Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1895-09-04
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

THE queen of England does not sig,
death warrants. The judge who passe
the sentence writes in the margin o
the Indictment: LEFT for execution.
and the sheriffs fix the day, which
clear days from the date of the convic
ton.
An Elizabethan brown stone Jug
mounted in silver, 1881, was sold at the
Clifden sale in London for $500; fiutec
Monteith with lion mask handles, roo
So ounces, for 1923; four chased circu.
lar salt cellars, 1741, 40 ounces, for $500
fiat two-handled basin and cover,
1702. IL ounces, for $500; a Queen Anne
salver, I'LL, gre ounces, for 81 oil,
The custom of celebrating gold
and silver weddings belongs to Ger
many. The silver wedding occurred
on the twenty-fifth anniversary and
most people could, celebrate that, but
to be fifty years married was a sort of
event in a family. The house was
quite covered with garlands, and the
neighbors from far and near were as
sembled.
The military workshop of Puteaux,
| in France, is turning out leather tires
for the army cycles in place Of India
rubber ones. which are difficult to re-
pair when they break down. Leather
tires can be sewn without much trou-
BILE by the cyclist or a neighboring
shoe maker Moreover, they are lighter
than rubber ones, and less apt to slip
on wet pavement or asphalt. ,,.. z
-Richelieu's skull has been put
back in it's tomb in the church Of Sor-
bonnie, and the cavity near by where
it was buried when stolen during the
revolution was sealed up with great,
ceremony not long ago, in the pres
ence of M. Hanotaux, minister OF for
eign affairs, of the director of the
Beaux arts, the vice-rector of the
academic, and the princess of Monaco,
representing the family.
An immense quantity of music,
some which had not been disturbed
since the time of Frederick the great,
was discovered in the royal castle at
Berlin about six years ago, and it has
been found to comprise almost the
whole of the music performed at the
Prussian court from the middle to the
eighteenth century. The work of
sorting and editing the collection has
just been completed, and catalogue
consists of nearly four hundred pages.
1t includes many forgotten operas, a
quantity of ballet music, early sym
phonies and chamber works, folk songs
and dances, and a splendid collection
of military music. z rz f
According to Prof. Baird, there is
now in the imperial aquarium of st.
Petersburg a pike that first saw the
light at the close Of the fifteenth CEN
fury. He still appears to be quite
young fellow, Notwithstanding his |
centuries and his long captivity. The
professor says that there is nothing
very extraordinary in this case, and
he mentions several other fishes in the |
same aquarium that are more than
one hundred and fifty years old. Who
knows but what the age of cells is still
greater? Nobody can fix the date,of
their nativity, and the chances of
their longevity, considering their reg
ular habits, are certainly as good as
those of the pike.
In the Port Royal mountains, ia
maica, an interesting archaeological
discovery was recently made of cave
the skeletons of at least
of the aboriginal Arawaks
When Columbus discovered the island
n 1894 the Arawabs were estimated at
about six hundred thousand. A century
ind half later, on the capture of Ja-
naica by the English, they had COM
oletely disappeared, even to their
bones, as only the skulls until now had
been found. These showed frontal
depression with lateral expansion, an
lrtifcially formed deformity that is
llso found in those just discovered,
Which are of all ages. A shattered
canoe of cedar wood, feet long and ~
eet wide, an aborvite mortar and two
,arthenware vessels were found with
he skeletons.