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The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-07
SUSPENDED AnihaaTlon.
4 Case Which withstood All Tests to De-
 tect Fraud.

4 Case Which Withstood All Tests to De-
 tect Fraud.
 My first acquaintance with the nara tive dates from my boyhood, says a writer in Chambers Journal About the time of the occurrence heard it re- lated by my father; and his authority was the we1l-known Gen. Avitable, Runjeet Singh's right-hand man, who was present at the facts. Those facts are that certain ''joghee," (Hindu an- chorite), said to possess the power of suspending at will and resuming the animation of his body, was sent for by Runjeet Singh, and declining to obey was brought by force into the tyrant's presence and ordered to give under pain of death a practical proof of his sup posed power. He submitted perforce. He was put by his disciples through cer- tain processes, during which he became perfectly unconscious: the pulse ceased, his breath did not stain polished mir TOT, and a European doctor who was present declared that the heart had ceased to beat. To all appearances he was as dead as Queen Anne.
 In this state he was put in a carefully made box, the lid closed and sealed with Runjeet Singh's own signet ring. The box was buried in a vault prepared in an open plot of ground under the royal window at Lahore, and the place was guarded day and night by Runjeet's own guards under Gen. Avitable's own supervision. Sun and rain came and grass sprung up, grew and withered on the surface over the grave, and the sen- tries went their rounds, and the joghee's disciples and friends were all kept un- der careful surveillance, not to call it imprisonment. After forty days, in Runjeet Singh's own presence, the vault was uncovered and the box extracted from it with its seals intact. It was opened and showed the joghee within precisely as he had been placed. He was taken out, dead still to all appear ance, but the body incorrupt. His dis ciples were now brought to manipulate the body in the manner which he had taught them and which he had pulp icly explained before his burial. He revived as he had said he would, and was soon in as perfect health as when he had suspended his life! He refused all gifts and retired to his former re- treat, but shortly afterward he and his disciples disappeared It was not safe for such man to live in the jurisdiction of so inquisitive and arbitrary ruler.
 Runjeet Singh cared little for human life, which was his toy or plaything. No one who knows his historical character will for a moment admit that he would let himself be deceived or played upon in the matter on which he had set his heart. Each scene-the suspension of life, the burial, the disinterment, the reviving took place in the tyrant's own presence and before hundreds of spectators, in open daylight and with every precaution that absolute despotic power could command. Runjeet cared little whether the man lived or died, so that his own curiosity was gratiied. The guards under the palace windows by Avitable would be anX- ious solely to carry out Runjeet Singh's wishes
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-07
A PacnIinr Way.

An old New Yorker, living not far from Gramercy park, has his own way of becoming acquainted with the life in distant cities. He is an invalid and cannot travel, but has plenty of leisure. His plan, says the Sun, is to subscribe for year for the best daily paper in whatever city he wants to know about, and then he reads that paper carefully, As result he vows he knows more about Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash ipgton and Richmond than if be had travelled about each of them for 9 month, Just now he is mastering the peculiarities of Atlanta, and is greatly interested in it's southern ways and views.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-07
He Got the Worst of It.

He was a Bath (Me.) hackman, so the Enterprise says, and he had Canadian quarter, worth only twenty cents iu Bath, that he wanted to dispose Of So one dark night when an innocent old lady handed him half dollar he gave her the Canadian quarter in change, and instead of feeling ashamed of him. belf he chuckled over the transaction that is, he chuckled until he pulled out the coin the lady had given hin, and by the light of lamp discovered that 1t .Was Comedian half dollar.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-07
FRENCH NOTIONS OF AMERICA.
Exploits of Seated Bull Faithfully De-
 acrIbed by 8 Paris Periodical.

