an imitation clock or.
watch outside his shop as a sign ha9t
the hands painted on the face at ex
actly eighteen minntes after 8. o'clock.
Tins was a poser to every clock seller
a reporter asked. The signs came
to them that way, they amid. The ma
jority of them had never noticed the
curious coincidence. If asked when
they got their signs painted the reply
was that they left the order with then
wholesale dealer and the sign came
along. That was all they knew about it.
Inquiries among the wholesalers in
Murray street and Maiden lane developed
tho curioas fact that there isnocompe
titiov in the trade of painting clock
A,man.named. Gmathaaa.OEaC-
tjcai monopoly or toe Chicago market
and the territory for hundreds of miles
around. In Cincinnati W. H. Smith
does tho business without competition,
and in this city, and for as many miles
around as New York commands the
clock trade, W. L. Washburn enjoys
laborious but enviable monopoly.
This state of affairs is brought about
by the wholesale clock and watch deal
ers themselves, who got used to patron
izing these three dealers many years
ago, and never got enough out of the
usuu u nio give any ouier painter tne
ghost of a show to succeed with an op
position shop.
"But Father Washburn," said one
wholesale dealer, "is father of them all,
and of emblematic signs as well. He
was the first painter to make a sign em
blematic of any business, and he started
in way back in$3. Why, the big con
cerns that make metal signs don't bother
him at all. He gave his ideas to the
whole world to copy, and the world got
rich. The friends he made back in the
'50s have stuck to him ever since, and
one branch of the busiswas has stuck so
close that no competitor in other branches
of sign work ever thinks of getting a
clock or watch sign to make, and if by
chance he did, he'd probably be so scared
ne a send tne customer to Father Wash
burn." Mr. Washburn was painting a clock
on a big star when the reporter called.
He was an old man with a happy face
and a white beard. Thero were clock
signs mapped out, half done and finished,
hanging all around, and every blessed
onoof them had the hands pointed at
eighteen minutes after 8 o'clock
"The reason all the dummy clock hands
point to that hour," said Mr. Washburn,
"is because I paint them all, and I always
paint that hour. When I painted the first
emblematic sign ever painted as a mat
ter of business, back in 53. it was a clock.
I don't know how I put the hands. All I
remember about it is that it was for P.
T. Barnum's old concern on Cortlandt
street, the Jerome Clock company, since
gone up the spout, I painted the hands
any way I chose, up, down, crosswise, or
together, as my mood dictated, from
that time up to April 14, 1865. That
night the news was flashed into the city
that Lincoln had been shot in Ford's
theatre. I was working on a sign for
Jeweler Adams, who used .to keep on
Broadway, opposite Stewart's, at the
time. I was making a great clock to
hang outside. Adams came running in
while I was at work. Ho was a strong
Lincoln man. He said:
" 'Point those hands at the hour Lin
coln was shot, that the deed may never
be forgotten.'
"I painted the hands, therefore, at
eighteen minutesafter 8. The idea struck
mo forcibly, and when I came to look at
the effect I found it was the most conve
nient arrangement, since it displayed
both the hands well, and left the top half
of the clock free to paint in the name of
the click seller if desired. So I threw all
my f Mia away and made new ones
for that. 'ir. I have never varied from
the system blnce, and that's the reason
all the clock signs point as they do. The
Chicago and Cincinnati people, I find,
are doing the same thing. They don't
know the story, but they probably were
won to my plan by the capability of that
particular arrangement for artistic dis
play in painting." New York Sun.
Effect f tUe Copyright law.
The effect up the DooK'Gude of the
proposed copyright law is not as yet
clearly understood. Tbelawisoemanded
not to protect foreign but native authors.
Tho American writer has for years been
struggling to get place in a buyers' mar
ket, where he has had to compete with
the work not of men who were his equals
or his superiors, but of men whose works,
whatever their value, could be got for
nothing. That American authors have
gained the place they hold in the fall of
the flood of English books winch has
deluged this market is enormously to
their credit. They have forced people to
buy by the real excellence of their work
in the face of the most cruel kind of op
position. The immediate effect of the
law will bo to stimulate Amorftin
writers. It will also put an esd to what
are called cheap libraries, as every book
worth reprinting will be protected by
copyright, Current Literature.
