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Becomes Like a Roaring Bull and 'I'hlrels for Gore. Alast (Thursday) night’s Driiton, Pa., despatch says : John Berle, a miner, employed by Cove Bros. & Co , was return- ing from a mission service at the Roman Catholic Church yesterday, in company with his wife and sister, when he suddenly dropped on his knees and began praying ; then, with a yell, he sprang up, 12388613 his hat into the air, pursued his wile into a neighboring house, and, in his manical frenzy, dashed headlong at a large mirror, shivering it into fragments and cutting his hand and arm severely. Still yelling and waving his hand, with the blood pouring from it, he tore frantically up the street. Everybcdy suppoaed he had murdered some one, and was brandishing the knife, eager for more bloodshed. Catching hold 01 his terrified r-ister, he flung her to the earth and attempted lo chfieher to death, but being pulled ofi turned upon the crowd that gathered and charged it, still waving his bloody hand and putting everybody to flight, calling out that he would kill them. They pursued him, and after a long chase he came up with Theophilue Gibbons, whom he grappled, tearing all the clothes from his body. Gib- bons held on to him, however, and the others, plucking up courage, seized the maniac, and after a desperate struggle bound him, and he now lies there tied hand and foot unda the charge of a physician, who pronounces him suffering from a. most severe attack of acute mania, probably brought on by religious excitement. Altncks a Man “'1”: :1 [Bauer and Gals Murdered. A Calgary despatch says that Wm. Foster. formerly a barber in this town.hed been murdered at End of Trackwes the brief intelligence received here on Sunday lest. From particulars we have since learned it appears that Foster was in the habit of moving forward with the C. P. R. men. On Friday lest his outfit was being cerried to the front on a. train which was in charge of Finn. In unloading the effects 8. her- ber’s chair was broken, which aroused Foster to almost an uncontrollable degree of excitement. After the matter had sub. sided-Foster called Finn into his tent and commenced to abuse him shamefully. Finn retaliated, and Foster 1hon rushed at the former with a. razor. Finn receded until cornered, when he drew his rev ver and fired four shots, three of whic took effect. Foster died the next day. The victim was of a morose disposi- tion, and regarded as a dangerous men. It is said that he shot a man in Montana], and that this was the fourth time he was known to have drawn a. rnmr, in one case putting 8.1mm eeriouely in the abdomen. Finn has been engaged on the C. 1’. R. construction some two or three years, and at the time of the shooting was foreman of the iron car. He is rep:esented as being a quiet and inoffensive man, and was a. ‘ favorite with the workmen. who believe the not was done in self-defence. li‘inn was arrested yesterday at Eldon by Constables Davidson and Gould. to whom he ststed he was then on his way to Calgary to give himself into the hands of the police. He was brought to Calgiry, but will be sent back to British Columbia, as Northwest magistrates have no jurisdiction in the matter. A Cure lhoa Elms flit Miles (micr- ground. A Pitfsburg despstch says: Fur years the existence of e. large Dye/Jil'g Lu the hill» side near Dunbar, Eng/eats county, was known, yet nobody ever :eemed nnxieus to explore it, probably on account of the cold water and narrow entrance one must pass through before getting into the main entrance. Yesterday morning a party of gentlemen from this city succeeded in pass- ing through thenerrow entrance, which is about fifty yards long. They were sur- prised to find themselves in a. spacious corner with solid limestone. walls leading smight into the centre of the mountain. ‘ When they had followed this for a. few hun- dred yerds they came to a. large room where the water was driping from the ceiling and trickling down the sides of the room and had formed what is known as dripping limestone. These formations were hanging from the ceiling in bug pointed sticks like icicles. Some were white as snow, some brown, some as transparent as glass. The sides of this room were decorated in every con- ceivable shape and form. The explorers declared the sight well worth the trouble and risk of getting lost in the numerous passages with which the bill is literally honeycombed. After wandering around for some time the explorers finally came to the main passage and went on and on into the centre of the mountain. They were determined to find the end of the line, and so pushed on until the sides began to narrow and the ceiling to slope until there was Just room enough for one to pass through. There they gave up the search. When they returned to the mouth of the cavern the sun WM sinking in the west, end they were surprised to find that they had been in the bowels of the earth the (ntire day. They think they must have gone fully six miles under ground. The cave is 9. solid limestone rock, and the locality has been noted for the past few years as a summer resort on account of the cool refreshing water that flows from the cave in an ever-falling stream. An A gdcullural Fair Result! in n Dian] Failure. A imp itch from London says: A curious illustration of the power of boycotting in the hands of the lever-geful Irish peasants has just been furnished. In county Kil- kenny for the past six years un agricultural {air has annually been held at Besshorough, near Pilltown, under the patronage of the gentry and nobility of the neighborhood, of whom Lord Bessborough is the head, He is a somewhat active politician, is Deputy- Lieutensnt of King's county, and stands high in the favor of the Dublin Castle authorities. His recent actions, however, have embittered the peasantry of his own and neighboring estates, and they deter~ mined to boycott the fair, as a. measure of revenge. They pasted notices throughout the district, menacing all who contribted to or attended the exhibition, and as fast as the notices