The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-08-15
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The Rev. r. p. Shaw, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Sturgis, Mich,
is firm believer In "telepathy." or the
conveyance of impressions between
persons at distance from each other
He says that he usually knows, with
out being informed otherwise than by
vague feeling, of the impending Wis
its of persons whom he has no other
reason to look for, and that those pre-
sentiments are never false.
The liquor question is being discuss
ed by Neal Dow from the standpoint
of prohibition, and by Dio Lewis from
that of persuasion. They are agreed
that strong drink is an evil of the
greatest magnitude. Mr.. Dow's argu-
ment consists of vivid presentation of
enormous figures, and his reasoning is
that trade resulting in such enormous
and widespread misery should be sup
pressed as being inconsistent with the
general good. DR.. Lewis on the other
hand, holds that prohibition in Maine
has been failure, and then proceeds
with the assertion that prohibition is
violation of personal liberty, likely to
cause more harm than good to the
cause of temperance.
A person injured in railroad collis-
ion brought suit for damages in Illi-
nois. The company asserted that he
had ahnoan snnnVnnatnnt
The Court held that the claim, if true,
was no defence to the action, and the
verdict for the plaintiff was therefore
sustained. The liability of the surgeon
in the matter was not considered. The
Court said "The liability to mistakes
in curing is incident to broken arm,
and where such mistakes occur (the in
jured party using ordinary care,) the
injury resulting from such mistakes is
properly regarded as part of the imme-
diate and direct damage resulting
from the breaking of the arm.
Dan Rice, the once popular clown,
once said that he was about as bank
rupt as usual. The times had moved
past him, he thought, and he saw no
good reason to believe that he would
ever catch up again. 81 have never
made money so steadily, pleasantly, or
heavily" he remarked, "as when ran
my one-horse show. guess that was
rather before your day ! had an exceed
ingly clever trick horse and moderate
sized tent. The beast and / did our
level best to make folks laugh, and we
succeeded. The admission price was
only fifteen cents, with ten more for q
bes. seat but the expenses were light
and nearly all we took in was clear
profit 1t was Dan Rce's One Horse
Show that | made my reputation as {
clown. and gained enough capital tC
lose in big circus enterprises. | wisf
to goodness I'd stack to my origina
line of businesses"
There is one young woman at the
seashore who disregards prevailing
fashions and overstates her age. 1t is
added, however, that she is not in he,
| right mind. Persons who ride past 9
certain cottage see on the piazza fig
, ure clad in the garments OF a hundred
: years ago. A near view of the face
, indicates about 25 years. She is 6
, unique monomaniac, She firmly be
3 lieves that she has been dead centu
ry. Her delusion had start in he
, conversion TO Spiritualism, She be
came deeply interested in the material
, ization of spirits, and for time deem
I cd herself medium for that sort of al
: legged phenomena, Then the idea tool
J. possession of her mind that she wa
!. the permanently reembodied spiri
= which had so long ago departed fror
/ mortal clay. Under this craze sh
deems 1t suitable to dress in the style
' which were in vogue at the time Of he
a previous human existence. In all otl
!. er matters she is sane and we'll beha'
a ed.