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Show Ylaelilujloa's Mall. Tho ra cent death ofC'lias. Lamb, n nlttlvo of Henry l.amb, revives Interest In-terest lu lhu aloryof tho lattiaimtl gentleman eoucerulng lhu stealing of lhu skull of General Washington, a atory widely clrimlated au I much be-lleve-d aomu aeventy-flvo oa ellhlv tearaago. Henry l.aruh, wluidleil lu he.tenitier, 1S8I, alwaja liuls'itl that thuatory waa Irualnuvurt rticnUr. Thu story In aubstaiuu laat full iw ()ulhul7thnfArll, ISH, tho Pieuch guuboat t'J'mjxrcvr uuchoml olT Mount Vernon anl acoiui-auyof her oniccre anil mull, going tu the touib of Washlugtou, t)jiuil It aud took therefrom lhu great geiibrnl'a skull, aubslllutlng lint of another Itr ron, which had been brought nloi g for that turiaiso. Tlia ol Joel or tills desecration, It n aa a ihl, waa that tho skull mlt,ht bo placed n thu hands of an eminent 1 rench craulologlst. Tho slory waa I rontptly denied by thu ollltera uf thu vm I, who admitted v lilting; the tomb, tut Insisted that their oljtet it at no moro than that of thoutan Is i f others who anuuall) tuaku the aamo rlvll-rge rlvll-rge Later nn, accoMIng hi otllclal teatlmoii,ntemlcra efthe Waehlng-Ion Waehlng-Ion faintly made it thorough examliia-llnu examliia-llnu of tha tomh an I tlio remains, sallafylug thenttrlret and the nation that the, skull therein contalnnd waa that of thr Immortal Washington, and not a ghaitly nmtlliilt. ht |