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Show j SOMETHING r4EW TO PERSIANS. Power of Electricity Astonished Subjects Sub-jects of thu Shah. While sojourning recently at Shlraz, Persia, on business connected with an overland telegraph, an Englishman was visited by a Persian noble who had received a paralytic stroke in his left shoulder and arm. He said he had been told that there were magicians in the west who cured all diseases "by the aid of this fire" (electricity). The I Englishman, having moderated the Persian's expectations by remarking that the statement was an exaggeration, exaggera-tion, had a powerful battery prepared. To the two poles of the battery copper cop-per wire was attached, and at the extremity ex-tremity of each wire a damp sponge. The Persian was Invited to grasp one In the hand of his paralyzed arm. Timidly complying, he was astonished as-tonished to feel no sensation. "Walt a moment," paid the Englishman, and clapped the other sponge on the man's shoulder. With a leap and a yell ho bounded out of the room, amid the uproarious laughter of the officials. The shock effected a partial cure, but the frightened man refused to submit to a second application, declaring that he would far sooner suffer the paralysis Another Persian, whose curiosity conquered his fear, whllo examining the battery touched one of the terminals ter-minals of the machine. As he felt no sensation, he laid his hand on the other oth-er terminal. A sudden yell anc". a backward jump were the result. The man was afterward heard telling Ills companions that he had been bitten by the evil one. |