A Bird Ghost Story

-The London Atheneum, noticinga book on birds says : " Birds have a great f'ear of death. A hen canary belonging to the author died while nesting and was buried. The surviviug mate was removed to auother cage ; the breeding-cago itself was thoroughly puritied, oleaused, and put aside tili the followiug spring. Never aiterwards, however, coul'i auy bird emiure to be in that cage. The little cruatures fonght and struggled to get out, aud, if obliged to remain, they huddltd close together and moped and were thoroughly unhappy, refusing to be oomforïed by any aruount ot' sunshine or dainty food. Tbe experiment was tried of intruducing foreign birds, who were not even in the house when the canary died, nor could by any possibüity have heard of her through other canaries. The result was the same ; no bird would live in that cage. The cage was haunted, and, the author was obliged to desist trom all further attempts to coax or forcé a bird to stay in. An investigation has been made by the Street Commissioners of London with a view to asoertaining the number of accidents befalling horses on asphalt, wood, and grauite pavements, The observations extended over fifty working days, and wera prinñpally made during the raiuy weather of spring. The granite was found to be most slippery, the asphalt ncxt so, and tbe wood the least ot' the three. Considered in respect tomoisture, asphalt was most slippery when werely damp and safest when dry ; granite most slippery when dry and safest when wet; wood most slippery when damp and safest when dry. Wood on tbe whole proved less slippery than either ;he asphalt or granite pavement, it aeing indeed only inferior to grinite when the pavements were wet ; the dif'erence then between the wood and granite being oonsiderable. Of the accidenta most obstructiva to trafile as well as most injurious to borses asphalt had the jreatest proportion, granite next, and wood least. BüïTALO, Oct. 13. - The notorious counterfeiter, Thomas Ballard, with Julia Ann and Kiiz.ibeth Britton, alias Euzibeth Ballard, and Ann Adams, arrested last week tor having in their possession a large atnount of counterfeit money, tools, presses, etc, were before United States Dommissioner Soroggs to-day, and in deFault of f 15,000 bail each were coramitted for trial. It is supposed that Bullard bas put in circulatiouover $1,000,000 of counterfeit curreucy. A Berlín paper states that the ex-King of Hauover has been endeavoring since the visit of the Germán Emperor to Vienna to obtain the removul of the seques;ration of his proparty, and that the Austriau court bas favored this attempt. Prussia, however, would make his renunciation of all sohemes of restoration to bis throne a oendition of suoh a itep.