The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-25

Mormon Bible. Inventors of new uni
Versal alphabets and languages. mil
lions of stamps and tons of old coins
make a collection that is appalling
for its immensely.
A Philadelphia man wants $500 for
an old Spanish bell; Weighing 1,400
pounds, with an accredited age of $50
years. Belle Valley, Pa, has sleigh
log years old. The owner says it
was used in carrying mail from Erie,
Pa, to Buffalo, long before the rail
way age.
Amsterdam. Holland, pours its flood
of prurient literature" into the be-
wildering whirlpool of wheels" An
echo of the same land of eerie art, APP
pears from out the busy money-mart
of Wall street. 1t is an antique book
published in Amsterdam in 1920, "a
vision of a future great city on the
banks of the Mississippi. In the ma
rine forefront of copper plate etch-
ing of the city sport ships, gondolas,
mermaids and mermen.
A Kentucky man desires to impart
for consideration the secret of fly
ing. Il have studied not only the
humimng bird, butterfly and crow and
Others" he writes. but l have also
studied that inimitable bird. the buzz
card, who poises himself on wings like
one asleep. but still watchful, and
AiASlAI NlGll olOllllo al ioC anu NIGNh TIC
best prospects of man. he rises above
it in awful majesty and dwells in al
most ceaSeleSs sunshine"
A Chicago curio collector assures
the management that he has three
volumes which were formerly a part
of the private library of Citizen Ma
poleon Bonaparte and later to the EN-
press Josephine. In one corner of the
title page appears the inscription,
"Bibletheque du Citoyen Napoleon
Bonaparte." An engraved letter "J'
and beneath a coronet, furnishes the
suggestion that the books became the
property of the fascinating Creole.
The volumes are: voyage dams La
Haute," pennsylvania ct dams l. Etat
de New York." Par un Memore Adop-
tiff de la Nation Oneida" 'Trodnet ct
Public par rauteur des Lettres dun
Cultivateur American" Tome Secord
de LImprimerie de Croollet a Pares,"
Chez Maradan Libraire rue Pavee S.
Andre-des-Aros N 16 AniX, 1907"
Secondhand furniture, grandfathers'
clocks of varying patterns and ages,
wheels, homemade mantel trees, brass
candlesticks and clocks that tell the
changes of the moon, make respect
able showing.
New York city comes forward with a
dresser" made of 10000 pieces of
woods or different xmas. sussex COuu-
ty in the Empire State presents a spin
ming wheel and reel, with verified age
of $50 years; Virginia has a cupboard
made in 1776, with hinges and nails
wrought by hand before machinery was
invented for that purpose
A New Mexican miner has found the
mummy of man of the Stone Age in
cliff dweller's cave. The remains
were those of mule. FIVE feet, ten
inches in hight; light skin, small bones
red brown hair. The features are
dried but the hair, teeth, eyebrows,
body and hands were intact.
A violin played at a banquet given
when Missouri was admitted to the
Union. is still in the hands of a family
which has owned it since 1776. An
Alabama woman would sell or eX-
change an old melodian for an organ,
maybe 100 years old" Toledo, O., is
ready to furnish a complete pioneer
home. with great grandfathers' clocks
high poster beds, spinning wheels, flint
lock pistols and guns.
Such odds and ends as a so cent shin
plaster" of 1904 Spanish-American
coins of 1903 and pennies made in the
year Missouri was admitted as state.
make a voluminous correspondence.
The inevitable Stradivarius; newspa-
pers, yellow with the survival of a CEN
tury or more, giving accounts of the
death of Washington. descriptions of
his state funeral and notices of negroes
Cor sale and needle gun made in