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Show 0HO6T BHIP. MiMMitral Tassel Turn Oul Tn IL S Marvelous Mar-velous 1'hennnienon. The American clipper ship Luton, from the Hawaiian islands wllh a full cargo of sugar, had a strange experience ex-perience after rouudlng the horn. U'l.n T lh. l..r,.. Ul .... Ii.l.ll in good weather, and with scarcely any sea on, tho lookout reported a sail. II waa about an hour before sunset. Although Al-though the l.uion was almost becalmed, becalm-ed, the vessel sighted was under close-reefed close-reefed topsails. Till made the l.iuon'a mate think a storm waa bearing down on him, and he speedily shortened sail, Kapldly the tranger came nearer, near-er, and It could be seen that she was partially dismasted forward. In the meantime, however, the experted squall did not make Ita advent. T' strange ship paased so close thut . ..eeiieit as though a biscuit might be thirtn on board. Still her crew paid not the slightest attention to the l.iirnn. On tho hitter consternation prevailed. The appearance of the storm-tossed vessel was so uncanny that Ihe Lutein's men were beside themselves wllh terror. Not until It dawned upon Copt. Park thut the other ahlp was a part of the phenomenon known as Ihe "fata morgana," mor-gana," where a vessel Is relle' ted a great distance, could he restore anything any-thing like order among Ihe men. Ths most remarkable feature of the Incident Inci-dent developed three weeks later. When the Luion was Hearing the equator she passed the ltuslnn ship Konilsufoff. bound south, and In-r men had no difficulty In Identifying hei with tho mlruge they had witnessed Bhe had the same distinctive Hues, and, sure enough, her foremast bad been broken off close to the forotop, a Jury, mast taking Ihe place of the nilsslni spar. Hho had been reflected ul baai 1.000 miles, and the storm which tin Luton's men bad ol.seived had probably prob-ably wrought the damage. Philadelphia Philadel-phia North American muni am am,, ,,, , |