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"This plaintiff, further replying, alleges that this plaintiff is informed and believes, and upon information and belief alleges, that subsequent to the said i5th day of May, A. I). 1899, parties have not only ascended to the summit of Pike's Peak, but they have also descended therefrom, and both in the ascent thereof and descent there from said parties have partaken of coffee and other refreshments while toasting their shins before the fires built off from the right of way of the defendant; that some of said parties have walked up and down said mountain, while others have gone up and down on their burros, and still others have ascended and descended said mountain on the burros of others and of divers and different persons who abide in the City of Manitou and the surrounding country and make their livelihood by hiring out their burros for such purposes; and this plaintiff further alleges that it is the belief of this plaintiff that generations yet unborn will so ascend and descend said mountain rather than pay the exorbitant charges made by the defendant for carrying people up said mountain on its said railway, and that said persons have wrestled with, and will wrestle with Colorado Springs' restaurant sandwiches and have washed them down and will wash them clown, with coffee and Colorado city liquids rather than pay S 1.05 for a slice of bread and a glass of milk, with the privilege thrown in of gazing upon the lonely grave of the aforesaid Baby Nell while disposing of the luncheon so gotten, and while so doing the wrathful fires of indignation will kindle, blaze and burn within the bosoms of said persons and off from the right of way of the said defendant, but this plain tiff denies that said fires were the cause of the damage to this plaintiff, as alleged and set forth in the plaintiff's complaint filed herein." NINE men constitute a jury in Mexico, and a majority gives the verdict. If the jury is unani mous there is no appeal.

INTERESTING GLEANINGS. AN American who has returned from a summer trip in Europe says he found it more difficult to be as polite as he wished in the city of Hamburg than in any other place in Europe. There the most chivalrous man has to think twice before giving up his seat in a car to a lady, as he may be turned oft burg the car trolley for his cars politeness. will seat, according It seems to thatsize, the twenty Hamor twenty-eight persons, ten to fourteen on each side. In addition, four persons are allowed on the front and five persons on the back platform. When the car is full the conductor hangs out a sign. •• Besetzt." which means " occupied," and is absolutely forbidden to take on another passenger until some one gets off the car. Sometimes, while the conductor is in front collecting fares a lady will step on the car. which is already "occupied." As there is no conductor on hand to prevent her, the lady steps inside, and the gentleman who may offer her a seat comes out and takes his stand on the platform. When the con ductor, after going his rounds, returns -to his post, he promptly requests the gentleman to step off the car. as he has forfeited his seat, and the car is fully "occupied." Should he refuse to leave the car he is put off. The policemen on the streets are in structed to watch the cars sharply, and if they find a car carries even one more passenger than its proper complement the conductor is fined seventy-two cents, which is paid to a charity fund of the street railway company. STATISTICS have been published to show that brain workers are long-lived. Five hundred and thirty eminent men and women of the present cen tury were taken, and their duration of life gives an average of sixty-eight years and eight months. ONE of the most curious plants in the world is what is called the tooth brush plant of Jamaica. It is a species of creeper, and has nothing particularly striking about its appearance. By cutting pieces of it to a suitable length and fraying the ends, the na tives convert it into a tooth brush; and a tooth powder to accompany the use of the brush is also prepared by pulverizing the dead stems.

No one who has not seen an African " kopje " can LAWS are often mere notice-boards, set up in easily realize it. It is not a hill so much as the out of the way places where no one can read them. stump of a hill — what is left of it after ages of If you wish to keep people off a road, close it denudation : but the special feature of it is that it is with a barrier that stops the most heedless man almost invariably covered with a breastwork of at the very entrance. It is better to make tres boulders. Tropical torrents have washed away the pass impossible than forbid it. earth and all the soluble components of the rock, and Joubert. what is left consists of heaps and lines of detached