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THE DAILY BAXTER TIMES, GREEXCASTLE, IXDIAXA.

EXCITIVG INCIDENTS IN THE HAND-ME-DOWN INDUSTRY.

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NEWIE'S DOOM

THE HISTORIC Dt ILDIXO TO

12E DEMOLISHED.

MANY FAMOUS PRISONERS.

Sine. 1S7T Hi. prison has only tv*** u.Pil n* n place of detention for III. condemned and for prisoners who nr. to he tried at the Old Halley court. Hut even for these suinll purposes the present Imilditur Is unflf, every stone In j the structure seemlny to he reeklnjf with disease, a memento perhaps of | the mlsmnnaKemcut of former years. SOM K 11 IHT’OHIC PRISONEKS. The uuml>cr of wretches who spent their last days on earth In Newgate before going out with the hangman would ruu Into the tens of thousands If tho complete histories of the building and Its predecessors were consld1 ered. t'nptnln Kidd had a brief tasto

i of Newgate, so did the Irish martyr LONDON. -One of the »«>hert Emmet. Dick Turpin and his greatest criminal landmarks In the brother desperado. .lack Shepard, were word will be obliterated shortly by the likewise the melancholy Eugene destruction of New pate Prison. The ;* r, l ,n l l ; Hobert Kahlock. hilword the march of progress has made the old thirds chancellor, died In one of the structure obsolete and it is to be torn H'' 8 * Newgate prisons. I lie gn at down and replaced by a modern prisou 'am Penn was lodged there for preach-

IDEAS IN DEMAND. SEEK A STRIKING FEATURE FOR THE EXPOSITION OF 1900.

Willtnm Penn. Danfet Defoe, Robert F!nimet. Turpin. Sbei»nril nnd t'aptnin KM,I Were tonllneil There. AVa. I.ointoii's Srliool of t'rtme.

building.

The present building was erected In 17S1, but for many centuries prior to that the piece of ground It occupies, the angle formed by Newgate street and the Old Bailey, has been covered by London's official prison. Nearly eight centuries ago. when Henry I. was King of England, he established a

Ing against the Established Church. Daniel Defoe spent some months there, because of his writings In Uis paper the "Review,” the publication of which suggested Steele's famous “Tatler.” In the old days the condemned criminals were subject to many queer rules. One of these related to the chapel In Newgate. There was a "condemned'’

penal institution on the site, and ever P5, w 11 V 16 rellter the room, and In since then it has been occupied by a j ^Is enclosure was a table on which prison The history of the place prior rested a coffin 1 he condemned had to the year 1100 is somewhat vague 5 s l t arol * ni l'l 1 * 8 C0 Hl n < l urlD K il le 8er ‘ and some historians claim that It was v *f es ’ aI1 ^ t * 1 '' eonstaut presence of tin* site of a prison long be for. Henry emblem of death was supposed to 1. became King. At any rate it is excite religious fervor In the hearts of

clearly proven that Newgate is one of j Ik*' P oor wretches.

the most ancient of London's land- Another queer old-time custom was marks, it being one of the entrances to £ or bellman of the pansh of . t. the cl tv ns far back as 370 A. D. Then Sepulcher, in which Newgate is loit was known as the West Gate, the rated to v.sit the condemned on the name being changed during the reign fve of the execution and while ringof tho lirst Henry. , in K ‘j' 8 beI1 sin * out ,he following To enumerate the names of the not- . ...... able characters who have been con- AI1 you ,hat ln th. condemned hole do lie, . mo cnnrncicrs w no navi men ton 1>rpp|lre you for to . m(>rrow you w4 i| ai*. lined in the many prisons of Newgate YVatch all and pray, the hour i* drawing near. siuf*P tho twelfth P(»ntliry wouln cover When you before the Almighty must appear; :l considerable portion of English his- Examine well yourselves. In time repent, torv. Another thing that the records i That you may not f eternal names be aent. i of Newgate show is that the Befonn- And when St. Sepulcher s bell to-morrow

tolls.

Past twelve o’clock.’

IIETTEU THAN HUNTING llEURS.

•o-day. 'nbl^ngh peop^har^e to | Th.J.o^.^v^ha^ mercy on your soul.I

regard that stripe of individual as a peculiar product of the close of the nineteenth century. Hut the Newgate reformers of long ago had conslderj i ble ontise for existence, for of all the i mismanaged, corrupt Institutions on the face of the earth it easily ranked

! as the worst.

