The Best Burglar Alarm

that the irritating bark of the noisy littlo terrier may be utilized. Kot only love but the burglar langhs at locksmiths. Mr. Chubb, the famons English loekmaker, has lately written a book in which he admita that no locks can resist the efforts of accomplished thieves, and extols the small temer dog, with a sharp bark, as a best possible protector against burglars. Sir Walter Scott once defended a man for burglary. He was convicted, and oondemned to death ; it ■was in the day when in England and Scotland they hung a man for almost every crime. Scott visitad liim shortly before his execution, and the man, anxions to repay his advocate, (he had no money,) said he would tell him a vahiable seoret. "Always keep," he said, "a black and tan, or some other terrier in your house. Other doga we can bribe to be qniet by a piece of meat, but there'a no brlbing a terrier ; he will bark." So much for the noisy litüe pets. In varions parta of Asia Minor, bilt principally in he provinceof Trebizond, there are entere villages whose inhabitants are to outward appearance Mnssulmans, but have in reality secretly fol lowed the Christian religión for ages. They íiave their priests, who wear the 'turban in public, and their ohurches are subterranean chambers excayated under the mosques in which thoy hitherto have professed to worahip. These singular people liad recourse to this stratagem in the oíd times of intolerance. When better timos dawned they might have avowed their religión, but it appears they eujoyert advantages in their supposed quality of Mussulmans which they were unwilling to forego. It was only when the Government t called out the redi8 that, wishing to escape the conscription, they declared themselvea Ohrtetians. "