Fear Haunted

Le Vóltaire, of Paris, publishes in ït-TSi. Petersburg correspondence a recent incident in the lile of the Czar íbr which it ciaims entiro authentieity. The incident is said to have happeued at iive o'clock in the morning, vrhec UI was silent in the Winter Palace. )ne of the servante, wlio stood high ín liis nuisiur's favor, thought he lieard the Cztu-'s voice calllng hiui and enten ñ the imperial bedroom. The Einperor, Lwakened suddeüly by the uoise of his tbotsteps and not recognizing the valet in the dim liglit of the lamp vrfaich gwung over his head, drcw a revolver froni nniler liis pillow and fired. Tlie servan t feil to the floor vriüí a groan. The room was quickly fllled witb vratchmeu, memoen of the household, and couitiers, feariul that auother attempt had been made on theüaar'a Ufe. Wiu'ii the truth was learued the wonnded man was carried to anothei room, and doctors pronounced his injuries to be laial. Eilbrts were made on all sides to prevent the m-ws getüng abroad,and it was generally given out among the people that the man had died by liis own hand. The incident is said to have augmented the Uzai s torrors. His Kitcnen, wnicn roí sonic time luis beon placed under strict surveillance, has now three physicians attached to ït, each of thein reoeiving 1,000 rublos a niontli. Oue examines the food, the tneats, vegetables, or pastry ; aüotlier tastes the w'luesandllqiiors ; the third superiateuda the making of llie dlslieê. Tlicy are all subject to grave responsibilities. At the least illness of llie they run the risk of being arrestod as accomplioei on a charjjo of high i reasou and ot' l)einjf insianily bauished to Siberia. The voltaire carnea íts lis! of improbabilities su lUr as lo Bay tlnxt llie (Jzar has not nnfrequently been kiiowu to take emética after diuner. "llave wc nol here," iL crios, "au episode l'roin the lile of 9ome legendary tyrant,a Uyonysius of Bj racu80, or uu emperor to Rome possessod wiih draams of horror?"