Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-22
RITALING FRANCE IN HER MU.
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RITALING FRANCE IN HER MUIR
OF course twas Frenchman who said
that 'the true test of nations civilization
is the way in which it commits it's murders, -
and therefore Mr.. Christine, or Christian, or
Chastine Cox mas peculiar lien on the ad-
miration of the country for giving an ex-
oeptional lustre to its record, studied by the
Frenchman's gauge.
+ Verify, tits not an suspicious direction for
emulation, and there is vulgar prejudice to
eminence in this line, yet America is not 60
ing to be behindhand in furnishing as COM
plete evidence Especially circumstantiaD of
this anomalous civilization as France or any
other competitive country.
Mr.. Cox albeit quite an exemplar, still
marred the finish of artistic accomplishment
in few particulars, but the best generals
and the adroitest of criminals will make mis-
takes. Nevertheless in consideration of the
few careless touches which furnished such q
rich diagnosis during the interval of Mr.
Cox's temporary absence in Boston, exacting
connoise,lrs may condone the blunders. If
he were to repeat the little episode, he might
improve npon it, and even wear flower in
his button hole-perchance smile as he does
now--when called into court to hear q prosy
account of his adventure from the lips of tho
law. Heretofore he had no chart to direct
his course. Of the promising portents and
possibilities to every square inch of his skull
with their annulling counterparts, too, he
was ignorant. But since DR.. Fowler has put
a chronological head on him, he must regret
more than ever that he has got to lose it,
through very unpleasant structure.
If Mr.. Cox had turned his attention to
the stage he would have made the most real
istic Othello in the world, and beaten Mr..
Ira Aldridge, one of his own race, in that
signally great part. He might have required
a fresh Dssdemona each night, but that
would be the browning excitement which en-
thusiasts of the lola school would delight
in.
When Matilda Heron played Nancy Skies,
and had rib or two broken by the vivacious
Bill, the announcement never failed to cram
the theater each night thereafter, because
the spectators wanted to be in at the finish
if it was likely to be death. The neatness
of Mr.. Cox's method would preclude
such bungling, whether in business
or in play. No cutting, shooting
or blows for him. Only a sermon,
orderly, composed corpse demurely band
aged as if by deft surgical skill'' with
singed eyebrows, these be the
tokens of Mr.. Cox's murderous manipula-
ton, which would put to shame the careless,
and disorderly handling of the
average medical student. The serenity of
Mr.. Cox is, he asserts, largely due to libations
OF boiled water, sweetened and allowed to
cool. This keeps his personal temperature
even and his equanimity equal to any emer-
gency. Surely this either raises the odium
from whisky as source of criminal impulse
Dr. proves that eau sttcree is to be the bever-
age of that civilization the Frenchman
describes. Mr.. Cox's nervine is
lnsipid but his work wasn't weak
for all that, and it is to be re-
yretted that we haven't record of the pho
tograph which experimentalists tell us is
feasible IN such circumstances as those in
which Mr.. Cox figured. When he held the
candle close to the eyes of his victim, they
night have had enough vitality to receive
good retina photograph Of the tawny villain.
Such CHASTITY stereoscopic view of him in
leath glazed eyes, would be fitting accom-
to DR.. Fowler's elaborate chart of
lis head, and it's fulsome letter press. Mr..
Jo1 is humorist too. When his hapless
,ictim asked 'who was there?' and he an
wered 'sthe DOCTOR" it was double throw
# grim Righteousness, whose uppermost
meaning might be that either he was sstaking
! dirty advantage of the profession as an
rishman would say, or announcing an nm
Welcome husband.
But Mr.. Cox's vsgaries and love of preci-
'us stones are likely to be abruptly jerked
nut of life-just for his essay in the advance
nent of the peculiar "civilization" of the
Frenchman's test. Sir Benjamin Pine
writes: "the diamond trade is trade in
blood. I believe there is semi-precious
stone called the blood stone. This term
ought to- be applied to the Cape diamond.
# the ladies of England knew the blood
shedding and misery by which these stones
are obtained they would loathe to wear
them." The same is true outside Of the
traffic. Mrs. Hull's jewels will be distribu-
ted, and worn without any qualm about their
history,