The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-09-04
A Bona Eide Citizen.

Mr.. James Carlisle, who resides on
the Belfast pike some three miles out of
town, brought in basket full of human
bones on last Saturday afternoon which
he submitted to the inspection of some
OF our savants.
The bones were those of skeleton
which he had disturbed in its resting
place in gravel bank on his farm, and
were found about three feet and a half
from the surface of the ground.
The remains were remarkable on ac.
count OF their immense size, but still
more so in that they were those of a
woman. This was shown by the struc-
ture OF the pelvis, as also by the COM
paratively small size of the Uranium and
shallowness OF the "brain PAN"
The vertebrae were enormous, resem-
bling in size those of an OK rather than
of human. The thigh bones were
sixteen and half inches long by actual
measurement from the plane Of the head
OF the bone to that Of the lower articulat-
ing surface. This being one-ffth of the
height OF the living human would give
the defunct lady an altitude during life
OF six feet, ten and half inches. The
bones OF the arm, trunk, etc, corres-
ponded in size with the ones mentioned.
She would certainly have been a holy
terror in her palmy days should she
have taken after an ordinary husband
with broomstick. And by her side
with his skull resting on her ribs lay a
smaller skeleton, probably that very
husband true and tender to her in death
as he had been obedient and faithful in
life.
He, who had no doubt often felt the
force OF those powerful bones as they
grappled his cervical vertebrae and
shook him until those worn teeth rat
tied; he who had many time and Oft
scratched and rubbed that cranium-sSit ii
rang with the blows of her hominy
FOUNDER, at last crawls to the side of his
departed spouse, forgives all and broken.
hearted dies with that bruised head
upon her breast; as is the nature of hus-
bands now so it was when man chased
the mastodon and megatherium or
fought the fierce ornithorhyncuss in the
dim forests of the misty past.
The skull OF this ancient applicant for
suffrage was, as we have said, compare
lively small, with meager accommoda-
tions for the intellectual faculties, but
with an occipital development showing
powerful animal tendencies. 1t was
prognathous and dolichocephalic in
shape, and the bones no doubt were
those of one of our red Indian abort
gines, as that is the kind of a cranium
they wore, though some of the charac-
teristics would lead to a belief that
, they were the timbers of mound
builder" Quite a number OF our citi-
zens interviewed the distinguished
/ visitor though she was not inclined to
: talk, and had she attempted to do sc
, would probably have been disjointed ir
her conversation.
, Later in the evening the police 60
5 wind of the matter and quietly under
a took an investigation, but his high char
r acter as a citizen and the fact that tn,
lady had been dead two or three hun
j dred years relieved Mr.. Carlisle of sn,
a suspicion of foul play. It is to tn
!, credit of our guardians, however, tina
they showed such vigilance.in the pc,
formance of duty, and it will be satii
faction to each of our readers to kno'
that if he should be found dead
would be promptly looked into by tn
authorities.
IS Mr.. Carlisle took the autochthonou
d bones home and put them out on
stump, from which they now preach
solemn lesson of love and death, of tn
mysterious past, and the more mystel
le ious future, of mans existence an
destiny, his hopes and sorrows, an
"other articles too numerous t
oi mention" II. s. F.