The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1849-12-27
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BY EDGAR 4. POE, ESQ.
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Truth is stranger than fiction. on Ssyiss.

Truth y stranger than fction.-0,1 Ssviss.
As every thing connected With the late
EDoAR A. PoE, receives additional iinteres,
BY lhe recent departure from the stage d
action Of that singular man, perhaps We
could not make our readers moro accept.
able present than BY publishing ono Of hi,
unique and entirely Characteristic produc.
tons. But, in fact, we have scarcely for.
given him tho hoax passed OF upon Us, in
common with many others, about three
years since, in bis "veritable" history Of
the dead man resurrected through the III
potent Influence of Mesmcrism--but le,
that pass.
Tho following article has been in GU.
possession for some time, and We now
abridge It 70 bring il within our limits
We premise then BY saying that Mr.. Poe
protested 10 have obtained the following
tale from tho Tellreaop Lsissoornos, a We
~ rare oriental work, whose veracity, from
it, title we should Judge to be questionable.
10 turning over the pages Of this remarka-
bic work Mr. Poo was very much astooish-
ed Every qui.e) to discover the ignorance
that rests upon the literary world in res
poet to the fate Of the grand vizier's daugh-
ter, Scheherazade, as depicted in the cara
bian Nights"
Il will be remembered, in the usual YER
sion Of those tales, certain monarch, hav-
ing good cause TO be jealous Of his queen,
not only puts her 10 death, but makes q
vow by his beard and the prophet, to es.
pouso each night the most beautiful maiden
in his dominions and bowstring her in the
morning thing but little more pleasant
than hanging, only trifle more genteel.
The grand vizer's daughter, Scbeherazade
by name, conceiyes the idea Of removing
this tax upon the most beautiful Of her sex
AFTER the king had for many years scru-
pulously exacted it-and makes known to
her father her intention Of marrying the
king. Alter much persuasion the fond par.
ent yields and the fair heroine retires ia
bed with her dosing husband polite
damseI having taken the precaution to
place her sister in bed within conversa-
tiopal distance. Just before cockcrOwiOg,
she takes caro- to awaken the good king,
her husband and to entrance him, until too
late for bowstringing, with beautiful tale
Of ! blue rat and pink horse; and 90 Sche-
herazade, with the tact peculiar to her sex,
mansges to defer The bowstringing until
the thousand and secondth night, when she
begins to retail a tale told . caliph by one
Sinbad, who being on IN island sees Q
strange beast approaching through the wa
ter, on top Of which are stranger animals
resembling men. Atfriehted, Sinbad took
to his heels but was soon overbauled by the
man-animals, brought back and duly install.
ed on the back Of the strange beast. The
narrative then proceeds thus: -ED. DAv-
EXPORT GAzErrE.
"Sinbad went on in this manner, with
his narrative TO tho caliph-'I thanked The
man-animai for ito kindness, and soon
found myself very much at home on the
besst, which swan At prodigious rate
through the ocean; although the surface Of
The latter il, in that part Of the world, BY M
means fiat, but round like pomegsanate
40 that we went--so tosay-either up hill
or down hill all the time $50
'rhat, think, was very Singular inter
ruptcd the king. t.'
Nevertheless, it is quite true,' replied
Schehernzadc.
4 have my doubts,' rejoined the king;
but, prsy, be 50 good a. to 60 on with toe
story
Il wilI,' said the queen. THE beast
continued Sinbad TO the csliph, SWAN. 40
have related, up hill and down hill, until al
length, we arrived at an island, mnny hum
dred miles 10 circumference, but which,
nevertheless, had been built in the middle
Of tho ssa BY i colony Of little things like
caterpillars.' : IL s9s'' at's
| sHumr said the. king. sa /.
Leaving this island said Sinbad-(foI
Scheherazade, il must be understood, took
no notice Of her husbands ill-ma nnerd ejac-
ulation) --sleaving this island, we came to
another where the forests were ofsolid stone,
and so hard that they shivered to pieces
the finest-tempered axes with which VIC en-
dcavored to cut them down.
*The coralites. a5a
Zone Of the most remark sble natural curiosi-
ties Of Texas is q petriied forest, near the head
OF Pasigno river. Il consists Of several hundred
some trees now growing are partly petrified.-