The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-06-23
First Monument to Heinrich Heine, German Poet, by the Irony of
Fate, Is to Be Erected in 4 French Cemetery-New Signal
for Electric Railways Designed to Prevent Accidents.

Deputies at the moderate price of 800 francs
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prepare the candidates. election address no
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duce q journal which 1t owns, entitled
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tionaries In favor Of their subscribers. The
agency will further flood the constituency
with literature. placing the candidate in
the most favorable light before the electors.
and guarantees. after his election. to pro-
vide him with advice and ihtroductions such
as VIII render the duties Of legislator easy.
Not Much sale for Mummies.
The sale Of Egyptian mummies and curl
osit:es at the Guimet Museum this week
proved an unexpected slump. The mummy
OF Men Meth. the Just. embaImed $3.50 be-
fore Christ. only fetched $li2 and the gilt
head Of his wife in a s~arcophagur $ic. other
specimens went below 500. The explanation.
doubtless u the questionable authenticity
Of the specimens.
men Meth. the Just" b probably about
as genuine as Erals. the C0trtesan," now
in the same museum-a mummy which IS
admitted to be that OF a Christian girl who
was beheaded for her faith.
A Belgian surgeon. NJ. Theirian. mas
worked miracles in the cure of boils, abb
scesses and anthrax by Injecting oxygen
gas In its natural state into tumors. The
rapidity with which the cure ~ effected
Is described as simply astonishing.
A girl named Marguerite Bougenval. living
in the village of Thenelles. Department Of
The Alone. who has been in a state of a
cataleptic sleep for eighteen years. shows
signs of approaching death. During her
long sleep Marguerite has been visited by
most Of the leading medical men of
France. including Doctor Charcot. She Is
kept alive by alimentary injections of pep
t.-A Eo,,- 49,. q. .ax To- och L. sVth-
siding. leaving the bones protruding TO a
remarkable extent. Her local doctor thinks
that Mile. Marguerites' eighteen years of
sleep will soon assume the character Of
eternal sleep.
BY the irony of fate Heinrich HeiEe's first
public monument. with the exception Of that
In New York, will be erected in the Paris
cemetery Of Montmartre. where the Sreat
German poet il buried. Some years ago a
subscription was made I'm Germany to erect
a monument. The Empress Of Austria, one
of Heine's most fervent admirers. sent 5000
francs $4,000. Tit Kaiser refused TO al
low the monument to be erected. and the
Empress put up n statue in the garden OF
her palace at Corfu. 1t Is this statue which
IL to be transferred to Paris and placed
above Heine's grave.
Belgian kin Escaped whipping.
1t has just been learned that the King Of
the BeIgians narrowly missed a very un-
pleasant incident while riding through
Chantilly on an automobile recently. Chan
tilly is a sort of British oasis. ~colonixed by
trainers. jockeys and stablemen. who drive
in English fashion, taking the left side OF
the road when meeting other vehicles. King
Leopold. It is said. encountered one OF the
colonists driving on the road. and. Of course.
went over to the left. The result was a
collision, and the En- sIishman. supposing It
to have been premeditated. was about to
60 for the king with a WHIP. when a passer-
by, who recognized the wandering sover-
eign. explained matters.
II any proof were wanting OF the influ-
cree of the automobile as an Instrument OF
civilization. it would be seen In the case Of
the Paris-Berlin race. Not only do the
President Of the Republic ard the Kaiser
join In giving prizes. but the place De La
Conccrde to-day really lived up to its name
when many French automobiles. bound for
the German capital. formed up alongside the
statue Of Strasbourg on the very place OF
pilgrimage for the apostles of a war of
revenge. Not even the fact that the COM
petitors will pass through Sedan has raised
a trace OF the former Chauvinist feeling.
A French veterinary has been called upon