were torn down they were mys- teriously replaced by others still more threatening. Lord Bessborough pooh- p‘mhed the notices, but the fair has proved a. dismal failure. The tenants were fright- ened into non-attendance. and but few of the gentry made any entries, so that the old est&blish6d institution has this year degenerated into an exhibition without exhibits and without spectators. URIOUS CASE OF BOY UOI‘TING A man in Hamilton, Ga" has written In 9. divorce to the Governor of the State because he says he doesn’t wish to give a lawyer S1510: one. Hxs letter closes as follows: “Please see about nhis rite 013’, km] donut wate until after I am ded befoor you let me hear Irom you." \xA Prominent Englishman’s Sad End. A Fort McKinny (W. T.) despstch says the mangled body of Mr. Gillie Leigh, 9. member of the British Parliament, was found yesterday at Baz, a precipitous cliff in the Big Horn mountains. Mr. Leigh was here with a. small English pleasure party. He left the camp on the 14th inst. for a. stroll, and was not heard of bill eight days‘ search revealed his body. His remains will be shipped to England. A PASSI ONATE BARBE R A BELIG IOUS HIANIAC A GREAT CAVE RN. Proposed Connection 0! the Black and Bulllc Sens. A London despatch says: A very ambitious project for the improvement_..ot the waterways of Europe is under consider- ation at Vienna and Berlin. The proposal is to connect the Black Sea with the Baltic by means of a canal, extending from the Dsnube to the Oder River. The proposed line of the csntl is fromapaint on the Danube River, near Vienna, through Moravia, and Austrian and Prussian Silesia, toa point on the Oder, not far from Breslau, which is now the head of the navigation of that river. The die ance in a straight line is about 200 miles, but the length of the canal would be largely increased by the natural difficulties of the country and by the necessity of making wide detours to find practical passes through the Sedutio mountains. The estimated cost is 70,000,000 florins or about 100,000 per mile of completed canal. The canal would afiord a water highway directly across the centre of Europe, thus chespan- ing transportation between the maritime cities of Germany and Austria. It would also, according to the statements of its promoters, traverse many districts which are rich in mineral deposits and make their developments easy and profitable. A Havre de Grace (Md) despatch gives the following particulars of the caisson accident at that place mentioned in yester- day‘s Titles: The outer shell or cofier dam of caisson No. 9, which is being sunk as the foundation for one of the [iers of the new bridge of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, now in the process of construction, spanning the Susquehanna River at this point, gave way about 7 o’clock yesterday morning. The crib and air lock shaft were flooded and the working chamber rapidly filled. Most of the men got out safely before the accident occurred, but Patrick Killey and five of his men named Maguire, Shorodel, Dillon, Welsh and Connors were imprisoned in the submarine chamber. The caisson is larger than any of the others sunk for the bridge. It is sixty feet long and forty feet wide, and at the time of the accident the working chamber was sixty feet beiow the surface of the water. The entrance to the caisson proper is made through a perpen- dicular iron shaft about three feet in die.- meter, .with foot and hand-holds on either side. It is divided into locks, each lock having a gate. When the men descend the lcck-tender withdraws the air and the gate falls and the last man down hits the gate. When the bottom gate is opened the air rushes in, thus holding the top gate in posi- tion. The same process is updated until they reach the working-chamber, which is lighted brilliantly by electricity. The air in the chamber, beyond being a little ,oppressive, is said ti be not unpleasant. The work of excavating is being Vigorously pushed night and day, on Sundays as well as week days. Each shift is allowed twenty men and a foreman. The men were work- ing under a pressure of twenty-eight pounds at the time of the collapse, and when the lock flooded the only entrance or (Kit to and from the caisson was cutoff. The air apparatus. however, fortunately continued to work, and this was the men’s only salvation. They remained in their prison helpless until rescued by the super- intendent, John O Brien, who conceived an ingenious plan about 11 o’clock, and quickly put it to practice. The outer lock was five feet under water, and the next lock, which was fifteen feet deep, was full of water. Mr. O’Brien made a coffer dam of boards and calked it tightly with oakum and cement. Then he bailed out the water, descended and raised the flooded lock and bailed that out. In company “iih John Burns he descended through their rudely constructed shaft and amid the ringing cheers of excited and anxious spectators rescued the six men who an hour before were in such a perilous situation. The men were pile, haggard, exhausted and muddy. With the exception ufone, whose head was out by afalling spike, they were uninjured. This act of Messrs. O'Brien and Burns will not soon be forgotten, at least by any of the six who were imprisoned twelve hours in each- marine cavern. General William Ray Smith, one of the contractors, and Colonel William Patton, the company‘s engineer, were there, and viewed the operations with anxiety. General Smith liberally rewarded the rescuers for their gallant conduct and the rescued for their endurance. Mr. Ross, of Dominion City, while eat ing his dinner on Sunday, 21st, heard his oettle down in the woods towards the riVer, and by the sound of the bell con- cluded that they meditated a visit to the city. He ran down to head them ofl‘, and while forcing his way through the thick scrub, heard a noise behind him. Fancying it was one of the cattle that he had passed, he waited while the animal made directly for him. When it get almost to him, he reached forward as it were over the inter- vening scrub to see what manner