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The New StrasbOurg Library.

The new library of Strasbourg pros
pers nightly. 1t is located in the
palace, in rooms granted by the EN-
peror. not unnotable history has
had this same Schloss, although only
built by Bishop Rohen in 1871. 1t has
seen some historical personages i'll its
great bare saloons. Marie Antoinette
stood in it awhile III 1771. In 1905
csme the first Napoleon with Josephine,
who remained dweller in it after her
husband had gone out on the war-path.
Napoleon paid 1t two more visits, one
in 1906, and another in April, 1909.
The rooms which Josephine Beauhar-
nais once occupied were inhabited
afterwards by the cold-blooded Austrian
woman, her successor. Marie Louise
lived III it few days Ill 1910. In
1915, in the military tumult
consequent on Napoleon's escape
from Elba, it was besieged for
several days. Then in 1870, came the
well-meaniDg potterer, Charles y, and
kept state for few days in its halls.
The wheel took smother turn-Stras-
bOurg ScnIosS may serve for as good an
index as any other to the gyrations of
French supremacles-and poor Louis
Philippe, not having by this time be-
taken himself unto an umbrella and
the name of Smith, came to Stras-
boiirg and abode IN The palace.
Books have poured Tito the library
from all quarters, including England
and America. The German Emperor
has given tnant splendid works of art,
and has not only sent the second copy
of every work which was in duplicate
III the royal libraries, but has ordered
the German Universities to do the
same. Germans all over the world
have been liberal contributors. There
are now in the Palace 200, 600 volumes
The old Library consisted of from 800,
900 to 700,0 900 volumes; so vague was
the method of cataloguing, that nothing
more definite is known of it not leaf
is extant. The present Library takes a
vote in the Imperial Budget for 10000
thalers, aid asks I'll extraordinary
donation to large amount in addition
for the purchase of works offered to it.
The old library was the library of the
city Of Strasbourg; the title of the new
is the Imperial University and Provin-
eial Library Of Strasbourg. 1t covers
widet field than did the old, and any
man belonging not dloiie to tie town of
Strasbourg, but to the province of Al
SAGE, can obtain books from it, 1t Is.
therefore, unfortunate that the munich
palitS of StrasboHrg, notwithstanding
the receipt of grant of 5000 tina
iers in compensation for the destruc-
ton of their library, should be making
opposition efforts to establish another,
and appealing to Europe to contribute
for the same. There is no occasion for
two III Strasbourg, and the State Lii
brary, with its wider scope and greater
resources, ought to be accepted as the
legitimate successor of the collection SO
unfortunately destroyed Corresponds
cRt Of the London Daily Ne1cs.
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THE FIJI CANNJBALS.
One of the Dwarfs Dies and Is Partially
DevOured by his Com pa lions.

