St. Louis Globe-Democrat from St. Louis, Missouri • 3

AN ASTOUNDED AUDIENCE. Brown, the Mind. Reader, Gives: a Mysterious Performance. The Secret Thoughts of Well- Citizens Seemingly Acenracy Spiritualisms Exposed. Leas than 500 people enjoyed an ment given last night by E.

Randall Brown, the mind reader and exposer of "'spiritualistic The first part of the programme was entirely original and meritorious, and the secoud part was equally interesting to the majority ot the audience, who had been constantly mystified by tile performance of mediums. As an exponent of animal magnetism as the power of applying pegehid force, E. Randall Brown succeeded in converting his anditors to a belief in his theories by netual demonstration that was convincing to the most skeptical. The stage was flitted for the occasion with a cabinet similar to the one in common use among spiritual-ts. At the left wings was placed a piano, and back of that chairs were placed for a committee of gentlemen seleeted from the audience to supervise the performance and if possible to detect trickery.

In this capacity the coni: Inittee had nothing to discover, and their ferreting faculties were not called into active requisition. After the committee bad been seated, Mr. Brown said that he proposed to open the evening's entertainment with simple test of: mind-runding by the ercise of his power over any gentleman -a faculty that would divulge to him whist was transpiring in the mind of the person reelected. The committee selected Thomas E. who willingly consented to the test.

Mr. Brown, aftor instructing Mr. Garret how to proceed, then took a thick cotton bandage which be placed over his eyes and allowed committee to examine. Mr. Garret was then requested to conceal 40116 small article wherever he chose.

A small buttoner was selected, and a tor being inclosed in the case of an opera lung the box was coneenled. Mr. Garret returned to the stage, when he was seized by the operator, who, after making several quick nervous passes with His rigut hand, winle he hell his band in his loft, be started down from the stage blindfolded and proceeded at breakneck speed the center aisle. He Walked the length the aisle several times if undecided, and suddenly darted out into the loger and reappeured at the right-center entrance, whence he went direetty to a short distance from the parquette, and stopping, vent down. After tumbling several secon.is around a chair he secured the opera-glass case, and opening it presented the buttoner to the owner.

The audience cheered loudly, and removing the bandage Brown returned to the staze. He appeared to be Inboring under intense excitemont, and when be regained his composure hie stated that in order to divine the shougnts Passing in the mind be had to subject himself to strong mental and physical tatigue that very exhausting. When so absorbed in divination be said be Acted through the person selected, and notwithst nding his bandage, he observed with the other person's -yes. The bandage he claimed WaS only applied to Lis mental isolation and estrange his thonghte from the surroundings. A more crucial experiment was next tried.

At the solicitation of the committee, Mr. Henry Moore, of the Post- Dispatch, appeared on the stage. He was told to select some persons in the audience, who would be and afterwards picked out. Mr. Brown bandaged his own eyes, and after making several spasmodic thrusts and passes in mid air wish Moore at arm's length he made the cirenit of the aisles, and returning removed the bandage and accurately described the persons who were chosen.

He supplemented his description by asking the audience to change seats when he made a rapid tour, Lid at the end of tre jour-. ney selected two gentlemen in a remote corner, bom Mr. Moore acknowledged as the per-on of his choice. Another illustration was given by a gentleman writing on pAper a route through tire theater, over which Mr. Brown aaked to travel.

The per WAS handed to the committee. and the mind reader, seizing the route, almost ran through the building, up an aisle, down another, doubling back on bis tracks and en route entering a box. in which was seated Charles Pope and tamily, and eventually back to the stake. The committee to the meantime were following the movements described on the paper, and at the conclusion they the medium on Diving foil wed the proper course, only omitting to BAy when he, appeared in the box, Good day, Mr. Mr.

Brown then proposed to establish communication with spirit world. and Mr. Thos. Wood, of GL GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, WAS called to the stage. He was instructed to think ot Home deceased friend, and was placed at small table to the medinm, who, after brief tine.

appeared greatly agitated, and frantically called for paper and pencil. Both were brought and rejected, the paper having been previously written upon. Another supply www nroenred. and the following message was wri ton: with you to-night. Ido assure you we really Hve niter death.

I am the spirit Sara Previously Mr. Wood gave the committee a slip of paper containing the name of the person he bad in mind, and when this was compared with the message to veruy the medium's power, the names were found to correspond. The appearance and style of the lady were also described. The au dience were astounded at what they felt convinced were supernatural manifestations, but their ballucination dimp lied by the exhibitor, who sauce he act only mulnted spiritualism to enhance the effect. 1 missive was wholly isiaginary, as he only pie ended 10 natue the person whom Mr.

Wood was thinking of. I ving accomplished that much, he stated that the turitation and- frenzy Wig 8 a spi if aalistic trance. Thi concluded the mind read ug. and it was pu po ed to expose sonic of tue frauds of spiritu. asm.

An iron rin. about ten inches in diateter WALA produced, and Mr. Sunders Foster was naked to test- the ring for any hollow or joint. None were perceptible and Mr. Foster entered the cabinet, where he was blind -folded.

He 'held the ring in his right hand watte the median held his left. The curtalus were drawn and Foster appeared stupefed to perceive the ring transterred to the other arm without his knowledge. The trick was explained -atisfactorily and the audience applauded loudly. The spirit concert wasnext illustrated. The medium enters the cabinet with two of the audience, whose hands he is supposed to clasp across his breast.

Instend of this the lights are extinguished and the two dupe- Armirchiten one another's hands. The medinio then Busies himself in creating manifest. tons and playingon musical instruments, whien are presumably handled by spirits. The cabinet trick. where manifestations occur while the medium is resting one hand on the head of the operator and the other over his two hands on the table, Was shown In 41 Indidrous light.

Under the plea of adjusting the pair of hands resting on the table. the medium removes one hand from the hend and bends over SO a8 to alidw the cheek to tonch the head and give the same impression. With the disengaged hand the of winged guitars and over. turned tables are produced. Of course the performanee occurs in a dark cabinet, but last night the same effect was produced by blindfolding the victim, who quietly sat through it all, unconscious of the cause of the merriment that neitated the audience.

With the assistance of Mrs. Brown, a sheet-enshrouded specter was conjured from a dark cabinet. Mrg. Brown was seated in the cabinet and a cord wits. tied tigntly around her neck.

The ends were passed through two, holeg in the side and tied outside. The cominittee and the lady's husband watched the onter cord without discovering any movement from the interior, and ntter the ghost emerged the gas was suddenly turned on and the cortina drawn. The lady was seen in the same position, securely fastened. Mr. Brown said it was immaterial to him whether lie called forth one or twenty spirits, but dischimed all spiritual aid, and said.

regarding his mind-reading. he could not account for his won erful faculty of penetration, but remembered having exercised it since ho was a child. FEW complexions can bear the strong white morning light which exposes every speck of tan, every pimple and the slightest spotting of eczema. In Dr. Benson's Skin Cure is sure relief from the annoyance of these blemishes on the cheek of beauty.

BLOODY WORK BY BLOODS. Two Respectably Connected Young Men Engage In a Brutal Assault on 8 Street-Car Driver. About 6:40 o'clock last evening there WaS lively fight on Car 19, of the Chouteau avenue line, making the down trip. At Dolman street two ladies attempted to get out. Two young men, named respectively Ed and Dave, were standing face to face on the platform, and they so crowded their knees together that the ladies conid.

