Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — CURIOUS FREAK OF NATURE. [ARTICLE]

CURIOUS FREAK OF NATURE.

The Imprint of a Human Face Upon a Baby’s Hand. The little hamlet of Roseburgh, S. C., is to the fore with a curiosity which is ahead of all others. This is a 3-week-old baby, whose right hand bears the imprint of a human face. The face occupies nearly the whole palm, and is as clearly outlined as if drawn on porcelain. It is the countenance of a little child about three years old lying asleep, with the eyelashes drawn in fine dark lines on the full cheeks. The mouth seems to be slightly parted and the lips are delicately tinted. The baby whose palm contains this singular portraiture is the child of Clarke Osborne, a thriving merchant of Roseburg, and Mrs. Osborne declares that the face in the infant’s palm is that of a little girl she lost about three months before the baby’s birth. Relatives and intimate friends also profess to be able to see a strong resemblance to the dead child. When the baby was first put in its mother’s arms, she looked at the hands, and with a loud cry fainted away, but on coming to herself exhibited the little creature’s hands to the attendants, who saw at once the strange likeness to the dead and gone sister. Mrs. Osborne was at first much frightened over the singular circumstance, but at last became convinced that this strange portrait was sent to comfort her. Physicians say, however, that the mother’s caresses of the dead child impressed the unborn infant, who merely repeated her mental' pictures of the little girl as she last beheld it. The image on the palm was much clearer the first few days of the baby's life than now, and is thought to be gradually fading away. The family are very sensitive on the subject, and have refused to show the child except to relatives and most intimate friends, but a dime museum manager has already made propositions, which have been declined. —[Philadelphia Times. Cabbage Salad. -*Select a solid head, and one that is white after the outside leaves are taken off; lay on a board, and with a sharp knife cut tine; set in ice box until to use.