The Oregon register., May 04, 1888, Image 7

FOLK LORE.
CONCERN"40
BEAUTIFUL
MAKING A FALSE CONFESSION.
Dr. W. A. Himm oa d Talks AU.1 tke
Bell Aerawd CrimlMl.
FROM OVER THE SEA.
THE DI8EA8ES OF MONKEfS.
Aa Animal Dealer Talks off ’the Ravacee off
Toothache, SeaalskaaM aad PwgnaeHy,
“The chimpanzee,” began Mr Frank J.
MAKING MAPLE SUGAR.
1NE OF THE MOST DELICIOU8 MEM­
ORIES OF CHILDHOOD.
Thompson, an animal dealer of New York
city, “is like tbe other members of the ape
. i
family, a very tender and delicate animal,
A
requiring great care in captivity. ¡The I Trip to tho Oldtime “Bosh“—A Day
Whei Patent Evaporators Wore Un­
monkeys proper, or the quadrum» nia
known—Golden Drips off Indescribable
Are Ssl*toi.
tied—Articles off Cone- having tails, are hardier. Probably tho
least affected by cold of any are the com­
swoetneoe—“It Ropeel”
•
mere« fruu* « .««> Tropic».
mon Macaqne, the Khenua, and the Orient
rnrtous beliefs <»“«rnln8 th*
monkeys,
oil
natives
of
Asia.
But,
There
is
one
thing
that
no
mortal
can
imi­
The
marine
invezticcator
at
8andy
Hook,
,he most Iwautlfulof the lumln-
easting his eyes seaward the other day, nevertheless, monkeys and apes require tate. I have seen and tasted a hundred sorts
"a of ths sky or alr-have
the
greatest
care
In
handling,
and,
even
if manufactured sugar; but I will go without
spied something which unaccustomed
7^*11 ages, and do still survive.
eyes wonld not have seen. He. clapped with thia, their usual term of life is very my spring bonnet if I cannot tell tbe honest
7
bare left 0,1 record many of
short,
only
a
few
yenra
at
the
most.
Of
frotn
the imitation every time. There is a
his
glasses,
fine
double
extra
power
oues,
lieiiefs- They grew and
to his eyes and stood in a posture of scru­ course there are occasional exceptions, and ielieate bouquet of flavors commingled to
■EX* tlie Middle Ages. The
I myself have kept or have known of make up maple syrup—live in number, I am
tiny £or many moments.
, at Christian art employed the
mre, if not six. These I can tell, one from
‘It’s a bark,” says he, still focussing specimens 10 or 13 years old.
„ an'ornament. Christ being
“Mr. Crowley is believed to be tbe old­ the other, and glucose is not one of them.
his
glasses
on
the
distant
object.
,1, show» seated on tbe many
est of the chimpanzees, having arrived at The most delicious memory of my girlhood
A
shadowy
substance
'began
to
appear
Jeb of heaven.
on the horizon. The eye of the landsman the park on June 24, 1884, when he was is of a day when I was permitted to go with
ba» been recognized as the
would have simply noted that something but a little bit of a fellow, a foot and a my father to the “bush,” half a mile from
I» nn(| divine honors and wor-
1 half orXwo feet high. Mr. Conklin used the house. The bush, or grove, was about
that sailed was approaching.
“heen paid to it. Ancient Greeks
“She’s Nova Scotian,” was the laconic to let him run all around his office. He aeveuty-flve maple trees, scattered in groups
. offerwl cokes of flour, meal and
utterance that came from beneath the was donated by the Liberian minister, and singly up and down tbe slopes of a great
jl5 to the rainbow. Iris, the
who had bought him in Liberia from a glen, or perched on top a grand knoll. We
binoculars.
w -
•and swift messenger of the gods,
‘•Then it’s the Strathay, nowThie,” was coasting vessel which had picked him up rode on a stone boat over tbe snow, for the
Lutxnv ill early mythology, apd
the equally laconic outcome* of a marine somewhere near tbe mouth of tbe Congo farmers could carry barrels of sap more
■ lesser divinities In Olympus.
river, on the west coast of Africa. It is sasily on such a vehicle, and it did not cut
•«icyelopedia who stood near.