One OF the Dvarfs Dies and Is Pa rtialIy
Devoured by his Companions.
The York, Pa, Daily, May 16, says
The museum and menagerie met with
quite loss on Tuesday, in the death
OF the notorious cannibel dwarf, which
occurred at the Pennsylvania Hotel, in
this place. The little Fiji exhibited
symptoms of iudlsposition several DAYS
ago, and the manager sent the "Gen-
eral, as he is called, to be cared for /:
but the little savage becoming restless
III the absence of his associates, he was
returned to the company.
Like all of his race he had a native
horror for shoes and clothing, and even
IN the wet, cold days that came upon
the company in New Jersey, the mana
ger was unable to force shoes upon the
General, and make him dress with
sufficient warmth. He refused every
thing like food or nourishment, and
apparently thought of nothing but his
native island. Dancing or violent GEES
turing of any kind was always source
of great merriment to the General, but
now the keeper could not provoke even
a smile
The miniature being was dying, and
while his keeper was doing his best to
cheer him up and make him take med
icine, he fell back dead. His three
native companions, who up to this time
were wholly indifferent, now exhibited
all the symptoms CT genuine grief.
They howled necessarily, and such
fearful physical contort1ons were proba-
bly, never before witnessed in a civilized
community.
The scene subsequent sent a thrill
through the few conversant with the
facts. Shortly after the corpse was
placed III the coffin, last evening, Mr.. S
S Smith, the keeper, locked the door
upon the three companions in an adj
joining room, and lett the building.
He states that he was not absent thirty
minutes, but that upon returning a
scene presented itself too horrible for
recital
The two male associates had gained
access to the corpse, and were biting
and gnawing at the fieshy part of the
body with all the eagerness of their ma
tive cannibalism. The female stood
aioof IN one corner, and by sign, word
and gesture was entreating them to de-
sist. 1t is understood that this woman
is convert to the teachings of English
missionaries, and looks with abhor-
renee upon all the unchristian habits
Of her tribe. Mr. Smith promptly in
terfered, and the two miserable beings
went sullenly to their apartment The
remains were quietly buried in the eve
DJDp
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There was period III the history of
this contiheiit when elephants and
mammoths were numerous. Which of
the two lived first, or whether they
lived at the same time, cannot be de
termined, But that the mammoth far
exceeded Il, stature the elephant, is
abundantly proved by the skeletons.
They appear to have had range from
regions of the Ohio river, and plains of
the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers,
quite across the great mountain ranges
to the borders of the Pacific, bounded
northerly in latitude about forty seven.
Probably the Rocky Mountains had not
their present elevation when the mann
moth roamed over the vast extent OF
country in which their bones are found
In 1870 tusk of one of those mon
stef qundrupeds was found in gorge
of the Sierra Nevada Mountains nearly
eight feet IN length, almost foot in
diameter at the root. 1t was exhibited
at San Francisco. How shall the prob
lem of the day of determination be
solved? They evidently disappeared
suddenly, but they must have been nu-
merOus, living to a great age, since
their teeth indicate long service Ohio
and Illinois were favorite haunts, no
doubt, from the numbers discovered of
their remains constantly brought to
light as boys and lowlands, their tombs,
are explored.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-06-08
THE WIFE-SCALPER,
His Terrible End-A Cousin and Pro.
tege Of VIM. IL. Seward-Ga M b III N O
Forgery. Flight, Murder and Death

His Terrible End-A Cousin and Pro-
tege Of VIM. IL. Seward-Gam biing
Forgery Flight, Murder and Death.
From the White Pine {Nevada) News May Sth
In the issue of April 18th, we pub
lish an account of the scalping of Mrs.
Purdy at Government Springs, Utah,
by her husband, on the 9th, and also
mention was made of her death on the
18th, while on her way to Ogden with
her father and brothers. Purdy escaped
after committing deed that any Apa-
che Indian would hardly be guilty of,
and was traced by officers toward the
Fillmore road. He was surprised in
camp near Lake Sewer and arrested
The officers laid over for two days to re.
crult their animals, and started with
Purdy to Government Springs. They
concluded to take him TO Salt Lake
City. About halfway between the
Springs and the city party of twenty
armed men surrounded them and de-
manded Purdy. The two officers saw
that resistance was useless, and del,v-
cred him up. He was taken a short
distance from the road, and, after
hasty examination, sentenced to be
shot Half an hour was given him to
that his object of marrying the young
woman was to possess himself of her
property, and that his intention was to
hill her when he learned that she had
exposed his operations to her father
and brothers at Ogden He stated that
he was born in Auburn, n. Y, and
that his mother and VIM H. Seward
were cousins. Seward maintained and
educated him at his own expense.
When the war broke out he
joined the New York volunteers, and
took part in several battles. In the
summer of 1863 he was sent to Wash
ington on important business by the
commander of the brigade. While
there he gambled off his own money
and several thousand dollars intrusted
to him by members of his regiment to
be delivered to their friends Becom-
ing desperate, he forged Stewards name
to a check for 81, 900, and received the
money on it from COrcOran, the Wash
ington banker. He left the city in dis
guise, Immediately after receiving the
money, and after many narrow es-
capes from arrest he reached
Omaha. He spent all the money
he had in few months, and
went to Denver, Colorado Territory.
He next turned up at Santa Fe, New
Mexico, and married the daughter of
Manuel Zapate, one of the weaIthiest
ranchers in New Mexico. One of his
wife's brothers detected him in a swim
ding operation, and i'll a difficulty
between them he killed his brother-in-
law. He fled the country and reached
the line of the Union Pacific railroad,
where he continued up to the time of
going to Ogden. After giving the
above account of himself he told the
party to finish him as soon as possible,
if they meant business. When asked
if he had any message to send to his
friends, he said he would send a dis
patch from hell and let them know
He was shot and buried on the spot.
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marriage made in England and it was
made, and | was married by license by
the Rev. Thomas Knox, of Tunbridge
Town. He was the chaplain of my
cousin, Mr.. Simpson, and held the
living of Shlpbourne from his giving"
She goes on:
Dundonald said Marry her! |
would marry her in a hundred churches
/ would marry her all over the world :;
but there is no marriage, my dear, so
binding as the marriage which has al
ready been executed in Scotland She
was from that hour my lawful wife.
However, to give you satisfaction, L
am ready to marry her III every church
in London He said, Il would do it a
| thousand times
Then follows these questions and
answers
g was married again; in short, there
| was no end of marrying me.
90 was married the third time when
he came home from Brazil | was mar
ried again
"Where was your ladyship married
the third time -
C | was married the third time in Ed
inburgh; / was SO tired of being mar.
ried.n
According to the forms of the
Scotch Church,"
Yes: then | was married in church,
and domiciled. In short, ] was both
cred all to pieces with the marrying l
was asked in church. / was married
at Mr.. Strachan, the lawyers, and mar
ried by Parson Richie there was no
marriage at all, he just joined the
hands, Parson Ritchie did, and said
something or other, and God bless
you, and that was the marriage in
Scotland. 1t was not bit more like a
marriage than the AMMAN marriage. |
was asked on the banns and domiciIat
ed and everything. There WAS no end
of marrying me. | was so tired of be
ing married. ] was bothered to pieces
with the marrying"
Here are Il few more touches, the
first from the Lady's evidence, and
others from letters of Lord Dundon.
aids appended to it
MY husband was Scotchman, and
proud of being aScotchman; he would
not have given up that birth of his for
a crown in heaven. He gloried in be-
ing Scotchman he said It was the
pride of his life, and he used, after din
ncr, when he was drinking his wine, and
SO on, to bring in something about
Scotland, his dear Scotland, the days OF
his youth-the happy days with his
grandmother 1t is sad case such
sad "reminiscences such a noble man -
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-06-08
Steamer Built on the Ohio for South
America
From the Cincinnati Times, May Is.
L n I

