The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-02-15
MISCELLANY.
SECOND SIGHT.

sight, or. power OF seeing Wnab Is BoihS oh
many miles away. The power is less common
than it used to be years ago, but SO many
facts are told by persons whose veracity can
not be questioned, that it is easier to believe
them without explaining the mystery, than
to deny them. Similar facts in our own
bility of this second sight
1t is a historical fact that Rev. Joseph Buck
minister. who died in Vermont in 1912, just
before his death announced that his distiH-
guished son, Rev. J. S. Buckminster, of Bos-
ton, was dead. 1t afterward turned out that
the son had breathed his last about the time
his father made the announcement.
A parallel to that of the Buckminsters oc-
Cured but short time since at Eaton, Ohio.
On Wednesday morning in April, 1873 at
four o'clock, Gen. John Quinn, of that place,
breathed his last. But few minutes of that
time Joseph Deem, who also died on the same
day, aroused from his sleep and said to his
son John, who sat at his side, "John, Gen.
Quinn is dead To this John said 81 reck-
on you are mistaken, father you have been
dreaming guess Gen. Quinn is not dead
he is not even sick, but goes down town regu-
larly every day for his mail" Yes" said
father Deem, g know he is dead {" and he
had scarcely finished speaking when neigh
Dor walked in and said to them, Gen. Quinn
is dead /" What is strange about it, is that
father Deem did not know of Gen. Quinn's
illness, and, in all probability, had not heard
his name mentioned.
The late Dr. Francis Wayland was accus-
toned to tell of an incident Of this kind, which
occurred to his mother, a woman OF sound
Judgment and of admirably balanced charac
ter. Young Francis was expected home from
New York, where he had been attending medi-
cal lectures. Suddenly, one day, the mother
began to walk the floor hurriedy saying to
her husband, Pray for my son. Francis is
in danger - She was so agitated and urgent
that the father put up prayer for deliverance
from peril. When Francis at length arrived
home, the mother asked at once, 4" What has
taken place?' He told of an adventure.
While coming up the North River on sloop
he had fallen overheard, and the sloop had
passed over him. Being an athletic swimmer,
he had kept afoat until rescued.
Heinrich Zscbokke, one of the eminent lit
erary men of Germany, possessed at times the
curious power of seeing the whole life of
stranger into whose company he happened to
be thrown. The incidents of tho life seemed
to pass before him in kind of vision, with
dstinctness even In minute Details He could
not tell in what the power lay, nor how it
came to him nor was it permanent or even
general. 1t came mysteriously and left as
strangely But he often tested its accuracy
by accounting to the stranger the whole story
of the life ; it appeared to him, and never
failed to receive acknowledgment of its
truth, even in minute particulars. Once
when travelling with two Of his sons, he met
with another man, an orange peddler, who
had a similar gift, and who, to the grea' de-
light of tho boys, told the incidents of Zschok-
ke's life from boyhood
A distinguished scientist has advanced tho
theory in our hearing to which he himself
holds, that there is an unknown mental power
in the human system that is independent of
our recognized faculties and superior to them.
Certain persons on going to sleep fix upon an
hour Of the night to awake and always awake
at the fixed time. This indicates a knowledge
of time possessed by this unexplained mental
power which is beyond the reach of the ord-
nary faculties.
Many of the French soldiers, returning from
the German frontier during the late war, were
found sleeping during a wearisome march,
but they kept in rank and obeyed orders.
People have composed poems, reasoned with
wonderful clearness on abstruse subjects, and
even played the piano with unusual brlliancy
and expression, during sleep.
DR.. Brown-Sequard once related an incident
of his own experience somewhat similar to
those recorded Of Zschokke. He was once
lecturing to some French students, talking
very rapidly, his whole mind wrapped up in
the subject He suddenly stopped short in
his discourse, and stood before the audience,
lost, as it were, in profound thought. While
his mind had seemingly been concentrated on
the subject of his lecture with unusual inten-
sity, there had been forced into it the solution
of a problem of science that had baffled his
efforts for long period, and which was quito
foreign to the subject of which he was treat
ing. The students became alarmed, thinking
from his strange silence that he must have
been taken ILL., and he thought it prudent to
make an explanation of the cause of his con-
duct on the spot-Erchange.
THE BOYS HEART Get hold of the boys
heart Yonder locomotive comeslilSe whirl-
wind down the track, and a regiment of arm
ed men might seek to arrest it in vain. 1t
would crush them and plunge unheeding on.
But there is a little lever in its mechanism
that, at the pressure of mans hand, win
slacken its speed, and in a moment or two
bring it painting and still, like whipped
spaniel, at your feet. BY the same little
lever the vast steamship is guided hither and
yon, upon the sea. in spite of adverse wind
or current. That sensitive and responsive
spot by which boys life is controlled, is his
heart. With your grasp gently and firmly on
that helm, you may pilot him whittier you
will. Bad and willful boys very often have
tba han rto