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Durham Cathedral; the Rev. Mr. Bigge, Stam-
fordham ; and Dr. Embleton, Beadnell, Northum-
berland; along with Mr. John Hilson, manufac-
turer (members of the Berwickshire Naturalists'
Club), made some excavations on Murray's
Green, Jedburgh, one of the party having expressed
a strong desire to obtain a human skull of a remote
period, and this being the likeliest place, from its
contiguity to the abbey, the fact that a Roman urn
containing bones had been found in the vicinity of
the abbey in this direction, and from the fact that
when a drain was lately cut across the green, a
number of stone slabs and human bones were come
upon by the workmen, the party were not disap-
pointed. On one of the workmen shovelling the
earth from a stone coffin (the edges of which were
before visible, as is also another to the south of it)
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had been interred, stated by Dr. Embleton
to be that of a male of middle size, with crooked
spine ; and as the two other skulls were much smal-
ler, they were supposed to be those of females. The
body lay with the head towards the abbey, lying
directly east and west, said to be a sign that the
ground had been used as a burying place by the
ancient British Christians. While the workmen
were clearing the earth off the body, a boar's tusk
was found on the right side, and about the place
where the feet had lain was found the perfect lower
jaw only, with a fine set of teeth, of a person seem-
ingly much younger, from its size, than those at the
other end of the coffin, from which we infer its hav-
ing been used as a sort of family cyst. Two oxi-
dised large metal nails, having broad heads like
those used by slaters, with wood sticking to them,
were also found, thereby suggesting the use of a
wooden coffin which might have contained the body
of the person whose lower jaw was found intact,
and placed inside the larger one containing
the entire body and two skulls—the nails being
found near by the lower jaw. On the north side of
this place, about five yards apart, the workmen came
upon another body lying in the same direction, but
with the face up. ards about a foot and a half from
the surface. This one seemed not to have been in
a coffin, as there was nothing of the kind discernible ;
and out of the place where this was found a small
brass linked chain was turned out, which had small
pieces of oxidised metal attached to both ends. An-
other spot was tried in the forenoon, nearer Mr.
John llilson's house, and about four yards distant
from the place the three skulls were lying side by
side, and the earth on being dug about a foot and
thrown out showed that interments had there also
been made at an early period from the large quanti-
ties of human bones, teeth, and charcoal, which had
been employed in burning the bodies before being in-
terred. The search was continued in the afternoon
on stone cysts on the side of the road at Abbey
Brae—the edges of these, like the one first tried,
being visible—and on the other spots on the green,
but with the exception of human bones being ex-
posed, nothing else was come upon.

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hng this ponderous rope from Valentia out to sea.

The Armenian Bookworm.
On Wednesday last, writes the Paris correspondeit
of the Times, were borne from the church of St.