How to Dignify the afriiiiaali al Arts.
We have seen how tho literary educa
tion which we now orwalw so essential
was regarded in England as ungentle
manly. It is not so long since the phy
sician or leech was, as Hallam says, "an
inexhaustible theme of popular ridicule."
The barber's pole, so common in our
street, recalls a time, not so long past,
when the barber practiced bloodletting
and other medical arts. It is within our
own memory that the dentist stood on a
level with the barber; indeed, the two were'
often the same person. How is it that all
this is changed; that literature, medicine
and dentistry have become gentlemanly
occupations Simply, I think, because
they are now taught scientifically and
institutions havo been established for
that purpose. It may be laid down as a
general rule that whatever is taught in
school will soon become respectable and
gentlemanly, while that which Is picked
up in the home or the workshop will al
ways be regarded as menial Professor
Thomas Davidson in The Forum.
The Contents of an Eggshell.
The weight of an ordinary new laid
hen's egg is from one and a half to two
and a half ounces avoirdupois, and the
quantity of dry solid matter contained in
it amounts to about two hundred grains.
In 100 parts about 10 parts consist of
shell, 60 of white and 0.of yolk. The
white of the egg contains a larger propor
tion of water than the yolk. Itrcontains
no fatty matter, but consists chiefly of
albumen in a dissolved state. All the
fatty matter of the egg is accumulated
in the yolk, which contains relatively a
smaller proportion of nitrogenous matter
and a larger proportion of solid matter
than the white. Therefore, in an alimen
tary point of view, the white and the
yolk differ considerably from each other,
the former being mamly a mpfr solu
tion of albumen, the latter being a solu
tion of a modified form of nlhiiTrpn to
gether with a quantity of fat Cassell's
Domestic Dictionary.
"The Duchess" is the pseudonym of
Mrs. Margaret Hungerford, an Irish
lady, now living inXosdon. Hunger
ford is the name of her secooil husband.
The story runs that her first husband,
Mr. Argies, committed a forgery shortly
after their marriage, was convicted and
senttojafl. His wife, thrown upon the
world without any source of Uvelihood,
turned in despair to literature and pro
duced her first novel, "Phylljs," which
Evedagreat vm Ever since she
maintained herself handsomely by
her pen. Notes and Queries.
Often yon hear afreet cat conductors or
drivers talking of thalrmst impossibility
of keeping their watches on good time
for any reasonable time. At the same
time another individual can carry the
abused timepiece and have the mostper
fecttime. Ihavetriedtheideaand found
itworked'admirably. 1 have a theory
to advance as a cause. I oaliera thai
magnetism hMmach to 60 with it. For
instance, an indrrldnal wkh a atxma?
flow of natgnetiam will carry a watch
tnatwmnma fn
son with a law Vow win
watch aad it wsldrop off in
oncwr mwops-i mmocrat.
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COINCIDENCES.
STRANGE OCCURRENCES THAT HAVE
DEFIED EXPLANATION.
CaaaUy
seamel Dlekeaa
Predict to at
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Leased Jim"
tea
ef the Poet
A coincidence of the war, of a serious
nature, is that of the "three Jims." A
group of four men were in the trenches
during an artillery engagement. They
were lying on the ground, chatting and
smoking, out of the direct reach of fire,
when a shell suddenly exploded over
their heads and so seriously injured three
of the men that it necessitated amputa
tion of the left leg m each instance. The
Christian name of each of these three
men was the same James. The fourth,
who was untouched, bore another name.
The three veteran peaaoners'heve ever
since been known mig their acquaint
ances as tho "three legged Jims."
browning's experience.
