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Spineless Youth Able to Work in the Fields.
Living and even working, although his spine has been removed, is theremarkable experience of William Banks, 18 years old, who lives in thesouthern part of Chester County, Pa. The young man labors in the fieldsevery day, and despite his handicap he can do as much work as his fellowworkmen.
His spine was removed by Philadelphia surgeons, when tuberculosisdeveloped following an injury. It was declared he would never be able towalk. For many months he lay incased in a plaster cast. He was taken tothe home of his foster mother, Mrs. Veranda Lee, and was nursed back togood health. His body is wrapped in ten yards of bandages each day.
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The Divining Rod.
Although the divining rod as a locator of underground water for springsand wells has been denounced as a fake by Federal authorities, and isnot given the most implicit confidence even in remote rural communitiesof the United States experiments in German South Africa have locatedwater at subterranean depth in 70 per cent of the tests.
The department of agriculture of the French republic is seriouslyinvestigating the divining rod, and an association having five hundredmembers in Stuttgart, Germany, has begun laborious tests to determineits real value.
French publicists and scientists have taken up the personal-magnetismphase of the question. It is held by some that considering thesurprising discoveries of late in regard to radiation of all sorts, itmay be that there is some radioactive influence of underground waterswhich may act physiologically on the organism of the person in whosehand the rod seems to turn toward the subterranean water.
An effort will be made to differentiate between any alleged diviner'ssincerity and real physical effect from charlatanism and autosuggestion.
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Wolf Shot in Kansas City.
A large, half-starved gray wolf after attacking three persons andspreading consternation through a staid residence district, was shot andkilled on Linwood Boulevard, at Kansas City, recently.
The wolf sprang at Miss Anna Harrison as she waited for a street car.Miss Harrison threw her fur muff at the animal, and while the garmentwas being torn to pieces, escaped into a house. Her clothing, was torn,but she was unhurt.
The wolf ran down the boulevard pursued by a milkman who hurled bottlesas he ran. Two blocks from the first attack the wolf bit a negro in thearm.
The wolf had run fifteen blocks and attacked Samuel J. Harnden, a deputycounty collector, before T. W. Wright, a policeman, ended the chase bysending a bullet into the animal's head.
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After Twenty-seven Years Boxers Make Up.
Jack McAuliffe, the old lightweight, has become reconciled to JemCarney, to whom he has not spoken since their famous five-hour battle atRevere Beach, Mass., November 17, 1887. Carney always felt he shouldhave received the verdict.
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Noise Silencer.
Our modern day, half-crazed by the uproar that its own activities havebrought about, will welcome the soft pedal that Sir Hiram Maxim,inventor of the gun silencer, is preparing to put on the hubbub in whichevery great urban community has condemned itself to live.
Everything has to be paid for, in one shape or another, and too many ofour present aids, appliances, and conveniences pay for themselves innoise. Both the conscious and the subconscious organisms suffer,knowingly or unknowingly, and no relief has been promised.
The Anglo-American inventor proposes to better such conditions by makingthe individual immune, so far as auricular addresses are concerned. Asimple electrical appliance will turn any office or bedroom into a zoneof quiet. The noise will go on, but will not reach your ear, and sounds,the waves of which fail to reach the eardrum, are nonexistent--for thatparticular ear.
The new invention will soon be tried in the wards of a New Yorkhospital. As soon as possible let it be introduced into the noisyregions of offices, stores, and factories. Thus may the number ofhospital patients become appreciably reduced.
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Purse Shot from Thief's Hand.
Two men attacked Mrs. Peter Sensmeir, of Evansville, Ind., late atnight, grabbed her purse, and started to run. Patrolman Withers, whohappened by, shot the purse from the hand of one of the men as he ran upan alley, and it was recovered.
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Girl Ropes Coyote.
Miss Nancy Anderson, 19 years old, the pretty daughter of an old-timeranchman living in the Alahab oil fields near Hazlehurst, Miss., knowshow to ride a pony and is an expert in twirling the rope. That is whyshe has been paid a bounty for killing a coyote, the first one seen inthis part of the country for a long time.
Miss Anderson was out for a morning's ride when she encountered thecoyote. She put spurs to her pony, made a big loop of her lariat, andgave chase. The first throw was successful and she dragged the coyoteuntil she found a large rock, with which she killed it. Besides thebounty she received she was given $2 for the hide by a curio dealer.
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He Is Rat-killing Champion.
"Uncle" Jack Hart, of Ayden, N. C., claims he is the champion rat killerof the State. With the aid of a wire trap, and a dog he killed an eventhousand of the rodents last year. He has killed in the neighborhood of10,000 in the past fifteen years. He will kill rats in any house at therate of 5 cents each.
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Man-trap Victim Recovers.
James C. Gunn, first lieutenant in the United States army, who becameparalyzed, following an injury he received in a man trap in thePhilippine Islands, has recovered and is on his way to the Orient again.A spear, with which the trap was armed, severed Gunn's sciatic nerve,paralyzing him. The nerve was spliced at a San Francisco hospital, andthe man was cured.
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