Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-06-11
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Illusions.


dusk of evening, saw her sitting in a
garden chair. He called one of his
daug ghters and asked her to look out into
the garden. "Why," che said. "mother
is sitting there" Another daughter was
called, and she experienced the came
iliusion. Then the gentleman went out
into the garden, and found that garden
dress Of his wife's had been so placed
over the seat as 70 produce the illusion
which had deceived him and his daugh-
tiers, luIing the last weeks of the long
vacation | went alone to Blackpool, in
Lancashire. There tock lodgings in a
house facing the sea. Ny sitting roc m
was on the ground aoor On a warm
autumn night Was reading, with the
window open, but the blind was down
ana vas waving gently to and fro in the
wind. II happeae! that was reading a
book on demonology moreover, / had
been statled from an upper room in the
house, where my landladys sister who
was ve;y i'll, had had an by ystcrical fit
I'd jus; read to the end of long and
particularly horrible narrative, when /
was disturbed by the beating of the cur
tain-the wind having risen somewhat
and got up TO close the window.
As turned round for the purpose the
curtain rose gently and disclosed start
ling Object. A fearful face was there,
black, long and hideous, and surmoun.ed
by two nonstrous horns. Its eyes lar. e
and bright. glcamed horribly, and mouth,
garnished with immense teeth, grinned
at NE. Then the curtain slowly descend
ed. Bat | knew the horrible thing was
th're. | waited, by no means comfort
ably, while the curtain hu.tered about
showing parts of the black monster. At
last 1t rose again so as to disclose the
whole face. But the face had lost its
ii'i4"i i"' "it, i'i INC HoiHS were gone. |
Instead of the two nearly upright horns
which before had shown black and fright
fully against the light background of
sea and ky, there were two sloped ears
as unmistskably asinine as | felt myself
at the moment When | went to the
window-which before felt unable to
approach-l saw that several stray dom
keys were wandering through the front
gardens Of the row of houses to which
my lodgings belonged.
L; is possible that the inquisiive gen.
f!cman who had looked into my window
WAS attracted by the tapping curtain,
which he may have taken for something
edible. If so," remarked to myself, $
1.-TWO Of your kind have been deceived
to night 4 t.icnd OF mine told me he
had been disturbed two nights running
by sound as Of an army tramping down
d road which passed some two hundred {
yards from his house lie found the third |
nigh Il had suggested an experimental ..
fest as to the place whence the sound
came) that the abuse was produced by q
clock in the n xt house the clock having
teen newly placed against the partition
wall. We all know Cailisle's story of
the gbostly Voice, heard each evening, of
d low spirited mana voice as of one liz
!ikeful dumps procl4imiDg, "Once l was
happy, happy, but now | am meesera-
how the ghost resolved itself
into a rusty kitchen jack.
There is case of lady who began to
think herself the victim of some delusion
and perhaps ihrcatcded by approach
ing illuess, because each night, about a
quarter of an hour after she had gone to
bed, she heard hideous din in the
leighborhood Of her house, or else (she
was uncertain whicl) in some distant J
'oom. The noise was in reality the
lightest possible crack within few
eet of her pillow, however,, and pro- .
!uced by the door of a wardrobe which
he closed every night before getting into o
'ed. The door, about quarter of an g
'our after being closed, recovered it,
position of resi-, slightly beyond which
had been pushed in closing In ano,h-
r case the crawling Of snail across
window produced sounds which were
for the strains of loud but
|istant music.-CrnhU Magazine.
ONLY REvOLvER.-The following
Incident is said to have occurred in
jtica restaurant: A man recently en-
cred the place and ordered very elab-
rate dinner. He fingered long at the
able, aud finally wound up with a bot
lie of wine. Then Lighting a cigar he
lad ordered he lesurely sauntered up to
he counter and said to the proprietor
Very fine dinner, landlord Just
barge it to me haven't got cent
"But l don't know YOU said the pro-
rietor, Indignantly.
''Of course you don't If you had -
on wouldn't have let me have the din