Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1896, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY. AUGUST 22, 1896-TWENTY PAGES. — PUNCHING THE BALL round contest with Charley Mitchell, and he wes frequently told by members of his “awjence,” “Oh, yes! you kin punch a ball ell right, but how about Charley Mitchell’ A SECRET OF THE SEA| strange a sight t eyes of a sailor ever beheld. It was a ship, to sure, but one had to rub his eyeS and look again and again to be certain_of it. There was the HYPNOSIS MACHINES —_-—_—__ great hull—there th¥ three masts—up aloft Corbett’s Skill. me the yards, and hers Were scores of ropes De : a th M = i i ‘Was. t ts. A Healthful and Weight-Reducing | One of the greatest exhibitions of BY 0. B. LE trailing about Ike ‘llmy, serpents. From | Devices Produce the Mesmeric punching ever witnessed was that given by Jim Corbett in Madison Square Garden a few days before he started south to wrest the championship from John L. Sullivan. On that occasion the disk used on the stage was two feet six inches above the top of his head, and the center of the ball was just below his chin. Among his other feats that day he fought the ball with both hands as rapidly as he could hit out for three minutes without cessation. Good judges estimated that he sent the ball ——— ee (Copyright, 1896, by the Bacheller Syndicate.) In the year 1849 the Honorable East India Company’s ship, the Star of India, set sail from Madras for London, having on board over 200 passengers, and among them Lord Glenham, Gen. Swift, Lady Artwell and her two daughters, and other men and women of note at home and abroad. Aside from Exercise. GOOD ADVICE 10 HEAVY-WEIGHTS Beautiful Exhibitions by Champion stem to stern and the fabric was covered with mud and slime and barnacle8’ and sea grass and shells, and as she tested there the water poured off her decks and out of her hold in such @ sobbing, choking way as to bring the shivers. Not a word had passed between the pair ‘of us while the wave raced in and across the island, and the ground below us was clear of the last water before Wallace. said: “I think this ends it, and let us both thank God! This shif was heaved up from ug. State Mechanically, WHIRLING MIRRORS AND CRYSTALS Influence of Certain Chemicals the sea, where she must ath " against the disk not less than 120 times | her general cargo, the ship carried treasure | the bottom of t! U on Sensitive Subjects. Pugilists. each minuto, or 90 times in all. The ball | to the amount of a quarter of a million | Rave rested for sgood many years, Dut P d was blown up very tight and its resypaii | dollars. ‘The bankers at Madras figured out | ¥°ll have | aa was very great. Assuming that the ball traveled five fect each time it was struck it went 1,800 feet in all, or about one-third of a mile. This was great speed when it is remembered that the ball changed direc- that the passengers must have had at least $100,000 among them, while an Indian po- tentate, on his way to be received as a GENERAL DIRECTIONS After a couple of hours, to let the ground dry out a bit we descended the hill to see what damage had been done. About one-half the trees on the island had been USES OF THE POWER 19 HUNYAD SPO JANOS, The World’s Best Natural Aperient Water. 25 Years’ Success in U. S. Highest Reputation all Over the World. CAUTION: None genuine without the signature guest of royalty, had a strong box of jew- elry and gems valued at so great a sum that no one dared speak it. It was intended that the ship should be convoyed as far as the Cape of Good Hope by a man-of-war, as there were plenty of pirate craft still affoat, uprooted and carried out to sea, and of our hut not a vestige remained. ‘There was scarcely a stone a8 large as a hen's egg on the island previous to the wave, but now we found that hundreds of rocks had en distributed around, while the dead fish were so numerous that we were hours tien 240 times a minute. Four Great Punchers, The four greatest ball punchers in the ptgilistic professicn are Tommy Ryan, Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons and Young Grif- of the firm “Andreas Saxlehner, (Copyright, 1806, by the Bachcller Syndicate.) OME MONTHS AGO a wealthy friend of mine, who is some- what of an epicure VEN HYPNOSIS may now be pro- duced by machinery. We are approaching a day when the di- Seendesosocetontesosetestoetecotoatestenetoctontenesesnietioediiondetotosionecdeoeteatestede lle shes dt Moelostostodintodholiodioe fo. Parson Davies claims that Ryan ts the | put the government vessel met with a mis-| in gathering them up and giving them to rect influence of On the Label. cee Than he caved to | best of the lot, and I am inclined to agree} tap at sea and was detained somewhere, | the tide top bear reway. Twonhoursyatter Svengalies will not mh21-sat,26t Tene there necare y| With nim. Corbett makes ball punching one | anq the Star finally decided to sail without the ieee ee Eee Mahtcttan mien eee be necessary to be, said: “Macon, T| o¢ the features of his theatrical entertain- . her, and there was little fear but that she could take care of herself. Two days out of Madras she was sighted and reported, but throw Trilbies #to subjective states, am fifteen or twenty pounds heavier than rly dry in all parts. We, however, gave the ship ull the next day to get rid of her water and harden in the hot sun. You are ments. Bob Fitzsimmons alternates his fist blows with jabs with his elbows and he can aday consciousness” was absent at the time, I ht to be Hi make the ball fairly “ouch” each time he ai te h of th: i when hypnotists will TEES : : ne vaigoS feel a abe Petes ogy ge =e ? v vi prepare w ears course, at she but the “subliminal consciousness,” he says, ens ves Po ves? e can I take that] Uses them on it. Griffo, too, is very good | that was the last seen or heard of her until Proved to be the long lost Star of India, ner el tabs SPA GREET RIITIRE ALE DpRIADK CRIES A RLAE ie DMD: Te ane eee wie welght off without | #,this elbow work. the year 1864. We found that out before we had been rough machinery | jnaesthetics destroy the former and only | worthy authorities relate hypnotism with People who wish to punch the ball as an The loss of the Star made a great sen- aboard of her a quarter of an hour, and set to operate at tpone the enregistering of the sensation | the same power by which the teacher dieting? I am will-| exercise should suspend it in a room panies sation, for Several reasons, and when it| later on we had a dozen reasoner torihe: aiven® ‘times! shell Condettors controling abe alia conscious: presses his students, the preacher conv ing to work a hit, | while well ventilated, is ‘ree from drafts. | was finally concluded that she had been Heving that the dying Malay had spoken as s. It may be that this “subliminal con- is congregation, the pleader convinces t but I won't deny| They should strip to the waist, and wear | lost various vessels were sent in search | Nevins th uy ne presence of the instruments being | un- | nes 4 jury, the cross-examiner sciousness” is the one affected by hypnot- ists. rattles” the wit ness, or by which the orator holds his audi- ence with bated breath, receiving cheers at Seek nod, although heard and understood by few. nothing but drawers and slippers. It is well to incase the hands in loose kid gloves from which the fingers have been cut. This will prevent any abrasion of the knuckles, of her, and every effort was made to as- certain her fate. In 1856 a Malay sailor who died aboard of an English tea ship told her captain that the Star was attacked and known to the subjects. The mechanical mesmerizer will then find an essential place in the burglar’s tool kit, and we will myself the pleasures of the table.” Punch the ball.” I responded. “Ball Punching is one of the best physical meth- I tell you that ship was a queer sight. Her ocean bed had been hundreds of feet deep, and the mud covered everything to the depth of a foot—in some places two or Sensitive to Drags. Recent laboratory experiments have also According to this, Mr. Bryan is a huve to look under our beds to see if such he effects of drugs educ! velgh Which is sometimes cacsed by glancing | captured by pirates to the south of Ceylon, | three, Nelther of us Mad realy been gnats to eece aoe ees On Eee ay fanart ent ang improving | Nowa. Oneanthute rounds are long enough | and that he was one Gr to wos cel or her loss, but we knew this wreck to be | "PS have been set by our enemies. The | fon persons In a hypnotic state. Some | one. JOHN BLicere WATERS , or. wind of fleshy people. hen a ball Is in the attack. He said there were five| that of an Indiaman, and we went at it |'™echanical hypnotizer as now made, how- subjects are found to be so sensitive to _o fought, energetically and persistently, the native crafts, and that they came upon the to clear away the stuff and get into her. We were a full week doing this, and at every turn we came across evidences to prove the story of the Malay. Three or four of her guns were yet in Place, and from the way she had been knocked about by cannon shot it was easy to figure that she had made a hard fight and sufferei great loss of life before she gave in. Even before we began work we found the auger holes bored in her bottom to scuttle her. The great cabin and every state room had two feet of mud on the floor, and I may ever, is strictly a scientific instrument. The government's bureau of education re- cently purchased a collection of such appar- atus, which are new in this country. They will be used by a specialist for studying the values of hypnotic suggestion in the education of the abnormal classes. “Sx- periments will be made determining their effect upon the sensibilities, emotions, breathing, circulation and temperature of the body. exerc produces profuse perspiration. Every muscle of the body and limbs 1s brought irto play and there is little or no darger of streining any of them, and that is more thar can be