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Show 9tnroie Torture In fllarocco. A charge had been laid at Mulal Omar's door that of having ordered the musio of the drums and fifes to cease on the occasion of the announcement announce-ment of Mulai Abdul Aziz's succession to the throne. On the players refusing, his highness sent a slave, who enforced 6ilence by splitting up the drums with t dogger. For this act of treason he was afterward punished by having th flesh of his hand sliced, the wound filled fill-ed with salt and the whole hand sewed op in leather. It is a common belief that this pun I Ishment causes mortification to set in, and that the hand decomposes, but suoh is not the case, for by the time ihe leather wears off the wound is healed the result being that the hand is render ed useless and remains closed forever It is a punishment not often in use, bnt is sometimes done in cases of murder o constant theft, as, without in any way Injuring the health of the man, it pre vents his committing the crime a second time or for the hundredth time, as the case may be. It is a punishment that cannot be applied except by the sultan'g orders. Blackwood's Magazine. "The Feast of Fools" was a .name given by the monks to the Christian holiday which took the place of the Saturnalia. Sat-urnalia. I |