M ¡1* rainbow is recognized as
Pretty soon the b&rk’s sails *loonfed?tap in this vicinity, and especially Miuth of into the snow. I rememi»er to this hour just
, god, and Pava (god of wur)
against the horizon and she came whoop­ the great river’B mouth, that the native where a crow eat jierched on a dead hemlock;
initsshiningiirch. Mozambique
ing along in a spanking breeze to the haunts of the chimpanzee are to be found. and as we went through the old orchard a
I it aa tbe bow of Mouloucou
lower bay. She was the Struthay, ninety There is nothing unusual in the pneu­ woodpecker, who was pecking a hole in a
'modi "'>d Turks as the bow of
days from India’s coral strand, and she monia attack of Mr. Crowley. Monkeys ■tubbed limb, turned his queer head around
.¿lot’ clouds.) In the Phlllp-
bore a royal cargo. When Capt. Urqu­ and apes are subject to nearly all the dis­ and looked at me as much as to say: “Weill
„ds rows are addressed to it, and
hart got his quarantine papers be brought eases of man. and when sick they should who are you, any wayi” The crow said
■ prayers are said to It. It was
his vessel in tow of a tug, her streamers be treated in exactly the same manner. I nothing, which is a crow’s way of saying a
.jervirits of the sun in ancient
flying, up tq a Brooklyn pier, and a long have had cases--at consumption, pneu­ great deal; for when a crow keeps still -you
d a nlclie was reserved tor It in
sea voyage was ended.
- J monia, diarrhoea, bronchitis, catarrh, may be sure he is very busy thinking. In
, temples, la Tahiti it is one of
The ^trathay comes from ports whence croup, asthma, toothache, convulsions the maple tree by the brook there was a
nn of tbe Gad Tnaroa,
cleariug papers from America are seldom" aad-seasickness to attend to among my squirrel's bole, and as there had been some
eat regarded ns the deity himself,
issued. She has been in tbe dismal and monkey stock.
warm weather, Bobby was abroad, and I
9 believed to be in some way con-
“Only the other day I pulled out two mppoee gathering In from his caches or store
frightfqUl. hot harbors of Alipee and
rltb him, ■» many of modern
diseased
teeth
from
one
monkey,
whose
Cochin, on the Malabar coast, in the
r It indicate. Caribe consider it
face was all swollen upat the time. Some bounce
southern part of India.
HONEST OLD DOBBIN.
sket of the God Joulouka;"
of the worst cases I have ever seen of sea­
CETLON’S BPICT BREESES.
les, “the edge of the garment of
Then we were In the bush, and the horse
sickness were among these lively little
She had lain for days getting the spicy animals. Horses, sheep and cattle do not was headed near the fire, so that he should
being,” and Kamschatkans,
breezes of Ceylon at Columbo, and tbe seem ever to be affected but monkeys be comfortable, and an old buffalo robs wee
1 Biloucay ” Its name In San-
blood heat rays of the sun, and there took and all flesh eating animals, such as lions, thrown across his back, and a bunch of hay
„ tbe “arm" or the “bow of
in 1,000 barrels of plumbago. Then in tigers, bears and leopards, are very badly laid under bis nose. So all the morning
God of tbe Elements. In Finnish
¡d“Ultko’B bo*v;” Tsigane peas-
southern India, where the man eating attacked. Another disease which has not Dobbin munched his hay or took a nap be­
crockodile
abounds, and sharks turn on been much noticed was one from which a tween bites, and I rambled about under the
It tbe "ring of God,” and Sclv
their bellies and swallow men at a crunch­ big gorilla in the Berlin Zoological gar­ nutb slope, where tbe snow had thawed
tbe “seal of God;” Croatians, the
ing gulp, she found 1.200 barrels of co­ dens died a few years ago. It was dis­ sway and the dry leaves lay in heaps in
“rod,” "foot,” or “staveof God,"
coanut oil, which will be evolved into covered at tbe inquest that his death had little hollows
t lababitanu of Archangel, the
American soap, and a great quantity of been caused by u mass of pins which our
, country, and to Arabs and
“T^he folks,” that is my father and my tiro
the matting that is made from the fibrous charitable visitors had fed him.
