The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-25
OFFERS WHICH FREAKS
 MAKE TO WORLDS FAIR

city sport ships, gondolas, mermaids and mermen.
 Kentucky man desires to impart for consideration the secret of flying. I have studied not only the humming bird, butterfly and crow and others he writes but I have also studied that inimitable bird, the buzzard, who poises himself On i wings like one asleep but stil watchful and then when storms arise and wreck the best prospects of man, he rises above it in awful majesty and dwells in almost ceaseless sunshine
 Chicago curio collector assures the management that he has three volumes which were formerly a part of the pri- yate library of Citizen Napoleon Boua- parte and later to the Empress Josephine. In one corner of the title page appears the inscription: "Bibliotheoue du Citoyen Napoleon Bonaparte" An engraved let ter "J'' and beneath a eoronet fur nishes the suggestion that the books be- came the property of the fascinating creole
 The volumes are: Voyage dans La Haute Pennsylvania ct dans lEtat de New York Par un membre Adoptiff de la nation Oneida. Tradult ct public par l. auteur des lettres dun Cultivateur American Tome Second De L Imprimerie de Croplet. A Paris, chez Maradan IL prairie rue payee S. Andres-de Arcs. No Is Annee, 1s07
 Secondhand furniture, grandfathers clocks of varying patterns and ages; we. hicles with histories. spinning wheels, homemade mantletrees. brass candle sticks and clocks that tell the changes of the moon make a respectable showing.
 New York City comes forward with dresser" make of 10000 pieces of wood of different kinds: Sussex county in the Empire state presents a spinning wheel and reel, with verified age of 15O; Vir- ginnia has a cupboard made In 1776 with hinges and nails wrought by hand before machinery was invented for that purpose.
 A new Mexican miner had found the mummy of a man of the stone age in cliff dwellers' cave The remains were those of a male five feet. ten inches In height; 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 banquet given when Missouri was admitted into the union. ia still in the hands of a family which has owned It since 1776. An Alabama woman would sell or exchange an old melodian for an organ, maybe 100 years old" To- ledo, O., is ready to furnish complete pioneer home, with t-grandfather s clocks, high poster beds, spinning wheels, f1int-lock pistols and guns.
 Such odds and ends as fifty-cent shin plaster of 1894; Spanish American coins of 1903, and pennies made in the year Missouri was admitted as state, make volumlnous correspondence. The in- evitable Stradivarius; newspapers yellow with the survival of a century or more. giving accounts of the death of Washing ton, descriptions of his state funeral and noties of negroes for sale and @ needle gun made in Springfield in 1347, the fie- ures as plain as they may be, have been rejected by the Curio Bureau.
 The animal kingdom has a part in this ransacking of dead generations and scraping of modern incongruities.
 Six hundred Buffalo horns. Eskimo eat- ing dishes made from whale vertebra. Alaskan Indians rattle of sea parrot bills and moose toes, sea parrot eggs and Chilkoot dolls; a living hog from New Mexico, having two legs upon which the porker walks like a chicken, three-legged and five legged calves; three deformed kittens from Illinois, lone with one toe on one foot two toes on the other; one with one toe on each foot; the other with three toes on one foot and two on the other" illustrates the mnuteness with which the bills of sale are made up
 Loba wolves, eagles, crows and alliga- tors would make a procession from Phil adelphia to New York. large flock of thoroughly domesticated white breast ed Canadian wild geese. large and tame" are offered by an Illinois faneier at vary ing prices.
 A Texas firm will capture tropical var hints and fowls, coyotes, prairie dogs, ground squirrels, badgers. horned frogs, horned owls and monkey-faced owls.