Show 0 alt NING K I 1 I 1 phenomenon found in beir 0 O I 1 datil trtat ila bacues files t the ic medical A fraternity elew i those of the worlds workers who who I 1 constantly are arc 1 cutis I 1 tautly on the go 0 around the ofa great city frequently Ft stumble upon strange things and cu curious rious beings that the ordinary denizen never sees nor hears about the unwritten experiences of a local reporter of a great morning daily would fill a book with surprises to the unknowing and ill in many cases case read like the pages of fairyland sketches his resources of information extend from the palatial residence to the hut but of squalor away down in the alleys and ditches of city life from the archives of the municipal government to the yarn of the sailor lad ad from the secret of holy places to the record erlof of the criminal courts and the private detective agencies all all these added to his own exper bences pi picked eked up in ia ili his s everyday i tramps around town fill hun hint with curious ideas quaint thoughts and a knowledge of various things that I 1 never come under the observe ob observation serva lion of people of ordinary pursuits this fact chet became strongly apparent the other day when the reporter accident accidentally alfy became aware of the existence of percia perhaps k the tile greatest reates t curiosity the world aas has ever beheld and which had been living in this city for the last six years 0 only ri 1 y a few of tho the immediate neighbors had bad ever more than heard beard the rumors ahat hat such a thing was so near and could be seen every day many af the children lud had seen the boy and rud durse girls who had halt quit the place in affright 1 had bad spoken of it bitao but no credence was given given to what appears appear 4 I 1 erf ed to be such a w wild ild i impossibility m Os sivility lity yesterday however a as th the e 1 i ter was sauntering out tit in the vi vicinity in of the fair grounds lie heard a street urchin who was all doubled up in his efforts t to get a better view through a crack in in the fence say tittle jerry is afire a fire again finding a knothole knot hole the reporter closed it up with his inquisitive optic an and d saw sav a surprising eight sight sitting there on the back gallery I 1 of the tile little house with his legs crossed and in a perfect state of nudity was a big fat chubby boy enveloped in a flame of bluish light he was literally on fire from the soles of liis hig feet to the crown of his head his feet were burning as freely as sticks of kindling wood his fingers were lighted like so many t tapers apers his hi i hairway hair was blazing like a tile pile of fat pine pitie shavings and the liquid quid flames were running up and down his entire badwi desat there 1 hla his iago nu nui t clutching at the flames and laughing laughin 9 it tit the sens lations it seemed to produce inglen he lie would giap bis his eyes sparks s like those produced by striking flint with steel would scalier out in all directions then beiva devould hev uld run his tongue out licking up the fire around ham then puff it out of his mouth injects in jets and curls burkas as if it were emoke to from a pipe the sight was py truly a wonderful i one all ofa ora sudden he lie gave a quick strong was extinguished as if by magic the reporter was now dumbfounded dumbfound ed but shortly fe recovered and sought the front d door bell I 1 was evidently a case requiring investigation quite a at handsome liand soine middle aged lady answered the ring andon and m being told the nature of the 1 call I she the scribe in and told him bini all about little jerry she said she was his bia mother and that her husband john L was still alive and find doing cou contract work on the railroad jerry suld suid was jhb youngest of three children and arid was now six years of age when he be was barq bori bis his very do deep carnation color was wits the cause of much uneasiness to both parents but the doctor said zaid at the worst vorst it could only be eczema so as soon as his constitution would permit they commenced to rub him with all sorts of salves ointments and liniments in but jerry only became the redder after each application of the prescribed preventives then the physicians said it was w is some sort of hereditary complaint but as no disease could be traced back as far as the arc great at grand grandparents parents it was left to be supposed that the family tree must have been sick at some p period e of antiquity then recovered only to break out again in little jerry Jerry however grew apace notwithstanding the fact that ho he was laboring under the disadvantages of weighty medical edical in opinion i i every month found him fatter and of ofa a brighter vermilion iliou line litte and by the time ha lie was wits 3 acara cam of ago aga lie he was aglow with a red heat just about that time the tile nurse F irl rl came in on one e morning mornin 9 scream ng that jerry was s on fire and she put him out The mother ran rat i to her boy only to find him hint it in a circle of flame jerry was in full blaze but was not being consumed water was thrown over him but to ti no purpose then they wrapped him hin I 1 in in a blanket but it was useless jerry contin continued ded to burn right along the incident created quite quito a commotion in the lionso and baffled the ingenuity of the inmates initiates just then I 1 however 1 0 wever the door swung open a gust guat of wind came in and jerry I 1 went out |