Show feat of walking on water it Is a tact fact that a man anan ltd lid walk frow boiu st louls to new orleans on the file mississippi river this fact Is attest ed by old residents of 0 new orleans ant of several of the smaller cities between new orleans and vicksburg miss the time of bis big arrive arrival at new orleans Is approximately fixed as be ing in in the month of clay in the year 1917 or 1918 no record of the ile man mail f r name or previous history Is available tits walking was accomplished by means of small pontoons pon or bodt builla probably 3 or 4 feet long and I 1 fool wide stropped strapped to his bis feet to in much the same kanuer ronn tier as would be ba hoes 1 and he scuffled along the surface el of the hie water us as one would on snowshoes ills wife followed him closely in a skirt skiff and wherever he rever possible th the stopped flopped at night at the moat diio t convell lot cot towo town or settlement set lenient eu route |