Hardly pass. Pat Cronin, the conductor, requested them to show proper courtesy, to which one of the fellows replied that he had paid his fare. Cronin told him shat even if s6 he should behave as a gentlemAn. The offended individual hit the conductor in the right eye, and the other proceeded to break a light cane in pieces on him. Cronin caught them by the throat and threw them off the car.

Then they "'downed him. and Charles Riegler, passenger, came to his assistance. One of the bloods struck Riegler on the bead with a base-ball clab. Cronin St. Yours Daily ing and Ceremonial Posing.

At morning service in the Second Presbyterian Church, Seventeenth and Locust streets, yesterday, Rev. Edwin F. Hatfeld, D. of New York, preached the sermon. He was introduced by the pastor, Rev.

Dr. Niccolis, in these words: years ago this day--the 14th day of May, 1832-a young man was ordained by the Presbytery of New York to the gospel ministry. received many invitations from the city of his nativity and the neizhborhood, but he felt a call westward to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In this city, which did not extend beyond the borders of Fourth street, no began his work. Through his winistry was org the Second Church, which suusequently returned to the parent church and was organized a second time.

Duty called him East. That man is with us -Dr. Ha: field, known and reverenced througuout the church. He comes again with vigor not impaired, and we shall be glad to hear the testimony of tue gospel from his lips. He comes, alter thiy years, like Moses, his eye not dimmed and his vigor The doctor is really a vigorous old man, with little gray An his form still erect, and voice clear and impressive.

He preached from the sixteenth verse ot the seventeenth chapter of St. John's Gospel: They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." He showed what the disciples of Christ should be, living, speaking, acting, tuinking as He. Tue disciples are not of toe world's party, nor like the world in deportment; not parucipators in its pirasures. Even their religion is DOE that of tire. world.

He described toe religion of the world. There are 'so-called Christians who profess in the Bible. ins Caristianity, in the Onurch, and who do many toward bail ting it up, much as Herod revered John. Their religion is one of 810 fortu, ceremony, posturing. It delignts in the the beautitul, tue teuder, the grand, the sublinie.

It uffects these, and revolts against what is course, low, vulgar. It prides Itsell en costimess and style, and wants the puipit to preach things, to deal with generalities and commonplaces: It takes vuibrage at the plain truth, at doctrinal sermons, at ailusion to the terrors of the Lord and damnation. It is a Sunday relirion in gay trappings, making pretense of serving the Lord on the first day or the week, probably putting neartier devotion into the service of the world the other six days, Suet was not the relizion of Jesus. Elis was the religion of the neart, with nothing of postures, gestures or the like. It discarded all trumpery, ail millinery, all censer-swinging, ail monial posing.

so saould His disciples' religion be. At the close Dr. Hatfleld briefly alluded to his former connection with the Nearly filly years ago he preached for the arst time to a congregation of benevers. On the l4ca of May, 1832, ne was ordained, and early ru the September following Le started 01t his winding course with his young wile to the land of the West. The first Sabbath in October be preached vis first sermon here in WashingCon Avenue Presbyterian Church, the only one then in the city.

A second Presbyterian Church was organized shortly after and committed to his pastorate. That relation was dissolved the third year, in consequence of the death of Lis beloved wile, dust sleeps in their beautiful metery. Hence he came to then as stranger and Jet Bot stranger. Their first beloved pastor, Wm. S.

Cox, was his bosom friend, and very tender and precious was his memory, as also twat of a nost of Christians of both the First and the Second Church with whom he was wont to take sweet counsel. Only bere and there few retain. 0: all it can be said, are not of this They al'e to the Innd where the sun never sets: "They rest from their labors, and their Works follow Soon should they ah meet them in the promised land, for wiu that they also, whom Toou bust given Me, be with Me where I There might tuey all be to go no more out and to be there for- A PIONEER PASTOR. Rev. Edwin T.

Hatfield Preaches the Christianity of Our Has a Word to Say About Censer-Swing- ever. DROWNED IN THE SLOUGH. Sad Fate of a Young Man While Fishing in East st. Louis Yesterday. F.

M. Spahn, a young man of this city, was drowned in the slough at Eust St. Lonis resterday. A son of Mr. Baboteau, the St.

Louis druggist, returned from Fargo, D. recently and Spahn went over to thint side of the river yesterday to enjoy a quiet day's Ashing. They went to the slough and hired a sk ff. Alter they had been fishing tor some time the boat 11: some manner capsized, and its occupants were spilled out into the water. Ravoteau managed to catch bold of a limb of a tree whieh grew up out of the water and hold on until succor came.

Young Spahn was less fortunate. He was unable to get hoid of anything that would support him, and, being unable to swim, he soon went down. The body was recovered and the Coroner notifted. Spahn was about 20 years of age, and a clerk in the commigsion house of Albrecht Flamm. few weeks ago Spahn's father died, and since then the young man has been his mother's only means of support.

He resided with dis mother at No. 813 North Compton avenue. LOCAL IN BRIEF. JOSIE RUPPERT, a 5-year-old boy, is missing from his home, No. 1233 South Fifth street.

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY feet of rope Was stolen from the lumber yards of Schulenberg Boeckeler Lumber Company. A FESTIVAL for the benefit of St. Kevin's Church begins to-night at the school hall, Compton avenue and Sarah street. THE German Teamsters' Benevolent Society had its annual procession vesterday, and in the afternoon a festival at Anthony Kunn's garden. A CONCERT and installation will be given by the Old Female Union Society this evening, at the Eighth Street Baptist.

(colored) Cnurcu, corner of Christy avenue. THE following report was received from the Sm 1-pox Hospital yesterday afternoon: John Bremser, died at 10:20 p. In. Sasurday; Julia and Katie Shay, in critical condition: others doing well. THE Mannerchor of the Hermanng-Sochne beld a concert and ball last night at the new South St.

Louis Turnhali. It wins weil attended, and the different of the programme were excellently executed. AN educational meeting is announced, to be held at the Colored Baptist Church this evening. Addresses are promised from Dr. Jones, Prof.

C. Newton. Prof. E. Wiliams, Rev.

N. Young, Rev. S. Lewis and others. MES.

JUDGE, LAUGHLIN lost a satchel on Saturdny containing a $20 xold piece, a pair of gold ear-rings and some keys. She is at a lose to know whether she g.ve the satchel to some lady friend at the Armory or lost it on her wav home. LAST evening there was lively time at 1315 North Ninth street, between the Winn family and the Cahill family. Thomas Winn is npparently a quiet us well as old man, but Mrs. Cahill, Mary Cabili and Annie Cahill say be cut them with a knife.

OFFICER TOM CHURCH is laid up. He arrested two. young men for fluhting about 11 o'clock Saturday night, and as he was taking them to the station a friend of one of them stole up behind him and hit him between the shoulders with a whole brick. UP to 10:30 o'clock last night the Third Police Distriet and the Third Sub- district had fiftysix cases for Court this morning, with prospects of many warm weather is bringing out the fighting and drinking element. A TELEGRAM to the GLOBE- DEMOCRAT from a correspondent at Nashville last night pronounces Samuel Cupples alive, in splendid health, never sick since his arrival there, and stopping at the Maxwell House.

