Show glozel clozel another historic J fake french discovery takes place among other attempts tempts s to fool public now mew york dinst winter french public opinion wua was shaken to its foundations in n a way difficult for americans to understand by the nn an no that discoveries tit nt the little village of flozel glozel near vichy in tile the valley of tile tie loire had proved the existence of ninn man in u high state of civilization in fabulously pro pre historic times now the glozel clozel ex la Is probable over those who believe that the mellowness of french culture rests on a foundation thou sands bands instead of hundreds of years old will have to look elsewhere to for r their evidence glozel clozel probably will take its place among the scientific takes fakes which froni from time to time engal the popular attention says the new vork fork times not long ngo ago franco france was divi divided deI into Glaz elites and anaf ugly rumors of deception began to he heard objects sald said to have been picked up in the glozel clozel pits were found to be crude forgeries the replied that these objects had been planted by members of the opposition in an effort to disc discredit tho the disco verle finally the Vi french rench government took a hand and al 51 blayle of the judiciary police was sent to make a thorough examination NI bayle was a good detective though not an archaeologist archeologist arche ills ilia report ren dered a few days ago has apparently punctured tile the glozel clozel bubble at bayle selected ten objects at from tile the glodzei museum the oyid evidence ence ol of modern modem manufacture was overwhelming A bit of grass embedded in a supposedly ancient anclene of earthenware was found un der the microscope to have all its cells cell intact something that could bardl have happened hod find it been thousands of years underground bits of thread in other pieces of pottery find and beet been colored with aniline dyes which were not in use prior to the twentieth century bone instruments still had gelatinous matter in the marrow in probably had been made with modern steel instruments falges like glazel glozel have been corn com men coon and have usually been momen harily successful tenders of blerk twain will remember the prehistoric man whom he fie reported having been dug due up near virginia city nev an unintended hoax this story first published in the virginia city enterprise on which mark twain wits then a reporter con valued a de detailed description of tile the position in which the supposed bod had been found which had it been carefully read would have hae tho the hoax nevertheless it went tat fur and caused great excitement almost as ludicrous though in tills this cose case seriously intended as a fraud was the so called cardiff glant giant dug up at cardiff Onon onondaga dago county flow york about the middle of tile the last century tills this strange object wits found by a man who was digging a yell well for a certain mr newell it was wa 4 ft a huge figure which might have been either cither a statue or a petrified huu iiii body lying on its side and contorted as though in great pain the thrifty mr newell placed the remains if such they were on exhibition and charged an admission fee to the tho thou u sands who came to see them lie even succeeded in interesting P I 1 T barnum Bor nuni who vas has in fact accused of having initiated the whole enterprise ills his advertisements more clever than truthful made it appear that the leading scientific men of the day had testified to the genuineness of the and As a matter of fact the cardiff giant was a pure fahe ahe plan fill hud been by broth or er ln iii law george hull of bought a block ol of gypsum gyi suir ut ul fort dodge lown lidd had it carved hy a ger er stonecutter in and then lien planted it on tile newell farm the ilie strained neo position which aroused so net wua wits din da to tile f fuel that tile tie stone find broken broken in transit so that the original design had to be contracted within a smaller the stori stonecutter aulter lind had done a good jt jot with a stool steel liani hammer nier putting in pores and other body marks very Indu atil I bously perpetual motion many famous hoaxes have hint had to do with ulac lillies suli supposed posed to defy t the he eliw of 0 liu lie conservation ot of energy oi bi producing perpetual motion one ol of tile the ilist of these wai perpetrated by a inan alan name in fit icilla delphia about 1812 an noun that he had solved the file loin of making a machine that would run forever lie ile wits taken aken so serious ly that the pennsylvania legislature a commission of distin j murshed engineers to inspect ills his in vent vo lon the story Is told by prof dun dan lei iel W biering in ills Fol foibles bles and pal fat inclema of science when tile lie cominis aloa arrived on the scene tit it the up tip pointed hour bour they found ned heffer ab sent rind the doors locked inch ed hut but werf were able to inspect lie through a barred window they suspected fraud but were not ahle able to gather proof later the machine wits was taken to new york where robert kobert fut fill ton listening to the click of tile the cogs made the discovery that it was being driven like ilke a steam eri engine gine by reel proc precatory atory motion fulton investigated and found that the motion camp came from a catgut cord operated something like the driving mechanism of a modern dentists drill the cord led through a wooden support to nn an upper room where nn an old man with a long white beard sat turning a cronk crank tile the machine was waa destroyed destroy pd ny by a i mob which for once resented presented being fooled keeles famous motor the most practical perpetual perpetu nl motion machine tit in american history was that of john W keely which dec deceived elved not only the public but some of keelyn t closest friends for about twenty years keely wits a 8 t a carpenter uneducated but shrewd and with a convincing tongue lie invented indented what he called a vibratory generator though it had several searal other name in the course ut its long history in 1872 tie he organized the keely ali tor our company tit in new york city and took in enough capital to keep him hill going for a long time ills madil tip was waa first demonstrated in 1874 tile the inventor was full of the most hilgh sounding theories some bome ot of which us its professor alering points out ae lually anticipated the Inot modern lern notion of f tile ho powers imprisoned in tile itie atom HP fie pretended to believe that in bruic mysterious way tie ho could ne tile the constituents ol of tho the atom and so release vast enst stores of power for wenty twenty years eara neelys motor seemed on oil tile the point of 0 be coming unil ny a complete om success soule some little atle thing filing was always lucking inciting and more money wits always needed abany of lila ills supporters finally dually lust faith in film yet interest in tile motor con tin tinned tied und and tie lie seems never to bev been completely out of funds his alts laboratory was never thoroughly examined until after ills bis death then it was found that the whole appu apparatus ratus was a fraud ills atou atomic ilc energy came I 1 from rom fin an engine in fit tile cleur collar cl lur transmutation of metals of metals has been tile the source of h and delu slona almost alt its old us til history story tills this was lung long supposed to be the pran principal cipal occupation of tile chemists or alch em ests of the middle ages some of whom soline rily chi chilsted to have achieved it the delusion delu died hard hardeo so hard biard that it lusted lasted to a time when it Is not beyond the tie bounds ot of possibility that it inn can be transformed into accomplished fact the tent feat Is a simple mutter matter of knocking electrons out of atoms simple that Is to say bay though oct not eo 80 eusy easy it b yet to do A favorite formoe form ol 01 scientific hoax it if tho adjective can be used tit fit all in tills connection has baa to do with attempts to predict the future so we lind ind that there are an and always have been astrologers even now intelligent persons may be found who believe that the file movements of the stars have very much to do with the destinies of human individuals if ono one attempts to list hoaxes and delusions one soon finds oneself involved in a history of human chleon ahll nu ery cry and credulity in tills this field belong I 1 many m marvelous ar cures for tile the evils which the human race all the way from touching for the kings evil to lo uttering doctor coues famous phrase about the dally improvement of ones health allue glass X rays hypnotism bloodless surgery and countless other methods arid and devices have been put to both legitimate and illegitimate uses and it Is often hard to tell where science leaves off and begins all that Is sure Is that anyone who attempts to tool fool tile the public in an in te resting and sufficiently ingenious vay ay ft whether nether he digs up a prehistoric bean pot invents a perpetual motion machine or produces an infallible cure for hay bay fever ever can count on a follow ing |