EXTRAORDINARY CREDULITY.
The storv of a Russian swindler shows how easy it still is, in spite of advancing education, to impose upon theignorant. This man lias just been convicted of obtaining money by false pretences from large numbers of poor peasants. lie had collected their pence under promise to take them to the planet Jupiter, where, he assured them, there was plenty of fertile land which could be bad without rent. It is very well to talk of advancing ; ivilisation, but what witb this kind of thing and fortune-telling in England, witch-burning is Ireland, and missives precipitated from Thibet in the midst of admiring circles of believers, we have evidently still to travel some distance before we leave the superstitions of the world's childhood behind us.
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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 146, 18 September 1895, Page 4
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126EXTRAORDINARY CREDULITY. Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 146, 18 September 1895, Page 4
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