It 15 not known how the rumor of his sudden death obtained circulation. MR. HENRY JAEGER, living at Thirteenth and Malinckroat street, and working for the firm of Allcott, Ross Broadway Planing Mills. Saturday afternoon, permitted his leit hand too near a circular saw while in rapid motion. and had his thumb and two fingers severely injured.

THE Trades and Labor Assembly devoted the meeting at Turner Hall yesterday to making arrangements for the pienic on the 4th of June at Concordia Park. Thirty unions will be represented, and addresses will be delivered by Trevalleck, of Detroit, and Secretary Trayes, Boston, of the International Typographical Union, which will be in session in St. Louis during the whole of that week. ABOUT 9 o'clock 1 st night two young fellows brought the remnants of a Brewster cloth-top buggy attached to a sorrel pony mare, to Seventeenth and North Market, jump out, left the rig in care of a small boy, and ran away. Top and body of the buggy were gone land little was left but the damage in all-and the poor animal had been driven almost to death.

The harness was old, but there were new lines and bridle. The pony is baldfaced and with a little white near the left hind fetlock. THE committee appointed by the Grand Army of the Republic, consisting of Nelson Cole, J. S. Cavender and Col.

Rogers, to make preparations at the National Cemetery, Jefferson Barracks, for Decoration Day, has completed all arrangements. Gen. Neil, commander of the cavalry depot, has promised to give the visitors an escort from the landing to the cemetery and attend to the other details at that point. A steamer will leave the foot of Olive street on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 30, at 2 o'clock and return at 6 o'clock, sharp. John Geiser's Fatal Fall.

John Geiser, a Swiss, 43 years old, was formerly a tailor, but for the last year had a barroom on Second Carondelet avenue, near Gate Monday Morning, street. He had contracted the habit of drinking. and last week he sold out his saloon and told his wife, who lives at 36 St. Joseph street, that he would go into the country and sober up. But Saturday he returned and informed ber that he had taker a room at 1217 Collins street.

He was still very nervous from drinking. He went on a visit to sotne friends that night at 507 O' Fallon street, and between 9 and 10 o'clock he attempted to go down the back stairs. He missed his footing and fell, badly bruising his head. Dr. Armstrong dressed it and sent him to his room, where he died at 4 o'clock yesterday morning.

The Coroner held an inquest and returned a verdict that the man cane to his death from concussion of the brain. Geiser left a wife and four children. AMUSEMENTS. GRAND OPERA HOUSE. Haverly's Consolidated Mastodon Minstrels appeared at the Grand yesterday evening to a very fair house.

The company is hardly 80 strong as might be supposed from the decidedly ambitious title of the organization which suggests that the forces of two of Haverly'8 companies had been combined, but on the whole it is an effective troupe and contains some fine talent. The first part of the programme is very twir, introducing some new and pleasing comic and sentimental sougs. E. M. Hall's comic song of Mrs.

Brady's pianoforte was very weil received, and Edwin Harley's ballad, My Love's a Lover, was excellent. J. Garland's descriptive ballad, Hark, the Dream, was very good and so were Billy Rice's Billy's Wish' and Frank Cushman's Medley Miritaire." The olio introduced Billy Rice in 21 piece called The Young Actor, the Dockstaders in 'Refined Minstrelsy, the best feature of the evening's entertainment, the Gorman brothers in a military clog, G. M. Hall as 8 banjo soloist another pleasant features, the pertorinance winding up with a burlesque on Patience which was quite full of fun.

The Consolidated Blastodon Minstrels will be at the Grand during the remainder of the week, and Saturday night their performance will be fox the benefit of James Hannerty, the popular Assistant Treasurer of the Grand Opera House. PEOPLE'S THEATER. A very thin audience, whose nttennation, however, was by no means equal to that of the entertainment provided, was present at the People's yesterday evening, where the juvenne prodigy from the East, Corrine, and her party, gave a performance of the Mascotte, which, for absolute lack of merit, surpassed the worst Mascotte organizations which had hitherto vi-ited this city. The unhappy Mascotte has been on several occasions cruelly murtiered in this city, but never in so foul and merciless a manner as yesterday evening. 'The Iyrie star." whose reputation rests upon the foolish fuss which the New York Society tor the Prevention of Cruelty to Children made about her some time ago, is a ruther interesting child, with a very load voice tor her size, and a few tricks of the stage, which.

it is evident, she nas been carefully taught. Apart from her youth; and she is neither so young or so clever as several of the little ones who took part in Mrs. Benton's Juvenile Opera, in Mercantile Library Hall, last winter, there is nothing to recommend her performance, which is, musically and otherwise flat. Outside of the lyric star, the performance was wretched. with the exception, perhaps, of a donble cloz dance and the eccentric motions of a terpsichorean hizh-kicker-a class of talent which shonid hardly find place in an operatic entertainment-and the suggestion is irresitible that the versatile and merry-lovinx New Yorker, Mr.

Berg. would win the gratitude of the Propie's andience last night, by placing himself at the head of a society for the prevention of crueity to audiences, and acting conscientiously to protect from such 8 travesty of operatic entertainment as that which was fo sted upon sundry unfortunate people yesterday evening. POPE'S TREATER This evening the Philadelphia Church Choir Company will open an engagement of one week, appearing in Sullivan Gilbert's opera of Patience. The company is a strong one, and their pertormances have been very highly spoken of wherever they have appeared. It is a long time sinte a really good operatic performance has been available here, and a rou-ing reception of the Philadelphians is looked for.

SUFFOCATING SMOKE. A Small Fire in a Broomcorn Warehouse Gives the Department Much Trouble -A Fine-Haired Fire. wagon -pole. Fire in a Hair Store. Lust evening at a fey minutes after 8 o'clock B.

Laibold, proprietor of the saloon No. 201 South Third street, saw smoke issuing from the premises just south of his own, and, concluding that there was a blaze in there, he turned on an alarm from box No. 71, at the corner of Elm and Tuird streets. The firemen, on reaching the scene, kicked in the doors of the building No. 203 South Third street, ocenpied hav Samuei Copples Co.

a warehouse for the storing of broomcorn. As the doors flew open clouds of smoke burst out, making it appear that there Was a good, big ftre in progress: within. Lines of hose were run to the and the firemen were soon at work in all tire stories of it. The water put out what fire there was in no time, but the smoke held its own antil the firemen were driven out of the building. The smoke and gas which they had inhaled was of such quantity that when they came out in the fresh air several of them fell to the ground.

Assistant Chief Hester fell twice and was pinked ap and taken to the corner of Myrtle and Third streets, where Driver Maloney of the 6s and others brought him aleun in short order. Subsequently Hester wag seen at work again. Bower, of the Skinner Truck, and Barney Tiernan, pipeman of the No. 6 engine, were both prostrated by the sunoke and gas which they had inhal-d, and they were taken to the No. 6 house in the coul wagon, where prompt measares soon placed them upon their t.

