Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-10

IDENTIFY frightened, and needed persuasion
| TO overcome her reluctance, she dipped
with a quick dash, throwing out a wave OF
| parsfhre which sheeJed my clothes with the
white stuff from shoulder to foot, and it cost
me twenty-five francs 10 have il removed by
dsgroisse1r.) John Kings voice then said
in an interrogatiye way, 81 suppose / need
| not waste any of the power to make the
| light, as you have already sufficiently seen
| IT." We assented, of course. We then heard
dipping into the cylinder, followed by q
| regular shoWer-bath Of dripping rs the head
was Withdrawn to be plunged into The cold
water, the return from which produced q
| similar shower-bsth of drops falling back.
This was repeated Elk or seven times, as
| to give sufficient thickness TO the mold, since
| a single dipping would deposit only a very
Thin finn OF parsfine, too thin 70 serve as a
| mold.
The controlling spirit then said, "Now, my
dear friend, lso he always addressed the
count; between him aud me We always called
esch other simply joint hold out your
hands. am going 10 give you the mold"
The count obeyed, with the palms upper
most, and the mold was deposited in them.
Ii was still 90 hot that he could scarcely bear
IT, and little scottish, the parsffine not be-
ing yet quite stifened 1t was quite heavy,
though De Bullet did not think it had ali
the weight which he presumed an ordinary
human bust to have. He held it for a mo-
ment or two, and then felt a slight pull out
ward 1.-THE head was toward bis breast, the
neck being outward), and in an instant the
pull ceased and the weight Was gone, and
only the light, empty parafine mold re-
manned, like an eggshell, as it were, out Of
which its contents should have vanished.
The dematerializsd bust of the spirit had
evidently passed out, like a gas or vapor,
through the orI6ce left BY the neck.
The count then deposited il carefully on the
cold water, our lamp was lit, and there was
this m marvellous white mold, of life-size, float
ing on the water, sfill little sofIish 10 the
touch. We took it up with the utmost care,
but, IN spite OF our precautions, some pieces
OF the neck broke of, under the slight pres
sure OF our hogers as appears in the engrav-
Ipg). The dipping would seem not TO have
been every time TO the same depth, and, az
the neck entered las', the mold was there
thiunest. But the broken pieces were large,
and admitted of being joined together by the
plssterer who filed the mold with alabastsr,
obtaining the beautiful cast OF which the
engraving represents the photograph. 1t is
precisely the face the lovely spirit, Angela,
whom we had so often seen in her materials
zations
She Afterwsrd wrote, through the hand of
the mediums wife, that che bad had TO pack
her hair tightly on her head, on account of
the Parsfine. She usually, as we would see
her materlalissd. wore it loose and hanging
down, in which condition il could not have
been nodded. Apropos of this may mem
ton that we have sometimes seen these
spirits with their hair elaborately dressed,
often with a jewel or flower in it, and the
fashioH OF the dressing to change three times
within two or three minu es, as though done
by mere act of will. They would some
times appear wearing flower which had
bought at a florists on the way TO the seance
and placed in the cabinet with a view to its
being thus employed. a
Having thus obtained the mold, we
smeared more psrafiue on it with our hands
to thicken and strengthen il las is manifest
in the photography, aud carried It off with
the utmost care 10 the plasterei's. But on
the way the thought occurred 10 US that
after we should have got the cast of the bust,
which oil course was our object, no trace nor
record would remain of the mold After
filling it with the alabaster, the cast could
only be got out by destroying the mold by
tearing il of; or, better, by melting it off 10
very hot water. Our opponents might heresfter
deny the mode in which the csst had been
obtained; we therefore stopped at a pho
togrspher's (Fontaine, on the Boulevard des
Capucines), aud had the mold photographed,
as it now appears in the engraved copy of it.
couple OF the casts of the damp above
described were also placed on the table. We
then took the mold to the plasterer. The
exquisite bust was the result which crowned
and rewarded our efforts. 1t ia now in the
possession of the Count de Bullet, in
Paris, where il has been seen by
numerous admirers. The two face
- Il Al
spirit, are also in his possession. L. is
worth noting that as the second of these two
differed from the first in having the eyes
open instead of shut, 90 does the third 1.-THE
best differ from both the two preceding ones
in having the lips q little more open than
in the others. Though the shadow prevents
their appearing In the photograph, the deli.
cate little teeth are visible in the bust which
do not show in the two casts of the same
the Count de Bullet for this splen-
did service rendered to the cause OF Spir.
ituaIism. NV part in it is merely the
humble one OF close and gcrutinzng spec
tator and faithful historiographer. 1 am
also profoundly grateful to the good and
noble-hesrted count for the privilege of wit
Messing all it has been pleasure to record
aud publish to the world. Who could ever
have imagined the possibility of obtaining
casts of the busts of angelic spirit forms
through the faithful and self-attesting pro.
cess Of molds taken in melted parafiuei
Three similar molds were subsequently OBJ
tanned of two spirits, the one OF another lovely
young girl named Alexsndrine, the other OF
a seraphic male spirit named Glaucus, who
claims to have known St. Paul in Rome, and
to have been a convert to him. OF Alexsn-
drine two molds were obtained, differing
from each other in the pose of the head.
The first got accidentally spoiled for yielding
a cast, having hattened down from the heat
of the summer day in the interval OF two
hours before it was photographed. But she
graciously consented 10 repeat the operation,
though il was one from which she
shrank with a certain fright. She was
sister (Who had died some thirty odd years
before) of wealthy friend of Count de Bull
let, Mr.. Loot, of Moscow, who was present
st the dipping. He carried off 10 Russia
the two molds of his sister, the spoiled one
empty, but valuable for evidence as being
all an one piece, the other solid, being filed
with the alabaster from which he intended
TO melt eff the parafine in Russia, after
showing it 10 his spiritualist friends there.
The cast of Glaucus is seraphic in beauty,
as is attested by the cast in Count de Bullets
possession.