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13 and drawing it towards her, the lock struck a knot, the gun went off, and the ball entered her left side and came out near the shoulder. She did not fall, but took the rifle into the house and set it up; took her infant from the cradle, and bidding one of the elder children to press her hand on the wound, to check the effusion of blood, ,—thus exemplifying the “ruling passion strong in death,”—the last thought of the mother was associated with the comfort of her little one. A few hours after the woman was found a corpse.

It is estimated that more than a million of bushels of human and inhuman bones were imported last year from the continent of Europe to the port of Hull. The neighbourhood of Leipsic, Austerlitz, Waterloo, and all the places where, during the late bloody war, the principal battles were fought, have been swept alike of the bones of the hero and of the horse which he rode. Thus collected from every quarter, they have been shipped to the port of Hull, and thence forwarded to the Yorkshire bone-grinders, who have erected steam engines and powerful machinery, for the purpose of reducing them to granulary state. In this condition they are sent chiefly to Doncaster, one of the largest agricultural markets in that part of the country, and are sold to the farmers to manure their lands.