Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1890, Page 12

12 BRINGING DEAD T0 LIFE The Wizard of the National Museum and His Wonderful Work. —_—__ LIFELIKE COUNTERFEITS. A Moéorn Frankenstcia and the Mare vels He Creates—The Preparati Curtosities for Exhibition — Expe- ditions After Strange Bensts and Fish, eae HE WIZARD of the National Musenm was at home yesterday af- ternoon. He was en- gaged in putting the finishing touches to a beautiful woman, who lay breathing so nat- uraily upon hia work table that cne would not have guessed her snimation to be merely slectrical, And yet the neavings of the bosom ‘were simply produced by an electric contriv- ance, while at intervals, through the samo ency, the sleeping beauty was observed to start ightly ao it trom “Greaming, the lips icg and the limbs contracting ulmost im Perceptibly. Inasmuch as the flesh tints were feet the deception was singularly complete. t the illusion was rendcred altogether aston- | ishing: by the fact that a piuch or two of what | seenfed to be flesh of the image made evident & soft and yielding quality counterfeiting life iteelf. It is the task of the wizard to a1 feits of life of all sorts for Uncle Sam's great Permanent show at Washington. The wonder- ful representations of @idividuals of various Faces shown in the museum, so life-like that one is startled at coming anon them, are his work. There is nothing he does not imitate, from a shell fish to a diamond, for exhibition Purposes, and all so accurately that it is well- nigh impossible to distinguish the real from the false. ply counte - AN APPETIZING LUNCHEON. He had a table spread yesterday afternoon in his iaboratory not only with the commonplace articles of o:dincry diet but also with exotic fruits and other luxuries such as are expensive to purchase at this season. For instance, there were Hamburg grapes, French artichokes, Mandarin oranges, Brussels sprouts and plums. An appetizing cold roast of underdone beef, with two or three slices out of it, was rosa nied by some stalks of green -toppe Tee in a glen of water anda fresh lost of bread with 2 pat of yellow butter. Taz Stan reporter, being invited to partake of the feast, would have begun upon the bread and butte: bat, upon making the attempt, he was am 0 find that they could notbe eaten, What they wete made of the wizard decliued to explain, but at all events they were noi real. ‘The fruits were counterfeit; so were the veg- tables, the water in the glass and even the | cold roast of uvderdone beef. Nota thing ou the table was real. Five Lynn Haven oysters on the haifshell at the newspaper man’s Place looked as though they had just been | opened and tempted the palate with their ju ness, but when he attempted to squeeze a) quarter of s lemon over them both lemon and oysters were discovered to be imitation. It wes a regular Barmecide repast, and the wizard, far from apologizing for bis guest's di: appointment, simply lay buck in his cha: stroked lus loug white beard and laughed, en- joying the tribute to his art. 4 DUMMY wR. surTH. “Let me introduce you to my assistant, Mr. Smith,” he said, indicating a middle-aged man seated at a table near the door, to whom the visitor bad spoken on entering, though re- ceiving no reply. ‘The middle-aged man, who was busy stuffing s bird, did not look up in response to the in- This seemed surprising until close only a troduction. inspection showed that Mr. Smith wa dummy in workman's costume, with spectacles on and other equipments calculated to make the deception as eomjlete as possible. Positively it appeared as if nothing were real in this weird place; the notion even suggested itself that perhaps the wizard himself might be only a mechanical counterfeit. The whole floor of the laboratory was littered with molds of every couceivable size and shape. A great case, with « glass front, was filled with bottles and jars of mysterious chemicals, and all around the walls were hung with imitations of ail manuer of still-life objects so marvelously executed that it was hard to conceive that they were not real. In one corner was the Apache terror Geronimo, nearly finished for the mu- seum, crouching in wait for an unsuspecting white man. His face was admirably done from & photograph, and his arms and legs were cast from real ones belonging to somebody else. ‘The sleeping beauty had likewise been cast in sections from a real woman. THE SECRET comry “The composition with whi flesh and al! substances requiring softness to be like nature is @ secret of my own,” said the the molds. The latter were shipped the next morning to Washington, the skeleton of the whale following. It was then only a matter of detail to produce a cast of the beast in papier mache. At preseut this cast ss to be seen sus- pended overhead in the museum, ou one side the skeleton being shown and on thé other the aspect of the whale as it was in life. it is not possible to skin fishes for stuffing,casts are usualy taken of them and after- ward painted as nearly like nature as may be. MAKING casTs. Papier mache is a more convenient substance to make casts of than plaster, especially for big fishes and such things, because it 1 lighter. Mr. Palmer employs in this sort of work the pulp iato which the Treasury has all the worn- out paper money reduced by machines. A thin layer of this money pulp is spread with a trowel over a sheet of paper that has been cov- ered with paste preliminarily. The sheet of, aper, with the pulp-layer stuck to it, is then’ laid over the inside of the plaster mold, with the pulp next to the mold. Other sheets s larly prepared and covered with