Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-10-31
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The wires were now. affixed to, the,
nerves behihd the thigh, ana powerl
full current from b huge 'voltaiei pile cdrs
ried to them, The result was fearful.
THE; body turned suddenly arouhdJ ]
and SGT sat-. up perfectly; ,str1aitelAat,t every
MUSCLE fixed, with that: terrible appear
dfice iofia rigid spasn,i. It's neck Was
thrust forward; the hair seemed to
stand out, eaoho oindisidual. one in, n,regh-
lar order. Its .eyslids were drawn hack
while the, eyeballs, with their, dead
glazed pupils, protruded ii . hideous
CLASSY STARE. The nostrils wefeP idilated
as if breathing heavily, and horrible
greenish form, oozed out of the corner of
the rapidly working lips. .. .Y,I ID o
I could not remove my eyes from it
for moment. Never was I so spell
bound; and never did behold such
terrifcally hideous object. My whole
soul was bound with feeling of unut-
terable horror. It turned suddenly to-
ward where Hoffman and myself We're
sitting, and convulsively pointed it's fin-
ger in that direction, while every fiber
in his face seemed distorted by a
ghastly, diabolic, gibbering grin. I
swooned. The hall seemed to swim
around me; but still my ears seemed
pierced by the most agonizing cry L
ever heard, and 1 distinctly caught
the words My father!' ... .
could not think at once whence it
proceeded, but before I had time for re-
Election heavy body fell against me.
1t was poor Hoffman; he had spung up
into the air, like stag when the hun
ter's bullet enters his heart, when he
met that gaze. II vaS his Jater /!
The gentlemen went on with their ex-
periments, but with no success.
Hoffman never recovered from the
shock that he received that day, but for
several months he was a raving maniac.
About three days before he died, he
asked for his father and mother and
sister; the mother and sister came, but
they told him the father was ILL.,. He
fortunately had no recollection of it un-
til a few days before he died, when all
seemed to come back like the ,recollec-
ton of some horrid dream. His last
words to me were, Ny dear friend, !
there is an ayenging God, instead of a
system of nature. .....f,f !, s,.Y.est
I made inquiries, and discovered that
his father was notorious highwayman.
and, moreover, the robbery and rntir-
der for which he was sentenced wtre
the crimes which enabled him to fur
nish his son the necessary means to
complete his electric apparatus.
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FALSE TONGUE. Under the above
caption, the .Visulia Delta says; :, No
doubt everybody thinks he knows what
we mean by this heading. But what
we do mean is disease by that name,
several cases of which have occurred on.
Tule River. The patient is taken with
itching on the, under side,l lat the root ,of
the tongue from which, we are in
formed, commences the growth of a
fungus resembling tongue, which soon
fills the mouth and protrudes from it,
causing sutfocation and deaih in few
days, unless, relief is obtained, DR..
Henrahon has had several bad cases.
The fungus being burned away WITH
caustic, in one instance, the tongue is
said to have grown two inches I'm an
hour. AS this disease is new to almost
every one, we hope some of our physi-
clans will give us description Of it for
publication. ' 'i '.." ~ ~