Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — Current Condensations. [ARTICLE]

Current Condensations.

An authority au hypnotism says that hysterical persons are very difficult to influence. They are so wedded to their own fancies—mental and physical—that they prove very obstinate hypnotic patients. Even if an influence is gained it passes off very quickly. The length of either day or night can be easily and accurately reckoned by the following simple rule: Multiply the hour of the sun's rising by two, and it will give tlie length of the night; multiply the hour of setting hv two, and get the length of the day., Thus, take a day when the sun rises at 0:30 and sets at 5:30. Apply the rule, and you have a night of thirteen hours and a day of eleven. The rule will bo found absolutely accurate at any season of the year. At a funeral near Parsons, Kan., the other day a little son was buried in the neighborhood cemetery. There being no hearse, the remains were placed in a spring \vagon.“On the way to the grave a swarm of bees gathered on the lid of the coffin and there remained. When the cemetery was reached all efforts to drive the bees from the coffin were without avail, and the pallbearers were forced to take charge of the coffin with the bees swarming about them, and before the remains were deposited in the grave every pallbearer suffered, being stung in more than one place oir the face and hands. The bees dung so tenaciously to the coffin that many of them were buried with the body of the boy. On July 14, lStio, Edward Whymper, the famous mountain climber, after eight unsuccessful attempts, won the honor of first ascending the Matterhorn. He was accompanied by Lord Francis Douglas, Rev. Charles Hudson. Douglas Robert Hadow, and three guides, Michael Croz, Peter Taugwalder, and Peter Taugwalder, Jr. In descending Hadow lost his nerve and his footing, and Hudson, Croz, and Douglas, who were fastened to the same rope, were dragged with him. Whymper and the two other guides clung desperately to the rocks and withstood the shock of the tightening rope, but the safety rope broke, and Hudson, Hadow, Croz and Douglas fell 4,(XX) feet dotVn the precipice and were dashed to pieces.