The St. Louis Republic., 1901-02-17
REPuBLIc SPECIAL

4EPUBLIC SPECIAL
London. Feb. 1s-(Copyright. 1901. by the
New York Herald Company.)-wonderfu
u the calm succeeding the late series Of
procesaionsi
Tradespeople are gloating over and
counting up their gains jewelers. are par
ticularly Jubilant for quite half the peer
eases had to provide themselves with
tisras. And this Just at time when dia-
monds had gone up Is per cent?
coronefs have apparently gone out Of
fashion. yet q Bond street jeweler tells .
curious tale Of how noblenan entered
his shop and said. Il wish to be measured
for q gold coronet."
On the given day the jeweler went to the
family mansion with the coronet, and
found the noble lord lying abed consuming
champagne and oysters. The shells Of the
companions.
Hal" he exclaimed there comes my
new nightcap."
He tried It on, said It fitted Hike a billy
cock. and signed his check with q sigma
fure which was undecipherable. but which
was duly honored by his bank
I asked II the business had been profita-
Die. and the 1eweler said:
very. The only drawback was that
got . bad cut on my forehead from an
oyster she'll"
Now We are going to have q BIT Of q
rest" said a Sergeant of police to me yes
terday.
WHY THE ROYAL ROBES
YELL GRACEFULLY.
Anent the opening Of Parliament the fol-
lowing little story Is told:
People had wondered very much how the
voiuminous regal robes Of the Queen and
King had settled themselves into such
perfect folds the moment their Majesties
sat down
1t turns out that loopholes had been
provided in the panels behind the canopy,
where dressers were situated and deftly ar
ranged the robes In symmetrical position.
EDWARD SHOWS BEAUTIFUL
CONFEDERATION FOR THE QUEEN.
What IL very touching and refutes opin-
Ions often heard Is the prominence which
the King insists upon the Queen having in
ell matters Of state ceremony
This VIII. perhaps reconcile her to ar
cepting the position Of Queen, which all
her encourage know SO well was unpleasing
10 her-she who loves quiet and who has
led life Of almost nunlike retirement sinca
the death OF her favorite son, Prince Ed
die"
A SECOND DARWIN
DISCUSSES MAN AND APES,
A second Darwin has sprung I'D in the
person of Doctor MacNamara, who, in lee
turing before the Royal College OF Sur-
geons, making the Hunterian GRAFTON. said
tnat It had been proved that man and the
antnropoid ape were derived from the
same stock, but that the nerve center
which controlled our faculty of articulate
utferance did not exist in apes, and. con-
sequently. they could not acquire the power
Of speech.
It appeared. he added. that the defective
enter1or lobes in the brain of the ape were
cue to the small capacity Of the Creatures
Skull. caused by ossification during the first
year OF life into rigid, closed case within
which the brain could not expand; where
as the brain Of man did not consolidate
Until adult age. and so the anterior lobes of
his brain. including the nerve area con-
trotiing speech. might continue to develop
TN ne attained his twentieth year.
But this. he said. was not always the
case, tor the human skull found in the
tertiary formation OF Java was clearly ON
me border line between man and apes.
CURIOUS RESULTS OF
ARMY CONTRACTS SCANDALS.
Some curious results Of the controversy
over the contracts scandal arisinS out Of
the Boer war are coming to light
When frst mentioned, this promised to
equal In sensational details The revelations