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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. 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