St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-20
MINNEAPOLIS.
BABA The CANNIBAL,
A Fiji Warrior Has a Taste of
Salty Samoan
Flesh.
A LAKE HARRIET TRAGEDY.
One of the South Sea island
ers Creates Something of
a Live Sensation.
THE NEWS OF A SUNDAY.
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mons--A Wife'S Tribula-
tions--Polities.

The think tanks of the Minneapolis
philosophers and naturalists will be set
TO bubbling now. They will have all
opportunity OF making 4 study of a
human anomaly, and if their nerve is
sufficient to allow of their feeling of the
bumps of this something" there is no
doubt but that local science will be en-
lightened. Among the South Sea
Islanders at Lake harriet is burly
FIjian, whose head measures twenty
inches from around the forehead to the
cerebelium, and whose eyes are as big
as Saucers. de is called Bahia for short,
but his name III Fiji sounds something
like that sticky drug known as "balsam
of cOpaiba."
Last night at 10 o'clock the police at
the Fifth precinct station were notified
that there was trouble among the saw
ages at the lake. An officer was sent
out TO investigate. and found to his hor-
rOr that Baba's bumps were inflamed
and that his eyes had assumed the size
of cracker bowls. In other words, he
was excited. and the gentlemen having
the Horde" in charge were very much
frightened.
Baba had developed a strange taste.
1t was taste for human flesh-raw,
unauthorized man meat. He had
jumped upon one Of the young SamoanS
and bitten huge chunk out of his right
shoulder Had not several of the other
SamoanS come to the young fellows
rescue, it is likely Baba would have
made a meal off him. There was a
fierce struggle before the cannibal
would reliuQuish his hold on the SamO-
ans shoulder blade. There was a salty
taste about it he appeared to relish, and
even when cnoked into submission he
smac6ed his chops with evident guSto.
The Samoan's shoulder blade Will not
be fit 10 be seen for week or more,
though there is no doubt but lie will
prove big drawing card. People will
come miles to see his chewed-up Shoul.
der the same as they went miles to
glover over the angularity of katisha's.
Mr.. MoOrS, the manager of the South
Sea Islanders, returned yesterday from
short incurSIon, aYd stated last night
that the whole affair was caused by the
Samoan prodding Baba in the back with
his war club. He did not believe that
Baba had any intention of eating his
fellow Snowman, and yet he admitted
that be INDUCED in similar break in
heSl olISlSGOs WITCH IlC lOOA d UllC Oul
Of Miss Chariko's arm.
MIR. MoOrS stated that the bumps so
noticeable on Baba's Uranium are nat
ura!, and do not necessarily denote
cannibalistic tendencies. He has en-
larged his eyes TO the dimensions they
now enjoy by bathing them in a decoc-
ton of peculiar kind of sea weed that
is found on the shores OF the South Sea
Islands. He looks upon himself as a
prize beauty, and considers that large
eyes improve his looks wonderfully.
Mr.. Moor8-is willing, however, that any
scientist in the city may examine Bahia,
and discover, if possible, the faint for
the desire for human flesh. If it should
prove that he is cannibal at heart, he
VIII ship him back 10 his Pacific home.
The police who went to the lake to
look after the trouble were relieved of
any disagreeabie duty by Mr.. Moors,
who agreed to see that none of his
troupe became pestiferous again during
the night.
1t will be interesting now to watch
and see if either Bahia, who did the
biting. or the Samoan, who was bitten,
dies from the effect. Mr.. Moors main
taIns that ii either should die it win be
Baba, after the manner of the dog in
GoidSmith's rhyme, who expired after
biting the good man.