. Scientific American Volume 75 Number 17 (October 1896) . iconoclastictendencies of the last few decades, while eventhe rival holy coats of Treves and Argenteuilare palpable swindles. The record of thatof Treves goes back, it is true, to the year1190, but as a relic it is as authentic as thefeather from Gabriels wing. Quite recentlythe Moslem population of Southern Russiawere reported to be in a state of great ex-citement owing to the theft of a valuablecasket containing three hairs from Moham-meds beard, accompanied by an imperialfirman certifying their absolute authen-ticity ! The casket, w
. Scientific American Volume 75 Number 17 (October 1896) . iconoclastictendencies of the last few decades, while eventhe rival holy coats of Treves and Argenteuilare palpable swindles. The record of thatof Treves goes back, it is true, to the year1190, but as a relic it is as authentic as thefeather from Gabriels wing. Quite recentlythe Moslem population of Southern Russiawere reported to be in a state of great ex-citement owing to the theft of a valuablecasket containing three hairs from Moham-meds beard, accompanied by an imperialfirman certifying their absolute authen-ticity ! The casket, with its precious con-tents, was sent as a present from Constanti-nople to Samarcand in Turkestan, but was Fig. CARRIED BY THE PROJECTILE. a Mr. Atkinson for £16 5s. 6d. Its authenticity appearsto have been undisputed at the time. It was originallybrought from Palestine by the British Princess Helena,the mother of the Christian Emperor Constantine, andpassed into the hands of Edward the Confessor, withwhom it was buried, and was exhumed many ages. Fig. IIAKSB THE VELOCITYAXTAGHEO XO OF A PROJECTILE IN A GUN,XH£ UUZZLE OF XH£ GUN. afterward. It was included among the royal jewelryof James II. The crozier of the same realized two anda half guineas in the same sale, and was originally inthe museum of Sir Hans counterpane which covered the bed of Charles Ithe night before his execution, and whichis made of a thick rich blue satin, embroidered with gold and silver in a deepborder, was, up to about half a centuryago, used by the family of Champneys ofOrchardleigh, near Frome, Somersetshir;^,as a christening mantle, from the periodit came into their possession by marriagewith the sole heiress of the Chandlers, ofCamms Hall, near Fareham, Hampshire,a family connected with Cromwell. Thesheet which received the head of thisking, after his decapitation, was untilquite lately carefully preserved with thecommunion plate in the church of Ash-burnham,
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