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Show "SpUluc" Neighbor. The workmen employed at one of the chair mutiny works m an English town were cutting up a large cherry tree at the ciivular saw bench when something squirted in the sawyer's face and ran o.vr 1 he bench in all directions. The eui;)'i-- was stuppt-d. and an examination tiiowed that the saw had struck a cavity in ibe tree and liberated a considerable qmmtity of quicksilver, afterward estimated esti-mated as half a gill. The log was carefully care-fully examined, and it was found that many years previously a hole bad been bored iu a slanting downward direction through the heart of ttie tree, the quicksilver quick-silver poured in and the hole carefully plugged. The hugs of the tree Bhowed that it wife ninety years old, and that after the hole had been plugged the growth had covered the head of the plug with several inches of solid wood. Aw it was known the tree came ont of , an old cherry orchard at Allertou. York-; York-; shire where yearly "a cherry feast" used to be held, it was thought ttie quicksilver had been put in the tree in connection with Borne old ceremony, but later it was found that up to thirty or forty yours ago quicksilver was thus employed em-ployed to kill fruit or other tree by those who had "grudges" against j their neighbors It was usual to do this " in the dead of night. A piece of bark j was first carefully taken olt, the hole I bored, quicksilver poured in, the hole plugg'iL and last the bit of bark waa cni el ully replaced The tree from the next rising of the sap began to wither, In the present case the attempt was a failure, fail-ure, for except where the quicksilver had lain (it had not penetrated some inches beyond the end of the boring) the treo wan sound. Notes and Queries. |