Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-03

the present owners the sum of three hun drsd and ssventy-fve thousand marks, or more than ninety thousand dollars. I wonder what 1t sold for three hundred years ago. Duerer's old sword hung on the wall, and seemed like Sir Hudibras' sword,
 "To eat into itself for lack
 UT something else 10 hew and hack"
 But perhaps we have had enough of old Nuremberg. As there was an old Nursm. berg, % most decidedly is there a new one. Nurembsrg is the seat of the courts: 1t fs the nesdquarters of the Bsvarisn army d. visions and cavalry brigsdss. There are scientific institutions here, several coI- isges and schools of art, industry and trade, commerce, architecture and music. Orphanages, hospitals, charitable institu- hons have their home here.
 The industries have attained a very high degree of perfection, sll kinds of machine " are made here, also brass goods, nathe- nautical and philosophical instruments, eleotro-plste, lesdpencils, toys, pocket books, paper and glass ware. and SO on sd tnhnitum. Vast qusntitits of German gingerbread are manufactured here and sent to all parts of Germany. This city is the chief hop market of Europe.
 All pleasant experiences come at last to a tsgmtnstlon, and so must our visit to Nuremberg; 1t cannot, like the poet's riv- CT, run on and on forever" Tomorrow we collect our 'timpedimenta" and travel towards Prague. and shall visit Lsfpsfc, in which city wish to study up some points in that-perhaps-greste book publish- ing center In Europe, where are no less than five hundred book sellers and nearly one hundred publishing houses busily en- gagged in dispstching their products to eve " quarter of the globe. Now, my dear editor, if you are not already too wearied with my long letter, will add few lines further: Towards the end of May, 1928, an undersized, stupid looking boy about seventeen years of age, staggered up to the New Tower at Nuremberg, holding in his hand a scrswl reading, "Plesse make him trooper like his fsther.n
 He was wofully ignorant and could give no intelligent account of himself to the lieutenant of the tower. He was st once arrested and marched up one hundred stone steps to the prison iu the vestnsr tower; in the course of few days folks from all parts Hooked to get sight of this half wild man. Through his scarcely ar ticulste speech his keepers understood that he had always lived in a cell some seven feet long, four feet wide and four and half feet high, and he had always been in
 
 been placed In his cell by unseen hands, and rough wooden toys had at times been thrown into his dark abode. He seemed to feel neither heat nor cold, and was very easily excited by music. Strsngest of all he had never seen human face; the soles of his feet were ss tender ss child'r, Thus had he lived all the days of his short life almost like an animal. One dark nisht @ man took him, and after carrying him on his back e long distance through the for est and across streams, he deposited him just before daylight on the mountain in the vicinity of the New Tower.
 This man thrust & paper into his hand and bsds him to descend the bill and to became known the people of influence came to tkink that he was scion of some great family, who for their own reasons desired to keep him in seclusion.
 This obscure, stepping, half fool of 8 boy was, strange to relate, actually adopt ed by the town of Nuremberg in 1928, and three hundred horins were put aside sn- nually for his support, German profes- sor was allowed him, and in @ short time this singular person became through his accomplishments the idol of Nuremberg society. An accidental req mblsnce to the daughter of the Grand Duchess of Baden
 
 had lost In Its infancy; they believed her child had been exchanged for A dying child of peasant and had been spirited away for obvious reasons.
 It is an uncanny tale this account of "Ksspsr Hsuser." Truth Is at times stranger than fiction.
 In 1883 Lord Stanhope became attached to the young man and took him of the hands of the officials of Nuremberg; he adopted him and allowed him a large sum for support; he also took him to Hungary, Poland and to other parts of Europe. In 1884, In December, he died under singular circumstances at AnspAch, not far from Nuremberg.
 He affirmed that @ strange man dressed as & gardener invited him to 6 garden outside the city to inspect some plants. and that the man then and there stabbed him through the lungs. A few moments after making this affirmation the lad fell back and died of his wounds-
 | The Bsvarian government took every possible means to spprehend the murderer, l and although 1t was in the depth of win ter no tracks were discernible in the snow; every travellers pass book was searched by | the police and all strangers were made to | give account of themselves, but no trace | of the guilty party was ever discovered. All Germany was aroused, and co great | was the interest that no less than twenty five pamphlets were published within five years concerning the remarkable 'tNurem- burg foundling." "Who was Ksspsl | HsuserF' "Where did he come fronf "who killed himl" These queries have never been settled. Recently new pam phls,s have been published, and If yor wish an hours interesting reading procure "the true story of Ksspar Hsuter,n by th' "Duchess of Cleveland" ," daughter of thu late Earl of Stsnhope. VIAroR.