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The evening world., 1889-02-12
A Doctors strange Dream.

Some years ago l was a practising physician
md hud many patients in Hoboken, N. j.
| visited my uucle's house in that own one
night, and while there tell asleep on the sofa.
/ dreamed that n gentleman whose family l
attended regularly came to my house in great
excitement and asked me to call at once to see
his vito, whom he stated had been taken
with n convulsion. This dream was 30 real
to me that l started up half awake and had
nearly reached the stables before / was fully
conscious. decided TO make Il call and see
if there was any reason for my vision. l
drove to the house, rang the bell, which was
quickly answered by IL maid, who knew me,
and whose first words were; - am so glad
you have come, doctor; Mrs: b. is very i'll. -"
/ went into the sick room and found her suf-
teri ~ very much, but soon relieved her.
After | had been there some time Mr.. b.. came
in aud said How did you get here2 / was
told at your Office that they did not expect
YOU in for some time" replied that as l
was driving past | thought | would stop and
make n friendly call. and was glad that / had
done so, to which he agreed. l had given no
thought 10 this family for weeks. and they
had been unusually we'll and had no need OF
my SERVICES. MEDlCCs.
The evening world., 1889-02-12
WORLOLlNCS.

Senator Vance, of North Carolina, is a pro-
found student of the Bible, and his knowledge
of the Scriptures shows itself in his speeches,
many phrases of which are in Biblical language.
The Queen of Madagascar is said to get all her
dresses from Paris. and some of them are very
gorgeous. She is twenty-three years Did, a small,
slender woman of light color, and is very popu-
lar with her subjects.
Mrs. s. V. White, the wife of the Brooklyn
Congressman, is said to be the only hostess in
Washington who has followed her conscience
this Winter and refused to give her guests
champagne and punch.
Mrs. Frank Leslie reaches her desk at s O'Clock
in the morning, and usually remains at it until
nearly o. She told a Chicago reporter the other
day that her average amount of sleep was not
more than five hours out of the twenty-four,
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l dreamed that | stood in the docket of n
courtroom charged with murder in the first
degree. What surprised mo the most was
that / hadn't any idea of VINO or what it was
that l had murdered, lut was found guilty
and sentenced to be hung. Visitors by the
hundreds came and brought me flowers aud
baskets of catables aud seemed to feel the
sorrow more than /, especially one young
lady whom | had never seen before, and yet
l thought that we were to be married on the
day of execution. At last il came and | was
marched slowly towards the scatiord, with my
arms pinioned behind me. saw II huttering
of Il handkerchief, felt the floor give way, the
rope stretch and | awoko just in time to save
my neck. W. L. w.
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"a Doctor m the Omaha HeTutd.l =
How is a grave robbed The process !.
very simple. The soft earth is dug down "
the head to the case. This is pried open VIII
long chisels. Next the coffin is opened !.
the head, exposing the face and shoulders,
the corpse. Hooks are then deity. inseIiedd
under the shoulders, and the stitt Is hau.Sdd
from the resting-p place to the surface, pAU~
in q bag and driven to the dissecting-r oOSs
Did l ever rob a grave? Yes, once. IA"
midnight ride of five miles with a corpse. =
was young then, and out of mere adyen.u'
l accompanied two resurrectionists whom IL :
employed TO get a subject. According 70 uS
laws of that State it was q high misdemeannrsJ
to steal clothes or coffin out Of q graveymnn1I
but no oiIense 20 steal the coIpse. we Nj
through our work, undressed the sublect an
were hinging the clothes back into the opv We
grave, when the sexton began firing upolaoSnMs
There was no time to be lost. II was q seia .GS
matter. and ] did not want 20 lose the ssniv
With the assistance of the two men the uvccsd
was borne to my buggy, near by, and pnnrsd
upon the seat. Jumping beside it. 1 whIppSs
my horse and away we went, II and l. lan,sa
Inc q ride of FIVE miles with n naked GosSss
on a Winter night ! have never ropOSN
grave since.
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l dreamed l saw New York city in tho year
1891. Beginning at the Battery Park. all the
dark and crooked streets had been made
straight, on both sides of Broadway up to
Fourteenth street. There was not n tepe-
mont hous in all this district. The bust
ness centre OF the world WAS here, and every
foot OF building space from Fourteenth
street to the Battery was filed with more
massive and costly buildings than any now
on Broadway, except where an occasional
three ornered block had been leveled and
n beautiful spot OF grass and flowers had re-
placed it,. Five tree bridges connected the
city with Brooklyn. and five cent rapid tran
SIT trains connected all parts of Long
Island. Elevated roads had been abolished,
and i'll their place SIX underground pneu-
matte lines, owned and operated by the city.
carried passengers free from one part of the
city to another III from one to six minutes.
The people owned all their time and talents
were too valuable TO tho prosperity of the
city to place the means of transit IN the power
of corporations, For the same reason three
pneumatic passenger tubes connected Staten
Island. which was the home of 1000, 0OC New
Workers. Crime and drunkenness were al
most unknown. Alcoholic poison, like
opium, was sold only on careful prescription.
ana former saloons were now free baths,
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ARBITRATION APPROVED.