Wild Ilorsen So Fierce That Spori»-

iiieii iiu C*uiiit 1 iiu> for Them. li’rom the St. LouIh Fob*-Dispatch. There was a time when a horse thief in

the West was regarded as one degree worse than a murderer, ami he was often lynched

A VAST SCHOOL OF CRIME. on the slightest evidence. To the hardy The old proverb "Black as Newgate” i frontiersman the possession of a horse was

OLD CEO' EttOGE

ground and tells w hat he has to sell. Then lie feels that the ground Is grow-

The buyer's face is as motionless as ing firmer.

the wooden table on which he leans. THI' TK \DI\li POINT. To even look at the bag would be a " ‘ ' ‘ ’ sign of weakness. He gar.es steadily Iinally he strikes a man who says, at some object on the wall, never nl I-et s set; them. ihe bug is opened, lowing his eves to shift in anv other : "» I P*«we by piece Ihe treasures are direction. All the time the collector produced. Over each one there is a is talking the buyer has th ■ look of a tremendous amount of haggling. Some wooden man: even when the price is of the other dealers cluster around, mentioned not a quiver of Interest ■‘••'d they^ join forces to beat the prices passes over his face.. Five minutes ' 1 ~~ " "

may have passed, and the dealer has

given no sign of life.

The collector picks up his bag and walks to the next buyer. Then the same performance is gone over. From buyer to buyer the collector goes. |

Some of them may give a conteinpm-. performance.

ous sniff when he gets down to naming' t' lp profits of the business are not the price, although at each place he ,0 l '<' sneezed at. The clothes which has named a slightly lower figure than the collector gathered may have cost before. him $‘2. and he sells them for about Often he works all the wav around $•’ 'Ihe buyers are mostly the secto the original buyer before he ge ts ond-band dealers of "the Hay.” otlierhis nrice down to the talking price. " is ‘‘ Baxter street. A suit of clothes

, .... He knows when he is getting to the for which the collector originally paid offs fitici their way cvenitially Into the selling price by the increasing signs 40 cents, and which the dealer secured

of nnimation displayiMl by »*a<*h sue- ^ or 4#> is Iinally sold for $,}..»<) eeeding buyer. If inav onlv be the or after it has been furbished up flicker of an eyelid, or a sniff a trltle at an expense of 50 cents for material

less pungent than its predecessor. anf l labor.

WHERE NEW YORK'S CAST-OFF

GARMENTS ARE TRADED IN.

METHODS OF THE BUYER.

Dlalteiirtena tlic Collector lie n

Wooden Sture—When (lie Price Getii I.ow lluslnean la llrlaU. NEW YORK. —It Is esti-

mated that fWt.orto old hats, coats, vests, shoes, pants, dresses, wraps, babies’ and children's belongings are discarded every day in the week by the 5.oon.000 of people who make up the population of the Greater New York and vicinity, and 75 per cent, of the cast

down. The act nr. 1 process of selling consumes a good hour, while considerably more than that time was spent In the preliminary work. Each buyer stacks up his purchases in a separate heap. The collectors troop in otto by one. and each goes through the same

dirty and dingy quarter centering on Bayard street front the Bowery to

Mott street.

This quarter is virtually the Exchange of hand-me-down dealers. What is more, the excitement during business hours is Just as feverishly !n*ense ns the rush and battle of Wall Street when the stock market is hopping ti|i and down like a jack-in-the-box. The humble sum of three.cents may only be at stake in the Bayard street transaction, but if a million-dol-Inr bond deal were involved the strain for commercial supremacy could not

be more tense.

Two saloons have n monopoly of the business. They are the old clothes exchanges. and buyer and seller meet in either one or the other and arrange the preliminaries of a deal which is to give very small chunks of wealth for

each.

