Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-08
of SOC, ,ooo gallons. This is pumped into

of s0o,00o gallons. This is pumped into
 large tanks containing chemical compound
 of sulphate of aIumina, chalk, bone and yell
 low clay, which precipitates deposit of the solid particles, allowing the water to flow i'm 1 to the Thames in 0 clear and wholesome
 stream. The deposit is mixed with earth and l used by the market gardeners and farmers for manure with excellent results. No of-
 ensive odors attach to the process, and the filtered water is so clear that the works are often mistaken for a Thames pumping sta. ton. The expense is also slight, the annual cost being only about $6 1000.
 A Swiss newspaper gives an account of 6 singular case of necromancy praotised in the canton of St. Gallen. The keeper of cem- esery at St. Fiden was mortified to find that gravestones after being set up again were re- peatedly overturned; and as the result of in
 yestigation it was discovered that three men formed a society to s'exorcise" money by acting on recipes found in the pages of AL bertus Magnus. The process adopted was to enter the cemetery at midnight and bury in th5 earth five franc pieces, repeating the pre- scribed formulas, and performing the due antics; then two of the silly men passed eight days naked in hut, living on bread and water, and muttering their magic phra- ses They were convinced that such absurd behaviour would propitiate dark spirit. named Hisis, who, for their benefit, would transmute the total sum buried, one hundred and sixty francs. into five millions. The poor wretches, it seems, were discovered by the authorities in state of extreme excite ment, shudderiHg, quakipg, and half or wholly insane. The third confederate, epi- dently business man, finding by observa- tion that Risis worked no miracle, quietly dug up the silver, and, quite in the ordinary way vanished from the ken of St. Gallen police.
 Two interesting decisions concerning life insurance have just been made. The Supreme court of Pennsylvania has made 8 very nice discrimination in case brought against the Travellers insurance company. B. had an accident policy the railroad train on which he was stopped on a bridge at night, and he got of the platform at the moment that the shadow of a lantern obscured hole in the floor of the bridge, through which he fell and was killed. Upon suit by the administrator, the trial court held that B. had violated the conditions of the policy by exposing himself to danger. But, said Chief Justice Mercur, of the Supreme court: True it is that B. vol untarily left the car, but voluntary act is not necessarily voluntary exposure to dan ger; the approach to an unknown and unsus pected danger does not make the act volun- tary exposure thereto; the danger being un- known, the injury is accidental. Another case involved the question Of the liability of 8 life insurance company to pay on policy where the holder committed suicide. The decision rendered by the Supreme court of the United States in the case settles the ques- ton ss it is likely to arise. The court held that 8 self killing by sn Insane person, understanding the phyaical nature and consequences of his act, but not It's moral aspects, is not death by suicide, within the meaning of a condition in policy of insur- ance that it shall be void in case he shall die by suicide.