pulp are put on in the same way until the whole interior of the mold section treated is covered. Finally sheets of plain paper are pasted three or mot thick over the coating of paper and pulp thu prepared, and, when the whole has hardened, the section of cast has only to be separated from the mold and is found perfect. The sections put together make up the entire cast of the fish, alligator, or whatever the creature may be; and the reproduction, after bein inted, lous like the living animal itself. Al Sides bronglit $s the sastent fer such pres- ervation in copy aro taken first of all to Mr. Sehindler, who makes sketches of them in colors, so that subsequently he may be able to reproduce the tints and markings accurately upon the casts, WHERE THE SUPPLIES COME FROM. Supplies of land animals for the National Maseum are contributed by private individuals from all parts of the world. Many of them are got by exchange with other museums; others are obtained through consuls abroad who take an interest in collecting anything strange they see to send home to Uncle Sam; others still are secured by government expe- ditions sent out from various departments, while yet others are kilied and brought home by agents expressly dispatched for the pur- poses. The Smithsonian has agents at present mm Alaska getting specimens of walrus, sca elephants and sea lions, while cther agents of the institution are trying to get hold of a few gorillas and other rare beasts in the interior of Africa. There are very few gorillas lett now, aud, inasmuch as the smail region in west Africa inhabitated by these fierce mousters is being settied pretty rapidly, they are likely to become extinct very soon. The African expedition has takeu six barrels of alcohol with it for the preservation of speci- mens, MOUNTING SPECIMENS, Small creatures are most readily kept in that manner, their preparation on the spot requiring so much time, while the bigger animals are skinned without delay. The skins are poisoned with arsenic and wrapped up with the skulls and leg bones. after thorough drying, tor trans- portation to Washington to be stuffed and mounted here. Jn the case of a very rare ani- mal it is usually desired to secure both the stuffed corpus and the skeleton. This is ac- complished quite ingeniously by making caste of the skull and leg bones in plaster to use in the stuiting, thus leaving the skeleton iutact and making two animals out of one, as it were. Huch was the method follawed in the prepara- tion of Barnum’s elephant “Jumbo.” In mounting the stuffed beast of size a thick plank is cut the shape of the outline of the body as it is to be, the plahk is mounted on four iron uprights, the skull is attached to the plank at one end by an iron, while another iron serves for the tail; the leg bones aro fastened in position and thon the mannikin thus erected is wound and wound with excel- sior and grocers’ twine until it has pretty much the form of the beast. Next the whole is spread over with a mixture of clay and tow, which is readily modeled into any shape de- sired; the skin is fitted on, sewn and combed out, a thorough washing of svap and water is applied, with a subsequent solution of corro- sive sublimate and alcohol to keep off the moths; the glass eyes, made by wholesale in New York city. are fitted im, and the animal, with a few final touches, is ready for the museum, * The irons that keep its lo; pe are fastened tightly by nuts at the hoofs to the floor or platform on which the beast stands and it stands immovable, in an attitude imita- tive of nature, affording an object lesson in nat- ural history to the observer. Many of the groups of animais in the museum are works of art in the highest sense. Take the fight among chimpanzees, for example; it is really a most gtuesome thing to look upon. —— RAPPING PRISONERS’ HEADS. A New York Policeman Who Defends the Use of the Club, From the New York Tribune. “Do you know that a man’s skull isa great convenience to us policemen?” and the blue- coated officer twirled his short club with that rapidity and dexterity which cause euch won- derment to visitors from the country. “It seems as if it was made especially to be clubbed. When we want to lock aman up and he is in a fighting humor and has an idea that anight inacell would not agree with wizard. “You see that in this woman’s arm it bhim, I don’t know what we would do if the has ali the yielding elasticity of flesh. Here is this coiled rattlesnake. I defy any one to tell that it is not a real one, either by sight or feel- ing. A cast was first made from the original snake im the composition and the final oper- ation was the painting of it. I give the natural tints to whatever 1 produce with oil colors. ‘The same composition that is so flexible in the snake gives its softness to this peach and to these cherries. Here isa pineapple which no smount of examination will enable you to tell from areal oue, Iam sure. Its very sprouts at the top, you see, green aud flexible. As for leaves, I have discovered @ way of making artificial leaves out of real ones so that they are nature themselves and will nevertheless | last forever. Have a cigar?” SOLD AGAIN. The wizard took what looked exactly like am Havana off a shelf in the same cup-| board with the rattlesnake and offered it to Tue Stak man, who, being already on his guard respectfully declined. Whereupon the wizard struck a match, lighted the weed aud puffed it contentedly while be exhibited an egg cut iu half without a shell that looked hike real, but wasn't; some Tokay grapes that had been Sut out of the composition with a knife, be- cause it was