Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-02-19
QUEER TEXAS HEARING.
The Most Wonderful Pair Of Ears
In All Christendonn.

The Most Wonderful Pair Of Ears
in All Christendom.
4 Youngster Who Heard the Breaking of
the Johnstown (Pa.) Dam in the Lone
Star State-Ths Greatest of Nat
ure's 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
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, sir-e-e, l tell
you I've seen him, an he is the wonder
fullest human being or any other being
that ever drew the breath O. life. I
amt jokin'. faint no occasion to Joke,
an l amt lynn, cause down in Texas
folks don't lie for fun. Yes, sir-e-e, 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 baby's
flipper.
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 fired as Pres
1dent Harrison come up the harbor at
the Washington centennial. He heered
the breakin' O. tho dam what caused the
flood in the Conemaugh valley. He
didn't know what it was at the time He
said it 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 S.; VS., an sure enough in q
day or two com S news of great waves
an shipwrecks. It's rainin' in Cali
fornia,' he says, an by an by we hear of
storm over there. There's q 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. Il hear two engines
crash together on a 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?'
ut seems Incredible
''There, l knowed you wouldn't be-
heve it, cause you amt seen it. Seem
s b'lievin'. Lee me tell you sump'n'
else. This boy can hear yesterday as
we'll as to-day. It's fact. He can hear
a hundred years ago-a hundred years
back; yes, stree, thousan'! They
say in tho philosophy that sound never
does die. 1t just keeps on a-circulatin'
around an around, gettin' further and
further away from the earth, till we.
with our ordinary years, cant hear il no
more. But this youngster-wy le' me
tell you; I've knowed him to hear back
$3.50 years and listen to the song what
Miriam sung after Moses an the Israel
ties waded through the Red Sea!
Mind you," he added suddenly, ''hc
does all this big hearin', this hearin'
o great soun's back in tho ages an over
distances of thousands O. miles with tho
big year on tho off side O. his face, all
the time a-keepin' the little teensy year
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 . pin drop
on sofa cushion! lIc can hear q ny
walkin' on window pane an q cock
roach a-runnin' across the floor, an a
bedbug crawlin' between the sheets, an
we'll, Their amt no sound small enough
to escape him. He can set ten feet from
mo an count my heart beats! He can
almost hear person think!
''Wonderful, wonderful! How old is
the boy?"
Coin on twelve.''
us he strong and hearty?''
I'm sorry to say he amt Hes
mighty sickly an has awful spells with
his head"
Your nephew, l believe you said"
"No kin; just my folks an his folks is
Has he good sense?''
Hes long ways from being a idiot
can tell you, but his folks was ten
years 6ndin' it out. They thought he
was daft till they learn by a accident
that he couldn't hear out of both years
at once; that is, he could hear well
enough, but the sounds got so mixed up
that he couldn't tell nothing about 'em:
not thing
sit seems to me I've heard of that bow
before"
Its more'n likely. He's been con-
talked about"
''Barnum ought to have him.
THAT'S what tell his folks, but they
amt willin' to let him out O. their |
sight"
''Where is his home?''
ION farm short ways from Sher-
man. His name is Hector - Hector |
Braswell."
limo and It's Aprortionment.
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