It is the “bow of God.” It is
big brothers, were patiently emptying buck­
bark of the cocoanut. Then the Strathay
in ene part of Francs as the
ets
that stood by the trees, into pails, and
“And talking about diseases,** contin­
was ready to make for civilization and ued Mr Thompson, “look here.” And he carrying the contents to the greet cauldron
if« nd?”
New York, and she came along with some went up (o one of the many cages in .|he kettles that hung over the fire, near by Dob­
i credit the saints with power
rip-roaring breezes, a great commerce room in which he and the reporter were bin. There were none of the improved ways
it Various saints have been Be-
bearer, under a foreign flag.
piitronymlc. In is “St. Mark’s
sitting. Within it could be distinguished then, nor any patent evaporators; but there
Only two or three vessels arrive from a little black mass, huddled up in a cor­ was genuine sap, that ran ouVof reel trees,
parts of Italy and France; “8K
Alipee and Cochin in the course of a year. ner, chattering and showing its teeth
ring" la other localities of
and we boiled it till it was thick, honest
The freights of these are consigned to ths
md his “bow” in still other
“That is a bonnet monkey," Baid Mr. tyrup, every ounce of it Then we took it
firms who virtually monopolize trade from Thompson, “which Is just recovering to the house, where my mother cleansed it
nd in Spain also. In Belgium it
this quarter.
“St. Michael’s bumble bee;" In
from an attack of pneumonia it had some with a cup of milk; for tho milk made ths
There are no harbors at these ports, and days ago. I took it from that big cage iirt to rise to the top when it boiled. When
"St. Bernard’s crown,” and in
vessels
are
obliged
to
aqchor
two
miles
i his “body;" in Provence and
over there.” And he pointed to one in it rose, one must quickly skim, it off, with a
off in the open sea. Though haven less which half a dozen monkeys were noisily greet long bandied braas>skimmer. “You
I his “bridge.” It is “St. Leon-
the land is fissured with many lagoons or playing romps. In the smaller cage it ire quick,” said my mother often, “and
,trn" In one place, hfs “carriage”
backwaters. The country is low and had quiet, and although I expected it to your eyes are bright, now you may take the
er. Basque folk lore records its
sandy and covered with luxuriant vegeta­ die, nevertheless, with tender treatment, ■kimrner.” When it was cleansed, it must
i the "arm of St. John.” One
tion and vast forests of palm trees. From nourishing food and stimulants, it has "boil down” for awhile, till it would “rope”-
me is the “bow of the prophet.”
the latter are obtained the chief com­ come out all right.
tordsnee-with the tradition that
uid grain. Ob, sugary days of childhood I
modities of commerce. The straight
■oy was a sign and a promise to
“And there is another disease which is Oh, golden drips of indescribable sweetneesl
A Group of Hindoo Pilgrims.
b flud it connected with his name .
The railway from Calcutta entere Benares stemmed trees are from forty to eighty at present very prevalent and that is pug­
For one whole hour we stood around, al­
place, and frequently shall also over a magnificent iron bridge just com- feet high, and the natives climb these nacity. Monkeys take to it as naturally ways conveniently near, to help test tbe boil­
g weather indication. Sicilians pleted across the Ganges. It springs by noble with tbe aid of a short cord, connecting as their more civilized descendants, and ing joy of robust stomachs and^a “sweet
‘Noah’s arcb; ’ provincial Rus- spans along great stone piers, the founda­ their big toes, which helps ascension by this little monkey here la an evidence booth.” Saucers and teaspoons we all had,
ioab's legacy,” and It is named tions of some of which, I am told, are sunken itting them into grooves of the bark. of it.”
