Show WHAT whar NEXT A NEBRASKA newspaper man claims that a friend of bis big who possesses an inquisitive turn of mind witti with a scientific leaning leani ug recently made an important discovery regarding 1 I what he calls the soul of man he anao also ances that this gentleman and lie be have had bad ocular demonstration that the body and spirit of man are distinct organizations the latter being in shape in an exact counterpart of the former this keen and inquisitive observer according to the story was led into an investigation of the subject by the fact of an acquaintance who was minus one of his bis lower limbs being occasionally troubled with severe pains in the absent foot he caught the rma that the soul spirit of man permeated the entire body he had a large and powerful lens made and finding a person who was minus a portion of one arm arm he be caused him to extend the portion remaining he bro brought u bithis his apparatus to bear upon the and there he asserts was extended beyond the stump the complete form of a hand and forearm the spirit part being of a clear transparent substance tie he requested the cju subject abject to form letters with tits his finger and to the lat tatters astonishment lie was enabled to spell out the words he be deciphered his next subject was a consumptive patie patient nt whom being without friend she took look to his house As the young man was dying lie he brought his powerful ens aaa to bear upon him hid when he be claims he saw the counterpart of the patient leave the body float atoa over it a few moments and theu then assume a lar position tile the spiritual body he claims ws w s exceedingly beautiful of bourise tue story Is a myth without foundation in fact and illustrates the fertility of in chic i 1 the newspaper er genius is pastured it also t itt that unless a prolific ima imagination is located in some other pate than a shallow oue the journalistic impostor generally gives away his own sensational sat ional schemes for instance this lincoln nebraska genius benius asserts that the large arge lens used in 0 making this alleged alle ed d discovery had bad a one thousand fol told dg ivyng power according to this bab basis s if the consumptive sump tive patient upon whom the ex peri was made was six feet in ILL height then the gazer through the apparatus beheld a form of the prodigious ious length of feet and of proportionate onate girth and the spirit form of similar dimensions that the beautiful expression of the mild blue eyes of this huge shape considerably over a mile high could be given in detail is a dose of hyperbole much too large to be swallowed at one gulp while the statement that the spi spirit of man has capacity for living apart from the mortal body and is its counterpart art in shape is a truth it never was discovered Sis discovered covered by mechanical appliances the tile tale told by the man bears the earmarks of the lellow fellow who created a sensation a short time ago by the story about the resurrection rebur of the late president eDt brigham young in this latter rigmarole the journalist claimed to have witnessed the experiment upon the dying consumptive patient |