HUSS (John, burnt at the stake July 6, 1415), 1370-1415. When the chain was placed around the neck of John Huss he exclaimed with a smile, "Welcome this chain, for Christ's sake!" The faggots having been piled up to his neck, the Duke of Bavaria, in a brutal manner, called on him to recant. "_No_," cried the martyr, "_I take God to witness I preached none but his own pure doctrines, and what I taught I am ready to seal with my blood._" IGNATIUS (surnamed Theophorus, early Christian Father, and one of the immediate successors of the apostles),--107. "_I am the wheat of Christ; I am going to be ground with the teeth of wild beasts, that I may be found pure bread._" These words he is said to have uttered when he heard the roaring of the lions that were to devour him. He had a burning desire for the martyr's crown, and went to his death with a shout of triumph. Of the same spirit was Germanicus, who actually provoked the wild beasts to rush upon him, that he might at once be delivered from this wretched life and receive a martyr's reward. ILITCHEWSKI (Alexander Demainowitch, the Russian poet). "_I have found at last the object of my love_," a line written by the poet just before his death, and found on a table near his bed. The poet was haunted all his life by an ideal of womanly beauty which he sought in vain among the living, and the above line would seem to indicate that he had at last found the object of his dreams. It is supposed that he died from excess of joy at the discovery. ILLEPPY (Solyman, the Turkish peasant who assassinated General Kleber),--1800. "_Tay hip!_" (That is good). The assassin suffered death by having the flesh burned off his right hand, and by being impaled, in which situation he lived one hour and forty minutes; dying without showing any fear, and declaring to the last, "that the act which he had done was meritorious, and one for which he should be made happy in the other world." He continued exclaiming, from the moment of his hand being burnt, to that of his death, "_Tay hip!_"--_The Percy Anecdotes._ INGERSOLL (Robert Green, an American lawyer and orator, distinguished as an opponent of Christianity), 1833-1899. "_O, better_," in response to his wife's question, "How do you feel now?" After the war he became an ardent Republican, and gained fame as a lawyer, serving as attorney-general of Illinois for several years. He was a delegate to the National Republican convention of 1876, when he became famous as an orator by proposing the name of James G. Blaine for President in his celebrated "Plumed Knight" speech. He was offered the post of minister to Germany, but refused it. About the year 1877 he removed to New York, and was soon in great demand as a lecturer and orator. Among his most celebrated cases was his defense of the "Star route conspirators" in 1883.