The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-10-24

a Faciie uorticuiturlst from India Works
Wonders ln % Maine jail.


Chief Gilman, of the Bangor police
force. has curiosity at his residence on
the west side, which, IL il continues 10
thrive, will be likely TO prove more OF a
sensation TO people OF this vicinity than
anything which may result from the
November election or the continued
fall In the price of lard. This is "A pretty
little plant, about a foot height. which
Ishmael. the circus lIindoo now In the
county jail here. triclxed out Of pile
of wet dirt up at the prison the other
night. lshmnel is already well known
20 our readers. IL was he who stabbed
/ the Singalese rascal who dared To ridi-
Guile the faith of Brahma, and he got
into Bangor jail for doing il.
AS soon as he struck the jail he began
10 amuse the other prisoners with his
antics. He is more of an athlete than
has ever been seen in Bangor, and.
though he Is only 10 years Of age, and
rather understood. he can handle man
twice his weight and years in way
that simply astonishes the latter; there
is no fathoming his tricks wrestling,
for he has catches and holds that have
been handed down i'm the inner circles
OF his race for many generations. lie
Is as solid as n bundle of wires and as
docile as child. He is q Handsome boy,
and he became the pet of the Jail in
mates as soon as he got acquainted
there.
Ishmacl brought with him TO Jail
few of his goods and chattels. They are
n queer lot of dinlSy doddies, miniature
tom toms. dried betel nuts, pieces OF
cork, spools. snake skins. stones. CO.
coanut shells and tin dishes-every-
thing you can think ola pile of COM
mon things with very uncommon pow
ers as Ishmael makes them work.
The young Hindoo is a fakir-not the
1 kind that haunts the street corners and
sells shoe strings and patent medicines,
for they are the creations of the slang
| language of the day; he is a real East In
dian falSir, and the tricks which he does
are regarded by his people as well-nigh
supernatural. They have never been
/ solved excepting when betrayed by
some member OF the race who got
drunk on western fire water and ex-
posed the whole thing. These rascals
die suddenly soon after
One Of the best OF his tricks Is the
! growing OF bush out OF pile Of dirt
! in full view OF nm audience. Ishmael
can do IT, lie did Il The other night up
in the jail when Sheriff Brown gave him
a chance to use his apparatus. and Chief
! Gilman has the plant as proof.
Ishmael took little pipe OF sand and
mud which had been brought for him
| in the Jail yard underneath the window
where he looks out and thinks up new
tricks every day, and placed IL in the
middle OF The floor on n cloth. Then he
took what he said was seed and
showed il 60 his audience. This seed
was the same thing from which he had
produced dollar bill few minutes be-
fore by simply squeezing IL, but that
didn't make any difference 20 him, but
he put il in the dirt and got ready to
grow his bush Nobody thought he
was really going to do H. He swore
that he would produce a mnngrove tree.
Ishmael first took cloth and placed
II over the earth; then he began to say
of some kind OF heathenish incanta-
tion. and in the course OF half n minute,
when he removed the covering. there
| vas ~ ilAAlN NI'lOhA 0Atti AtiE UP Nbbht ait
inch above the pile. That's pretty good.
Ishmael smiled demurely and winked
the other eye.
Again Ishmnel put the cloth on the
dirt and again he ratified Oft his rubbish
i'm choicest Iiindoo. Something sudden
| ~ stuck itself up inside the cloth, which
peaked up and wrinlSled rs il did so.
and then Oft came the cover with
swish and exposed a very healthy young
bash standing there in the dirt.
or course everybody said that the
bush was made Of paper, but Il wasn't.
II was a real thing, and IL was moist and
soft and pithy just as IL it had been
newly pluclSed from the ground out
side. At it's bottom was n full set of
| little roots which were covered with tho
c,inging earth in which it had-well,
grown.
Chief Gilman. who was present, took
the bush home with him and set it out
in his garden. lie said on Saturday
that IL was getting on well. and that IL
looked as N II had come 70 stay. He
can't understand how Ishmael did IT,
Neither can anybody else. Some OF the
men IN the jail declare that the young
ster is n devil in disguise. but most OF
them consider him n mighty smart lad.
But he Is n great vegetation starter;
he beats super-phosphatcs ut their own
| game.
The bush Is worth seeing; IL r. com
posed OF closegrowing green leaves on
straight stalk and little red blossoms
nrc beginning 20 grow on the top OF IL.
It's n curiosity.
Ishmael says It's ms easy as rolling
Oft a log.-Bangor Courier.
Frontier Guard o. xpIoita.
The Homeric achievements of the
| bulgarian frontier guards are i'm fair