A Tragic Test

A singular muruer case awaiting trinl in ludia has given rise to much legal disousaion as to whether the eircumstfiU(!P8 jnRtify the charge. A juggler, ' who fillegod üiat he pósses3Gd soihc powVr wliicli rènderecT liim " bulletprooi," invited. the prisoner in the case to aiin at him with a loaded niusket, asKiiriiig him tiiat lie might do so without the slightest loar of producing any paiuful ivkuHh. 'J 'Ík: ju-ÍHoner necepted the kind invitíitiou, and, with a loartod nniskt-t n ■■ -n ! . - 1 te liini by tile jfgler, inimt'clin.tely büut abulletthrough liis licml. It is nrged t)uit, as there wae no iptent.ijn ou the put of üie prisoner to kill tlu dcct'aneil, the charge of murder cannot be muintnineu. Tlio juggler was thoroughly oonñdeut of lii owu invulnur.ibility, and scveral of his relations who wcre to be ealled as witnesses fot the defeuse were prepared to prove that, altliouh tseveral times shot at before, he w;ik íi'jver liurt. A similar case oceurred in Knglr.nd a few years ngo. A viznil at olie of the theaters'begged one oi' tlxe íuulienoe as a favor to lire a gun at him. The spectator, tlms invited, loaded the gun with a charge oí shot he had bionght with him for the expresa purpose of testing erii'jially the alleged iuvuhiorability of the wiznrd. The result wat puinful in the extreme - the wizard's face w:is peppered with sliot, and thp spectator who fired the gun was givcn in tlié cii!,tody of thc pólice. Both nanwvly chcaped death- one by the gnu and the other by the gallows. The Gcrmanizing of tlio Freneh army advances apnec. Hitherto it has been one of the traditions of the service tluit spectivcles wero unsoldicrly. But the late war dèmonstrated, among other things, that meu cnu iight as wcll with speetacleë as without them - in many oaoea a good deal botter. Dr. Perrin has Hubmitted a report on the subject, and the French anthoritics have legalized the use of lunettes in all branches of the service.