Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1871-09-15
VOL. XVII.---NO. 7.

know not /; but when | came to myself,
felt the cold air blowing on my face,
and casting my eyes about me, l saw the
stars shining overhead. What was my
extreme surprise to find myself in Wal
nut street, not stones throw from my
hotel. | was seated on an empty box,
with my feet in pool of water, and hun
dreds of persons were passing up and
down the street. | could scarcely believe
the evidence of my senses. | jumped up
from my seat, and rushed to the hotel.
The omnibus for conveying passengers
to the railway station was already at the
door. entered the hall of the building.
" Do you want to go to Baltimore by
the ten o'clock train p asked the clerk,
the moment he saw me.
p" did want to CO. but am too late"
| replied, shuddering when | thought
of what had detained me,
"Oh, no, sir" returned the clerk
d" the omnibus leaves in ten minutes"
In ten minutes p | repeated, still
quite bewildered.
" Yes, SIR"
! l looked at my watch, and found that
it was only half past nine. Then had
left the hotel only. an hour an half!
| went to Baltimore, and so impressed
was | with the fearful advent re | had
met with, that | returned the next day
to Philadelphia, and for whole week
explored the city in every part. But af-
ter the most minute research, | could
discover nothing at all corresponding to
the locality had visited on that fearful
night. There was no suburb, or house
or anything like that which | had seen,
to be found.
For long time | kcptm adventure to
myself, AT last | sommoned up courage
enough to mention the affair. My state
ment has been received with utter incre-
dulity by all who have heard it. Some
of my friends pretend to say that
dreampt it all others gently hint that
had imbibod too much wine. l have at
last determined to make the matter pub
lie, and will leave my readers to draw
what inference they please. | must dis
tinctly state, however, that the SUPPOSE
tions of my friends are erroneous. /
neither dreampt it, nor did | drink too
much wine. Can it be possible that be-
ings inhabit the world which are palpa-
bic to all the senses excepting sight? 1t
is an interesting question for the philoso-
phcr to study; and yet thore is one thing
| cannot understand how it was that
the young lady saw the fearful thing and
did not am weary Of conjecture over
the matter, and must leave the enigma
for the better heads than mine to solve.
i y II #
A day or two ago, since the above was
written, was reading a paper, read be-
fore the Academy of Medicine in Paris, on
the effects of certain drugs on the imagi-
nation The statement made by the au-
thor of the paper on. PiorrD recalled
to my mind circumstance in connection
with the foregoing statement which had
escaped my notice-namely that previ-
Gus to experiencing the fearful adventure
| have described, | had taken something
for facial neuralgia. | was in Philadel-
phia yesterday. and had the curiosity to
inquire at the drug store the name of the
drug the apothecary had given me for
the neuralgia He informed me that it
was the tincture of Cannabis Indicus, or
what is more generally known as :" Has
heesh." This drug. it is known, has u
extraordinary effect on the brain. need
only refer the reader to the details given
by Bayard Taylor as proof of my state
mcnt. ! am now inclined to think that
the whole | went through was simply an
hallucnation produced by the Cannabis
Indicus.