The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-08-13

Philip Melancthon said he had know,
Luther to fast for four DAYS together.
g! know" said Poggins, SO man WHIT
,, lived Tor 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, Scotchman, lived about
the year 1889. Having lost a lawsuit.
he shut himself up In the abbey OF
HOlyrood House, and abslained from
meat and drink for thirty or fortv
days. The news of the feat having
gone abroad, the King ordered a sec.
ond test; Scot was shut up in q private
room in the Castle of Edinburgh, and
nobody was allowed access to him; a
little water and little bread were set
before him, which were found not to
have been diminished at the end of
thirty-two days. He gave like proof
OF his endurance to Pope Clement VII.
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 to En-
gland he denounced the divorce of
King Henry VIII. from Queen Gather
inc, and was thrust into prison, where
he tasted for fifty days. How John
Scot ended his hunger-enduring career
is not known.
Herm0laus Barbarus saws "There
was 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: ga girl that to
the tenth year of her age lived only
upon air." She was afterWard married
and had children.
Joan Balaam is q remarkable case
cited by Cardinal Richelieu's physician.
She was q French girl. When eleven
years old, in 1899, she was stricken
with fever which continued twenty
four days, leaving her speeches., OBJ
structing the 0esophagus, and leaving
all the parts below the head dull and
languid. The stomach dried up and
contracted, although all other portions
of the body retained q rounded and
healthy appearance. Joan could take
no food of any kind for nearly three
years, during which time she moved
around, did homework and seemed in
no way Inconvenience by the absence
of nourishment. She returned to food
gradually after the time named.
A Marciacensian maid is reported to
have lived fifteen years without food or
drink, and to have been still living and
fasting when the account here drawn
on was written.
A Piedmontese maid subsisted for
two months on water, or diluted wine,
at Genoa, under strict supervision of
guards placed over her by Prince AURA.
This test was thought to confirm the re-
port that she had tasted "for many
years together
Franciscus Nicholaus Petra Underus,
q Helvetian, left his wife and five chill
dren to live in solitude, and died in
147O, at the age of seventy, having
tasted during the last twenty years Of
his life! In all this time he took food
but once, and then by the order of the
Bishop OF Constantia, who had called
to see him; the food he then tasted
was very little, but it made him sick.
Jacobus, q Frenchman, who made q
to Rome, after recovery
from . sickness, swore that he had
taken no food nor drink for over two
years.
Several women were at one time
buried in stable near Piedm ont, in
Italy, under an avalanche of snow
from the Alps, and remained in prison
during thirty-seven days, at the end of
which time they were taken out alive.
A two-year-old child that was with
Them died. They were without food
sll the time.
In 115O caravan of over one thou
sand Abyssinians on their way across
The desert to Cairo, found themselves
without food. and the whole number
'ubsisted for two months on gum ara
bic alone. only few dying Of hunger.
In paper read before the Royal
Society, of London, on December 9,
!742, an account was given of John ,
Ferguson, q native Of the Parish of
AillmellfOord, in Argyleshire, who s
ived eighteen years on water alone. ,
t appears that John had overheated
himself while in pursuit of cattle on I
he mountains, drank large quantity {
# spring water, slept for twenty-four
lours. and. when he awoke, found that I
lothing but water or weak whey would =
emaln on his stomach. Hence the :
lecessity of sticking to water, with a t
cry occasional change to thin whey, :
Or nearly twenty years.
Two Smiles from Paris. t
HERE are two anecdotes that recently
rifted past on the stream of chit-chat =
t a dinner party. An American gen.
eman. while taking A walk in London a