not possible to give them trans- lucency otherwise, and an 1804 cent which was #0 accurate a counterfeit in metal of the orig- inal that any collector in search of that $600 coim would be deceived. The wizard said that it was a harmless counterfeit because he only kept it for acariosity: but the secret service would doubtless its officers get sight of it. J. W. Hindley is the wizard’s uame, and he is certainly a wonderful fellow. BEHIND THE SCENES ‘The public at large never sees the most inter- @eting part of the National Museum, which is found in the workshops bebind the scence, whore the curiosities are made ready for exhi- bition. Ouly next door to the wizard’s labora- | tory is the place where all the animals for the museum are stuffedand mounted. Itis a queer Spot, the walls hung with plaster casts of all Botts of beasts and fishes, including a small whale and several kinds of gram- PS, portions of a moose, the head of a bear, two legs of a panther, the tail of «seal and ever somany other such things, all of them in- tended to serve as models in the Preparation Of stuffed creatures. Not very many years ago few scientific men in the world had any definite Roviou as to what a whale looked like in nature. Many skeletons of the huge mammal had been obtained, but of its appexr- ance while alive only « very ‘indie tinct idea was had by people who had never seen one dead. But it happened on one fortu- Bate ‘ion that a real whale 28 feet jong was thrown up on the beach ut Provincetown, Me. Mr.Pal- mer, then as now taxider- mist for the museum,started without delay for Province- town with two assistants. Upon arriving there he pro- grab it promptly did one of | fore cured twelve barrels of AN EMBRYO GIRAFFE. ter molds of the whale in sections, resolved 10 accept the western secretarysbip, fo rade was kept busy fetching water pn the pont Baptist md ther mixing plaster while Mr. plaster of Paris and used it | across the city. all up in one day in making | at 2:50 p.m. and Baltimore at 3:40 p.m, daily. * sctscor Ls prisoner didn’t have a skull. A gentle tap to call him to his senses and if that doesn’t do a few more. gradually increasing the violence of the dote, and he is dazedand willing tocome along. “It isn't always such a simple matter as that, however. as many @ policeman haa learued, The prisoner may strike out with his fist and bring a spell of drowsiness on the officer, or he may be armed. Your regular ‘tough’ would rather ‘do up’ a policeman and get six months on the Island than submit to arrest quietly and geta fine of $5. We keepa pretty sharp eye on a prisoner, though,’and especially if he looks like a dangerous customer, and generally man- age to strike our blow first, “There's where a policeman appreciates the many fine qualities of his prisoner's skull, In the first place it’s in aconvenient part of his body and is big enoagh to make a good target. In the next place n good biow on it is a won- derful thing to quiet a man's angry passions. One of the best points about a man’s skull is that it is so pod 2 It takes an awfully tierce lick to fracture it end a slight wound heals up in no time. There's no other place you can hit @ man to stun him easily unless you strike so hard that you are likely to injure him seri ously. liceman would get a bad reputa- tion if he had to lay a man up in a hospital for three mouths in order to arrest him, “Most people don’t understand how tough a man’s skull really is. They think that a blow which draws blood is sure to rewult fatally, and every time a policeman is compelled to use on a prisoner everybody who sees the a fair calls it an ‘outrage,’ ‘unprovoked brutal: and so on. Why, I recollect once how a» big feliow who had been drinking pretty heavily came near getting me into trouble. He was disorderly in the street and I started to take him to the station house. He was sullen, «You've got to haul me if you want me," he said, and braced his 180 poynds of flesh for a struggle. I gave hima pull and he let me have one in the eye with his fist, flooring me. Iwas up ina minute and playing a tattoo on his head with my stick, He had the thickest skuil I ever had the pleasure of rapping and it took half a dozen sound blows to overcome him, When I did get through with him he was bleed- ing like a slaughtered hog, and the crowd that had gathered began to abuse me in the hearti- est way. “You've killed him," said ono, and half a dozeu swore they would report me to the com- missioners, The excitement rove so high that IthoughtI was going to be mobbed and I really was afraid that I had given my man a fatal wound. I managed to get him to the station house, where his head was dressed, and the next morning he was all right except for a few bruises. He was in @ good humor in the police court, toox bis fine like a man and said I gave him no more than he deserved.” pitiecustati i) s sss New Rovre to Bosrox.