A curious story of coincidence is re
lated by Robert Brownimr in an Tfturiich
newspaper as having occurred to him
self and: sister while visiting a remote
valley in Switzerland 6ome years ago,
tiie circumstances of which are substan
tially as follows:
While strolling about one evening to
admire the calm and repose of the valley,
which lay spread out before them, their
talk unaccountably turned to the subject
of murder, and each began to speculate
as to what their first impulse would be
if they should be so unfortunate as to
find the body of a murdered man in tho
wood. Continuing in this strain, tho
Brownings talked until they reached the
hotel, when the matter was dropped.
Mr. Browning applied for the use of a
carriage the next morning, and was re
ferred to the landlord, who informed
them that it would be impossible for
them to have the two horses intended for
their carriage, as one of them was
wanted to bring in the' body of a man
found, early tliat morning, murdered, at
the head of the valley. Questioning him,
Mr. Browning learned that in all prob
ability the murder had been committed
very soon after the conversation of the
evening before.
On visiting the spot where the body
had been discovered it was found to bo
the identical place where, on the previ
ous evening, they had stood speculating
as to what they should do in case of such
an event. To heighten the dramatic ef
fect of the coincidence, they were told
that no crime of violence, so far as
known, had ever before been committed
in that valley. The fact that the mind
of the poet should havo turned to such a
subject lust at that timo partakes of the
nature of a presentiment, and the coinci
dence is certainly one of the most pecul
iar on record.
In Forster's "Life of Dickens" a curi
ous story is told of what Dickens called
a "paralyzing coincidence," experienced
on the Doncaster race course. On tho
St. Leger day, in 1857, Dickens bought a
card of tho races, and facetiously wrote
down three names for the winners of the
three chief races. Ho had never heard
or thought of any of the horses in his
life, but, as he wrote to Forster, "if you
can believe it, those tliree races were
won, one after another., by those three
horses."
AFTER MANY TEARS.
The poet, Samuel Rogers, narrated a
coincidence which, although it may
have been a humorous invention, is quite
within the bounds of possibility, and at
the same timo somewhat amusing. An
officer who was ordered to India went,
on the day before leaving England, to
his lawyer's. The day being wet, he
took a hackney coach, and when he got
out, as he was paying the driver,
dropped a shilling. He looked in the
mud and slush for it in vain, and so did
the coachman. On his return home after
some years' service he had occasion
again to go to his lawyer s. When leav
ing ho recollected his lost shilling, and,
by some unaccountable impulse, began
to look for it, when, strange to say, he
found, just at the very spot where he
had paid the coachman not the shilling,
but twelve pennyworth of coppers, done
upin brown paper.
Perhaps the most astonishing coinci
dence of any we might mention and at
the same time one perfectly authentic, is
related by that charming writer, "Tav
erner," of The Boston Post "I was walk
ing says Taverner. "on my way down
town, with a neisrhbor who was minf
the same way, when my companion, for
no apparent cause, suddenly changed the
subject on which wo were chatting by on
inquiry concerning a common acquain
tance, who had disappeared out of our
lives several years before, and whom I
knew ho held in especial detestation.
My friend had heard of him the
year before in San Francisco, and later
as somewherconthe continent of Europe.
'And there is no man,' he went on to
say. 'that I should more heartily enjoy
knocking down if he would only give me
the provocation.' We had at that instant
reached Tremont 6treet, where, suddenly
turning tho corner, one of tho passing
crowd come squarely into collision with
my friend, slipped upon a spot of ice as
he struggled to keep his balance and
fairly measured his length on the side
walk. I turned to nick up the hat of the
fallen man, when I felt myself grasped
by the arm by my friend, who whispered:
'Great Scott, Taverner, don't you see it's
the very man, and Fve done it, after all!'
Sure enough, it was the distant traveler,
who had turned up to be knocked down,
so to speak, by a coincidence." St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
. Blow frtrataas Are
No branch of art within the past few
years has attracted such universal atten
tion as etching. The art of etching is
not, as is popularly supposed, a new in
vention, but the revival of an art in which
Rembrandt and Albert Durer excelled.
