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Chit Chat.
so hasty with him , he should have been buried before that time . Therefore I admonish you not to be too hasty with dead corses ; so long as they be warm keep them in the bed ; for when a man is dead indeed he will soon be cold . —{ Bishop Latimer , vol . i ., Sarm . xxix . pp . 538-9 , Park . Soc . Edit . )
ALLEGED BURYING ALIVE . —In the midst of exaggeration and invention , there was one undoubted circumstance which formerly excited the worst apprehensions ; the fact that bodies were often found turned in their coffins , aud the grave-clothes disarranged . But what was ascribed , with seeming reason , to the throes of vitality , is now known to be due to the agency of corruption . A gas is developed in the decayed body , which mimics by its mechanical force many of the movements of life .
So powerful is this gas in corpses that have lain long in the water , that M . Devergie , physician to the Morgue at Paris , and the author of a text-book on legal medicine , says , that unless secured to the table they are often heaved up and thrown to the ground . Frequently , strangers seeing the motion of the limbs , run to the keeper of tbe Morgue , and announce with horror that a person is alive . All bodies , sooner or later , generate gas in the grave ; and it constantly twists about the corpse ,
blows out the skin till it rends with the distension , and sometimes bursts the coffin itself . When the gas explodes with a noise , imagination has converted it into an outcry or groan : the grave has been re-opened , the position of the body has confirmed the suspicion , and the laceration been taken for evidence that the wretch had gnawed his flesh in the frenzy of despair . So many are the circumstances which will occasionally concur to support a conclusion that is more unsubstantial than the fabric of a dream . —Quarterly Review .
" A ROMAN Matron once asked a rabbi what the Lord ' s occupation was-in Heaven . Her rude question met with the jocular reply , 'He makes matrimonial alliances . ' 'Ah , ' said she , 'I can do that too . ' She immediately summoned a hundred male slaves , and the same number of female slaves . She then placed the males and females in two rows , and passing between them said to each , 'Take thou this one , and take thou the other . ' She then left the room and had it closed . On opening the
door the following morning , a scene of confusion and conflict presented itself , from which she started back in dismay . Few of the young couples could agree with each other ; quarrelling had ensued , which excited their passions to wrestling and fighting , and had they not been at once separated , many would have paid the penalty of marriage with their lives . The Roman matron was soon convinced that matrimonial match-making was not as easy as she thought ; and that it required more skill and foresight than we are capable of . "
NOAH ' ARK . —Mount Ararat is 6000 feet higher than iEtna , and 1528 feet higher than Mont Blanc—the latter the point of the greatest elevation in Europe . It is detached from the other mountains of Armenia , and is divided into two conical peaks . Sir Robert Porter paints in glowing colours the magnificence of the spectacle when he first came in sight of Ararat , majestically rising from a widely-extended green plain , fertilized by the clear waters of the Aras ( the ancient Araxes ) ,
and covered with Armenian villages . In various points of view the summit has a striking resemblance to a ship , a fact which has been recorded by all travellers to the spot ; and the whole country around is full of traditionary stories relative to Noah ' s ark and the flood . It is a
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Chit Chat.
so hasty with him , he should have been buried before that time . Therefore I admonish you not to be too hasty with dead corses ; so long as they be warm keep them in the bed ; for when a man is dead indeed he will soon be cold . —{ Bishop Latimer , vol . i ., Sarm . xxix . pp . 538-9 , Park . Soc . Edit . )
ALLEGED BURYING ALIVE . —In the midst of exaggeration and invention , there was one undoubted circumstance which formerly excited the worst apprehensions ; the fact that bodies were often found turned in their coffins , aud the grave-clothes disarranged . But what was ascribed , with seeming reason , to the throes of vitality , is now known to be due to the agency of corruption . A gas is developed in the decayed body , which mimics by its mechanical force many of the movements of life .
So powerful is this gas in corpses that have lain long in the water , that M . Devergie , physician to the Morgue at Paris , and the author of a text-book on legal medicine , says , that unless secured to the table they are often heaved up and thrown to the ground . Frequently , strangers seeing the motion of the limbs , run to the keeper of tbe Morgue , and announce with horror that a person is alive . All bodies , sooner or later , generate gas in the grave ; and it constantly twists about the corpse ,
blows out the skin till it rends with the distension , and sometimes bursts the coffin itself . When the gas explodes with a noise , imagination has converted it into an outcry or groan : the grave has been re-opened , the position of the body has confirmed the suspicion , and the laceration been taken for evidence that the wretch had gnawed his flesh in the frenzy of despair . So many are the circumstances which will occasionally concur to support a conclusion that is more unsubstantial than the fabric of a dream . —Quarterly Review .
" A ROMAN Matron once asked a rabbi what the Lord ' s occupation was-in Heaven . Her rude question met with the jocular reply , 'He makes matrimonial alliances . ' 'Ah , ' said she , 'I can do that too . ' She immediately summoned a hundred male slaves , and the same number of female slaves . She then placed the males and females in two rows , and passing between them said to each , 'Take thou this one , and take thou the other . ' She then left the room and had it closed . On opening the
door the following morning , a scene of confusion and conflict presented itself , from which she started back in dismay . Few of the young couples could agree with each other ; quarrelling had ensued , which excited their passions to wrestling and fighting , and had they not been at once separated , many would have paid the penalty of marriage with their lives . The Roman matron was soon convinced that matrimonial match-making was not as easy as she thought ; and that it required more skill and foresight than we are capable of . "
NOAH ' ARK . —Mount Ararat is 6000 feet higher than iEtna , and 1528 feet higher than Mont Blanc—the latter the point of the greatest elevation in Europe . It is detached from the other mountains of Armenia , and is divided into two conical peaks . Sir Robert Porter paints in glowing colours the magnificence of the spectacle when he first came in sight of Ararat , majestically rising from a widely-extended green plain , fertilized by the clear waters of the Aras ( the ancient Araxes ) ,
and covered with Armenian villages . In various points of view the summit has a striking resemblance to a ship , a fact which has been recorded by all travellers to the spot ; and the whole country around is full of traditionary stories relative to Noah ' s ark and the flood . It is a