Show reflections IN A CHAPEL large brass cross which serre as a mirror recently the governor of one of our county prisons was greatly perplexed by the discovery that the female criminals in his charge managed in some mysterious manner to ascertain the presence of every individual man on the other side of the impervious divi dividing d barrier which separates the male from the female worshipers in the jail chapel says the london hospital one of the women inadvertently made an exclamation showing that she had suddenly become aware that her husband was within the same me walls although his presence ought according to the rules to have been een completely unknown to her none of the officers could account for an knowledge which was found to be shared by all other women at last a very careful examination of the chapel fare an explanation of the mystery although strictly divided as we have said both the male and the female prisoners faced the altar in their seats mid and over it had bad been fixed a very large bra tarasa crow cross against the wall so highly polished as to torm form a very good mirror arror and in its clear surface the women saw the reflection of every man as he passed to itis his place and had enjoyed the spectacle with impunity till the alfes affection overcame her discretion the brass cross instantaneously disappeared |