Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-09
BEAUTIFUL GIRL
Nourishcd on Poison, and Her Mss
Was lclth.

The poisoncrs of to-day are mere
.mote,lrS. if history l. To De rene"
unon In the GOOD ole, times thry were
artists in the general practice "l put
ting people out of the way. an" S'u"i''
mick and slow poisonS instead Oh Ill
zebra and civil economy. thrir curfi'"-
nm including many deliciot 3 little com
bounds unknown to our present cheih-
lists.
The sixteenth and seventeenth centu-
rics were the halcy"n days OF poison
ing. There is no doubt that La Slitfa'
md the If possiblc) still more Wrptched
har. La Tonania, were as BAD as you
make them. The latter is SAID 10 nave
caused the deaths of over GoD persons.
She used preparation Of arsenic
which she sold under the name Oh
"Aoua Toniana.' 1t was slow l'ol-
son. the victim growing daily weaker
and gradually dying If physical "X-
hausiion. In France the most notorious
female prisoners were Mime. dr hrlh-
villiers ,who was taught the secret OF
the succession power 10y ste. 'r"lA'
which she successfully administered To
her father and brothers.. and the SUI
more notorious I.avoiSin and l-aVlgo-
reux. who. being ostcnsibly midwives,
carried their poisons to high ana low
married couples anxious Ia hasten the
dissolution of the irkSone tie. or needy
heirs wishfuf to accelerate the depar-
ture of rich relatives. y verltable
mania for poisoning appears to have
sci in toward the middle OF the seven
tecnth century.
In England poisoning was declared.
by an act passed in the reign of Henry
WILL. to be high treason, and those
guilty of ii were to he boiled alive The
most notorious ease 1.-THE poisoning OF
james |. by buckingham. is only sur
miSc). of poisoning was that of Sir
Thomas Ovcrhury in the year 1913 He
had incurred the displeasure OF Lord
Rochester and his wife. and they had
both vowed To be reven"ed on him. SO
after they had got him committed TO
the Tower they set themselves 10 poi
son his food 10y mixing arsenic and
cautharideS with it. For many months.
though suffering intensely, he appears
to have fingered on. At last a stronger
dose than usual put an end to his mis-
cradle existence. The guilty couple, to
the Kings everlasting disgrace. We're
released after five years imprisonment
one of the most curious points CON
nected with poison is the fact that ma
I,o 1
to thrive on ii. Mithridatr~. King of
Puntus. had poison for his daily food
In the Costa Romanorum we read that
the Queen of the North. h;Ting heard
OF the great proficiency which AleXan-
der the Great made in learning. upder
the tuition OF Aristotle. n0urisheN her
daughter. from her cradle. on Il certain
kind OF deadly poison. aud when She
grew up she was considered SO beauti-
tul that the sight OF her alone affected
many with madness" The young lady
was sent to Alexander. who. of course
fell madly in love With her. Aristotle
who knew of the plot. warmed the king
who therpupon commanded a criminal
whom he had condemned To death TO
kiss the girl. Scarcely Lad the man
touched her ruby lips before his whole
frame was impregnated with poison.
and he expired in the greatest agony"
In the present day il is well known
that the peasant girls OF Syria con
sumo large quantities of arsenic to add
to their personal charms. Ii is Il COM
mon habit also among men, 1t is said
to improve the complexion. to promote
digestion and to strengthen the respira-
tory organs. The worst of it is that
when once You have commenced taking
thc drug ii means death To leave it off.