of beast was coming. Imagine his feel- ings when a huge bear sud- denly rose up, prepared to hug and be sociable, within two paces. Mr. Ross states that the'brute was so close he could have touched him with his hand. Having not even as much as s. pen-knife with him to defend himself, he had no other resource but to yell, and yell he did, so forcibly and so successfully, that, it is supposed, the bear came to the conclusion that the man was nothing but yell, and that berries and grubs would sit easier on his stomach than anoise like that, so he turned and fled. This beer business is getting serious. It is reported that not long ago another of our citizens saw two large specimens just across the railroad bridge. The citizens, as a measure of safety, ought to organize a bear- hunt, and try and get rid of some of those fellows. Mr. Russell is the only success- ful party as yet, having shot one in his buok-kitohen.â€"Winnipeg Free Press. A man in Southern Arkansas wrote the tollowxng notice and tacked it on a tree : " This ’ere is to notify merchants not to 'low my wife to get nothin’ at that store on credit fur me 311’ but have played quits for she’s a caution. I lived with but as long as I could an' I don’t believe she could get along with a. saint. this is also to notify folks interested in the cause of eddyoation that i am goin’ to take up school at the old Beson place next Monday.” Learning is wealth to the poor, an honor to the rich, an aid to the young, and a. support and comfort to the aged. Narrow Escape at 81:: Men From a Sunken Canaanâ€"«Sixty Feet Under “’ntrrâ€"Brnvely Rescued Alter Severn! flour: 0! Suspense and Agony. The Scare n Northwest Farmer Got. BEARS AT DOMINION CITY. IN FRIGHTFUL PERI L. E UROPEA N Bllll’ CANAL. VOL. XXVII. (Zlcvu- Capture of some [Ugh-Toned EPL‘CIBIOI‘S. A last (Thursday) night’s London cable- gram says: The prize-fight at Epsom today between Jack Massie and (30de Mid- dings has had some sensational results. Most of the aristocrats who witnessed the match escaped from the police in carriages or on horseback. Some, however, were les - lucky, and one party of five was neatly captured. They were leading spirits in arranging the fight, and being very “ fly ” had taken remarkable precautions to hood- wink the police in case of a raid. They had engaged a large furniture van, and when the constables appeared upon the scene the five abettJrs of the manly art climbed into the van. bolted the doors on the inside and told the driver to drive with all possible rpeed to London. The van started off all right, but the extraordinary rate at which it went attracted the notice or the police, and a mounted squad was sent in pursuit. The constables overtook the van at Streatham. and a short conversation with the driver convinced him that he had better direct his course to a police station. The five gen- tlemen who had imprisoned themselves in the van heard nothing of the conversation, and knew nothing of the change of destina- tion which had been arranged. They laughed and chatted boisterously inside the van until it stopped. Then they unbolted the door, olambered down the back steps of the van, and each gentleman found himself in the grasp ol a stalwart policeman. They were escorted into a police station, and made as comfortable as possible pending their removal for examination at Bow street. The inspectors at Scotland Yard lock upm this as a remarkably clever arrest. They say that it high-toned gen- tlemen will violate the laws cf the land it is very considerate on their part to provide their own prison vans, and the example should be imitited. Detectives are scour- ing London to-night in search of other abettors of the fight, and the list of sus- pects includes at least one baronet. Castle Garden in New York, whereimmi- grants are landed, 1s Visited every day by men who are seeking wives, says the Philadelphia Times. Some of these men, strange as it may appear, find young women willing to marry them, although in some instances they scarcely know each other’e language. Anybody might suppose that men in this country would not have to seek wives in that way. Everywhere there are marriageable young women. They are in such numbers that many of them hardly hope ever to get married. They oannot’be ignorant of the reasonâ€"the men who seek“ wives do net seek them. Men who go to Castle Garden are not poor man and tramps whom no one wants to marry. They are in nearly every instance wellrto-do farmers. who want wives to be of some assistance to them. They have no fancy for the merely ornamental girl. They want women who can make bread and perhapalook after the dairy. They therefore do well to seek them among the thrilty people who come from abroad. We raise cooks and dairy maids in this country in very rare instances. There are not enough of the domestic kind to supply wives to all those avaricious people who insist that a wife shall be no deadbead in the family enterprise. American girls make excellent wives in general and are not incapable of intelligent management, but they do not make good servants. The following is a brief resume ol‘. the reports concerning the crops in the die- triets lying alongside the Interoolonisl Railway, from Levis to St. Flavie : Levis â€"The principsl crops are oets, yielding 35 bushels to the acre, and potatoes, yielding 300 bushels to the acre ; very little wheat grown. Chaudiereâ€"Poteteee, crop smell ; oats, more prolific than usual, but buck- wheat has proved a. failure. S5. Henriâ€" Potetoes, below the average; oats and hey yielded largely. St. Velierâ€"Wheet, 85 per cent. better than last year ; barley, 50 per cent. better ; oats, 75 per cent. better ; rye, 50 per cent. better; potatoes, 75 per cent. less, and hay 20 per cent. less than lest year. St. Pierreâ€"Potatoes infer- ior to crop of lest year. averaging 115 bushels t) the acre; wheat 15, rye 25, outs 22, peas 30. L’ Isletâ€"Potatoes poor, wheat, oats and barley fair. St. Anne-«Wheat yielded 16 bushels per acre; barley, 20; cats, 25; potatoes. paor. River Ouelleâ€"Crope reported good