nd his present position.

JOS. RODES BUCHANAN.

Since Mr. Bishop's exhibitions have been so successful and profitable,
several others have repeated his performances of telling the number of
a bank note, finding hidden articles, and going through any
performance that was enacted during his absence from the hall. Mr.
Montague, an editor of the _Globe_, Mr. George, Mr. Wilder, and
several others have shown the same powers. A dispatch from St. John,
New Brunswick, to the _Herald_ describes a remarkable performance at
that place as follows:

"ST. JOHN, N. B., Jan. 17, 1887. In a 'mind reading'
performance Saturday night, after several examples indoors,
the 'reader,' a young man who belongs to this city, asked for
an outdoor test. The party separated, one remaining with the
reader, and hid a pin in the side of a little house used by
the switchman of the New Brunswick railway at Mill Street. In
their travels they went over the new railway trestle, a most
difficult journey. The reader was blindfolded, and one took
his wrist, but at the trestle hesitated, fearing to venture,
and was told by the reader to let go his wrist and place his
hand on his head. The subject did so, and the reader went upon
the trestle. Some of the party suggested that the bandage
should be removed, but he told them not to mind, and, the
subject again taking his wrist, he went on over the icy and
snow-covered sleepers. With a firm step he crossed to the long
wharf, went over as far as the mill gates, then quickly
turned, retraced his steps and went back to the corner of Mill
Street. Here he rested a moment, then again took the subject's
hand, and in less than five minutes afterward found the pin.
At the conclusion of the test, the reader inquired what the
matter had been when they first reached the trestle. It was
easily explained. The storm had covered the sleepers with
snow, and it was thought dangerous even for a man not
blindfolded to cross them. The subject felt anxious for the
reader's safety, and hesitated about going across. The tests
were most satisfactory."

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TEMPERANCE.--"There has not been a liquor saloon in Hancock County, W.
Va., for forty years. This accounts for the fact that there is not a
prisoner in the county jail, and the grand jury failed t