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Show Deaths In Shakespeare. Bomcbody has taken the ln to count up the deaths In Shakespeare, either on the stage or behind tint scenes, and finds the number uinety. The variety of cause Is great Cold steel accounts for about two-thirds, twelve are old age ami decay, seven persons are beheaded, fltu die by il-son, il-son, two of suffocation, two of strangling, strang-ling, ono of a fall, one by drowning, three by snake bile, and one I thumped to death with a sandbag. The compiler of this curlou ln,b!e ho overlooked one of the most nuV t lug In all the playa that of MainH Hue of "The Winter's Tale" Mamll Una, son of Queen llermoliir. died of broken heart caused by grief over tbe supivoeed perfidy of his mother. |