As soon as the
medical gentlemen were of opinion that he had received into his
stomach as much at the time as was consistent with his safety,
the transgressor was sent back to prison, and the business
resumed the two following days. After three very hearty but
unpleasant meals, I am convinced by ocular proof that every leaf
of the book was actually swallowed." _Lon. Pa._ _Boston
Palladium._
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Here is a clever mode of punishing a wife-beater without the aid of
counsel:--
A woman in New-York, who had been beaten by her husband, finding
him fast asleep, sewed him up in the bed-clothes, and in that
situation thrashed him soundly.
_Salem Observer_, April 24, 1827.
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Conviction of a common scold, Sept. 11, 1821; sentence not reported.
_Common Scold_.--Catharine Fields was indicted and convicted for
being a common scold. The trial was excessively amusing, from the
variety of testimony and the diversified manner in which this
Xantippe pursued her virulent propensities.
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