Kyanctct* was culled the (iod of Means
beeam- he Wim the drat to cuitivate
them for food. The Mean Tenet, which
tb< Athenians celebrated in honor of
Apollo. wan characterized by the ox
t'i eon of lain on. The Kpyptians, '
contrary to tho nations above men
t.oiu-d, cooHtde. i’d oeiuin one .■an and
would not Venture to touch them.
l*ytha(forit(* admonished his scholars,
••A i ;..n from hem:- ’ Tin natives of
Eyypt and most all Oriental nations
look upon the black npcck on the
wlnjf" of tho bean dower as the writ
ten characters of death.
INTO A LAKE OF FIRE.
The W'.\y In Wh oh Kin* Homlm Tut hf*
Inomlo* to IVuth.
The awful death of h Hra/illan trav.
elor, who recently toppled over Into
the molten lava of Vesuvius, recalls
the fart that a number of persons are
known to have perished in a similar
way. In lS;h) a merchant of tlaata
narne.l l.overa di Frida deliberately
com in it ted suicide bj leaping into the
crater of the mountain, in which a
lake of tiro was raging, and sending
up at intervals volunma of deadly. suU
phurie fumes.
The burning mountain has witnessed
darker crimes than suicide. Italians
have not forgotten the sensation caused
In ts.iO, when a Frenchman named
Chabrol, from Hordeaux, was arrested
on a charge of having murdered his
wife and guide named Collegno by
pushing them into the crater. There
was no evidence except circumstantial
to sustain the charge of murder, and
confession wrung out by torture is not
the best corroboration. Hut there
was never any doubt among the fel.
low -guides of Ooileguo that both the
latter and Mine. Chabrol wow pushed
into the crater.