Conway of the Skinner truck. Sesslin of the No. 6, and Tilton of the No. 15 house, all fell to the ground after coming out of the smoking building, but a dash of water revived thein, and they were able to resume their regular duties before the tire WAR out, and it was not extinguished until the les of broomcorn. which were piled ceiling high, were carted ont into Third street, where they.

stand now, blockading the whole thoroughfare. Only the ends of few of them were burned, an expert placing the loss at $500, which will fall on Cupples Co. The building is owned by the Farrell h-irs, is insured, and damaged by water and fire $100 wortli. The fire was started by sparks from a stove in rooms over Laibold's saloon flying through into the room where the broomcorn was stored, the flue on that side being open. On the road to the fire the Salvage Corns waron collided with the No.

6 engine. The only damage done was the breaking of the About 8:40 yesterday morning a still alarm was given the men of Truck 3 for a fire in De Donato's hair store, northeast corner of Sixth and Olive. A new drying machine had Intely been put in operatinn in the manufacturing department in the rear. The tubing by which it was connected with the vas -pipe was bmined away, and the machine 19 well as a lot of lair, which Mr. Donato valued at $400, was destroyed.

There was also a gasoline stove over the dryer, and it was red -hot, as Foreman Thompson found when he threw it into street. The 3s extingnished the fire with the Babcocks. WAS BE PATSY'S PAL? Harry Williams, Now in Jail, Thought To Be One of the Murderers of Aaron Goodrellow. Friday Patsy Devine was executed in Clinton, for the murder of Aaron Goodfellow in Bloomington, on August 4, 1879. Goodfellow was a very prominent citizen of Bloomington, who had made considerable money at farming.

On the night of the murder he Was returning home from a neighbor's house when he was met by two men who ordered him to throw up his hands. Thinking they were joking, the old gentleinan, who wash very agile, began a tassel, and W28 shot throngi the mouth. This was conclusive proof that the men were in earnest, and he obeyed their order, receiving another through the body A8 he did 80. He died the following morning from his injuries. For al long time the perpetrators of the deed were unknown, but finally circumstances pointed to Parsey Devine and man named Harry Williams.

Ten months ago the former WaS arrested at the house of his uncle in Northern New York. At the trial a very strong circumstantial case WaS made out against him, and he WAS convicted and executed. 'The whereabouts of his accomplice, Willjams were never learned, though a most vigorous search was made for him. There is at the present time a Harry Williams in Jail here on a charge of highway robbery, and he 19 said to be the man who was with Devine on the night of the murder. The circumstances of the robbery for which Williams was arrested are very much similar to the attempted robbery of Mr.

Goodfellow, only lacking the fatal ending. If as is supposed be is the same Harry Williams, then he will probably be taken to Illinois and tried for being an accomplice to the murder of Mr. Goodfollow, and in that event his chances for wearing a tightfitting collar are very good. FORTY- -EIGHT dwellings, -eight residence lots, at auction to-day at Real Estate Exchange, corner of Seventh and Chestnut street, to the highest bidder. Sale begins at 9:30 a.

sharp. May 15, 1882. 3 rent to his rescue with AN iron switch- hook: and the young fellow drew a With the driver's assistance the two were sub turd. They were both under the influence of liquor. 1' said he was going to 632 South Fifth street.

Ed, the more violent of the two, is quid to be the son of a proprietor of a "'bucket shop." AFRAID OF A The Efforts of Relatives to Save John Linsey from a Night to Cuba. John Linsey, who was arrested on Saturday evening for the murder of William Dodd at Cuba, left on the train for that last evening in charge of Joseph N. Martin, the City Marshal who had come to make the arrest. W. H.

Linsey, father of the accused, and S. Lockwod, his brother-in-law, secured the services of Cornelius McBride, the attorney, early yesterday morning, to prevent Linsey's return to Cuba by the suing out of a writ of habeas corpus, The father and brother-In seemed to be actuated by a fear for Linsey's salety en route to Cuba, and stoutly ass rted toat he would be lynebed by the friends of the murdered man it taken to Cuba during the mint time. What lent some crediUnlity to these assertions in this regard was the fuet thut they were willing to pro nise not to sue out any writ of habeas corpus it the prisquer was detained until to-day, so that might arrive in Cuba during the day. Mr. Me Bride obtained a noco from Judge Cady, requesting Chief Kennett to hold the prisoner until this morning, but the Chier thought he bad no rigut to interfere, and, though a petition for habeas corpus had been drawn up, the time WaS SO short that none of the Judges could be found, after Judge Cady had been sought shor in vain.

The fact that the City Marshal of Cuba, should have come to St. Louis to make the arrest ed only wittsa warrant issued by a Justice of the Peace, when an indictment, as is alleged, had been found azainst Linsey, caused many to suspect that it was not intended to show ham fair out it was learned last evening that Willian Kemp, of 2212 Franklin a venge, had been around in a buggy with the Sheriff of Crawford Conury for three days last week, hunting for, Linsey, but they were unable to find ohn, and before the return of the Sheet LO Cuba Miss Delcour, who lite known Linsey's whereabonts in St. Louis informed the friends ol Dodd who sent Martin to make the arrest. On the arrival at the depot, Saturday nigut, the services of Serge at Burke were secured, and the Marshal and the Sergeant knowing that the luther and tire sonin-law had recognized Martin and Miss Delcour. ordered a hack and drove to the house where Linsey Was staying.

Sergeant Burke left Martin in the carriage and went into the house with the girl to make the capture. Linsay, however, tried to effect luis ese-pe the rear eutrance upon seeing the offiver, and being frustrated ip thi-, endeavored to escape by running up-stairs. Sergeant Burke tollowed and caught him by the coatbringing him to a halt. The prisoner then denied his identity, saying his mine Was Hendrieks, but when confronted by Miss Delcour simply said that nothing could be done with him. Mr.

Martin was found after awhile and the prisoner taken to the Four Courts. The friends ol the accused seemed to think that he had been once tried for the crime of which he stands charged, out the trial spoken of was merely a preliminary examination before in Justice of the Peace. The crime with which Linsey is charged the killing, of William Dodd, a resident of Cuba, oIl last January. The quarrel beeen the two men arose from a demand inade by Dodd for Cigar. Linsey WAS tendin bar at the time and replied that he had no cigars.

but that if Dodol would wait a little he would yo out and buy him one. Dodd refused to believe Linsey, and said he would have the cigar, and alter the exchange of come, insulting rewarks jumped behind the bar with an apparent intention of injuring Linsey. The latter reached for at cleaver which WaS lying. behind the bar and hit Dodd on head. inflicting wounds from which he died within ten days.

The triends of Linsey, however, claim thit death was the result of exposure and urglect. Martin and his prisoner were accomp nied to Cuba by Miss Deicour, who was diseussing the truthfulness of two statements made by the papers reflecting upon her with the prisoner. Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood deny that Miss Delcour has been associating with them or tilt the accased bas bad any relations with her of any kind during the pust four or five months.

LOCAL PERSONALS. J. N. HELL, Obicago, is at the P. F.

SMITH, Potosi, is at Hotel Aunt. J. A. REINERT. New York, is at the Lindell.

W. L. HACKLEY, Plattsmouth, is at the Lindell. 1. G.

RICE, Washington, D. is at the Laclede. E. SPARROW, Lake Providence, is at the Soutnern. F.

