TATTOOING.
Often in boyish fun indelible marks are made which prove troublesome in after life. M. Lacassagne, in the " Dictionnaire Encyclopedique," in an article on tattooing, tells a curious anecdote of Bernadotte, the founder of the present Royal house of Sweden. The King never would submit to be bled, although the lancet was in his time in constant use by physicians. One day he suffaied 30 much from feverishness that his medical attendant insisted on his being bled. The King had to give in, as he vaa told his life might be in danger. But before the operation the King made every attendant retire, and toid the doctor he must swear never to toll what he saw upon his arm. Th© doctor having promised, the King drew up his ehitt-sleevo, and upon his arm was seen a Phrygian cap of liberty, with the device, " Morfc au Rois !" Onlyafter his death was this record of Bernadotte's early democratic days rovealed.— "Leisure Hour."
" What ia a-foot now ?" asked an acquaintance of a reporter who w»3 rushing for the office. "Twelve inches still," Baid' the scribe, as he shot out of sight.
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 183, 18 December 1886, Page 8
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189TATTOOING. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 183, 18 December 1886, Page 8
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