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[CK DAILY NEWSTOMB OF ERIC THE NORSETHE MEANING OF A STRANGE STONE AT HAMPTON, N. aFtnnm Very Mysterious Murks « a LargaHock Conviucs .lutigjs J.**»*Pr*v **,l1*1Kiiruprana I.andrd Th*re 900 Vrnr* Ago— A Hark to be Opeaed on the Spot.Considerable discussion has been aroused in the New England states over the meaning of a strange stone in which are cut mysterious marks showing every evidence of extreme age. This scone is. in fact, a large rock, and it has been attracting visitors to Hampton, N. H.Judge Charles M. Lamprey of Hampton, after a prolonged investigation of the subject, is convinced that thisstone shows that Thorwald Eric, the Norseman, landed a* Hampton in the year 1004 and was buried there. Judge Lamprey, in The Boston Journal, says:The pre-Columbian discovery of America by the Northmen is nowundoubtedly true, from what knowledge can be gained from Icelandic sages, although for many years it was sincerely doubted. Bancroft, in his history of the United States, Volume I., alludes to it and says: The story of the colonization of America by Northmen rests on narratives, mythological in form, and obscure in meaning; ancient, yet not contemporary, and admits that the motives of these intrepid mariners, whose voyages ex tended beyond Iceland and beyond Sicily, tould have easily sailed from Greenland to Labrador; no other clear historic evidence establishes the natural probability that they accomplished the passage.The Norsemen were a Norwegian race of bold, seafaring men who had founded a settlement in Iceland, so that at the beginning of the tenth century there was a population estimated at from 50,000 to 70,000 souls. Their motto was ‘'Westward, ho! and they pushed on, reaching the shores of Greenland, and there made settlement, and In the beginning of the eleventh century Greenland was well settled and tributary to Norway, where* Eric, the leader, had established the Christian religion.Why, if they could easily have sailed from Greenland to Labrador.”as Bancroft says, did they not sailwestward and accomplish the passage to Labrador? They did. and there is no doubt in the minds of the students of ancient history that they sailed to ! .a brad or and further south till they landed on the New England coast as tar south as Cape Cod, and. perhaps, as far as Connec ticut.Leif Eric, according to the narrative, w'as in Greenland in the year 1000,and proclaimed Christianity. In the second voyage he discovered Vineland. on the shores ot New England, to which he gave that name because of the abundance of grapes growing Wild in the woods.Where is the point of land well covered with woods, and where is thethereon and other marks, cut by the hand of man with a stone chisel, and not by any owner, from the original proprietor, who took possession 250 years ago, down to the present owners. iThey came to a head land that jutted out that was all covered with wood, and there fwere bays on either side and the strand that was covered with white sand, and the distance small from the forest to the sea.”How true is the description! for there are the head land and the bays on either side, the long sandy beaches, and the land which contained the woods not far from the sta.” There is also the rock with the cut crosses made by man 900 years ago. That field now belongs to Wallace D. Lovell. the street railway promoter.Mr. Lovell intends to erect a monument near that of Norse Rock, and tc lay off the land into a park.T!GUA1NT AND CURIOUSIf great cold should condense the earth's atmosphere to liquid air it would make a sea which would cover the earth 35 feet deep.The stick insect of Borneo, the largest. insect known, is sometimes 13 indies long. It is wingless, but some species of stick insects have beautiful colored wings that fold like fans.One of the most singular cures for deafness ever recorded is quoted by the Independent Beige, from the Dutch papers. An old man of 71*. li\ing av Krommeme. who had been deaf for 20 years, got involved in a dispute with some neighbors and became lit ‘rally transported with rage. In his semi-demented state he suddenly recovered his hearing, which he has retained over since.In a remarkable surgical operation. Dr. Nicholas Sean of Chicago has succeeded, .in making a newr knuckle for the thumb of Mrs. Thomas M. Hunter, wife of Alderman Hunter. Two years ago Mrs. Hurtter caught a splinter of wood under her thumb nail. Inflammation set in recently and resulted in blood poisoning. Ir. Slt;*nn removed the knuckle and formed a new one of strips of bone.Few persons are aware that it is possible to tell time by the eye of a cat. This is done by a close study of the feline pupil, which contracts and expands witu great regularity each day. Thus, at noon, the pupil of a cat's eye is contracted into a mere slit, a mere horizontal line, and at midnight it is at its largest point of expansion, being then as big and round as a grape. With a little study of tne feline optic any one can easily come within a quarter or a half-hour of thetime b reference to a eat clock.Human skulls are a stjange article of commerce. Yet such is the demandwhich has arisen among curiosity deal-lt; rs in Europe for th^skulls of NewIr-
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Brunswick News
Brunswick, Georgia, US
Sun, Oct 05, 1902
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