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Show Treasures in Wilderness Lost in the Caucasian wilderness in the village of Zugdidi, a palace o the former Dadiana princess, one of the oldest and wealthiest Georgian families and related to Napoleon and, Alexander 1, stands today practically as it stood 100 years ago in the hey-dey hey-dey of those powerful rulers. In addition addi-tion to much rich furniture of the period, some of which Is said to have oeen presented by the French emperor, there is a collection of slone and bronze arms, Greek statuettes, ancient Greek coins, a number of skulls of primitive man, and a Chinese vaoe of un'old value. The contents of the palace have been converted by Caucasian Cau-casian authorities into a urusetrin, but owing to the inaccessibility of the mountain village few except Georgian peasantry ever visit It. |