—Puliman buffet sleeping cars are now runuing through without change from Washington and Baltimore to Boston via Baltimore and Obio railroad and the Poughkeepsie Bridge. ‘The train runs into the B. aud M. station at Boston and passengers for the White Mountains region, Bar Harbor and all Maine coast resorts avoid’ transferring The train leaves Washington Killed in a Prize Fight, Billy Brennan, the pugilist,who was seriously injured Thursday night im a fight with Frank Garrard at Chicago, died at 4 o'clock yesterday morning. His death was the result of con- cussion of the brain caused by a heavy fallin the last round of the fight, Shortly after midnight the police arrested “Reddy” Gallagher, the referee of the fight, and Carroll and Jack McInerny,.the seconds was iont Thmeaey oy aan old and on to have for Buffalo ready ght with Jack Hanly. - The Rov. Dr. H. C. Mable of Mi ART OF SURF BATHING. Scientific Sea-Dips and How Take Them. UNDER-TOW AND SEA-POOSE. ee Se, Vagaries of 014 Ocean—Gymnastics of the Shore—The Way to Take a Header wad the Way vo Play the Galant w Fair Femininity im the ugh-Rolling Wave. —_—__—__ UFFIELD OSBORNE, in an article in the July Scribner, gives some interesting and valuable iiformation about surf bathing. First he makes mention of two menaces. Doubtless we have all heard a great deal about “‘under-tow,” he says, as though it were some mysterious force work- ing from the recesses of a treacherous ocean to draw unwary bathers to their doom. As a mat- ter of fact its presence is obviously natural and the explanation of it more than simple. As each wave rolls in and breaks upon the beach the volume of water which it carries dues not remain there and sink into the sand; it flows over it the receding one forms an under cur- rent flowing ontward with strength proportion- ate to the body of water contained in each breaker, and, again, proportionate in a great | measure to the depths of the ditch. Where this latter is an appreciable depression it can be | readily seen that the water of receding waves will flow into it with similar effect to that of water going over a fall, and that a person standing near is very likely to be drawn over with it, and thas, if the ditch is deep enough, carried out of his depth, This is all there is to the much-talked-of *‘under-tow” and the nu- merous accidents laid to its account, THE DANGEROUS '‘SEA-POOSE.” It may be well tospeak here of another phenomenon not infrequently observed, I “TWENTY DEGREES OFF THE HORIZONTAL.” do not recall ever seeing the name by which it is known in print, and, as the word is ignored by Webster, I shall invent my own speiling and write it “‘sea-poose.” This term is loosely used on different parts of the co: but the true significance of it is briefly this: There will sometimes come, at every bathing ground. days when the ocean seems to loose its head | and to act ina very capricious way. On such occasions it often happens that the beach is cut away at some one point, presumably where the sand happens to be softer and less capable of resisting the action of the water. There will then be found a little bay indenting the shore, perhaps ten feet, perhaps ten yards. The waves rolling into sucha cove are deflected somewhat by its sides and “set” together at its head, so that two wings of a breaker, 0 to speak, meet and, running straight out from the point of junction, forma sort of double ‘un- der-tow,” which will, if the conditions that cause it continue, cut out along its course a depression or trench of varying depth: and length. Itcan be readily understood that such | @ trench tends to strengthen the current that | causes it, and these two factors, acting and re- | acting upon each other, occasion what might be called an artificial ‘‘under-tow,” which is | sometimes strong enough to carry an unwary | bather some distance out in a fashion that will cause him either to be glad he is, or to wish he were, within the rectangle of the life lines, THE RIGHT WAY TO BATHE, We shall assume, in the first place, that you are able to swim, and further, that you are not minded to foliow the inglorious, yet really dangerous example of those who wait for a calm interval, and then, rushing through the line of breakers, spend their time swimming out beyond. W ft cies: take your place just where the seas comb. This point will vary | Somewhat with the height of the waves, but you will stand, for the most part, in | water about waist deep. Should a ‘par- ticular breaker look to be heavier than the preceding. remember that it will strike further out and that you must push forward to meet it, Then, if you are where you should be, it will comb directly above ycur head. Wait until it reaches that point of its develop- ment, for if you act too soon or too late your chances of being thrown are greatly increased, and, with the white crest just curving over you, dive under the green wail of water that rises up infront. Dive just as you would froma low shore, only not quite so much downward— say at an angle of twenty degrees off HOW TO HOLD YOUR PARTNER (FIRST METHOD). the horizontal, your object being to slip under the incoming volume of water, to get somewhat into the “under tow,” and yet to run no rish of running afoul of the bottom, The heavier the wave, the deeper will be the water in which you stand, and the deeper you can and should dive, SURF Pray. There is arather amusing way of playing with the surf on days when it 1s fairly high, but thin and without much force. Instead of div- ing as the breaker commences to comb, throw ‘ourself over backward and allow your feet to heaaaua up into the crest. Provided you have sis ite strength accurately and given yourself just enough back somersault impetus, you will be turned completely over in the wave, and strike with it and upon your feet: only bo careful in picking out your plaything and don’t select one that will pound you into the eand, or perhaps refuse to regulate ‘UP GORS M188 MERMAID, the number of somersaults according to your wishes or intentions, . . * s . * Now, it is more than possible that, being a good swimmer, and havi first made sonal trial of both surf, you may de. sire to offer your escort to— to and sant bene let me Foret on prelim ‘inary caut Never attempt to take a woman into the surf where there tn reason for ‘an experienced surfman to @ sea whic! the