Then they shall deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name\u2019s sake. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Matt. 24:9<\/i><\/p>\n
959<\/b> Cruelty To Prawns<\/b><\/p>\n
In England, Eleanor Donoghy, 16, faced criminal charges in a British court for cruelty to prawns. Her crime was to fry the shrimp-like creatures to death instead of boiling them. Her case has so confused the court that it adjourned for nearly two months so that experts could decide such fundamental questions as \u201cwhat is cruelty?\u201d and even \u201cwhat is a prawn?\u201d<\/p>\n
Miss Donoghy worked at a fish processing plant near Berwick in the north of England. Her job was to dump prawns into boiling water as part of the process that turns them into scampi. Instead, her workmates alleged, she put prawns into a hot stove and watched as they \u201cjumped about in agony\u201d until they died. Her colleagues reported her to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She denied the charge but if convicted, faces a maximum fine of $115 or three months in jail. <\/p>\n
960<\/b> Rockefeller\u2019s One Last Fling<\/b><\/p>\n
Michael Clark Rockefeller, a graduate cum laude from Harvard, determined on one last fling at something romantic and adventurous. He wanted to film actual tribal warfare in New Guinea. The adventure according to Time<\/i> magazine, meant \u201cseven deaths and a dozen or more wounded\u201d in one area. Dutch officials were alarmed. One reported:<\/p>\n
Michael\u2019s presence led to tremendous increase in local trade, especially in beautifully painted human heads. A few weeks ago members of the head-hunter tribe approached the area administrator for permission to go head-hunting \u201cfor one evening only, please, sir.\u201d This was because Michael was offering ten steel hatchets for one head. \u201cWe had to warn him off, as he was creating demand that could not be met without bloodshed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Michael was last seen by a companion anthropologist as he plunged into shark-infested waters, desperate to make shore on the southern coast of New Guinea. Governor Rockefeller flew a specially chartered jet to search for the lost son. <\/p>\n
961<\/b> Who Should Be Caged? <\/b><\/p>\n
Detroit\u2019s zoo director hired four new security guards\u2014to protect the animals from man. <\/p>\n
In the past two years there, a baby Australian wallaby left the protection of its mother\u2019s pouch and was stoned to death; a duck died with a steel-tipped hunting arrow in its breast; a pregnant reindeer miscarried after firecracker-hurling youths bombed the frantic animal into convulsions. Visitors have dropped lighted cigar butts on the backs of alligators, laughing at the reptiles\u2019 reactions as the ashes burn through their skin. Finally, the zoo\u2019s male hippopotamus choked to death when someone responded to his open-mouthed begging for peanuts by rolling a tennis ball down his throat. <\/p>\n
The zookeepers wonder: Who should be caged? <\/p>\n
\u2014Time<\/i><\/p>\n
962<\/b> Japanese Food Treatment<\/b><\/p>\n
It was reported that in some Japanese concentration camps \u201cfood\u201d was served. But what was offered daily was a mixture. There was a certain amount of grain, meal or rice, so that if anyone asked, it can be said that enough basic food was in it to prevent starvation. But one by one people starved. <\/p>\n
Secret: Castor oil was mixed with the food and the food would be expelled from the body before much nourishment could be absorbed into the system. <\/p>\n
963<\/b> Why \u201cAlex\u201d Ran Away<\/b><\/p>\n
In Cleveland, a Mrs. Alexander Nelson sued her husband for divorce on grounds of desertion. Alexander admitted that he deserted her and gave his reasons. Apparently Mrs. Nelson had gone to the city pound and got a mongrel pooch, a shaggy, ugly animal, and named it after her husband. She baptized the dog Alex. <\/p>\n
\u201cEvery once in a while,\u201d he testified. \u201cshe\u2019d call \u201cAlex, Alex,\u201d and when I would say \u201cWhat?\u201d she would snap back, \u201cOh, I don\u2019t mean you, I was calling for the other animal.\u201d\u201d And so Alex\u2014the husband, not the dog\u2014left home. The court granted the divorce without alimony. <\/p>\n
964<\/b> Picking On Dr. Jowett<\/b><\/p>\n
A guide was showing some American tourists through Oxford. \u201cI\u2019d like to see Jowett\u2019s study,\u201d said one of them. \u201cYou know, the fellow who translated Plato.\u201d \u201cEasiest thing in the world,\u201d said the guide, and led his party to a cloistered square nearby. \u201cThat open window on the second floor, my friends, is Mr. Jowett\u2019s diggings. Would you like to see the Professor himself?\u201d<\/p>\n
The Americans assured him that they would like nothing better. The guide thereupon picked up a sizable rock and hurled it with deadly accuracy through Jowett\u2019s open window. A moment later a face purple with rage appeared in the apperture. \u201cAha!\u201d said the guide triumphantly. \u201cThat always gets him. There\u2019s the old boy himself!\u201d<\/p>\n
965<\/b> The Coliseum<\/b><\/p>\n
The Roman Coliseum was started by Emperor Vespasian and completed by his son Titus, destroyer of Jerusalem. It could accommodate 85,000 on its eighty-acre site. It is shaped like an ellipse and rises to 160 feet high. <\/p>\n
Inside the edifice were tiers upon tiers of stone benches. And under the lowest tier were the dens of the wild beasts which were caught from all over the known world. Side by side with the beasts, were the gloomy caverns where prisoners and martyrs spent last hours before being thrust into the open arena to fight and die. Gushing fountains cooled the air and aromatics diffused a pleasant odor to offset that of the wild beasts. <\/p>\n
The coliseum was dedicated in AD 80 by Emperor Titus, when over five thousand wild beasts were slain in the games. It stands as a crowning indictment of the pagan civilization which reached its climax in these bloody spectacles. <\/p>\n
966<\/b> Man\u2019s Inhumanity To Man<\/b><\/p>\n
Crasus, after the revolt of Spartacus, crucified 10,000 slaves at one time. Augustus, for a political offence, delivered 30,000 to their masters, to be executed. Trajan made 10,000 fights in the amphitheatre, for amusement, the slaughter lasting 123 days. <\/p>\n
967<\/b> Roman Gladiators\u2019 Diet<\/b><\/p>\n
The Roman gladiators were fed on a succulent diet for some weeks previous to their exhibition, in order that their veins, being full, might bleed more freely, for the greater gratification of the spectators! <\/p>\n
\u2014Newman Hall<\/p>\n
968<\/b> Epigram On Cruelty <\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Find a cruel man and you see a coward. <\/p>\n
\u2014Ancient Proverb<\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Fierce ; Persecution ; Heb. 11:37; Rev. 11:9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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