Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — Strange Relics Come to Light. [ARTICLE]

Strange Relics Come to Light.

A remarkable discovery has just been made in one of the attios of the museum of the Louvre, Paris, where for many years a pile of card-board boxes containing various unclassified objects has awaited the investigations of the official staff. Among this flotsam and jetsam of the lumber-room is a green cartoon, bearing no external marks to distinguish it from the others, much less to indicate that it served as a sort ot urn for part, at least, of the mortal relics of the royal personages. When this insignificantlooking casket was opened the first premonitory symptom of whut was coming consisted of a whiff of that peculiar odor which clings even to the bones of Kings. Then a yellow sheet of paper was perceived, inscribed with the following inventory of the melancholy specimens that it half concealed: A shoulder-blade of Hugh Capet, a thigh-bone of Charles V., a shin-bone of Charles VI., sundry vertebrae of Charles VII., a sbin-bone of Francis 1., more vertebrae of Charles IX., a rib of Phillippe Le Bel, ditto of Louis XII., the lower jaw-bone of Catherine de Medicis, a jaw-bone of Anne of Austria, a shin-bone of Cardinal de Retz. Opposite to each name is inscribed the death of its possessor, and also a day (not always the same) of the month of October, 1793. This last piece of information supplies a clue to the whole mystery, and, as the paper is pronounced by experts to belong without doubt to the period referred to, affords convincing proof of the genuine character of the remains. The box has, in the course of unknown migrations, received rather rough usage, for several osseous fragments are scattered on the bottom.— [Chicago Herald.