Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-09-08
A Strange HallucinatiOn.

DR.. lyman Santee, a resident of Luzerne
county, Pa, has had perhaps the most remark
able experience on record. The doctor is man
OF medium size. about thirty years Of age, of
great intelligence and undoubted yeracity.
Though there is nothing in his manner to sug-
gest anything unusual, yet the world in which
he moves could not be to him more unlike our
own If he lived on another planet.
When DR.. Santee was ten years Younger he
one day took stroll, ascending an eminence of
considerable height at some distance from his
fathers house. The view from this point was
delightful IN the extreme. extending away for
miles toward the north and west. Far below
the admiring youth swept along the broad river;
beyond it were the rolling hills, which father on
swelled into the rugged mountains, where range
beyond range rose higher and higher till the last
hazy SUBMITS mingled with the wonderful blue
of the summer sky 1t was late in the day, and
the great red sun hung in the golden west.
lyman Santee, who in early life was some
what given to idle fancies on the solitary noun
tain betook himself to the strange task of con-
trastlng the size Of his frame with the magni-
tude of the scene before him; and it seemed to
him that he was only manikin clingng to the
Cliff above the plain While indulging in this
and similar thoughts he became bewildered,
and the size of everything around him suddenly
diminished to One-tenth of its former draen-
sions. The great pine at his side became little
sapiing, the huge mountain on which he stood
out little mound, the river below appearep
only silver thread, and the setting sun but q
blazing star in the sky. The great earth itself.
from horizon to horizon. seemed only few
acres in extent. while the sky appeared to have
fallen toward the earth
Alarmed at this strange occurrence, the doc
tor left the mountain and hurried home. The
road seemed no wider than cOwpath. and the
fence on each side only few inches high. He
came to horse and carriage standing BY the
| roadside. The horse looked as small as a
poodle, and the buggy by no means as large as
baby carriage. Farther on he met man, and
was struck with amazement. He was surely no
more than six inches in height. He gazed OF
his own frame and saw that he was of the same
Insignificant stature
When he entered his fathers house everything
was painfully small. The house itself was an
pareDtiy only about two feet and half high
His little mother, smaller than himself was
moving around like an animated doll, preparing
the evening meal. Then his father came in q
miserable little dwarf, like himself. There were
the table, and the tiny dishes containing food,
the little chairs, etc., all no larger than toys.
The next morning when Mr.. Santee awOke he
was gratihed to find that objects bad recovered
their proper dimensions. In 1870, while en-
gagged In teaching DR.. Santee again suddenly
found himself transferred to . miniature world.
He has since dWelt there surrounded by apygmy
existence. He,seldOfh alludes to his strange
experience, and. then only to his most intimate
friends. He has become accustomed to the re-
markable state OF things around him, if not &C
tualty rec0nciled to his lot. aud scarcely hopes
to revisit the old world he 80 well remembers,
put which he is permitted to see only in his