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Show A Collector of Nknletnna. In southern Egypt, near the Nubian border, there lives a rich retired Tareee whose solo ambition is to enlarge acol-lindion acol-lindion of skeletons of eminent persons. In his tropica! garden, amid fountains, flowers, rare exotics, statuary and bowers bow-ers of equatorial verdure, stand dozens of skeletons of famous warriors, statesmen, states-men, kings, queens, lawyers, ecclesiasts, etc. This earthly paradise (barring tho 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 lielieved hat he keeps a score of men in every community in the world constantly on the lookout for rarities in his ghastly line. Tt a correspondent corre-spondent of a lierliu newspaper he admitted ad-mitted that he w.is 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 misting? St. Louis Republic. |