The seller Is a very sharp personage. Indeed. He is the gentleman who plods Industriously through the uptown streets with a large bag on bis shoulder or under Ids arm. according to the extent of its holdings. His far-reach-ing cry: “Cash for ol' clo's.’* is pleasant music to the ear of the financiering servant girl to whom the cast-offs of the family have descended. She : hauls out her worn valuables, and beats the price up while the buyer beats it down. Naturally, it would seem that they would be getting further away from each other all the time by the exercise of this process, but eventually their views reach the trading point, and the collector gets a mass i f garments which, perhaps, originall v cost $5b or $75 for 75 cents. WHEN THE MISTRESS BARGAINS. Sometimes it is the mistress of the bouse who attempts tho Herculean task of getting a fair value for the clothes from the collector^ He does not approach her with money, but with various articles of glittering tinware. which, lie assures her. will be a permanent delight and oruanient to her kitchen. 11 is eloquence and shrewdness finally enable him to get as much from the mistress. In exchange for kitchenware which cost him 40 cents, as he did from the servant at an outlay of 75 cents. Two c- three visits of this kind fill his bag and then he is ready for the trip downtown. The Stock Exchange opens at 10 o’clock and doses at 3, but the Hand-Me-Down Exchange does not open until 4. and business keeps up until 8 or 9 at night. Uptown tlte collector devotes his eloquence to picturing the many faults of the clothing; downtown he is a regular Chauneey M. Depew in his oratorieal ability to uphold their vir- j tues. But the buyer long ago graduated from tins, collecting school and is ‘ not to be fooled by eloquence. He has little to say; In fact, he says nothing. QUEER METHODS OF THE BUYER ' The collector phccs his bag on the

FEATURES

an be construed in more ways than one. In 1410 the management of the prison was so notoriously bad that a contemporary critic styled it “the taeyuouse gaol of Newgate,” language of little meaning to-day. but In that time it conveyed n world of denunciation, disgust and villifleation. For centuries and until 1850 it was known as a great school of crime, and more villainy was hatched within its own walls (halt in all the rest of London. The structure Immediately ante-dat-ing the present building was destroyed by the Gordon rioters. The new building was considered a fine affair in 1 781. when it was completed, but it seems puny enough now. Three stories In height, it was built in the form of a quadrangle, the interior court being divided into three sections. In the old days the best of these sections was placed at the disposal of prisoners who could afford to pay three shillings and six pence a week for a bed. The second section was inhabited by the felons too poor to pay anything, and the

third bv women criminals.

PRISONERS HAD MERRY TIMES. The scenes in these courts were something frightful, according to contemporary historians. Prison discipline must have been at a very low ebb. for the criminal with a little money did alKHit as he pleased. Boisterous games, drinking bouts, visits front outsiders and other lively customs relieved the monotony of the jail. Thieves and blacklegs of all kinds conferred freely with cn'di oilier and with friends from the outside, and it is a well authenticated fact that all the

worth more than the life of a human being, and a band of horses was more to be prized

than a whole colony of settlers.

Hut conditions have changed. Electricity, Improved machinery, the bicycle and other potent causes have conspired to depreciate the value of the horse, and hundreds of thousands of them have been turned loose by their owners, and have lapsed Into a state of wildness, compared with which a

bucking broncho is docile and desirable.

"You may talk about hunting for deer or elk or mountain goats," said Mr. B. F. Saunders, one of the cattle kings of Utah, in a recent interview, "but horse hunting n destined to become the most exciting

sport of the future.

"In the Rocky Mountain ranges there are now roaming about fully 2.000,000 horses that may be said to belong to no one. The range horse has become ao worthless and such a drug on the market that for several years past stockmen have not branded the young horses growing up. The horses on the plains now are about one-half without brands and relapsed into a perfectly wild

state.

"Down In the southern part of Utah, where my cattle range all the year, boys j are shooting these w ild horses whenever they get a chance. This practice, of course, makes those horses that escape wilder than ever, and it is only now and then that a band of horses can be approached near enough to get a shot at them. There is no danger of any one being injured by this sport, as the horses are a nuisance, and all cattlemen wish to see them extermfnated. Many cattlemen themselves own bands of horses that are running wild, and when they go out uow to round them up It is not as of old to brand, but to shoot them. "In the Rocky Mountain ranges in Montana, Utah, Nevada and elsewhere. It la now generally acknowledged that range horses are a public nuisance, and they ought to be exterminated. They eat up the grass needed for the cattle, and they are as

few bands of horses would be allowed to ship them away and be hailed as a public benefactor. Around hiu neck, instead of a rope, would be thrown wreaths of llowera and all men would praise him as a philanthropist of a very high order. "It to a fact that anyone who wished

tain range, and no one would question his right. The day of the range horse Is past, and It will never come again. The time is coming in my mind when the horse, llko the buffalo, will be in danger of becoming

extinct.