Exploits of Seated Bull Faithfully De-
 scribed by Paris Periodical.
 The notion that the United States is a country principally inhabited by people of Indian race still clings to a great many Europeans, and even some of those who are educated. The most singular misapprehensions concerning the Indians and the part of the country they occupy are continually appearing in the newspapers in Europe. A French periodical called Science Pour Tous Science for AID, which declares its aim to be enlightenment of the public, recently published the following ab- surd article:
 I've have received some interesting information concerning the incidents which preceded the recent rising in arms of the Indians in the west, and one of the first engagements.
 "The Seated Bull, their chieftain, having resolved to make known the fact that the Indians had not received their annuities and certain promised munitions, betook himself to the capitol at Washington.
 "There he laid before the president of the legislative body his complaints of the governmental agents, who he de- clared had stolen what was the Indians due.
 "He was informed that his declara- tions would be taken under considera- tion, and he departed. But the promise having remained without performance, the Seated Bull once more came to the capitol
 "This time, in the midst of the assem- blaze, the Seated Bull did not utter a word, but drew his tomahawk and dealt with it terrible blow upon the marble table which was before him. The table was broken in two, and the chiefs tomahawl1 buried itself in the floor be- meath.
 ''It was the token of the chiefs declar- ation of war.
 1.-The Seated Bull then left the capi- tol without anyone daring to lay hand upon him. Returning to his canoe, which he had tied to one of the piers of the great bridge across the Potomac river, he padded rapidly back to his own territory"
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-07
SAVED BY THE PENCIL BLUE.
What Became of the Parenthesis of 8
 Sweet Society Reporter.

What Became of the Parent.esis of 8
 Sweet Society Reporter.
 A writer in the Baltimore American pense of a lovely and gifted lady who began few years ago career as a so- ciety reporter. Every week her copy went to the editor beautifully written and faultless, considered as copy from the printers point of view; but any lit- tie suggestion she wanted to make she ran along with the article in the follow ing fashion:
 ''Mr. and Mrs. Brown-Smythe gave on Monday an elegant blue dinner of fourteen covers. (For goodness sake spell the name Smy-last week it went in Smi, and she was as mad as hops about it.) Mrs. Indigo Blueblood has sent out cards for ball, at which she will introduce into society her lovely daughter. (This is all right. This Mrs. Blueblood has some sense and doesn't in the least mind seeing her name in print. It's the other Mrs. Blueblood we had the fuss with.) Mrs. Uptown gives pink tea as soon as Lent is over. Don't stick her down at the tail end of the column, whatever you do. want to please her anyhow, be- cause last week she just went in as one of the many others.)"
 If it had not been for the discriminat- ing editorial blue pencil, that fashion and society column would have been very delicious reading on Sunday morn ing-since printer follows copy and parenthesis on the paragraphs brim plain parenthesis is to him, and it is
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-07
WHY SNOW IS WHITE.
All the Elementary Colors Are Blended
 Together in the Crystals.

All the Elementary Colors Are Blended
 Together in the Crystals
 The pure white luster of snow is due to the fact that all the elementary colors ofJlight are blended together in the radiance that is thrown off from the surface of the crystals. It is quite possible to examine the individual snow crystals in such a way as to detect these several colors before they are mingled together to constitute the com pound impression of whiteness upon the eye. The snow is then clothed with all the varied hues of the rainbow. The soft whiteness of the snow is also in some degree referable to the large quantity of air which is entangled amid the frozen particles.
 , Snow is composed of a great number of minute crystals, explains London Tit-Bits. More than Q thousand dis tinct forms of snow crystals have been enumerated by various observers. One hundred and ffty-one were noticed during eight days in February and March, 1855, by Mir. Glashier, which were carefully drawn, engraved and printed in 8 paper attached to the re- port ot the British Meteorological so- ciety for that year.
 These minute crystals and prisms re- fleet all the compound rays of which white light consists. Sheets of snow on the ground are known to reflect beautiful pink and blue tints under ccr- tain angles of sunshine, and to fling back so much light as to be painful to the eyes by day, and to guide the trav- eler, in the absence of moonshine, by night.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-07
South American Hotels.

