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Show j' ... r- 7 Tf.-M. 1 i HOW DESDCMONA DIED. 1 the Curiously Contrived Ending of Shakespeare's Heroine. Tho Irarilo donth of DosiU'inonn, nc cording; to thu ParlR Mcnestrcl, which j Iihb recently complpted bohio lnlorot- Inn research? omonK tho nrohiTos off thu (Jiiorliil Tiimlly. of uhlch Hhak sin'Bre'B Othello wns a member, ruatly ocpiirrwl In C'roto In tho yonr 1ES3. Desilenioim, hoio nnnie HlRnlflos "daiiiaol of the homo of ilpmons," met her death, ncconlliiR lo this new vor Hion in a singular mannor. Othrllo hail chin gd his vnlot with I the carryliiK out of Iili rcvcnRO The alet accordingly took up n position! 'lop to Ocsiirmonn's npurtmont whero he started groAiilns; and slnifl (Una with Ills feut 1 1 Othello thcrcuiMin roquestcd his1 wife to rise and discocr tho causo of the noise. As she crossed tho threshold n sackful of grass was tlung nt hor head. She fell to tle ground, and wns then annulled with u succession of similar grass lilted sneks, holng flnally smothurod under tho falling celling nnd masonry of tho wails, I which had heen specially loosened nt Othello's Orders. |