The process by which an etching is made
Is both delicate and difficult It is ac
complished by coating a copper plate
with a preparation of wax, upon which
the artist traces with a sharp instrument,
called the needle or point, the lines of
his picture. Tho plate is then immersed
in acid, which eats into the lines laid
bare by the needle, and the add bath is
repeated. The lines when sufficiently
bitten are stopped up with fine French
varnish.
Thisprocess has been repeated more
than fifty times in somsfiaCes before
the proper effect of light and shade was
obtained. Etching b really a drawing
on a plate, thus giving the genuine wo?
of the artist as much effect as in an oil
painting. It is this absolute quality of
anpomompq py etchings, narltgHngpfchfwj
from the purely mechanical methods of
engraving, which gives to them their
value. The ink used in printing is thick;
the plate is warmed by placing it on a
heated marble slab, so that the ink will
flow freely enough to fiD up all the lines.
After inking the plate is rubbed clean,
leaving the ink only in the lines, except
ing where certain effects of light and
shade maybe desired, not represented by
the lines. These can be obtained by the
f0! .the Pointer, who can produce
beautiful effects by his manipulation of
the ink on the plate. There is a great
difference in plates in this respect, some
raquiring much mare skill to print than
others. After tho plate is ready the
paper, having first been dampened, fa
placed on it and then covered with felt
ThepreescooaistBofan iron bed, per
fectlv true and-lavaLJIar.tlha t&U to
rearm, and an Iron roller widen
over tne plate, exerting great
so that the paper is forced into the lines
of the plate. After each' impression the
plate is cleaned and inked again, and the
same process gone through with, so that
the printing of etebings cannot be hur
ried. . To insure uniformity, a sample
printis before the printer to look at
Tins is either printed: by the etcher or
superintended by him. So great is the
skill required to properly print etchings
that less than half a dozen printers In
the country have won a reputation as
being first class.
Etchings are quite expensive, and often
bring as high as $1,000. New York
Evening Sun.
A Dog That "SHaked."
. .! J8. 9ueer psychological fact that
highly bred setters and pointers, with
then instincts well developed, often be
come frightened at tho first real opera
tion of the pointing instinct and never
recover. Jrfcw it. A local sportsman had
a weilbsadfaacy pedigreed setter which
he raised wjth due regard for his future
usefulness is tho field, and at maturity
started out to give him a trial on game.
True to his nature the doe galloped over
the fields in the merry style of his trained
ancestors, ana coming suddenly upon a
large covey of birds he stopped at the
scent of the birds in obedience to bis
pointing instinct.
The dog had never seen a game bird,
and tho odor of the cover rose so thickly
about him that ho was fairly intoxicated
with tho delightful sensation of the
"point.' He shivered in his excitement,
and so pronounced was the effect upon
him that his hair rose- with his sensa
tions. Presently the birds began to rise
with a noisy whir, and the unexpected
sight of quails and the noise they made
getting away so alarmed the dog that he
turned tail end ran off to hide in the
bushes. Since that time the dog's fear
of birds has been so great that he always
runs away from them. He will hunt
diligently to find birds, and he will make
Ids point after they are found, but the
moment he stops to point he recollects
his first birds, and with the most abject
expression he steals away from the
object he lias worked so hard to find.
This peculiarity is by no means uncom
mon, and sportsmen have named the act
"blinking.'' Chicago Tribune.
Caayoajof the Ganalsoa.
Beyond Gunnison City the railway
runs through the valley cf the same
name, closely following the river. Soon
the well worn channel grows narrower,
the clius mount hfcrher: vegetation !
less abundant, and suddenly tho sun
light is entirely shut out by broken sum
mits, and the black canyon of the Gun
nison holds us fast in its embrace. This
gorge is grander, deeper, darker and
more beautiful than the Roval which m
passed through earlier in the day. It is
thrice as long and much more verdant,
and although its walls are of red sand
stone they are sufficiently dark hued to
give the place its name. At times the
canyon narrows and is full of sharp
curves, but again it lias long, wide
stretches, which enable one to Btudy the
steep crags that tower heavenward two
or three thousand feet above us. An open
observation car is attached to the train,
and the lovers of nature feast upon the
charms of this wonderful locality.
