Show indi indian an anecdotes i i v i the ithe follows following int ink anic alic anecdote d 0 t e relates to a stratagem ge in practise 3 by y a certain rt ain aln d domestic thief Khy poor in india having ha vine vinc been repeatedly peat edly robbed of his big sugar candy which was kept in an open earthenware vessel in a small inner room with tobacco for his hookah conserve of 0 roses and other choice matters he betL beth bethought ought him of a way to discover the thief and did so in this wise having caught a dozen or so of wasps he clipped olf off their wings and dropped them into the lar ial of sugar candy the room was waa open to all the servants but nothing occurred till the dusk of the evening when one of them 0 going into ohp room ost ostensibly to br bring 1 ing some tobacco o for his masters hookah bookach was heard to set up a fearful f ua yell the master at once knew that his bis bait was taken and rushing into the thero room pm with several servants caught the pilferer fra grante granle delicto delicato delic to as with a handful of sugar can cak can dy he had bad grasped some half dozen alps wasps asps here is another anecdote very oriental in its way of another ingenious way of detecting a pilferer the party who bad been robbed drove a wooden pin into the floor of a dark inner room and it thoroughly with a pre E reparation pa ration of he then assem led bled his servants one of whom he knew must be the thief and after a preliminary ceremony to awaken their superstitious fearlo fears he said now go into that room singly aud lay firmly hold of the pin the guilty party will stick tb it the others need have no fears the servants s having gone in and returned one at alft t time their hands were examined and all but one were found to smell strongly of that one was of course the thief as efto i 1119 illg ing himself to be unobserved lie had not the pin for fear oe of sticking to it as he bad been told be he would and his hoube house being searched the stolen property was found therein 1 |