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Show Hitman FloA Eaters In tho northern part of Canada thers aro still several Indian tribes who ato human flesh. In Guiana and in tho Orinoco we still find Caribbeans who have the honor of having furnished the name for that terrible custom of eating eat-ing human flesh. Cannibal comes from Caribs or Caribales, corruptions of Gall-bis Gall-bis or Canibis, the name of the inhabit ants of tho Antilles when Columbus arrived ar-rived there. On the upper Amazon, ba- tvfeen the rivers and tho borders of tha Bolivia, livo tho Tnpls Guoraniens, vho manifest a liking for human ilesh. Cannibals are common in Australasia, the Papuans, Karnkicns and Battakiens being the most distinguished. Cannibalism Canni-balism is, however, considered the main trait of the New Hebrides. There are more human flesh eaters in Africa than Viywhere else. Cannibalism is not a sign of a low state of civilization, for many cannibal races stand higher in culture than those who abhor tho custom. Many cannibals live in regions full of ordinary iood, but they prefer human flesh as a delicacy, the men forbidding their wives and slaves to eat it. In northern Australasia it seems that the dead aro eaten. Herodotus Herod-otus tolls us that it was tho custom in India for the young to kill the old and oat thorn to Insure their futuro salvation, salva-tion, and we are told that the old folks desire to bo killed before thoy grow too old and less appetising. St Louis Post-Dispatch. Post-Dispatch. Lincoln's memory for tho details oi national business was unexampled. He recalled the particulars of every cabinet meeting with the most scrupulous exac |