Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-01-18
BURDETTE'S PHILOSOPHY.
ELECTRICAL FREAKS

ELECTRICAL FREAKS.
 By this term we do not mean the experts who testified recently that they could receive a shock of 5000 volts and feel sort of braced up on it. We make this explanation in order to prevent any misconception of the tenor of this article by the intelligent reader. By electrical freaks" we do not mean people who play fantastic tricks with their imagina- tion when they talk on this subject, but rather the pranks which the forked lightning plays when it strikes a hen house and lights up the emotional fancy of the reporter who is working on space.
 A few years ago young man named Cas- par Weidpants, residing in Asbury park, was sitting at the window of his boarding house, counting his weeks salary and wondering whether he should divide it equally among himself or give some of it to his tailor and Q little to his landlady or take it all and hire horse and a narrow buggy and take a proud but wealthy heiress out to drive. At that instant a bolt of lightning struck the corner of a large house in Long Branch, not more than seven or eight miles away, and the young man never thought of his tailor or his landlady again. They often thought of him, but nobody ever found out where he went
 In the summer of 1879 John J. Fowler was practical paper hanger in Albany. During tho first week of June he was hanging paper in the residence of MT. Clarence L. Mont gomery when 8 heavy black cloud came slowly over the city from the west, and single flash of lightning fell from the cloud, entered the room where Fowler was at work ran up the trimming machine like a buzz saw for few minutes, stirred up the paste hung all the paper in the room and trimmed sixteen yards of arabesque border. Some of the family went in the room about o'clock that evening and found Fowler lying on the table, still sleeping from the effects of the shock. The stroke had also affected his mind and seriously biased his moral faculties, for he afterward brought in bill for the work, and had to sue for it Mr Montgon- cry being a very rich man), and he testified that he had done all this work before going to sleep. But that was impossible, and the court so decided, as it was established by the evidence of more than twenty householders that no paper hanger ever did that much work in 8 day.
 sided there in the spring of I783 still remem- Der the excitement over the remarkable case of the Rev. Lars Christophersson, rector of the Aboriginal American church. He was sitting in his study one Sabbath morning, in 8 morbid and gloomy state of mind, having | just learned that his son, who had gone of on a little scalping party down the lake the nigh4before, had taken the only razor in the manse. While the elder sat gloomily rub l ping his chin and wondering if he couldn't sandpaper it before class meeting, a storm 1 that had been gathering for some time sud- denly broke above the town with terrific vio- lence. A long zigzag streak of ball lightning entered the window of the minister's study, shaved him once over without raising a pimple, trimmed his hair straight across the back of the neck, giving him that peculiarly meek look of meekly meekness which is the artistic triumph of that style of cut, banged it in front to make him look childlike and simple, gave his shoes patent leather shine brushed his coat and was out of the window again with a crashing noise like 4-year-old boy falling off pew during the long prayer. The strangest thing about the occurrence was not discovered until that evening, when the preacher discovered that the lightning, or departing, had burned hole in his vest I pocket and fused silver quarter into 6 round sphere, which had dropped out on hi. way to the meeting house.
 Last July, Mrs. Weatherby Showers, wife of the we'll known financier of that name was putting her three children to bed on, very warm, sultry evening when flash O sheet lightning-Heya Siri want to re member that this is Sunday peperg' Ha I'd like to see me get a chance to forget it Well, that's so; guess I'll leave that Shower story out It is pretty tough, little. Bu the others may stand if they are not as tru as some lightning stories I've heard told b, some awfully truthful people, don't want cent that I can't get.
 ECONOMICAL MEASURES.
 President of Electric Light Company t. Secretary-Look here, we've got to cut dow these gas bills some way or other. You mus do more of your work by daylight or els you'll have to burn kerosene in the office Why not get couple of student lamps, i you must work after nightg'
 NOW YOU SEE HOW IMPORTANT IT IS.
 s'The aim and end of manual training in th schools says a teacher, lis ethicaln An yet there are some people who denounce four years college course of football and4 Ha; come to think of it, they are correct football isn't manual training .-Burdette il Rrnolylv,1 EorIa