Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-03-17
MAG4LToN, THE APE ACROBAT,

Story from Scotland of a Ghost and a
Series of Dreams.
Some years ago my wife had,repeated
dreams of a house, the interior arrange
ments of which she described minutely,
although no idea as to it's locality was
conveyed to her. Subsequently, in the
year 1888, hired for the autumn from
Lady B house in the Highlands,
with shooting and fishing; my son, who
was in Scotland at the time, arranged
the matter, neither my wife nor. ! hav-
ing seen the place. When went with
out my wife) to make final arrange
ments for taking possession, Lady B
was still living in the house, and she
posed putting me for the night into a
bedroom which she herself usually oc-
cupied, and which for some time past
had been haunted by "a little lady,
who continually appeared in it. AS I
was somewhat skeptical upon such
matters replied that should be de-
lighted to make the acquaintance Of
her ghostly visitor, and 1 accordingly
slept in the room, but no such visitor
appeared to me.
subsequently, upon my wife's arrival
at the house, she, to her great astonish-
ment, found it to be the counterpart of
her dream house, and on inspecting it
from hall to attic every detail appeared
to correspond. But on descending
again to the hall she said: mo, this
cannot be the house, after all, as in my
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on that side, which is missing here"
She wassat once told that there was
slIcii a suite of apartments, not ap-
rroached from the hall, and on being
taken over them she recognized every
room. She, however, said that a bed
room in this suite appeared in her
dream to be a sitting-room, and it ap
peared that this had been the case, but
that the arrangement had just been al
tered.
A day or two after, my wife and I
met Lady B., and I introduced the
two ladies to each other, as they had
not previously been acquainted. In
stantly Lady B. exclaimed: "Why,
you are the lady who haunted my bed
room" I have no explanation to offer,
nor had my wife during the rest Of her
life, as to what some might call re.
markable coincidence, and what would
be called in the Highlands a case of
second sight" Certainly my dear wife
was the last person in the world to
give undue license to her imagination,
and, further, I can vouch for the fact,
and SO can other members -of my fam
lily, that she did undoubtedly describe
accurately a house which had some
rather remarkable arrangements, and
this long before she or any other men,
bers of the family were even aware
that such house really existed"
Bismarck's Big Brain.
Prince Bismarck's brain, according to
the fattering estimate Of the anthropol-
ogist, Otto Ammon, was probably the
heaviest known to anatomical science.
Herr Ammon, in consultation with
Prof Schafer, the sculptor, concluded
from the measurements taken for
Schafer's bust that the brain of the
old stateman weighed 1,S67 grammes,
and consequently exceeds in weight |
that of any known genius. Cuvier's |
brain weighed 1880 grammes, Byron's |
1907, Krant's 1,65O, Schiller's 1880,
and Dantes 1,42O. The average weight |
of the brain Of an intelligent Euro
pean is only 1880 grammes.
His Reliance.
"Do you really believe In your profess
sion of faith healing?"
'It depends" "ssaid the man who is adj |
vertising occult powers, ION whether
you mean as medical aid or as q fnan-