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Show WORK OF -THOUGHT READER." Stuart Cumberland Easily Followed Mr. aiadttene's Mind. Stuart Cutabtrland, "tbouaht read r." tells how he "read" Mr. Glad stone's mind In the smoking room ol the souse of commons. Mr, Gladstone undertook to think of some figures, and It km Cumberland's task to die cover and write them on a blackboarJ He wrote a 3, which was correct, then a , which was also correct, and then he began to write a I. "At this moment mo-ment I found that Mr. Gladstone bad changed his mind aad was thinking of a f at once pauieif And begged him to concentrate hit thoughts' an' tlrely on the eiaet figure be had decided de-cided upon. He did io, and I unbesl Utlngly turned the 6 Into a 6." He Aral thought of a t ad afterward changed It to a 8. Mr. Gladstone answered an-swered that be bad at diet thought oi the number of days in a year, but in the middle of the experiment he recollected rec-ollected that that particular year was leap year, which caused him to change hU figures to J86. |