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Show Trouble at a French Madhouse. An extraordinary scene iu a lunatic luna-tic asylum is thus dcscriltd by the Pari" corresjiondent of tho lhn!y Aetra: There Ii uothlng.mad doctors say, more unusual than for lunatics who are together to act on a common com-mon impulse. I-astSunday,liowcver, six inmates of tiie Bicetre Asylum welc so irritated aud oppressed by the sultry weather preceding tlie hailstorm as to Like an identical course in letting oil their nervous excitement The outbreak took place in the refectory, wherea'Iuna tic who has often had to be kept in a padded room, complained that a new keeper had deprived him of a portion of food to which he was entitled. en-titled. The complaint was well founded. As the dish was being fetched the madman lost patience aud dashed the plate before him against the wall opposite. Five others followed his example, and then ran to pitcli everything they could lay their hands u-jon out of the windows. M. Pition, the governor, was called, compulsion compul-sion of a violent kind never leing suffered unless by his order. Ashe entered the refectory a dish was broken on his head, nnd he and a keeper who was witli him had difficulty diffi-culty In escaping with their lives. Themad eople tore down the Irou bars which formed a lartition le-tween le-tween their part of the hall and a section where other jatieuts were dining. They then got to the kee-pcrs rooms, and, seizing knives and razors, went to cut the throats of those who denied them their : liberty. Trooifs were summoned from the fort, anil arrived as the muuneers nau got potse-siou of the kitchen and courtyard. When twenty soldiers with fixed bayonets entered the Utter there wasa sudden collapse. The six ringleaders dropd their knives aud razors, begged iarden and submitted quietly to be Liken to their cell-.. Nearly all the keepers were seriously serious-ly injured. One, Founder, was beaten with a chair and his arm broken In two places. A madman named Jolly rilled a desk of liank notes, all of which he ate. |