Hau's er, Kasper

a youth whose strange history excited the attention of all Europe, and of Germany in particular, in the early part of the nineteenth century. He was first observed on May 26, 1828, in Nuremberg, as a youth of about 16, leaning against a wall in the market place, and evidently in distre . On being spoken to he was able to utter only a few words, but bore in his hand a letter addre ed to an officer in the town, apparently from an illiterate workman, who said the boy had been left at his door as an infant, and that he had brought him up in strict seclusion. In it was another letter, in the same hand, but pretending to be from the boy's mother, saying that he was born in 1812, and that his father was a soldier. The boy's mind was found to be totally blank, not from idiocy, but from utter lack of education or life experience. He acted like a little child, would eat nothing but bread and water, and seemed painfully affected by the sights and sounds around him. Afterward, when he had become somewhat taught, he gave the following account of his life: All his life had been spent in a hole or cage, so small that he could rest only in a sitting position. He had never seen the sun nor heard the sounds of the outer world. Food was brought him during sleep, and his time was spent in playing with two toy horses. He was attended by a man who at last taught him to write a little and to stand and walk. Finally the man brought him to Nuremberg, by night, placed the letter in his hand, and disappeared. The town authorities decided to adopt this strange being so mysteriously brought them. About fifteen months afterward he was found bleeding from a wound in the forehead, which he said had been given him by "the man," who, however, could not be found. Attempts were made to educate the boy, who at first showed a thirst for knowledge, a retentive memory, and striking quickne in acquisition, but whose mind soon seemed to reach its utmost measure of development. Many came to see him, among them the eccentric Lord Stanhope, who took a fancy for him and adopted him. He was sent to Ausbach to be educated, and was being gradually forgotten by the world, when, on Dec. 14. 1833, he was found bleeding from a wound in the side, which he said "the man" had given him. Three days later he died. Nothing more is known about him. Many regarded him as an impostor and said that he died from suicide. Others looked on him as the victim of a crime, and believed him to be of noble birth. His story remains one of the strange mysteries of human history. Ha'ven, ERASTUS OTIS, ecclesiastic; born at Boston, Ma ., Nov. 1, 1820; graduated at Wesley an University, (1842); taught school and was profe or at Amenia Seminary, N. Y., previous to his entering the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1848; was appointed to the chair of Latin in the University of Michigan (1853) and the following year to that of English literature and history; was editor of Zion's Herald, Boston (1856-63); was recalled to the University of Michigan as its president (1863), remaining in that position for six years, when he was appointed president of the Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.; was chancellor of the Syracuse University (1874), and in 1880 was made bishop. Died in 1881.