The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-15
FLUCTUATIONS.
,ue CURIOUS EXAMPLES
', IN HISTORY.

NJ THE
RECORDED IN HISTORY
.,y Great Men Have Been
''' ~ ;, vIsiOns-Frsauentiy They
''' ".., prophecies at Other Times
-. Caused Tragedies
ortauce of the part played by
~ Lamentations in the history
uall' La Ia can scarcely be overrated.
pc C war Napoleon Bonaparte, Soc
, , Ignatius Loyola. are but
La. .o Great men whose lives were
. q we enStwined withsruling delu-
pa'5p those cases the illusions seem
- Len nersistent and not to have
'' ss, OtIm by any voluntary effort
nort of the seer. On the other
y T y could walk ON to the stage
. ts staring at the brilliant and
. % audience for a few seconds
'. a'u 0as nothing but rows of grinning
' y r In this he seems to have fore
'1I Io,r Roentgen, for the skeletons
y !. the the exact positions of the mem
- tbe audience and changed their
:. -. With every variation of their
a aies twas to this grisly "house"
l ~a creat actor delivered some OF
raudest histrionic efforts, ~,
ssthe. as might be expected, called
'Isssapter and more peaceful visions.
m he could see flower in the CEN
!, his visual field. He thus described
'.rh;s flower does not for moment
awe its form; it is generally decom-
and from its interior are born
: aowers with colored. or sometimes
y METALS These are not natural
s,s. but fantastic, nevertheless regu-
smres such as the roses Of sculp-
n capacity for thus producing at
lovely object had, however. the
aysutage described by Abercrombie
ba famous Inquiry G Concerning the
,llectual Powers" that they were
AZ a rule dismissible at pleasure.
Ia after studying a model seated in
6,ir, could continue seeing her clearly
In the chair was empty. This must
q been an economical way Of hiring
Inject by the hour and would be an
sutsble talent in these days Of highly
modela The CHASTITY case described
en- Walter Scott Of the man who
bv that he was dying, and knew
IAlly we'll that there ives nothing
h.sver the matter with him, is per-
y too familiar 10 need moro than
Ing mention. The black cat that
! hckleas man saw Wa, TO use his
ID words, mo household cat, but .
|bbls Of the elements which hes no
kstanoe" This animal was % COM
b in form a. the seer's metaphor, for
would turn suddenly into Q court
Der, and the ushsr In his turn would
BONE Q skeleton. This man showed no
mptoms Of insaaityyand was fully
Ire Of the unreality Of what he saw,
bich must greatly have added to the
bsisent misery Of his condition.
An old gentleman described by the
b Dr.. Elan had a@pQwer Of conjuring
\ often without voluntary effort, two
more charming dancing girls, and the
ltics Of these nymphs continued until
eep came to theEescue. The old fellow
as Of particularly pious and proper
pm Of mind, so that their gratuitous
lllet was presumably wasted on him.
icolai Of Berlin, a very level headed
want, was troubled for two months
nth the vision of a corpse. The hallu-
nation lasted as a rule exactly eight
inutes and the body was apparently
ways steady at uniform distance Of
Sout ten feet from the observer.
This trouble supervened suddenly
tier violent quarrel in which Nicolai
Nd been engaged. Ultimately the
'rpse and all the poor mans other de-
slons were driven back to their own
here by the prosaic attacks of leeches
the temples. This treatment was
50 most effective in dispelling the vi.
Cns OF certain clergyman in Hamp-
lire late in the last century. He habit
My engaged in personal encounters
1th the devil, until the leeches drove
'e ioul fiend out Of his visual field.
: Bostock, the psychologist, saw the
Faas OF his friends Sin relief, like
edallions." Curiously enough, he
'u q, never conjure up their bodies.
Inc great Napoleon was, as is gen.
ANY known, invariably attended by 9
a. !; This story was implicitly believed
'ne time, and it is said to have beef
y y. related by General Rapp. who, OF
suing the monarch's tent at night
una bonaparte excitedly pointing t.
corner OF the tent, crying: do yor
'hat-my star? 1t is shining Their,
''Ofe you'll" AT the period Of the ref
ma'ion wrestling with the evil ON,
propria persona was by no means al
lconmon exercise. Luther severa
ues indulged in these combats. Mr.
%Ay tells us of the young monk wh'
'SIeu up to SITS. Pachonius ant
~. In the desert and told then
' ~ OF the beautiful woman wh'
~ tempted him in his cell and, "hav
I. worked her purpose, had vanishe,
in the air, leaving hin
~ ~ uead upon the ground. The stor,
's;. On to say that the young monk
y "'.n a wild shrek, broke away from
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