The Lincoln County herald., 1872-01-25
TERMS OF ADvERrIsiNC.
Electrical Photography.

Electrical Photography.
San Francisco has of late been greatly
exercised by reason Of the photograph.
ing, through some unknown cause, of the
features aud bust Of q man on the glass
Of one Of the windows Of the house Of o
widow named Jorgensen, in that city.
The phenomenon was FIRST noticed hy
some children who were playing in tho
street, and who. knowing the widow, and
that no man lived in her house, were so
surprised that they ran to her door and
told her Of it. She Immediately went
into the room where she supposed the
man was, but there was nothing human
10 it. The head, however, was still visi.
BILE from the outside, as the widow soon
convinced herself. She then rubbed tho
glass with several substances, such as
soap, vinegar, sulphuric acid and the
like, but could not obiterate the features.
Mean hile, the affair got wind, and q
crowd soon gathered before the house to
"see the ghost" Everybody could see
the face distinctly, and many intelligent
persons we're allowed to examine the
window, the premises and the neighbor.
hood, but they could not discover any
deception in the appearance, nor any
cause for it's production. Mrs. Jorgensen
affirmed that the face did not res smble
that Of ANY person with whom she was
acquainted; but sho suffer ed exceeding
annoyance from the crowd outside, which
remained several days before the house,
and from the constant intrusion ofcurious
persons into it, some making fun Of the
thing and otherwise behaving very
indecorously. At last Mr.. r. B. Wood.
ward, the proprietor of the public garden
and place Of entertainment in the neigh.
borhood, relieved her of her trouble by
purchasing "the ghost" and removing tho
window glass to "Woodward's gardens"
where the spectre can be seen BY any one
who will pay for admission. The affair has
created an extraordinary sensation, aud
every body in the city is said to be ex.
amning his own and every one elss's
windows in search of the supernatural.
The widow Jorgensen's "g ghost" is
described as having the appearance of
the faded ambrotyps Of corpse it
approaches translucency, and is rather
mellow and subdued; the head leans on
one OF the shoulders, giving one the idea
Of person who had been hanged. This
constitutes the only really remarkable
feature in the story, for no one has heard
Of there having been such corpse near
enough to the window to be photographed
upon the glass. 1t is not improbable
that this particular electrical photo.
graph" may have been trick contrived
for the very purpose of advertising it
gratuitousiy before it was removed as q
''show" to the public garden referred to.
Still 1t may have come from natural
causes.
Such appearances have frequently been
met with, not only upon glass, but upon
wood, stone, the human body, and other
substances, and they have been produced
by electrical action on these substances
during Q peculiar state of the atmos.
Phere, and generally during thunder.
storm. One of the most remarkable of
these reported cases of electrical photog.
raphy, occurred at Toledo, in Ohio, a few
years ago A lady had been stopping at
a hotel overlooking Maumee Bay, an arm
Of Lake Erie. Two weeks after her de-.
parture, people who lived nearly oppo.
site come over and asked after the health
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