The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-05

only did they pinch the skin or fay, but
with them entire pieces Of flesh were puue q
away from the ribs. The catgut head tor
menter" would have been a welcome acqui-
sition to the armor of Sitting Bull 1t has
an iron handle for the executioner, and
with this he twisted the cords across the
forehead until the victim was almost
scalped. There are dozens of thum bscrews,
branding irons, spiked rollers, spiked col-
lars, spiked crowns, steel barbed scourges,
Russian knouts, handscrews, racks.
terrible spiked hares,n ladies for
pouring molten lead, and iron chairs
wherein the victims sat while attendants
lit lively little fires beneath them. No won
der that titled aristocrats are proud OF their
descent from the noble ancestry that de-
| signed such ingenious playthings as these.
What good old times there must have been.
And how popular in the ruling circles must
have been the chief inventors of these hell
machines" In these degenerate days we
are barbarous enough to consider the COM
fort even of murderers. We are trying TO
abolish capital punishment, and, indeed, an
| ex-hangman is now stumping this country
with that end in view.
FOR MINOR oFFENsEs.
Many things these wicked old-time rulers
| did, however, which some people would not
consider amiss If they were in operation to-
day. They took no uncertain means with
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bakers and simple people who are not bless
ings TO any age, as this collection of the
Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot will show
They had all sorts of devices for the punish
ment OF scolds, such as SHANE masks" with
a movable tongue to be worn in public
places. wooden collars with holes attached
TO hold the hands as high as the head and
double collars for scolding husbands and
wives or for two scolding women,
in which they were placed,
neck and hands and forced to
stand facing each other until they we're, or
pretended to be, friends again. A large
iron mask, with google eyes and large open
mouth, was worn by blasphemers of the
milder type. An iron shame mask with
long ass ears was put upon drunkards or
lazy neer-do-wells, and confirmed topper
was condemned to stand exposed for per-
haps week wearing a shame mask with
long, straight protruding ears, long snout
and overlapping lip Ia sign OF drunkennessl,
two curious round raised and blotched or
naments under each eye and deeply fur
rowed forehead. Dishonest children were
made to wear curious wooden deuils head
mask with real goats horn and DEVILS head
was also the shape of the mask used for the
punishment of eavesdroppers and back
biters. A curious yoke was worn by the
father and mother of q child born out of
wedlock, and thus yoked together they were
forced TO carry water up TO the top Of a hill.
The baker who gave short weight was
locked up in an old cage about six feet
high, which was then hung TO chains and
drawn up and down in the water until the
occupant was nearly drowned. The entire
collection is most interesting, but the selec-
tions have made will give the reader
general idea of its character.
AGGRAvATING CUSTOMS.
There are many oppressive institutions
which her majesty's subjects tolerate with
the patience of camels, particularly one
gigantic fraud which meets you everywhere
and which, it seems to me, a healthy public
sentiment, such as reaTs its head repeatedly
in the United States could very quickly
abolish. It is the fee system OF abominable
scheme of 'extras" which makes the adj
vertised price OF q thing a deception and
the advertiser a person trading under false
pretenses. IL you go TO a hotel and take a
room at certain price, you find you are
charged in the bill pesrlSas much again for
attendance which may have been conspicu-
GUS by its abseBce, and thus the hotels find
even their menials a considerable source Of
profit. Should you venture into a boarding
, house you may bargain with your landlady
for, say. guineas per week, but when you
come to pay your bill anywhere from half
sovereign to another guinea will have
been added. You are charged an many
pldCcs lOE uSlUk lu6 Dhbu room, Tor gas YOU
did not burn or candies YOU did not light,
aud you are fined for the man servant who
was never within call. In the swell restau-
rants sum is added to the bill for attend
ance, but you do not mind that 80 much,
for the attendant will very often be really
pretty girl. Here, too, you may have en-
Joyed the luxury of q napkin. Napkins
seem to be olassed as luxuries and not as
necessities, for even in otherwise excellent
hotels and restaurants they do not seem to
be at all used. | have found this to be the
case In places in the immediate neighbor-
hood Of the House of Commons. II you
should demand and procure a napkin an
item Is tackled on to your bill reading,
"Serviettes, penny" or perhaps more. In
an oyster saloon you will be charged extra
for the bread or crackers and for the neces-
sarY piece of lemon.
IN THE THEAr
In the theaters so extensive is the fee sys.
tenn that if you make yourself and your
lady anyway comfortable you will find
your evenings entet attainment costing double
the advertised price OF seats. This is true of
nearly every theaier in the English prov
inoes, and in Scotland and Ireland, and of
all those in London, except the Lyceum, the
Gaiety, the Savoy, the st. James, the Hay
market and one or two others. You are
charged from penny to shilling, accord
ing to your seats, for q programme, generally
poorly printed and clumsy affair, with q
few inches of space given up to the pro-
gramme proper, the rest being occupied by
badly displayed, ugly-faced advertisements.
Managers are not always to blame for this,
as was shown in the case of the pretty and
popular Avenue theater, where Mr.. Henry
Arthur Jones attempted to give his patrons
free and well-printed programmes.
A sstanch Church of England clergyman,
Rev. Wray Hunt, vicar of Wilnecote, does
not altogether believe in PuritanicaI OBJ
servance of the Sabbath. He is lover of
the manly sports and declares that while he
sneuld like to see more men at church on
Sunday mornings he believes they might do
much worse than play cricket in the after
noon. He wants to see the day when men
will participate in both, for he sees in the
game Of cricket rot only means of physical
| development, but great moral force. So
| he told his friends at the annual dinner of
the Wilnecote Cricket Club, and added that
perhaps many Of those present did not know
| that over 200 years ago the clergy were
bound after Sunday morning service to tell
their congregation to join in sports on the
village greens. II cricket, why not base
| bal9
The fashiona BILE part of London. like
that of other cities in the united kingdom
is adorned with beautiful squares, which
| the plebeian may look at, but must not
touch. None but the elect may enter them
How such a system of reservation would