The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1902-01-10
TURNED TO STONE.
Some Facts In Relation to Alleged
Fertilization of the Hu-
man Body.

eruption at Pompei eighteen centuries
agp. The Cardiff giant was discover
edlon farm at the village of Cardiff.
near Syracuse, N. Y, IN 1869. 1t
was interviewed by Mark Twain, and
even Emu rsou and Holmes wrote ar
ticles about 1t. Prof. o W. Marsh.
palentolog' at Yale. was the fret
one to exp se Its fraudulent character,
and even after his publication Of its
defects as human remains there was a
long discussion OF Its genuineness
KEEP up naturally by the men who
held the exhibition rights. After
while the stone man dropped COM
pletely out OF public sight. having
last been heard from a good many
years ago as being held at the Mexi.
can border for unpaid duties on i'm
ported statuary.
The main points o. the expose made
by Prof Marsh were based on the fact
that the giant was made of gypsum, a
material easy to carve and soluble in
water. AS the giant was supposed to
have been found In region that was
very moist, Prot. Marsh's suspicious
were first aroused because he could
not account for the fine polish on the
skin Of the giant; nor could he &C.
count Tor the preservation Of the su-
per-regular pin points representing
pores OF the same skin. A careful
investigation showed these to have
been made with a machine, much like
the stippling machine so much used
by illustrators now.
Then a reverend gentlemen by the
name of MacWborter took up the
cause of the giant In this way Ut
might have been called the Giants
cause-way) arguing that it was a
Phoeuician god left here long before
Lief Ericsson and Christofero Colombo
hit the shores OF America. AS soon
as the giants people got onto" this
they carved some supposedly Phoeni-
clan characters under the arms of
their charge. and the matter got into
the science journals, through the en-
thpsiasm of MscWhorter. Shortly
after that His Highness-he, was ten
feet high-passed into the innocuous
desuetude from which he has lately
been rescued.
He Is not the only specimen of his
class, howevever. as the records OF the
government bureau OF ethnosogy show
frequent finds of alleged human pet
ri6cations. Only week ago petri-
6ed-head came from New Jersey. On
examination 1t proved to be lime.
stone boulder that certainly bore a
striking resemblance to a humsn
head, but the tests applied at the bu-
reau soon put 10 fight all idea Of its
belonging to prehistoric man. Sever
al years ago there was heralded from
the Western land of wonders a lady
with a marble heart aud CLASSY eye
In all their literainees. Her Eastern
debut was waited with interest by the
government savants, who gradually
got so engrossed in the possibilities
of the lady that she was familiarity re-
ferred to as Mrs. Stone. When she
arrived at Washington, her exhibi.
tors, who wanted expert testimony OF
the genuineness OF their property,
welcomed post norton examination.
The ethnolosists. who conducted the
inquest took their instruments to the
operating room and found that the
lady's case was a peculiar one. She
would have been a remarkably fine
woman indeed, II she had lived, but
an incision In her foot--or rather a
rock drilling--revealed the fact that
her Skeleton had been turned In the
hardening process to ordinary gas
pipe. 1t was only few months later
that auo,her lady whose cuticle BAT
A I'd the scientists prove' most conclu,
sively that beauty Is only skin deep.
when toring revealed the fact that
her "inuards" had been changed by
the forces of nature to Portland ce-
ment.
There have been innumerable other
fakes of the sort. among them some
communications" made Of glue and
catcus fiber. This was the compost
tion Of a great Arizona giant that
the Smithsonian Institute once
thought OF ouving. Somewhere In
California there is esid to be factory
that turns out petri6catio1s whole
sale, men, women and children.
These wares are subsequently, discov-
cred in different localities and begin
to make money for their exhibitors
until each particular fraud is fully ex-
posed. What the real origin OF the
Cardiff giant was, no one seems tc
know. He is not the "real thing
but he is an interesting old "co iger,'
and In view OF his mattled career
may be worth the prc- OF admission
She Died for Love.
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