Show A Remar remarkably kabli a tree up on the east side bide of north seventh street about midway between poplar street and girard avenue stands a strikingly curious tree which attracts the attention of every passer by it stands just in front of a stable yard and the employees of the place say eay that dozens of people come to them every week and make remarks or ask questions about the strange growth from the thick ness of the trunk at the base the tree is probably about forty years yeara old but its branches and foliage are new and fresh and look as though they were but bu t the growth of a year or two the trunk trual runs straight from the ground to a height of about fifteen feet above this for a short distance gigs Is a thick globular mass of foliage foli fol irge gei the leaves app appearing euing to grow directly out of the wood jooa above this growth run up ul three thick stalks or stumps stamps six or eight feet high also covered with a dense dens close mass of foliage when the te tree 0 L viewed from the north side bide it presents it a startling resemblance to a giant hui human band protruding from the earth the three big stumps at all the top represent the three middle ezrs fingers and upon either side of these can easily be ba seen configurations of the surrounding foliage ag 0 o which correspond to the little fingel and thumb T the explanation of the phenomenon is ii a curious fine the tree was once full grown and vigorous but was attacked by blight or some soma other disease and the dead trunk was pruned down to its present proportions whereupon the present new growth developed philadelphia inquirer |