The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-04-21
BEAUTIFUL GIRL
NourIshed on Poison, and Her N'''
Was Death.

Was Death
The poisoners Of to-day are lu isS
onatenrs If history is to be reiieu
mon In the good old times they wele
art,sts in the general practice oil Put,
t,ne neople out Of the way, and studiea
mick and slow poisons instead Oh al
aehro and civil economy, their curricu-
nm including many delicious iitlie con-
hounds unknown to our present CHEM
lists. ii, .ontu-
THE sixteenth and seventeenth centu-
rios were the halcyOn days OF POISON
ing. There Is no doubt that La Spaia
and the If posslble) still more wretcneu
bac Ia Toffania, were as bad as you
make them. The latter is SAID 10 nave
caused the deaths of over 600 persons
She used a preparation OF arse"iO,
which she sold under the name OIL
"Aoua Toffana." II was a slow poi-
son. the victim growing daily weaker
and gradually dying Of physical eA-
haustion. In France the most notorious
female prisoners were Nine. de brin,
villiers (who was taught the secret OF
the succession power" by Ste. CroiA'
which she successfully administered 10
her father and brothers,, and the sun
more notorious Lavoisin ana LaVlso-
reux. who, being ostensibly midwiVes'
carried their poisons to high and low
married couples anxious to hasten the
dissolution Of the irksOme tie, or needy
heirs wishful to accelerate the depar-
ture of rich relatives. A veritaDle
mania for poisoning appears to nave
set In toward the middle Of the seven
teenth century.
In England poisoning was declared
by an act passed in the reign OF Henry
VIII, to be high treason, and those
guilty Of it were to be boiled alive. The
most notorious case (the poisoning Of
james l. by Buckingham, is only sur
mise, of poisoning was that OF Sll
Thomas Overbury, in the year 1913. H'
had incurred the displeasure OF Lore
Rochester and his wife, and they hat
both vowed to be reyenged on him. 81
after they had got him committed t
the Tower they set themselves to pol
son his food by mixing arsenic an'
cantharides with 1t. For many months
though suffering intensely, he appears
to have fingered on. At last a stronge
dose than usual put an end to his mis-
cradle existence. The guilty couple, Il
the Kings everlasting disgrace, wer
| released after five years Imprisonment
One of the most curious points con
nected with poison is the fact that ma
tons and individuals have been know
to thrive on it. Mithridates. King 0
POntus, had poison for his daily food
In the Costa Romanorum we read tina
"the Queen Of the North, having hear,
of the great proficiency which Alexan
der the Great made in learning. unde
the tuition of Aristotle, nourished he
daughter, from her cradle, on a certai
kind of deadly poison, and when sh
grew up she was considered so beaut
full that the sight Of her alone affecte
many with madness" The young lad
was sent to Alexander, who, of cours,
fell madly In love with her. Aristotl,
who knew of the plot, warned the kini
who thereupon commanded a crimins
whom he had condemned to death I
kiss the girl. Scarcely had the ma
touched her ruby lips before his Who'll
frame was impregnated with poison
and he expired in the greatest agony.
In the present day it is well know
that the peasant girls Of Syria col
sumo large quantities of arsenic to ad
to their personal charms. 1t is a con
mon habit also among men. 1t is sal
to improve the complexion, to promot
digestion and to strengthen the respir;
tory organs. The worst Of it is thi
when once you have commenced takin
the drug it means death to leave It of