Show how arc d at eight alic door of tho polling room is opened you see a big table covered with alio center of is placed tho voting urn a square box with a slit in alio top tho iro admitted each with n card in liis baud bearing his nime alio llio anto and of his lilith his residence and his number in alio register alio mayor or a deputy appointed iio is assisted ly four assessors choan bv alio present at tho moment when ibo doors nio the bureau thus constituted take their places behind alic tables and electors to pass one by ono alicy present their cards to the ns osor seated on the left of alio president tho as verifies alio card by a to tho corresponding naino and number on tho roster and passes it to alio president who gnipa off a corner with n scissors and returns it to alic elector thus marked alio card bo used fagain aliu samo day but alio elector should leap it iu case there should bu ia ballot corner awill bo snipped ollan alic same kanuer atho elector signs his naino opposite its ditty in lio register and alio signature lis verified ns being alio samo with aliat liat on alio llio card tho formalities being gono through alio voter lua pivoting paper folded to alio givlio drops it into abo box of without opening il alio paper must bo folded when 10 voter enters alio llio room it must bo of out nav anark is tho liw to imuro secrecy tho etc otc is n serious abair and in alio llio villages cs such is tho alio llio peasant jest it bo known for whom lid votes annd such is ano curiosity of thu mayor thai tharo is a nr of arti acs for protecting alic secret on the ono hand aud discovering it on the other i the administration lias conceived alic iaci in certain departments of making tho voting paper for ila candidates so iliin or so thick that it cannot 10 lo for alio llio ordinary paper supplied by tho opposition the io peasant smart as ulysses this by a instead of taking ono of the papers distributed by the at aliu door of alic polling panco ho demands alio paper af alie candidate then as if ho had forgotten something goes home or to illic house of a erases tho naino of the candidate and substitutes that of his own choice this republicans had provided themselves beforehand with papers land set to work to substitute alio name of the Uc publican candidate and so do of political friends tho peasant would then repair to tho poll with alic paper in liis pocket take an official bulletin at the door and adroitly substitute the good foi alio bad this ruse did service in but in this ago of ingenious inventions alio administration has fallen upon a way of defeating it one man of a modest mau for ho would have taken out a patent for alio contrivance to alic ministers of the perfects alio idea of a billet of blotting paper it is impo si blo to arito on tins willi ink ami lie is to count anny marked with pencil the have met this conti ivanco by pasting a thin slip of paper over llie bamo of alio llio candidate and jw rilin on ibis slip tho of alic but alio government tho of not counting billets lommis lom little details show how pronounced is alic hostility hosta lity of the peasants to the when they laro at scicli pains to electoral dodges at hix tho doors arc shut and the president ri in asks whether there is any other elector who wishes to vote tho poll is then closed tho ballot aro opened and tho papers are put into paper sacks cadi containing a then alic assessors and all citizens alio wish to tako pait in alic counting arc arranged in fours one counter holds the back containing tho voting papers lakes out one by one rc ids tho namo and passes on to the second alio him alio other two have a of paper tin allinos of which anro numbered ten thirty etc and their duty is to alio voles ono in cacci ol 01 aitho numbering spaces when they have counted a hundred including aliu rejected they sam up alic num ibers obtained by each candidate and ikass it to another sack the whole lakes place in the most profound under abo eyes of bic electors who are admitted freely to tho room and sec that the liw is observed when all abo votes have been counted the presiding proclaims the total and the proceedings arc called a A mounted gen durme is at lie bloor to receive alie report signed by the presiding officer and diio assessors aliis he carries nt once to the chief place jot tho canton and there it is transmitted by to alio sub prefect alio adds up the vote ab nb by each and proclaims tho linal result to malo an election valid the candidate must poll an eighth part of inscribed on alio register it is ary tary t also aliat lio should have an absolute marrily mao rily of the cast jf il that tharo arc three candidates or if iho number polled by alic defeated to tho number of blink papers amounts tomoro llian alio other has obtained tharo is a second ballot allut then it alio llio candidate should not have a single vote sn liis favor ho is elected it lio lias no competitor foe the scat paris cor eroch tan perhaps the most battalion in any army Is tho norwegian corps of katar kat cr tho corps are composed of picked men armed with diflo which llroy great jho skates used arc admirably adapted for traveling over rough and broken ico and frocia snow being s inches broad saud between nine and ten indies long the soldiers can be maneuvered upon ico or over iho snow fields with a rapidity cical to that of the best trained cavalry As an instance of the speed they can go it is stated that a messenger attached to iho corps lias ILO miles in eighteen hours and a liala over mountainous country A society lias been formed v in ford conn to harmless umusa mants for young aup it is known u alio union company and lias 1 capital of in jivu dollar shares it will charge tobacco and billam ds but will hiiva honors or gambling |