water in the di more than When the “under-tow” abe especially or “set” is strong; or back again, and as the succeeding waye breaks | When there is any irregularity of the beach which might Senso 6 “sen pooss” to form YOU TAKE THE@MSLTY BAPTISM. You may also find it to observe the fol- lowing: Never take a woman outside the life lines and never promise her, either expressly or by im- plication, that you will not let her hair get wet. Above all, impress it upon her that she must do exactly as you say, that a moment's hesitation due to timidity or lack of confidence, or, worse than all, anything like panic or an at- tempt to break from you andescape by flight, is likely to precipitate a disaster wnich, Vu- pleasant and humiliating when met alone, is trebly so in company. And now, having read your lecture on tthe dutv of obedience, &c., lead on. Of course, if the water deepens gradually and the surf very light, you may go beyond the breakers, but iu that event no skill is called for and no suggestions needed. HOLDING A WOMAN IN THE SURF. There are several good ways of holding a woman in the surf, but the best and safest in every emergency is that shown in the cut. You nd with your Jeft and her right side the ocean. and as the waves rise be- fore you your companion should, at the word, spring from the sand while at the same mo- ment you swing her around with all your force and throw her backward into the advanced breaker. You will observe that your own feet are always planted on the bottom, the left foot about 12 inches advanced and your body and shoulders thrown for ‘to obtain the best brace against the the water. The question of preserving your equilibrium is largely one of proper balancing, especially when, as is often the case, you are Carried from your foothold and born some yards toward the shore. Your companion's Weight and impetus, as well as the position in which she strikes the waye—that is, directly in front of you all tend to make your anchor- age more secure, or, in case of losing it, your balance the pasier to maintain, The body of the wave will, of course, pass completely over you. The instant it las so passed and your head emerges, clear your eyes, regain your position (you will practically ‘drop into it again), and if carried shoreward press out to the proper point so as to be ready for the next. DON'T RUN. Should an exceptionrily heavy sea roll in endeavor to push forward to meet it as if you wore alone, being very careful, however, not to get out of depth. Flight is almost always dis- astrous. If the sea strikes vefore you can reach it there is nothing to do but bend your head and shoulders well forward, brace your- self as firmly as possible. and thus, presenting the least surface for the water to take hold of SWING YOUR*COMPANION HORIZONTALLY UNDER THE BROKEN WAVE. and getting the full benefit of the “under-tow.” swing your companion (who has also bent low and thrown herself forward) horizontally under the broken wave. If she has had much experience it wiil be still better for you to dive together side by side. efore dropping this branch of the subject I will call attention briefly to another way of carrying a woman through the surf. Let her stand directly in front of and facing you. Standing thus she springs and is pushed back- ward through the wave sometimes as in the former instance, RESCUES, Next to caution and life-lines surf dargers are best provided against by a long rope with a slip-noose atthe end, either wound on a port- able reel or coiled and placed at the lowest HOW TO HOLD YOUR PARTNER (SECOND METHOD.) point of the beach. Then a rescuer, throwing the noose around his waist, can make his way to a drowning man and both can be drawn in by those on shore. In default of some such contrivance the next best thing is for, all the ablebodied to form a chain of hands; for, let me say, there is nothing more difficult even for a strong ewimmer and cxpert surfman than bringing a drowning person in through or out of a line of heavy breakers, A MEMORABLE. INCIDENT. Trecall an incident which happened some years since at Bridgehampton, L. L, and which illpstrates the difficulty of which Ispeak. A young clergyman had arrived only the day before; he was unable to swim a stroke and his first exploit was to wade out into the ocean, entirely ignorant of the fact that the ditch was that day Goth abrupt and deep—or perhaps even that there was such a thing as a ditch— and thata single step would take him froma LIFT HER WITH A VIM. depth of four feet and safety into .one of six and considerable danger. Whether he took the step, or the “‘under-tow” took it for him, is not material, but the bathing master and one other saw the trouble, dashed in and, reaching the drowning man, were able to kee, his above water, but, what with this ‘and fighting the waves, they did not seem to make an inch shoreward. ‘There were not many on the beach at the time and only four or five mane wie ooeie te ae int per heuaih ot bene formed, but not lo: pe ge ii the inside man into watee tow," “pouring into the ig. itch, sucked tow,” with all its might. Bo 8 and now gaining, now and meanwhile the bi master and nearest him, be- ing out depth, were fast — heads and bodies swirled over, under and against each other. Those inshore were hurled upon the beach, but the chain held together —e th to drag the others into a place of > there were no casualties of any aence I am very cer- tain that each link of it = will not soon Sopot the experience and appreciate the truth of my last statement, And now let me try to temper all this by saying that the dangers of surf bathing are, in