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Show jninrmjfT(rii tsuperstltinn. It is said that Collis P. Huntington desire to sell the $2,000,000 paiace wliich he has just completed in New Tork is his belief in the old superstition supersti-tion that old men who grow rich build Sne houses for their funerals. He expected ex-pected to move in three years ago, but It was only last year that the house began be-gan to get near completion. In the meantime his health had become less and less vigorous. His age and his yearf of hard work and worry began to tell apon him. The superstition came back with renewed force, and he began tc think a great deal about it At last be fiecame absolutely convinced that should he move in the firit function to which his friends would come would be his funeral. fu-neral. Then he decided that- he would not even kwp the house iu the family. Brooklyn Citizen. A series of very wouderfoi experiments experi-ments which have just been concluded by Dr. Luya of Paris, whose observations observa-tions and discoveries in connection witb magnetism and eleotrioity in relatioa to hypnotism made a profound imprea-ion imprea-ion upon the soientiflo world some tiro cerebral aotivity oan be transf errd to a orewn of magnetized iron, in which th activity can be retained and subsequently subsequent-ly passed on to a second person. Incredible Incred-ible as this may seem, Dr. Luya haa proved its poisibility by the xperi-dents xperi-dents just referred to. He placed the crown, which in reality real-ity is only a circular band of magnetized magnet-ized iron, on the head of a female patient pa-tient suffering from melancholia, with a mania for self destruction, and with juch success was the experiment at- i tended that within a fortnight the pa- J tisnt could be allowed to go free with- out danger, the crown having absorbed all her marked tendencies. About two weeks afterward he pci tbe same crown, which meanwhile had been carefully kept free from contact with anything else, on the head of a male patient suffering from hysteria, complicated by frequent recurrent periods pe-riods of lethargy. The patient was then hypnotizes and immediately conducted himself after the manner of the woman who had previously worn the crown, Indeed he practically assumed her per tonality and uttered exactly the same complaints as she had dona Similar phenomena have, it is reported, beet bserved in the case of every patient ex. perimented upon. Another experimenl showed that the crown retained the impression im-pression acquired until it was made red-hot. red-hot. London Telegraph. |