The Washington herald., 1906-11-18

by mistake, while pig he expected had gone to the
sorrowing relatives Of the 6ead
Mrs. Margaret Clark, Of Baltimore a warrant
for the OF her husband dead three
years because he had appeared so vividy to her in
dream that she concluded he must be alive
Not knowing that the had passed from earthly
scenes, the police attempted John Clark but in
stead ran across proofs Of his death When these
submitted to the widow she Acknowledged that she knew
the fact.
Her dream had been 50 real she said that she be
came convinced her spouse alive again and as she
was afraid Of him, she wished him arrested
Perhaps she held about the opinion of him that
Mrs Louisa Sweges, Of Detroit her husband VIII
liam Sweges. when the troubles Of the couple were aired
in court there.
For twenty-five years" she asserted, Il lived with
him. and IN all that time cents all spent on me
. cents for witch hazel
He bought me even handkerchief. never Maid
woman to help with the housework and made me
work in the fields with the men"
Mrs sweges had some property of her own it was ex
planed and from that to meet her per
sonal needs.
Some persons crave newspaper publicity. others are
honest in their opposition It, is case where
mention of mans name in the papers brought him
fortune.
John Spires. of sayre. Pa. an engineer on the I,e
high Valley Railroad, a nail blown into his neck AZ
Fourth OF July celebration twenty-sx years ago The
wound healed, and he did not know the was there
until months when sharp pains caused him IN
submit to medical examination
At the hospital the nail discovered and removed
iiNi4'i'itCA
came under the eye of London lawyer, who had been
searching for Spires two years
The lawyer wrote to the engineer who established his
identity satisfactorily and informed that legacy of
S15000 left him by aunt in England was at his disposal
Only two other instances Of cuosities that crop out
in the dirty hotsam and jetsam of news may be men
toned. One is the of baby Des BIoines Iowa
which changes color three times twenty-four hours
and is a puzzle TO medical men,
The child is the of a Hndoo who married an
American girl When at sunrise it is pretty
pink, air-complexoned boy BY ne has changed to
the dark ginger color of his Oriental ancestors and at night
becomes white again. Mixture of bl0ods is thought
TO be accountable for the strange phenomenon
At Newburg. n Y. sympathetic fits of nervous origin
attacked six members of family of twelve children
one Of the boys had manifested dread of a kicking
mule and it is said the driver Of the animal thinking to
the boy locked him in the stable the mule eav
ing him in the dark.
Cries of the lad attracted attention. and he was
rescued of collapse He taken to a hos
pita treated disorder went into con
vusons, which continued daily time.
The thing that five other members of the
family younger than the boy became smiten with the
same trouble They the physicians termed SYM
Do thetc nervous attacks.
When into commissions. others followed al
tins all six including the original sufferer in fits at
the time.
In the sympathetic sufferers It was
necessary separate them and keep them away from
each other with and cheerful surroundings for sew
eTaI weeks.