HUMPHREYS, LEADVILLE, is at the Southern. E. H. CONGER, Des Moines, is at the Southern. J.

M. SHUMAKER, Jackson, is at the Planters'. DR. THOMAS H. WISE, Gainesville, is Barnum's.

at MINSTRELS, sixty in number, are T. E. GRACE and wife, Trenton, are at the Laclede. J. HOCHHEIMER, importer of wines, Cincinnati, is at Hurst's.

B. F. PIERCE and wife, Washington, are at the St. James. GEORGE J.

SMITH and R. K. Tissul, Moberly, are at Hotel Hunt. W. I.

NORTON, Boston; J. F. Kirk, Pittsburg, are at the Lindell. THOMAS C. STOKEs, merchant, and wife, Clarkton, are at Barnum's.

CLAIR PATEE, treasurer of the Corinne Opera Company, is at the St. James. J. B. HAMMELL, of Charles Hires Philadelphia, importer of vanilla beans, is at Hurst's.

F. W. JENNISON, agent of the Iron Mountain road at Tuckerman, urd bride, are at the St. Jumes. E.

O. HUMBERT and wife, and F. A. Humbert, Brooklyn. N.

are at the Southern, on their way to Hot Springs. T. E. HALE, Mrs. Charles G.

Don and four. teen members the Philadelphia Church Choir company, are at the Planter. E. E. BOYD, Post Office Inspectors arrived at be Laclede yesterday from a trip South.

He twill leave this morning for Cincinnati. J. M. BAILEY, merchant, wife and child. Tucson, Arizona, are at the Laclede.

They will remain in the city through the week. S. STAAB, of A. Staab one of the lariest general merchandise at Santa Fe, N. who arrived at the Lindell Saturday, let last evening for New York.

YESTERDAY'S arrivalset the different public houses of the city were said to be the smallest in number since Jannary 1. Particularly at the Southern was there a light list, the clerks claiming that it was the dullest day since the new hotel opened. H. H. HARRIS, one of the leading dealers in carpets, curtains and similar goods.

Kansas City. was at the Southern yesterday, leaving in the evening tor Mobile, for a two weeks' stay. He said his city was just beginning the work of paving the streets, part in granite and the remainder in cedar blocks. REV. 0.

H. COLLINS, D. of Augusta, Georgia, pastor of Trinity C. M. Church in that city, is at present in this city.

He preached at St. Peter's Church, on Elliott avenne, yes terday morning before a large who were most edided by his discourse, which was both eloquent and learned. He will remain in the city until Tuesday morning. MAJ. H.

B. WHITFIELD, Warm Springs, is at the St. James, having come to St. Louis in the interests of Warm Springs as a health 1e- sort. The place was first called Rice's Springs, after one of the earliest white settlers, who some years ago.

Since then the title to the property has been in litigation, a Mettlement recently being effected in favor of Rice's heirs. The owners immediately started to make improvements, among other things building a large hotel. Maj. Whitfield say's there are now over sixty springs opened, with all but fifteen under cover. The water of most of them is of a thermal character.

A POLICEMAN PUNISHED. But One of the Attacking Hoodlums Limps Around with a Hole in His Leg. About 8:30 yesterday morning Officer James Quigley was badly punished by a number of young roughs at the corner of Fourteenth and Spruce streets. Pete and Jim Burns and two or three other hoodlums were creating considerable noise and conducting themselves in a semi-drunken manner. Officer Quigley ordered them to disperse, and, after much opposition and abusive language, they retired into an alley and began to curse the offcer.

Quigley followed them up, and, when about to make An arrest, WAS jumped upon by the crowd and cut and bruised badly in the face and arms. During the scuffle the officer drew his revolver and fired, inflicting 8 bad wound on Pete Burns, sending a bullet through his leg above the ankle. This scared the others, and the officer made his escape to the depot, when he informed Sergeant Burke of the treatment he had received and how he had receired it. The Sergeant accompanied him to where the assault had occurred, and both were joined by Officer McKenna. When the hoodlums saw the officers approach they decamped, but Jim Burns was' Anally captured and taken to the calaboose.

LOCATING A CLAIM. A Dream of Mineral Wealth Based on a Discovery on Table Mountain. the San Francisco Chronicle. 1 The Halsey copper claim WaS found about a mile to the east of Table Mountain, near Montezuma. Montezuma was then in its decline.

I went into Bob Love's store one noon about 4 o'clock. The proprietor was in his agual afternoon 4 o'clock condition, being able to see a good deal more out of one eye than the other, for he always shut up one eye permanently after the fourteenth nip. Half a dozen Digger Indians were in the store helping themselves to whatever they wanted. The red man and woman were getting even on the pale-faced oppressor. Iran out and found the proprietor.

He was three doors below with his ALDI around Billy Mitchell's neck. He always had his arm around somebody's neck about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. said to him: Mr. the Indians are stealjug everything out of your Said he to me: "Tell 'em to take what they wanter-ah an' leave the But he always felt richer at 4 p. m.

than he did ut 8 a. m. knew then a great deal more about copper veins and where they ought to be in tue ground than I do now. I suid to myself: This Halsey lead, like all trie leads of this section, runs northeast and southwest." (N. B.

Three vears afterward we found there were no leads at all in. that section.) Halsey lead must run under Table Mountain, and come out samewhere on the other Table Mountain is one of the geological. curiosities, if not wonders of Tuolumne and California. As a well-defined wall it is forty miles long. Through Tuolumne it is a Veritable wall, from 250 to 900 feet in height, flat as a floor on the top.

That top has an averase width of 300 yards. The fita is composed of what we miners call It is a honey-combed, metalic-looking rock, which on being struck with a sledge mits a sulphurous smell. The siles, to the ungeological eye, seem ot different kind of rock. But parts of the sides are not of rock at all--they are of gravel. On the eastern slope you may see from the old Sonora stage road two parallel lines, perhaps 200 fees apart, running along the mountain side.

Mile after mile do these marks run, as level. and exact if laid there, by the surveyor. Climb up to them and you find these lines enlarged to a sort of shelf or wave-washed und indented bank of bard cement, like gravel. You way crawl under and sit in the shade of an overbanging roof of gravel, apparently in some former age scooped out by the action of waves. Not only on the Table Mountain sides do you and these lines, but where Table Mountain merges into the plains about.

Knight's Ferry will you see these same water marks running around the many low conical hills. A GEOLOGICAL SUPPOSITION. That's what water seems to have done outside of Table Mountain. Were I a geologist I should say that bare, at some time there had been a lake-maybe great lake -which at some other time had suddenly from the first mark been drained down to the level of the second; and from that had drained off altogether. Perhaps there was a rise in the Sierra Nevada, and everything rising with it, the lake went up too suddenly on one side and so the waters went down on the other.

Inside of Table Mountain there is an old river bed, smoothly Washed by the currents of perhaps as many if not more centuries than any river now on earth has seen, and this forms 8 lager cot core of gold -bearing gravel. In some places it has paid richly; in. more places it bas not paid at all. In seine places it has better paid the court officials and lawyers than anybody else. by reason of the many lawsuits between conflicting claims.