all round, much better than last year. River (111 Loupâ€"Hey, very light; roots turned out well; grain, good. St. Flevieâ€"An average crop all round. From: Marshall t?) Pritohurcf {5912361311 is unbroken. Not one of the men who have found the precious metals 1.19.5 profit :d by in himself. The discoverer of the richest mine in Leadville sold it for $540,000, and in twelve months the owners had taken oun more than $1,000,000, while the original owner had lost his money in dissipation, and was back again looking for a. “ grub atake.’f In the new gold country in the Coeur d’Alenes nhe jumpers have nu.an every inch of property from Pritehard, the discoverer, who toiled their for months alone, and the courts in session at Eagle Gihy have con- firmed their titles. Pritoherd is now a wanderer, and others are getting rich out of mines which his industry and persever- ance revealed. Patrick McLaughlin, Peter O’Riley, E. Penrod and J. A. Osborn, other disooverera of silver in Nevada, sold their holdings at nominal figures, or were defrauded of them. his. The diacoverers of the Nevada silver mines made nothing by it, and most of them have died pennllees. Cometook, the original owner of the far-famed lode bear- lug his name, sold his property for a song, and a. few months thereafter, when its value was known, killed himself at 13029- men in despair. Since his death, more than $300,000,000 in silver has been taken out of the ground which was once wholly The Discovcrcrs ot Famous Mines Only Pointing llm “'ny lo Fol-lune for Others. A San Francisco despatch says: The movement now io progress in this Slate to relieve the wants of James W. Marshall, the discavsrer of gold on this count. serves as a. reminder that all the successful gold and silver hunters have failed mosh miser- ably in the race for Wealth. Marshall never had anything. The crowds that flocked to Callfornia. as soon as his dia- oovery was announced swindled him until he was poor, and he has been poor ever since. Because he had found gold was people have seemed to think that he might do so again if he tried. He is now old and destitute, and unless something is done for him he will soon be in abject want.” A PRIZE FIGII l‘ SENSA I‘ION. UNLUCKY GOLD FINDEBS. Seeking Tin-lily “'lvcs. RICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1884. .cr_.â€"-m.uo a Populurhy 0! Liberal Papersâ€"Ways of Slippressmfl Them. It is a patent fact that our press is almost altogether Liberal and anti-govern- mental, writes a Russian correspondent to the London Times. This M. Katkov him- self does not attempt to deny. The organs of reaction may be counted on the fingers of one hand. Most Russian papers are either frankly Liberal or shrewdly artful, alternating between servility to escape the censure and opposition to please their readers. For it is a significant fact that reactionary journals do not sell ; even the Moscow Gazette, M. Katkov‘s organ, not: withstanding the value conferred upon it by its semi-official character, has not a third of the circulation of the Liberal Courier and the Vedomosti. The opportunist tendencies of the Russian press on the one hand, and bureaucratic obscurantism on the other, are leading rapidly to a collision which can hardly fail to be fatal to the weaker of the two forces. The history of the struggle between themâ€"it that may be called a struggle in which one party can offer hardly a show or resistanceâ€"presents three dis- tinct phases. The Provrnoial press was the first to snfier. Being under the preventive censure the administration had only to draw the bonds as little tighter in order to crush it utterly. Less known, having less influence and fewer readers, country papers may be treated with less ceremony than l l their contemporaries of the two capitals Then, again, their conductors, having less finesse, and, perhaps, greater honesty than city journalists, are more outspoken in their language, more sincere in their liberalism, and consequently more liable to fall under the lash of the censure. Alto- gether, it may be averted without exaggera- tion that, notwithstandihg its lacs of literary polish, the part of our press the most sympathetic, the most devoted to the public weal and capable of promoting national well-being, were our country papers. But the toninovniks of St. Peters- burg neither considered their usefulness nor respected their honesty. The spectre of aspiratism was summoned against them and they became the first victims of the reaction. The holocaust went on easily and quietly, without too much scandal, and was all but completed before the death of Alexander 11. It required only a word to the censors, and the work was begun. One by one the host country papers, weary of the annoyance, the chicanery, and the oppression to which they were continually exposed, gave up the struggle. Suppression by decree was unnecessary, as they were worried out of existence by ministerial ordinances, each more impossible and absurd than the other. The Odessa Listok, a purely political paper, was ordered strictly to avoid domestic subjects. The Telegraph, a journal founded for the express purpose 0! defending Jewish interests, and promoting a fusion at the two races, was for'niddsn to make any allusion to the Jewish question. The expa- dients of the department were sometimes marked by a grim humor all its own. One was to a; point as special censor of an obnoxious print an oflicial living at the other extremity of the empire. This involved the sending to him or ex ery proof, both of comment and news, before publica- tion. Hence the paper on which this practi- cal joke was played could not appear until ten or fifteen days after its contemporaries of the same town or district. No, journal givmg news a fortnight out of date could possibly go on, and journals so treated rarely attempted to reappear. But as no- body could say that the Government had suppressed them, there was neither scandal nor “ agitation of spirits." One more un- fortunate had died anaturaldeath - that was all. Dealt With in this way were the Novot- cherkas