The Warwickshire Herald. — 1891-01-22 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

TREATISE OF ARISTOTLE. The owner of an unproductive mine wrote :—"The The Times announces that nearly the complete name of my mine is the 'U.B.D—,' and all I can teat of the famous treatise on the Constitution Of say to your questions as to its value is to repeat Athens, attributed by writers of antiquity to the the name. The only things I have ever got from pen of Aristotle, has been "discovered" at the the said mine are a sore back, a sore temper, and 1,500 dol. worth of debts. If you know any mitt- British Museum. It is probable that there will be gidded man who would like a mine free of charge. • gr.'..t rush of literary stilt tars and satiqua.:lo4 refer him to me. I will give him one half of the view the valuable "find" directly it is on and for your trouble I will make you exhibition, for the manuscript has lone beim % present of the other half." An equally caustic 'been by authorities on the subjest ha hair gentleman—who says he is a Harvard graduate, and been lost or destroyed. Indeed, Heita, • adds "B.A.- to his name—contributes the follow. authority on all that appertains to log :—"ln answer to your questions, I would Say Aristotlean, has always he that to hope ref that, so far as I know, the mine of which I have discovery of the original text would 'be sheer the honour to be sole owner has never produced a foolishness. Nevertheless it has been fotmd, and red cent. although three former owners committed in this way: The British Museum recently purchased suicide after vain attempts to make the thing pay. from some Egpytian source h roll of miscellaneous In order to avoid a similar fate, I have secured a Papyrus. Nothing was known of their content* at flattering position as chief bar-tender and conceder the time, but on examination, the celebrated of liquid delights in Billy Scott's popular Art Constitution of Athens—hitherto unknown except Gallery and Gambling Palace. If you ever cum. out in stray scraps—was unearthed. The competent this way, hunt me up. I will give you the mine.' judges attached to the British Museum have no An enterprising New Mexican, bent on finding tilt doubt as to the authenticity of the manuscript, precious metal somewhere, writes:—"Only the and when the difficulty of forging a papyrus text Almighty MD get any silver out of my mine. It is taken into consideration, there seems to be no. has all characteristics of a silver bonanza—except room for any. It is undoubtedly' the lemma the silver. flowerer, I hope to strike the vein sonic "Athenian Constitution." But is it by Aristetle P day; and, In the meantime, may! strike yeti for This is the only question left to bother the students the loan of five dollars?" The gem of the collection of antiquity. Timaeus, Plutarch, Pollux, Harpocrais a misspelled tale of woe from Arizona. The form tion, ?hams, Seeger, and many others quoted was returned blank, but contained on the reverse the work extensively, and all agreed in ascribing it the following touching communication- “The to Aristotle. The work itself is mostly of a character superintendent is ded drunk, he allays is. the secre- calculated to interest only Greek scholars. The lazy Is in jale for wok and bettery on the alder. story commences shortly after the conspiracy of timed. I am sick in Bed from the Effecks. good Orlon, attributed to An' E.c. and deals with the bny," periods of Themistocles, Thuckides, and Pericles.  Several lambs, a horse, and a cow rre frozen te The Duke of Cambridge had an audience of the death on Monday morning at Yeovil, wnere .19 Pope on Saturday. He was accompanied by Colonel degrees of frost were registered. The ice on the picsGecuge, Colonel Lane, and Mr. Christopher ponds there is more than a foot thick. Sykes, and was received with the usual !loyal Cbenies, where the ashes of the late Duke of Bedhonours. H.P.The conversation between the Pope and ford now rest, is one of the moat picturesque spots the Duke was of the most cordial character, his I. Buckinghamshire, and is within comparatively .., Holiness making special Inquiries as to the health eesy math of London. The Rumen Glaill w"", Of the Queen and the members of the Royal Pettily. built by Anne. Countess of Bedford, i -n . and On leaving the Vatican his Royal Highness called Maalox many beautiful monuments, including that upon Cardinal Rampolla Pontifical of gi the Russell. The building is adjacent te the State,, this being the usual sous...such occasions, ari sh church, and could formerly be inspected by The visit was returned by the Cardinal in the course e public, but is now closed, except to members of the afternoon. The Duke of Cambridge left by et the family, though some of the monuments may the night express for Nantes. be seen through the windows. Me ot the most interesting of the literary sales messy . . e ...1 to, will shortly publish a of the summer season will inalude a number ot Dictionary of the English Language in handy form. Thacteray's unpublished letters, which, it is tinlisted on their Encycloredic Dictionary. This new derstood, form a portion of the interesting collection ' work will extend to about 1.100 pages, deiny octave ot