, 1872-11-21

hoare ekinnng and killing all of their oak trees to
For For bonnets Why you can buy forty acres Of land
not fur from here for that money! 81 dads."
"By dads MS my s1addest e1pletire.. When have
said that, am no longer man, and mine enemy may
consider himself consumed.
There is an extraordinary tendency, Reginald
Wynford says in +" Land Owners in England, " on
the part of Englisnmen ito Dequeath estates to
those who have them. Moreover, Of late years
enormous properties in the hands of one per-
son. Miss Bronte says in one Of her novels that
the fckleness Of Fortune sometimes takes tho
turn Of repeated strokes Of luck in the same
'quarter. This would certainly, seem to have
been the trick which she has played tie Duke
dom of Baccleuch." The Duke has, in this way,
become The chief landed proprietor in the Uni
ted Kingdom. He has. besides his town-house,
nine seats,-forr in England, which came to
him from the Duke of 11ontagu, and five in
place, came from the Duke Of Queensberry,
while the rest are Bucc1euch property"
But it is the commercial magnatcs who are
becoming the great landowners of tho country:
estates Of Grea Britain; they have made the rural
districts much lcss Agreeable to live in, by enaohng
people eany and chcapy to leave home than thou
sands who never thought Of visiting London more than
ten times in their lives now take house for the eea
eon and come to the country to economize. This has
induced those who can only afford one residence TO
limited means have sold their few hundred acrces and
repaired to the Metropolis whereby they have in many
There are almost always wealthy perions in English
neghborhood able and willing to add house to
house and field to field and to give handsome prices
and email people find their income much improved by
putting into railway debcntures or the Indian loan ut
to per cent, money from which, whilst invested in
land, they only desived from ~ to per t14 cent ::
time are the first squires to-day. Lord oVerstone
| formerly Jones Lloyd, the London and Manchester
banker drives eighteen miles, from Northampton to
Fotherlngay Castle-tlo scene Of Mary Queen Of
Scots last hours, which now belong to him-through
his oWn domains: I,s noneah IS rcpuren lug f
money goes, in England and is commonly reported to
lire the interest Of his interest. His only child IS
destination Of property estimated at oco 600 is q
subject Of frequent conjecture In the beautul park
where once was this home Of tho Grises, Sir Francs
Tee three Of Mr. Brassey, the contractor arc aA
country gentlemen, already with great estate the
ertv Of the Ta1bots Eara Of Shrewsbury which, with
his little fortune Of ooo he will probably add to
| Oh all sidts.
In Monthly Gossip,"a story seventy years
Somewhat apropos Of the recent action Of Judge Ai
son causing the hat to be removed from the head OF
Quaker juror who had persisted On grounds 9.
dialogue, wheh, according to the Peunsytvan1a news
papers Of E@ty or seventy years ago Qrom me o.
AlcKean and an old woman who was giving testimony
| in a cause pending in the Pennsylvania Court:
Chief Justice Pull off your bonnet, nladan1-elee
| US an opportunity Of seeing your couutenance.
| Old Woman--" will Iot, sir."
| Chief JuBtice-"1 desire you to pull OF your bon'
| netn
| Old WOMAN" Sir am informed that in all public
assemblies the woman ought to have her head covered
! and Of course sla1 not take off my bonnet"
/ Chief Justice-' Why, you are pretty woman IL
deed I think you had better come take seat upoI
| the bench.''
| Old Momau-tfI heartily thank yol, sir but really
| think there are old women enough there already
The story told Of CHIEF Justice Marshall it is
bard to believe:
Turning aside one day to avoid one Of those awfu
| mudhoes Which abound in Virginia country-roads
the axle Of his buggy encountered stout eapnng
The sapling WEB between the hub Of the wheel ana h
body Of the buggy. Too big to bend down and to-
supple to break this sapling seemed to the Judge 10
wholly unconqucrable. What to do be knew no.. A
cot down out Of the buggy the better to apply III
great intellect to the knotty subject and to study
thoroughly up. While pondering EainlE, negro mai
came along.
tell me about this sapnE. can't get over it, end
can't get around it. and don't want to stay hc:e al
dav and miss Court. What do you think mad bette
| dog" -.
The negro could not repress broad but silent grin
HWhy, ole uaarster," said he spec de bos' thln
you Kin do to back go buggy twill you Sit csar Nv
saplin' and 20 to Cote slick rs goose-grease-"
aThank you-thank yon kindly, uncle: shonl
uercr have thought Of that in the world. You are
man Of superior mind. There's half dollar fc
you.n And the Judge drove joyfully of.