Currecanti Needle, the most abrupt of
titowering pinnarlpg, stands like a
grim- sentinel, watching the canyon's
soutudes. it is red hued from point to
base, and has all the grace and symmetry
of a Clcopatran obelisk. The sunlight
which bathes the pine tops in golden halo
never reaches down the dark red walls.
Huge bowlders lio scattered about and
project out many feet above the travel
ers' heads, as though about to fall.
Somber shades prevail; fitful winds sweep
down the deep clefts; the rushing green
hued river fills the space with sullen roar.
Everything is on ascaleof grand propor
tions; detail is supplanted by magnifi
cence, and one's feelings are stirred to
their very depths. Cor. New York
world.
White Birch Toothpicks.
A toothpick factory is one of the flour
ishing wood working establishments at
Harbor Springs, Mich., and it is one of
the largest factories of the kind in the
country. White birch is exclusively used
in the manufacture of the toothpicks,
and about 7,600,000 of the handy little
splinters are turned out doily. The logs
are sawed up into bolts each twenty
eight inches in length, then thoroughly
steamed and cut up into veneer. The
veneer is cut into long ribbons, three
inches in width, and these ribbons, eight
or ten at a time, are run through the
toothpick machinery, coming out at the
other end, the perfect pieces falling into
one basket, the broken pieces and refuse
falling into another. The picks are
packed into boxes, .1,500 in a box, by
girls, mostly comely looking young
squaws, and are then packed into cases,
and finally into big boxes, ready for ship
ment to all parts of the world. The
white birch toothpicks are very neat and
clean in appearance, sweet to the taste,
and there is a wide market for them.
The goods 6ell at the factory at 1.00 a
case of ISO. Timbennan.
Effects of Uslag tho Telephone.
i Jr . rar it 7 Sr u- jnmAJt, L
At the meeting of tlie American Oto-
encej. tuaxe, or .Boston, read a paper
on the influence of the use of the tele
phone on hearing power. He thinks
that this influence must be injurious, be
cause the extremely low intensity, as
demonstrated by experiment, of the
sounds to be caught from the telephone,
compelled a strain of the ear which soon
fatigued it, and made it especially liable
to injury by the accidental sounds of
comparatively high intensity, which
were constantly liable to be heard. Dr.
C. H. Burnett said he bad seen several
patients who believed that the continued
use of the telephone had impaired their
hearing. Dr. O. D. Pomeroy gave the
case of a patient who said the use of the
telephone fatigued her very much, and,
she thought, had made her decidedly
worse. Science.
Broaght Dial to Time.
It was getting pretty near the end of
leap year and Amarantha was becoming
agitated.
'Charlie," be said with a sigh, as she
raised her store frizzes from the shoulder
of his Tewksbury mills all wool cassiniere
fear button cutaway, 'Tve thought of a
coniudrum: Why are you tike green
corar
"i.?'1 know, Tm suah, Amarantha
O, it's because I'm so sweet"
"No." replied Amarantha, whose edu
cation was completed at the Athens of
America; "it fa because no degree of
warmth causes you suddenly to expand,
into a desiderated efflorescence."
Then there was silence for the space of
several minutes while the significance of
the answer was working its way through
his nerve centers to his occipital vacancy,
and then he popped. Springfield Union.
Count de Piquelon, a French poblemaa
of ancient family and impoverished in
come, fa the keener of the lighthouse at
Perrequct Island, one of the most cheer
less spots on the coast of Labrador. The
salary is 400.
Life fa history, not poetry. It consists
of little things, rarely illuminated by
flashesof great heroism, broken by great
uuugciaw wauuKus great
Lecky.
A BOYS SECOND SIGHT.
REMARKABLE GIFT OF A BOY WHO
LIVED HALF A CENTURY AGO.