The visitors first experience of the hotels in Buenos Ayres is his first disap- pointment. With the exception of the Grand hotel, which would rank with third and even fourth class houses in Europe, all the thirty or forty hotels of Buenos Ayres occupy inadequate build- ings and they are badly furnished, bad ly managed and altogether wretched, dirty and comfortless, Nevertheless, the proprietors make good profits. They charge from S2.50 to S12 gold a day for each person and their houses are always full,
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-07
Big Drift OF Rie Story.

''Some pretty big stories," remarks the Kennebec (Me.) Herald, "are told of the snow drifts in Aroostook county, Me, but the biggest comes from a con- mercial traveller. He had recently come from there and said some men were chopping wood. A large tree fell the wrong way and stretched its giant trunk directly across the road. The snow on either side of the road was so high that, after clearing away the limbs, it was found that it would not interfere with travel in the least, as horse and sleigh could easily pass under it. The narrator himself had done so."
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-07

Post office: Taylor, Arizona Territory. M2 Range: Low Show Low. Horse Brand J s left shoulder.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-07
Not Serious.

A Wiscasset man, according to the Bath lMe-) Independent, discovered a big gash in his boot where he had cut his foot while in the woods and just managed to get home, feeling himself growing fainter from loss of blood all the way npd tainted on arriving; when somebody discovered that the gash only went thIcngh his boot and tae rcd color was not blood but only a wooiea s.ock- ing.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1892-02-11

Die ginfabrt in ben QermeI. ganal
1T BON ber duBerfen SpiBe, Bel Gape
2isarb, bis iiber Soutbampton binaus
nit 2eudItbiirmen unb 8olen f5rmIi6
sepflaitert. gei bellem Wetter fdbrt
man bort bes Na1ts bur9 cine srcBara
tis illuminirte Strabe. Sebod ale
bieie goriidtsmaBressIn iino nuBIos,
tpenn bic ebten @analnebel borberrs
iden, pelde iebeS Seusrssidsn auf
fiinfsis Sdritte uniibtbar MAIDEN.
Die srobsn Dampfer tonnen in ioIdem
IebeIwetter aud nidt ftilIe baIten, benm
bic @efabr beS NneeranntiperbenS in
iener perfebrSreiden @esenb 1T su srpb.
Derartise &ieienoampfer tpie bic 2loso.
fdiife mtiHen in 8eipesuns bleiben, INN
auspeiden su fDnnen, falls elm anberes
Sdiif in bebroblihe 9tdbe fommt. 9lud
lino Die StrDmunsen bort 10 tart, bab
sin Sdiff betradtlid fortsstrieben
werben fam. 9lus bieien @riinben
ldBt fid tpobl faum eesen ben Captain
Der ,,giber" Der 8ortpurf seltenb mas
den, bab ct bas llnsliid burb 8siters
fabrsn peranIabt bat. Stpeifeaos bate
er por Dem Gaps 2Barb i6on sinen
2ootien an 9orp genommfn, 70 baB
bielen bic 8erantipprtuns treffsn tpiiroe,
i'm Sale Elm Serieben in Der Siibruns
bes SdiffeS bas llneliid peranIaBt bat.
Die gnsldnoer baben su iuenis fir
bic geieitlsuns Der Obitruftlonsn i'm
Canal setban. Sic baben iid su iebr
auf ibr aeudtfeuerperf perIaiien. tpels
Dies alleroinsS srpBartis 1T. gber bic
iur6tbaren Hiife an oer Sniel 8isbt
unb BEL ben Sclllp. .SnieIn befebsn aud
nod i'm 3eitalter bes DpnamitS fort.
Dis Nmerlfaner baben NIT ber Sprens
suns bes srDbten Ibeils bon Seasate
seseist, mas ii6 our6 ipItematiide Nr.
belt in 8e,us auf 8eieitiguns bon Hlf.
fen unb llntiefen leiiten ldBt. bic Gnss
ldnber baben ieoob pies 8eiipiel unbe'
rddiidtist seIohen. gS ipirbe alters
hines Satrsebnte bausrn unb 8iefen.
iummen foiten. um Die sefdbrlihitsn
8iHs iensr @esenb su beieitisen, iebod
nimmt osr S6lifsberfebr i'm Nermelea.
male berartis su, oaB iens Arbsit einfad
unattpsisbar ipiro.
Seit bem 8erluit Der ;, Deutidlanb"
Dor unscfdbr l6 Sabrcn, 1T bieS oas
erite S6lffSunsIiid, ipeldes ben Norb.
beutidsn 2lopo auf ieinen atlantifden
sabrien betrOffen bat. tpobei nod au
ermdsen 1T, baB Der 2ItpN mebr srobe
S6nsapampisr auf benz atIantiiden
Dean beitdnpis perfebrsn ldst, ais bic
beiosn bebeutenbiten ensliihen 2inien
suiammensenommcn. Ibatiabe 1T.
paB Der 2Ippp, auBer beim Sdeitern
Der .DeutidIanb", nod fsinen gafas
aier auf ieineu atlanttiden Sabrteu
b rIoisn bat. (gluf Der ;, ,DeutibIanb"
a neen iehs 9icmen untsr, ipelde in,
l9sbet perbarrten unb nidt sum 8eitei.
oen Der goote psranlaBt tpereen fonn.
TIM = 2lud iiber Der ungliitliden Giber
bat elm sliidlider Sietn sepaltet,
9llle Rliiaaiere iino serettet tporben
unb penu Captain SeinribS nidt feit
oarauf ptrtruute, oab bic Gioer BON ben
6eIieurilien loSeebrodt weroen fDnnte.
70 piirne iiterlIh aud bte aus mebr
ais bunoert &bpfen beitebenbe Wann.
| ldaft eeborsen poroen Ieln.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1892-02-11
0erfauf ~ SpottpreifcH /

