Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1890 — The Tomb of Eve. [ARTICLE]

The Tomb of Eve.

The Arabs claim that Eve’s tomb is at Jiddan, the seaport of Mecca, says the St. Louis Republic. The temple, with a palm growing out of the solid* stone roof (a curiosity which is of itself the wonder of the Orient), is supposed to mark the last resting place of the first woman. According to Arabian* tradition Eve measured over 200 feet in height, which strangely coincides with an account of our first parents written by a member of the French* Academy of Sciences a few years ago, who also claimed a height of over 20C feet for both of the tenants of the Gan den of Eden. Eve’s tomb, which is in a graveyard surrounded bv high white walls,* and which has not been opened for a single interment for over a thousand years, is the shrine of thousands of devoted Ismaelians who make a pilgrimage to the spot once every seven years. It is hemmed in on all sides by the tombs of departed sheiks and other worthies who have lived out their days in that region of scorching sun and burning sands. Once each year, on June 3, which is, according to Arab legends, the anniversary of ihe death of Abel, the doors of the temple which form a. canopy over the supposed tomb of our first mother remain open all night, in spite of the keeper’s effort to close them. Terrible crie3 of anguish are said to emit from them, as though the memory of the first known tragedy still haunted the remains which blind superstition believes to be deposited there.

It has been noticed that liability to cancer diminishes fiom abont fortyfive to fifty-five onward, and that after seventy there is little to fear from this disease. Only one centenarian is known to have died from it.

French physiologists have found* that alcohol produces the sameeffects—including a derangement similar to delirium tremens—ou dogs as on man.

Society is like atmospheric air, th* higher we go, the lighter it beoomes.