The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29

address. He spoke Of the conduct Of Drs
Windele and Liienthai, so-called insanity
commissioners" and asserted that INC
tiend incarnate could accomplish what
those men have done. If any man is crazv
and deserves to 60 to the Insane Asylum
it is this man George s. Smith,"
You hel" came from voice in the rear.
There was momenIary and painful
silence, followed by a craning Of necks. tn
see who cOntradicted Fooie so fatty But
that was all. Foote continued speaking as
II nothing had occurred to disturb his equi-
librium.
When Mr.. Nouri was introduced he
presented picturesque figure to the all
dlenee-a man OIL middle height, slender,
with pale and handsome face. grave black
eyes and dark curling hair and beard, the
hair falling around his shoulders upon a
gray gown that reached TO his feet. He
speaks English with a musical accent; his
language was always pleasing. often e!o-
Quent, and it was accompanied by oc-
casional dramatic touches. His every
characteristic betrayed man of education
and refinement but eTratio and eccentric
II am the lineal descendant of one of
the most ancient families OF the Orient"
he said. land can trace my genealOgy
back 1900 years. The family of Nouri be-
gan at the Jewish captivity Of Babylon"
Then for many hundreds of years he
traced his family's history, which seemed
mixed up in a queer sort of way with
Bible history, until he fell back on modern
literature for dates and facts.
de was born in 1865. and received the
degree of DID. and LID, with profess
sor of fourteen languages, when 81 years
of age. so he said. From that eventful
period in his life until now his progress
was stranger than fiction. In the cathe-
dral of Babylon, when 90 years old, he
was chosen to speak before SO, coo persons
Passing over paths familiar through
books of travel he found remnants of
Israeps lost tribes in Afghanistan, Kurdis-
tan. part of Persia. and Beloochistan
Their features. customs. traditions, dress.
history proclaimed their remote origin. 1t
was while searching for the sources of the
Euphrates and Tigris rivers that Nouri
turned his attention to Ararat. After
eight repeated attempts he succeeded in
ascending 17,400 feet. 600 feet from the
summit, and viewing the ark of Noah with
his naked eyes. The snow, he said, was melt
ing in that altitude in the warm sun hine,
and as il rolled from the ark he could dis
tinguish windows, gates and pretty nearly
a complete ocean steamer for passenger
and freight service. That snow should
melt at an altitude of $4,000 feet appeared
natural enough 10 his scientific mind, and
DR.. Nouri claims 10 be distinguished man
OF science. The ark was of dark reddish
brown color. over 1000 feet long by scien-
tific measurement. actually made with in
struments by Nouri as an explorer.
arch9ologist, historian. ETC. Indeed, he
declared his object in discovering and
measuring the ark was purely historical.
archaeological ana scientific, not reli zinus !:
not as a ChaldeaD, archdeacon ana divine.
After six months travel and suffering
many privations, he discovered fabulous
gold fields 10000 feet high, in the Noun
tains of the Moon, north OF Lake Victoria
NyanZa, Central Africa. Stanley feared
TO penetrate these mountains, said Nouri /:
he passed by them. For hundreds of
miles the land was strewn with gold.
rocks shining with dazzling brilliancy in
the sun-all gold, mile after mile and moth
ing but gold, which assayed 50 per cent
pure gold and 10 per cent residue. There,
he said, are the richest gold fields in the
world. but until railroad Is built nothing
can be done with them because of their in
accessibility. Such fancy picture as the
speaker drew might be found in Haggard's
story OF king Solomon's Mines"
Referring TO his experience with the In
sanity Commission he said that DR.. Win
dele remarked, ''Oh, well, any man who i,
so crazy as to insist that Mount Ararat is
not on the west coast of Ireland should be
In NaDa asylum"
Nouri closed by stating that Drs. Win
dele and Smith were graduates OF "St.