said of “pulley lifting’ and many other kinds of gymnastic work. Fat fairly melts away from the regular ball puncher, aad he obtains nearly all the benefits of sparring without any of Its in- conveniences, such as bloody noses, black drugs while in this condition that they con- Grand Dukes and Contraciors, tort themselves in various ways when the substances are not applied directly, but merely held in proximity to their skin, not even touching it. Some chemical substances, even when sealed in tubes, will cause sen- sitives to alter their bodily appearances and physical conditions, producing violent con- vulsions, hallucinations, alteratious of the pupils, changes in the |pulse-be symp- toms of joy, grief or anger and other emo- Uonal conditions. Star in a calm and carried her by boarding. The stip mede a long and stubborn resist- ance, but was finally captured, and the pirates had suffered such heavy loss that in revenge they killed everybody to the last child. They then looted the ship and scuttled her, and the plunder was subse- quently divided on an island in the China sea. Some people believed this story and some said tt was absurd. The general idea was that the Star foundered at sea during a heavy gale. The dying statement of the pirate was never fully investigated for A refreshing story is told in the columns of the Frankfort Gazette: The czar intrust- ed Count Pahlen, a lberal-minded man, with an inquiry into the causes of the ter- rible disaster at Moscow on the occasion of the coronation, and the count did not hesitate to tell his majesty, in the presence of Grand Duke Viadimir, that he would have done better not to put the superin- : The influence of color upon hypnotized | tendence of the coronation festivals into eyes or bruises.” My friend took my ad- some reason. So far as the investigation reeks ineloraimolgountintnarctre era oe Ao Elaborate Apparatus. persons has also been tested in the labo-| the hands of the grand duke. This frank vice, bought him a punching ball, fought went it was proved to be a fact. The|In the mud and among the mold and roi | The most elaborate form of hypnotizer | ratcry by subjecting sensitives to rays of declaration staggered the emperd it every day for fifteen or twenty minutes, ! pirates had long been scattered, many were | we found rusty muskets, pistols, swords, | 18a small box, containing clock work, sur- | Ught passing through various screens of ked Count Pahlen to advance his 1 according to my advice, and now he tips doubtless dead, and the idea of bringing r pieces of jewelry, cutlery, crockery, gla: different colored glass. Blue light is found mounted by two horizontal oblong fans, yellow | Lhe count answered grand dukes are i 2 duc s, light joy, yellow ae ane <5 ain eae the scale twenty pounds Ighter than he the ang to justice was given up as im- we found only Ave soverelgne: oa pmoney | one over the other, revolving rapidly in op- | jigit strong affection: and vielet or areon | £,hetr1 thee tS FA was, and he looks and feels 50 per cent In the year 1863 I_was one of a crew of | the cargo had been wool, Dat we ger note. | Posite directions. The funs ure studded | light variable conditions| Charcot used @1l purveyance they must be cheated” The better than he did- before he began the ex- the onglish brig Swiftsure, which was| ing whatever of value out of it. Indeed, | 09 each side with a row of circular mir- | sudden ray of Intense Heht as one means | Grand Duke Vladimir protested against ercise. making a survey of the islands to the} when our work had been finished, we sim- | TFS, about the size of nickel pieces. The | Or throwing sensitives into the hypnotic | this put smilincly Count Pahlen reminded The Old Apparatus. northeast of Madagascar. At the Chagos| ply had a big hulk resting on land a mile | ‘pid rotation produces an odd flashing | state. = him of his own bad experiences in connec- The “punching ball” of today differs very group. as we were pulling into land one| from the beach and were only five gold |¢fect which greatly fatigues the eyelid] Just as these instruments for fig tion with the building of the memorial ly fi “fighting bag’ which day, with seven men in the boat, we were | pieces better off than before. The pirates | Muscles of the beholde This machine js | hypnosis are applied to the sense of sight, | church to Alexander I. In consequence of materially frem the “fighting bag” whic upset in the surf, and only two of us| had swept her clean of treasure, plundering | und to be very effective when used upon | other physical methods are applied, in its this frank attitude of Count Pahlen, the was used in the days of Tom Hyer, Yan- induction, to the senses of hearing and touch. The condition does not seem to be induced by stimulations of either taste cr smell. Charcot threw some of his subjects into hypnotic states for a beginner, with two minutes’ rest be- tween each round. Plenty of good, coarse Turkish towels should be used to wipe off the perspiration caused