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HONTSHUMANSKULIO
Peculiar Hobby Which Occupies
Leisure Time of a Texaoh.
Him Visited Many Lauda aad 6taa*
trlei la Search of the Odd Carlo*
aad He Haa an Interaat
ii( Collection.
The following'advertisement appeared
In the newspapers of St. Joseph, Mo., re
cently:
"Wanted—Human skulls! must be la
good condition; will pay liberally for
fins specimens. Apply Hotel M. Charles
W. Jenkins."
Jenkins was a temporary resident of
St. Joseph, where he has considerable
realty interests, but his real home is in
Corpus Christ!, Tex. He has probably
the oddest fad of any collector of curios
who has ever been a resident of that city.
Mr. Jenkins is vary anxious to increase
bis collection of skulls, and in the pos
session of medical students, physicians
and colleges of St. Joseph are specimens
taken from various burying grounds
that have keen unearthed In the ex
cavations far buildings on sites that
hundreds of years ago were repositories
for the dead of the ancient red man.
*1 have now in my possession Ml
perfect specimens of human skulls,” says
Mr. Jenkins "They represent the hu
man of many ages, and I find them an
Interesting study Indeed. How <lld I
some to Indulge In such a strange fad I
Well. In my youth I made a study of
anatomy, and became Intensely Inter
ested In the construction of the human
frame. I gradually acquired a taste for
this form of brle-a-brac.
"I got my real start aa a collector of
skulls In 1187. During excavations la
■t. Joseph on property In the posaessloa
ad my father several specimens ot aa
ancient race were exhumed, and
straightway found a resting place upon
a shelf la a cabinet In my horns I vis
ited the former home of the monoid
builder In Colorado and New Mexico,
where other specimens of the ancient
Inhabitants were discovered. They dif
fer materially from the skulls found la
It Joseph. Then I visited the holy land
IU VOWUU VI »yuviUiOUD. V » Viu *«««« •
drifted to tho lands of the Ptolemies of
Egypt. Here some valuable acquisi
tions were made. I have tramped over
the Pampas of South America, the moun
tains of Peru nnd Chill, and even pene
trated Into the wildernesses of the Amn
ion, where. In deposits of earth and
stone, I have brought to light perfect
specimens of human skulls, represent
ing periods which history does not
chronicle.
"In my experiments I have found that
some skulls take on n very beautiful
polish, and I must say that, under the
hand of a skilled artisan, they are made
magnificent These specimens occupy a
cabinet by themselves. I have a number
of skulls taken from the wreck of the
Galveston storm. I also have specimens
from other disasters on this and other
continents. Five victims of the Moat
Pelee disaster are represented In my
collection. This business of collecting
ikulls is a great aid In the study and re
tention of Important facts la history. I
have In my possession the skulls of men
at times prominent In the history of
this nation. How I came to have them
l do not care to say. However, money
!s a means of gratifying the tastes of
anyone who cares to make a collection
sf this kind. Because I have acquired a
(Iking for this work, I spend much time
luring the winter Months wandering
about between rows of grinning heads
phtlisophlslng, after the fashion of the
grave digger In Hamlet,- upon the brev
ity of human life.1*"
"SUICIDE CLUB” FLOURISHES.
t'aans Wsnaa •< Sola*, Men*, Have
Orsanlaatioa aad Chaaaa
Vlrtlan tor La*.
Boise, Idaho, aas a fully organised
suicide club. That it is ready for bust
aesa and has already transacted con
siderable business Is shown by the fact
that at least three of its nJembers have
•afenfUttri nff" hv the Kulclda route with.
In a period of as.many month*.
The tact of the existence of the organ
isation became known to the police la
an Investigation Into the death of Grass
Ashton, Its latest victim. She died from
morphine poisoning on a third attempt
at suicide, both of her devious attempts
having been frustrated through season
able discovery by friends.
Another young woman friend of Miss
Ashton attempted suicide by taking poi
son, but recovered, and It was through
her that the existence of the club was
made known. The club Is regularly or
ganised with a strong membership—all
young women—and holds meetings st
regular Intervals. It transpires that at
sash meeting a now victim Is chosen by
lot, who Is to "pass off" before the time
tor the next meeting by one of the usual
methods adopted In such cases, the par
ticular mode being optional with the can
didate.
Philippine Positions ltot Wanted.
Positions In the Philippines seem to
go begging. Several months ago Col.
Edwards, chief of the Insular bureau,
ealled upon the civil service commis
sion to certify candidates for 158
teachers' positions paying from $2,008
to $900 per annum. There were few
applicants, fewer took the examina
tion, and only 42 were found eligible
for appointment Another examina
tion will, therefore, be held early in
October. The insular bureau will not
permit women to take the examina
tion for these positions, and the du
ties or pay of pedagogue do not seem
to appeal to the young men of the
country.
Part ef the Population. j
Paris uses 200,000,090 snails as food
annually. And yet, says tha Washing?
