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108 [The arms of Lithuania (called the "Pursuit") are a horse-man

in full career, with sword uplifted to strike. The Bear is the

coat-of-arms of Zmudz, a portion of Lithuania, on the Baltic]

109 [Wilno (Vilna).]

110 [A French statesman and historian, in the years 1810-12

Napoleon's representative at Warsaw.]

111 ["A convicted slanderer was compelled to crawl under the

table or bench, and in that position to bark three times like a

dog, and pronounce his recantation. Hence the Polish word

odszczekac, to bark back, generally used to express

recanting."-M. A. Biggs.]

112 After various brawls this man was seized at Minsk, and shot,

in accordance with a court decree.