Show SCIENTISTS VICTIMS OF A HOAX I Discovery of Antiquities on Island Is I Found to Be a Fake Paris That tho piactlce of saltIng salt-Ing claims is becoming quite Euro peanlzed is fully shown by a hoaxing of the grave Academic deb Inscrlp tioncs et Helios Letters Last August Dr Capltan read a learned paper on the discovery of Egyptian antiquities on a small Island oft Marseilles Discussion Dis-cussion promptly followed In which now theories of the history of civilization civiliza-tion were constructed on tho discovery discov-ery which seemed on the way to becoming be-coming epochmaking until the other day when Dr Capltan read a second paper apologetic and explanatory An old man living In the Island on whoso property the antiquities were found fell very ill and confessed he had bought the objects from a Marseilles curio dealer and had strewn them on his property in hope it would be purchased pur-chased for excavations |