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Kkilobning.
.Running on snow skates or “skilob
n . ln K'' is a prominent winter sport with
the Norwegians, and is one that might
take with Americans who have the op
portunity to follow it. Skilobning pos -
sesses the advantage of being inexpen
sive and is certainly exciting, judging
by the following description of it given
by a correspondent of the Ixmdon FteM;
lhe Norwegian snow skater must not bo
confused with the. Canadian, which are
much broader and used in a quite differ
ent way. The Norwegain snow skates
are made entirely of wood; their length
is about eight feet and their breadth
three inches to four inches, the fore part
being a little pointed and curved up
ward. The under side is very smooth,
sometimes with a small grove planed
along the middle. Some people use
them tightly fastened to the feet; others
only put the fore part of the foot
through a withy band fastened to the
skate, which enables them to withdraw
from it easily in case of a fall. The dif
ferent parts of the country have their
own shape of snow skates, either a little
narrower or broader, shorter or longer.
At Cleve, in Germany, last year the
club exhibited all these shapes, as well
as photographs of a runner in different
positions, to show their use. I do not
know exactly when skate running was
first regarded as a sport, but hi-lory
shows us that skates wore used more
than a thousand years ago during lhe
then frequent civil wars. In those old
days it wou’d have been impossible for
the inhabitants of the different valleys
to communicate with each other in very
snowy winters without this apparatus.
Only by means of skates could the old
warriors make their fast inarches
through trackless and unpeopled re
gions. Now highroads and railways
have made them superfluous for the
army (though I do not think it is more
than twenty-five years since the last bat
talions nf snow skaters wore given up)
and also for the peasants, though in
many parts of the country they still are
and indeed always will f»e necessary J
for instance, in the highest parts of Nor
way, where the nomadic Eins ramble
with their herds of thousands of tame
reindeers from one mountain to another.
Only by the necessity of using the snow
skates one can explain the wonderful
expertness at which our peasants ar
rive.
In order to get to the top of a hill the
skater tacks up the sides of the hill like
a ship against the wind, sliding on the
surface of the snow, and never lifting
his feet from the ground except when
making a side turn, or ho goes straight
up, lifts one foot side ways over the
other. A staff about five feet long,
grasped with both hands, is used by
some people, either on the loft or right
side. The hill chosen for exorcise or
matches is often hundreds of feet high
and pretty steep, of course according to
the ability of the runner. Let us now
commence the descent. After a few
steps tho speed soon increases so much
that you can hardly breathe, and all
your thoughts must be concentrated on
keeping your balance. In the lower
part of the hill tho acceleration produces
a speed which may sometimes be com
pared with that of express train. Should
vou feel symptoms of an approaching
loin of balance you must use you stall - ,
which will partly help to keep tho bal
ance and partly retard the speed. But
if you use tho staff too much you are
called a “staff-rider,” and not consid
ered at a good runner ; therefore peo
ple avo d it as much ns possible, and
many never use it at all, even down the
most difficult hills. There are often drops
on the sides of the hill, either from fol
lowing its natural outline or caused bv
snowdrifts. When the runner comes to
one of these he has to make an aerial
voyage; and tho most diflicult moment
is wdien he comes to the ground again,
as it is a matter of chance whether he
will land on his feet or maice a series of
somersaults and be buried in the snow.
A few years ago a club was formed in
Christiania for running on snow skates,
and this has still more tended to increase
an interest in the sport. Christiania it
self, at the inmost end of the pretty
Christiania fjord, is surrounded by hills
very fit for snow-skate running, and, as
we generally have sufficient snow for
some four or five months of the year,
there are plenty of occasions for this
amusement. A fair is held in February,
ana tno peasants men meet to sell tneir
timber, horses, etc. This is the right
time for races. Two different hor-e
--trotting clubs have races on the ice,
which are of great interest, the horses
nulling tho small sledges along the ice
bright as a mirror. But the snow skate
race of the Christiania Skiclub is supe
rior to all other pleasures and looked
forward to with the greatest delight. On
the 7th of last February the annual race
was held a little outside of Christiania.