Don, the Kama Gazette, and the Tifiin Obzor. They were ordered to send their proofs, not as usual to the local cen- sors, but to the censor of Moscow, which is distant in time (including the return jour- ney) from Novotcherkask seven days, from Kama ten to twelve, and from Tiflis twenty. The two first made no attempt either to comply with the order or t) continue their issue, but Mr. Nicoladze, proprietor of the Obzor, in order in preserve the right oi publication (which lapses if not used dur- ing a year), ,brings out his paper every January. The Obzor is probably the only daily paper in the world which appears once a year. It would, however, be a mistake to suppose that the department holds to the letter of the law, loose as that is. The expedients I have described seem to be adopted out of a spirit of pure mischief, pretty much as a cat torments a mouse before giving it the coup de grace. for when the humor takes them the authorities do not hesitate ta suppress by a stroke of the pen a paper which has been submitted to the preventive censure, and is, therefore, in a sense, edited by the administration. Thus were suppressed the Kieff Telegraph, the Qdessa r’mvda and the Smolensk Messenger. I believe. too, that the Kiefi Trona has lately shared the same fate. All these were under the preventive regime, which means of course that they were not allowed to publish a line unseen by the censor. In 1876 the Government, utterly regard- less ot the law, and without assigning a reason, suppressed an entire literatureâ€" that of the Ukraine. Except novels, it was forbidden to publish anything whatever in the language of that countryâ€"a proceeding absolutely without precedent even in Rus- sia. Nearly all these measures were taken in the time of Alexander II. By throwing every possible impediment in the way or starting new journals, by having censors only in a few at the principal towns (which rendered it well~nigh impossible to conduct papers in any other towu), the Government found no difficulty in practically extin- guishing the provincial press. Hence Alexander III. had only to do with the press of the two capitals, and it must be admitted that in this contest Count Ignaâ€" tiefl' and, above all, Count Tulstoi showed more discernment than was displayed by our generals in the war against Turkeyâ€"â€" they attacked the enemy where he was weakest. The Indian girl, as a. rule, is nufi pretty, say those who have seen her M the Guv~ eramenb schools. She Is Manse-featured, large-boned and ill-formed, though her hair is glossy and abundant, her 6) as bright, and her 0010: no darker than that of an Italian. She is also hkely to be predisposed to consumpiion or scrotula, her peopha are so ignoraua of hygienic laws. In manner she dignified and graceful, but: shy. The most saline hot spring in the world has been discovered at Idaho Springs, 001. The boiling water contains from 34 to 40 per cent. of sodio sulphate, carbonahe and other salts. It is so alkwline that it_dissolvee skin. Sabine Pass, Tex , is the great alligator market of the South. Last week 1,500 hides were sold at that place. THE RUSSIAN PRESS. The local philanthropists who are advo- cating the establishment of a public stone or wood yard. where a tramp can break stone or saw wood for a meal or lodging, should remember that the thing has been tried on a small scale several times, and the result proved anything but satis- factory. Any private wood yard in the city Will give a tramp work enough to earn a meal, but the first thing in order is to get the gentleman of leisure to the spot. This might be accomplished by tying him hand and foot and loading him an a waggon, but it is doubtful if milder measures would succeed. In point of fact a tramp is a good-lor-nothing. He is an idler ; he is a loafer ; he is a criminal. If there was any industry in him it is not one time in a thousand that he would have to leave his own town for work. He deliberately sets out on'his travels with the idea that the world owes him a living. If he can’t get it by begging he_will secure it by steal- A Genius Whose Opportunity to Swindle the Negro is Fast Decreasing. The arrest of Joseph Carroll, a “ voudoo doctor,” the other day, for swindling anpld colored woman, calls to mind some inter- esting facts about a superstition which has had astrong hold upon the negro. With the advance of education among the colored people, the business of the voudoo doctors became less lucrative. They find enough dupes, however, to make their nefarious practice yield them a pretty good living. The voudoo doctor is generally an old whit:- haired negro, who walks with a crooked cane and carries something resembling an old army haversack slung across his shoulders. As he walks along he occasion- ally stops, looks upward, waves his stick in apeculiar way and seems to hold mys- terious converse with the invisible spirits of the air it such there be. All these antics have their effect upon the super- stitious negro, especially those of the female sex, who are the largest patrons of the bogus doctor. In his bag or haversack he carries a queer assortment, the toenails of dead men, roots and herbs, curious pieces of iron, bits of wool, etc., with which he pretends to make marvellous cures. It was during slave time the voudoo doctor flourished. He did a thriving business among runaway negroes, who were pro- mised immunity from punishment in case of recapture for a small sum. One of the voudoo doctor’s methods of operating is to secure a black chicken and two pieces of silver froma dupe. He then procures a skillet, which he half fills with water, placing the pieces of silver in the skillet opposite each other. He then requests his dupe to mentally name one of the pieces alter the enemy whom he desires to circumvent. When the water begins to boil he drops an occasional feather from the black chicken into the skillet, mumb- ling something which is unintelligible. As soon as the water boils the pieces of money begin to rise and fall, as they naturally ‘ would do, and by a skiliul manipulation of the