Show A SINGULAR HUMBUG wonders will never cease in paris A discovery has I 1 lately atul atel y been made of an extraordinary individual living at the barriere deffe and who proclaims himself to the world as the heir and suc successes cesser of jesus christ has created the greatest curiosity among the miracle hunters of the capitol this mail man is a peasant of the name of peri mond about five and forty years of age of simple and tin lin unpretending pretending manners and homely speech he is however manifestly under some extraordinary magnetic in flu fluence ence enco for he has cured by his touch alone many hundreds of persons who have been to visit him ile he receives all strangers who seek him with the greatest simplicity disclaims any credit for the wondrous miracles he performed merely repeating the assurance su rafice of his liis appointment by our saviour who appeared to him in a deacon to go forth into the tire world and testify to the truth of the gospel ile he is of a short stature and full expressive countenance his hair parted on the forehead descends on either side of his temples there would be nothing remarkable about the per son inn on of the mail man were it not for the circumstance which has given rise to the wilful lie or the unhappy delusion whichever it may be that lie he thus openly advances were it not riot for the extraordinary on his hands and feet and the deep in his side whence issued during the whole of passion week lar iare large lare D e drops of blood many people worthy of belief have told me that there is is no delusion about this the tire hands and feet are pierced through and tb through rough and the tire wound in the side is about two inches indies long and very deep and they have seen the blood ooze from those wounds slowly and drop by drop for hours together during the past wee kand that during all this period peri mond remains exhausted on his bed lying as it were in a trance w without food or nourishment and to all appearance dead after sunset lie he revives the bleeding ceas reas eshe rahe partakes of some slight refreshment and passes the whole night in prayer his dress consists fists of a short tunic of white line reaching to the knee with long i 1 ii trousers trow sers odthe same oil on his head lead ad he wears a white linen tur tau tan bau ban of the jewish form ile he car ipa ies P no ornament on his person s re 1 a gold clasp which fastens T 3 band to which his waist is conui conla ed the boice has been bren most dost active in causing the strictest in to be made into tho the history and antecedents of the man but as yet nothing has been discovered which can any way serve as an excuse for molesting him all that is known is the fact that he lie has recently arrived from grenoble where he had llad lived a holy and religious life much beloved by the old peasant woman who had reared him and who even at the hour of her death declared to have found him one morning lying beneath a hedge near her cottage no trace of his parentage has ever been discovered he never stirs abroad and discourages all meetings of assemblies at his house therefore the authorities of paris have nought to do in his case several physicians of eminence have already been to visit himbur none have as yet been able to solve the mystery of the long fast and bleeding dr C the great anatomist after remaining two hours in the room last friday left in despair declaring with an oath that the juggle was too well managed for discovery and therefore the mystery like the ecstatic virgins of the tyrol remains a mystery still paris correspondent of the london atlas |