Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1920 — MEN OUT OF THE ORDINARY [ARTICLE]

MEN OUT OF THE ORDINARY

Have Characteristics Decidedly Jinnies Those of ths Majority of ' • Their Fellow*. "I can touch nothing In any way connected with steel,” writes a correspondent to a London daily paper. “I can knit with celluloid or wooden needles, but steel is hopeless.” Another says that if he wears a watch it stops in ten minutes, and that with his fingers be can direct the hand of a smAll compass. With these people, steel rusts so rapidly as to be useless. Some years ago a" Spaniard named Godinez created a considerable sensation’ by offering to subject himself to the electric chair at Sing Sing prison, where criminals are electrocuted. This was refused; but he proved later that he was able to stand a charge far higher than seven thousand volts used in the American prison for the purpose of electrocution. There was a man In Leicester who could do much the same sort of thing. He could handle parts of a dynamo that would make the average man jump out of his boots. *** There are people who cannot feel pain. A man called Lipscombe sued a railway company for damages, alleging that, owing to injury to his spine received in a collision, he had become insensiole to pain. A surgeon applied a white hot cautery to his bare arm. The man did not flinch, though the odor of burned flesh filled the court. It was definitely proved that he was not malingering. A boy called Claud Bristow, who was born in Kansas, has a strange power over snakes. No snakes can be induced to bite or harm hidt? He will handle a newly caught rattlesnake. He is now traveling wih a show as a snake charmer. The famous naurallst of Selborne, Gilbert White, describes a boy who was similarly immune to bee stings. He would sit before a hive, rap on It with his fingers and catch the bees as they came out. No bee ever stung him. —Answers, London.