The runners had to descend a steep hill,
where there was one drop, from which
they were thrown more than sixty-two
feet through the air, and yet many
cleared it bravely, though some of the
competitors found, as a Christiania paper
said, “the feet become lighter than the
head.’ ft may be asked whether necKs
and legs do not get broken at this spot;
but the skaters seem like cats and are
used to falling. They pull themselves
together again and go faster, and once
down the hill have a two miles run on
the level.— Cor. Isondon Field.
Dynamite Supersedes the Axe.
A Somerset County, (Me.) firm haven
pulp manufactory, Consuming upruct
and hemlock timber. Their operation;
are large, and instead of practising th<
slow method of chopping down trees and
aawing them up, in order to get the
wood into the pulp mill, they blow them
to splinters with dynamite. An eye
witness thus describes the process: " A
fine large spruce was selected, and a irole
was driven in about ten inches,
the chips were removed, and a
dynamite cartridge was inserted. The
dynamite comes in sticks like a candle,
and resembles moist brown sugar. A
fuse was attached, and the men sought
a place of safety. In a few seconds there
was a mighty roar,and the great tree was
up in the air about ten feet, and then,
with a swoop and a crash, it came to the
earth, splintered halfway to the trunk.
Dynamite is not cheup, but taking into
consideration the time, lalmr, wear and
t< ar of tools saved, is not as expensive as
wight be supposed.— lumberman.
FACTS AND FICIRES.
—New York City pays $7,000,000 a
year for its religion and $22,000,000 for
its drinks.
—Ti e assessed value of taxable prop
erty in Washington Territory this year
is $32,566,897, an increase of $6,780,-
482 over last year. The levy is 21 mills
on the dollar, and the revenue derived
from it amounts to $81,116.
—During 1842 the railroad mileage ol
Massachusetts was increased 21 j miles,
and the total in the Mate is 2,778 miles.
The gro-s revenues for tho year were
S6O, U 46.370, and tho total expenses
amounted to $29,941,167.
—The np: ro; riation of $1,400,000 for
the completion of the new' capital at
Albany, N. Y., has all been expen !e 1.
and the build ng is still far from being
complete. So far the cost has been a! out
$1;I’,00b,0 K>, an I experts express the
op n on that the g and total will not fall
short of $20.00 1,000.
—Winnipeg, in 1882, rose from 1?,-
O<M) population to 30,000, its assessment
in l eased $9,001,000, rising to $30,000.-
000, and will reach $!<*,000,000 this
year; c ght s itarc miles were added to
its area, twenty-nine and ahalf miles of
mde walks and 270 street-crossings were
laid, 250 culverts were constructed, and 1
nearly thirty miles of streets were '
graded. (lm ago 11' raid.
—The factory at Castleton. N. Y., po
•luces and ; a ks about 1,250,000 postal
cards each working day. The total pro
duct last year was ; ! sO,’uoO,(X)and as
the cards arc all made at this one fac
tory. the product measures the numbet
of cards used in the country. If the
demand at the factory averages 1,250,-
OHi per day, it foilows that only an
average of one card and a quarter is
used daily by every lifty peop e in tho
country.
- Jtdge l ynch had Ids fair share of
victims during the past year, having ex
ecuted in all 117. Texas takes the lead,
having eared for 16. Tho list in the
remain ng States is as follows: V ir
ginia, 2: Washington. 5; Ohio, 2; In
' dians, 4; West Virginia, 1: Georgia, 3;
Alnnama, 6; Kentucky, 8; Colorado. 14;
New Mexico, 9; Kansas, 4; I lor d i. 3;
Missouri, 4; Ari ona, 6; Ponnsylvao a,
1; Minnesota, 2; Louisiana, 9; South
Carolina, 6; Arkansas, 4; Tennessee, 2;
Mississippi, 3; Wyoming, 1; Dakota, 1;
Idaho. L -Detroit I'os*.
—'l he following intern ting figures are
from Crawley’s new (English > work on
the law of life ins iranco: “In France
there are twenty compan’es assuring
£80,000,000; in Germany the e are
fifty companies assuring £100,000,000;
whi e in America. in tho State of New
York ahaie, there arc thirty companies
assuring £295,000,<MM); and, finally, in
England, where in tho year 18,53 the
total amount assured was £1.50,000,000,
at annual premiums amount ng to £5,-
0:0 00(1, there are at tlie present date
107 companies, furnishing returns to
tho Board of Trade, and assuring $125,-
000,000. and £10,500,009 were ] aid in
losses during the past year.”
