The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-08-19

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complete; not . button was wanting.
nor the sword by his side, nor tie
epaulettes on his shoulders NOR stkc
grand gross a fhe Legion IF Homer.
The operation Is very Simple. Tic
design is stamped upon the skin, then
four needles are passed through a
cork, SO as to be we'll secured in the
rude handle, while the four points are
united i'm one with this simple in
strument the skin is punctufed along
the outlines of the drawing and; iac-
cording to taste, the points arc dipped
into China ink, Ocbre, or cinnat3r.
The first alone leaves an indelibIe,
blue mark the ochre, which produces
yellow figure, disappears after
awhile; and the cinnabar, composed,
as it is, of sulphur and mercury, Is
gradually absorbed by the lymphatic
vessels, and leavesno traces at ak }
Tho pelice can, at the first glance,
Judge, BY the tatt0oing, whether the
owner, belongs TO the north or the
south, and whether he has been tat
tooed on the atlantic or che Mediter-
ranean. In thefrst place he IL sure
to show human figures, Adam and
Eve under the apple-tree, or similar
groups. In the Mediterranean, the
influence of the Koran, which prohib-
its images of living beings, is uni
formly felt, and here emblems prevail
-flower.p0ts, suns, weapons, and
flags. Nor are inscriptions wanting
pledges Of love, oaths, obscenities, and
sometimes asingle word full or mean-
ing. In the hospital Of IRopeg, a for
mel. galley slave died, who bore on
his forehead. in large characters, the
words No chance" As crime is al
ways stupid, these men seem to brket
that they thus supply themselves the
IlettersEitti which csnefkovernmnts
formerly used to brand great crimi-
mails. While some wretches must
have suffered excfuciating sortures,
covered, as they were, all over their
body with long inscriptions, clever
thieves, on the contrary, carefully
avoid such marks for fear ofrecogni
ton; and if they have been stamped,
SO to say, in their youth, take increG-
ible pains to change the marks. q dow
erspot into fireworks, or a nude beau
ty into.a knight in armour. But the
police is aware of these tricks, and
can rarely be deceived By such at
tempts at disguise. .l seat
The power of discernment acquired
by the French policemen, often fthc
fruit of a long life, spent in the same
pursuit, is sometimes Amazing This
applies not billy to- their memory
which, by continued practice, enables
them never to forget face once seen,
and 10 recognize i by minute mark,
Invisible 70 others, but galsO to the
Judgment, which, experience enables
them to form on the instant, of the
precise nature Iof the fcrime. A IA
nous agent was amusing himself one
day at the flower. market, when he
noticed man whose features recalled
to him an indistinct impression. He
thought it his duty, however, to act
upon the impulsive, and followed the
man, who noticed the pursuit, and
jumped into an omnibus. The agent
did the same, sat down opposite him,
and loo ked at him sterniy. The poor
fellow became bewildered, and said,
i'm low tone: "Do not arrest me be-
fore al these people J" When the
omnibus came TO the central ofec, the
agent made 4 sign to the man to fol-
low him; they got out and entered
the fatal building. The prisoner was
Immediately recognized as a most
dangerous thief, and that very morn
ing succeeded in making his escape
from Jail. By mere accident the
agent had passed the prison, and thus
happened to catch q glimpse of the
unlucky fugitive.
In another case the marvellous cool
ness of these men, under most excit-
ing circumstances, was shown by an
other great artist in this department..
1t is we'll known. that, not many years
ago, great lady, the Duchess de Pas
lin, was found murdered and terribly
mutilated in her dressing-room. The
agent, somewhat celebrated II. Al
lard, was at once summoned to exam
inc the room in company with the
Project Of Paris. Heentered, survey
ed the scene, glanced, at the state in
which the furniture was laying about,
at the position of the body and the
frightful wounds with which it was
covered, and then, with voice full of
the deepest emotion, he turned to the
project, saying: "That, sir, was done
by an amateurw That one glance,
and these few words, decided instant
iy the unfortunate Duke de Praslin,
who was at once arrested, and, after a
long and painful trial, condemned to
suffer the penalty of the law for muir
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