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for the impression to be created. lu some 

 cases, after she had held the card for some- 

 time and failed to read it, she laid it down, 

 took up another, and called it by the name of 

 the card laid down, showing that the impres- 

 sion from it had just been received. Anj' en- 

 tirely opaque object placed between her eyes 

 and the card prevented her reading it. She 

 could not see objects to one side of the range 

 of her eyes ; e.g., behind her head. 



All the phenomena seemed to point to the 

 theory' that she had an extraordinary exal- 

 tation of vision rather than anj- extra-sensual 

 power, and I am at present inclined to adopt 

 this explanation. 



I have not been able to repeat this experi- 

 ment. Mr. Carpenter refused to allow his wife 

 to repeat it, as it injured her health. Mj'' 

 friend, Dr. E. S. Bates of this city, has a lady 

 acquaintance who has, he says, the same 

 power. Dr. Beard told me a year ago that 

 similar experiments had been tried bj' some 

 friends of his in Boston. 



I believe that the above experiment was the 

 first successful one in which this power of 

 clairvoyance was so carefully tested in broad 

 daylight, with every possible source of error 

 excluded. We were none of us able to see 

 how any trick could have been played ; nor 

 was there any object for trickery, as no money 

 was paid, and the experiment was only allowed 

 as a special favor. 



I venture, therefore, to submit the account 

 which is here written out in full for the first 

 time. It is quite possible that this power of 

 exaltation of vision may explain many cases 

 of so-called ' transferred impression ; ' at any 

 rate, experimenters like Messrs. Guvnej^ and 

 Mj-ers sliould be aware of its probable exis- 

 tence. C. L. Daka, M.D. 



THE WEATHER IN APRIL, 18S3. 



The most marked storm of the month ap- 

 peared on the North Pacific coast on the 18th. 

 Crossing the Eoeky Mountains, it was central 

 in Colorado on the 21st, and passed off the At- 

 lantic coast on the 23d. On the 21st, pressures 

 below twentj'-nine inches (lower than before 

 noted in this region in twelve j'ears) were re- 

 corded in and near Colorado. Attending this 

 depression were exceedingly severe local storms 

 and tornadoes, which form the main feature of 

 the weather this month. These were specially 

 severe in Iowa, Alabama, Mississippi, and 

 Georgia. In the latter two states, from two 

 hundred to three hundred people lost their 

 lives. In Colorado a passenger-train was 



thrown from the track near Como on the 21st ; 

 at Pueblo the storm began at 2 p.m. of the 

 same date, and was the worst ever known 

 there : several houses were unroofed. Kansas 

 reports a tornado at Kingman on the night of the 

 20th : it struck Lun City at 2 a.m. of the 21st, 

 destroying five houses, and killing two people ; 

 hailstones nine inches in circumference fell in 

 Harper county ; at New Bedford three houses 

 were blown down, and one person was killed. 

 Iowa was visited by tornadoes during the 

 nights of the 21st and 22d : these destroyed 

 farmhouses, and some lives were lost. Mis- 

 sissippi reports a tornado at 1.10 p.m. of the 

 22d, near Starkville : its width was three hun- 

 dred yards, and within it every thing was 

 levelled to the ground ; one life was lost. The 

 most terrible disaster from this cause occurred 

 in Wesson and Beauregard, about a hundred 

 and forty miles south-south-west of Starkville. 

 Wesson, a town of seventeen hundred inhabit- 

 ants, was struck at 3.15 p.m. of the 22d. 

 Twent3^-seven houses were destroyed, sixty 

 people injured, and thirteen were killed. At 

 Beauregard, with six hundred inhabitants, the 

 tornado, lasting fifteen minutes, destroyed 

 every dwelling and store, seriously injured 

 forty, and killed twenty-nine people. Clay 

 county was visited by two tornadoes, — one at 

 noon, and the otlier at 1 p.m. of the 22d ; 

 both were violent, causing loss of life and prop- 

 erty. In Monroe and neighboring counties to 

 the north, a number of persons were killed. In 

 Jefferson county the tornado is reported at 11 

 A.M. of the 22d :" it was two hundred yards wide, 

 and swept every thing before it. There was 

 some loss of life. Ten people were killed at 

 Harrisville, seven near Morton, and two at Cal- 

 edonia. The storm passed east of Natchez at 

 about 10.30 A.M., and east of Monticello (nearly 

 destroyed by the toi-nado of April 21, 1882) at 

 1 1 A.M. , 22d. The track was about two hundred 

 yards wide. There was some loss of life. In 

 Alabama, at Talledega, a train was blown from 

 the track. In Georgia the storm, accompanied 

 by hail, began at Americus between 3 and 4 

 P.M., 22d. As far as known, the track was 

 narrow. Buildings were blown down, and some 

 persons killed. The next morning, between 6 

 and 7, a tornado passed through Emanuel 

 county, about a hundred and twenty miles east- 

 north-east from Americus : all houses in its 

 track were swept away, two persons killed, and 

 several injured. A like storm-wind was felt in 

 Dodge county about the same time. In Dough- 

 erty countjr the track was about a quarter of a 

 mile wide. Eight persons were killed, and 

 twenty injured. Loss of life and great damage 