reality, much less than those that beset still- water svimming, whore one is usually out of his depth and with very little chance of escape in case of cramp or exhaustion. Only make friends with the ocean, learn its ways, study its moods a little and humor it, while you keep careful watch against any sudden ebuilition of passion. —— eee —_____ DR. COUES AND JOHN TRUST. Utterances of the Washington Sctentist and the Alexandria Occultist, To the Editor of Tax Evrxto Stan: Several times in reading the sayings of the Washington scientist, Dr. Coues, I have been amazed at their identity with the utterances of John Trust, the Alexandria occultist, whose confessions I had occasion to translate and publish some twenty years ago. The Alexan- dria magician saw then,as Dr. Coues does now, the spiritual double which makes part of every human being. Dr, Coues in Tux Srar of last Saturday, in explanation of his phrase ‘‘a phan- tasm of the living,” says: “This may take a number of shapes. In some cases it assumes the appearance of a face or of a hand, in others ot an entire body. John Trust, in his confession, thus describes how he saw the phantasm of his living sister at their first meeting: “Merely of feature there was nothing, though raven tresses curtaiued a glorious brow and a complexion, tinted at the south, grew into® radiance boneath eyes that were biack as night and glowing as its stars, but upon all, and above ali, there grew a spirituality, as if a shadowy face were blended with the real one, and the mere material beauty melted im the deeper loveliness that overshadowed it. Words are vain to describe that deeper beauty—tho canvass and the chisel can only tell how little of earth there was in her to copy.” Dr. Coues depicts also this phantasm of the living when it is departing from its “friend and associate of clay” as follows: . “A real phantom of the living, to be not a mere hallucination, should present an appear- ance nearly, if not exactly, Tike thatot the nat- ural physical individual, Ihave several times in my life beheld such a phantom, which only differs, so far as Lean see, from the reality in that it'does not consist of such material par- ticles as those composing our physical bodies, Nevertheless, not only the attitudes but the movements, actions and gestures of these figures are the same as would be those of a natural body, * 3 bd . “Asa matter of fact they ordinarily result from states of great mental perturbation, with the cause of which perturbation the individual to whom the phantom appears ix in some way connected, as, for example, intense solicitude for a friend or relative supposed to be in great danger. The most startling cases are those which occur at or about, a little before or a little after, the death of the phrtical body of him or her who thus projects the phantasm. A majority of the best authenticated cases have occurred in connection with and at about the time of the death of the individual.” It was John Trust's fortune to sce with mor- taleyes the phautasm which Dr. Coues de- scribes. He thus narrates what eyes be- held at his sister’s death. He was on the Po- tomac in a boat escaping from the conse: quences of a murder which he had committed 5.1821, near what is now Fort Runyan, and when passing off Alexandria he saw in the old town, he says, “‘as {t were, the image of an idea as a representation, external to the body, of a thought, a wish, a ‘hope, a fear,” just as Dr. Coues now indicates to. be possible, ‘This is an extract from Trust's confession of what he then saw: « “As I gazed memories kindled in my heart; the town seemed as glass before me. Old memories and young hopes trooped along its streets clad in the garments that mortal art clothes angels in, Regrets were among them, standing still, with faces pale, yet glorious, wistfully looking back—and sorrows ciad in somber shadows so gilded by the bright moon that, at first glance, my eye passed them by unnoticed, ‘The stones of the street ways like gems, and every wall was of crystal—as trans- parent to my vision as the circling air. There lay sleep on young faces, and from their tiny dreams a halo weut up towurd the skics, while from coarser thoughts dark shades fell earth- ward, nor were hindered by the earth, but penetrated still—downward. “Amid it all one scene fixed my gaze upon it— and tonight if I close my lids—this convent cell passes only to be replaced by the same image which will shine in my eyes forever, I saw my sister; she was at repose upon a couch, clothed in white, just as I had left her. The dimmed lamp cast no shadow, for an amazing ad filled the room in which she lay. Ali her attendants bad retired, but she was not alone, for as I looked I saw angels, one on each hand, For awhile she seemed in pain, but soon a sweet expression fixed itself upon her face, and, at the same moment, a wierd light rose from her forehead, wking quickly the form of adome of strange bewity; as I still gazed her breathing grew laborious, and the dome rising drew out into the exact image of her head, made as it were of pure light, and’ glowing in transtigured beauty, with an immortal loveliness. It startled me to sce @ careworn, weary face below and its bright counterpart smiling above; but, while I thought she labored for breath, with yet greater energy the while up- rose the head upon a well-defined neck and shoalders, as if rising from the dying body be- Jow, until the whole form stood at full length, with arms uplifted, and its tapering fect rest- ing at their extreme verge upon the lips of the gurl, now struggling in death’s agouy. “Can that be her pure soul issuing