Don't you know that In recent years the

great crinies which were perpetrated bard on a range an aheep. Tney cat up the in London in those days were hatched | grasa right down to the roots, thus in dry in Newgate. ' weather completely destroying the range

Newcomers had to pay a "garnish.'' ! they graze over.

“footing"’ or “chummage” before they A man who would go out and steal a

could become recognized members of society In the prisou. The Iron-bound rule was to "pay or strip.” the divested garments of the moneyless being Immediately converted into liquid refreshment for all bands. This rule

was just ns rigorously enforced in tlte j could round up all the horaea he couid find women's court, and the record of n in almost any seetton of the Rocky Moun

visitor to tlte place In 1808 declares that most of the women were so destitute of clothing that it was an impossibility to enforce the alternative penalty when default was made In money “elinir-mage.'’ The wr.me*

spent’their Line in fighting, swearing, trailroad* compel a shipper to prepay freight gaming, dancing, singing and drink 011 whi<n i8 ,he only l * ,rt of liv e

hur niid as many as eighteen were stock where auch a rule applies?

ing. ntld as ntativ as eigin tn wer ,, Tlie gpor , of hunting horses is enrourcrowded into one small sleeping room. 8({0( | ^y stockmen and can be indulged In Nothing was done by the author!- w)th impunity, it is destined. I think, to ties in a sanitary way. the water sup- become very popular, as It ia exciting and

ply being Irregular anti soap and tow- somewhat dangerous." els unknown. NaturuUy every one

went dim* and infections diseases Electric lamps for bicycles have for the most wen- of com „ occurence. Nobody ]*'T^b.Zmr.n^'tYi paid any attention to this until about incy.liit a« a rule felt that he had thrown

middle of the present eenturv, tho pur^hasp money away. The latest electric

wheel lamp however, is of an entirely differett: order. It l** :i ‘Iran powerful llluminalor, which cannot he blown out. Jarred out or extlns?ulshed by the ordinary accidents which affect other lights. It consists of two parts, the bat ery. the s..nr * f power, which Is carri d in a compact le-ather case hung from the top

nd fra mi f rotn • h-- ban ll«

In flit* nlil 11 • iv*• tnridoners li'id to bars of the drop-frurn machine. The lamp in Ihe out <t.i\ s tin prisoners nau to r „ * vor; , nu || hcavlh Mated with sitcook their own food and in many ,p r leftsctui ni.-initcd on .» swtvot support, cases sttpplv it. This rule existed till- uni t-nrinr. red l>: a Cruder cord wltti th* til as late as 1S1K The unfortunate 'nnpri Within :tits Is the email Incan.lrerotit til as l.l i as IMS. t in uniorniiiiui Ahl , Kivr , , hl light. Thr whoia outdt felon who was without money and | S at-noBt as u ' fui in a carriage as it is on a friends had to keep body and soul to- liioyH?. Thr most Strll- ng thing about It ia ir.-thcr bv Itciruinir the leavings from Iho power of thr light. »hl. h thr ridrr can ing< UK l trj tagginv. U “ *■ V \ stamp d.-fV • ■ anv desired fir. (ton. tr is bis more fortunate rnmrades and do J^orr likr a mlniatnra S arrlillgbt than itka all kinds of menial work for them for an ordinary lamp and It throws a strong h"am few crumbs which thev hail to of light for fifty or sov> nty-Uve yards ahead. ' lllnua *nuu tnty Thlj |n( . rtlM . a , ,

.lamp to over Knr-iandie powrr, elmply by a I scientifically made rrflretor will probably su»- • gert to Bottle th< rightful people that they cut down thetr bills for electric light fully 50 per cent, or more bv gving the right way about It. The battery will run for eight hours on ona ! charge, and an be reoharged at any tnranI descent lamp socket, or by the special appllI antes which are provided to save trouble In the process. Many bicycle clubs now keep a charging outfit for the use of their members.

the

when some form of contagious disease spread to the nearby court house in the Old Bailey and a number of 1 judges and barristers were stricken down and died. Then the cry of the

reformers was heeded

There are trampa who will taka many things that do not belong to them; but It Is alwaya safe to loave a bath out within their reach.

No disgrace attachea to aulclde among the Japanese. The result is that an average of 4.000 men and 3.000 women kill themaelvea every year. Hanging Is tho favorite mathod, next to that Is drowning, with the use of kntvea or swords as a good third. July la the favorite month for'harl-kaii.