I 'sat on one in one of the Table Mountain tunnel cases in 1860, something -nO. did not sit on the jury. but with it, 6:1 case--no, abont a case -the Strauaban vs. New York Tunnel case, which came up regularly for years and kept tat that time hai the lawyers alive in Tuolumne. As a juryman sitting on that casc-D0, not of the case, but about it I honestly here delare that after hearing all the evidence for four long days, and then all the lawyers, pro and con, after the evidence, I did not know as much about its merits when I went into the jury -room as I did on going into the jury-box.

I did admire the coolness of "Josh, one of my fellow -jurors. He was a printer when he did anything for a living except gambie and jury duty. Josh, in going out, went for an old blanket which he saw in of that jury-room. He that bianket, wrapped it about him, lay down in a corner, and remarked, when you've agreed on call A FORCED VERDICT. We, the jury, sent word to the Judge that niht that we could not agree on a verdict.

He gent word back that we must agree or he'd starve us to death! Tuen we returned a verdict within an hour. There is nothing like a stern, righteous Judge to make jurymen conscien tiously perform their duty. Josh was taken out of his blanket and agreed with the rest. Our verdict made no difference. The case was sent up to the Supreme Court, and from the Supreme Court sent back again, 39 it hud been for halt a dozen years betore, and it was tried all over at the next session of the distries term, and if the diggings in either tunnel had paid anything over board wages the case would be trying yet.

In places the miners have bored 1,400 feet through a bard rim rock into Table Mountain before they struck gravel. And while miners were boring the lawyers in Sonoma were on the hot summer days sitting with their feet cocked upon Johnny Smith's Great Eastern saloon tables, drinking mint juleps, with a certainty that these mint juleps would be paid for out of the expected and certain fees from the suits between the Strandhan and New York companies. When these two companies found that they were both working on the same pay lead, and that pay lend ran across a strip of ground outside the mountain which neither of them had thought worth while to claim, but which both did claim when they found it 'panned out The miners used to take out of the ins side core of gravel in Table Mountain petrified tree trunks and pieces of wood and bark but half petrified, and also bones-some said human bones--but I never SaW a well-uttested human bone sworn to before a Sonora or Jimtown Justice of the Peace taken out of that wonderful mountain. PROSPECTING FOR COPPER. To resume, with regard to my copper prospecting.

I took the bearings of the Halsey lead, or what I then supposed wore the bearings, for there Wasn't any lead anyway, with a co pass. I aimed my compass at a point on the ledge of the flat summit of Table Mountain. I hit it. Then I elimbed up over the two water shelves or banks to that point. This was on the -combed lava crags.

From these crags one could see afar North and South. South, over Tnolumne into Mariposa, the eye following the great white quartz outcrop of the Mother or Mariposa lead. North was Bear Mountain, the Stanislans River and Stanislaus County. This view always reminded me of the place where one very great and very bad historical personage of the past, as well as the present, showed another still greater and much better Being all the kingdom of the earth. For the earth wasn't ull laid out, pre-empted and fenced in those days, and its kingdoms were sinull.

Timon I ran my lines over the flat top of Table Mountain, southeast and northwest, so they suid ran all the copper leads, commencing at. Copperopohs. So then we believed, while tossing with the copper fever. Certainly they ran somewhere, and ran fast too, for we never caught any paying copper vein in Tuolumne County, at least any that paid- except to sell. They were rich leads at night, though--at night about 12 o'clock around a table in one corner of Johnny Smith's or Labetoure's saloon after all the stockholders had fiteen drinks aboard apiece.

That put the boom on copper stock, but the bears in the market had it all their own way in the morning. IN THE CHAPARRAL. Then I aimed my compass down the other side of the mountain. There, when the perpendicular lava rock stopped pitching straight up and down, sometimes 50, sometimes 200 feet, WaS a dense growth of chaparral--the kind of chaparral we called got into the chemisal, Here the compass was of no more use than would be a certificate of Copperhead copper stock to pay a board bill at the Palace Hotel. It was a furry, prickly, blinding, bewildering, blundering, irritating growth, which sent a pang through a man's heart and pricker into his skin at every step.

At last, crawling down it on all fours, for I could not walk, dirty, dusty, thirsty and perspiring, I lit on a rock, an outcrop of ledge. It was gray and moss-grown. It hid and guarded faithfully the treasure it concealed. Like Moses, I struck the rock with my little hatchet. The broken piece revealed underneath a rotten, sandy- -like, spongy formation of crumbling, bluish, greenish hue.

It was copper! I had struck it! rained down more blows! Red oxides, green carbonates, gray and blue sulphurets! found the Coppernead lead! I was rich! I got upon that rock and danced! Not a graceful, but an enthusiastic pas seul. L.deeined my for tune inade. 1 was at last out of the wilderness! But I wasn't. BRENTICE MULFORD. A Useful Army Handkerchief.

A military pocket-handkerchief, devised by a Swiss manufacturer last year, found its way to the French War Ofice, where it was so highly approved that tne military authorities have introduced a similar article into the French army. The center of the handkerchief is occupied by the cross of the Legion of Honor upon a red background, with the inscription Honncur et Patrie beneath it. Around this centrai point is grouped a circle of medallions containing representations of officers of all grades. The different uniforms are pictured so distinctly that the French private can tell at a glance to what grade any officer whom he may see has attuined. The special pockethandkerchief prepared for the infantry soldier has eXact drawings of the arms used by him, with explanations of their mechanism.

Toe borders of the handkerchief are hemmed in with a framework of the national colors, and within this framework are printed a number of sanitary precepts to be observed on march and during a campaign. Here are some of the marching advices: "Wear the cravat loose. A strip of flannel day and night around the body in order to keep off diarrhea. Quench thirst with very sinall doses of wine. coffee, vinegar and water, Or brandy and water.

Take a piece of bread and a little coffee before the march. Spirituous drinks do more barm than good. Drink water neither hastily nor too cold. In quarters wash face and hands, and, when possible, the whole body. Wash the feet and rub in a little fat or brandy; next, cook the soup, and do it at once, even though feeling quite tired LIQUEFACTION OF AMMONIA.

A New Method for the Production of Artificial Freezing Agents. the New York Among scientists and others interested in the manufacture of ice or the production of cold by artifical means a problem has been how to utilize ammonia as a producer of cold without the necessity of employing the excessive pressures which have heretofore been necessary, and which were the chief objections to its use. In the production of artificial cold, ether and sulphurous acid bave been with ammonia the principal agents emplored. The principal objection to ether has been that it is highly combustible and saponifies when brought in contact with the lubricating grease used in the gas pump. While sulphurous acid has the advantage on an energetic production of cold, the pressures required are too high, and by contact with water, it forms sulphuric acid, which corrodes the valves and other portions of the machinery employed! The chief objection to ammonia, the most vigorous cold producer, has been the excessive pressures resultant from its use, 125 pounds to the square inch at rest, and from 225 to 300 at work.

The -called binary absorption system, the device of Lessie Du Motay, the inventor of the water-gas system, and Aug. J. Rossi, obviated some of the encountered in the manufacture of ice. This plan consisted in the use of two volatile liquids and substituting the chemical affinity of absorption for the mechanical efforts of compression generally used in returning a gas to a liquid state. In this method sulphurous acid was absorbed in ether, forming a binary liquid.

