The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-05-21
iMPORTARTLAWS.

IMPORTANT LAWS.
The Legislature, at its recent session,
passed alaw affecting the fees of County
Commissioners. The following section
contains all that is of interest:
Sec. 1. That each County Commits
sioner shall be allowed three dollars for
each and every day that he may be EN-
ployed in his official duties, and five
cents per mile, in going to and returning
from the county seat, for each regular
or called session, not ex xseeding in the
whole eight sessions in any one year, TO
be paid out of the county treasury, on
the warrant of the County Auditor, ex-
cept in counties which, by the last fed
eral census the population amounted to
one hundred thousand and upward, in
which counties each Commissioner
shall be allowed four dollars per day for
his services, not to exceed six days in
each week, and no other compensation,
either in expenses of travelling fees, shall
either of the aforesaid classes, and each
Commissioner shall present an itemiZed
statement of his account, which, before
its allowance by a full board, shall be
certified to by the prosecuting attorney
of the county, and approved by the Pro-
bate Judge thereof
The following section of law passed
last winter will interest Township Clerks
and the Boards named therein:
See. 1. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Ohio, That
township clerks in this State shall have
power to administer any oath OF affirma-
tion required in the execution, verifca-
ton or renewal of chattel mortgages,
and to administer any oath or afflrma-
ton which may be necessary in or per
tain to the business of their Offices re-
spectively, or which may be necessary in
any official business of or with the town
ship trustees, or board of education of
their r. respective townships.
MIND READING.-Other persons have
been found-nOt one person only, but
many-whO can do Just what Mr. Brown
does, and who say with emphasis that
they are enabled to do it by means of the
involuntary muscular motion of the
hands of their subjects. One gentleman
in particular has as many successes as
Mr. Brown. Within the last eight or
ten days he las given his demonstrations
before numerous parties, some small and
some large, and with pronounced sue
cess. OF one series we can speak from
personal knowledge. Fourteen expert
ments were tried with eight persons, in
Guiding every person present as a sub
iect: and all of them were perfectly sue
cessful, except two, and these two were
with a subject that everybody fails with,
including Mr. Brown himself The ex-
planation given by the amateur ''mind
reader" referred to as to his process, is,
that he percrives and interprets the mo-
ton Of the hand of his subject; and his
theory is that the muscles Ofany persons
arm and hand, being habitUated to ODE
dience TO the will, will, Independently of
any conscious exercise of the mind, have
a tendency to move involuntarily toward
any object or place Oh which that per
son intentIy fixes his attention or his
eyes. As lie ''knows how he does it,"
his explanation and theory are entitled
TO consideration. The explanation, as
already mentioned, has been verified
within few days by the success of many
persons who have tried ''Inind reading"
by reading muscular motion through
muscular contact, and they have succeed
ed even when wooden and glass rods
have been interposed from hand to hand.
But the theory is still open to question,
aud, whether the phenomena brought
under view in these observations be phys
biological, as we take them to be, or psy
Geological, in Sir William Hamiiton's
sense of the latter term, they seem to be
entitled to more methOdical study than
they have yet received. PhtadelpAia
LedgeT.