No nation ahould pretume to wage war without being able to pay the wages uf warriors.

Balloons Are a Fopntar Scheme—WlldEyetl Individuals with Novel and !mpoesthte Suggestions Haunt the Uommissiouers at Every Turn.

HE Paris expos!- j tion still lacks its I "clou,” or the great | feature which shall overshadow all others, as did the Eiffel tower at the former fair. Ideas by the thousand have been submitted, most of them being of the craz.iest de-

scription—things which it would bankrupt a nation to construct or which would require the disregard of such unevadable natural laws as that of gravitation, for instance, says the New York Journal. But the commission having charge of the task of selecting the "clou’’ for the great fair has finally, after infinite pains and labor, sifted from the tons of chaff these few grains of ideas which follow, which they consider good but not quite good enough. They have caused them to be published broadcast In Paris, with the hope that these ideas may suggest the right one or that some bright mind may see the way to combine a few of them and make a feature which shall be ustounding. At the head of the list is the captive balloon. It is to be a "balloon a vapeur” (steam balloon) which shall lift 170 people 2,000 feet or 100 people 3,000 feet. Two other people have also suggested variations on this idea. “A competition in color photography, the dirigibility of balloons, views from high altitudes,” is the way the next paragraph of the list reads. But just what it means and what connection there is between the three is hard to say. "Movable platforms for the transportation of visitors to the exposition.” Four different kinds of these are offered. Some go by steam and others by electricity, and the naive recommendation of one of them is that "agile people can jump over it.” The next step, naturally, is to burrow in the earth, and there are half a dozen suggestions for different sorts of mines and geological exhibits. Quite different is another set of ideas; some of them relate to a reproduction in an artificial lake of an armored man of war, and one man suggests a duplicate of La Touraine as more interesting. The project of an immense telescope has been frequently spoken of, and the man who suggested it seems to have no rivals. He also offers the idea of a monumental clock, to weigh 200 tons. The next thing is a reproduction of the various expositions since 1800, and then ccmes a painter, who thinks that a “panorama diorama of the tour of the world” would be the greatest thing that ever happened, which it undoubtedly would be—for him. A wine vat of 88,000 gallons' capacity is esteeemed interesting by one man, and a reproduction of a French village in the middle ages is suggested by another. In the same line are reproductions of Paris and its environs from 1800 to 1100, and another idea of showing the banks of the Seine in the fifteenth century with the ships of various countries. An entirely different suggestion is the one for an exposition of banking and minting methods and a reproduction of Lombard street and the Pont au Change. "Paris Through the Ages" is the idea of two men, which involves the restoration and reproduction of a mass of ancient buildings which shall illustrate the architectural change. “An encyclical of the progress of the twentieth century” has for its plan and scope the publication of a series of books "consecrated to progrt ss in different branches of human activity.” The highest perfection yet attained in the building and furnishing of a modern house is another idea. "The Woman's Palace” is naturally a feminine project. “An exposition showing the manner of legislation in various countries” would probably be more amusing than M. Pierre, its suggestor, imagines. "Luminous fountains or cataracts 900 feet high, nr a luminous cataract falling from the third platform of the Eiffel tower," another man thinks would be picturesque. A couple of scientists wish to have a gigantic reprodi etion of the moon, with a captive balloon for venturesome travelers floating around it. "An : xposition of infancy and youth” Is another feminine idea, which "will be educational to the ejes and recreative to the spirit." A palace of Jewels, showing the "jewels through all the ages," sounds more than fabulous. Two more panoramUts wish to construct an immense work showing the scenes on a voyage from Paris to the "street of the centuries" in which shall be shown the history of Paris and of Franc e; the Blue Grotto of Capri, with theaters. Then come ideas of an exposition of wax figures, a gigantic electric gyroscope, luminous projections, which shall surround the Arc de Triontpho with a luminous nimbus. Other ideas that are picturesque are a palace of glass and ceramics, which is much more vague than those offered by some panorama painters, one of whom wishes to "do” the coronation of the czar and another the history of France. An artistic and geographic cyclopedia would have a typical street from each country. The Alpine club thinks that a chalet with panoramas would be about the thing; others favor a panorama of the Alps and others one of picturesque France. “Luminous projections on artificial clouds'' sounds as if it might be interesting

to watch for a few minutes. Summing up the total of human genius manifested in this menu there are a score or more panoramas or dioramas, another reproductions, four or five balloons, always open to whoever cares to enter and submit ideas. Some of them have been too amusing and impracticable to consider, like that for putting up a huge Japanese umbrella on the Eiffel tower, so that people could take shel-

ter beneath it when it rained.

