The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1883-11-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MICE. huge glistening eyes—" as big as basins." Hs then loses sight of them, and hears the footsteps Sine* men and mice frrat be descend. If he has the courage to go and look with each other, tho mouse ha down the stairs he may be rewarded by another to the man. That it posses terrible stare from tne eyes, which then vanish mysterious powers he is fully into silence and darkness. A barn about a himself unaffected by them; quarter of a mile from tins spot in the same neither naturalists nor philosc parish is also vaguely spoken of as haunted. able to account for or explain , Indeed, barns seem to haves faculty for beeom- with which the mouse is 1 nig haunted, one, about a rude ont of Wieeborne, spiring the female mind. ' lon the Cranborne Road, called "Sundays the mouse is one of the most I Barn," where a man one. committed suicide by offensive of created things. NI hanging himself. Ever since, there has been the and its bright eye, there are f, apparition of a coffin lying across the road creatures. It is very easily ta. opposite the building. At Hill Baits and Sian- icated ; sad meet boys have bridge, also near Winiborne, are two barns, to other kept mice as pets. It is I both of which this unenviable notoriety belong.. teiligent. and capable of acqu INo cattle, it is added, can or will stay there on tricks. It is afraid of man, k account of the horrible noises they hear. quires confiders°e in him, and Haunted house. are almost too common to be Li will, if undisturbed, fearless worth noticing. Most villages have at least one close to the foot of any man , such house. It is the exception if anything and watch it. Mice at play ghostly is ever seen in thorn; strange noises be- kittens, without any of the Bp Img the usual attributes of these disturbed readily shows itself in even th dwelling places. People avoid taking them, and eat tribe. Were the mouse those who by fore* of circumstances are cont. land a Lew imported here wind palled to live in them are sincerly pitied by their be thought, be regarded en th, neighbours. Occasionally, too, a belief arises little pets ever introduced. Si that a church or chapel is haunted. The as it appears to man. It is church at Hampreston, near Wimborne ,is obliged to wage war with it, fc regarded with some superstitious dread, became that if man and its other eners on certain nights of the year it is illuminated, down ha number e it would in ' inside "by a brilliant white light." Probably produce a famine in the land. the origin of this weird reputation may be traced initiative habits of burrowing to some peculiar reflection of the moon, or the holes in floorings and wait not nufrequent escape, under certain conditions depredations in stocks, gran of soil and atmosphere, of a luminous gas from similar places are serious. Ti a buried body. This is the phenomenon known in sell-defence to war against either as "grave lights," or "corpse candles." it without ill-feeling, and wol During the recent erection of achs.pel at Hay. to leave the pretty little thi thorne, the idea was suddenly started that the last thing that would enter hi evil one had entered and taken possession of the to be afraid of them, and the t building. For some two or three weeks he they umpire woman it to hit could not be dislodged. But this was at length accountable. In many reaps accomplished by a number of persons who col- the full as brave and courage looted outside, and sang, and hooted at the top the horrors of • shipwreek, in of their voices. It may be added that noises, sist.o, in limos of great Peril,* generally considered a powerful element in I Mutiny, women have, over subduing such unwelcome visitors from a worse , showed themselves to be at Is world. This happened within only the last two lin bravery, in an  - eithaaisne, But the woman who would:s lion in an arena., will fly t mouse ; and many a moaning and triumph has been felt b spouses of strong minds and when they have seen them terror by a tiny mouse. Risk ample of a monse attacking a tamed they never use their Is no powers of scratching; the the threatening aspect I popularly known as ' devil they cannot stick up their fur I are, in fact, absolutely wi aggression, and yet women qi Man has wearied himself with this phenomenon. The Gre philosophers were posed by parturiunt nzontes, emollit ins norantly been supposed to sip matter was produced after g when critically examined, an and far more profound meanir phers clearly_desired to signi the labour of mountains to pt capable of awing the femal Greek fable of the Lion and ti feeling of respect and appr smaller animal is clearly eh( gone so far as to trace back th the female and the mouse to t and the argument has been a word translated as serpent in 1 Fall of Man really signifies 111 tion which alone seems to sat: of the case. This hypothesis ened by the fact that the mot ' belly; alone among quadrupei be seen to move, and it along on its stomach. Then and indeed its whole body, ii bruised, and in fact the human heel, and for ev4 whom this process is pert or hundred thousand Crum upon does not, it is true, in return t its bruiser; but neither doe that this objection applies elle —indeed, a tight shoe is the o habitual bruises or raises h human heel. This is no nove old paintings the tempter it form of a mouse sitting on EN whispering in her ear. Thal tamed a feeling of abhorrence above anything that can be natural causes, is proved b Isaiah, lxvi, 17, says, "eating and the mouse.- 'These f :eta abject terror inspired by t female mind ; are really worti of divines, who cannot fai whereas the creature translat to be more subtle than any et field, the word cunning, whic with subtle, is still cs2.sentiall mouse, while—putting aside snake is not a beast at all—nc gator has ever claimed any pa cunning for the serpent.  IS RHEUMATISM CURAIILI WOODCOCK'S RHEUMATIC fly cures Rheumatic Pains in "natio Pains in the Head. Alien Joints, Lambsgo, Sciatica, Rile; mr-tic Swellin.Ts and Stiffness ; of Rheumatism, no master how tog, it never fails.