From the Cincinnati Times, May Is.
The sternwheel steamer Columbia, re-
Gently built at this port for Capt. III.
G. Summers, formerly of Louisville,
but now of the United States of Colum-
bia, South America, will get up steam
tomorrow and leave here for that
point
Capt. Summers lately arrived here
from his home, bringing with him two
engineers and a crew of fifteen men,
who sail with him on the Columbia to-
morrow for New Orleans, thence south.
westerly through the Gulf of Mexico,
past the West Indies, and through the
| Caribbean Sea to the mouth of the
Magdalen river, up which he will pass
to his home, making total distance O.
some $3.50 miles.
The hull of the Columbia is $50 fee
long by 304 feet wide, and g. feet deep
and will draw q feet of water. She i!
the pioneer of line of steamers to bt
put on the Magdalene river, which vii
run in the trade between the cities o
Barranquilla and Honda.
The cost of the boat with her entir,
machinery will be little upwards o
10000
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-06-08
NapOleOn and Spdan.

The Gaulois publishes a letter from
the Emperor Napoleon, dated Chisel
hurst, the 18th of May, and addressed
to the genet lis and commanders Of tho
French army. In this communication
the Emperor makes the following ac
acknowledgement: Il am responsible
for Sedah: The army fought heroically,
with an enemy double its strength.
After ii, 600 had been killed or wound
ed, | saw the contest was merely one OF
desperation. The army's honor having
been saved, ] exercised my sovereign
right and unfurled flag Of truce, 1t
was impossible that the immolation OF
60, 600 men could save France. | obey
ed a cruel, inexorable necessity. My
heart was broken, but my conscience
was Tranquil "
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-06-08
Oldest Chamber of Commerce in the
Country,

The Chamber of Commerce of New
Haven, Coma, which was organized in
1874, and is. with one exception, the
Oldest in the country, reorganized
Thursday night by the election of
Thomas R. Trowbridge as President.
Ex-dov. English is the first Vice-Presi-
dent. The Chamber originally num-
bered among It's active members Noah
Webster and Roger Sherman, but for
the last few years has not been fully
kept up. The recent remarkable
growth of the city, and the increase OF
business and commerce, render a revival
of this ancient organization particu-
larlY desirable.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-06-08
The Great Wall i'm China

