Passaic City Record

Dead Men for a New Bridge.
At Br czka, in Bosnia, an old superstition has come to life again which resembles the fables of Jewish ritual murders. In Bosnia the people have believed at all times that a bridge could not be firm and lasting unless a human being was walled up in it. Thus there is a legend connected with the handsome Roman bridge at Mostar, which says that the fine arch across the Narenta could not be finished until the architect walled up in it a bridal pair.
Now that a solid bridge is being built across the Save at Br czka this superstition is revived. It is rumored everywhere that gypsies are stealing children to sell them to the contractors, who wall up one in each pillar. A few days ago there was a regular pursuit of some unlucky gypsies, of whom it had been said that they were raiding for children. —London News.