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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 18, 16 October 1907, Page 10

At Trenon, in the neighbourhood of Plaiiou, a well-preserv.cd copper hatchet, nasi beer, found. Tho expert at tho prehistoric museum in Dresden places tho age of this find at three thousand years — to givo it the Very lowest cstiniflto, for it is considered 1 -by tho servants who; havo seen it to belong : to the lii-st half_ of tho "two■:thousand" before Christ, being'.an oxaraplo of the earliest work of tho Bronze Aa;e. The deductions iire drawn from .the fact of the material being, copper without, or with but a very small admixture of tin, and also from tho primitive shape of tho instrument. .■ ■ : ■■'-.■ ■ - ;

Mr. Nelson Morris, the well-known nioat packer, president of the Nelson Morris Company, one of tho " Big Six," and known as tho packing-house king, who has died in Chicago, was born of peasant parents.in the Black l''orest, in Germany, in 1539. lie went to the United States when ho was only 12 years of aau. He has always boon identified with the Chicago packing business. Though ho entered the stockyards as a poor'lad, he died worth more than ten million pounds......