Young Brewer, of New Castle (C.iS.), has a turn for legerdemain, and the other night when he was down at the club room with a parly of young follows, the per formances of the Davenport Til others were discussed. Brewer oilered to bet that if anyone in the crowd would tic him to a chair, he would untie himself just like the Davenports. Mr. Eccles took the bet, and procuring a clothes line, he took Brewer 111 the president's heavy arm chair, and tied him fast. Then Brewer said he muat be alone, and lie told ifclie party to go down to the drug store and wait for him, as he would be along in about five minutes. They went and waited ; they waited for an hour and a half, and then as the great knot-uuraveller did not appear, they concluded to go up after him. As they ascended the stair case they heard groans. A little further up they heard Brewer holding a conver sation with himself, during which he in timated that he would regard it as a per sonal favour if somebody would burn the Davenport Brothers at the stake. Then he groaned again. When the party en tered the room, they found that the chair had fallen forward on top of the rope an nihilator, and as he was still tied fast, ho was lying with his face on the lloor and his back arched up, so that it fitted close to the back of the chair, _w bile his nose was bleeding copiously. "When they lifted him up he had a lump on his forehead as large as a Rampo apple, and a swelled nose. When they asked why he did not. untie himself he did not answer ; but as soon as they set him free, he wiped his face with his coat sleeves and doubling up his ensanguined fist, he shook it under Mr. Eccles's nose, and exclaimed, "You white-livered, mean-spirited, chuckle headed pirate ! If I had known you were going to put the half-hitch around the chair-leg, I'd have knocked the stufhV out of you in the' first place." Then he went home, and the club resumed its de liberations. — Daitbury News.