by the exercise. sersitives who can be thrown into a hyp- sats sleep by concentration or sight stimu- us, A simpler form of mechanical hypnotizer is a belt of broad tape to be placed upon minister of justice was ordered to continue the inquiry. He succeeded in clearing up dark affair, but when the investigation an to take a very disagreeable turn It kee Sullivan, Heenan and Sayers, and even in Jce Coburn’s time. The bag then used Was a huge affair, nearly as tall as a man = Se by the sharp and de! d to submit it not to the or- and twice as | It was filled with cot-| Five rounds conte ay are encuany foe cc the forehead and over the temples, being | Sudden sounding of a large gong. The dinary court of justice, but to the minis- ton, oats and like heavy yielding ma. paar for oe TRIN Wiss fonutielor: the tied at the back of the head. From a me- | ticking of a watch has been used with | terial council—in other words, to burke it rial uatil it weighed about wi ut tis wees | foands eat be incteaned tc two sanades 1 tallle plate In front protrudes a wire, ex-| the same success by others, the sensitive | * = ats se to scale. os Ci — ent terding upward in an S-like curve and holding a bright ball of nickel, about the size of a marble, at the end. When this is Placed upon the subject the wire is bent until the ball reaches a point above the eye, where it may be seen by the wearer only by intensely straining the eyelids. The same effect, as produced by the former rrachine is accomplished by this simpler ap- paratus. These instruments have been irvented to serve in substitution for the gestures, known as passes, commonly mag hypnotists. The scientific hypnotist makes movements before and above the eyes of his subject to concentrate his at- tention and to fatigue the eyelid mu both by causing the eyes to follow movements and by being required to concentrate his mind upon the sound, just as he does upon the seeing of the revolving fans or nickel ball. The monotonous chants sung by semi- civilized nations are found to produce the same effect. would never advise lengthening the rounds beyond three minutes and care must be tak- en never to unduly tire oneself. After a bout with the ball the body should be wiped un- til thoroughly dry, then a quick sponge bath should be taken, and if the puncher, after drying himself, will rub himself with witch kazel and alcohol and hand-rub himself Until he Is perfectly dry, and then don clean underwear, he will go forth from the room not only lighter in body and heart than he was when he entered it, but also wonder- fully refreshed and invigorated. J. B. (MACON) McCORMICK. ——— SLAVE SALES IN MOROCCO. suspended by a rope from the ceil- ing in a room so that its center of gravity Was a little above {ts user's shoulder: in responding to blows, pushe: t swung slowly and ponderou: n who fought it not only punch- all his power, but collided against shou bedy. This meth- rokes and Passes. For creating hypnosis through the sense of touch, strokings or pressure upon the skin are resorted to by some hypnotists, while others apply warm plates of metal to different parts of the body. Physicians. realize that warmth induces natural sleep, while coldness tends to prevent it. Some foreign hypnotists maintain that the crown the ‘ blow burst the ball, and as the course of ten months’ wandering, spent nine or ten weeks in the dominions of the Sultan of Morocco. on the evening of Sunday, May 31 iast, I Was conducted to @hat had’ the, appene Thatery to the ignorant and sensitives of | able to stop the most severe pain by sug-| €verywhere esteemed so highly by all od of exereise was in a measure similar to|/ ance of an old-fashioned market place. that class are readily excited by it. The | seStion. Several people report to the Soci- who value good health. Its bene! cial the jostiirg and shouldering opponents} There was an open square, and round was ring device, also called a hypnoscope, is | €ty for Psychical Research that he has| effects are due to the fact, that itis the were expected to receive in a fight. a kind of arcade in which the people sat. ward Peg Some, hyPnotists for determining | fVen them suggestions before they have| one remedy which promotes internal The “Fast” Ball The slaves, who were Soudanese negresses, sensitives. Hypnotizable persons are al- | one to the dentist, with the result that cleanliness without debiliteting the z brought up from the Soudan through the RIDING ON ITS CREST WAS A GREAT SHIP, leged to experience certain tinglings in the | their dentisiry has invariably been painless. on which it acts. It is therefore The first “fast bail” worthy of note was| desert in caravans, were ranged en he skin and twitchings of the muscles while | Experiments are now being made as to the | OT@anS peskage s its b the invention of the proprietor of a Cleve- | cess ‘in the ‘corner. “The weed Meteo, Sannin See aa —————— | Wearing it. A more complicated instru- | value of hypnotic suggestion in education. | all