This, by the action of a gas pump, was Vaporized, producing cold, and on, passing into a condenser the ether became condensed and absorbed in the sulphurous acid, taus reforming the binary liquid ready for revaporation. The chief advantage of the use of this binary liquid, which was called ethylo-sulphurousdioxide, was that cold was energetically produced at a low pressure of not more than tifteen to twenty five This system has been successfully used in this country. Cuba, Mexico, Rayti, China and Japan. After the death of Mr. Du Motay, Mr.

Leonard F. Beckwith became interested with Mr. Rossi in a further study of the binary system, and these investigations have resulted in the discovery of a method of liquefying ammonia through its absorption in gaseous form in glycerine and the consequent production of cold at a low pressure. This method of pro! ducing cold utilizes the best known agent and overcomes the chief ohstacle to its use, the cessity of Irigh pressures. The -volatile liquid glycerine Was found to absorb about 600 times its own voll fume of ammonia, producing a binary liquid containing a volatile agent absorbed in a nou-volitile one.

Alter being placed in the refrigerating machine a vacuum is mechanically created, the ammonia separates trom the glycerine, and an intense cold is produced. The ammonia is then reabsorbed in a condenser by the glycerine and then passes again into the refrigerator tank ready to be again used, This method of producing cold is constantly being carried on while the machine is in operation, and the waste is comparatively -in fact, a very trifling matter. Practical tests of this new system of producing cold artificially were recently had before Pro Charles A. Seeley, an expert in such matters, and other The resulrs showed that in 15 minutes after the machine was put in operation the temperature of the refrigerator was lowered from 680 Farenheit to 180, and the ice was formed in twenty minutes from the time the machine was put in operation, The vacbum under, which the ammonia was volatilized in the refrigerator where the binary liquid was placed was fire inches, and the pressure under which the ammonia was absorbed in the condenser into the fresh glycerine was AD average of twenty five pounds, never exceeding fifty pounds. There is, it will be seen, a remarkable difference between this and previous methods employed when ammonia has been used, and when the pressure has aver aged 125 pounds at rest, and from 225 to 300 pounds when at work.

The mechanical compression heretofore required in the nse of ammonia is done away with, and the much easier method of chemical affinity substituted. The new plan, if wholly successful, will do away with the necessity of the use of heavy machinery that has been an absolute necessity when ammonia was used as the coid -producing agent. Another advantage claimed for the use of this new binary liquid is that the machinery used, like all low pressure machinery, is easy to manage. Under the old conditions, when ammonia was used, the service of an educated, careful and skillful engineer were an absolute ne cessity, or a destruction of the machines would follow. Under the low pressure system now made possible an ordinary engineer would be able to manage the machine, and the danger of an explosion and destruction of the machinery are lessened to a very great degree.

Leaks in the pipes or at valves are made much less liable, and the expense of production is materially lessened. During the work of elaborating and perfecting their plan, the inventors have been materially assisted by Mr. Etrenne Gillet, who has been interested in the perfection of the invention from its inception. ANNIE LOUISE CARY. Her Approaching Marriage- An Opera Written for Her.

Correspondence Louisville For some months past rumors of an engagement for life have been circulated with regard to America's favorite songstress, Annie Louise Cary, and but a short time since an enterprising Chicago paper published an account of her alleged betrothal to Mr. Lorillard, the millionaire tobacco manufacturer of New York, which account gave very minute details of Miss Cary's family relations. The rumor originated through reporter overhearing Miss Cary jokingly tell Mrs. Osgood, the soprano: soloist, some chatty gossip, in which the name of Mr. Lorillard was mentioned.

Your correspondent has learned that Miss Cury has never met, nor even seen, Mr. Lorillard. It is true, however, that Miss Cary is engaged to be married, and the fair contralto, who has grown 80 close to the hearts of the American people, is now wearing the betrothal ring which will soon be exchanged for the wedding emblem. It is definitely known that the lucky gentleman is a Mr. Raymond, a New York broker, and a gentieman of wealth, refinement and the highest social standing.

It can not be ascertained just when the marriage is to oceur, but alt in dications point to its consummation at a time not further distant than the coming sumiuer or fall. It is also reported by those who are in a position to know, that Mr. Raymond is exceedingly and quite properly jealous of the lavish affection of the public for Miss Cary, and it is through his most earnest entreaties that she has decided to permanently abandon the lyric stage during the present season. Some time since, Mr. S.

G. Pratt, a young composer aud brilliant musician of this city, had conceived the idea of creating a grand opera, the libretto of which should be founded upon the Rev. William Ware's exquisite letters upon the life and history of He had written the rext, and was proceeding with the musical composition, assigning the chief role to the soprano voice, as usual, when Kellogg and Cary came to this city and peared at Hooley's Theater in Verdi's Aida, and other operas. Cary's great dramatic impersonation of Amneris inspired the composer with that degree of enthusiasm and admiration that he could not rest until he had seen the great artist and showed her the libretto. Miss Cary was 80 pleased with the libretto, especially the chief role, that she then said: Mr.

Pratt, I should really be glad to have this written for me, as I have long desired a work I could call my It is needless to say that the young composer went home happy, and, transposing the few bars of the first number already written for the soprano, continued the work for the grand contralto voice that had electrified him in The work finally being completed, and no troupe being available for its proper produeLion, with Miss Cary's promise to create the part. the great American publisher, Oliver Ditson, offered to issue it, and next week the first complete grand opera ever written by an American, and published in this country will make its appearance. As it makes an epoch in our musical history, the event of the first presentation, which will occur in this city June 15 and 16, at Central Music Hall, though in concert, and without action, is looked forward to with great interest. The preparations will be on agrand Scale. chorus of 200 voices, among the best talent Chicago affords, and an orchestra of sixty pieces, will take part.

Miss Cary will be assisted by Mdlle. Litta, who will assume both soprano roles, thus making them will paramount to the title role. The male parts be taken by Messre. Chartes Knorr, John E. McWade and W.

H. Clark, tenor, baritone and bass respectively, than whom no better singers could be found for the parts. MR. BELMONT is two years older than Mr. Blaine was when he entered the Maine Legislature, and as old as Mr.

Blaine was when elected Speaker of the Maine House, and within one year as old as Mr. Blaine was when elected to Congress. THE CUCKOO. Some Facts About One of the Most Interesting of Birds. the London Globe.1 The arrival of the cuekoo has been signalled in due form about a month and a half before the date on which he is due in the land.