Traps for Thieves.
The counters of down-town jewelers
sparkle nowadays with precious gems
ml costly trinkets of gold and silver.
Any one who wishes may inspect
these treasures with apparent freedom.
Glittering diamonds, shining watches,
and ornate bracelets, rings and pins are
scattered on the, baize counters before a
crowd of customers. This seems to give
dish mest persons ample opportunity'for
thieving. The la’ge jewelers, however,
discount the possibility of such a thing
se cleverly that the feelings of no honest
customer are wounded,while the chancel (
of the professional shoplifter are re
duced to zero. In one of the largest
diamond houses in the trade a smiling
negro politely opens the door and ad
mits the visitor. Sale-men stand ba
hind polished show eases, and display
for inspection any number of treasures,
lhe negro, smiles and stands like an
automaton, opening and shutting the
door. Should a theft be attempted hit
demeanor would instantly change. A
word, or the slightest sign, would send
the door to with a slam, and it would
lock with a spring. If need bo, a glis
tening revolver would appear in tho
negro’s hand and be leveled in a mo
ment. In less than a minute an electric
alarm would bring policemen to the
spot. The thief would bo caught in a
trap ere he could escape.
Another diamond dealer, tho dark re
cess of whoso great safe is aglow with a
myriad of tiny colored tiros, shows these
gems as freely as if every customer we-e
his bosom friend. The visitors do n< t
notice tho tall gate of small steel bar
crossed, which silently spring open
when they enter and as quietly close
when they are seated at tho counter.
Yet this gate effectually cuts off escape
from the room should suspicion of theft
be aroused. It opens with a catch
spring and closes with an automatic
lock, Gates of this sort and screens,
more or less e'aborate in construction,
are to be found near glass eases in which
diamonds are displayed in ntanv large
jewelry establishments, and they also
guard tho outer windows.
An ingenious foil for tho window
smashing thief is a heavy plate of
French glass placed a few inches behind
the outer glass of the show windows,
and rendered invisible by its transpar
ency. If a thief broke the outer glass
he would find himself face to face with
almost the exact duplicate of the broken
pane, the only difference being that the
second pane is heavier than the first.
Jewelers who resort to neither of
these means of protection secure them
selves iu a less noticeable way bv em
ploying lynx-eyed watchmen, who are
dressed neatly and walk to and fro in
the sales-rooms, seemingly busy with
other work, but always keeping their
eyes on the alert.
Iho effect of these safeguards is to
destroy the likelihood of the recurrence
of any of the great jewelry robberies
that have been attempted by cracksmen
in the past. The robbers are driven
nowadays to attack the safes at night,
for it is practically hopeless for them to
sec ire booty in 'the day-time.—AL P
Sun.
—The basket willow will grow well
around the mill ponds and along the
margins of the water-courses. It is an
article which is always salable, and
should be made to take the place of the
unsightly briars and bushes that often
prove so troublesome in tuch places, •
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
—The Russian author, Tchernichew
who has been a convict in Siberia
for eighteen years, is at liberty, the
Czar having granted the prayer of the
International Society of Letter to that
effect.
—Madagascar is rather larger than
France. A belt of almost virgin forest
runs around the island. The population
is about 4,000,000, and the soil will
ea-ily support 30,000,000. India rubber
is a principal export. The mineral
wealth is enorrsous.
—When Captain Cook first visited
Tahiti, the natives were using nails of
wood, bone, shell and stone. When they
saw iron nails they fancied them to be
shoots of some very hard wood, and
desirous of securing such a valuable
commodity, they planted them in their
gardens.
—ln Italy, when the country men and
women dance together, the first thing
they do is to toss off their shoes, if they
wear any. A man does not go up to a
girl and ask if she will dance, but he
fixes his eye upon her from a distance
and nods. She nods in return, and
then both kick off their shoes and ad-
I vance toward each other and begin to
I dance.
—A shocking tragedy occurred at tho
village of Schonewalde, near Konigs
berg. One night a woman of that place,
in a fit of insanity, threw her three chil
dren into a deep well at the back of her
dwelling house. She then set fire to the
out buildings, anil afterward leaped
into the well, from which next morning
four corpses were taken out.
