Show A collector of skeletons in southern egypt near the nubian border there lives a rich retired parsee whose sole ambition is to enlarge a collection of skeletons of eminent persons in his tropical garden amid fountains flowers rare exotica exotics statuary and bowers of equatorial verdure stand dozens of skeletons of famous warriors statesmen kings queens lawyers ecclesiastes ecclesias ts etc this earthly paradise barring the presence of the skeletons is four acres in extent and is surrounded by a high stone wall provided with four grated iron doors it is believed that he keeps a score of men in every community in the world constantly on the lookout for rarities in his ghastly line to a correspondent spon dent of a berlin newspaper he ad bitted that he was the owner of the bones of george III of england and even hinted that he would like to have the bones of our washington to stand beside them Is it not possible that this crank has the bones of many americans that are missing st louis republic |