and a small amount was in turns ladled into
1 of tbe Holy deluge” in Franche 330 feet below the bed of the river. We After the nuts are knocked off the thick
As he was speaking, Mr. Thompsod our dishes, that we proceeded to stir and
Regarded in muny lands as a paused at its northern end to let out several ■ husks are separated from the inner shell went over to the largest cage and pointed taste. When at last the liquid, held aloft,
er from heaven, or a way to the hundred pilgrims. A strange sight they pre­ f>y sharp iron spikes, and then laid In pits out a little grayish female monkey, which came down from the spoon into the saucer in
regions, the luminous bow is sented in their various conditions. There dug along the seashore, where the salt immediately came to tbe bars, evidently threads and strings, we cried: “It ropes I it
l_aocordance with these beliefs, were old women, almost bent double with in­ > ater macerates them. When the husks expecting some peanuts or other deli­
il” .. “Well,
ropsul
_. . then, it will soon
. _ grain,"
. . the
rench mid in modern Finnish dl»- firmities of ago; there were young women, become sufficiently pliable they are taken cacies. On close inspection her nose was older ones would say. So we stirred all th«-----
'out and beaten with clubs, which com­ seen to be broken just above tbe bridge.
• tbe "celestial arch,” while in
more lustily, and ate all the more rapidly,
it!»the “heavenly bow;” in Ar- with half naked babies straddled on their pletely parts the fli>er from the pithy
“I’ve christened her 'Miss Slugger,’” tor we must know the moment it would grain.
hips and leading others but a few years older; portion. It is then thoroughly cleaned
e “bridge ot the Holy Spirit;"
observed
Mr.
Thompson,
“
and
I
have
from liquid TO SOLID.
, the “arch ot the Trinity,” and there were proud men, of noble, manly bear­ and dried, and known as kbair or coir, often wondered in what great prize fight
First of-all, tho pure white scum that rose
1 Russia, the “bow of pardon.” ing, and poor men, cringing and servile in and is twisted into yarn and then woven she received her disfigurement."
their
poverty;
there
was
opulent
comfort,
into matting. The kernels, by hydraulic
Eddaic lore named it “Bifrost;
“It is tbe liability to disease of the clean and foam like would thicken when
*e between heaven and earth,” with servants bearing its bedding ymd its pressure, yield the oil now so much used monkey family which accounts for the ■tirred till cool. Then the true sugar began
fine
gear;
there
were
others
so
weak*
that
by American soap makers, as it produces .small number of them carried around by to show a sign of turning from liquid to
ich the gods journey. Later
____
lytbology rei* esented it os the they staggered under the weight of a single soap capable of floating upon water, " ircuses.
Tbe least draught is apt to ■olid. Tho pot must now be quickly swung
WindooH. male
main and female,^
briDg 01
Thousands nf
of Hindoos,
femi
the gods by which Iris traveled, basket or bundle which contained their ThnnsAndn
on % fatal cold. Why if I had a off from over the fire In the great fireplace,
worldly
wealth.
All,
when
stepping
from
are employed in these industries by th1* Ldtimpui inzee now I believe I could not sell and in torn we stirred the fiery contents
m sou Irini, Bed viam Iridls
the crowded cars, turned wistfully toward white merchants. They are very docile,
ells, if
gjs Suevius.
e
— 5<>
-Jo manager wants them, for they re­ with a wooden “pudding stick." You do not
tho
holy
city,
their
eyes
betraying
the
de
­
exist
on rice, fish and fruits, and receive quire more care than they are worth. On know what a pudding stick was. You do
itna-Huugary, the rainbow is the
I which St. Elias descends from light felt that nop* at last they were about to equivalent to five or six cents for their this account it is impossible to place any not deserve to know, for having been born at
«nd the thunder is tbe sound ot bathe in this holiest spot of the holiest of daily wage.
definite price upon them.—New York so late a day. You should have been bom
lot wheels. Central Aslan tribes rivera.--Carter Harrison’s Letter.
Evening Sun.
<ooner. There is no romance now. But
speculators ’ mistake .
It “St. Elias’ Bridge,” and Rus-
pudding sticks and rolling pins every girl
Two or three years ago a great specula­
Smoking Pip*-» In England.
ants ot Kazan name it the “In-
knew tho meaning of in thorn days. Wo
tion took placo in the raw fiber, and
Th. Gam. of War.
Perhaps the customs connected with the thousands of bales were imported and
idge." Inline portion ot Franco
were brought up on much mush and many
“Krlegsplel” (the game of war) is be­ doughnuts, and we girls knew all about It.
