Show OF ISSOU MYSTERY OF THE fourteenth AR OF PARIS singular disappearance of many ants ant of aln quart r Ent leing its t vie ile tim with jimlo of the Oi sp spider liter for many yours years it la Is undeniably stated that in tho fourteenth ment of paris called tho the tomb of issod n number of persons living iu in that quarter had mysteriously and periodically disappeared tho the most careful ro searches archos Bo tho the must most inquiries tho the most skillful agelita of tile police hat had failed to discover the least trace of them evory every year successively somo same itil inhabitants iab of this quarter would suddenly disappear leaving their friends overwhelmed with grief brief and anxiety it la is also stated that these strange stra ugo inexplicable facts always occurred in the early carly spring from tho the to the last of bearch aud and without regard to ago or sex first a notary disappeared it was wab thought ho he had used his clients client S funds and fled fied to parts unknown then an all old woman returning lato late ono one night froni from market was ivas tho the next victim then a laborer going homo home from work vork tho the last victim had been a young girl a flower maker out lato late delivering her goods from that timo time silo had ns as completely disappeared as if tho the earth had bad opened and swallowed loweL I 1 lie her r up strange to s say ay no children had been among thauvic tho victims this peculiar fact was w is accounted accorn ted for in this thi sway way these mysterious disappearances pe arances always occurred lato late tit at night when tho the children were nt at homo asleep As the timo time was ivas drawing near for ono one of these periodical lays mysteries tho the chief of police became very anxious and instituted sti a strict surveillance confiding the matter to a number of the most skillful of his hia assistants hoping tho the combined efforts of so many zealous agents would surely bo crowned with success you will now see tho the result ono night this fact can call bo verified by applying to tho the office of tho the prefecture a policeman about 3 in the morning heard a distant musical song which seemed to como come from tho the bowels of the earth ho he listened and fancied the sounds came from on all opening in tho the center of tho the street at the foot of an enormous enor ous rock called tho the tomb of Is goir m or the glants giants cavo cave it way may bo be interesting to that fl at this took ook derived its name from alle a legend gerld 00 eliat bat a great giant had been buried thero there inny years before the christian era rl r X W l ar A Ws rock lle had been placed thoro there to mark a tho the tomb surprised at this strange discovery for the opening hail had never been noticed before tho policeman waited listening to this thia peculiar song when ifo ho suddenly saw a young mau man approaching ho he know from his hh costume that lie ho was ivas a countryman lately arrived in the city this thia young man also seemed scorned to hear tho the subterranean sounds bounds first walking slowly with a peculiar wavering step as if in with tilts this musical chant then faster nud and faster as ho he drew draw near tho the fatal rock until ho he ran with such velocity velo olty that in spite of tho the warning cries of tho the policeman ho he was swallowed up in this thia mysterious opening without taking a moment to consider tho the policeman recklessly followed first firing his revolver and giving ono or two vigorous blasts on his whistle at this signal several of his comrades quickly arrived tho musical chanting had ceased but they could conla hear in the dark cavernous depths tho the muffled sounds bounds of a desperate struggle by tho aid of rop ropes osand and ladders they succeeded in entering this thia mysterious chasm tho the light of their lamps od ad a sickening sight tho the countryman was lying on his back writhing in the gr grap asp of an unknown monster whoso choso horrible aspect froze froso tho the agents of police with terror it was as largo large as a full grown terrier covered with ances and bristling with coarse brownish hair eight jointed legs term terminated by formidable claws buried in tho the body of tho the unfortunate victim the faco face had already disappeared nothing could bo be soon seen but tile top of tho the head and the monster waa ivas now in tearing and sucking sacking tho the blood from his throat As soon as aa they recovered from their horror and surprise a dozen balls F truck struck tho the body of this sanguinary boas beast t ho he raised up on oil ills his legs a greenish bloody liquid flowing from ills wounds and with a frightful cry expired the first policeman who had given the alarm was lying unconscious in corner of tho cavern where ho had fallen a distance 0 30 80 foot it was wag with groat great difficulty they succeeded in removing tho the two bodies and tho the unknown monster from tho the cavern tho the poor countryman was dead but tho the policeman was wag soon restored to life the agents immediately sent for the commissioner of police who summoned a naturalist in great haste the first established tho the identity 01 the victim tho the second declared arod the creature lying before F gigantic spider tho the hat had I 1 labit considered extinct for centuries ever aver sin binco ce tuo days daya before the daluge colugo IS was called gibans gi gaus and wis said to have tho the power of enticing its victims by a peculiar musical song none had ciul won been seen or hoard heard of for agos ages but it la is now believed some of these sair sanguinary guin daa beasts still exist in tho the deepest galleries of the catacombs cata combs the lead dead body of tho the spider was convoyed to thu the museum of natural history where it was waa carefully prepared and stuffed and Is now on exhibition once a week |