important, in order to get its bene- land «ymnasium, named Professor Rumsey, | healthy and substantial-looking men, led | escaped death. My companion was a sailor | the passengers before murdering them, | ™ént in this collection, which may be used out each of the slaves Arabic named Wallace,and while in a half-drowned State we were swept along the coast of the in turn, and in merits of each. who is teacher of spar: edited with being Mark Hanna's t ‘This bag or ball was mouted cat ie ; 1 i ; vous insomnia cle, which is manufactured by the Cali- : eee eae are invariably held in the | island by @ current and finally thrown on | omy. We made the ship our home for six |™2d0 to create pressure against’ the | leziness and varicus forms of moral degen. fornia Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by merely a r ball, about a foot in| evening, the idea being that if there are | shore in a bit of a cove. A boat put off | months, and were then taken off by | Palm of the hand by a spring inside. When | eracy have becn cured its means. 1 reputable druggists diometer, in in’ a canvas covering | any imperfections in face or figure they | from the brig as socn as the disaster was|a whaler, and our story was the first | the pressure is applied the subject is asked Uses of Hypnos a th jovment of good health, pended from the ceiling by a cord. /are less Ikely to be noticed in the twi- | noticed, but only two bodies were recovered. | news rezeived of the long lost. ship. | if he feels an electric shock. If he so con- : beeen i a (apace seer -_which was hung on } light. Eight women and two girls were | The three others were pulled down by the|The English government sent a man. |fesses he is rated as a hynotle sensitive. | The power of suggesticn as an agent in| and the system jis regular, laxatives or ers, was fast- | offered for sale, and before the actual bid- ding commenced the intending purchasers went up to the recess in which the slaves sharks before the boat got to them. Be- lie floor by a rubber strap, which ing this to have been the sad fate of all © enough to permit the ball to no search was made for the pair of ut a foot when sharply hit and | were waiting and examined them closely. | us cast ashore, and before we had recov-|seum. Nothing could be more queer Crystal Visions, Eenent id Sead eee aang maey ag eT ae Pp ie to quickly rebound. This ball was | The first woman brought out was one ap- | ered from our exhaustion and prepared a| than the way she was heaved up bythe | Equally interesting devices of a relatea | UNer hypnotic. in ESE emcee (Mim cary patel wt a with thy nro gman on tts predecessor, for | parently about twenty-two years of age, | sixnal the brig had departed for another | sea’ to be discovered. “From ‘soundings | class, now erowing wa some among certain | S°me celebrated medico-legalists have pro-| one should have the best, and w 6 ale a man much quicker in his | although she might have been less, as they | field. ‘The islard on which we were cast is | made to the east of the {sland in I80Too expariinantal)iyprotists © ave tt lica- | Posed that laws should be passed defining | well-informed everywhere, Syrup of fs. Its erent defect was the fact |age very quickly. She was dressed in a] one of a group of nine, and the eastern-| {It was estimated that the great ship rose ayP 2 ee SS | A SS STS eg cases.| Figsstands highest and is most largely had to b :n away directly In @ | kind of calico covering with a girdle. There | most one of all. It 1s likely the same to-| from a depth of over 2,000 feet. Nothing | tion to sensitives tor the punpose of caus- | sich en event Hypabtian will be as both-| twsedandgivesmost general satisfaction. 2 the puncher’s position or it would | was bidding in the usual auction way, the | day as then, having plenty of fresh water, | but an earthquake could have lifted her | ing hallucinations known as crystal visions. ersome a plea of defense as insanity is to- | ve jn 2 circle and have to be stopped to | dealers going round and shouting out the | most of it covered with verdure, and wild | from that depth—nothing but a tidal wate ¢ be steadied. Pcl offers as they were made. The bidding ne pre was, of course, in Moorish money, and the first woman was bought for a sum equiva- lent in English money to nearly £10. Then a young girl of perhaps ten years was sold, the price in her case being about £11. Dui fruits, shrimps and shell fish so plentiful that a shipwrecked crew of twenty men could get along there for months. Wailace and I were inclined to look upon the affair as a lark. We erected a hut in the wooda, procured fire by rubbing two dry sticks to- mt form of punching ball ts in al construction somewhat akin to bail employed by our collegians in ir games, only ordinary leather ts used the ; instead of pigskin. The can Birds Are More Commonly the | the sensitive mind’s eye ald the subje-t | practice it. It is said that 8 ree cent ut suspended from a ceiling, but | ing all this I was standing under the ar-| gether, and after a thorough exploration = in reeiviny nat: a Where the ordinary celling ts too high a|cade, but, being dressed in an ordinary | of our domain, which was not over two Victims. We Sous abiccte, mental embod: | the people in the world are hypnotizable. wooden disk about six or eight feet in di- ameter is used instead. This disk is mainly kes the ball so useful. Ordinarily suspended from the regular ceiling by English tourist suit, I kept behind the Moors who accompanied me, and, so far, had been unobserved. I was aware that the Moors object to any stranger being present at thege sales, as they do not wish information about the traffic fo get abroad. 