Looking over Watson's
'Annals of
Philadelphia," published in 1880. 1
across a remarkable story, which cannot
rail to be. of interest both locally and
generally, even at this late day.
author says:
"The good people of Caledonia have so
long and exclusively engrossed the fac
ulty of second sight that it may justly
surprise many to learn that we also have
been favored with at least one case as
well attested as their own. I refer to the
instance of Eli YarnalL of Frankford.
Whatever were his first peculiarities, he
in time lost them. He fell into intem
perate habits, became a wanderer, and
died in Virginia, a young' man.
This remarkably gifted person was
born in Bucks county, Pa., and came
with bisparents to the vicinity of Pitts-
Dunr. tne account ox mm contained in
the narrative before mentioned is in sub
stance as follows:
When Yarnell was living near this
city, being then a child only 7 yezrsof
age, as he was sitting in the house one
day he suddenly burst into a fit of al
most uncontrollable laughter. His
mother asked him what pleased him so
much, Tho boy replied that he saw his
father (who was not at home) running
rapidly down the mountain side, trying
to overtake a Jug of whisky which he
had let fall The jug rolled part way
uown tne oecnvity, nut was caught py
the old man before he got to the bottom.
When the father reached home he con
firmed the whole story, to the great sur
prise of alL After this the boy excited
mucli talk and wonderment in the neigh
borhood. SEEN AT LONG RANGE.
About two years later the Yarnaus
were visited by a friend named Robert
Verree, with other Quaker relatives or
acquaintances from Bucks cocnty.
Verree, to test the lad's miraculous
power, asked him various questions and
among other things inquired what was
then goingon at his own home in Bucks
county. The boy described the house,
wluch he had never seen; stated that it
was built partly of logs and partly of
stone; that there was a mill pona in front
of the house which had recently been
drained, and concluded with a descrin-
tion of the people in the house, and of
two persons, a man and a woman, who
were setting on the front porch.
When Verree reached home ho in
quired who hod been at his house at the
day and hour he had held his conversa
tion with young YarnalL He learned
that there had been a shower at the time;
and several of the field hands had gone
into the house to escape the rain; the
persons on tho porch had been faithfully
described, even to the color of their
hair. As to the mill pond, the men had
drained it in order to catch muskrats. In
short, every detail given by tho boy was
proven to be accurate.
The habit of the young seer, when
asked to exercise his singular faculty,
was to hold his head downward, often
closing his eyes. After waiting for some
time, apparently aeep in tnought, be
would declare what he saw in his visions.
He was sometimes found alone in the
fields, sitting on a stump and crying.
On being asked the cause of his grief he
said ho saw great numbers of men en
gaged In killing each other. Although
no hod never seen a battle, a ship or a
cannon, he described military ana naval
battles as if he had been an actual
looker on,
FINALLY BECAME A WRECK.
Some of the Quakers who saw him be
came much interested in the boy. believ
ing him possessed of a noble gift, and
desired to have charge of his Bringing
up. He was accordingly apprenticed to
a frankford tanner, but he attracted so
mucn attention, and so many called at
the shop to Bold conversation with him
that his master became annoyed and
tried to discourage such curiosity. The
boy, therefore, began to shun questions
as much as possible, and seemed by de
grees to lose his singular gift. He drifted
into bad company and eventually became
a wreck.
His mother never allowed him to take
any money for answering questions, be
lieving that his visions were God given,
and that it would be wrong to turn them
to account pecuniarily. Wives whose
husbands had long been missing and
were supposed to have been lost at sea
or perished in accidents, and others
whose relatives had disappeared would
come to him for information. Of those
still alive, he would tell how they looked
and what they were doing. On one oc
casion a man asked him in jest who had
stolen his pocketbook, and was much
taken aback when the lad replied:
"No one; but you stole a pocketbook
from another man when in a crowd."
And the historian of the boy's wonder
ful deeds states that such was thnfs
This is about all there Is of the strange
narrative, which, like Sam Weller's love
wishes
it were longer. Pittsburg Dis-
patch.
