d child from the country who goes to London, does with great regularity, is Madame Tus
ey was better than fame, and instead of spoiling marble she commenced doing some very good things in wax. She brought her figures to London and opened a museum, wh
by her family, three generations of which have waxed rich
essed in the costumes of the period in which they lived, including arms, although court dresses generally adorn them. As the Tussaud family were, and are
o do is what Dicken's Marchioness did with the orange peel wine: "Make believe very hard," and they will do. The faces were modeled from portraits, and their dresses were made from
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Ex-President Grant has good cause for action for libel, for such a face as they have put upon him could not have been on a third corporal of the poorest company in the very worst North Carolina regiment, and President Hayes and Garfield have been
e of naturalness and awful beauty, as is the death of Pope Pius; and they are so natural that one
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e battle of Waterloo, with a vast number of other relics of the great Corsican. From the number of Napoleonic
wax of the world's great, or notorious men, all
rrors." You pay a sixpence extra-there is always sixpence extra in England-and you are
ption, one done under peculiarly horrifying and terrible circumstances
n condemned to be hung, and on which he suffered, with forty-eight others afterward, before it was retired, and there are ropes and delightful articles of that nature with wh
Scotland. These gentlemen had a contract with the medical university of Edinburgh, to furnish the
in the enterprise, remarked one night
discover that a corpse had been abstracted it would occasion the most profound feeling. We should have more respect for the survivors than to raise th
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t the corpses?" aske
d than it is to dig him up, and, in addition to the other reasons
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g out and killing men till thirty had disappeared. The authorities finally got upon their track, when
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o men would not lead one to purposely encounter them in a dark al
ling and draping the figures. There were in the party a gentleman and lady from Pennsylvania, the fo
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floor, which attracted his attention
us face? Notice the development back of the ears, showing the head to be all animal, and the pinched forehead and the general insignificanc
way. It was a very estimable American lady whom
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