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TWBiinWPillil HIIIIHWIM
miMg ju.wa»n swsaaHE
Bonlt.
While traveling In Cornwall In 1801
CONDENSED STORIES.
and wan being sucuea nmiier aown. i. « _
companion, tom In the dark- i ®® °. n fPP en ^ *J om the decision of
I«re Gulf and M Star.
i very oldest fossil bearing rocks ^ , .
ts nre found. The very oldest Rev. S. Barlug-Gould came nenr being x*, i owa Law* Case Taken to
a kind of polyp, making reefs overwhelmed in a bog. He and hls com- the other 8Ide of Jordan,
tone when ns yet the Insects panicus got lost and at dusk found.
appeared, and It “flourished” themselves In a bog called Redmlre. I They tell a good story' about
da Six bullocks had already been lost Judge Tuthill, who presided in the
rst Insect known to have exist- there tliut year. Mr. Barlng-Qould’s nd- Eighth judicial district of Iowa
feature of such vast antiquity venture Is related In bis “Book of the years ago and was something of a
deserves all the respect which West.” munorist. In. Cedar county the case
euti man can summon and of- “All at once 1 sank above my waist o{ Dj}j on a( r a [ n3t Crandall was call-
was-a cockroach. This, the and was being sucked farther down. I, _j t ia._ i
»f all black booties, probably
on the earth in solitary magnifl-
Ihen not only kitchens, but even
; middens, were undreamed Of,
millions of years before neo- j armpits.
, n iiad even a back cave to of-1 “Happily I had a stout bamboo some
six feet long, and 1 placed this, athwart
[for the cockroach of the period the surface and held It vfith my nrius
I. His discovery established the as far expanded ns possible. By Jerks
Vt in the Silurian period there j I succeeded In gradually lining myself
!Cts. though, as the only piece i and throwing my body forward till
[mains found was a wing, there flually I was able to cast myself at full
length on the surface. The suction had
been so great at to tear my leather
gaiters off my legs.
“1 lay at full length gasping for nenr-
ly a quarter of an hour before I had
breath and strength to advance, and
then wormed myself along on my
breast till I reached dry land. My com
panion. it turned out, bad had a similar
experience.”
Can be properly run without being
Advertised,
room for dispute as to the ere-
jjss in hls preface to the second
[of ills book notes says that
probably a still older'liiseet has-
|und in the lower Silurian In
This was not a cockroach, but
ily something wor3C. If the
[me, Protoeiuiex silurlus, be Ut-
ftnslatcd it means the original
hug.—Spectator.
—-
[nlw.nls XVUIioot Feet,
oofed aulmals. like the horse
stag, have, strictly speaking,
| for they walk on their nails,
• feet hare become part of their
advantage seems to be n
ling of the stride, just as a
athlete learns to nut on hls toes
[se his pace. There Is also the
advantage of no soft part to
kl by contact with the ground,
jmke.vs have Tour hands, which
In great advantage In climbing.
T?n«f of legs as well as feet Is
[jutngc to many animals that
travel rapidly -through the
| between the branches of trees
abstraction*.
(wild he but an obstruction to
ole while ho swlmg by means
powerful tall, but .when hr
water legs and feet become
|ntage. So the shake la able
through underwood and Into
|es with fir greater ease with
and even the slow worn;
ms such a helpless animal on
ad. cau creep through a hedge
barkaHe case and speed. The
Is of legs are to be found In
jukes, so that tin-re enn be but
ah! that the absence of legs
(red nu advantage and that
election has removed them. .
cried to roy vw...uu, •„ .... ..... n . , , r - ■ ,, , ,
ness he could not see me, nnd biid he [ P US !' 1C0 P® 806 -. A number
seen me he could have done nothing - of the bar arose and saiu ho would
for mo. The water finally reached my suggest to the court the decease of
“ the appellee. Another lawyer arose
and suggested the death of the ap
pellant. The judge remarked that
the clerk coula puss the case, as it
would probably do tried before Un-
other tribunal. After court the fol
lowing lines were found on a slice;
of legal cap on the judge’s desk:
ThU appeal case \va» brought to our Codajr iliatriot
court
And passed over by the Judge's au-ordln
That as death had claimed the right It ivna Bttla
that the fight
Should be fit on the other aide ot Jordan.
