Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-11-08

I ttueco-
i In connection with human In
dividuals this faculty OF perceiving
objects not actually present to the
outward senses has manifested itself
in various ways. Able Richard
astonishei, In 1858, the whole OF
Europe on account Of the facility
with which he could find pure
drinking water. A Hungarian
newspaper relates how Mr.. Rich
ard, in a little town, Debreezin,
pointed out ten different places,
where there was water to be found
at considerable depths. On the
shore Of the Rhine, In the vicinity
Of Bon, there is high plain, which
on account Of lack Of water had been
uncultivated. Richard here pointed
out a place where n well could be
bored, and water was found at a
depth Of seventy feet. Count Po-
tocki had in his garden three wells
which all were empty. One OF these
was 100 feet deep. Richard desig-
mated spot in the garden where
water enough could be obtained,
aad on boring 1t was found to flow
copiously at depth Of twelve feet
The great so-calIed Inquisitory in
Breslau suffered from the lack OF a
we'll, and many futile attempts at
finding water had been made before
the directors called upon Richard to
give his opinion. He came and
walked round on the premises Of the
great prison but evidently without
finding what he was looking for.
BE left the prison grounds, but JUS.
outside the gate he-stOppsd and ex-
claimed: e'why, right here you
will find enough good water at a
depth Of thiFty-four feet" This
proved afterwards to be the case.
Many of our Norwegian readers
will remember peculiar-looking
Individual who used to wander
about from place to place, liv-
ing seemingly more in another
world than in this. He could never
wear a covering on his heal, nor
could he have any money about
his person, because they threw him
into fit, even If they were placed
III his pockets without his knowl-
edge. He mad such wonderful SEN
sation OF the presence of water that
wherever he went and happened to
walk over spring beneath the sur
face Of the ground, he could point
this out with never falling certainty.
He was generally known as Wise
knud, aud Bjornstjerne BjornsOn
has thought it worth while 70 pre-
serve the memory OF this person in
an ably written pamphlet.
Other persons have displayed a
similar faculty of perceiving hidden
metals, and others, buried corpses.
Friedrich V. Schiller felt once when
he was out walking in tie neigh
borhood Of Meiningen that there
Was a corpse hidden in n certain
place which he designated. An in
vestigation proved this to be true.
David Strauss says that many per-
sons feel very III as soon as they
walk over graves, and he relates
tie following about certain person
named Billing, the secretary Of
Pfrffel:
when he walked over grave, he
felt a shock as OF electricity and, If it
happened TO be dark, he could see
over ouch places a white human
figure turning Its face towards the
head Of the corpse. Such a figure he
once saw in the garden Of PfefTeI,
where nobody knew Of tho burial Of
anybody. But when the place had
been investigated a skeleton was
found"
4 remarkable instance Of percer-
ton is related OF the Herrnhutian
Bishop Spangenberg in the "Life Of
Zeisberger," by Helm:
"Bishop Spangenberg had arrived
in America in order to visit the mis-
sion stations among the Indians, and
found himself compelled to go to
oaondago by the lake ornida where
the great council OF the six confeder-
aiei Indian nations had their head
quarters. He was accompanied by
Zeisberger and Scheboscb. The
journey lasted for three months
and was connected with great
difficulties one day the travellers
found themselves without provisions
and laid themselves down by a small
creek, exhausted and discouraged, ex-
pecting to perish in the woods. Sud
denly Spangenberg rose and with
joyful countenance said to Zeisberger:
MY. David, so and get US a meal Of
fishes: The young man was well
acquainted with the life in the woods
and answered: Il would certainly do
so, bat in this kind o, water and at
this season of the year there is no
fish, But Spagenberg replied: when
I say, 90 ont fishing, so do It this time
as favor to me- The missionaries
went. but Zeisbsrger remarked: The
dear Bishop does no. understand the
fishing business; it is not his trade
But how astonished were the two
when they in their first effort caught
grea. number OF fishes.''
Hieronomus in his De rita Paul.
erenlRae gives the following ac-
count of the meeting between the
two hermits, Antonius and Paulus,
Of Thebe:
"Anionius had recsivel revelation
that far away in the desert there was a
man holisr than he and that he should
90 and find him. He commenced to
walk without knowing where to 20.
But he was led TO grotto into which
he crept and finally found the hermit.
Paulrs, who had been living there for
ninety years The two men, although
complete strangers, embraced each
other in friendly greeting"
The wonderful faculty of the
human mind of which we are
speaking shows Itself more univer-
sally active in dreams than in a
waking condition. The suspension
Of the functions OF the body seems
to leave this faculty a greater liber-
ty Of action. Very few persons are
to be found who have not some ex-
perience Of having had coming
events made manifest TO them dur
ing the quiet hours OF night. A
great many such dreams have been