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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1402, 30 March 1912, Page 14

The black jackets mitl tail coats which are now tho regular Etonian dress oro said to date from tho death of George 111., when tho whole flohool went into mourning, which they have nover laid aside since. A singular upectnele was afforded at Tooting at the funeral of a linker. In the hearse wero three half-peck loaves, a small hag of flour, a mininturo trough, and other utensils connected with the dead man's trade. At the,prison of St. Paul's, at Lvnns, there is a curious collection nf pens. I'her are tho pens with which the executioners have si','tu'd the regulation receipts for the prisoners hnnded over to them to hn gulllotined. At each oxeculion a fresh pen in ueed for tho piirpoao, und the lni it loft i to dry upon it.