1 had seen the two sold, and in the case of the girl the scene was heartrending, as she cried bitterly and was greatly distressed. I could stand it no longer, and walked out into the middle of the square, and the large attendance of Moors present then saw that a European was there. They gathered together in little groups, there was a hurried whispering among them, the unsold slaves were formally marched off, and the Moors dispersed, most of those present proceeding to the great mosque near by.” Mr. Phillips proceeded to point out that it would have been useless for him to pur- chase any of the slaves and set them fre Besides giving an encouragement to slave miles across in any direction, we slept, ate and talked and had a pretty easy time of it. We had been on the tsland about three months, when we awoke one morning to find the sea like a sheet of glass and the air as still as death. The sky was over- cast, and yet of a coppery color, and the birds on the island appeared to be in great alarm. Great flocks of them came in from the sea, and all along shore the fish were leaping out of the water as if it were pol- luted. After surveying things for a while, Wallace gave it as his opinion that we were in for a typhoon or an earthquake. The sulphury smell in the air inclined him to the latter, and as soon as we had eaten we started for the center cf the island. There was a high hill in the center, bare of everything but a couple ofarees and a few bushes, and we sought it on account of the tidal wave we knew would surely follow an earthquake. As to a disturbance of the earth, we were helpless, except to ly by cloudiness, hazes of color or illumin- x ; H. W. JOHNS MFG. CO., dealing, it would be mistaken philanthropy. | Keep clear of the forest. It was midday be-| Knows, is a prey to a hundred terrors of | Cueva meters che eee er OF, allumain: | They are taking medicines prepared by i 67 MAIDEN LANE, - ~NEW YORK. About two years ago a European, acting | fore anything occurred. The menacing ‘tis Pageination) due~4o illusions, mainly | varied from dim outlines to brilliant col- competent nurses, or inexperienced physi- RTS RIGO HN aes Sin from the best motives, purchased through | look of the sky and the sea increased, and | those of sight, for. shying, the minor effect ored pictures. Like dreams some of these | Cians. They are daily submitting to exam- = . — fish by the thousands drove up on the sandy beach to their death. Just about noon, when we were wondering what was to be, the whole island suddenly began to heave and tremble. For what seemed a full minute it was like riding over a choppy sea in a small boat, only the sensa- tion was strangely bewildering and made the head swim. ‘There was more than one shock, but the first was the most violent and lasted long- est. The three or four which succeeded were thrills rather than shocks. They ran through the island from east to west and out to sea, and we heard a chorus of what may be called shrieks of distress from the birds with each vibration. Two or three minutes after the fourth or fifth shock Wallace stood up and looked out upon the sea to the east and shouted to me: “Look! Look! The tidal wave ts ‘coming in, and there's a big ship on the crest of it.” I sprang up and followed his gaze. Ten miles away there was a wall of water, which seemed to lift its white crest al- most to the sky, and to reach north and a Moor at this same slave market one of these Soudanese girls and gave her her liberty, but as he could not provide for her permanently, and she could not go back to her cwn country, the result was Geplorable. +00. Cables Catch Whales. From the Boeton Globe. Submarine cables are usually imbedded in the slimy bottom of the ocean, but at certain points they hang like wire bridges over deep submarine valleys, 60 that whales and othe: large inhabitants of the deep may become da.gerous to the cable. Once in a while it is the cable that be- comes dangerous to the whales, as re- cently shown in an accident to the West- ern Brazilian line. ‘There was some difficulty with the wire, and after many futile efforts the seat of the trouble was discovered seventy-six miles north of Santa Catharina. The cable Strong iron rods, so that it forms a pseudo- ceiling about eight or nine feet above the floor. The cord suspending