skillet he brings one o! the pieces on top of the otherâ€"the one beneath always being the one named after the enemy of his dupe. For this the dupe is expected to pay according to his meansâ€"from $1 up to 3510. Another voudoo trick is to pretend to sew a 31 or $5 bill in the upper band of the pants to insure good luck, but actually secreting the money and sewing a piece of folded paper in the pants instead. Still another voudoo trick is to burya small package ; wrapped in red flannel and get a dupe to dig it up. When the package is found it is said by the voudoo doctor to be a good omen, for which he charges the dupe a handsome fee. An old voudoo doctor in West Washington recently acquired quite a reputation by his aileged cure of a colored girl sfliicted with rheumatism, his recipe being a decoction oi sassafras, red pepper, fine and coarse salt, and soap. For a small vial of this he charged $1.50 and for a personal visit $5. The more mysterious the voudoo doctor is. the more patients he obtains. They are seldom arrested, as they enjoin secrecy on their patrons, who generally observe their requests. If a patient survives their treat- ment, the cure is attributed to the vou- dcoist, and if he dies his friends are ashamed to confess that they have been victimized.â€" Washington Post. ing. He stands ready to cheat, lie, steal, rob, commit arson, and no less than six of the scoundrels have com- mitted rape in this tate within the past eight months. The idea that a beggar should be made to pay for his meals is all right, but it Detroit had twenty places where he could get his dinner by an hour's work with hammer or saw he would still find a thousand soft-hearted wives who would feed him at the kitchen door. The women, are more to blame for tramps than all other-causes. So long as they will feed and clothe these vagabcnds under the name of charity so long will the country be over- run with the fellows. It it were a punish- able cflence to give one of them food or old clothes one year‘s time would see the last of them. If we had the same law as Ohio and Texas it would not be six months before the State would be entirely clear of them. The tramp deserves arrest on sight and a sentence to prison on general prin- ciples. Not one in a hundred can claim pecuniary loss as a foundation (or setting out on their tours. They are fellows who never had anything to lose. Their idea is to get an easy living, and as for reforms.- tion, it would be wasting sugar to sweeten a bad egg.-â€"Dctroit Free Press. A man from the outside world of realities describes the life of Arkansas as follows : Long days at doing nothing beget little energy. Little food is needed, and less new clothing. In the fall and winter the crops are gathered and turned over to the merchant, who holds a mortgage. To sum up the labor of years: I was on the place yesterday and found an old double log-house so nearly rotted down that it is propped up all around ; the windows were without glass, the door-frames without doors ; the children could pass out between the logs in any direction; the lady and friend were sittingin the “gallery,” a space betweenthe two cab-ins, on split chairs, contentedly “ dipping " enufl, while the lord and master, in dirty,begrimed clothes, sat under a tree, doing nothing, but looking happy as the day is long. Fences rotted down, and lean pigs with "pokes" on them, two sorry-looking horses trying to pickaliving from short grass, and little children. half a dozen or more, with but a single garment on, were listlessly playing in the shade. The lands originally poor, with but two or three inches of soil on the prairies, were worn out and abandoned. A modest person seldon tails to gain the good will of those he conversas with, because nobody envies a. man who does not appear to be pleased with himself. " THE VOUDOO DOCTOR.” About Feeding Trumps. Idle in Arkansas. WHOLE NO 1,370 NO. 19. There are a great many young men in New York who manage to live well, enjoy frequent excursions and keep well in the amusement swing by conducting all of their entertainments on what is commonly known as the Philadelphia plan. They are the well-dressed, good-natured and jolly- looking men who are seen together in a box at the theatre, dining at a good restaurant, going to the races on a coach, or running 05 for two or three days’ fishing on a yacht. Their bills are paid unobtrusively and quietly, but when the crowd is alone, a prompt settlement is bad, and each man pays his own share. When a number of men “ whack up ” tor a dinner it reduces the cost very much. They can eat a much better dinner, have more wine and a greater variety than when dining alone, and for less money. As a rule, the young men who go about town habitually are not over- burdened with funds, and if any one of them attempted to entertain all his friends he would find it a serious drain on his purse. That is why the Philadelphia plan is resorted to. During the races at Jerome Park the hotel coaches are continually employed by crowds of men who go on this principle. The coaches have movable seats which can be arranged on top so that they look like veritable coaching-club drugs, and when drawn by four spanking bays they make quite a presentable appearance. With a crowd of ten or fifteen men aboard, such a coach usually forms a very lively sort of a procession. The young men usually chip in from $3 to $10 apiece and make the solid sum with which they buy a horse for a winner and a horse for a place in every race. This keeps them interested all through the day, and when they go home they divide the winningsâ€"it there are any. In the same way they arrange yachting trips and excursions to the country. It may not be a particularly aristocratic mode of procedure, but it certainly is much fairer to all concerned than the indiscrimi- nate habit of treating, by which the poorest man in the crowd is usually impoverished â€"through the proverbial generosity of poor menâ€"and the mean man has no end of fun without paying for it.