I to be the shadow of a bridge habit of smoking and using tobacco in Amer­ held with the expectation that It would
lite between earth and heaven, ica and in England are os interestingly char­ figure largely In mattress stuffing and coming almost as popular among British Manual instruction I Indeed, it was the rule
laud and Slavonia it is tbe road acteristic of the two nationalities as any kindred uses. This was not realized, troops as It Is in Germany, where it was in those days. It is no new thing. And our
and is thus confounded with the other traits. There is nothing undignified owing to the fiber's lack of elasticity, and Invented. There is scarcely a regimental mothers also knew bow to use their hands
«y. Welch tradition represents about smoking a short “briar" or meerschaum speculators lost heavily. It is said that headquarters that has not the maps and
But, as I said, one is always getting bom
bow as the way by which the along the streets of London, Birmingham, the French are beginning to make cni- blocks and lead soldiers of which the too soon or not soon enough. But what la
game
is
composed,
and
now
the
company
be moon climbed to his elevated Manchester or any of the great English cities. rasses of it for their ironclads, ns it offers
more, nothing ever stays as it was. I go now
it is the way by which saints de­ A gentleman is none the less a gefitleman be­ more resistance than steel to a cannon end troop commanders are taking to buy­ to look for the bush, and In its placo is a
earth to punish and reward men, cause be does this. Indeed, to smoke a cigar ball, and a greater value may be put upon ing them, and not a few sergeants’ messes street with houses, and no end of children
have them. “Krlegsplel,” It should be peeking out tho windows They it is who
; to Lettonian traditions. Souls In preference to a pipe argues either expen­ it in the future.
explained, Is really a game of instruction,
descend to heaven thus in many sive tastes or the pecuniary ability to gratify
Other articles of commerce seldom having most of the advantages of a sham have usurjied my place. Yea, they have
nd it is frequently named a lad- them. Wbat would our ladies think of a heard of come from this far off shore.
crowded nte along, and are the boys and girls
ralne pensan ts say the angels do­ well dressed young man coming down Broad­ Ctu-cus, a fragrant root from which fight in the field, without its wear and of today; and it is they who hold tbe saucers
it to draw water from tbe earth way about 4 in the afternoon with a nicotine sachet powder is made; citronella and tear, its waste of ammunition and the de­ and tbe spoons; and I have by sheer oompul­
eh the heavenly reservoir, whence blackened pipe in his mouth I Horrible sug­ lemon grass oils, also used in perfumery; lays consequent upon maneuvering in a sion taken to the pen. It is well, little ones
opious showers. New Zealanders gestion! Yet in this country a man considers the button like seeds of nnx vomica, con- friendly country, where gardens and cul­ Tho world has none too many of you. It
it a ladder by which their chiefs it in perfectly good taste to walk into an­ Itaining the principle of strychnine; carda­ tivated fields mnst be spared, navigation never will have. But, as for us we have
Into the sky, and Philippine other's office with a cigar stump stuck firmly moms, cinchona and turmeric,‘a yellow of rivers left unobstructed and crowds of tbe past, and no one can take it away from
, a ttairway by which the souls in one corner of his mouth. Moreover, be root used in dyeing, ar.d which is said to sightseers are ever in the way.
us. And if one has tbe past one can make
Topographical maps are made of the sugar from the trees that used to grow and
lying a violent death ascended to does not take it out even to talk. Such be­ be used in the adulteration of mustard.
neighboring
region,
usually
on
a
scale
of
AnTpdiun folk tale relates that havior in London would give direst offense
are now cut down. I call it the maple sugar
Eight white people and 30,000 natives
■bed its threadlike steps to and would be construed into an intentional comjiose the population of Alipee. About six inches to the mile, heights of hills and of memory. Only some one there are that
■awing them to liberate a cap- insult—New York Press “Every Day Talk." seventy-five different castes are repre­ their exact contours are show? by curves, have tbe knack of making sugar, and can
equidistant tbe one.from the other, woods
imprisoned.
sented. The climate is tropical, but and fresh water are recorded as they ex­ only make vinegar. One must not throw
T to this idea of a celestial orl-
away the past when once it is lived, for it is
healthy.
