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Show ., Deaths In Shakespeare. Somebody has taken tho pains to count up the deaths In Shakespeare, either on tho htago or behind tho scenes, and finds the number ninety. Tho variety of causes Is great. Cold steel accounts for nbout two-thirds, twelvo aro old ago nnd decay, seven persons aro beheaded, five dlo by poison, poi-son, two ot suffocation, two of strangling, strang-ling, one of a full, one by drowning, three by snako bite, and ono Is thumped to death with a sandbag. The compiler of this curious tnblo has overlooked ono of tho most nffect-lng nffect-lng In all tho plays that of Mamll-lilts Mamll-lilts of "Tho Winter's Tale." Mnmll-llus, Mnmll-llus, son of Queen Hermolne, died of n broken heart caused by grief over the supposed perfidy of his mother. |