FOOTNOTES:
[1] “The wicked are great drinkers of water; As the flood proved once for all.”
[2] $2,600,000 in 1894.
[3] Knocked on the head.
[4] Beheaded.
[5] Scott, of course: “The son of an ill-fated sire, and the father of a yet more unfortunate family, bore in his looks that cast of inauspicious melancholy by which the physiognomists of that time pretended to distinguish those who were predestined to a violent and unhappy death.”—The Abbot, ch. xxii.
[6] Guillotine.
[7] Dr. Guillotin got the idea of his famous machine from witnessing an execution in Italy.
[8] Brucea ferruginea.