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STRANGE SOUNDS.
GUNS OF eURRlsAUL AND OTHER
 MYSTlFYlNo PHENOMENA.

HHih0hh 5Ouhhe hh hftn et tie Earth Have Scared Many.
 Of strange sounds which probably de. pend on meteorological or other natural causes, one of the most remarkable has long been known as "the guns of Bur risaul," but though its causes have long been debated no accurate explanation has been given, so far as we are aware, that is thoroughly satisfactory. The Sunderbunds-a the delta of the Ganges in native dialect Is called.-is covered with a vast and luxuriant jungle of fnarshy vegetation. One of the stations is named Burrisaul. From here, in the rainy season, have long been heard mys- terious sounds resembling the discharge of artillery, and therefore popularly named ''the guns of Burrisaul."
 Only heard in the rainy season and from the southward, they have been heard loo miles of, yet on the coast it. self they appear still farther south. The sounds resemble the booming of cannon. Mussulman and Hindoo superstitions have each associated the sounds with their religious traditions. Others have thought the sounds were produced by the breaking of the sea on an island in the bay of Bengal. But wheref That some atmospheric or meteorological cause Is the explanation is all that can be said after hearing all arguments.
 A much number yet ancient instance of great local interest used to exist, we believe, at Baddeley, in the New forest, in the shape of a groaning tree. Whether it still lives and groans we are uncer. tain, but it is said to have uttered mys- terious and lugubrious sounds at certain times, probably dependent on wind or weather, but full of omen and import to past generations Indeed in the various mysteries which, despite fin de siecle acuteness, still surround us, eerie noises have always played most conspicuous part, whether out of doors or within ancient houses. Instances of the latter, indeed, abound. Some of the most thrilli ing of inexphcable ghost stories turn not on anything which has appalled, the eyes, but has distilled horror" through the ears, It is. we believe, in East An glia that the shIicks heard from time to time round certain pits have long been tradition in which female phantom has part.
 The drummer of Tedworth's' phan tom sounds are so well known from Aubrey and more modern dEecribers as only to need allusion, but we may here say that, according to communication in popular periodical some few years back, similar sounds had recently, com paratively speaking. been heard in the locality, and by people of most practical disposition. These may be called phan tom sounds. Returning again to those which hover on the border line between the natural and inexplicable, there is the wild strain as of weird music which has been heard aboard ships when getting within the circle of Mozambique cy- clone.
 One of tho same llind, formerly mys- terious and thrilling enough, has been resolved into natural one. Early trav. elers through the primeyal forests of Brazil--still among the few unexplored places of the globe-were sstunjshed and awed to hear the distant resonant sound of a bell peaEAg from the depths of tue woods, which certainly had no building and for ages had known no human foot. step. Many legend was woven rouad tho strange sound. Ultimately it wus discovered to be the note of the bell bird,
 There arc however, few mysterious
 T explained IS this. For instance, there is the legend of the sounds heard at times on the plains of Marathon, the clash of weapons, tho snorting of horses, ths shouting of the slayers and screeching of the laiD." which recall to memory the famous battle that lives 80 much moro wildly than many modern ones in the history of tine world Of course there are many instances of sounds which, at first mysterious, become so rei ally from the distance over which they travelled. but these must be distinguished from those which Dfc our theme.
 One of the most interesting examples rests on the authority of the late Sir Ed mund Head, who remembered when q boy going to church on the famous "Waterloo Sunday" June IS, 1915, at Blythe, in Kent His father and he, on arriving at the church at l 1 a. m., found to their surprise the congregation out side listening intently to the faint sound as of distant cannon coming from tho east. Afterward it was ascertained that Napoleon having, on the flor him un: fortunate advice of his artillery officers, who pleaded the state of the ground, waited till II to commence his fire, tho first French gun was fired as the Niyelles church clock struck II. Nor was Hythe the only place where the French cannon were heard in England.
 Here, however, is fact dependent on the by no means remarkable axiom that sound under certain conditions travels enormous distances. But the sounds of which we speak for the most part have puzzled all who have attempted to ex- plain them and lie indeed in that vague region which is inexplicsble. Suchis the sound of the "Airlie drum," such are the wailing of the banshee in some parts of Ireland. New York Post.
 A Scene In tho Attorney Generals office.
 Representative Wilson of West Vir- ginia, whose distinguished position in the house entities him to the utmost re- spect and consideration at the hands of any Democratic official, entered the office of the attorney general. The room was crowded with applicants for offices, and Mir Olney was very much harrassed. Mr. Wilson stepped forward to the att torney generals desk. Mir olney turned savagely upon him.
 "Sir," he said, you have come up out of your turn. You are doing an injus- tice to those who have been waiting here, and you will have to go back to the foot of the line and await your turn"
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