The Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1850-1852, 1851-02-20

,o .rs thew will probably remain. |,
,o- somc Of them we're living AZ hun
dre.l years ago. Their 4esh has been
uniformed into q substance re,em
Yin. ,Iadsr the skiu has much ,
srnnt and has lccome brJvn. 80
,aas they resemble very .nin mula,.
,ors, La,- in raost other respects, they
re scarcely changed. Many Of them
,;,!l resscs all their teeth their hair
,erpa,ns--o one ha, lous tcari The !
oppression their couh,cnanccs wore in
death 10 s,i'! perfectly dlsdnc'. fhey
ate q both sexes a,d Of all ages.
snd. consequently. Of every s'z'. Ia
the case q most, you can real some
thing of their past lives IN their 'aecs
and sor,as. ~ you can in those 81 the /
living. 81 completely does their rhysi |,
o.no,nv retain the imrress 4 the
PASSIONS which once moved and agi |
l.,ed them. Ono i. the hodg Of q |
nan who was a street y1r.cr IN lis |
time i. i, fully seven fee. high /
Tie was reno~hd for his strength. bat
broke h,s back one day about han.
dreI wears back. under burden too
heavy Tor him. Another presents the
features Of Il singula,ly beautiful and
graceful woman who died Of cancer.
On a third body. YOU remark the
nuns dress in which the poor inmate
Of the clols,er vas Inferred. Her
face still wears a look Of sadness aud
melancholy resiIna,ion. You see III
the breast It one man the sword
thrus. wound which had caused death,
The mos. ,ainful to behold ia the body
of young boy, tho conyul-ed con
traction Of whose features and mem.
ters presents fri2htful appearance
Of moral az We. as physical agony.
Some medical mer have given it rs
their opinion that this UNHAPPY being
had been buried alive, and that i,
was in his frenzied efforts to burst his
cerements that lis limbs s,iflcncl into
their present horrid aspect. Speak
ing Of medical men. there is one Of
their fraternity in the collection, an
old doctor. who thus shares the tomb,
j. MAY he. Of some Of those whom he,
lcrhars, helred to send to it.
Such are tlc mn,nmics nf Dor.
dcaux. AS 10 the cause Of the phs.
nomenon. We can offer no explanation.
though more learned men than we
will, doubles, easily find many. We
trust, however, that such may be
more reasonable than that offered by
an author before us, who ascribcs the
preservation Of the bodies to the heat
Of the climate. The guide. of course
had his own theory. a baker had
his oven close TO the place in wLicl,
s!iey were at first Inferred. and the
heat Of the said oven retrihed them
But, whatever may be the proper SO
luton Of the question, st. Michael's
church at Bordeaux is not the only
locality which possesses such cu'i
osity, though none that We are aware
Of can boast a II useum SO complete
Similar discoveries ere said to have
been made at Toulouse, under Fran
ciscan, and also under a Dominican
monastery, but we must say that
when in that town, We revcr heard Of
them. We have, however, ourselves
secn the bodies preserved in a cryp,
Of the cathedral church of bremen
This crypt ia called the Bleikeller, o,
lead.cellar, for what precise reason VIC
do not remember. 1t is not entirely
underground, but enjoys a certain
dubious daylight. The mummies here
arc contained in rough wooden collins
ard are a,tiled in the usual ves,mcnt
Of tho dead, but with their faces OK
posed. Each has its history, which
the respectable lady who showed then
to us duly recounted, removing cacl
cofIiiniid as she did so, and rerlacin;
i as she passed to another. AS q
Bordeaux, one cf them had been slai,
by the sword lie was a student VII,
fell in duel. Another was the bod,
Of an English lady Of the name Q
Stanhope. If we bore that name. WE
should take measures to prevent he
remains being thus made n show of
Since We are speaking Of Bremen
NC MA, mention another object, Of ,
somewhat similar kind, which tina
tewn possesses. Gesche Go,tfriet
Was female prisoner. modern Brin
yilliars. She poisoned her HUSBAND
(two husbands, unless We are mis,ak
en-, some of her children, and Sc,
eral Of her friends and relatives. 4
last, in an attempt to poison a yount
man, to whom she was about 10 d
married, she was detected, condem
ned, ard decapita,ed. This was {
Few years back, and they have no,
got her head, preserved in spirits. il
the Bremen Museum.
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