Tho Sash and D~oormakers' Union Favor
Making IL Compulsory.
TO The Editor Of The EreniHg World:
/ have been instructed by our Union to
send you their hearty thanks for the article
which appeared in The EVENING WoRLD of
Tuesday, the 9th inst. headed Arbitration,
and it was resolved that we urge on the men,
bers Of the Legislature to adopt some such
measures that will in future serve to prevent
a recurrence of the late railroad trouble.
Thanking you for the int rest shown by your
journal in the welfare of the working class,
G. H. WHEELoCK,
Recording Secretary Sash, Blind and Door
makers Union.
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After ~ o'clock on New Years eve, being
tired out, | sat in the rocker to rest. Sud
denly l found myself in a handsomely fur
nisLed room. in one corner of which was a
brown mantel. On this mantel was what
seemed a huge ball of fire, mounted on an
easel. While gazing Mt this strange spec
tacle | was aroused by u slight noise from be-
hind me. | turned quickly, but saw moth
ing. When | again turned to the mantel the
bail of fire was gone, and i'll its place was
the sun, large and bright. and surrounding
il were the twelve signs Of the Zodiac. In
the centre of this was 1853" in large black
figures. | had Just made one step toward the
mantel when my head struck against some
thing. and / awoke TO find myself on the
floor beside the rocker. A. I. MARTINY.
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Whut Cured Her.

tFrom, the Phiiadtiphia Rscord1
Modern Healcr-I understand that you were
unable to walk without crutches for years, and
now you can walk az well as ever.
Old Lady-Ics.
Which one of our Christian science healers
cured you -
"Oh, l didn't have a healer. You see, | went
into a dark, gloomy room one moonlit night,
and / saw a white ghostly form right before me,
and was so startled that l dropped my
falling on the floor so nearly crazed me that l
sprang TO the door and ran for my life"
" oh! Then it was some kindly spirit from
the summer land that came to make You whole? ?"
NO; it was a white dust cloth over a broom
stick.
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RAND CHANCES.

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ou'' Do'o'
Blanche Stokes is a gay young thing, who
would rather have a good time than say her
beads. Blanche il even willing that dignity and
sobriety shall go to the wall rather than be re-
strainted on her rhapsodic Joy. Judge Duffy
sent her up for a month for disorderly con-
.wbat n month Won old hall bead u, orio1
p,ancbo Tboreunop tha Ettlo Judgo oovo hor
a yoar Rl.rcbe tbinks his ideas of di,orderlv
corlrct . nocuIior wber +oIipo tbo t,,,tb il
twolva tiros no had as bay;,, n good t;na
Fred May is church-g going in Buenos Ayres
This opens up fascinating conjectures as to
WIht pIhLlllhl may Z Ill q
| York Fred used to amusc himself with breaking
whom he had not been iptroduced. and RAISING
the devil generally. His presence in the sancti.
mopioua atmosnhere Of Busnos Avres ia dine 70
his skippipp his bail when held for shooting q
conner who dared TO interfere with Nav.
insulting a woman. All that il needed Por Fred.
eric's integral wbitewasbing now il to learn thai
he keeps awake during the sermon. Alas, tbi,
10 mt NAV. but December.
Dixev and Rice oupht TO he at home in New
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l thought as l was out walking on n coun-
try road | saw n woman coming towards me-
who was pulling the hair from her head.
When she saw me she chased me through
fields for about an hour. Finally | escaped
to O house without letting her see me. Next
day l had occasion to pass that way. when !
saw the same kind of n woman, who chased
me over the same route as | dreamed of, and
to exactly the same h use, where | stayed in
terror until she went IL mile away. | heard in
n few days utter she was II woman who lived
near that place, who was mad. !. L..
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His Dream WINS Doubted,

