Curious stories are told about the powers five up stong the. Himalaya monntaiue.
oasessed by certain natives of India, who 'These old men, it is said, have devoted scores pats which the rest of the world knows f years to the study of natural laws and nothing about. Lately German' professor visited the "adepts," us these queer Hindus are called, for the purpose of finding out the secret of their remarkable performances, They treated him scorvily, but in terested him all th me. One day the professor wanted to examine some ancient uskrit manuscripts. An adept went with him to a cave wherein the books were kept, The place was dark as the bottom of a well here," said tk issiter, "Phon we will have some light," was the ceply, and immediately (the professor says)
soft, pearly light brightened the cave. He not tell whence it came, but he noticed that it had one strange quulity—it cast not highest This u story hard to believe, yet its trath is affirmed by a man of vast learning and high character, and you who now read it have no reason for doubt except that all the lights you have seen have cast shadows, Belief "or unbelief commonly runs parallel with -one's onn experience. Ur. Johoson sniffed at the no count of the Lisbon -arthquake, yet credited the tale of the Cock Lane ghost.
A man who, has been ill for years, ad foiled to find a cure, sceptical when friends tell him of a medicine they believe will make him well, What else but doubt could experience?
Take an ex-vP'Tn the spring of 1886," writes our correspondent, 'I fell into low, weak, and languid state. [felt low-spirited and out-of sorts, first my stomach was deranged, my appetite joo, and after eating. bad pain and weight at the chest. Iwas much troubled with wind,
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