â€"Ncw York Sun. Young Theologue-Yes, we think you might oless “ gosh-dun: ” and “ dad hing " as profane swearing. “ Gaul ding " may also be considered a. swear word. “ I’m swizzled " is another. All these words are the outgrowth of a terrible struggle, a theological compromise arranged by our Puritan ancestors, who recognized with faultless spiritual vision and worldly acumen the necessitv of a. pure life and a. sinless vocabulary, and at the some time the utter impossibility of ploughing s New England stone patch without a. class of words designed to relieve the overburdened mind and astonished feelings every time the plough-handles broke a. man’s ribs and extorted every last drop of vital breath from his panting body.â€"Bob Burdens. A pet bear broke his chain at Gsiuesville. Fla", and attacked a. number of buthers in the water, so seriously squeezing one that he drowned before he could be rescued. This delicate instrument, only recently invented, is a. companion-piece to the scales in the Asaayer'a office of the Treasury, by which the weight of a hair is accurately tested.â€" Washington Post. Water is so incredibly scarce in Texas that it is reported of two young men in returning from San Antonio with a. bottle of whiskey that they were glad to exchange it to: an equal amount of water. -‘ By this dial we can see just the thick- ness By this lever, which Is very much llke s. pair of grooer’s scales, we can tell jUrt what pressure the paper will stand. You see, we have two other movable pieces of iron here, With a hole entirely through both, and a plunger which passes through that hole. Well, we put the paper between those pieces, which, when they are pressed tightly together by this 1ever,hold it firmly. The plunger, which passes through the opening in the two pieces of iron, encounters this paper thus firmly held. To know what the pressure is, we have the plunger attached to a scale lever with a weight attached like an ordinary pair of scales, and by moving this weight out along the lever until the paper breaks, of course we can see just what the weight is that made it break. See? Very simple after you understand it. Well, that is what the paper-makers thought after they had lost an $80,000 contract by it. It was a new thing to them, but they acknowledged that they were beaten when they saw it." scissors and clipped 01$ 5 hair from the mustache and placed it in position. The hand stopped at 50. " 50 16-1,000ths of an inch think,” he eaii. “ That shows the effect of shaving. I measured a hair from the hand of a. gentleman a few minutes ago which was 40 16-1,000ths thick, but those in his mustache were precisely the same thickness, the reason being that he had never shaved. Yes, that is the machine that proved that the firm making our envelopes was not fulfilling its contract.” he said. as he fell back admiringly. ' ' I A. D “ Just 20 16-1,000tha of an inch in diame- ter," he said. “ Now let me try a hair from your mustache. They are generally much larger, especially if you have been in the habit of shaving.” He took up a. pair A Delicate Machine in the Post-omce Dcpkrlmenl rind in; Use. A curious little machine in the office of the chief of the stamp bureau of the post- LffiOB department is the cause of the can- cellation oi the contract of the New Eng- land firm with the Governmentfor furnish- 1ng envelopes to the Postâ€"office Department. It is a queer-looking contrivanceâ€"a cross between a set of butchers’ scales and ordi- nary grocere' scales, or rather a combina- tion of the two. There is a larger die], like the face of a clock, with the little hand that flies around the face pointing to the figures at the side, which are arranged like the figures on the clock face, with little dots between. “ You see three dots ?” said the gentlemen in charge, inquiringly. “ Well, the space between these indicates one-sixteen-thousendth of an inch. Getting it down pretty fine, isn’t it ? You see this movable piece of iron here which comes down with a smooth surface upon this other solid surface ? Well, the raising er lowering of that moves the pointer which ‘ runs round the dial. To test the thickness of a sheet of paper we simply place it between this movable piece and the solid surface below, and when the movable piece of iron comes down upon the paper the hand registers the true thickness of the paper. Delicate instrument? Well, I should think so. Just give me a hair from your head, will you ‘2” Then he took a hair and slipped it deftly between the movable pieces. The hand on the dial followed the motions of the screw until it stopped at the figures 20. u 1__,i nn 1n 1 Anni. Teefy 0n the Philadelphia Plan. A HAIR’S THICKNESS. Classllvlnz Promnily. A painful instance of the dire distress experienced by some families in Sunderlend has just been discovered. A lady who kept a. pig in the west part of the town, having her suspicions aroused, kept watch upon her stye, and was surprised at dusk to see a men and woman approach the trough and scoop out the breed, etc., which had been put in for the animal‘s meal. The lady followed the couple to their home. and after allowing a. few minutes to elapse followed them into the house, and was surprised to discover five little children sitting round a table and readily devouring the food taken from her pig’s trough. Anew kind of entertainment has first sprung up in New York society, which promises to afford considerable amusement and pleasure to those who take part in it. It is phrenology. Some people I know 01, says a. writer, lntend the coming winter to We “ phrenologieal ” parties ; that is, to ave a. phrenologist come to their houses and amuse their friends by feeling the protuberances on the ormiums of those who will submit to it. Avisitor from the New World cannot but be struck with the absolute inde‘d pendence with which Englishmen live up to their own ideas, whether they coincide with the general current of opinion or not. On the other side of the Atlantic public sentiment rules with almost irresistible force; no erratic departures from the general law are tolerated ; every man must conform to the rules