One of the most curious anomalies that strikes Europeans on first arrival in India (says the Globe) is the prevalence of farcical superstitions among a people gifted with singularly subtle and logical intellects. It might be thought that religious impostors suck as form the majority of the faqueers, jogees, and sunniasses, would iind sciint sustenance in a land where every man dis believes his neighbour in regard to the commonest affairs of life. Yet as a, matter of fact, these lo custs, innumerable as they are, never want even in times of famine. Be his store of grain what it may, the peasant dare not refuse food to the saintly mendicant who importunately begs at his doors. A correspondent of the Times of India gives a graphic description of the arrival at Mount Aboo of a certain illustrious, faqueer. Escorted by nearly a 'hundred vociferous, disciples, part mounted < n camels and horses, part running on foot, a bullock cart bore this dirty saint into the station, liy way of proving how superior he was to human suffering, he carried an iron cot from the surface of which sharp nails three inches long projected, and on descending he wore wooden shoes filled internally with spikes. At least, so his followers affirmed; but it is difficult to see how the fact can have become manifest to the spectators, who can scarcely have seen the insirle of shoes which were fdled with their owner's feet. So again with regard to the spikey c;)t. According to the statements, perhaps not quite disinterested, of his body guard, the holy man invariably slept on this procrusteau couch, and the crowd readily believed these assertions, But to people possessing less faith, it would have been more satisfactory had he reposed on the bed for a few minutes in public, to prove his flesh impervious to three-inch nails. The oddest part of the account, however, is that describing the garments worn by the saint and his disciples. Clothed in pieces of wood sus pended by brass chains from the waist, they must certainly have presented a more curious appearance than tho African chieftain whose gala-costume consisted of a cocked hat and. a pair of spurs. 