Mixing Witchcraft And Medicine

From the Erie (Penn.) Dispatch. A Pea.ch strent physician reports a peculiar caso of witch charming that recently came under his observation. A family named Yaber, living a few miles from the city on the Lafce road, called him in to attend to their child who was subject to ñts through teething, ïhe doctor learned that an aged ilicerant quack who hp.s the reputation of being a witch doctor, had. called aad insisted that the little lad could be cured without iredieine. The doctor ound a small muslin baa; suspended with a string around the child's neck. The bag was sewed up and inside of it was a sheet of foolacap paper closely bent toarether. One side was filled with writing in high Gorman. The doctor urther learned that the aged doctor had eft a long briar switch, and after he lad tied the bag around the child's Deck he told the mother that whenever he child became restless sho should ;ake the switch and vigorously beat the air about the child's crib to drive off the supposed witches, ivho, he alleged, were holding a spell over the little one. The mother exhibited the switch Dut said she did not use it. He took off the bag, translated the manuscript and gave the result of his discovery to ;he parents. The writiug was a lengthy prayer to tho A'mighty to deli ver J ames Yaber, the child, from all his enomios. who see but cannot be seen: "That they cannot come near me nor hurt me, body or soul. Little pigps of my bed and all bad spirits, I forbid ye my bed, my house, my property. I forbid ,ye the nail holes of my house until tho hills jump, all the water bubbles; until all the leaves be counted on the hills. Ye have taken hold of my bones, so fall back again. I pray to the Almighty 1 may be well again. 1 throw myself at thy f eet. Bless me'. Bless in e! Amen." It is said that the old witch doctor is c:irrjing on his practices in a nurnber c f families, and that a prosecution will follow. It is claimed by La Nature that the highost raïlroad viaduct in the world is that of the Garabit Bridge, France. That remarkablo structure is 1,800 feet long, and near the raiddle of the great central arch tho distanco from the bed of the river to the rail is 413 feet. Thero are probablv a million stamp collectors in the United Stotes and Canada, and tho number is increasing every year. All the way from $50,000 to $200,000 have been spent by wealthy gentlemen ín makin g the most perfec üolleotions