Classified_ad

Capital Puninhment In Calabar. The f ameras Calabar bean is said to be ■worse than strychnine. The natives use it for an ordeaL If a person is aecused of a crime, he is made to eat one, Deing adjudged to be guilty in case of death, which is almost inevitable. Another seed employed for a like purpose is that of the ordeal tree of Madagascar, said to be the most deadly of vegetable producís. One of these seeds about the size of an almond will kill 20 men.