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Show Deaths In Shakespeare. Somebody has taken the pains to count up the deaths In Shakespeare, cither on tho stage or behind tho scenes, and finds the number ninety, Tho variety of causes Is great. Cold steel accounts for about two-thirds, twelvo aro old age and decay, seven perbons aro beheaded, live dlo by poison, poi-son, two of suffocation, two of strangling, strang-ling, one of a fall, ono by drowning, throo by snaku bite, and one Is thumped to death with a snndbag. Tho compiler of this curious tablo has overlooked one of the most nffect-Ing nffect-Ing in all the plays that of Marall-llus Marall-llus of "Tho Winter's Tnle." Mamll-ltus, Mamll-ltus, son of Queen Ilermolne, died of a broken heart caused by grief over tho supposod perfidy of his mother. |