A Dwarf's Queer Ruse

Four or flve yeers %o onc of the most celebrated of European prodigies was the Pollsh dwarf, Brrr.an Zeitung, at one time one of the chif attractions at the Folies Berger?. Latterly Zeitung has been littjp ir, the public eye, or rather was until the other day, when he started In to carry out an intere3ting explolt which very nearly succeeded. He had himself iastened up in a box addressed to a large importing house at Madrid and labelled "Fragüe. With Care. Top." Hole3 had been made in this box for breathing purposes, and one of its sldes was so constructed thnt lt could be ojiened from within to glve the little dwarf a way of getting out unnoticed when he reaehed hls destinatlon. The box was fitted up with a cushioned spat, and an abundant supply of provisions was placed within it. The start was made at Vienna, where Zeituns haú been living for some time, and after the dwarf had placed himself Inslde and fastened himself in two lusty porters rarried him off to the station, been paid beforehand a fee of 60 cents each. They gave the box In charge (o tlie station master to be shipped to Madrid by express. According to Zeitung the journey was an unInterestlny one and without Incident, but when he got to the Spanish capital his treublfis besan. The Madrid station master evidently had a poorknowledge as to the fragillty of glass, for he turned the box over and over, and at last came to the conclusión that its contents ought to be investigated. His aides thereiorc opened lt, and dragged the dwarf out more dead than alive from the shaking he had received. It would have puzzled a man less full of expedienta hcw to further punish Zeiung, but the station master solved the problem by having hira arrested for trying to swindle the railroad companies out of their fares. The dwarfs defense was that he was traveling in this manner on a bet of 8,000 francs, the terms of the wager that he was to get to Madrid without a cent in his pocket. Three hundred francs, however, were found concealed in his shoes. The real reason of his traveling in this remarkable manner was that he might save railroad fare and also get a good advertisement for the engagement in Madrid, for which he wass billed.