The Board of Councilmen in a Mississippi town voted the following
resolutions at one of their meetings:
"First--Resolved by this council, that we build a new jail.
"Second--Resolved that the new jail be built out of the materials of the
old jail.
"Third--Resolved that the old jail be used till the new jail is
finished."
This is something like the account an Irish sailor once gave of the
execution of a negro on the west coast of Africa. He told how the
negro's hands were tied behind his back, and how the executioner cut the
man's head off at one clip, and how the headless man stooped down,
seized his bloody head and set it up on his neck where it was before!
When some bystander remarked that such a thing was impossible, for "How
could the man pick up his head from the ground when his hands were tied
behind his back?" "Begorry," was the answer, "he done it wid his teeth!"