The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-06-24

The bon-bons were analysed by a
chemist, who said that they contained
suphate of copper. The whole famil"
became i'll after dinner, and a doc
tor being summoned he told them that
they had been drinking poisoned wine.
Somebody, who is supposed to be tho
rejected lover, had got into their cell
lar and put sulphate of copper into
barrel Of wine used for the table. He
is still at liberty, and the villa and its
victims has to be guarded night and
day.
A rather curious story attaches to
the name of the Spanish warship Vel
asco. Senior Velasco was the governor
of Havana when 1t was stormed by the
English in the last century. For his
brave defense, the king of Spain de-
creed that there should always be
warship bearing his name. There has
been ever since. But the last one 10
bear it is now under water, having
been sunk by the fire of Dewey's guns
at Manila.
There has just died at Fontainebleau
at the ripe old age of 80, a lady of great
wealth. Her will, which was opened
on the day Of her death, contained the
following clause: Il bequeath to my
doctor the entire contents of the old
trunk in my dressing-room, the key OF
which will be found in the mattress OF
my bed" Great excitement among the
relatives who imagined the treasures
of the deceased to be escaping out OF
their clutches. At last the doctor is
sent for; the trunk is opened and found
to contain intact and uncorked all the
drugs and mixtures that he had pre-
scribed for her during the last thirty
years.
The announcement that the members
of Lord Delamer's big game-hunting
expedition in British East Africa have
in a single month killed no fewer than
twenty elephants, should direct atten-
ton once again to the gradual extinc-
ton of wild game, which is going on
in all parts of that vast continent. The
slaughter of Natal's last hippopotamus
has just been successfully accom-
plished. The white rhinoceros is be-
coming increasingly scarce and from
Zuzuland it is reported that elephants
have now altogether disappeared.
The opening of the Congo railway to
Stanley Pool is to be witnessed by a
personally conducted" excursion from
Europe under the auspices Of Thos.
Cooke & Son. A special steamer will
leave Antwerp calling at Lisbon, Ten
eriffe, Las Palmas, Dakar, Sierra Lee
one, st. Thomas and Gaboon, thence to
Bona, on the Congo, and to Matadi.
The visitors will be taken by special
train to the end of the line. The whole
voyage will last about two months.
At Schkeuditz, in Prussian Saxony,
the burgomaster recently gave orders
that on Sunday people should dress in
a manner worthy of the majesty of the
day. A mechanic who appeared in the
streets in his working clothes was ar
rested and condemned to a fine oil
three marks and one days imprison-
ment. Though the decision was set
aside on appeal, the court censured the
man for incorrect and unseemly be-
havior."
An artist named Girard, descendant
of the famous Marshal Ney, fell dead
in the Paris Salon. He was overjoyed
at finding his picture hung in good
place, and ruptured a blood vessel
thrugh excitement. He was only 80
years of age.
No fewer than 100000 acres OF
land have been made fruitful in the
Sahara desert, an enterprise represent
ing perhaps the most remarkable ex-
ample of irrigation by means of ar
tesian wells which can anywhere be
found.
At Pompeii mosaic life-size por-
trait of a woman, the first antique por-
LrdlJ III mOSdlC ever ulSCONclSuS mas
ben found near the house Of the Vetti.
The workmanship is so fine that it is
difficult to discern that it is not a paint
ing.
The Sultan Of Turkey has just built
at Mecca the biggest house in the
world. 1t is intended for the accom-
mediation of pilgrims, and is capable Of
sheltering 5000 persons.
Wooden shoes in France are pro-
duced to the extent of about 100000
pairs yearly. There are made in AL
SAGE and Barriers by machinery, and in
Lozece by hand.
The latest government census in In
dia showed 6,O16,759 girls between 5
and years of age, who were already
married, of whom 10000 had become
widows.
The average number Of horses killed
in Spanish bull fights every year ex-
ceeds 5000, while from 1000 to 1000