derful strength and was a skilled
equilibrist. By placing her hands on the sides of a chair upon which a
heavy man was seated, she would raise it without apparent effort. She
defied the strongest person in the audience to take from her hand a
stick which she had once grasped. Recent reports say that Miss Abbott
is amusing herself now with the strong men of China and Japan. The
Japanese wrestlers, whose physical strength is celebrated the world
over, were unable to raise Miss Abbott from the floor, while with the
tips of her fingers she neutralized their most strenuous efforts to
lift even light objects, such as a cane, from a table. The
possibilities, in this advanced era of electric mechanism, make fraud
and deception so easy that it is extremely difficult to pronounce on
the genuineness of any of the modern exhibitions of human electricity.

The Effects of Cold.--Gmelin, the famous scientist and investigator of
this subject, says that man has lived where the temperature falls as
low as -157 degrees F. Habit is a marked factor in this endurance. In
Russia men and women work with their breasts and arms uncovered in a
temperature many degrees below zero and without attention to the fact.
In the most rigorous winter the inhabitants of the Alps work with bare
breasts and the children sport about in the snow. Wrapping himself in
his pelisse the Russian sleeps in the snow. This influence of habit is
seen in the inability of intruders in northern lands to endure the
cold, which has no effect on the indigenous people. On their way to
besiege a Norwegian stronghold in 1719, 7000 Swedes perished in the
snows and cold of their neighboring country. On the retreat from Prague
in 1742, the French army, under the rigorous sky of Bohemia, lost 4000
men in ten days. It is needless to speak of the thousands lost in
Napoleon's campaign in Russia in 1812.

Pinel has remarked that the insane are less liable to the effects of
cold than their normal fellows, and mentions the escape of a naked
maniac, who, without any visible after-effect, in January, even, when
the temperature was -4 degrees F., ran into the snow and gleefully
rubbed his body with ice. In the French journals in 1814 there is the
record of the rescue of a naked crazy woman who was found in the
Pyrenees, and who had apparently suffered none of the ordinary effects
of cold.

Psychologic Effects of Cold.--Lambert says that the mind acts more
quickly in cold weather, and that