A Princely
One of the most lovely of Alpine
health resorts is Bad-Kreuth. a hnmU
of some half dozen houses built by the
side of a spring of mineral water. The
cnarm or tne resort fa not, however, due
to its loveliness, nor to its healing
waters, but to the fact that its landlord
is Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, a courteous
host, who in his management of the
place combines a lucrative business with
a most generous charity.
The prince, the eldest eon of Duke
Maximilian and the brother of the em
press of Austria, surrendered to his
younger brother, Karl Theodor, all his
rights as the head of the family, because
he wished to marry a lady of inferior
social position, with whom be had fallen
in love.
Tho marriage proved to be a happy
one, and to this day, though more than
thirty years have passed since they were
united, the princes manner to his wife
is more that of a lover than a middle
aged married man. They have no chil
dren, and live for the greater part of the
year in a simple suite of apartments at
Bad-Kreuth, where, according to a
writer in ine uornnill Mapyiiy ghe jjf.
fuses brightness and happiness around
her, and ne shows how a prince may
earn an honest Uvelihood, and be the
first, not to receive, but to render aid.
The whole of the health resort belongs
to the ducal family. The servants are
theirs, and the entire management of
the place fa under Prince Ludwigs su
perintendence. He fa his own butcher,
brewer, dairyman and baker.. "
During June, July and August Kreuth
Is filled with southern Germans, who
pay liberally for their rooms and board,
and make these months the prince's
harvest time. During May and Septem
ber the prince receives no payina: cueato.
but fills the house with those T h? calfanfa
"friends." They are those who are too
proud to ask for charity, but need a little
umvemty students, poor professors,
struggling literary men and artists,
Two pr three hundred of thaw
'.'irienoV' are hmasfrl fad iwf .
1 tiphotcldnrin kfjtv aaoVSentaoberat
Rraad ss "Tha AMsaavaf Palteaeaahas.'
Ho Saw His Father Chaaaag m Jag Tha
XaeMoat ef tho Male Foeaathoak ha
Seer EreataaHy Beeaaaes m Wreefc.
that, too, without its coatine? theaa
penny. If at the height of the paying
season a room fa left vacant, some poor
invalid fa Invited to occupy k, and no
one can tell from the manner of the host
or his servants that the new arrival fa
not a millionaire.
Prinos Ludwig never forgets a face or
a name, and has a pleasant word for
every one, whether a paying guest or a
"friend." His manner fa tha aalna. -n
A- a j . m"
saw ampameoc greeting Of a
hast and the kindly greeting
of a well
nwmu.
Clatter, clatter, clatter! What a noise
the people make as they go along the
roaa: xney all wear wooden sandals,
and their stockings are a kind of mitten
with a finger for the big toe. During
wet weather their sandals become stilts,
and the wholo Japanese nation increases
its stature by three inches when it rains.
These sandals are held to the foot by
straps coming over the toes, aad there to
a straw sole between the foot and the
sandal of wood. A tall Japanese on a
stilt sandal closely approaches the ridicu
lous. He sometimes tucks up his long
gown under his belt to keep it from be
ing spattered by the mud. and the backs
of his bare calves seem to be walking off
with the man. The JapaneseraUc fa
peculiar. The men put their feet straight
in front of them, like the American In.
dian. They lift them high off the ground,
and they have a get there air about them.
The women wabble and wabble; they
bend over as they walk, and they have
what is now in America the fashionable
stride. Their little feet in sandals turn
inward, and all female Japan is pigeon
toed. Your Japanese beauty is not averse
to snowing ner ansje. and tne soul of the
Japanese beau does not -flutter when he
sees a two inch slice of cream colored
skin above the three inch foot mitten.
The Japanese shoe store is one of wooden-
ware ratner than of leather, and the cob
bler mends his shoe with the chisel and
planer. Frank G. Carpenter's Letter.
ifty Leaves Are Valaaale.
