The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-21
PUzzLEDSCIENCE.
1taly's Peasant wizard Continues
to Increase In Power.
WONDERFUL MYSTERIOUS FORCE
Eu,npia raiAdlna Possessed 81 nStranEc
Electrical Personality Influence over
Inunin'ate obJeets-Article, Moved at
wn,-selsn,st. Convinced hnt Caanot
Account for II.

by this time, gays the Washington Post,
To those interested in the phenomena OF
psychology the fat, drnpy, Italian peas
sant woman has been a vCritabic gold
mine OF surprises. UnbclIcvcrS In the
supernatural would almost be willing 20
change their minds could they See her
perform the marvellous dolnGs which
within the past year have convulScd
cold, c~iCar-hcadcl men OF science In all
the great centcrs OF Europe. She has
been studied ana analysed over and over
but not one. OF these nlcn az brains has
been able TO logically account for. her
mysterious powerL II she had lived n
hundred ycars ago she would probably
have been condemned 10 the stake az II
witch. As II Ia she IS the ErcntcRt living
NpuEEle befure the eyes OF the world to-
day.
Her strange powers are easily de-
scrihed, but no explanation oc their
source can be offered. She possesses
some peculiar force In her body which iH
potent enough 20 move weiEhty objects
standing nj some distance from her. II
Is described as u species OF electrical cur
rcnt. %cmanat!nS from her body and taxi
ing hold OF the desired object, and NOV
ing the latter about as she wills. Her
force Is hot confined 10 Il single object at
the same time. She can move i dozen
things from different parts OF n large
room. causing them TO fly through th-
air at the same Instant. This has Just
been demonstrated. and II adds a new
chapter TO the ALREADY long list which
the scientists are trying to puzzle out,
Her Wonderful Powers.
Some time ngn Eusapin was taken 70
England, and she gave a number OF ex-
hibitions In the presence OF a number OF
English, French and German scientists,
who adopted a variety of Of precautions
10 detect her in any fraud. No fraud
was discovered. but her doIngS were
X 81 remarkable and unnatural that some
of the scientists, nfter NIinly ~attysnptlnG
to trace the causes OF she phenomena,
decided that there must have been fraud,
and 80 stamped her aH 4 vulgar trickStcr.
But theseaccusations wcreso E~rouudless
OF fact that little attention was paid TO
them, and the fame OF the Italian woman
to-day ~ greater than cver
In Paris she has just given an KAN
ole Of her powers which is regarded Is
more remarkable than any OF the Others.
because Il shows the surprising energy
of the force she sXeTti. Heretofore she
nus only attempted to move small
things. like causing n letter Weighing
machine 70 move up or down, and
thumping the keys OF Il piano placed at
come distance from her.
In this last exhibition there were n
number OF scientific men present. and
they adopted many precautions against
She exercise OF fraud or the Introduction
OF any outside agency. The wife OF one
of the scientists had dressed the peasant
woman In a t!ght-fittlng gymnasium suit
TO guard against the possibility OF her
y ,,slnE any concealed mechanism IN per-
forming her wonders.
In the drawing room where the terts
were made EusapIa was seated in Il light
bamboo chair. entirely devoid OF any
thing which would conceal the smallest
thing. The peasant woman always falls
into n trance when giving her exhlbl-
lions. and when che had reached this
stage n OF the scientists gut down on
hts knees on the floor and held her legs
\ firmly In his hands. Another caught
hold of her hands and held them In n
tight grip, while another stood imme-
dIately at the back Of the chair to watch
for any suspicious movement. y fourth
stood right In front OF her for the same
purpose, and others were grouped around
eager TO catch her in any deception.
Then the excitement began. The
trnnce-lIke sleep deepcned, The first
thing to feel the force 81 the woman was
q heavy armchair. placed In the recess
of the window. 1t began to move about
In spasmodic jumps, and then q toy
piano, standing near, began to play. The
heavy window curtain sTelled out into
the middle OF the room. and twined Itself
about the head OF one OF the watchers.
The leg OF n distant table pounded three
times on the floor. and the heavy arm
chair moved up and down. One Of the
watchers felt something Ike n sharp
blow In the small Of his back, and an
other. n b~ald-hraded Z cried out that
something had hit him on the top Of the
head like the five fingers or n hand. An
other was pinchcd or the right arm.
Effects Produced by Trance.
All this time the toy piano was chat
tering away, and the table leg was
pounding on the floor and the armchair
was moving up and down. The sleep OF
the woman seemed 20 grow deeper and
the noise greater, Then came the
ms part OF the test. The window
curtains broke Loose from the pole AM!
came on n table near Eusapin. Their
the thy piano sailed through the air,
atrikinE one OF the watchers on tile head
ana landing ntdT lDt tuA tdluo, hh'aS
the piano was still In the air Eusapla
got UP from the chair and II started on 4
flight through the air. first backward
and upward, and eventually landing In
the lap of n man who had been sitting
right In front Of her.
This IL regarded as the most rcmarkA-
BILE OF the many examples which me
woman has given or her powers. Her
history, aside from the strange force she
possesses. IL simply told. She was born
IN Eaples fOrty-onc years nGo. nt poor
parents. Wh-n eight ycara old bel
father was Killed by ~brlSands. n thiS
tragedy had a strange effect on her
nerves, which, In 4 measure, may Ac-
count for her powers. She bccam" hys-
+frIcal and was often the victim of hal
IucInatiOns, seeing strange faces staring
Mt her from the walls and ceilings. Then
she began to fall into frances, anu spirit
unlIsts who heard OF her induced her to
take part In seancgS when Hlle was nllt
thirteen years of Aga. She tired OF this
fer Il while. but when TWENTY-FIVE"
Years old she. again became under the IN
Gucnce OF Il s~plrituallSt,
Now ghc has little or nothing 10 do
with s%pirItuallam. Her strange powers
nrst attracted attention about seven
ycara ago, and since thon Bhc has beer
in every large city uf J5urOD" NJ the INV
tatlon OF scIentIsts! who have founa IN
her q most interesting study:
spain Secs n Crisis.
Boston Traveller: The avidity win
which the new Spanish loan IS neinI
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