from 1t8 mortal tenement?” My thought scarcely framed the question when there was a convulsive sob—the bright soul figure darted upward, attended by its two companions—like a flash of light—the mortal hands fell motionless, the mortal eyes were glazed for evermore.” It will ever be a subject of regret if an oc- cultist like Dr. Coues shall not find means by a train of thought to put himself in communi- cation with John ‘Trust, whose death on a lonely island in the Potomac is recorded in the ‘Tux Srax of January 23, 1586, ALexanpnta, Va., July 3, 1890, W.F.C, SIN FRANCE. ee ROYALIST INTRIGU! Efforts to |Provoke a Quarrel Between the Duc D’Orleans and His Fiancee. Mrs. Emily Crawford in London Truth. The Comte de Paris’ speech, deliyored at Sheen house, was an answer to the cry of alarm raised by Le Monde. Le Monde is an old-fash- ioned, religious paper, royalist as it can be, and for doing everything decently and in order I believe it was put on to say what it did by an intimate friend of the Comte de Paris, What did it say? you may ask. That young and tur- bulent and intriguing royalist were egging on the Duc d’Oleans to separate from his father and sct up as an independent pretender; that they were trying to de-Christianize him, to plunge him into dissipation and to get him to reak off his engagement with the Princess Marguerite. What Le Monde said was perfectly true. The noblemen in question aro very intriguing, fussy, greedy of lucre and somo of them have lives of rather funny pedigrees. Three of them were partisans of Gon, Boulanger while his boom lasted. Two of the impulsive ones, the Due d’Uzes and the Duc de Luynes, aro thor- oughly honest and have no settled pian of cam- paign, but think the Comte de Paris too cor- rect in his methoda, The others are what Le Monde says—intriguers, ‘Their idea was to ob- tain the czar's only daughter for their young retender, aud for him meanwhile to amuse imself with young married women, Blt is notorious that a charmer of very high rank followed him to Switzerland when be was there, turned up again in Brussels, and got up quite a cabal aguinst tie Princess Marguerite, who, the caballers complained, profitted too much by the due being in prison to ci surering The Princess Marguerite has her mother's even temper and quiet cheerfulness of dispo- sition, She takes her inoffensive manners and disposition and her talent for water-color has also good ties affability—e quality I never met with dissoci- ated from a has the famil; pocapecs tout of his small circle. ‘The D' soaea have Seeds; ben Keep too mush in'thelr shells ever cheeks are with snow-white whiskers. Kowwuth adlicted ita slow! cataract, but he himself be- ares will sooner . ‘ PAGES, ONLY THE BRIDES WILL OBJECT. A Poposition to Do Away With the Wedding Present Practice. “Isee in Tue Stan that Eva —— and Mr. Blank are to be married. Of course we will have an invitation to the wedding,” said « Washingion lady to her better half. ‘Well, we can hardly afford to go,” was the reply. “Why not?” “It is too expensive s business, this attend- ing weddings nowadays. You might as well @ppear at the house without a wedding gar- ment as without a wedding present, Some of our ministers occasionally cry out against ex- Pensive funerals. I wish some one would Preach a crusade against expensive weddings. The preachers won't, though. They know on mhat side their bread’ is buttored, and most of them would turn up their noses if the wedding fee was not a $20 bill at least from. a depart- muent clerk or a $500 check from «half mil- Hionaire’s son. “If you sttend a wedding these days you are expected to bestow a wedding gift on the bride by all means. There isa fashion in these things and you must give, not according to your mel: nation, or even according to your means, but a la mode of the circle in which you move. If you have a daughter out of long clothes she is asked to be a bridesmaid, and you can no more Tefuse to let her be one than you can to dine at the White House. The etiquette of society strictly forbids it. S are in for it, and no mistake. Your daughter iaust pay heavily for the honor and must, of course, give a splendid present on her own ac- count, whilst the magnificence of the joint one of yourself and wife must be proportionately increased. You are supposed to be the free citi n of a free country, in which no one can tax you save the representative you yourvelf have helped elect, and here a lot of people, who are just as often as uot almost complete strangers to you personally, can walk into your house, or rather rage b you into theirs, and without your having the power to resist or call out, mulet you to the extent of a month's house rent. “These are some of the pains and penalties which you have to pay for rad a recognized member of society. But even when you have made up your mind. or it has been made up tor you by your more lavish better half, to give a handsome present to the lovely creature who is taking advantage of her position to get all sue can out of her friends and acquaint- ances the question still remains what to give. Your present must be a nice and a costly one ofcourse. When you go to the reception it is just possible that the lovely creature who has fined you so heavily will have scarce time to recognize your existence. Anybody decently acquainted with the annals of religious perse- cution is aware that it was no uncommon thing in the ages of faith for house to be set against house and family against family and for even wives to denounce their husbands for refusing to sacrifice to the predominant belief. It is just the same now. It 1s invariably