Melting
eyes
and
well
favored
Baplatlng Stamped Tinware.
ist, the depths, widths and shore line' of delightful property to have Deffl* old sugar
lobow is sometimes regarded as
forms are reported to be characteristics of
In ihe process of forming stamped tin­ the Hindoo females. These are possibly streams, together with the character of bush I no ax shall aver cut you out of my
1 The Karens of Burpah
out to their children as a demon ware flat sheets of metal are placed in enhanced by the limited inventory of ap­ thgir bottoms, for the Information of the loving heart—Mary E. Spencer la Globe-
devour human souls. The un- powerful presses and forced by menns of parel, a palm leaf or two cogging the pontoniers, are carefully laid down. The Democrat _________________
1 possessor of these will, they say, dies into shape. This shaping process whole body. The sailors are not proof game Is said to be invaluable as a means
Bewltehiii(ly Dainty ilandkerehlera.
ilon and violent death. It is also and enormous pressure on the metal com­ against their seductions, and rigorous of instructing the soldier in field work
devour..human beinca, whieh pletely disintegrates the tin coating, measures have to be taken for their re­ and of training officers to successfully
The bewitching attractions of dainty hand-
operate
their
commands
in
a
strange
great thirst, and it is then that breaking the fibers and rendering tbe sur­ straint. The mate of the Strathay, a
kercliiefs have no end. From the cobweb of
over a pond drinking the ' water. face of the wares fractured, rough and un­ bronzed Scotchman, said to a reporter country. The officer has his map as the filmy India linen to tbe almost solid tracery
pilot of a ship has his chart of a strange of French handwork in bud, leaf and blossom,
finished. This defect is remedied by re­
'«Mett iu Glo'oe-Democrat.
tarbor, and, if the map is correct. It there appears to be no style lacking or want
plating, which reincorporates and reunites sadly:
“Th’ weemen played the deevil wi’ the
the surface, correcting all fractuosity and sailor lads I Ah, eoodna gang as'noor the ihould enable him to move with as much unsupplied. Plain hemstitched handkerchiefs
precision and guard against certain con­ of sheer linen lawn are, and always will be,
U“® of Hie Mntqnlto.
making the ware bright-and new. The
twinty days we were off th’ port, for ma
of the musquito has been at last ware to be reflated is dipped into a cald­ time was taken oop watchin’ ’eml Why, tingencies as snrely as though he were on the pride of fastidious women of quiet tastes.
■ Profemor Webster says that ron of boiling tallow, so hot that the origi­ mon, we had to fawsten the chield’s familiar gronad.—Scientific American.
They are, like all fine, delicate fabrics, tbe
organic matter in the water, in- nal tin plating is softened up and melted hawnd an’ fate, an’ even then, wad ye
wseutial possession of the gentlewoman.
A Chlmpansee*« Grief.
composing and poisoning people, from the surface of the sheet iron. Then think it, twa o’ ’em breaks loose, jumps
These come in prices ranging from fifty cents
Dr.
Brown
has
given
a
description
of
the
article
so
treated
Is
dipped
into
a
pot
toto‘»iggle tails,’ which, in due
over the side and swums awa’ to tbeshoor the grief manifested by a chimpanzee on to f3 for fine goods. Tbe French embroidered
" nmsquitoes, and the winged of fused tin, where it takes on a new coat­ an’ w’ never clapt een on’ 'em after I”— the death of Its mate. His grief was handkerchiefs are veritable works of art, and
•way, leaving the water pari iled ing of that metal. It is then dropped a New York Evening 8un.
shown by tearing his hair or snatching at tbe deeply wrought borders are seen In both
it of their ability to remove the second time into the grease pot, which has
the short hair on his head. The yell of white and delicate tints. The sheer lawn
the
effect
of
evenly
distributing
the
coat
­
If fish are kept in the water
To Ilnlor« Faded Ink.
rage was followed by a cry the keeper had' kerchiefs, with double hemstitching and em­
ing
of
tin,
taking
off
tbe
superfluous
* ‘wiggle-tails,’ and grow large
To restore furled Ink on parchment, etc,, neveiNieard before, a sound which might broidery, ore considered more elegant for
metal.
