The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-03-04
NO. 40.
sueDsrre's PHILOSOPHY.
KLEcTRIcAL rnEAKa.

ELECTRICAL FHEAKB
By this term we do not mean the experts
who testified recently that they could receive
shock Of 5000 volts and feel sort Of braced
up on IT, We make this explanation In order
10 prevent any miscouception Of the tenor Of
this article by the intelligent reader. By
electrical Freaks We do not mean people
vino play fantastic tricks with their imagina-
ton when they talk on this subject, but
rather the pranils which the forked lightning
plays when il strikes a hen house and lights
Up the emotional fancy Of the reporter who
5 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 aud wondering
whether he should divide it equally among
himself or give some Of it TO his tailor and
little 10 his landlady or take it all and hire
horse and a narrow buggy aud take a proud
but wealthy heiress out % 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
III LIt nNlli4ltI u lofo JOuu w. IOWlET HdW
a practical paper hanger in Albany. During
the first week Of June he was hanging paper
in the residence Of Mr. Clarence L. Mont
gomery when a heavy black cloud came
slowly over the city from the west, and
single fash Of lightning fell from the cloud,
entered the room where Fowler was at work,
ran up the trimming machine like 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 a bill for the
work, and had TO sue for 1t Mr. Montgom-
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 1t was established by the
evidence of more than twenty householders
that no paper hanger ever did that much
work in a day
People now living in SIX. .eateles who re-
sided there in the spring Of l5s2 sti remem-
Der the excitement over - remarkable case
the Aboriginal American church He was
sitting in his study one Sabbath morning, in
a 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
nightsbefore had taken the only razor in the
manse. While the elder sat gloomily rub
bing his chin and wondering if he couldn't
sandpaper it before class meeting, a storm
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 meekuess 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 crashing noise like 4-year-old
boy falling off pew during the long prayer.
The strangest thing aboet the occurrence was
not discovered until that evening, when the
preacher discovered that the lightning, on
departing, had burned a hole in his vest
pocket and fused a silver quarter into
round sphere, which had dropped out on his
way to the meeting house.
Last July, Mrs Weatherby Showers, wife
of the well known financier of that name,
was putting her three children to bed one
very warm, slltry evening when a flash of
sheet lightnng-Heyl Sirl want to re-
member that this is a Sunday papern Ha;
I'd like TO see me get a chance to forget it.
Well, that's so guess I'll leave that Showers
story out. 1t is pretty tough, little. But
the others may stand; if they are not as true
as some lightning stories I've heard told by
some awfully truthful people, don't want
cent that can't get.
ECONOMICAL MEASURES.
President of Electric Light Company to
Secretary-Look here we've got to cut down
these gas bills some way or other. You must
do more of your work by daylight OF else
you'll have to burn kerosene in the office.
Why not get a couple of student lamps, if
you must work after night"
NOW YOU SEE HOW IMPORTANT IT IS
"The aim and end of manual training in the
schools" says a teacher, lis ethical" And
yet there are some people who denounce
four years college course of football and
Ha; come to think of it, they are correct;
football isn't manual training, g,-Burdette in
Brooklyn Eagle.