St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-10
BRIEF BUT INTERESTING.

The trial of the BarneS-Little pension
fraud case in the United States court at
st. Louis has produced some unpleasant
revelations concerning Rev. Joel Gil
bert, of Sedalia, Mo. Mary Little was
the widow of Union soldier, and for her
sake Mr.. Gilbert abandoned his wife
and children. After Mr.. Little'S death
the parson met Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes,
and the pair are accused of having con-
tinued to draw the Little pension until
Mrs. Barnes drove away her companion
and elected Warren RIFT to be his sue
cesSor. The new combine" still drew
the pension, and all hands eventually
got into trouble.
DR.. William A. Hammond expects
that many cases of insanity will result
from the Johnstown food. To Wash
ington Post reporter he said, the other
day: I'm the few years Immediately
following the French revolution there
was more insanity in France than has
ever been known before or since in the
history of the world. All such periods
of great excitement produce insanity in
two ways. People become insane at the
time of the excitement because of the
mental strain, and then. after 1t is all
Il,
There has already been some insanity
in Johnstown, and there will be more.
During the period of great excitement
there is greatly increased work for the
brain. That calls the blood to the brain
to enable those mental operations to go
on. If that call for more blood to the
brain continues for ten days or five
days, even for less time, the habit is
formed. After the crisis. is over the in
tense work of the brain ceases. but the
flow of blood to the brain does not
cease. The brain is clogged with it,
and the mental disturbance follows as
matter of course. If people who have
been subject to such strain could fol-
low 1T with some milder excitement,
such as travel would afford, the danger
would be iessened, but [ suppose with
the Johnstown people that is impos-
sible."
The London Figaro announces that
ga gentleman we'll known in yachting
circles, and who has described in sew
eral readable volumes the plucky voy-
ages he has made in the Falcon, has
come into confidential information as to
the whereabouts of large sum of
hidden treasure. So he is preparing to
start in quest of this hidden GOLD, and
any gentleman who can put e100 to the
common fund and furnish satisfactory
references will be admitted not only to
a share in the search operations, but
will have considerable proportion of
the amount of the treasure handed over
to him when recovered"
IS
When Mayor Filter, of Philadelphia.
went down to Johnstown at the head of
a so-called relief commission he went in
Pullman palace train with big corps
of skilled cooks and walters. He put
ON as much style as monarch and
made himself supremacy ridiculous.
Says the Pittsburg Times: There was
something very ridiculous in hearing at
JohnStown one person after another as
he came up ask for his card The
broadcast comedy could contain nothing
more homogeneous than requiring visit
ing cards in a fiOOd-Swept valley of
ruins, where the surviving population
is living in tents, fed by the state, and
where hardly man has changed his
shirt in three weeks or knows what
pocket handkerchief looks like"
At a recent meeting of the French
academy NJ. Lippmann presented note
by M. q. Gueroult in which it is sug-
SeSteu IndG by IHe coluDIIleu uSe VI d
photograph and an apparatus for in
Simultaneous photography and reprodue
ton of the pictures obtained it would be
possible to reproduce at any future time
not only the speech of person, but also
bring before the audience a vivid pic
ture of the PERSONS gestures and facial
expression. The procedure would be
somewhat as follows: A person speak
ing or singing into the phonograph
would be photographed by an automatic
apparatus geared With the barrel of the
phonograph. The pictures would be in
Simultaneous, and taken at the rate of,
say, ten pictures per second. They
would then be developed and arranged
in special lantern for reproduction on
screen isochronously with the phono-
graph, when the latter is reproducing
the speech. An audience might thus be
enabled, not only to hear the utterances
of, say, q famous actor, but also see
himself and his actions represented OIL
screen. About year and half ago
NJ. A. Bandsept, of Brussels, expert
mented with similar apparatus.