the ball can be raised or lowered so that the center of the ball can be brought, as the puncher may desire, to the level of either his chin or shoulders. Generally the cord is attached to the ball by a metal swivel, which permits it to revolve longitudinally should it not be struck fairly. John L. as a Bag Puncher. John L. Sullivan was the first pugilist of mote to use the present form of ball in his and we did not find in cabin or state room so much as a single bone of human ana:- of-war to the island to overhaul the hulk, and mementos of her have long been on exhibition in the British Mu- held her up and swept her to our feet. ——_+e+___ ANIMALS’ ILLUSIONS. From the Spectator, Birds are perhaps more commonly the victims of illusions than other animals, their stupidity about their eggs being quite remarkable. Last year, for instance, a hen got into a pavilion of a ladies’ golf club and began to sit on a golf ball in a corner, for which it made a nest with a couple of pocket handkerchiefs. But many quadrupeds are not only decelved for the moment by reflections, shadows and such urrealities, but often seem victims to il- pusions, largely developed by the imagina- jon, The horse, for instanc dangers which it can understand, such as the charge of an elephant or a wild boar at bay. Yet the courageous and devoted horse, so steadfast against the dangers he of these illusions, and, “bolting,” in which panic‘gains complete possession of his soul, sre caused, as a,rule, by mistakes as to what the horse sees, and not by misinter- pretation of what.he-hears. It is noticed, for instance, thatimany horses which shy usually start away from objects on one side more frequently Yhan from objects on the other. This is probably due to defects in the vision of one or-other eye. In nearly all cases of shying the horse fakes fright at ome! untamiilar object, ough this is commonly quite harmicss, pac Ties & wheelbarrow upside down, a ee ly felled log or a iplece of paper rolling efore the wind. \This instantly vecomes an | ilusion,” ts intorpreted as something else, and it is a curious question in equine neuropathy to know >what it is that the harmless objects to be. Be alee firat beesn to be thay usually objecte to pass near a donkey. This reluctance was explained on the hypothesis that the Ponies seldom sa: mistook them Bel ee in Russia and fanning air against the same effect. Magnetic Influences, Another form of hypnotizer, in this col- ural. The magnet in most cases suegests as a hypnoscope, is a bulb-shaped rod, re- sembling an electrode, which may be Sometimes the whole frame will tremble as a result of this imaginary electrical fluid. One instrument cf this class is a ball of crystal mounted upon a handle. Mirrors and other polished or transparent surfaces are employed for the same effect. The crystal or reflecting medium by producing partly obscured or scattered reflections to ments of various objects. Many abnormal Persons, habitually haunted by phantasm: for which visions they develop appetite: so to speak, employ these crystals and re- flectors for throwing themselves into states during which they may experience what is alleged to be the actual or imagined “sixth sense’: or “second sight.” Crystal gazing has lately become so popular that many psychic experimentalists in Europe are in- viting tests with the paraphernalia thus employed, and agents were some time since engaged by the Society for Psychical Research to furnish balls for the purpose. Prof. Wm. Romaine Newbold of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania recently made an extensive investigation of crystal vision and found that twenty-two subjects out of elghty-six could perceive illusions by gaz- ing into mirrors, surfaces of water and objects of glass varying in form. Phan- tasms appeared to the sensitives usually within five minutes, being preceded direct- forms were based upon recent experiences of the subjects, while others were purely fantastic. e An Experiment. A simple experiment in thig\ line may be tried at home by any one who Will sit before an cpen window, at twilight, keeping his gaze fixed preferably upon some landscape, distant row of houses or collection of con- spicuous clouds. If the temptation to wink the eyelids can be resisted until the eyes become greatly fatigued, so as to remain open only at a great strain, the natural images will gradually grow more and more indistinct, and will apparently arrange themselves into fantastic groups or fade in- to rapidly changing forms. The abnormal imagination of @ person subject to Nght hallucinations would readily discern weird phantoms in such a picture. Drugs, such as urethane, sulphonal, paral- dehyde, etc., are now used successfully to produce a sleep which to all appearances is at of the head, roof of the nose, the thumb Why Auctions Are Always Hela them. Fatigue of the muscles of the eye- | or elbow are most. sensitive ‘to hypnotic After Dark. Seale to be one of peeettect causes | stimulation by