Show I 1 LIKE A HUMAN HAND the singular growth of a tree which hail had once deen ben blighted up upon on the east milo bide of north seventh sax street et about midway between poplar treet street and girard avenue philadelphia sia stands n ds a strikingly curious tree which recently attracted the attention of an man it stands just in front of a stable yard and the employed emp loyes of the place say that dozens of people come to th them em every week and make remarks or ask questions about the strange growth prom from the thickness of the growth at the base the tree is probably about forty years old but its branches and foliage are new and fresh and n d look as though they were but the growth of a year or two the trunk runs straight froni fr oni allf tb ground to a height of fifteen feet above this for a short distance is a thick globular maas ass of foliage the leaves appearing lo 10 ti grow directly out of the wood above this growth run ran up three thick thich stalks ar or stumps six or eight feet high also covered with ft a deripe denpe close mass of foliage when the tree is viewed f from the north side it presents a star startling ing lesem resemblance blance to a giant human hand protruding from the earth the three big stumps at the top represent the three middle fingers and upon either side of these can cai easily be seen configurations ura tiona ns of the surrounding foliage which correspond to the little finger and thumb the explanation of the phenomenon is a curious one the tree was once full grown arld and vigorous but was attacked by blight or some other disease and the dead trunk was pruned down to its precept proportions whereupon the present new growth developed |