The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1890-11-29
QUEER TEXAS HEARING.
Tho Most Wonderful Pair of Ears
In An Christendom.
4 YounRster Who Heard the Breaking Of
: the Johnstown Ps.) Dam In the Lone
Star state-The Greatest Of Nat
urss Many Freaks.

These were his exact words, as faith
fully reported in the New York Tribune:
Eyes, Stree, I've seen him with my
own eyes, an b'lieve what / see, cause
my eyes amt never gone back on me
since they was first opened thirty-nine
years ago down in the good old Lone
Star State O. Texas. God bless her an
old Sam Houston. Yes, stree, / tell
you've seen him, an he is the wonder
fullest human being or any other being
that ever drew the breath o. life. l
amt jokin'. 'Tain't no occasion to joke,
an amt lynn, cause down in Texas
folks don't lie for fun. Yes, stree, he's
got two Of the curusest years you ever
see. The one on the nigh side of his
face amt no bigger'n the year of a
mouse, but the one on the off side-gee-
mi-netty! Wy, see the size O. my hand?
Well, sir, it's bigger'n that, bigger by a
right smart, an my hand amt no babys
fiipper. ~ 81, e-sst
n'There amt no limit to his hearin'.
I've knowed him to hear two thousand
miles in air line. Last spring he stood
on the front porch at home an counted
the cannon shots what was fred as Pres
ident Harrison come up the harbor at
the Washington centennial. He heered
the breakin' o. the dam what caused the
flood in the Conemaugh valley. He
didn't know what it was at the time. lie
said 1t sounded like thunder, but he
knew it warn't thunder, an we was all
mighty puzzled till the papers told us
what it was. There's big storm on
the gulf he says, an sure enough in a
day or two comes news of great waves
an shipwrecks. It's a rainin' in Cali
fornia.' he says, an by an by we hear Of
q storm over there. There's a cyclone
In Kansas he says, an cyclone it is, a
thousan' miles away. It's comm this
way he says, an we get ready to dive
into our cellars. i hear two engines
crash together on railroad over there
he says, an he points in the direction of
the sound an we get map an mark it
down, an next morning read all about
the accident in the papers, just where
he said it was. Amt that wonderful
enough for you?"
Alt seems incredible"
nThare. T knowed Won wopIdn,t no.
lieve n. ,cause Won ain't saen a Saein,
. b'lievin'. Lee me tell you sump'n'
else. This how can hear Yesterday az
we'll "A TODAY lisa fact He can hear
a hundred vears acoa bundroa yaars
back: yes sir-e-r tbousan,I Tbcv
saw in the nbvlosonhv that sound never
does die. II inst keens on a.circulat;n,
around an around. cettin' further and
furtber awav frnr, tha a,rth ~, mn
with our ordinarr voars can,t hoar - -,
more. But this vounuster-w,v Ia, me
tell YOU: I've knowed him n hear hack
$3.50 years and listen to tho song what
Miriam snnr aftar N,a.a s an, ~ Is 49,
ties waded through Che Red Sea, - ]
= "Mind you,' he added suddenly. she
does ali This hin hcarin, this ba.r;n,
q great soun's bacl, n The ares an, over
distances of thousands o. miles with the
big year on the off side O. his face all
the time a-keepin' the little teensv wear
on the nigh side closed up. But when
he goes in the house he opens the little
year an shuts the big one, an, sir, with
that little year he can hear a pin drop
ON sofa cushion! lie can hear fly
walkin' on a window name an, a coct.
roach a-runnin' across the floor, an a
bedbur crawlin' between tho sbaats an,
well, cher amt no sound small enough
tc escape him. He can set ten feet from
me an count nv heart beatsi He ran
almost hear person Think ~
Wonderful, wonderful! How old is
the boy?" !.
A"Goin' on twelye.n
us he strong and hearty?"
I'm sorry to say he amt. He's
mighty sickly an has awful snells with
MS mead. -