touch. Some m ly : 5 sleep. ersons in no mental need of slee} atch the skin of the neck or touch t From the London Dally Telegraph. may read themselves sleepy” under a Se5 forehead. The electric ess aa ead ieee einer Ramco mention ate bright or a too dim light. A severe breeze | resorted to by a few experimenters, who tleman, Mr. G. Herbert Phillips, who, in Sects ue yeas’ will cause : ; claim that it ts suce agent. It is said to cause the same imag- inary effect as the magnet. It is now an easy matter for certain hyp- cian in Massachusetts, w 0 is Said to be Its medical value has already been proven in France, where such conditions as ner- yous insomnia, sonambulism, kleptomania, crime is now being talked about in this country. Men are believed to have been day. The dangers threatened by the vicious or careless hypnotist have become legally realized in France and Russia. In the former hypnotism is forbidden for purposes of public amusement, and in the latter no persons except. licensed physicians The hypnotists, on the other hand, are dis- covering and improving their powers faster and faster each day. Will they at some future century become the governing class- If adoor is hung to swing one way, there is no use trying to push it the other way. | = There is a right | and a wrong way to do things. Many thousands of women in | America are sick, | and would like to be well. They | fare making efforts | z to get well, but they are making them in the wrong’ way. inations and local treatment, for which there is generally no necessity. They are grow- ing steadily worse instead of steadily better. ‘here is no reason why almost every wo- man should not be well and strong. Over thirty years ago, Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buf- falo, an eminent and successful specialist in the treatment of the diseases of women, discovered a wonderful specific for woman’s diseases that has since become world-fa- mous as Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It cures all forms of female weakness and disease. Its effect is immediately a ble in the better feeling of the patient. It forces out impurity, soothes the inflamma- tion that is always present in disorders of this kind, promotes regularity, and stops debilitating drains on the system. It cures nervousness, irritability, sleeplessness, lack of appetite, lack of vitality. GREAT PIEDICAL BOOK FREE. 5 hypnotic. Some foreign hypnotists use| | Every woman should have a of Doctor training. A few days bef « } South as far as I could see. Riding on this ee es ether and chloroform to induce hypnosis. | Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser. It is ee st iM ‘ore he fought | ship RIRteEwes ieee poate cte oe crest was a great ship, with her three Lik Recent experiments indicate that there 10 ‘@ handsomely illustrated volume Paddy Ryan for the championship of Amer- | age, ani to UD Tied tor | masts standing erect and some of the ed the Cider. a great similarity between hypnosis and the os Soe ica at Misslssipp! City he gave an exhibi-| the cable proper had been Ceaheoias yards across. For the first ten seconds the | From Answers, i cha of which are d tion of ball punching in his training quar- ters at Carrollton, above New Orleans, that arrazed and delighted his friends. His last collapsed Arthur Chambers exclatme: ‘John, if I See you let go that way at Ryan in the ring I'll shut my eyes, for I don’t want to see him murdered.” wall seemed to stand still. Then it came rolling on like a railroad train, and almost before I could have counted twenty it struck the shore of our island and swept across it. The island was a good thirty feet above water in every part, while on the hill we were at least a hundred, but all portions save the hill were covered by drums provided for the purpose, it was found that it floated very much easier and was more buoyant than is usually the case. The reason was discovered when in a loop of the cable the carcass of a whale of more than sixty feet in length came into view. It appears that the whale had become caught under the cable, and, not being It was just after his four- resting almost on a level keel, was as Some years ago a well-known foreign prince, who owns a large estate in the Midlands, invited his tenants to a hunt breakfast, at which claret was the. prins cipal beverage. After the breakfast, and just before the hounds were thrown off, port wine we had at lunch, but I must say this cider Is the best I ever tasted.”” action of hasheesh,as well as the newly test- ed mescal, which is used by certain of our western Indians to produce trances. Phe- nomena very similar to hypnosis is now noticed also during the ordinary sleep pro- duced by simple anaesthetics, and the ques- tion is being asked, Do anaesthetics produce hypnosis? A member of the Royal Chem!- after, to describe in detail what was hap- pening to them. What he calls the “work- to the reproductive physiol of women. 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