About sixteen years ago | occupied a room
in which there was an old buroiu. All the
drawers of this were unlocked, excepting one
that contained some old family papers. This
had never been opened, as far rs | know,
though ! had often pulled at the handle to
try it, but without success. One night |
dreamed that it was unlocked, ana told my
brother in tho morning. On trying 1t, he
found it would open. He naturally thought
| had told n story and the only result of hay
ing a strange dream was to have my veracity
doubted. L. Z.
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lfF0n' HdTprTs bdsdI,
Husband-My dear, these trousers are frayed
at the bottom.
Wifo-They are the best you've got, John, ex-
ccpt your dress trousers.
Husband-Well, give them to me. l have an
important interview on hand to-day in which |
expect To be at different times proud, naughty.
indifferent, d~iguiied and perhaps a tribe dis
daintul. A man can't be all that successfully
with fringe ON the bottoms of his trousers.
The evening world., 1889-02-12
Predicted nu ..EvenlnS World"

At the time of the first publication of The
EVENING WORLD, l was visiting some friends
in Pittsburg, whore | obtained n copy OF the
morning WORLD with great difficulty, aud
went to bed very much pleased with the
news / had been reading. | dreamed that
The Evening WORLD was to he published,
and that it pleased the people 50 much that
ton. What was my surprise on returning to
New York to find that Tar EVENING WORLD
had been issued. ] have been n constant
reader of it ever since. II. NJ.
West New Brighton, S. |.
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One Fact

Is worth a column OF rhetoric, said an American states
man, II Is a fact, established by the testimony Of
thousands Of people, that Hoods sarsApaTillA does cure
scrofulA. salt rheum and other Diseases or affections
arising from impure state or low condition of the blood.
1t also oyereomes that tired feeling. creates a good Ap-
petite and gives strength to every part Of the system.
II you need u good blood purifier. tonic or appetizer.
try Hoods SArsApArillA Sold by all druggists. 81 six
for IS. Prepared b. o.. I. HOOD 4 CO., Lowell. AlAAA
The evening world., 1889-02-12
He Went All In Pieces.
New

A short time ago | had the following dream:
l suddenly felt myself going down. | could
not SEQ where or now. slow at first, then
faster and faster until / had obtained n
frightful rapidity. AS / went down parts of
my body we're giving way rs If by friction
with the air, until only my face WAS lett;
even the back part of my head was gone.
Then l gradually slowed up. and as | did SO
my body slowly regained its proper shane,
and when entirely whole l stopped and woke
up. j. e., 81 South Ninth street.
The evening world., 1889-02-12
Visited Africa in sIeep.

1 dreamed ! was on a voyage down some
river in Central Africa. We were attacked
by some savages and in the excitement / fell
overheard unnoticed, IL being quite dark Mt
the time. | iloated quickly away and in n
short time | was lying on some lonely shore.
As | lay there | heard the roar of some ami
NAL. and turning in that direction / saw The
WoRID's bicyclist. Thomas Stevens, walking
towards me. He gave me q hearty welcome
and was relating to me some Of his adyen.
lures, when suddenly q large tiger pounced
upon me and | awoke with a sudden start.
+. w. r., in.
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I dreamed l was in my room rocking my
baby and my little four-year Did girl was
playing on the floor. My dead sister came III
the room, and taking my little girl under her
arm, said: Go TO our mother" was
much alarmed over this dream, thinking |
was about to lose my little one. The next
day | went up to my mothers house aud
found her very sick. She was in excellent
health the night before. Eight days later she
died of pneumonia. NJ. A: T.,
New Jersey.
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/ dreamed | was working in an apartment
house, and that l Y went upstairs to got some
doughnuts, and was asked when ] came down
where did | get them | answered Every
morning Mt 7.45 o'clock, when the postman
brings a letter for Reno. | always take il M,
and she gives me %doughnuts." When Iawoke
] heard the postman in tie yard calling for
Reno, and it was Just las O'Clock.
j. +. HAYNE. 15i Sullivan street.
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A Slight IIaIIucinntion.

