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Show NAPOLEON'S DEATH BEDS. The chateau of Malmal6on, wiere Napoleon's wife Josephine lived and died, has been mpde Into a museum As cabled to. the Sun, an American, Edward Tuck, has just presented to it the bed on which Napoleon is said to havo died. Tho bed is a modest Iron affair marked with an Imperial crown and bearing the trademark of the merchant mer-chant who supplied the emperor's furniture fur-niture when he went Into exile According Ac-cording to tho story told of Its ownership, owner-ship, General Bortrand brought It back from SL Helena and used it himself him-self when ho sottlcd down ln Chateau-roux; Chateau-roux; ln fact, he died ln it At his death it became the property of one of the general's farmers, who was compellod by money losses to part with it to a banker at Ctateauroux. It remained in tho banker's family until it was sold at auction at the" Hotel Drouot, with the banker's other furniture. furni-ture. Frederic Masson, the great authority on Napoleon, was consulted by Jean Ajalbert, the curator of Malmaison, and he had no hosiLition in declaring it the authentic bed from SL Helena. The Murat family also possess a bed which is Eaid to be the one on which tho omperor diod. It Is believed to bo an authentic bed from SL Helena; it Is known that Napoleon hod two beds, on one of which ho died and on the other of which his body was laid out. The latter is the bed owned by the Murat family, according to the partisans par-tisans of tho Malmaison bod. Newark News. Tho Government of Now South Wales has fixed the minimum wage for nil female work in Government employment at $550 a year. oo A general striake has been inaug'j-. rated by .the organized railroad em-playos em-playos of Italy. The men are demand-ing demand-ing higher wages. Tho United tSsces outranks all other countries in the amount of business bus-iness done by the railroad and' iasur ance companies. 1 o |