Ism Star, tbs town is not m stew.. '
FEAR OF GERMAN INVASION
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Vot Wanuttd by Vwnbsref
SnbjMta at Prasant Budding la
South Amarloa.
German migration to South
America, and especially to some
of the southern states of Brazil,
is periodically a cause of com
ment and concern to some who
think they see therein a sinister
scheme of imperial conquest.
For twO'Or three strong reasons, j
says the New York Tribune, such
fears seem to us to be not well
i founded. One such reason is
that the number of Germans in
Brazil is not, after all, ominous
ly large. The total population of
Brazil, according to the census
of 1890, was 14,333,915. No later
census returns are available, but j
careful estimates now place the
total at more than 17,000,000, of
which number less thab 3,000,000
are Indians and negroes, leaving
certainly more than 14,000,000
whites. Of these, in 1901, only
2,700,000 were immigrants, and
of the latter number only 300,000
were Germans.
The latest and highest esti
j mate of the number of Germans
; in Brazil is only 450,000, or a lit
j tie over three per cent, of the
whole. Really, we cannot regard
that as a dangerous percentage.
Nor does it represent the largest
foreign element, by any means.
Portuguese immigrants into Bra
j zil are twice as numerous, and
|rItalians three times as numer
ous, as the Germans. Nor yet
are these Germans so massed in
certain states as to form a ma
jority of their population, ss
some have imagined. Germans
... «... -_.... j. DU
Grande do 8ul, where there are
200,000 of them, but the whole
population of the state is 900,000,
so that the Germans are less
than one-fourth. In Santa Catha
rina the GeAnans are 100,000 in a
total of 300,000, or one-third,
the largest proportion in any
state. In Parana they are 47,000
in 280,000, and in Sao Paulo 30,
000 in 1,430,000.
It is pointed oat ns ominous
that these Germans continue to
use their own language, to pub
lish newspapers in German and
to demand the official use of that
language in courts and schools.
Well, the same may be said of
Germans in New York, and in
; Milwaukee, and In many other
parts of the United State^.
The conquest which Germany
! hopes for in Brazil is not polit
ical, but commercial. The profit
she looks for in this migration of
her subjects is to be found in in
creased commerce. In that Ger
many reckons shrewdly. Every
shipload of Germans landed in
Brazil creates a demand for
, many shiploads of German man
ufactured goods. Every so-called
German colony in Brazil means
a market for German trade.
Upon this feature of the case too
| much stress cannot easily be laid.
Provisions from Trees.
There is a tree which grows in
| Sumatra, Algeria and China which
; is known as the vegetable tallow
! tree. From its fruit large quanti
' nf nil on<i fnHaw «ovtrnnt.
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ed, and the fruit 1b gathered in
! November or December, when all
j the leaves have fallen. Excellent
j candles are made from the berries
of a tree which grows in some
j parts of South Africa and the
Azojes. At Sierra Leone is found
the cream frnit tree, the frnit of
; which is very agreeable in taste.
^ In Ceylon there is the breadfruit
' tree, from which a food is made in
the same way that we make bread,
litis said to be equally good and nu
! tritious. In South America we ;
| find the milk tree.—Philadelphia
: Ledger.
Curious Insldsnb
j A man on Twenty-third street
1 furnished muon amusement to a
number of people on a recent
windy afternoon by a predicament
he fell info, or rather that fell i
onto him A large gunny sack
dropped from the roof of one of
the buildings, and, as it descend
ed, filled with air, coming down
with mouth wide open, like a bal
loon. It struck the unfortunate
: man squarely over the head, cov
ering him completely down ho
llow the shoulders, and pinioning
! his arms so that he had difficulty
j in extricating himself. He s\rug
' gled as if he thought he was b&ng
kidnaped until he <nanaged to ret
tbs sack off his head.—
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the great detective’s adventures.!
Repeated refusals were followed
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THE COMING OF MACBETH.
Lovers of the highest ideals
in dramatic art are continually
finding fault with the too fre
quent appearance not -only here
but in all the cities of silly far
cical plays, cheap sensationalism
and the other immaterial feat
ures of current theatrical pro
ductions and are always clamor
ing for the works of Shakespeare
and the other great masters of
literature.
It is a pleasure to announce in
this connection the early appear
ance here of the eminent trage
dian John Griffith and his splen
did company of the legiti
mate artists in Shakespeare’s
immortal tragedy," Macbeth,”
with brilliant fire-proofed scenic .
equipment, electrical effects,
chemical illusions and all the de
tails needful to insure an abso
lutely perfect performance of
this the greatest of the great
master’s plays. Everywhere
that Mr. Griffith has appeared
the local Dress has teemed with
praise of his magnificent per
formance, and it will be a real
pleasure to welcome him to this
city. The engagement is an
nounced for Saturday evening,
Feb. 25, and promises to be the
one great big event of the sea
son.
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tears and some sensation and
plenty of vim and go in "Rail
road Jack,” at the opera house
Monday, February 27.
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