9son itbt bis gum |. 4p,il iuiro ieben
Na6mtttas unp Ateno eine srobe Auis
tion bon soloenen uno iilbernen llbren,
@eidmsipe ieeer gri, &in8en, 8roben,
Suberwaoren. 9Sanpubren mb anoe,
rem in bas Sulpellerfad einidIusenben
Baaren iein. 98esen llmsu3es tpirb
IlcS 10 Spottpreiien perfauft, aud bic
sinrid,iuns bss 8eiddftes.
u dert,
203 2cdaipanna gtperue,
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1892-02-11
SGbrlide 3ednuuss=N Nblase

@ommiHdre bon 2adaipanna County,
seisenb bic Ginnatmen, @useaben, 3ulfanb
Der 0iran,en unp eer Hehnunaen ter Staats
une County Steuerfclleftpren fur eas Jiseal.
jabr snbsne am 3. Sanuar 1899.
@innabmfn.
8stras tts Sabrss Giunatmsu,
laut &ehnung ppn SO. SdaB-
meilfer .. s. Campbell, benz
County 5Cnc au berebnen,. ,.....$ I49,22725
Aussaben.
gluSgaben aus eem alISemeinen
8pnc, laut na6fOlaeneer Dar-
Ifslluug bar @pmmilGre re......$133, ,533.00
Ginnubmsu iter aussatsn....S 1854 25
afiebmsnts.
9Sablt ben IIsIcren fir eas
Staats unb County AlEeBmsnt
Glsrfs fir Giutrasuns Scn Wcrt.
CAGES uub Subsments une Ab-
lhrslben eerlelben, Ssrtsluns
Der Stsusrrupifate ete........ IS 4,2l6.S0
8rifen.
9aablt at 9 ". Ysrftns & 60.
fur ben Sau pon irben eilsrusn
8ruden, utmldb
Bride in &onlpm Sip,
ibsr @aroners grtef. .S430 90
Briide in Yiere 4tiretpn
NIB Benton 5lp., tibsr
SibSwsis Grssf....... 5000
Bride in Benton Sip,
ibtr Meper's gresf...... 10000
Bride in &parine Sreuf
apwnip., iiber 8sarins
| Sropt........ ........ a.. lUUUJ
Bride lit @prb Atinston
lip na aennsep's... 360.Gu
Sruds in @rssnfeb Gp,
an her alten Dfuble
nabe 3Ompfinspille.. 220 GO
| Sriide in SMbpnpalf iip.,
ilbff Sadaranna GluB. 1000
Yin y. 9 @arenfr fur
Strinbridr iibsr eada-
mama 6luB in 8ea 3ip. 800 90
| Snlpeitirn nrucr Yrlden. 60.u0
Sir Sriden' Sslbrsuns $3.50
IS 3.937. 80
Sssrbt9uueprrltprbeuer SpI-
battn.
Sssrabni6tofeu laut @siss prin
II. Wai 1885. 6 6.t5
@punts.atrsGnuus.
5nr. Mprris, County 9b.
rs1uuna fur 1884,, ..s9i2.G
s. u. Dolphin, County.
| Abrs9naus fir 1884,, 949,4i
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1892-02-11