Whether the gentleman who has divulged thus early the presence of the spring visitor has been fondly imagining that he was listening to the bird's song while the sound really proceded from 8 wooden apparatus much fancied by rustic small boys, is a question probably as unknown to himselt as, to the rest of the world. But if it was a veritable cuckoo whose notes reached the ear of the attentive listener, and an advent sO early would seem to betoken a mild spring; or at any rate to guarantee us against any fears that a second winter hag vet to come. Migratory birds are, after all, our best weather prophets, and have seldom been known to hurry on their passage before its normal time, unless there WAS something in the weather, both present and future, to justify such 1 proceeding. The annual visit of the cuckoo generally commences in the middle of April; and the 17th has been mentioned as the most usual day for first hearing his well known cry. It is only as a rule at the end of March that he crosses the Meditterrarean, so that even in Greece and Italy the present.

would be nearly a month too early a time to expect the interesting vagrant. This question as to the date of arrival is of more importance, too, than the uninitiated many think. There is a saying in Servia that when the cuckoo sings in the wood without leaves, he is a sign of adversity and distress; whereas, if he is not heard till the foliage is thick on the trees, everything is likely to go well. There are traces of the same superstition in the more northern parts of Europe, where the cuckoo is almost universally regarded as an ill-omened bird. As.

however, no one can expect to pass the whole summer without hearing its note, it follows that the luckines or unluckiness of the season innst depend mainly upon the question whether it is heard earlier and for a longer time than usual; The mythical superstitious legends about this curious, bird are naturally numerous and amusing enough, but it is curions that mo 1 of them should have originated with the Teutonic and Scandinavian tribes rather than the classic nations of antiquity. In Switzerland the cuckoo is supposed to be a transformed baker's boy, who assumed this form as a punishment for dishonesty; and the dusty plumage is said to represent the dour with which he is still sprinkled in memory of an old vocation. The Swiss girl, when she first hears the cuckoo's note, counts the number of times that it is repeated, and is taught to believe that it will be as many years before she marries. In Germany a similar augury is obtained by the hearer as to the number of years he bas yet to live. In England there is a common idea that when the cuckoo is first heard 8 man should turn his money in his pocket, which act will enable him to double his fortune before the end of the year.

Bot in other countries it seems to be suficient only to have the money in one's pocket, and those whom the first cuckoo finds with empty purse are alone condemned 10 penury. It is by an ex: tension of the same idea that in Denmark and Norway a man should never hear the cuekoo fasting, for in such case he is doomed some day to be reduced to absolute starvation. In France the natural history of the bird is distorted by 8 very strange theory prevailing among the peasants. According to this myth the cuckoo altogether puts off its natural form and shape after the summer is over, and sumes that of a hawk. In this new character it disappears from the country in antumn, but in spring returns again in its former guise carried on the back of a kite.

The story sounds absurd enough, and yet the resemblance of the bird to a hawk is more striking than many people suppose, and is sufficient to impose even upon other birds. This at least is the explanation generally given to the habits which sinall birds have of mobbing'" the cuckoo, although some ingenious naturalists have maintAined that such persecution is a species of vengeance in which the sparrows indulge in order to punish the disturber of their domestic felicity. It is certain that the smaller trained hawks can with difticulty be got to pursue the cuckoo, and have been known to mistake one of them for a menber of th ir own species. The cuckoo is interesting to students of ethnology from a linguistic point or view. since his name is almost identicall in all countries, and is in variably of the onomatopeic kind.

From the three syllabled Sanskrit word kukuka to the monosyllabic Scandinavian gaukh, all languages have attempted more or less successfully to imitate his cry. A more elaborate endeavor to interpret the cry into words is foud in yezhulka, which is the Bohemian and Polish form. Ditties innumerable have been composed in all nations to celebrate the peculiarities of this original character. The commonest ot those prevalent in England embodies a complete misstatement as to his habits and nature. "'In August go he is a rhyme which bolds good only of the old birds, and as for these, it appears that most of them are gone before that month commences.

But the young birds are then in some cases still being fed by their small foster parents, who have to toil almost beyond their strength.to and insects enough to satisfy the voracity of their ward. They have been seen occasionally to actually take post on the shonlders of trie great lazy gourmand in order to be able to reach more conveniently his open mouth, and insert the food they have brought him. Ag late as the first week in September the young euckoos may be found sitting about in the fields, perching upon sheaves of wheat or shocks of bean- stalks. and fitting in silly way by short journeys from bush to bush. A WONDERFUL THING OF LIFE.

The Snake Story Season Opened with a Boom by a Georgia Genius. the Cumming In our boyhood we often heard of a hoopsnake, one that, bringing its heud and tail together, rolled over and over likeda wagon wheel. It was said that this snake did its exewith its tail, that being pointed like a needle. We never had the terror of seeing one of them, but did, when about 8 years old, see a jointed snake. The, joints were about six inches long.

When alarmed the snake fell to pieces, the head joint darting off like an arrow to a place of concealment. That was the last snake of the kind we ever saw until quite recently we saw a boop-jointed snake. We were walking leisurely one dav through our field. All of a sudden we were startled ont of ourself by something rolling by us, which looked like the rim of a buggy- wireel without the spokes. When it, passed ten steps beyond us, in making 80 effort to turn, it accidentally struck the end of a projecting rail.

This must have alarmed it, for all at once it tell to pieces, and the head joint darted through a crack of the fence and into the swamp as quickly as possible. Remembering the jointed snake of our boyhood and that our grandfather had told us if we would watch we would see the bead return for the joints left, as badly as we were scared we determined to watch and wait the head's return. Not unmindful that we had been told by them of oid time that the only protector from a hoop snake wens to get behind a tree or stump on the opposite side from the one it was coming, we took a position behind an old stump and awaited developments. It was not long before the hend came slowly and cautiously through the crack of the fence, raised itself to an angle of torty-five degrees, looked in every direction, and then commenced the work of rejoining its body and tail to its hend. This was soon done.

Its next movement was to rear itselt up perpendicularly, or in other words to stand on its tail. As the head went up we distinctly saw that each joint possessed india-rubber qualitieg, for as it went up each joint became extended untis. when the perpendicular position was attained, the head was entirely out of sight. By a mathematical calculation we ascertained its head to be 8 little less than five miles high, when it passed out of sight. Having taken its bearings, it gradully contracted to nine feet.

It then inad a circular dart for its tail, and without more rolled off rapidly in the direction of Atlanta. An Obstinate Lion Vanquished. the Pittsburg Commercial.1 A freelion show was enjoyed by a large crowd on Fifth avenue yesterday afternoon. the occasion being the transfer of Frank Frayne's lion from the open cage in which he had been paraded through the streets into a small one into which he was to be taken into the Opera House. The operation was hardly one suitable for the public streets; but it was enjoyed very much by the crowd, nevertheless.

The lion did not wish to go into the small eaxe, and simply signified his desire by laying down and refusing to stir. Mr. Frayne was sent tor, and when be came entered the cage, and whip in hand ordered the monarch of animals into the sinall box. But the royal beast quiety sat bimself down in the farthest corner and refused to stir. When Mr.

Frayne attempted drive him he showed no disposition to fight. In fact there WAS not 11 ounce of fight or bite in him. His temper, SO far shown on this occasion, was more of the as usually attributed to that other the mule, than to. the king of beasts. Finally Mr.

Frayne, still standing in typical animal, cage, got a rope, made a over noose in the end of it, and throwing that the lion's head the had him incontinently dragged into the small cage, the beast struggling and hanging back in the most undignitied and unroyal manner, like al donkey with a lion's skin over him. Mr. Frayne in the meantime plying his whip on his recalcitrant hind quarters, just as he would have done with a balky mule. The crowd cheered at the triumph of mind over matter achieved when the big specimen of the feline race was dragged into the cage, but it may be questioned whether the thrill was not pretty well taken out of the entrance into the lion's den in the regular performance for all who took in the show yesterday afternoon..