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Show K EPISFMENT OF CRUELTY. Our western Indians were long supposed to be the greatest experts at torture, but thoChinesc.it sccms,arc more advanced in this fiendish capacity. A court at Hong Kong lately condemned a criminal crim-inal io be killed by wakefulness. The culprit, a strng and healthy man, wa? kept awake constantly for fifteen days, his suffering for the last few hours being of the most excruciating character. charac-ter. At last he dropped down and the heart ceased to beaL Koasting alive is a mercy compared with such torture. Boston Globe, |