Staats-abrs9nuns.
@. @ Baylor, Triifuns bsr Gst-
nurgen Der pnititpenen Co.,
Sfamten.. ............$ 1850
3urnpift- Stra6en.
8eihtieer Der fonetnt-
n'rten &anlcm 8allty
1nrnptff...... .........$ 1890
Gnii1abisuns brScran-
ton anb Nsipton 3urn-
ptte @p............... 5,5OOOO
9ntIhapigung Der Han-
iDm Bailey 5urupife
epmpanN.....,.....,. 2,SOU.W
--$ S,4S3.00
8erm btes.
9risfmarfsn, gouserte.. 5000
9egale glusgaben.. 1875
Staats Srunanlfalt in
Danpiue fir eada'
County patienten..... 3f7.75
Snbnlfrial 9tsfprman-
italt su 5untinapen
fir ead,a Gcuutp Sn-
tai1en...... .............. S'.96
3uriidsriattete Sieuern 1851
8srmiihte slussaben,
trra Shreiber etc.. 907.99
- 1,4i6.96
SctaIbetraa ber Aussaben ber 60.
GommifGre laut Anpeifungen
Rps. bic 3949, Seris g.. ..$f33, $1,000
StaBmsiNer .. s. Campbell ma6ts fol-
genre Nussabuneen aus bem aIsemsineu
County 5pnb, nsmli6;
Sntersiien auf County
Bombs $4,000
Staatsiteuer auf @nlsi-
ptH t..................... uot.Oo
@taBmeitsrs Commit.
6on............... :. 7,4i3.56
- t6,3a3.56
an S6ullupuintsnbsnt q. 9.
3apis fir @ttaltuns bes 60.
9nlfitutes. es.......................,. 10000
Gjsiammtbetrae hsr aussaben aus
psm allssmeinsu County 5cnp.. ..$t52, 1886
ansbesabltpom Silsuuss-8onb.
Bombs btr aussa6s pom 1. Stunt
1881 i'm Sabrspalauf einselSifS 5000 90
5otaltetraa Der slussateu Spm 60.
uno 5ilsunssfOnp p..........."..$t6l,3 1886
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-11-12
"Calling Down" an Orator.

At ST. Gallen a socialist stump or
ator was lately advertised to lecture.
An old local socialist, aware that the
demagogue was in the habit OF
largely ''annexing" from famous
writer's, determined to attend the
meeting and protest i'll his own way:
Seated near the rOstrum, at the enc
of the first sounding phrase he said,
his bass voice reverberating through
the hall, 'That's Ferdinand La
sales" The lecturer paused to glare
at his deep toned interlocutor.
A minute afterward another unac
knowledged quotation was made.
and That's Karl Marks" thundereo
the critic. This was too much fol
the lecturers patience. Leaning
over his desk he cried, you i'll man
nered old scoundrel, if you interrupt
me again I'll have you chucked out.
That's your own" doomed the voice
from below. And the whole meet
ing was very much with" the las
speaker.-Pall Mall Gazette.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-11-12
Bison in Europe.

