Vast sheets of mirrors lined the walls, wherever the still more precious paintings had no place; while the ordinary hangings of velvet and silk became objects of secondary admiration, in a scene of nearly royal magnificence.

Hanging, beheading, quartering and burning were the every-day spectacles.

"Hanging" is an odious term, and destroys the sentiment altogether.

Not a few of the strikers were startled to a sense of broad justice in his death, and yet such a hanging was an outrage to any community.