The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1899-04-27
bin 10 sque'H' Ia The names Of Mslildo
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add 20 parted on the beet OF terms.


/, Dickens 10 responsible Tor most cater
tlinias gallery OF rosues. Qiilp tthe dis
te,ted dssr) and Rogue RiisfLood he
rulI,r alike terminate their existence 10
. vs,ery grave. Ralph hiekleby, G,sL.
ford snd Jones ChuEliewit take their own
livss. while Uhah Heep, slaess and
l. timer leave their eonniry for their
couotrys good 10 esrbs gra,nitously pro
vided by government aud freely embossed
with broad arrows"
Perhaps the most erewsome oi Dickens
death scenes IL thai provided by the ever
smiliaR Csrktr. toto which the irresistible
looouotive is Impressed, probably for The
tirsi time 10 the history OF noiion.
S,ot's Williams most frequently NEE,
with violen. deaths Il the hands Of Others.
often their socomplicss, OF commit suicide
on the eve Of discovery aad disgrace.
Bot the sensation lover has nevertheless
been catered for 10 the death OF Anthony
Foster. the sccomplice OF the poisoner
Richard v.rney. This miserable wretch
Is eepicted ss hiding from his pursusrs In
s,crst cell. The entrance TO this is
fastened by mesns Of . spring lock, OF
which, however. be omits to retain the
key. with the consequence that he
eventually perish 8 miserbly Of mingled
fear aud famine,
Lytton's Might aud Mornios" gives us
he oJiner GAwtry, who meets bis fate Ut
the hands Of the Paris police, itom whom
he is attempting TO escape when pistol
sLo, drops him over the side OF u house to
perish miseribly. This ides OF falling
from height is by no means confined TO
Lgttou. II is u,iliz,d by An,hooy Hope
10 "Phroso" and by Stanley Wtyman 10
g" "Under t,e Red Robe. where the william
and his victim fall from u lolty lridge 10
to asetthing torrent below. In this way
100, Conan Doyle killed the immortal
Sbtrlook Holmes, who fact locked 10 .
struggle with "she greatest villain OF them
alI, tails over an Alpiue preoipice.
WIlkie Collins brings his principal
villain, the double faced, calculating
Count tosco, to 40 ignoble end, he dis :
appears for time, only to resppear upon
The CHASTITY shelves OF the Plris morgue
still more ghsstly fate is that OF the she
tend, GssooI. amortsliz,d ID by Rider Hsg
sard 10 King Solomon's Mines" Hav !.
ng conducted Qlsrtermain Our is and
party into init celebrated monsrch's rock
lesn treasury. which is guarded BY pom
ferrous risingdoor Of living rock, she ;.
oucbes q secret spring. by means OF j;
which the door begins once mere to des
,end with slow but irresistible motion.
While the Englishmen are sizing up the : :
swelry she makes of through the rapidly :,
aperture. Her progress is tenn !,
,oraiily arrested by tho unfortunate girl :,
'oulsts, whom she stsbs 10 order to free a.
erseli. Harriedly scrambling over the +,
bresbold, she is caught by the inexorable !.
orce which she has herself put in motion a,
nd reslit ticslly dramatic "crunch" puts :,
n end for ever to the mschinstions OF
bis truly horrible old lady.
Svengsli. like Scotl's Templsr 10 'Ivsn
oe." dies from an excessive mental strain
cling upon the heart. while 10 hsrk back ds
, the days OF the bluff Doctor OF Fleet >,
tre.t. the gentle. genial hearted Gold
NTH 10 oontented to reform the rakisb n;
quire Thornhill 10 order that he may at
'st become the exemplary spouse OF the m
emile Olivia. around whom he wove thst
ntrsu cinsly simple narrative. "The Vicar tb
| Wakefield" On
Finally, the palm for "wiiling lurid' VI
10y fairly be accorded Harrison Aims an
ortb for bis thrilling disposal OF the two on
houlish wretches who haunt the pages bs
his celebrated novel. Old ~. Psul's."
be creitures who fsitjned upon the OF
polls O. the dead aud dying during the
'est plagne we're woat TO stow their i'll or,
,tten gains 10 one OF the csthedrAl sci
'ults. The cathedral taking fire. they
Isten tlither Ia order to rescue their I n
'ecious hoard. The greed OF gain how
er, misleads them iuto sojourning Just AZ
monen, too long, IN,
As hey turn the now eliAing vsult they 90,
Q that thin silvery stream is making its
" down he stairs. by which alone they
o gain su exit Even as they look IL
ickens percep'ibly, and before they can
cape the whole stairway Is blocked, and tri,
g vault sboul them begins 10 Ell with ing
e silvery liquid. When 1t is added ihsl
Q harmless lokipg liquid 10 nothing . b
pre- or less than Il Q molten lead from The in
OF and windows Of the cathedral, IT {
II be come apparent that even MIR. Gil e
IT'S something With boiling oil 10 ~ !
ssesses q dangerous rivrl 10 the psges Of tea
Did Saint Psul'a
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