White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-06-29
SOME: MNuvEvJ.Ous TWlNGS RECURDED
m TnE ANCAENTs.

U-;.;. C,rlius Rh0iiginus says that
elephants have been sometimes known W
Lara, Terte;.c.-Diodorus Siculus tells us, that
tfe tortcises i'm the Indian Sea are 80 large ."a'
people sail in their shells On '"e ii'''''
well as in little coekbcsts'
4 R.U ..,,o;,o Ii, Color like the Chdmeteon.-
Macrohus describes n wonderful bull IN the city
of Hermynta that the people worsnpPeu, WHO"
changed its color every hour oil the da!'
Larae 1xts-Rbodiur says the ants IN India are
larger than foxes.
Men wkose Hearts hare bcen Corered r,'A HanH
Pliny tells u.s. that men nave csen to. I.s. !,
their hearts rough or hairy; and ne that hath II
so is valiant man, and stoutly disposed, as was
experimental in the dissection oil Aristomeness
who. with his own hand, slew three hundred La
cetlrmonians in one battie
Some Men Tak after their Heads are CM Of
Averoes de Med saith that &c sac pS", ,.Ian t
walked TO and fro for small WHILE in sight OF all
the people. II is also written of Dyonysius Aero
pagita, that, after his head was smtten on, he
walked certain PAGES. Some say IL was ieaSue
and more from the place Oh MS eAecuuoh. S''
Denys did the same.
4 NAN LOSING FTffy-seres Years Of his Life BY
Slsp.-Pliny tells of Epimenides the Gnosfic,
who when q boy, being wearieti OF heat ana trav-
el laid himself down in a certain cave, and there
slept ffty-seven years; then awakening, ne very
much maryelleti like our modern Rip Van Winkle)
at the great changes he observed in this world
PeopJe L;r;,o Tco Hundred Years.-Pliny says
that there is a race of Indians inhabiting certain
valleys, who live to the age Of two hundred; that
| when young, their hair is white, but blackens rs
they grow old. Sir John Sinclair speaks OF q TOO
| salnbrious valley, which people are Obliged to
| move from, for fear Of living for ever.
Men riM Dogs' Heads Tails and Fomntaiss Of
Ligsid Gold.-Pliny tells of men in India with
dogs heads; Others with only one leg, though per
feet Achilles for swiftness Of foot; of a nation OF
e. nff
who had only one eye in their forehead; and of
| some whose ears hung down to the ground Cte-
sias az cited by Photius, talks of fountains OF IL
| quid gold, and Of men with tails, in indla-true,
we ought to remember, that Fernando Alarchon,
| n Spanish vOyager, Of untOubted credit, saw men
| with tails on the coast Of California; and that
| several Others have seen them with dogs heads.
MonboddO rejoiced at this testimony, although
AlarchOn tells MS that these tails were dlscovereu
| to he fcttiOus and we are also assured, that the
dog headed men were found to wear vizar'is. As
to the fountains of gold the Indian legends say SO
metaphOrically, and so they are credited as real.
| 4 Serpent One Hundred and Trenty Feet Long
Valerius Maximus says that the artillery OF Reg
ulus in Africa, had to contend with, and mt length
killed, such serpent, by stOninS him; the ser
penis hide was sent to Rome.
A Man Born Laxghing.-Plny says that Zoroas
ter laughed the same day wherein he was born
and that the brain of this young philosopher -
| painted and beat that il would raise up the hands
| Of those VINO iaiu them on MS head' anu wiz,
Pliny pronounces an excellent presage OF the grea
learning ZOroaster attained to.
Fire Hundred Thousand Hid Beasts Killed in III
| COlOsseum.-HistOrians say, that ON the first day
the opening of the Colosseum, at Rome, Titus pro
duced five hundred thousand wild beasts, whicl
were killed in the
Colossal Boncs.-St. Augustine tells us, that h
found on the sea-slore, Utica fossil human
tooth, which was hundred times the size of tn
tooth of any person living. Pliny says, that b.
an earthquake in Crete part Of a mountain wa
opened, which discovered skeleton sixteen o
twenty feet long, supposed to he that Of Orion
At much later period, Kircher tells us of skel
eton dug up near Rome, which, by an Inscription
attached to it, was known tn he that Of Pallas
(slan by Tarnns,) and was higher than the wall
of the city. The SAME author tells us, that anOth
CT skeleton found Palermo, that mus
have belonged TO man four hundred feet high
Another Polyphemus, we suppose.