It is then
put Into a A box of bran,
— - —> awu AVI
AUUS the
HIV
liivssai.
a-
- --------- 1--------------------
•wreasfood
for I11U11.
man. Thus
ires« than lace trimmed styles, which are
togredient of impure water be-1 where it is cleansed ot tbe thickest ot the the Bodleian library, at Oxford, has long be represented by hah-ab-ah-nh-ah ut­ rather under a cloud at present. Crap s lisas
employed
solution
of
hydrosulphide
of
tered
somewhat
nnder
the
breath,
and
grease,
and
finished
by
being
rolled
In
’Mui food. Without mumuitocs
in
handkerchiefs embroidered in yellow, lilac,
J or swampy land would be dan- Hour and middlings, yhlch cowqdetel.v ammonia, which Is spread In a thin layer with a plaintive sound like a moan.— pink or blue silk, are lovely, but perishable.
clcanves tho ware, leaving it smooth and over the writing with a camel's hair pencil. Professor E. 8. Morse in Popular Science 1 _N«w York Port
■lubrious.”—Boston Budget.
—Scientific American.
Monthly.
briaht.—American Artisan.
IINOU8 PHENOMENA.
I proposed to show that no uncommon cir­
cumstance for persona to confess to having
psrpetraMl crimes of which they were either
certainly or probably innocent, and that
there are forces in operation in tbe human
mind which may prompt to the making of a
false confession, even though by so doing
life, liberty or property be put in danger.
Thus there is a difficulty in the minds of
some persona who exhibit no other evidence
of mental aberration to discriminate between
their thoughts or their dreams and absolute
facta. They brood over some real or imagi­
nary circumstances until they bring them­
selves to believe in its reality.
Buch a person, for instance, reads in the
daily press of some shocking murder that
has been committed, the peqietnitor of
which bos escaped unrecognised, He reads
it in one newspaper, and in another and an­
other bears it talked up among bis com­
panions and begins by wondering whether or
not the murderer will ever-be discovered.
He knows that murders have been committed
by persons who at the time were in a state of
somnambulism or who were suffering from
an epileptic paroxysm. Perhaps be has him­
self In bis youth walked in bis sleep or has
bad a convulsion, as his mother has told him.
Suddenly the idea strikes him that he may
be the guilty man. At first the notion is hor­
rible to him, but its very horror renders it
attractive. He goes to the Academy of Med­
icine and reads up on the subject of epilepsy.
There is scarcely a disease, especially of the
nervous system, of which any person at some
time or other of his life has not bad one or
more symptoms. The quack medicine adver­
tisers are fully aware of this fact and make
full use of it to frighten tbe ignorant into tbe
purchase of their trash. Our incipient self
accuser bos, therefore, uo trouble in finding
what be is lixiking after, and be goes home
fully convinced that he has had an epileptic
paroxysm, during which he may have hpen a
murderer. The transition from a possibility
to a reality presents no difficulties to his
mind, and he ends by fully believing himself
to be tbe murderer for wtoan tbe police artf
seeking. He visits the place where tbe crime
was committed, questions the residents of the
neighborhood in regard to all tbe particulars,
and even Interrogates the police relative to
their plans for securing the murderer and
the secret evidenoe?tbey have in their pos­
session.
At last suspicion turns toward him and
eventually he is arrested. The accounts that
he has read in tbe newspaper and tbe gossip
ho has beard, that, regardless of his original
idea that he hail per;>etrated the crime dur­
ing an epileptic fit, and* therefore in a state of
conscientiousness, that forces him to make
atonement, he confesses that he perpetrated
tho murder and gives a full and circumstan­
tial account ofithe crime. Inquiry soon, how­
ever, shows that he could not by any possi­
bility have been the perpetrator, and be is,
therefore, after a few days, during which
the newspapers have given' the most sensa­
tional accounts of bis brutality and remorse,
discharged from custody.—Dr. William A.
Hammond.
A GREAT COMMERCE BEARER FROM
INDIA’8 CORAL 8TRAND.