Concerning the extinction of our
bison, the general belief is that our
continent was the only one that had
an animal of this distinct species.
This is in a measure true, but few
know that the European bison, or
zubr Olson bonassus), bears the
closest resemblance to our own bison.
AS Mr.. Lucas describes him-and
reference is made to a specimen in
the United States National museum,
there being a capital photograph OF
the animal in a Smithsonian report
bison bonassus looks SO much like
Americans that it would take more
than an ordinary observer to note
the distinction.
The European bison, first cousin to
our own, is taller, not so heavy as
to his fore quarters, nor is his head
so big. At present the zubr is re-
stricted to parts of Lithuania and the
inaccessible regions of the Caucasus.
In Lithuania the animals are under
government protection. Up to the
year 1900 European bison were not
rare in Poland. In 1914, in Tran
sylvania, if old chronicles + to be
relied on, the zubr trampled down
the growing crops. There is fail
reason to believe that in the middle
of the last century a Polish king
killed sixty bison in a day. In Lith.
uania, in 1880, there were 600 of these
bison on the imperial range.--New
York Times.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-11-12
A PrOfape Bird.

One day an old lady had cause to
severely reprimand one of her maids.
This so irritated the girl that. as a
wind up to the recital of her wrongs
in the hearing of her fellow servants
and Polly, who happened to be with
them. she exclaimed passionately, Il
wish the old lady was dead!' The
parrot lost no time ia showing off its
newly acquired knowledge when
next taken into the drawing rOom to
the alarm of it's elderly mistress.
She at once consulted the vicar, who
kindly volunteered to allow his own
parrot, which could almost preach a
short sermon, sing psalms, etc, to
be kept for Il short time with the I'M
piOus one.
To this crd they were kept 10
gether in q small room for a few
days, whcn the lady paid them a
visit in company with her spiritual
adviser. To their intense horror i'm
mediately the door was ODeIed, the
lady's parrot saluted them with the
ominous phrase. y wish the old lady
was dead" the wears bird respond
ing with all the solemnity of an old
parish clerk, THE Lord hear our
PRAYER" -Feathered World.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-11-12
A Puzzled English Visitor,

When Lady Somerset first came
to America she was particularly
anxious to become acquainted with
all the America,a Gllstoms and t(
take part in everything American.
Her appreciation of America was in
tense.
Now will YOU tell me-" she said
n day to a friend, "wily the chest
nut has been selected as a national
nut and why it is SO dear to the
hearts of every One2 notice that
all, be they old or yo9,.lng, boy OF
girl, man or woman, speak of the
chestnut frequently and always pleas
antly and even affectionately,
"Today, as ! was seated in one of
your horse cars, a little boy began
telling another one some short anec-
dote, when suddenly the other little
boy sprang to his feet and shouted,
oh, c%hestnutsI Later in the day
saw one man whisper something in
the ear of a friend, to which the
friend only replied, oh, what a
chestnut
''How pleasant to have so1netlhllngg
of which every one is SO fond. But
explain the cause of the liking.
Why was that particular nut select
ed9 Why not the almond or the pc
cana k it that the chestnut grows
more freely here"-New York
World.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-11-12
The Names of Western Cities.

An easterner going west for the first
time will find many Of his preeon-
ceived notions of pronunciation upset.
Butte is not But" but is sounded like
The first five letters in beautiful"
In California the people adhere very
closely to the original Spanish pro
nunciation of names derived from
that tongue. Thus San Jose is "San
Ho-zay." There is a San Jose in Hi
nois. I wonder how the people WIG
live there pronounce it. Again, Cali
fornia placer is sounded as though
written ~''plasser." Up In, Oregon
the second syllable Of Willamette is
strongly accented and the word
sounds like "Willam-et."
In San Francisco one day ! asked a
fIance acquaintance who hailed
from Arizona if he had ever been in
Tucson. l called'it 'Thck-son." He
said no, but he had frequently visit
81 "Too7son.n Accent the second
syllable strongly, and the last 80" as
i'm moi" Spokane is not 1.Spocaip,"
but "Spo-can," with the "an sounded
as in Scat" and the accent on the
second syllable. Wichita is (Which
ee-taw," first syllable accented. And
20 on ad infinitum New York
Tribune,