Mr.. Seward, speaking of the great
wall of China, which he examined
during his late visit to the East, SAYS :
1.-The Chinese have been for at least
two or three thousand years a wall
making people. 1t would BANKRUPT
New York or Paris TO build the walls
Of the city Of Pekin. The great wall OF
China IL the wall OF the world II is
forty feet high. The lower thirty feet
Is OF hewn limestone or granite. Two
modern carriages may pass each other
on the summit. 1t has IA parapet
throughout its whole length, with con.
venient staifcases, buttresses, and gar
rison houses at every quarter mile, and
it runs not by cutting down hills and
raising valleys, but over the uneven
crtsts OF the mountains and down
through their gorges, a distance of a
thousand miles. Admiral Rogers and
| calculated that it would cost more to
build the great walls of China through
its extent of one thousand miles than
it has cost to build the ffty-tive thou
sand miles Of railroad IN the United
States. What a commentary it Is up
on the ephemeral range of the human
intellect to see this great utilitarian
enterprise, SO necessary and effective
two Thousand years ago, now not mere
ly useless, but an ipeumbranee and an
obstruction "
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Saint Verna and Satan.
LEGEND OF THE ALPS.

Below Mount Jura lies vale
Extremely dark and deep and wide,
Where once-if we may trust the tale
Good Saint Verona lived and died.
pious damsel, sooth was she,
Who made her iowly life sublime
With works of grace and charity
The marvel of her age and CLINE.
To heal the sick, and teach the young.
And lead the weak in virtues ways,
Her daily life-and every tongue
In all the valley sang her praise.
Save one-of course the 90 Evil one''-
Who, being evermore at strife
With pious folk, left naught undone
70 end good saint Verena's life
Sometimes he turned-the legends say
mountain torrent in her path
In vain, dry shod she held her way
Unhurt despite the DEVILS wrath.
And once a murderer, in the night,
The fiend employed to take her fife;
In vain for when his lantern light
Revealed her face, he dropped his knife,
And so it fell the DEVILS skill
No harm to Saint Varena brought;
He failed to work his wicked will,
And all his malice came to naught
Enraged, at last he seized a stone,
Intent at once to crush her head
"a rock that weighed at least ton y
And held it poised above her head.
Whereat she turned, and at the sight
(Such angel beauty filled her face
Poor Satan shuddered with alright,
And fain had fled the holy place.
And in his fright he trembled so
He dropped the stone-down, down it goes
To fall on Saint Verona ?-Noi
1t falls instead on Satan's toes
And since that day he limps about,
Unable more to leap run;
And, that the story none may doubt
You still may see the very stone:
With five deep marks on either side,
Which-so the pious peasant hints
(Ihough wicked skeptics may deride)
Are clearly Satan IS finger-prints
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AnecdOte of Tom tarWin,

When the late Tom Corwin was quite
young man he was elected a member
of the General Assembly of the state OF
Ohio, and earl y in the session he
brought in a bill for the destruction OF
the public whipping post. He made
an earnest speech in favor of the meas
ure, to which an elderly member re-
piled as follows; "AIr. Speaker, the
gentleman is not as old rs / am, and
has not seen as much of the practical
operation of the system of punishment
which he desires to abolish.
When lived in Connecticut,
if It fellow stole a horse, Or
cut UP other antics. we used to tie him
up and give him a zeal good thrashing
and he always cleared right out, and
we never saw anything more of him.
It's the best way of getting rid of the
rogues that ever was tried, and without
expense to the State" Mr.. Corwin,
who never failed to carry his point by
a joke, if the argument was against
him, only made a brief reply Mr.
Speaker, [ have often been puzzled to
account tor the vast emigration from
Connecticut to the west: but the gen
tleman last up has explained to my sat
lsfactiOn." 1t is almost needless to say
that Mr.. COrwin's bill passed by an
overwhelming majority
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-06-08
The Centennial Exhibition.

The Centennial Commission has fixed
upon the time Tor the opening of the
exhibition in Philadelphia, on the 10Th
of April, and close on the 10Th of Oc-
tober, 1876; all articles for exposition
to arrive by 1st of January, to insure
proper position and classification. An
invitation will be issued to every nation
to participate, and an acceptance of
the invitation requested by March,
1914 and same date has been fixed on
for receiving applications for space.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-06-08

