Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-04-27

you blooming Britisher get off my head
You're standing on my head. What do you
mean! Get off of il, quick -
The young doctor started as though
pricked by a bayOnet His companion
looked at him in dumb amazement. He
himself had heard nothing, and could not
understand his friends apparent alarm.
The first one told him what he had heard.
Meantime their positions had become re-
versed Number two became equally
dumbfounded The same harsh voice gra-
ted upon his ears:
What" it said, ARE you trying to fiat
ten me out to. Get off of my head and stay
off of it,
The order was promptly obeyed. The
Briton stepped from the block and walked
with his friend into the centre of the hall.
Still no one was i'm sight They looked
across the great rotunda and through the
long corridor leading 10 the Senate cham
Der. They then turned and looked through
the corridor leading 10 the House of Repre-
sentatives. They could see persons enter
ing the chambers Of both houses, but mo-
body else
lit is very strange, don't you know one
of them remarked.
He was dumbfounded when the words
were repeated above his head beneath his
y
smile overspread his face.
~ have it, my boy, he said to his friend.
ITS hall of echoes.
At this they heard some one laugh near
by. Upon turning they saw young man
leaning upon the base of the statue Of Cen
eral Muhienburg. He had just come out of
the corridor leading 10 the hall OF the
House of Representatives. There was a
significant smile upon his face and good
humor beamed from his eye. The English
men approached and sought an eXplana-
ton. II was given with rare tact ana grace
This. gentlemen said he, was former
lv the hall of the House of Representatives.
Ii was here that John Quincy Adams was
stricken with death. This room has re-
sounded with the eloquence of Webster.
CLAY and Calhoun After the new wing Of
the CAPITOL was built and the House had
occupied its new quarters, the pavement Of
this hall was raised three and "a half feet
In the old DAYS its acoustic properties were
very bad. A member addressing the chair
from the center of the hall was confused by
the echoes of his own voice.
Every statesman complained and all
were overioyed when the new chamber was
COMPLETED. Since the elevation of the
pavement the queerest acoustic properties
have been developed. As you entered the
uues of John Wiuthropa and Samuel Adams.
| stood sixty-five feet away from you at the
entrance Of the corridor leading TO the
hall of the House of Representatives.
The elevation is about a foot higher
than the pavement of the hall. You as
well as myself were facing north. When
| addressed you in low and distinct tone
of voice. the words seemed to come TO you
from the gallery above the clock few
minutes afterward you stepped upon that
block near the statue of Fulton. | moved
10 point about forty feet away from you
near the statue Of Cass. My words then
seemed to come from beneath the stone
upon which you stood. You then moved
into the centre of the hall, where you got
the same echoes that annoyed many
statesman in the olden time.
Kennedy is a character well known IN
the Capitol He is an ardent admirer Of
senator ingalls, When ingalls, IS IN the
chair. or is speaking, the guide Will ire
ouentlv drag visitors from the whispering
stones to see and hear the Kansas Senator.
sSenator ingalls, is occupying the chair, y
ne saws. as the visitors enter the Senate
gallery sHe is the personihcation Of Sen