The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1908-07-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.

"AN~N w 'h"'oi ooeeANo, tiiC NY elCilSS
of the so-called Greek fire have been
rediscovered, says the Taegliche
Rundschau, by a Berlin engineer,
and preliminary experiments have
been conducted at Weissensee castle
before Emperor William, who show
ed the greatest interest in the pro-
ceedings. The art of producing Greek
fire seems to have been lost since
the Greeks of the Byzantine empire
used it against the Scottish chem
ist, are supposed to be Saracens. Its
constituents, says IRE, asphalt, nj
tire and sulphur, but the old chroni-
clers say that the mixture, what
ever it was, had the power of burning
fiercely even under water, and that
nothing could quench it. The invent
or pretends to have rediscovered the
secret and to have improved upon it
by his knowledge Of modern pyro-
technics. He certainly succeeded in
generating powerful jets of flame 70
feet high in the center Of a lake,
and he has challenged all the Ber-
lin fire brigades to competition to
put out his brennende see During
sea }, as he calls it.
A woman 1,500 years old is so
much of a curiosity that the police
of the Deer street station, st. Louis,
have been appealed to for her pro-
lection. The woman has been oc-
cupying corner in a coal shed In
the rear of the residence of her guar
dian, Ebert Bollyn, at No. 4467
Evans avenue. He complains that
some one has stolen one of her legs.
Therefore Bollyn has removed the
ossitied woman, a relic Of the fos-
sill forests of Southern Wyoming, to
his basement. The petrified woman
has been in Bollyn's care for several
years, and has been exhibited at
amusement parks. He was prepar-
ing for summer tour when the
theft of the leg interrupted his plans.
The police are searching for the wo-
mans missing pedal extremity.
Albert Richardson and a compan-
ion, fishermen of Orr's Island, Cas-
coe Bay, killed a sea monster As
feet in length, weighing, it is esti-
mated, $4,000 pounds, and more
closely resembling the proverbial sea
serpent than any marine animal ever
seen on this coast. The head was
like that of a shark, but it had no
teeth. The body was serpentine,
with a huge fin running the entire
length of the back. The tough,
wrinkly hide in color and texture
was like an elephants. The tail
was like a whales. The fishermen,
not realizing the scientific value of
the catch, cut up the monster to try
the oil from his liver, which weigh
ed 1900 pounds.
Miss Rosa Hern, aged 10, daughter
of well-known Baptist preacher at
Arlington, Tex, killed herself in the
interurban station Saturday by fir
ing a bullet through her hear. No
motove for the deed is known. A
bottle of chloroform was found in
her pocket, but no portion of it was
taken.
One hundred people are on the
verge Of starvation at Tavert, a lit
tie town in Louisiana, just beyond
the Mississippi line, according to a
report to the Department of the
Gulf by Lieu:. F. B. Upham, who
was appointed to make an investi-
cation.
A slab of honey s feet long, 10
inches wide and 4 inches high,
weighing 102 pounds, was taken
from the rafters in the attic of the
home of Jacob F. Schaefer, section
hand at Lawrenceburg, Indiana.
Five persons were drowned, two
score lives were endangered, and
much property destroyed as a result
of sudden rise in Hargis Creek. a
small stream running through Well
ington, Kansas, Sunday night.
". T. Sheets, aged 60, who killed
his own son Easter, 1905, was parol-
ed Tuesday at Montgomery, Ala,
by Gov. Conner. The boy was shot
while trying to enter the house in
All angry frame Of mind.
A duel with swords was fought in
Paris Wednesday, between M. Jouve.
mel, brother of the present editor OF
the Matin, and a lawyer named
Boudelet. Boudelet was injured in
the right arm.
One negro was shot and seriously
wounded at Atlanta, Ca, Tuesday