Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-09-03
A MODERN CULVER
Transferred to a World Inhabited
by Pismies.
The Strange HaIucination Of a Pennsylvania
Observation-Disclosures Surround
ings-The World in Miniature.

lNlLADEIrWlA, Septem Der 1.-Ir lyman
Ssntee, resident OF Luzerne county. Pa,
has had perhaps, the most remarkable ex-
perienCe on record. The doctor is man
OF medium size, about 80 years OF age, Of
great intelligence and undoubted veracity.
Though there is nothing in his manner to
suggest anything unusual, yet the world
in which he moves could not be 10 him
more unlike our own il he lived on an
years younger he one day took stroll, as
Cending an emiuence Of considerable
height, at some distance from his fathers
house. The view from this point was de-
liehtful in the extreme, extending for
miles toward the north and west. Far be.
low the admiring youth swept along the
broad river; beyond il Were iha rolling
hills, which farther on swelled into rugged
mountains, where range beyond range
rose higher and higher till the last ha2y
SUBMITS mingled with the wonderful blue
of the summer sky. II WAS late
in the day and the great red sun
hung in the golden west. lyman Santee,
who in early life was sOmewha: given TO
idle fancies, on the solitary mountain he.
took himself TO the strange task OF con-
trasting the size rf his frame with the
magnitude of the scene before him; and IL
seemed 10 him that he WAS
Only n Mannikin
clinging 10 the cliff above the plain. While
indulglng in this and similar thoughts, he
became brwildcred, and the size OF every
thing around bin suddenly diminished TO
Onc.tenIh of its former dimensions. The
.ipa .t h,ug 40
pling, the huge mountain on which he
stood but a little mound, the river below
appeared only a silver thread, and the set
seemed only few acres in extent, while
the sky appeared to have fallen toward the
earth.
ALARMED nj the strange occurrence, the
doctor remarked, in conversation the o'hcr
dav, Il left the mountain and hurried
homeward. The rosd seemed no wider
than a COW path. and the fence on each
side only frN inches high. came To
horse sud carriage standing by the roai'
side. The horse looked as small as poo
die. and the buggy hy no meansS large
rs a baby carriage. Farther on ] met
man-here ! was struck with ama@ement.
He was the first fellow mortal ! had seen
since had been
Trnnsrprred 10 the l.illiputian world.
lie was surely not more than six inches
IN height. ! gszed on my own frame ana
saw that | was OF the same inslgnlhcaht
Sia'ure.
In giving the dimensions o! diminutive
objects with which | found myself sur.
rounded" the doctor explained, when
use the denomination inch, refer TO an
inch az IL appears to you, and ~ II had ap-
peared 10 me all INV lie. Likewise in COM
barring the horse to poodle and the buggy
to u baby carriage | refer 10 poodle ani
baby carriage as they appear to you. vi
course, ID me, these objects we're now ini-
niiey small
Il cannot describe my feelings" DR..
Santee continued. "Nhen entered my
futhers house. Everything WAS 80 pain
fully small. The house .ise!i WAS only 30
high
As he uttered the last sentence he held
his band about two feet aud a half above
the ground; then, after 4 moment, he went
on There was my little mother, rather
smaller than myself, moving around like
An ABi,asted Dos-
preparing our evening meal. Then my
isther came in, a miserable dwarf like my
self. There was the table and the tiny
dishes containing oar plain food, the little
chsirs, etc all no larger than the chairs
had played with in my childhood.
The next morning when DE-. Sentee
aWCke he was grained 10 Hnu tnaS
objects mad recovered their proper
dimensions. SoOn after this he began
the study OF medicine, and graduated
in Pbilsdelphia in loij. He, however
preferred the life of a teacher to tha, Of q
plysician, and from the start stood fore
most in the ranks Of successful instructors.
In 1879. while engaged 10 teaching Dr.
Santee again suddenly found himself
TransGerrtd d TO a Miniatoee World
He has since dwelt there, surrounded by o
pigmy existence. He seldom ailudes TO
bis strange experience, and then only TO
bis most intimate friends. He continues
TO teach, and his work is followed with it'
n,uAI good results. He has become accus-
toned TO the remarkable state OF things
around him, if not actually reconca.sd 70
his lot, snd scarcely hopes TO revisit the
old world he 80 we'll remembers, but be ID
permitted "a see only in hfe dreams.