Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1874-11-07

Indian summer, crOwding the aven.
ues with gay throngs Of promenad.
ers, and the streets with shoppers.
Especially orc -r" favornd this yan~
and 1 am tempted to call it the
warmest, sunniest, most enjoyable
October ever known here; tempted
to do 80 in the face of the twenty
five coolest days, and seventeen
hottest days, and eleven most terri.
bic storms which are annually
chronicled.
Too warm to hold a suspicion OF
winter, the tempting display of furs,
robes and heavy goods hang un-
noticed, while distracted shopkeep.
ers sit studying the almanac and
thermometer, scratching their heads
over the dates and figures shown.
But, people cannot be expected to
buy winter goods so long as they
perspire in those now worn. A day
may change all this, and to morrow
the gay butterflies may be seen on
the street with blue noses and red
fingers, vending their chilly way to
the nearest furriers establishment.
Be gracious, Clerk of the Weather.
Let US stroll and smack our lips
over this delicious season yet a little
while, before giving our shivering
bodies to the icy spirit of Novem-
Der, who hovers yonder, chuckling
at our thin overcoats and gloveless
hands, and running over with ague
and blast. ="
A . MIND READING. WV
From time to time we hear of a
person claiming to be an incarnate
mystery of one class or another.
The latest is MIR. j. r. Brown, who
experiments in this way An object
is secreted by the company, and the
performer, carefully blindfolded,
selects some disipterested gentle
man, and after insfructing him to
concentrate his mind entirely upon
the object of search, leads him (if
successfully at once to the hiding
place. Again, Brown is led by
long wire, claiming to receive the
necessary mental communication
through this medium, without the
aid Of direct contact with the indi.
vidual. But, as in mesmerism,
there are occasionally people Sc
lected who won't mediate and there
seem also other conditions common
to these mysteries: the absolute
of mind to the perform.
er's will being prominently SO. Prof.
Hammond, however, does not &C.
knowledge anything marvellous or
inexplicable about Browns perfor-
mances, and grants none Of his
claims as a scientific phenomenon.
The Professor explained that the
mind, exclusively occupied by any
one subject or thought, will give
some Involuntary sign when this
subject is touched upon. He him
self has, with his finger upon the
pulse of friend who was to fix his
mind upon any letter of the alpha.
bet, been successful in telling it's
name by means of this nervous
sympathy between mind and body.
He reduces Browns claims to an
adroit and practiced reader of these
signs, quick perception of which
will enable any performer with the
requisite skill, to become a first
class 6. Mind Reader"
THE LAND OF PERSONAL LIBERTY.
Not thousand miles las the
non committals put it) from some
where between Broome and Grand
on Broadway, is the whole
sale establishment of one of our
largest dry goods houses. Having
business with member of the firm
. few days since, your correspon-
dent, with an innocent looking
package in his hand, and the full
of the freedom &C.
corded a soil-born American citizen
warming his breast, entered the
place, and was Immediately pounced
lpon by vehement undergraduate,
Who appropriated the bundle, and
'fter hastily inscribing some mys-
erious hieroglyphics thereupOn, re.
urned the property with permits.
ion to move in. 1 drew the gentle
'outh into conversation, learning to
nv astonishment that I was sus.
ected of design upon the stock
hat every visitor was suspected of
esigns upon the stock, and that all