U the counael who were feed In the trial to pro
ceed
Dad received enough pay for their boardln,
1b finish up their task they should changa of
venue ask
And take It to the other aide ot Jordan.
When the beaten and the beat and tba lawyers all
meet.
They can then try their action accordln
To the higher law in fort* for better or for worse
In the courts on the other aide ol Jordan.
The proceedin'* had prior to the Judgment of the
, squire.
Which plaintiff was drslmua of avoidln,
If taken up lltar may he settled at the bar
When they get It to the other side ol Jordan,
An Ataple Kitchen.
WUnt Is salt! to be the largest kitchen
In Kugland is that of Rnby Castle, (lie
■Boat of the Duke of Cleveland. It la 80
feet square, having three chimneys,
one for the grate, a second for the
stoves, anti the third for tlie great
caldron. The roof Is arched, with a
subtil cupola In the center. It has five
windows, from each of which steps
descend, bnt only in one Instance to the
floor, and a gallery runs round the
whole Interior of the building. The
ancient oven has a diameter of 15 feet
Vast as this kitchen Is, It must have
been sometimes taxed by the hospital
Ity Of former ages. Tor In'one ot the
apartment# of the -great castle- 70$
knights "Were iip<5il"' one occasion enter-
te.men aT the saiiie time. I* 1 the
knights of that day weft meti Of brawn
and sinew, who would think lightly of
demolishing, each man of them, five
pounds of beef, half a sucking pig. a
venison pasty or two,' washed down
with huge flagons of brown October.-*-
New York Tribune.
yeralulna; In the Orient.
krun. Turkey and Egypt th
is language Is 'about the same
I yon give, lady 7"
alt give anything! I don’t
What! Dq you think I
[rr.v thiit baek to America 7’
ou take hold of him. You feel
I think you want to buy
hp. Only four poundl”
I pounds!” 1 say > In French,
j don’t want to sell. Yon want
I it! And at that price you
it!”
itr* In a shrill scream. “Noi
sell? Me? I here to sell! I
Everything yon sec! I sell yor
More wheedllngly, “You
|0 francs?”
English again. "I’ll give
li •'
jin! LibertyT’ be cries. haV-
agty established my national;
Battering tny country with
[tulle, “How much you glvf
Last price* now. Six dol-
Igle over “last prices" for a
|f an hour more, and after
, of coffee amiably taken to-
some general conversation
thing for $3.—Lilian Bell ID
I Home Companion.
Itlns Rnllwar Iran.
j the blood has evidently been
for the quails of Florida; at
birds am eating steel rails
neks of the sugar belt near
fie. The report, which Is well
[ted, does not charge the
th actually swallowing the
it does say that they pick
‘ particles wherever they find
ot where they are loosened,
everal point# In the state
| report of holes found In steel
In cases they are large
seriously weaken the roa-
here a rusty spot starts and
out. It naturally holds mofs-
flnuea to rust, to be again
> aud so the work of destruc-
in.
[ engineers really believe that
lake the Iron tonic because
ot well and find that it rn-
1 distress.
HID FRIEND PADEREWSKI.
One evening last season at a fa
mous restaurant in Now York Pa
derewski happened to be dining
there at the same time that the New
York Goldsmiths aud Jewelers’ as
sociation were having a celebration
dinner in another part of tho build
ing, says London M. A. P.. At the
close of the feast the pianist fnade
his way to the cloakroom and was
busy washing his hands when one
of the other party came in on the
FrlRlitCBPd-
"You have not goDe to Europe, then,,
as you expected?” Bald Mrs. Fosdlck
to Mrs. Spriggs.
"No," was the reply. “It Is so diffi
cult for Mr. Spriggs to leave hi# busi
ness, and really I couldn't go without
him. And then 1 rend the other day
about a ship that broke ber record
Think how dreadful It would be to be
on a ship In' the middle of the ocean
with ber record brokenf *—Detroit Free
Press. _
The Masculine Teat.
