FOOTNOTES:
[1] The crime of breaking into a building in such a way is called burglary, and it is punished very severely among all civilized nations.
[2] The docket is the list of cases.
[3] This fact is corroborated by authentic documents. France in 1801, the second year of Napoleon's consulship, with 34,000,000 of inhabitants, condemned to death 882. England, with but sixteen millions, executed the same year 3,400. In the year 1811, after Napoleon had reigned ten years, France, with a population of 42,000,000, condemned but 392. England, with 17,000,000, condemned 4,400.—See Situation of England, by M. Montveran.
[4] During the revolution, a beautiful opera girl, of licentious character, was conveyed in most imposing ceremonial to the church of Notre Dame. There she was elevated upon an altar, and presented to the thronged assemblage as the Goddess of Reason. "Mortals!" said Chaumette, "cease to tremble before the powerless thunders of a God whom your fears have created. There is no God. Henceforth worship none but Reason. Here I offer you its noblest and purest image. Worship only such divinities as this." The whole assemblage bowed in adoration, and then retired to indulge in scenes which the pen refuses to record.
[5] From "The Howadji in Syria," by George William Curtis, Author of "Nile Notes." Just published by Harper and Brothers.
[6] Continued from the April Number.
[7] Continued from the April Number.