The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-08-13


Philip MelAncthon said he had known
Luther 10 fast for four days together.
Il know" said poggins. - man who
lived fcs two years together without
any food" He had also read OF
girl who tasted the whole Of twelve
years in the reign Of the Emperor Lo-
thArius-
John Scot. q Sco,chman. lived about
the year 1889. Having lost lawsuit.
he shut himself up in the abbey Of
Holyrood House. and sbslained from
meat and drink for thirty or forty
dayS The news Of the feat having
zone abroad. the King ordered . sec
ond test; Scot was shut up In = private
room in the Castle Of Edinburgh. and
nobody was allowed access 10 him; .
little water and little bread were set
before him. which were found not 10
have been diminished At the end OF
thirty-two days. He gave = ike proof
Of his endurance to Pope Clement vi.
At Rome. and when he left the Holy
City carried with him proof OF his long
fast under the Pope seal At Venice
he repeated his fast. Returning 10 In
gland he denounced the divorce OF
King Henry VIII. from Queen Gather
| inc. and was thrust into prison. where
| he tasted for nifty DAYS How John
Scot ended his hunger-enduring career
| Is not known.
Hermolaus Barbarus says : = There
was Z man At Rome that lived for forty
years. only BY sucking in Of the air. "
He was . priest and was all that time
in health
Rondeletius reports "A girl that 70
the tenth year Of her age lived only
upon air. She was afterwarI married
and had children
Joan BALKAN Is . remarkable case
cited by Cardinal Richelieu ; ply sician-
She was French girl. When eleven
years old. in 1899. she was stricken
with fever which continued twenty
four DAYS. leaving her speechless, OBJ
structing the Hsophagus. and ieavin
All the parts below the head dull and
languii. The stomach dried up and
contracted. although AL other portions
of the body retained rounded and
healthy appearance. Joan could take
no food Of any kind for nearly three
wears. during which time she moved
around. did housew0rk and seemed in
} no way Inconvenience by the absence
Of nourishment She returned 70 food
gradually after the time named
A Marciacensian maid Is reported 4
have lived fifteen years without food u
drink. and to have been still living ane
fasting when the account here draw
on was written
A Piedmontese maid subsssted TO
Irtrr<aaf xr~fr. -
at Genoa. under strict supervision o
!. guards placed over her BY Prince Arria
This test was thou ht TO confirm the re
port that she had tasted .for man.
.. years together"
Franciscus Nicholaus Petra Underus
a Helvrtian. left his wife and i've chill
. dren to live in solitude. and died II
l470. 1t the age Of seventy. havln.
' fastei during the last twenty years o
, his life, In all this time he took foo
but once. and then by the order OF IN
Bishop Of Constant =. who had Gale
. 70 see him: the food he then taste
|. was very little. but il made him sick
Jacobus. Frenchman. who made
pilgrimage to Rome. after recover
= from 3 sickness. swore that he ms
taken 10 food nor drink for over ~
!. years
4 Several women were at one tin
= buried in . stable near Piedm ont.
9 Italy. under an avalanche Of sno
: from the Alps and remained in prise
; during THIRTY seven days. At the end
q which time they were taken out aliv
A two-year-old child that was wi
e them ed. They were without fot
all the time
d In 1850 q caravan Of over one tho
sand Abyssinians on their way aero
D. the desert TO Cairo. found themselv
20 without food. and the whole numb
It subsisted for two months on gum n
ID bic alone. only few dying Of hunge
" In . paper read before the Roy
n Society, Of London. on December
~ I742. an account was given Of Jof
= Ferguson. = native OF the Parish
"a KiIimellfoord. in Argyle-hire. vi
q lived eighteen years on water alor
Ii appears that John had overhead
70 himself while in pursuit Of cattle
q the mountains. drank large quaint
10 Of spring water. slept for twelty-fe
no hours. and. when he awoke. found Il
Ga nothing but water or weak whey wor
- remain on his stomach Hence {
ng necessity Of sticking to water. with
ler very occasional change TO thin whs
- for nearly twenty years