Show PORTUGUESE WORKED NORED UP P I 1 OVER STRANGE SO SOUNDS S I I LISBON Portugal al O Oct 29 Portugal Portugal now Is agitated by what Is described as a phantom sewing machine Columns Columns Columns Col Col- of the daily newspapers are filled with letters reporting cases In which a mysterious sound resembling resembling- that produced by y a ahas sewing machine has been heard beard Other communications I are aro from front philosophers and spiritualists attempting to explain its origin Tho The Lisbon newspapers say the I. I rd about strange sound was first heard about three months ago l In a n. house in Oporto p at and andl add at midnight and the tho newspapers that hundreds of at peo people Ie have heard sin I the same me s sound since but ut at different places It is reported that tl one family abandoned abandoned abandoned aban aban- their house at a n. fashionable i bathing resort because they had heard the sound for tor six alx nights nl At a young girl is seriously ill from Crom fright and her parents declare the they heard the sound for tor several hours bours each each nl night ht apparently coming coming- from the tho bed railings I The popular explanation Is that the tho soul of a has been doomed to haunt the world to expiate a sin and all through the provinces th the I peasants are praying for her repose |