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Show . Made Theni Step Lively. Just near the spring a certain part of the soil produces 'singular manifestations. Young men and old women and children no sooner touch it than they display amazing alacrity in getting away. They then may generally be observed to gaze at their arms and limbs in a dazed sort of way, as though not quite certain that they are intact. Inside , the works the engineer or other employe grins maliciously.. mali-ciously.. It is because he understands that hardly four inches below the surface of the ground is an .'electric wire. , The percolation of the water through the soil lias made it an excellent conductor,hence the antics of the unwary investigator. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. |