The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-19
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Gently died. says the Cardiff (Walesl Mail.
Her death gave great satisfaction 10 the other
villagers, for she was looked upon as witch,
and feared accordingly. After the funeral
several OF the chief inhabitants repaired TO
the Wirthschaft to celebrate suitably The re-
lief experienced at getting this dangerous
person safely under ground; but while they
were drinking pleasantly in came messen-
ger to say that the COW Of one of those pres
ent. neighbor of the deceased, had died sud
denly without any apparent cause. Inc meet
ing, horror stricken. adjourned in body TO
examine the COW, and unanimously agreed
that the animal had been bewitched. No
doubts were entertained as to the perpetrator
of the deed Evidently bury1ng was
not enough to stop this dangerous
old lady and it was decided. after
earnest discussion, to adopt the old
plan of making horse jump over the
witch's grave, and thus put an end to her
powers. horse was accordingly fetched,
put, strange to say, nothing would lnauee MN
to Jump over the grave This tnconteStable
proof of the unholy influence emanat1ng from
the spot caused the public excitement to IN
crease. The mayor of the Village decided to
use somewhat drastic means, much In favor
IN the middle ages viz. to stab the witch
body with a red-hct pitch fork. The body was
eXhumed. the fork heated, and the who e cere-
mony carried out BY the time the company
had finished their work, and gone back to re-
fresh themselves at the Wirthschaft, the
authorities Of the nelghboring town had
heard of what was going on. party OF
mounted police were sent to the village, and
all those who had been concerned in the affair
were taken into custody.
The men who, invisible TO all except those
of short stature, sell tickets in theatre box
Offices, have learned that gold coin has come
to be favorite gift to make to young wo
men at Christmas time, says the New York
Tribune. OF course such presents would
come only from relatives, but that they are
given in considerable amounts is shown by
the figures OF the box offices. At one theatre,
for instance, the average gold receipts day
are $40 or SIS. The figure of $50 is rarely
reached. But directly after Christmas the
sum grows and on matinee days it gets to the
astonishing amour of $500 or 500. About all
| of it comes from young women to whom the
matinee IS the most obvious temptation
when they have bright gold coin This in
/ t1ux of gold lasts all through January. The
experience at other theatres is similar to
that at the one referred to. Inquiry at an up
town bank showed that Just before Christ
mas $1,000 or $1,000 in gold was drawn for
| Christmas gifts, no doubt chiefly for daugh-
tiers, sisters and nieces. The presiding
genius atone box ONCE not far from
Twenty-thir street is not fond Of receiving
gold, because he is always afraid of spending
the coins for cents. But when on a recent
Saturday afternoon two gold 80 cent pieces
were handed to him. he was utterly disguised.
They were so thin that they might easily have
disappeared in crack IN the drawer. A
minute after he received the pestiferouS bits
OF gold man laid down s. coin for two
tickets. Here was an idea The man could
not object to leing paid in his own coin. so
the two 30 cent pieces were showed over to
him. Instead of muttering his dislike of the
bits of money, the man eagerly seized them.
few days later. the box Office man was tell
ing bank clerk, whom he knew, of the
clever way in which he had got rid of the
tiny sheets OF metal No wonder the man
took them eagerly" said the clerk. They
bring % cent premium. And now the
| tlcket-seller realizes that his idea wasn't so
bright after all
The restoration of the Church of the Sor-
bonnie has revived a discussion as to the au-
thenticity of the head Of Cardinal Richelieu,
which, together with the other remains of the
great statesman, lies in the splendid mauso-
leum erected by Girardon nearly two cen
| turtles ago, says a Paris letter IN the London
Telegraph, In 1913 gang of revolutionists
| broke into the mausoleum, with the intention
OF scattering Its contents to the winds and,
one of their number cutting off the head with
| his sword, showed it to the mob. Thanks to
| the intervention Of LenOir, the body, which
was also in wonderful state of preservation,
was spared; but the head, or what was pre-
sumed to be the head, was ultimately recov-
| cred, and, after passing through several
| hands, was in 1866 officially presented to M
Victor Duruy, then minister of public instruc-
| ton, who had it reunited to the body, and re.
stored with considerable ceremony to the old
| place in the mauSoleum at the Sorbonne.
| The head had been borne away 100 years
! ago by draper named Cheval, who had
among his regular customers the Able Nico-
| las ArmeZ. He showed the head to the priest,
ana some time afterwards. dreading that its
| possession might get him into trouble, he
asked him to accept it. At first the Able
ArmeZ declined the offer, but, thinking that
| the relic might fall into worse hands, he
| finally consented Some years latter the
| priest gave the head to his brother, then
mayor of Plourivo, in the department. of the
| Cotes du Nord. whose son, when elected a
| deputy, in the reign Of Louis PHILIPPE,
| brought it with him to Paris. Deputy Armez,
| in 1870 lent the head to NJ. Bonhomme a
| painter, who had been asked to execute a
| portrait of the cardinal and whose picture
| still hangs IN one OF the rooms of the council
| OF state. II was In 1856 that, after negotita-
| lions with M. Duruy, NJ. ArmeZ presented the
| the relic to the state, and on the Dec Is in
| the same year 1t was Solemnly deposited in
| the mausoleum at the Church of the Sor-
| bonnie. Now the question as to whether the
head is after all authentic is again'beng raised
The balance of evidence is in favor of the
above story being true.
A collection of portraits, 1000 years old.
| makes an interesting exhibit, not only to art
| connoisseure, but to everybody curious
enough to know what manner of men and
women once inhabited this old earth The
| Theodor Graf collection of Greek portraits
now hung at the Philadelphia Academy of
| Fine Arts. gives for the first time an idea Of
| the work Of the portrait painters of the second
| and third centuries b. c. These paintings
were not made for the family galleries" of old
| Egyptians, proud OF their ancestors but ac-
| cordlng to the Philadelphia Record, were
| mummy faces" 1t was the ancient Greek
custom to represent the countenance of a
| dead person at the head of a mummy or cot
/ nm, somewhat ike the Indians of Peru. and
| in the Greek-Roman epoch for the plastic
| head with conventional features, was sub
| stituted a real portrait of the dead One
| entire face mummy is here shown in this
| exhibit brought, like the other faces " from
| the cave-cemetery OF Rubayat in Central
| Egypt. Ages ago thieves ransacked this cele-
| brated metropolis, throwing away these
| painted panels upon the desert sands The
| nlnety-six exhibited in Graf collection are
thin panels of wood, many now cracked and
Scared, bearing the faces Of few Egyptians
| several Syrians or Ph9nicians and MANY
mixed features of that Greek epoch They
| mostly belong to the higher classes, as is eyi.
| dent IN the abundant jewels of the women
! the golden laurel wreaths of the men the rib.
| bons, Pompeiian-like shoulder stripes and
! Isis buttons, and even the lock Of youth. "
| the ancient badge Of the sons of the
| Pharaohs The cOlors have mellowed like
| those of old masterpieces, and Rem
brandt himself would not be, ashamed
| of the strength shown in the best of them.
| Some of the pictures Of the oval-faced Egvn.
tians and the dark almond-eyed Jewesses are
modern enough in spirit and treatment 10 he
put upstairs with the sixty-third annual ex-
hioit of the academy. The rich coloring and
delicate tlnts awakened even Messonier's adj
mlrat1on. The collection reveals also in the
most interesting manner. all the technical
expedients employed by the ancients Ihev
| devised the art Of painting with variousIy
colored wax and the process OF burning IL in
1t has thus gained the name Of 'encaustlc
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