The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-23

and brave1y carried her burden till she fell in her tracks. It has been proc posed to decorate the child's grave with cross of the new Order of Merit.
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 One of the most daring mail robbc- ries ever known has taken place. at Toulouse. An entire mail wagon. con taining registered letters and packages, the whole valued at st40,00O. has been stolen from in front of branch post oflco ia one of tne busiest streets of the city.
 The driver of the wagon having got down from his seat to get mail bag which was to leave by the night ex4 press, founo the main entrance to the postofiice closed and was obliged to go around to a side entrance. He was gone only couple Of minutes and when he returned the mail cart had disappeared.
 The cart contained twenty-one letter bags, and ninetv-throe registered par cells. one of which contained unmounted gems.
 Police investigation resulted in the discovery of the wagon in the out slsirta of the city near a shed in which tho bags had been emptied The thieves evidently had not time to open all the packages for many were found intact. The front door of he postof- Ice had been closed with an iron bar evidently placed there with intention
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 An ofHeia1 commissioner represent ing the Japanese government has just purchased thirty half-blooded stallions from famous Normandy studs All the animals purchased have distinguished themselveS by their speed m trotting races. The commissioner will visit the stud farms of Brittany and make sim liar purchases.
 The Marquise de Mornv also known as the Marquise de Belheuf, has ex- pressed her Intention of going on the rnuslc-hal1 stage, and the French aris- tocracy has received a shock at the news. from which 1t will be long in recovering. When the daughter of Napoleon IITs brother goes on the stage, the vaudeville stage of all things. the Faubourg St. Germain will go into sack cloth and ashes.
 The Marquise Missy de Morny is the youngest daughter of the celebrated Duc de MornyS who figured so proml- nently during the Second Empire and was mainly instrumental in bringing about the Coup 1'Etat which made the Pripce- President, Napoleon Emperor. De gMorny was reputed the nandsomest man of his day, and all the beautiful women of the capital were in love with him,
 He was not only a handsome man but clever as well, and used to write extremely witty vaudevilles which were attended by the most brilliant society of the Second Empire. His youngest daughter, the Marqulse Mis- sy de Morny, has inherited good deal of her fathers intelligence, and is known throughouth Paris for her in- dependence and eccentricity She has successfully tried her hand at sculp- ture and literature is an expert horse- woman, and feneer, and Q thorough sport after the fashion of the great pr9ncesses of the time of Louis XIV.
 Most of her time is spent at club known as tho Corcle des Arts ct des Sports, where it> Is rumored members of upper Bohemia and of the sporting world oongregate to play the stiffast games Of poker over heard of in Paris.
 The Marduise de Morny's birth ehti- ties her to frequent the most exeln. sive salons of Paris, but she finds the old afistoeracy a trihe slow and pre- fers the society of Independent spirits like herself,
 The other evening Paris was startlad to hear that she had made her debut upon the amateur stage of the Club des Arts ct dss Sports, in a pantomine