dreamed l received II letter from The
EVENING WoRLD stating that $50 was waiting
INV arrival for having the most remarkable
dream. | was thinking what | would do with
it, when / heard n voice say, - Time TO get
Respectfully. LILLIAN STOCKTON,
A2i West Forty eighth street.
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Typographical Union No. 9 announces its an
nual ball at Tammany Hall on the night Of
March IL.
The American Federation of Labor is making
preparations for a general movement for eight
hours i'll May, 1890.
The Miscellaneous Section will have q lively
meeting tonight. The beer boycott bribery
subject will probably be discussed.
The evening world., 1889-02-12
Il Wan GettIng Lnte.

IFTON HufptTN HnEIT
1.-THE saddest words are often the sweetest, '
murmured De Boor. 1.-The lovers goodnight,
for instance"
Yes, sighed Miss Weary, - always like to
hear you say it,"
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There Was No Occasion.

tPhiip II. Wsleh, IN the Epoch.l w
Mamma Ito Flossie. who had been lunching
with a little :friend)-I hope you were very po-
lite, Flossie, at the table, and said "Yes,
please, - and - No, thank your .
Flossie-Well, | didn't say i" No, thank you,
because yol see l took everything.
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from The Boston Beacon.
Amy Williams-Ruth, dear, won't You walk up
to the corner with me- l don't like to go alone.
Ruth Ward-Im never alone, Amy. The Lord
il ALWAYS with me.
Amy-Well, Ruth, you walk up to the corner
with me, and then you will have company back.
The evening world., 1889-02-12
Modern


Old Wayback Waybackstfrom Wayback Town
shipl-Gee whacki things is scrumptious. amt
they Whattfur ia that ar axe in tn furrard
part o. tn kyar?
Young Makeup Wayback (from the cityl-That
il To help kill the passengers in case of acct
dents, 30 as to bring the damages Town to
s.. 600,
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Heroic Treatment for Toothnche.

TPT0W INC FWyI"Id Guy tNTOhIc7e,I
The following heroic treatment for tooth
ache was practised by a Cocopah Indian at
Yuma, He rolled strips of cloth into small
balls. and after setting fire to them applied
the burning cloth to his cheek, holding them
tightly to the skin until three great holes
were scared into the flesh.
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prom the Philadelphia ReeOrd.I
Waiting Maid IA few years hence)-The woman
of the house wants to know il You can have din
ner to-day at 3 o'clock ?
Cook Lady-Tell the woman of the house I'm
at home to me friends to-day, an there won't be
no Inner except for me callers.
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As Great ms Rubens.
|fIEom Harpsr's Basay. ]

WV" HH'P bt-hFrI
What a wonderful painter Rubens WASH re-
marked Merritt at the art gallery.
Yea, assented Cora. 1T IL said of him
that he could change a laughing face into a sad
Why, spoke up little Johnnie, in disgust,
my school teacher can do that.
The evening world., 1889-02-12
. Drawback TO the Game.

"These old fashioned forfeit games are well
enough in their way" said Dudeling, 4" but
when you get a glass ring back in place of the
solitaire you gave up in a moment of confidence,
you really began to desire some more genuine
amuaamaDt-"
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l dreamed one night that | was in a vast
wilderness, and an angel appeared in majestic
spiendor. with a golden ring in its hand,
which it presented TO me. My dream has
come true. as 1 have met my intended wife,
and she has the identical features of the
angel. JOE AND EMMA.
The evening world., 1889-02-12

The Main Trouble.

From Harrsr's busar.l
but his audience insulted him: they kept
egging him on and on"
mo, they didn't. They kept egging him off
and of. That's why he pulled a gun on them. ="
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Not Open to such Offers.

IFFOW he DETROIT FFee FTtss
Peter Clark, an Ohio lad. hung to a beam on a
railroad bridge while a train Of f~orty-six
frcight cars passed over his head, and he says
he wouldn't do it again for the best custard pie
ever made.
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A Modern samson.