—Mr. Fawcett, the present Post
master-General of England, was one
night dining with a small party of po
litical friends, including Sir C. Dime,
at the Star and Garter at Richmond,
when the manager appeared and re
quested them to leave. Mr. Fawcett,
being disinclined to move, somewhat
indignantly asked the reason why.
“Well, sir,” the answer, “you gentle
men make tho laws, and' as they com
pel me to close my establishment at 11
o’clock, I have no alternative but to
ask you to go.”
. —Ayoung English Ixirdwhohad been
living in Pai is a couple of years in great
ityle was observed by his friends to
jhoosc for his daily constitutional the
ioleful surroundings of the great ceme
tery of l’ere-la Chaise, or some one of
;he smaller suburban cemeteries. His
friends rallied him ou his lugubrious
;astes, and inquired if he were posing
for effect, a la Young’s Night Thoughts’?
I’o which the young Englishman replied
'rankly: “Not at all; but the ceme
teries are the only places, where up to
lhe present time, Lowe nothing.”
—Tho burglars who broke into a
liouse in Belgium were discovered in a
oeculiar manner. It was remarked by
;he occupants of tho house that several
oottles of mineral water had been drunk
by the marauders. One day the police
beard that some men of more than
loubtful character had, while drinking
n a public house, expressed their dis
gust at the meanness of rich people who
rom avarice kept in their cellars wino
<o bad that it made ill all who drank it.
L’he mon were closely questioned, and
confessed that they were the robbers.
They had mistaken the mineral water
for white wino—a mistake for which
diey paid dearly in more ways than one.
HOME AND FARM.
—For citron cake stir together throe
cups of brown sugar, four and one-half
| cups of Hour, seven eggq two cups df
I citron cut in small pieces, two and one
half teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one
cup of butter, one and one-half cups of
sweet milk.— Chicago News.
—1 he I aile I Stales Veterinary Jour
nal, Chicago, recommends the follow
ing ai a remedy for heaves: Powdered
resin, two ounces; tartar emetic, two
ounces; Spanish brown, two ounces,
and Cayenne pepper, two ounces. Mix
and give two teaspoonfuls twice a day
in soft feed. J
For Lancashire pie, take cold beef
or veal and chop and season as for
hash; then put into a shallow bakfng
dish a layer of the meat, then a layer of
hot-mashed potatoes, well seasoned,
and so on until the dish is filled. Make
the top layer of the potatoes and make
little holes and drop in small pieces of
butter, and bake until a nice brown.
lhe Devon cattle, in the opinion of
tho Chicago Times, are probably better
adapted to the conditions and wants oi
the far \\ ost, where the feed is scanty,
the climate severe, and considerable
heavy teaming is required, than ani
mals of any other breed. It predicts
that, though for the present out of fash
ion, they are “as sure to come into
fashion again as the old styles of bon
nets.”
—Substitute for Butter: A lady who
is a famous housekeeper recommends
an economical plan for njaking cakes
without butter, which may be of use to
our readers who have a dread of “mar
garine.” Take a piece of fat pork,melt
H down and strain it through a piece of
coarse, thin muslin. Set it aside until
it is cold. It is then white and firm,
and may be used like butter in any kind
of cake. In pound-cake, she assures us
it is delicious.
A Locomotive Sunk Ont of Sight.
A locomotive ran through a broken
bridge on the Kansas Pacific Railway,
across Kiowa Creek, several years ago,
sinking into th« mud at the bottom, anil
has never Since been heard from, though
repeated efforts have been made, bv
digging and boring, to recover so valu
able a piece of property. The bottom
is quicksand, but even quicksands have
Itmits, and it seems verv singular that
the longest boring-rod has failed
to find any trace of the sunken
engine. By-and-by the silent, mys
terious operation will drain - the
quicksand and harden it into rock, and
then, long after the Kansas Pacific Road
has been forgotten, and the Kiowa
Creek has vanished from the map, some
future scientist will discover a curious
piece of mechanism, undoubtedly the
work of human hands, lying under so
many hundred feet <>f sandstone, and
will use the fact as a basis of calculating
how many million years old the human
race must be.— lloston Transcript.
Cancer and Alluvial Soil.
I spoke a short time ago about M.
