Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-10-11

sixth Lord of Glamis, beautiful woman,
was burned to death on Castle Hill, Edin-
burgh, in 1887, for witchcraft. 1t was al
terWard found out that the unhappy lady
was innocent Superstition is always de-
spotic and destroys high and low who sui
fer it to prevail. There is an old royal
bedstead in the castle, and also an ancient
one of the Kinghorn family united to the
Strathmore. A descendant OF the Burnt
| Countess became Earl of Strathmore IN
1872. The present chapel in the castle Is
entirely covered with paintings OF Scrip
| tural character by De Witt. They are so
overlaid with varnish now that no opinion
can be formed of their merits.
Tie Earl and Countess of Strathmore.
| the present occupants and owners OF the
castle. are young and handsome persons,
| of natural and unaffected courtesy OF man
ners, welcoming every one of their hundred
guests in the frankest spirit. There are an
| Indefinite series of intelligent children, who
appear to have been graduated annually
| The third son was the best guide IN the
castle. He ran everywhere, said every
thing, and said it well. He led stray,
stolid visitors into out-of-the-way cham
beers, and screamed as he threw open the
| doors and when fat philosopher started
back thinking Duncan's body had been
'There, [ have frightened member of
the British Association. It's only dark
room where we kept the china This
lively guide has chamber filed with a
collection of stones gathered on the beach,
ard he took everybody to see them, and
| tell him their geological names, and got
Sir Charles Lyell to pore over each speci-
men. The banquet prepared, was laid
out in one of the old halls, and was princely
in its delicacy and profusion. If the old
Thames and Glamis had given luncheons
like the one given by the present Earl to
the philosophers, Banquo had come back
every night wearing a radiant face. The
wines would have done credit to the Star
dine on Richmond Hill, but there was one
local mixture handed round probably of
CLAIMS reputation, which had the taste of
absinthe vinegar. [ supposed it to be the
drink Lady Macbeth took IN her tart and
fierce moods. During the repast the elder
son stood behind his father, and the second
at the back of his mother. Sir Charles
Lyell made a very difficult thing, good
after-dinner speech.
| Sir Charles is the only philosopher at the
Association who is formal without being
! dull. He said the Strathmores were one of
! the most ancient families of Scotland but
| his early experience of Glamis was con-
nected with something more ancient than
the Strathmores. He discovered at the
foot of Sidian Hills, where they were then
seated, the oldest fossil known, and anoth-
er in the line of rocks on which the Castle
of Glamis was built was thought to be moth
ing less than a fossil seraphim. Great
! laughter. He went to see it and there, on
d piece of rock, was a large surface of lami-
| mated scales, more like fish than anything
else, and yet not like anything he had ever
seen. He was very much puzzled, and as
the seraphim it was thought, had thei1
wings somehow composed of scales, it was
concluded that the new discovery would be
portions of these wings. Laughter. AND
this seemed reasonable; for if a seraphin
should leave anything in the rock of CLAIMS
it would no doubt be its wings. For some
ten or fifteen years no fresh light was
thrown upon the subject until Agazziz came
from America, and he examined the fossil
and he said, "Weil, [ can answer for il
that could never have been a fish and &C
we continued to call it seraphim. Laugh
ter. When, however, the science of Pale
anthology was carried on, it was found thai
this discovery of seraphim was nothing
else than a portion of gigantic crustacear
in short, a large lobster. Great laugh
ter. But to compensate for the great fal
in the character of the fossil laughter -
he had the satisfaction of saying that thi:
specimen was now in the British Museum
and that it was the largest of any that haG
yet been found
The Earl of Strathmore drank the health
of the British Association in the old Lior
Of Glamis. This proved to be a COLDER
beast of feminine proportions delicately
chased and with movable head, which
being taken off, the interior proved to be {
drinking cup, holding something less thar
half pint of champagne. The noble hos
filed it with this beverage and drank it off
leaning it back until the legs of the ole
lion were in the air, and he had the means
offapping his tail round his lordships nose
Holding the lion inverted, that the guest
might see that the royal beast had beer
emptied in tho old fashion, his lordshil
babe US all the hospitable wishes which
have long been uninterrupted in the Castle
of CLAIMS. Such is an example of the re
creations of science in the hospitable ant
| dramatic regions of North Scotland