~ IHTT"T " F-T'I
"Is the baby strong 2
well. rather. You know what a tremendous
voice he has?'
Yes" ..
We'll, he lifts that five or six times an hour. "
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tFrom The Boston Bedcos
She-why, Charley, your grandmother died
only a week ago, and here you are at a dancing
party. | should thing you'd have some respect
for her memory.
He-Why, / certainly have. But you see she
lost her memory six years before she died. and |
date my respect from that time.
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A Drawing Attraction .


IFrOm Hdrper7h BdTnr
James" said the museum keepers wife,
There il IL good deal in the papers nowadays
about these New South Whales. think we
ought to get one Of them, even If 1t II only
stufted.n
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An Humble Mans Opinion.

[FFOm he DttTOiI Frte TTess.T
When an insurance company can lose half n
million dollars and let the robber quietly walk
off in peace, it looks to a man up a tree as If
rates ought to come down about 90 per cent.
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THE GREAT TOURNEY.
Who Would Have Thought There
Were 30 Many Dreamers9
-"The Evening World" Mails Still Crowded
with Dream Literature.
Julian Hawthorne, the Judge. Finds an
Avalanche of Work on His Hands.
Fought with bismarck.

Idreamed / was walking on the Brooklyn
Bridge. and l met Bismarck. We got into a
scrap and ] pulled his three hairs out.
CHARLES LEVY, 90 Fulton street.
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He FeIIIn Reality.

I dreamed the other evening that I was
falling and was s~training eyerv nerve to save
myself, but did not awake until had fallen
out of bed. LOUIS j.
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pymnasiums, reading. rooms and coffee
houses. would have seen much more, but
l awoke TO wish II were not all a dream.
SALzBURo, 1915 West Fordeth street.
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] dreamed that my attention was attracted
by the strains of martial music. l fastened
to the window and saw three distinct organ
~izations marching, with flies and drums. The
company in the centre was the largest. num-
bering several hundred men, who seemed to
be cong to target practice, The large ban
ncr, gayly decorated. which they carried was
inscribed EVENING WORLD Social Guards"
Being IN old soldier it brought my memory
back to war times. and when they
passed by | commenced to practise with drum
sticks in the house. drumming on anything
handy making Il most deatening noise. l
was suddenly called TO an account by some
unseen presence, and for punishment for
making such II racket | was conducted to n
cemetery and commanded to eat n human
corpse. which was there all ready for me. |
proceeded TO masticate it in q matter f-fact
way. commencing at the shoulders and tear
ing the flesh down in strips with my teeth,
but was awakened i'll the midst OF my grue-
some feast by u sense of horror.
G. NJ. D.. 3l6 East Eightieth street.
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Remembers IA Forgotten Language.

When | was a child about nine years old it
was Inv fate to be in the Indian Mutiny. My
mother. with my two brothers, myself and a
doctor and his wife. were driving for dear
life for the fort. We were, however, cap
tured by the Scpoys, who made short work Of
the doctor and my brother Herbert, about
one year old. whom they tossed in the air
and impaled on their bayonets. My knowl-
edge of the vernaculRr was perfect, having
been we'll grounded by my servant boy, and
| cursed those men as only q Hindoo can.
The flow of language 80 astouished the fiends
that they halted in their butcheS11o listen
and laugh at me. 1t saved ouf1iives. A
party of Jacobs's Horse came round the bend
of the road and saved ls.
Now, the strange thing is.that though / have
long forgotten Hindustani. as sure as ! suffer
from indigestion my nightmare Ii u repeti-
ton OF that awful scene, and, as of yore, l
curse those Sepoys in my dream, and aloud.
too. III most polished Hindoo oaths, to the no
small astonishment of those who may be
within earshot. especially If among my moo
turnal audience should be one up in the lam
guuge. JOHN c. GRAHAM.
The evening world., 1889-02-12

Miss Breathnor-I think it's a shame for your
sister to bamboozle that poor little Elson 20.
Mr.. Sallyson ts~adly)-Things right themselves
in this world. His sister is suing me for breach
OF promise at this moment.
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VIII give rsiisi 70 infants tSsthinE. Fri IT, e.
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OUR AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION.

M~~ZHA~
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Passed Almost Unnoticcd i'm New York-Ns
Flags on the Public Buildings and Only
n Few Clubs Celebrate by Dining in the
EveninR-President Lincoln's Life Work
Recalled.