Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-03-16
SAVED BY SCIENCE.

After dinner the boarders gathered in
the parlor and told of their experiences.
Magruder, who is by big odds the great.
est talker in the house, took about half
an hour to tell the following story:
''At house where was living last
year in Twenty-uinth street, there was =
boardcr who excited great curiosity. He
came from Egypt. and his name was
Wenyxter. One morning, wheA VIC were
standing on the back porch, he took q
three-cornered seed from his pocket and
thrust it into fower-pot on tho rail.
In less than five minutes it had sprouted
about six feet high, stalk like q sun.
flower. One of the 1oarders hung his
hat on it for jest. He turned a mo.
ment to call attention to the feat, and
when he faced about again the hat was
beyond his reach; the stalk had grown
six feet in as many seconds. 1t was still
growing when tho boarders went down
town, and when they came back to din.
ner they saw the stalk up above the
house with several twists around the
chimney, and sticking up above it like a
lightnin9rod with the rash mans hat
still or. tbs end.''
'With one exception" said Mr.. Ma.
gufin, looking hard at Magruder, 1.-THE
biggest liar ever knew lived in the same
house with me once in Thirty.elghth
street. He came from Abyssinia, and his
name was Gigyxter. And / may add
that, present company always excepted,
he was the longest.winded msn I ever
knew. Talk! lie would talk BY the
hour and bore the boarders, and after he
had driven two men crazy the landlady
secluded him somewhat by making him
take his meals at a separate table; but
he would keep up his CHATTER lighting
on people in the halls and in their rooms,
and when he had exhausted everybody
he would 60 to his room and talk to him.
self.
"Onc night the clearinghouse was
burned down. Gigyxtcr lost his life, and
in saving two ladies which lived on the
top floor l got the scar which you see
here. [Maguffin brushed tho hair off his
forehead, revealing q slight scratch.
Suspicion fell on poor servant who had
been discharged the day before, and he
was locked mp in the Tombs on circum.
stantial evidence that looked dead
against him. But after the inquest, en-
lightened by the testimony OF those who
roomed next to Gigyxter, that he had
been heard talking rapidly for On hour
before tho fire broke out, the surgeons
again examined the Abyssinian's remains
and proved beyond doubt the innocence
of the servant. by showing conclusivcly
that Gigyxters continuous talking had
made so much friction in his jaws that it
set his head afirc, the flames communi.
Gated to tbs room, tho house went down,
and Gigyxter went up, beyond all doubt
the first recorded case Of the man who
was talked to DEATH"
''Magufin,' - said Magruder, soothipgly
laying his hand on his friends head, II
wouldn't talk any more just now if I
were you. Your head is hot already
THE LADY WHO DISCARDED WASH
Bishop Meade, in his 'Old Churches
and Families Of Virginia. relates tho fol-
lowing: The elder sister Of Miss Mary
Cary had married George William Fair.
fax. at whose house she was on .
visit, when she captivated young man
who paid her his addresses. His affec.
ton, however, was not returned, and the
offer Of his hand was rejected by Miss
Cary. This young man was afterward
known to tho world as General George
Washington, the first President of the
United States Of America. Young Wash.
ington asked permission of old Mr.. Cary
to address his daughter before he ven.
tured to speak to herself. The reply of
the old gentleman was: III that is your
business here,sir, wish you to leave the
house, for my daughter has been accus.
toned to ride in her own COACH It has
subsequently, been said that this answer
Of Mr.. Cary to the STRIPPING Washington
produced tho independence Of the Uni.
ted States, and laid the foundation of tho
future fame Of the first Of heroes and the
best Of mcn--our immortal Washington
as it was more than probable that,
had he obtained possession Of the large
fortune which it was known Miss Cary
would carry to the altar WITH her. he Kould