Show IT WAS BLOT ON HIS LIFE 1 horrible use aae to which the guillotine was put greatly saddened its inventor the man whose name has as p acquired so painful a celebrity by being assimilated to his invention was wi M cbill tin a learned physician who had invented two years before the instrument of death which lie he deemed best calculated to abridge the Buffe suf ferins rings of 0 the culprit condemned to forfeit their lives by the sentence of tho the laws the invention was laid hold of tor for the purpose of expediting a greater num ber ot of victims such was the espres sion used by a member of the conven tion af guillotin was inconsolable for what he considered as an involuntary blemish in his existence ills his venerable countenance conte nance bore the impress of a settled gloom and his dalr of a snowy whiteness afforded a clear in dictation di cation of his mental sufferings lie he had aimed at relieving the sorrows ol of human nature and he unintentionally contributed to the destruction of a greater number of human beings had they been put to death in a less lesa elpe dilious manner the people might have soon grown weary of those executions which they showed the same eager ness to behold as they would have done a theatrical representation |