SHE SHOOK THEM.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5238, 31 October 1885, Page 4

SHE SHOOK THEM.

" I saw lomething new up in Wisconsin the other day. A patent medicine man was selling something or other from a carriage in which he had a rather pretty young woman and a gasoline lamp. The lady sang one or two songs very sweetly, and then the man talked and Bold his nostrum at a dollar r bottle. " When he had disposed of thirty or forty bottles ho said—'J^ow, gentlemen, before bidding you good night, I will give you an exhibition of the wonderful mag* netic powers of my wife, who sits here by my side. I hold in my hand a common piece of thread. JN"ow, one of you take hold of the end of it and walk off, and then let all the others take hold of it, and ■t the signal which I will give she will take hold of the other end, and you will feel the shook instantly.' " About 150 men and boys grasped the thread and walked off about half a block with it. 'Now keep perfectly quiet and you will feel the shock, delicate at first and then strong enough to tingle at the ends of your fingers and toes. Are you all ready P' 11 They all said • Yes.' "' Well, then, I will put out the light,' said he,' and my wife will take the thread in her hand at that instant.' " The light went out and the man's Toiee was heard—' What have you in your hand, my dear ? ' " ' The longest string of suckers I ever saw in all my life,' came in a sweet musical voice, and at the same time the horses and carriage were driven off at great speed, leaving the crowd holding on to the string completely dumbfounded. "It was the worst shock a good many of those fellows ever got."