Eugene, in the Rue du Conservatoire, to their last
resting-place, the remains of a man who for nearly
40 years had been one of the notables of that por-
tion of the Parisian population who inhabit the
Faubourg Poissonniere, or who frequent the Biblio-
theque Imperiale in the Rue Richelieu. I allude to
the Armenian, Kasangian, commonly called the
Armenien de la Bibliotheque, who had been for so
long the constant visitor to that treasury of learn-
ing that he came to be considered as one of its
fixtures. Librarians, attendants, porters, as well
as habitues, were in consternation when, on mis-
sing him from his familiar place in the reading-
room, they were told that he was no more ; for
they had seemed to regard him as almost exempt
from the law of mortality. His age could only
be guessed at. Persons who have hardly missed
a day at the library for 30 years affirm that the
Armenian looked as old when they first knew
him as he did up to the last moment. The punc-
tu'ality of his attendance in the library was some-
what wonderful. It was even said that when
the timepieces of the establishment got out of
order they were regulated on his appearance.
It is certain that the last stroke of 10 still
rung in the ears when his well-known person was
seen at the entrance. He was tall, lank, narrow-
chested, with thin legs, terminating in feet of pro-
digious size. His neck was long as a crane's,
scraggy, and always bare. He had a horror of
neckcloths of every description, and he had for
years tried to induce the employes of the establish-
ment, with whom he was a great favourite, to dis-
card their cravats. His features were long, ema-
ciated, and pale, though it is not known that he was
ever seriously ill. His costume consisted of a loose
black stuff robe, like a dressing gown, with wide
sleeves, open in front, and reaching half-way be-
low his knees, a vest and pantaloons made in the
Turkish fashion, and bound round at the waist with
a sash. His headdress used to be a little green
calotte, like that worn by the clergy ; to this,
however, he lately added a hat made of black
stuff. When passing before the 'office where the
walking-canes and umbrellas are deposited, he
mechanically nodded his head to the left by way
of salute, arid to the porter's lodge on the
right, whether there was any one there or not. He
then strode on to the fountain in the court, which
the hospitality of the establishment keeps always
supplied for the thirsty, who refresh themselves by
means of a tin goblet fastened by a chain. If the
sun shone brightly he would stand for a few minutes
to warm himself in its beams, but when the weather
was cold and snow covered the ground he mounted
at once to the large and well-warmed reading-room.
It • was not often that the attendants were there
before him, but if they were they received the same
mute salute as he moved on straight to the shelves
in front of the central desk to take down the
volumes which he had left there the previous evening.
His plact at the table was the same he had always
held. Everybody seemed to admit his right to it, just
as, I believe, the usage of the House of Commons
allows to a member who has once received its thanks
for some great pul+lie service. He declined the aid
of any one who offered to help him in taking down
his heavy folios, but acknowledged their courtesy
with a nod and a melancholy smile. The works
the Armenian generally asked for were very rare.
Indeed, they became more so, for they were seldom
out of his hands ; and though the Bibliotheque IM-
pc'riale is, perhaps, the richest collection on the Con-
tinent, he has been heard to complain of its poverty.
Half hid behind the rampart of huge tomes, he used
to set himself to his daily task—the compilation of
an Arabic Dictionary,—which to him was one of
love, and which, I believe, he left unfinished after
so many years' labour. It is said he applied some
few years back for a subsidy of 30,000 f to enable
him to publish it, but without effect.
His mode of existence was the simplest ; his wants
were the fewest possible, and such as they were he
supplied them by giving lessons in Arabic early in
the morning and late in the evening, at the moderate
cost of a franc a lesson. His pupils were not numer-
ous, but he devoted to them all the time lie spared
from his studies in the library and his brief repose.
He was never seen, I believe, at any place of public
amusement, seldom out of his beat, and I doubt
whether he knew more of modern Paris than the
part which is comprised between the Faubourg
Poissonniere, where he occupied a small room in the
fifth story, and the Church of the Madeleine. He
held little communication out of doors with any but
the employes of the Bibliotheque, and those he fre-
quently had recourse to for information about the
books he wanted.
Besides his theory on the inutility, or rather
the disadvantage, of wearing neckcloths, he
.had
'another on the decay of man, which he maintained
as identical with that of trees. Man, as life
vances, becomes bald, -just as the tree loses its
leaves. His limbs lose their vigour, just as the
branches lose their sap and wither at the extre-
mities. The human skin loses its moisture, grows
dry and shrivelled, just as the trunk of the tree
grows discoloured and parched, andutlitefew.i Forthdra aws
from the roots, when it perishes rly,
year or two before his death the theory ap-
peared to be realised with Kasangian. It was re-
marked that he worked every
.week more slowly,
and that his work fatigued him more and more.
Before this he used occasionally to lean back in his
chair, his spectacles thrown up to his forehead, his
pen stuck behind his hear, and with his hands crossed-
on one of the thickest of the folios before him,
slumber for an hour. But of late the siesta grew
more frequent and longer, and when he entered or
left the reading room his movements were slow and
hesitating.
The last time he was seen in the old-familiar chair
was this day week, when he drank from the foun-
tain, . read, wrote, and slumbered as usual. His

absence on Monday excited attention. On inquiry
at his lodgings it was found s that at 10 o'clock on
Sunday morning he had an attack of apoplexy, from
which he never raffled. He died in the course of
the same day, seemingly without pain, and as calm
as if he had dropped asleep among his beloved folios
in the library. Of his age or of the earliest period
of his life little certain is known. It is said that
he first came to Europe with the French army on
its return from Egypt in 1800, and he was then a
priest. If so, he must have been close upon 90,
though he looked, notwithstanding his emaciated
figure, 20 years younger.

CAST OF PRITCHARD'S HEAD.—The cast taken of
the head of the murderer for the Phrenological Museum of
Edinburgh gives a very different impression of the cerebral
development from what one gots from the portraits, or even
from having seen the man himself. His baldness concealed
the deficiency in the intellectual part of the brain, by mak-
ing the forehead appear larger than it in reality is. The
fact was found to be that the animal part of tho brain was
fully four-fifths of the whole; as an eminent phrenologist
expressed it, the skull was bestial. The same gentleman
remarked that he had only known one head of a sane per-
son to equal it in its unfavourable development. The
organ of amativeness was immensely large, and also thatt of
love of approbation. A request was made to ahe
brain for scientific purposes, it being an opinion on thepart
of somo that the quality as well as the size and form of the
brain has something to do with natural disposition. This
request was declined, on the ground that it is opposed to
the modern act, which forbids the dissection of the bodies
of malefactors.—Daily Review.