Canes made of human skin and bones

In " le Magazine du pittoresque" 1865, under the title "exported bones", we could read this wild statement : "Nowadays Great-Britain take's off from the other European countries the elements of fruitfulness; it has already searched the Leipsig, the Waterloo and the Crimée battlefield, to remove the bones they where holding in the ground; she took away the bones of several generation piled up in the Sicilian catacomb."

"The time can not be farthe, says M. Villeroy, where everywhere the value of bones will be acknowledge. The french and the German will then be able to appreciate more the prize of rape and flaxen meal , and will not alowed the English to take it away ."