of the majority. It you know one young man in the United States you know them all. They resemble each other with curious fidelity in dress, manner and appearance. Their Very thoughts, racy and original as they are, run in the same groove, and they give expression to them in the same ohrystal- ized forms of speech. This iron rule does not prevail to nearly so great an extent in Canada, but it exists with sufficient force to make the index pendence 01'. the indxvrdual English-~ man marked even to a Canadian. The old Indian generals who afleot eastern modes of life in misty England, the retired sea captains whose talk is ever in nautical phrases 02 nautical matters, and other riders of hobbies innumerable, who have furnished materials to many author, and amusement to many generations of readers, abound in England and help to render the land picturesque and attractive. All these harmless and amusing eccentricities are almost ruled down into a dead level of monotonous uniformity in the New World. Perhaps I should except New York from this general statement. This, the greatest city in America, is the most cosmopolitan in its character. Men of all nationalities go to make up its vast population; it is less distinctly American than Philadelphia or Boston. Its young men, whether inten- tionally or not, closely resemble young Englishmen; indeed. all classes exhibit their own peculiarities uninfluenced by the repressing tyranny of general habits or op1nions.-C’asscll’s Family Magazine. “ There,” said the starter. “ you have seen something that goes on here every day as regular as clockwork. The pigeons come in the morning and about this time in the afternoon every day and enjoy their meal. The pigeons always eat their share one at a. time, as you have seen. They had a. regular battle last month to settle which should be the leader at the meal, and the biggest and handeomest male of the lot won, and has ever since been first at table. The sparrows feed last of all. All the birds are pets 0! the treinmen. They send down lots of bread and cake to be led to the flock, and the birds are seemingly getting to know them." Sparrows build nests in a. great many of the station roots on all the elevated lines, and are fed by the patterns. In one down« town station there is a pat mouse that has been fed till it has got so tat it can hardly run. Several ticket; agents have fitted up cages in their stations, and oanaries sing in themâ€"New York Sun. Half a. dozen pigeons that had been watching him from the roof of a house opposite the station flew one after another to the bread crumbs, ate what they wanted. took a. drink of the water, and sailed away again. A dozen sparrows that had been uneasily fluttering about the telegraph wires flew to the crumb box in a. flock the moment the pigeons departed and quickly devoured What was left of the bread. Pigeons and Sparrows Pet-chin“ on the Elevated Bond tox- two Luca]: II Dav. A jolly-faced man darted out from the atarter’s box at the city hall elevated station yesterday and heaped some sweet bread crumbs on the top of a. coal box at the end of the station. Then he poured some fresh water into a large tin eup near the crumbs and hurried back to his box. The Glories ol Ilse Plain. and the Awlni- ness of the Mountains Poeticnlly Cou- trusted. I was just thinking I would like to be sent out west just about now on some com- mission for an able and enterprising jour- nal, _at a large salary, railroad passes, nothing to do, and two or three of the boys to help me do it, says Bob Burdette, in the Brooklyn Eagle. I just feel a little bit pra1r1e_hungry. The western man never loses his love for the prairies. They call them “ prurries " in Indiana, " peraries " in Illinois, " prairs ” in Nebraska, “ perars" in Kentucky and “ pararies " in Boston, but whatever you call them they are all the same. I would like to hear the wind blowing across the great plains in Kansas, over the beautiful treeless blufis at Man- hattan, or along the great reaches out at Larned. You know the wind never blows anywhere else as it does across the prairies. And there it blows all the time, 365 days a year. It roars in your ears now and then like the rush of many waters ; it sighs and whispers through the tall,swaying grasses ; its song is never monotonous ; it varies all day long; and, as it sings and whistles, it breathes into your soul a sense oi perfect freedom, such as you can experience nowhere else. A mountain is a prison com- pared with the prairie. The mountain threatens you ; it is not loving and tender ; it frowns upon you with great gray rocks ; it never smiles; it scowls with dark ravines and treacherous preci- pices; it terrifies you with blinding fogs and drifting mists; it swathes the stony, gorgon head in black clouds and speaks to you in muttering syllables of thunder. You cannot breathe in the narrow passes; you cannot run on the steep, rough, winding paths; you bend your head back until your neck aches to see a little strip of blue sky. But the prairieâ€"boundless, immense, a billowy sea of emerald, dotted with the rank, bright-colored flowers that play with the singing, whistling, whispering windsl; the prairie that seems bounded only by the bending sky and stars ; the resin weed gives you the compass and the compass gives you the path; go where you W1“ and as you please, at a foot pace or a headlong gallop, tree as the free winds that make the prairie their only home. There is no room for them anywhere else. I don’t sup- pose I will get the commission I am hint- ing at, but I would like to go out to the prairies and cool 03 for about ten minutes. True, the walking is good, butâ€"yes, oh. yes, I can walk. I can walk. I can walk. Oh, yes, I can walk. I don’t say I won’t. But I will say I hate to. I want to see the prairies. Yes; but under the peculiar circumstances attending this campaign, I believe I will wait until the prairies come to Ardmore. That’s the way the mountain did with William H. Mohammed. PETS 0F RAILROAD MEN. Monotouy 01 American Men. Eating Pig-1’ Food. 0N THE PRAIRIES.