Cholly—Oh, yes, young Getthar Is
rich and received In good society, but l|
is plain to see he is not to the manner
born.
May—How Is that? 1
Cholly—He can't get Into a hansom
without bitting hls #Uk hat to save hit
Ufa.—Punch.
The Shrinkage of Biifflinfl.
With regard to the east coast a sorry
stpry ha# to be told, the county of
Yorkshire, for Instance, from Bridling
ton to Spurn Ilend, has been disappear*
Ing. It Ih calculated, ai an average rate
of six feet h year. It Is said that care
ful observation of a certain 12 tulle
stretch shown that the cliffs 40 feet
high have been eaten away by the
waves for 132 feet In 40 years. It Is,
however, ni Spurn Head that the great
est rnvuges have taken place.
. In Edward l's time the village of
Ravcnspur. a seaport near Spurn Head,
sent more than one member to par
liament; In 1309 and 14T1 Henry IV
and Edward IV. respectively, landed
there, but very soon after the latter’s
visit the entire town was swept away
by the sea. Today the village of-4\k(ii-
sen alone stands upon the head; the old
site of the village; once a fair place oh
a hill, with a tine old church, destroyed
by the wuves la 1820,. to now some
hundred# of yards below high water
mark, and when New Kllhsea joins R
the sea and the Humber will not take
“I want to utTKomrcK you to my frikno,
FADKKKW8KX,”
some mission. The newcomer star
ed at the fair haired Polo and at
last, as he dashed his hands through
the watef, said:
“You’re very like Paderewski. Do
you know him ?"
"1 am Paderewski," rejoined tho
maestro modestly.
“What?" whooped the American
and, dashing at him, shook both his
hands without waiting for the cere
mony of wiping his own. Before
there was any time for Paderewski
to escape the man from the gold
smiths’ dinner rushed to the door
and', calling to the chiefs of his par-
ty, yelled:
—"I say, Brown, Jones, Robinson,
Smith, all of you, come here. I want
to introduce you to my friend, Pa
derewski 1"
Slleltr to ImwiIi,
pplleity which marked the
rlsh burial ceremonies has
}mmend it even to us. The
coffin and the uniform
ad served to emphasise the
- all in death. Aa things are
[rich tax their brains to In-
|nnt-ml fineries and the poor
themselves to keep up with
Stiller neighbors, — Jewish
IVLLiTAHT GRJSfAT IDEA.
Jack Sullivan was a soldier and
a good fellow withal, but in tho
long to destroy the entire promontory | opinion of officers and men alike he
and make things very unpleasant at wa8 certainly getting Insane, for
Grimsby.—Good Words. when on duty or at drill he would
oae View .roue women. nitenlj break from the ranks and
American women separate them- run after an imamnai7 bit of paper,
selves more each year from the life of visible to no one but himself, Shout-
the country and affect to smile at any ing as be did so: ’There it goes I
of tlielr number who honestly wish to There’s the paper 1”
be of service to the tuition. They, like j This at length became so fre-
tbe French aristocracy, are perfectly quent an occurrence that on the
willing, even anxious, to flU agreeable jnatter being brought before tb$
diplomatic posts at firstauthorities he was by them
; ^* ,* *»***-
„,„„i wiib CTtiml. i, a, amtbort- «nJ in eonmqnence gi,» ““
ties nt Washington. But let a husband discharge,
propone to hi® bettpr b»lf wme humble When leaTing, however, he
position In the machinery of oar gov- evident proof that there was some
cromeut and see what the lady’s method in his madness, for as he
answer will be. A New York woman netted the service forever be flour-
was transplanted to a western city, fched his discharge, crying:
where She was wld that “j^tof*? o* "Faith, boys, shure I’ve got the
fbe place expecti'd ber to become their ,. , j,’„ ,
social leader.” “I don’t see anythin* hit otpane r 1[ vebeen running^af-
to lead." was the amiable response.— tbpr this long tune. London Tlt-
From EUot Gregory’s “Wortdly Ways.” Bits.
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people and is read through. If bar
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