Charles Blanc having died of cancer,
and pointed to the conclusion that his
malady was to be in some degree traced
to the alluvial situation of the Palais
Mazarin, where he resided. Os that
disease, I said that it haunts low-lying
river-sides and the mouths of streams
vh ch serve as sewers. Perhaps it
m ght be of interest to some of your ■
readers to know on what data I have to
go. Raspail first ca'led my attention to
the fact seventeen or eighteen years
ago He was in Holland, struck with
tl?e prevalence of cancer in the low-ly
ing districts, and still more along tho
mouths of the Scheldt and the Rhine.
He at first as ribed the fre juency of tho
HH. ad. to the electrical conditions pro
duced bv the metallic plates which th€
women of different Netherlandish local
ity , wear on their heads to support
the r tall la ean I muslin caps; but ho
a'so found that in the tidal regionof tho
Seine, where the soil is alluvial, there
wa-> a grea deal of cancer, although no
metal entered into the head-gear. Ho
pursued h - observations at the mouths
of other rivets. They led him to be-
Eeve that conditions of soil and atmos
phere which de eloped scrofula were
also favorable to cancer, a malady which
is apt to first show itself in a glandular
region. Trousseau used to advise pa
tients in wli m he discovered a cancer
ous tendency to try and live where tho
soil is dry, the air brisk and the aspect
•tinny. I have known of a good round
number of deaths from cancer in those
qutriers of the city where there are
underground water-courses, and along
the Seine. Count, von Goltz, the Prus
sian Ami as.utdor for many years at the
Court of the Tuileries, lived close to the
river. Bhui Ma lame Louis Blanc was
attacked with the cancerous malady of
whit It she d eI. -he had been for some
time resid n ; in the part of the Rue do
1 ivoli nearest to the Seine.
Many yea’s ago, in making an excur
sion down the Shannon, 1 was appalled
at the number of cancerous old women
who stret< h d out their hands for alms
at the landing-placei. Near Athlone as
many as three miserable beings, with
faces on which tho disease was greedily
feed ng, presented themseh es together.
A carman who noticed that the sight of
them gave me “a tiun.” said; “A
power of widows dies round here of
can ei. IVe’rc used to seeing them
and have got hardened. It's all the
fault of the Board of Works, that is
paid to drain th ■ country and won’t do
it. Mv own mother—llcaven be her
bed! died of cancer. She had a bad
tooth when th ■ river fooded the house,
it ached, her face swe led up; the doctor
Irmced it, and in eighteen months’ time
she was in her grave.” A cancerous
tumor of ulcer broke down the consti
tution of the Duchess of Kent at damp
Frogmore. It would be very easy to get
at statistics showing what geological
and atmospheric conditions most favor
cancer if pat cuts on admission to hos
pital were asked to state in what locali
ties they had I cen residing when the
disease first showed itself. 1 have never
seen a can erous face in the chalky up
lands of Kent, but 1 have seen a good
many about Dartmouth, the 1100
marshes, Woolwich and Chelsea.—
—Lond'/n Truth
The President of the German Diet.
Law and usage have united to give tho
President of the Diet a position wholly
different from that of the “Speaker” in
England or America. His powers are in
some respects more, in others less, ex
tensive. He appoints no committees,
and is, therefore, without that opportu
nity to reward friends and influence
legislation. Ho can with difficulty
create precedents by his rulings, and
contributes little to tho body of parlia
mentary law. Even his powers of diseip
line ami police are to a considerable extent
shared by the Vice Presidents and the
Secretaries, who are consulted in every se
rious crisis. But on the other hand he has
no little influence in shaping the course
of debate, through tho practice, which
may be, but seldom is, contested, of
fixing the “order of the day,” or pro
gramme of business of each session.
The ratio of ambitious orators is much
smaller in a German than in an Ameri
can parliament. Precedence is less
anxiously considered; time counts for
lots and there is less wrangling over
points of order and procedure. A debate
is a very formal affair, the names of those
who desire to speak being commonly sub
mitted to the choir in advance, and by him
arranged into a convenient succession of
pros and confras, who follow one another
with depressing regularity, much like
boys in a village lyceum. In general it
may be said that while in Germany, as
in America, the Speakership is a mark
of party confidence, it is not, owing to
the different conditions of political life,
treated as a step toward higher honors,
elt ctive or executive.
