Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-16

Those who heard Mr.. Stoddard's lecture
on Berlin viii remember his interesting
reference to the "white lady" who walks in
the imperial palace. The superstitious in
mates of the palace have been greatly relieved
to find that the recent appropriation he
white lady" was in fact nothing more awful
than the white aprened-kitchen boy who,
having been kept up late by the prepara-
tions for coming festivity, amused himself
with a midnight stroll through the corridors.
The youngster would have been dismissed
from the royal service except for q friendly
intercessor, whose wish is command.
The Hamburg relatives of an adventurous
German emigrant are reported to have fallen
heirs to a fortune of great magnitude. This
story is going the rounds of the German
press. Seventy years ago dis-olute young
poucher left his native village of Kirchstein-
beck, whore he was in bad odor and had fire.
quent difficulties with the police and game
keepers, and embarked for Cape Colony,
where he became, in course of time, a pros
porous planter and stock raiser and Che
owner of one of the most valuable estates in
the settlement. Late in life he sold this
property for large sum, and took up his
residence N London. Fortunate speculations
there increased his wealth still more, and
when he died intestate some years ago, his
property was worth over 800, 900, 900. Ef-
until recently, and the estate has ever since
been waiting for them in Chaneery. The |
people who now inherit this wealth supposed |
their adventurous relative dead long ago.
At recent meeting in Philadelphia of the |
College of Physicians Professor Harrison |
Allen showed very interesting disco eery by |
which spoken language can be represented by |
a series of curved lines on a receiving surface |
composed of white paper covered with SCOT. |
The experiments which were originated by |
Professor Allen from observations which he
had made through watching the movements
of the soft palate when conducting expert
ments connected with the human throat, are
made with an instrument devised by the
professor, and which is very simple and easy
of operation. By means of this device he is |
enabled to register upon the surface of the /
sooted paper the lines and curves that repre-
sent the various phonetic sounds of the hu-
man voice. His observations have proved
that the discovery will undoubtedly be of |
great Importance in diagnosing cases of the |
diseases of the palate, in the study of stam- |
mering, and in the comparative study of the |
languages of civilized nations with those of
the most primitive races. Professor Allen |
has already shown that many of the sounds
which have long been considered by elocu-
tionists to be formed by the dlrect action of
the lips, the teeth or the tongue are in reality
formed by the action of the palate.
sailor named Patrick O'Brien has been
pressing peculiar claim at Washington. He |
said that he had been engaged in the rag
picking business in New York for several
years. but last June, for some reason, he
shipped aboard of United States man Of
war. The ship had been at sea for fourteen
days when the inspector told him to bring
his luggage out on deck. He brought up
his little bundle of clothing, and then the
officer sent him away upon some duty. |
When he returned the bundle of clothing |
was gone, and the officer told him that, the |
clothing being filthy. he had heavsd it over
board and the sea had swallowed it. The |
sailors great misfortune was not in the loss
of his little bundle of dirty clothing, but |
in the inside pocket of what he |
called his drsas coat was a package |
of greenbacks amounting to Sc, ,5OO the saw
ings of his years of rag -pickings. The sailor |
could get no satisfaction from the officers of |
his ship, and when finally he reached the |
land again he came, by the advice of his at
torney, to ask Congress to pay him his |
Sc, 500. No cross examination could shake |
his story. It BEARS it is said, every evidence
of truth. He was advised to go back to New
York and bring suit of law against the
officer who SO unceremoniously washed his
dirty clothing