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Show wm i rr!f Torture In Marocco. A charge had been laid at Mulal Omar's door that of having ordered the music 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 silence by splitting up the drums with a dagger. For this act of treason h was afterward punished by having the 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 tshment causes mortification tosetic, and that tbe hand decomposes, but such is not the case, for by the time (he leather wears off the wound is healod 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 wav 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 thai cannot be applied except by the sultan'i orders. Blackwood's Masazine. "How dews Midgoly get the reputation reputa-tion of being such an angel?" 'Oh, ho jnst looks unhappy and speaks of his wife always in such high terms that all the other women are willing will-ing to 6wear she's a tartar." New York Recorder |