HISTORY OF SPOONS. The Moat Remarkable One Preserved In tho Tower of London. If you desire to know about the scarcity of really reliable data on the history of spoons take down your handbooks and encyclopaedias and see if it doesn’t take you a long while to learn anything concerning their origin, “nativity,” etc., says the Boston Transscript. In fact, the antiquarians do not pretend to give us anything of value in that line. It is admitted that they are “very ancient,'' but just exactly how old they are and by whom they were first used are points upon which we are left completely in the dark, Creighton says: “■Spoons must have been a very ancient invention, for a Saxon spoon of perforated silver gilt, ornamented with gems, was found in a grave at Sarre, Tanet." When forks were unknown spoons played a very important part at the table. Spoons of the thirteenth century, and even later, had handles terminating in a knob, knot, acorn or other odd and cumbersome device. About the period of the restoration, of which so much is said in English history, a great change was made in the forms of spoons. In some of the unique patterns the "spoon” part was divided into two, three and even four parts, and the handle always split or twisted and turned up, instead of down and back. Spoons of that period were all blunt, instead of being pointed, as in the forms generally seen at present. They continued short and blunt down to the time of George I., when they were lirst made pointed and had the handles turned down instead of up. About the year 1500 what were known as ''apostle” spoons were introduced. They were so called because they had tlte tig. tires of the twelve apostles carved upon their handles. They were generally given by sponsors to children at their time of baptism. The wealthy presented the entire twelve, those who could not afford to indulge in such extravagance giving one or more, according as they felt able. The most curious and remarkable spoon in the world, perhaps, is a “coronation spoon” preserved among the other royal relics in the tower of London. The bowl is gold and the handle silver. The handle is split down the middle and set with all kinds of precious stones. The relic is valued at about £20,000, or upward of $100,000.

Interrxtini; Diseorerim at Atha The excavations carried out by thCook Archeological Society on the northwest slope of the Acropolis have led to some interesting discoveries, according to a correspondent of the London Times. Near the Klepsydra or well mentioned by Pausanias. and at some little height above it, are two caverns which have been generally identified by archeologists as the grotto of Apollo and the grotto of Pan. In the former are many traces of nichos made for the reception of votive offerings. It was customary for the archons at the expiration of their year of office to inscribe their names here, either on the rock or on marble tablets. No similar traces, however, are found in the other cavern. The excavations now conducted under the superintendence of M. Kavvadias have revealed two other larger and deeper caverns in the adjacent rock which are connected by an aperture. This was undoubtediv the shrine of Pan in which Myrrltina (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 911) proposed to Kinesias that their marriage rites should be celebrated. The whole precinct was in all probability originally sacred to Apollo, but when the worship of the Arcadian shepherd-god was introduced at Athens soon after the battle of Marathon the deep recess in the rock, which resembles his shrines elsewhere, was chosen as a suitable sanctuary. A little to the northeast o? the grotto has been discovered a Might of steps cut in the rock and apparently leading to the stimimf of the precipice. The steps can lie traced to the base of a buttress of medieval masonry which supports the wall of Ciraon. The upper portion of the staircase, which lies within the wall, was discovered by M. Kavvadias in 188(i. It now appears certain that these are the steps by which the Persians scaled tlte Acropolis, ml it also seems probable that this wa? the passage by which tlte Arrhephoroe, or sacred virgins, made their annual descent to the precincts of Aphrodite, itearing on their heads the sacred ves-

sels of Athens.

An KKypilHii Sunsrt. in most tropical countries sinklft darkness after sundown is one of the peculiarities. In Egypt, at certain seasons of the year, the sun goes down and darkness comes on very suddenly, con tlnuing for a space of twenty minute or half an hour. Then, all of a sudden the hills and sands take on ji ghas b paleness,and in another moment even thing begins to brighten and it appeal* as if the sun was about to rise out n the west.

A Nicer Game. De Garry—Why is it that when » fellow is alone witli a girl he loves tie' 1 seldom play cards? Merritt—Becau 8 ’ if they did she would have to hold h<> own hand. Judge.