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Show AN oi.d and strange custom prevails pre-vails iu Venice when n prlsourris about to be condemned to death. An exchange informs us that Just before seutenc J is to be pronounced, a tail and ghostly looking Individ ual, dressed in a long black gown, walks majestically to the. centre of the court room, bows solemnly to tho Ju Jges, and in a cavernous voice utters tins following words: "Remember "Re-member the bakci!" Then he bos again and stalks away. Just three hundred years ago n baker was executed exe-cuted in Venice for a crime cf which he nas not guilty. When bis innocence inno-cence was estibUshe.1, the judges who condemned llltil gave a sum of money to ths city, the interest on which was to be devoted to the set. ting up and perpetual burning of a lamp, known as the "lamp of ex-plation," ex-plation," in the jolace of the doges. It is still burning there. |