This statement holds true, moreover,
not only of Parliamentary prominence
as recognized in the person of the
President, but also of Parliamentary
prominence on the floor and in
debate. It is seldom rewarded in the for
mation of Cabinets, and can claim for
itself nothing from the State. There
are men in the German Reichstag whose
forensic talents would adorn any legisla
tive body in the world, and who, pre
sumably, if in office, would develop ad- ,
■ainistrative talents not inferior to those I
of the forum, who in England, or France
could command, and, if party conditions
were favorable, would receive portfolios
in the ministry, but who under the Ger
man system may spend their lives in un
profitable debate, without ever being in
vited to share the work of construction
and execution.— Herbert Tuttle, in Har
per's Magazine.
The complete independence of man
and wife, where property is concerned,
is nowhere to such a point as
among the Indians of Central Amer
iea. Every day the husband buys his
meals from his wife, who purchases from
him raw material for the table.
-
—A planter near .Memphis has a dog
which, with only two years’ practice,
crows like a rooster, raising his head at
the outbreak of the melody and lower
ing it as the sweet sounds die away, just
as a rooster docs. —Jirdumgc.
—The Methodis* rook Concern has
purchased the subscription list and good
viil of the New Yor - .1/. l.’uxlut, which
will be transferred to tho Christian Ad-
Vacate. i
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One of Barnum's Tricks.
Tom Thumb celebrated his 4'th
birthday in Chicago recently. He said
that when first exhibited by’Barnum he
was only five years old, and so light
that a strong man could hold him on
the palm or the hand. A fashionable
overcoat of those days was like the
ulster of the present, and had large s de
pockets with saps over them. “Bar
num wore one of these,” Tom relates
“ami I could get in one of the pockets’
and by doubling myself up snuHv the
Hap would i onceal me. It was a°favor
ite trick of Barnum's to put me in Ids
po ket, and appear in the hall about the
time for opening our entertainment.
He would call lor me, affe ting to bo
surprised that I was not on the platform
and then 1 would respond, 'Here I a"m’
sir.’ emerging fio n the pocket. Alas’
row 1 have grown since then!”
—According to the newly revised
pharmacopoeia, quinine must no longer
be called quinine, its recent Latin name,
but quinina. The word hydrate in chlo
ral hydrate has been knocked off, and
other alterations made. But for what
possible reason have the committee re
vised out of existence their former Eng
lish synonyme licorice, and substituted
the awful word of “Doctor’s Latin.”
glycyrnza? Such a change if enforced
would ruin half the confectionery shops
of the land. Imagine any possible
small boy asking for a cent’s worth of
glycyrrhizal— N. K Sun.
—•The proper study of mankind is
man. Popo knew better than to sav
“woman. ’ Woman is too deep a study
for anybody to umkrtake. 7 J
—Mrs. Labourchere tells a corres
pondent that Mrs. Langtry is thirty
nine years old. There is no doubt now
that these two women are completely
estranged.— Rochester Chronicle.
—We have near sympathy with that
dear and saintly old lady from the
country “Jeestrict” who, on examining
the weapons in an antiquarian museum,
declared that there was only one thing
more she desired to look upon, and
then she would go home satisfied—•
viz., the ax of the Apostles.— N. Y.
Herald.
—“Here, Sam. is a note I want you
to hand to Mrs. Eaton Mabeley when
you are sure nobody is looking,” said
an Austin society man to Sam Johnsing,
colored. ‘‘Yes, sah,” answered Sam,
showing his ivories. “And mind, don’t
you whisper a word to a living soul.”
“You may jess rest easy about dat,
boss. Yesterday I fotched dat samo
woman a letter from Colonel Percy
i erger. You can jess rest easy about
my openin’ my mouf.”— Texas Sift
ings.
, —They had only been married a short
time, 'lhe other day she slung her arm
around him and warbled in a low,
tremulous voice: “Do vou realize,
Adolphus, that now we are married we
are only one?” “No,” replied the
brute: “I can’t realize it. I nave just
paid a seventy-tive-dollar milliner bill
and a lot more of your bills, with sev
eral outside precincts to hear from, so
I am beginning to realize that, so far as
expenses go, instead of 1 eing one, we
are about nalf-a dozen. I can’t take in
that idea of our being ore just yet; not
by a large majority.’ 7