Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-04-23
Professional Husband Killers En-
ployed in Hungary by Festive
and Vicious Wives.
Persecution of the Jews in Russia
Statistics Regarding the Poor
Of London.

entirely discarded. Inc ages OF Darbarlsm
were those Of unexampled splendor and
decorations. Conquering hosts rihed the
treasure chests of their victims and car
ried home in triumph their iewela and
jewelry. The ancient Greeks, Persians,
Egyptians and Romans were adopts in
decorating their persons, and their men
we're no less demons trative than their
women. Masses of gold chains sparkling
with jewels, earrings and hnger-riLgs
adorned the person of the Roman dandy,
while the warrior studded his breast
plate, helmet, sword, and shield with
emeralds rubies, sapphires, pearls and
diamonds. The jewels of the crown are
great show pieces in every kingdom in the
world, while family diamonds or
pearls, as the case may be, are Just as
jealousy guarded and handed down from
generation to generation, priceless heir
looms, souvenirs of the past. In the Jew
eIer's art of to-day two widely different
nations probably excel all others in the
originality of their designs-France ana
Russia. The former not only originates
designs Of her own, but calls upon her
varied art imagination to adapt all the
fancies and c"udities Of the anclents, until
her jewelry sets the patterns from which
all others save Russia copy. The king
dom which Peter founded presents greater
contrasts Of art culture and barbarism
than any nation within the pale Of civiliza.
ton. While the world rings with the
heart rending cries of people prosecuted
for the love of their God, and millions of
Russia's peasantry cry aloud for bread
and rot by the wayside, her musicians.
poets, authors and painters invade the
wonderland OF culture, carrying all before
them. Quite recently the sale and dis
posal of the Observation-Disclosures pointed
clearly TO the estimation and value Of a
great mind; last year Tschalkowsky
revealed to US how rich in melody
Russia folk music Is; and yet another
Russian only, it is true, by domination
Paderewski, Is now deighting the public
by the fire and depth of his musical art.
The centennial exhibition made the
American people first aware of the value
of Russian art in the treatment of the
precious metals Ii sayors almost en-
tirely Of the Byzantine period Of the art
world; its workmanship is excessively
fine and Horid delighting in over-elabora-
ton and detail; especially strong, too, in
the decoration Of church vestments,
mlssals and regulia, which, as the Greek
church Is so closely allied TO the Catholic
in the elaborateness of its pomps and
ceremonies, provide the jeweler with many
opportunities for the display Of his art
workings.
For the ornamentation of the person
the Russian does not, except among the
peasant class, follow his native style in MS
lewelry but rather affects the Persian ell
egance. In Italy they are celebrated for
4 y =.
parts of continental Europe jewelry is
tawdry and badly made Switzerland ex.
cells IN watches. England Is very strong
in silver, lewelry, manufacturing some
gold, principally chains, bracelets and
brooches all of which are heavy, clumsy.
and not at all refined art. London is the
headquarters Of the trade, where the hor-
rors Ct the sweating system among her
wretched jewelry workers were the sub
ject of legislative inquiry.
PROFESSIONAL HUSBAND KILLERS.
From the time OF the Empress Agrip-
pima the world has progressed m many
things says the London Graphic, but the
art OF husbandicide, in which the ami /
able spouse or Clrudius was already so
proficient, has remained practically sta. /.
ti0nary. Whether this is to be accounted I
for by Agrippina having been very much /
IN advance OF her times or by the mex
orable requirements Of the laws of Grim /
iual statistics which Mr. Buckle has so
deliberately eXpOunded It is difficult to say I
Suffice it thai husbandicide is what the /
scientists would call constant phe- I
nomenon Even it's methods are unvary. I
ing. 1t might legitimatey have been /
hoped that in this cultured age the en-
pl0yment of professional prisoners by res
tive wives was no longer possible. This .
is q mistake, if we ara to credit a t"le- /
gram from Buda.Pesth published this Z
morning. In Hungary il appears that 4
the married state is so little of assuccess
that demand has arisen for professional
poisoners Several elderly ladies are
said to have qualified themselves for this T
agreeable calling, and three of them ara
about to take their trial for having as
sisted ten peasant women TO the weeds of T
widowhood This is a very shocking
disclosure, ana it is to be hoped that It (
has no bOsls In fact, Still 1t is 10 be rem
embered that IL Is not without precedent,
ussuch illomended names as LoCusta and .
I0tfania can testify, and If husbaDdicide .
itself endures why should It's methods not
FNCEssEs AGAINST THE JEWS,
Ire Vienna papers publish details Of
the latest prosecutions of The Jews in
Russia. including those in the govern
ment Of Pensa and Saratoy. In the gov
eruments named nearly two thousand
families have been reduced 70 oeggary,
several persons have been badly wounded
and ninety houses entirely destroyed The
prosecutions began last October Thou
sands OF hungry peasants, ont Of work,
marched through the streets, ana where
Jley did net gel food fer the asking they
took !. Recently band Of these Migrants
vent into the town Of SamCzAnsk, and
asking help Of the mayor and town council
What toere was Of corn had already been
distributed, and they were told to wait IN
II fresh gifts Of corn and flour should ar
i've. But they had learned at the station
that there was a train Of corn ana -four.
nd, re-enforced by all the poor Of the town.
they marched thither. Some Of the town
council then mad tbs terrible idea