The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-03-12 00:00:00

EXECUTION OF LENAIRE.

The murderer Lemaire was executed on Friday
morning, at six o'cikaik. Preparations having been
commenced in the course of the night, a vast crowd
oolleoted in the Plus de la Roquette, where the
115illotiae wee erected. Towards five, carriages filled
the gsadine of the boulevards, sporting red
0•08, soonmpanied by Anonyms/ in velvet
drums were to be seen. Meanwhile • lamp burns
all sight in the oondemned cell of Ls Roquette.
The young culprit sleeps-11 gendarme on one
side of his lied and a gaoler on the other. As
the clock struck balf-past five, U. Claude (the
ohief•de.servioe), the governor of the gaol, the
chaplain, and the polies oommiseary entered the
mill to atioeunoe to him that the fatal hour was
appecisebing. Lamaire wee in • light sleep, but
awoke an the fires nous. He received the intelli-
genes with calm. "It is well," said he, "I am
reedy; I will conduct myself with propriety to the
end." The strait.waistooat wu then taken off, and
the firees given him which be wore on entering the
L inero. A short conference then took place be-
the prisoner and the chaplain. Being
▪ treated to repent, Lemaire replied that his heart I
remained closed, in spite of himself, to any religious
feeling. The " toilette of the condemned," a.
viscid on such oemeions, took plus in the outer
office. It had been preceded by the last interroga-
tion, which the judges bad ordered to be addressed
to the prisoner. His reply wee, " I have nothing
to add to what I have already said." Hie
hair was rut short, and his legs chained go as
only to permit of his taking short step.; his arms
were fattened behind hie lack by the chain which
ai paand round his lee; therefore the prisoner is
to •certain degree reduced to the rigid, of an iron
her Lemaire endured these various prepstione with ,
perfect composure, and, without speaking, he drank
a glass of brandy offered to him. As the prima ,
doors opened, some shouts were heard to issue from
the crowd, but they failed to disturb the equanimity
of the prisoner. It was bitterly onld, yet he seemed
insensible toil; he cooly surveyed the crowd, and
walked up the stem of the scaffold with unfaltering
etapilietween the clergyman and the excutioner. Os
arriving at the foot of the suffold the chaplain agaia
entreated him to repent, and presented him the
crucifix to kiss. "It is useless to speak as you do,"
said Les.aire. "Let us embrace fraternally." The
Abht then embraced him, after which the other
oheerved "My first crime, fortunately, is my Last!'
Thus were the lest words he uttered. He then
ascended the stripe of the scaffold, still without soy
=lotto°. and delivered himself up to the executioner's
gam The next moment all wee over. Ili/supposed j
that not fusee titan 10,000 persons were ta the
peighboarbood of the pies' of emotion.

Faint Mug An • C•oralr Or Dolman. —On Atm
day evening, at the Damian ficelstp el London, the
ealeatille points involved in the "oblation qmertion" were
eommented open bine. Tilbury Fox in •mper whir:Asked
referenee to the baleen*s of parasitic. in the production
of diseased conditions of the skin. It has been amerted,
first, that Ulm hair contains the germs of pedienli, which
are developed by the warm th supplied by the homes heed;
secondly, that bodies celled "gregarina" eclat in Mao
arid may become pedienli. Tn. first statement is
wholly Incorrect, but (ho so-ealled "nits* are nothing
bat empty shells, whence the young pedimili have
escaped. The female padleulte lays her ova at the part
of the hair close to the scalp; in via days the young are
hatched, the empty shell is carried forward by the
growing hair, and as this is out from Me hood at the
Asian°. of front one to two inches, no true ova are
brought away with it. The inference is clear that no
fame hair ever contains the materials from which
pediculi develops, and where these are torment
their existence must be accounted for by uneleanlinese.
The second statement is equally untrue ; gregarines are
only found in Russian hair, which does not enter the
&Wish market; they have vegetable affinities, and
never give rise to any form of insect. In his large ex-
perience of diseased states Dr. Fox stated he had never
men them once on the Imir. lordly, he described a
real sours. of danger as yet unnoticed by say obeerte-.
On some of the light brown or reddish false bale, of
German origin, he had found a species of " mildew"
fungus, which unquestionably would, it implanted
upon the metric* of weak persons, give rise to
" ringworm," and be produced microscopic ev;dence end
instanced cum in which he had apparently seen mischief
result in this way. Clearable-es is Street preventive
of evil, and such hair should be aubjeoted to proper
Processes to insure protection against the produc-
tion of dispose. While the great majority of the
statements that have been made recently about " chig-
nons" are who], untrue nod absurd, there icon doubting
the fact that without proper precaution the use of false
hair may give rim to certain uncomfortable conditions
of the part next which it is mom, but that even this
source of evil may be remedied.