New YORK city is in danger of being
left high and dry by the formation of
shoals III the harbor, consequent upon
the drainage from New York, Brooklyn
and the New Jersey suburbs, and the
ashes and rubbish thrown overheard
from vessels. It is estimated that two
thousand tons of coal ashes have been
thrown overheard fro m the steamboats,,
and active measures are being taken to
stop the mischievous practice. A bill
with that intent is now before Con
greSS
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CarCaSSGnnp.
FROM THE FRENCH OF srrsT.vF r,n.r

faon lhf tBtNCH OF GUSTAVE SADAUD,
I'm growing old, I've sixty years:
I've labored all my life In vain
III au that time OF hopes and fears
I've failed my dearest wish to gain
1 see full well that here below
Bliss unalloyed there is for none.
My prayer ne'er fulfillment know
| never have seen Carcassonne
/ never have seen Carcassonne
You see the city from the hill,
1t lies beyond the mountains blue,
ana yet TO reach 1t one must still
Five long and weary leagues pursue,
And to return. as many more
All had the vintage pleuteous grown
The grape Withheld its yellow store
/ shall not look on CarcassonAe,
/ shall not look on Carcassonnet
They tell me every day is there
Not more nor less than Sunday gay:
In shining robes and garments fair
The people walk upon their way
One gazes there on castle walls
As grand as those of BABYLON.
a bishop and two generals
| do not know fair Carcassonne,
] do not know fair Carcassonnet
The wears right: he says that we
Are ever wayward, weak and blind;
He tells us in his homily
Ambition ruins all mankind:
Yet could there two days have spent
While still the autumn sweetly shone.
All me l might have died content
When had looked ON Carcassonne.
When / had looked on Carcassonne
Thy pardon, Father, / beseech,
In this prayer if | offend
One something sees beyond his reach
From childhood to his journeys end
My wife, our little boy Afghan,
Have travelled even to Narbonne:
My grandchild has seen Perpignan,
And ] have not seen Carcassonne
And have not seen Carcassonne.
So crooned one day, close by Limoux,
A peasant double bent with age.
90 Rise up, my friend, +" said /: with You
III go upon this pilgrimage
We left next morning his abode,
But (Heaven forgive him y half way on,
The old man died upon the road;
He never gazed upon Carcassonne,
Each mortal has his Carcassonne,
John r. Th0mpsO
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-06-08

A PALESTINE exploring expedition is
in preparation in New York. The dis
tricts to which the special efforts of the
explorers Will be devoted is cast of the
Jordon, embracing Edom, Moab,
Gilead and Bashan. The recent dis
covery of Moabite inscription of great
archaeological interest gives promise of
further success.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-06-08
AMADEUS is about to try the effect of

AMADEUS is about to try the effect of
an international exhibition of art and
industry on the people of Spain. The
building for the exhibition will be er-
rected in Madrid on grand scale, and
a sufficient force of men is to engage in
the work to insure It's completion be-
tore the beginning of next year. It is
to be hoped that country may make a
better exhibition of itself than it has
done lately.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-06-08

HE following composition has been
turned out by an American scholar.
aged thirteen: "A boy without faith
er IS an horphan, without a mother a
double horphan, but is oftenist without
a grandfather and grandmother, and
then he is an horphanist.n
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Abroad.
HERE Is no change in the Spanish Ministe-
mai situation The present Cabinet jps1sts
upon the acceptance of their resignation. IA
BAHIA declined to form new ministry. OWING
% III health. His Majesty has now requested
Leirohs 70 undertake the task
The vessel colhding with the steamship p,1
timore was the Spanish steamship Lorenzo
Iemprum. There are hopes of saving the
Baltimore
IRE Queens birthday was observed on Fri
day at Windsor with suitable court festivities
The celebration in the city Will take place next
Saturday. by which time the Prince and prip-
cess of Wales will have reached home. and
VIII he able to take part in the festival.
On FRIDAY evening Clara Louise Kellogg
made her fourth appearance al Her Maiestv's
opera DIury Lane. in the role of Iucia de
Lammermoor. The house was crowded. and
the lady was enthusiastically applauded. The
critics continue TO praise both the acting and
theslnSlnS of the American prima donna.
THE Archd Ichess Sophia. mother of Emper-
or Francis Joseph, Is dangerously Ill with the
typhoid fever. The latest bulletin reports that
she is rapidly sinking.
ADvICEs from Spain state that numbers of
tarlists continue to surrender to the govern
mcnt troops in some of the disaffected PROV
noes. However, fresh bands have appeared
"Ithln the last few DAYS Though small. thew !
IRE very active, and have cut the telegraph |
AIres IN various directions. !