the wife of ‘one’s bosom that turns against one in this mat- ter of wedding presents. What can't be cured must be endured, and we have no expectation of seeing these enforced benevolences abol- ished. But what cau’t be cured can sometimes be mended. Why can’t we have a mixed house and poll tax and do away in this matter of wed- ding presents?” —_-__ Von Moltke’s Valuable Find. Wirspapex, Geamany, June 15, Correspondence of Tux EVENINo Stan. According to the Vossische Zeitung (Voss's Gazette) of Berlin it becomes quite accident- ally known that Count Moltke once rendered a very important service to oriental literature while in the midst of the dangers and turmoil of war. During his carcer as an officer in the Tarkish army he participated in 1838 in storm- ing the fortified town of Dschesireh ibn Omar in Kurdistan, and in the course of it came upon a wide and high cavern or grotto about 20 or 30 feet high, whose equipments showed that it had been used for religious purposes, It was the place of worship of the Nestorian Chri tians of the vicinity. One of the Turkish so diers belonging to Moltke’s command got hold of a large codex in the cave, which Moltke ob- tained from him for the purpose of turuing it over to the Royal Library at Berlin. The man- uscript proved to be one of considerable value, and is said by Prof. Petermann to be oue of the treasures of the Royal Library. It con- tains the entire New Testament of the Nes- torians in Nestorian characters, and is valued very highly, not only because Nestorian codices are very rare in Europe, but even more so bi cause they are scarce even among the Nes- torians. The manuscript, according to the date init, was finished in 1591 A.D, Moitke also supplied the Koyal Library at Berlin’ with enother manuscript obtained by him at the same place, cousisting of church lessons from the four Gospels, written partly in Syriac, partly in Arabic and partly in Arabic written with Syriac letters, th books are in folio, Moltke’s written statement, made in 1840, of how he came acrozs the manuscripts is filed among the records of the Royal Library, 8. —S The First Lake Steam Boat. The following interesting extracts are from Vau Cleve’s unpublished history of ake navi- @ation, the property of the Buffalo Historical Society: “In the autumn of 1815 certain parties ob- tained a grant for the privilege of navigating Lake Ontario from the executors of Robert Fulton aud others, who held the exclusive right to navigate the waters of the state of New York by boats propelled by steam. It was stipulated that but one boat should be em- ployed on any one route without the consent of the grantors, “Under this grant the steam boat Ontario was built at Sackett’s Harbor in 1816. She was 110 feet long, 24 feet beam and 8% feet depth of hold, measuring about 240 tous. She bad a low pressure beam engine of 4 feet stroke, with a 34-inch cylinder, She was rigged asa fore- and-aft schooner and was the first steam boat ever launched on waters subject to heavy sens, Her first trip was made in 1817, at which time she was commanded by Capt. Francis Mallaby of the United States navy, THE STEAM BOAT CAROLINE, “During the patriot war in 1837 the steam From the Boston Transcript. observant friend, “‘by alittle family scene on a twig of an elm tree, where a fly-catcher had ase, end gave fly to the bird, whisking as oor gh Ee with Soe ving he the of the family ee ee rogue and boat Caroline was running between Buffalo aud Schlosser Landing,on the American side, a few miles above Niagara Falls. The Caroline wos built in New York in 1824 by Cornelius Vauder- bilt, who sold her to parties who took her to North Carolina, where she navigated Albe- marle sound. Subsequently she roturned to New York. About 1834 she was taken through the Erie canal to Lake Ontario, where she plied between Ogdensburg and Prescott. She fiually went to Lake Erie through the Welland canal, On the night of December 29, 1837, while lying at Schlosser she was sized by the English, set on fire and sent over the falls.” psshtaror nat A Big Gunpowder Depot. New Jersey Lotter in Detroit Tribune. Our government is simply providently taking advantage of favorable conditions to secure and store such quantitjes (of niter, to be used in making gunpowder) as will render us inde- pendent of any exigency possible for human care to forestall (like a blockade of our ports). Nine million pounds have already been pur- chased at prices ranging from 12 40 8 cents per pound, and each year hereafter other millions of pounds will be added to the tremendous quantity already in band. In the latter of the seventies the wisdom of Provision for some such great powder and niter reserve became so patent to the authori- ties at Washington that it was decided one should be established at or near the Atlantic seaboard. A site, 700 feet above the sea level, was at last selected in the elevated Picatinny valley lying in the Appalachian mountain chain in northeastern New Jersey. ** * One cannot but at the same time reflect that any foreign enemy could enter New York { practically unopposed, and by rapid use of the railway, or even by forced march, possess, fortify and dofcnd for his own use this gigan- tic store against our own most desperate val and, finally, if compelled to abandon his posi- tion, with a half dozen well-directed shells, ex- plode and destroy ‘every vestige of the Pica- tinny depo! Tricks of the Birds, “I was much amused one afternoon,” gays an ‘Then, unhappy man, yor | P ______ RATLROADs,_ ein ee oe seave Washington from stat» ’ axenue en: eet. 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