America is the land of plenty, and it fa
as well the land of waste. Many Euro
peans would become wealthy on what
our people throw away or neglect en
tirely. In many European countries, as
soon as the forest and tree leaves turn
and the high winds begin to scatter them
over the ground, the poor people turn out
and gather them up as carefully as they
would a crop of fruit or vegetables. The
small farmers purchase those leaves, at
prices unproportionatfly high, and use
them for fertilizing purposes. Leaves is
those countries are regarded as valuable
property, and those who gather them
wuiiout permission ana take them oil
are prosecuted, fined or imprisoned.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Interesting Discovery.
An archEeoIogical discovery of some
interest has been made in tho tidal river
Hamble, near Botley Hants. A boat
house is being built at the point of the
junction of tho Curdridge creek on the
river, some distance above the spot where
there is a still existing wreck of a Danish
man-of-war. In moving the mud and
alluvial soil to make samcient waterway
something hard was encountered, wluch,
on being carefully uncovered, proved to
be a portion of a prehistoric canoe. It k
about twelve feet long and one and a hall
feet wide, beautifully carved, and in a
ian-iy goon state of preservation. Chi
cago Herald.
Evaporated Fruit.
minin a radius of forty miles of
Rochester there are more than 1,500 fruit
evaporators. These evaporators give
employment during the autumn and
winter to about 50,000 hands, whose
wages averago from S3 to $12 a week.
Last season the production of these
evaporators was about 80,000,000 pounds,
worth at first cost about 82,000,000. The
principal consuming countries abroad
are Germany, England, Belgium, Hol
land and France, in which the new pro
duct has entirely displaced tho old fash
ioned sun dried fruiL West Africa and
Australia are also beginning to call for
evaporated fruit
a radius of fortv
They Held Their Dinner.
Not long ago a local ministerial asso
elation, at its regular meeting at oneol
the Boston hotels, partook of a dinner of
eleven or twelve courses, which seemed
altogether more elaborate than the price
agreed upon would warrant. After the
meal it transpired that they had disposed
of a dinner for a special lautylaterin
the day, and by mistake served to them.
The ministers met the situation calmly,
held their ground and their dinner, and
left the landlord to settle with the other
party. Boston CongregationalisL
Their Project.
There are in North America about
800,000 persons keeping bees. The an
nual honey product is about 100,000,000
PJdsand its value is nearly $15,000,
S2r The annual wax product iu about
000,000 pounds and its value more than
$100,000.
The ewdetta.
Hubby A bigger gas bill than we've
ever had before, yoc say? Why, we've
been burning lamps all this month.
Wifey Yes, but the last time the gas
man was here he saw the lamps. New
York World.
A negro at Lexington. Ky., wagered
fifty cents that he could handle a rattle
snake and not get bitten. The serpent
struck him on the end of the nose and
twice on the chin inside of thirty sec
onds, and neither whisky nor doctoa
could save him.
To Save Life
Frequently requires prompt action. Aa
hour's delay waiting for the doctor may
be atteaded with serious consequences,
especially la cases of Croup, Pneumonia,
and other throat and lung troubles.
Hence, no family should be without a
bottle of Avar's Cherry Pectoral,
which has proved itself, in thoaaaada of
cases, the best Emergency Mediciaa
ever discovered. It gives prompt relief
aad prepares the way for a thorough
cure, which to certain to be effected by
Its continued use.
fc H. Latimer, M. D., Mt Vernon,
Ga., says: "I have found Aver's Cherry
Pectoral a perfect cure for Croup in all
cases. I have known the worst cases
relieved ia a very short time by its use;
aad I advise all families to use it in sud
den emergencies, for coughs, croup, &c."
A. J. Ektooa, M. D.. Middletown.
Teas., says: "I have used Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral with the best effect in
say practice. This wonderful prepara
tloa oBce saved my life. I bad a con
stant cough, night sweats, was greatly
reduced ia flesh, and given up by my
physician. One bottle aad a half of the
Pectoral cared me."
"I cannot say enough in praise of
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral," writes fc
Bragdoa. of Palestine, Texas. " believ.
ing as I do that, but for Its use, I should
long siBce have died,"
Ayr's flurry Ptcfaral,
Or. J. C. Afar & Co, LowsM, Mass.
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