Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

smoking ana SlIClng on the DOX.
"You haven't had much trade to-day,
have your" he was asked. ''You seem
to have been boycotted."
DANA da boycott. I gitta da good
rest all da affanoon."
"But the fellow opposite did big
business was suggested.
Antonio Leganio chuckled, shrugged
his shoulders, and said: CD fella worka
for me. I owna da two stands"
THE GREAT SEAL OF ENGLAND.
What Its Fortunate Custodian Receives in
Rank and Money.
New York Observer.
The mere holding of the great seal of
England entities the fortunate custodian
to some 100000 year, to immense pat
ronage in church and state, to be speaker
in the house of lords, privy councillor,
and the head of all judicial authority in
the kingdom, to be designated lord high
chancellor of Great Britain, and keeper
of the royal conscience, and to rank next
to the royal family the second subject
in the realm. It is very difficult, if not
impossible, to say when England first
had great seal. Seals were not much
used by our Anglo-Saxon ancestors, but
came largely into fashion during the Nor
man reigns. The gilt crosses or marks
of Edward the Confessor and other Saxon
kings can scarcely be called seals, and
partook more of the character of sigma
lures of an illiterate age; but a grand
and perfect seal of William the Con-
queror exists, having the monarch crown
ed and throned on the one side and
mounted on horseback on the other
attitudes which have been invariably OBJ
served to the present day. One remark
able circumstance connected with the
great seal is it's progressive growth in
size as time advanced. Originally, eight
hundred years since, not larger than the
top of an ordinary modern teacup, it has
been gradually enlarged from age to age
till it offers now the size and appearance
OF a muffin, and requires to be inclosed
in tin box for protection. Indeed, so
large and unwieldy had the great seal be-
come that some three or four years since
an act of parliament passed containing
very extraordinary provisions-directing
that all the minor, and many even of the
more important, documents passing un-
der should for the future be authenticated
by paper wafer of moderate size, which
should be gummed on the instrument,
and be deemed and taken to be the great
seal itself.
The great seal has only three times
been lost, twice temporarily and once
permanently. James H., on leaving the
kingdom on his abdication threw the
seal into the Thames, whence, however
it was next morning fished up and
brought to Whitehall. Lord Eldon
buried it in his garden in Queen square
during one night when his house caught
fire, and he thought in the confusion it
might he stolen. ''And," writes the chan
cellor in his diary, ''when the fire was
extinguished quite forgot in the morn
ing where had buried it, and while the
carriage waited to take NE to court my
lady and I and all the household were
digging with pieces of stick till we luck
lily found it. Lord Thurlow, who al
ways held it during the night in his
bedroom, had it actually carried off by
burglars, from whom it was never re-
covered. A privy council was called the
next day, new seal was rapidly made,
and during the remainder of his continu-
ance in Office Lord Thurlow invariably
Deposited it of a night under his pillow.
Down to 1918 the great seal itself was
made of copper; since then silver has
been the metal employed. It is in two
halves. somewhat like two very thick
bright tin saucepan-ids fitting closely
together, their inner surfaces deeply
sculptured with the royal devices in
tended to be formed of the wax when
squeezed between them. Instruments
having limited duration are sealed with
yellow wax. Others, supposed to exist
in perpetuity, such as patents of peer
age, etc, are exemplifed under green
wax, and in the case of some Letters
papent, likely to be exposed to good
deal of knocking about or journeying
from place to place such as were the as
size commissions, the wax seal was
stamped after being ingeniously inclosed
in cream -colored leather
The youth who has popped the ques-
ton and been referred to pa knows all
about the pa ken movement after the
man be wanted for father-i2-la law has
kicked him down the steps.-Philadel-
phid Herald.
1t is said to be sign OF anglomaniac-
ism TO be seen without an oyercoat in the
street in New York when the tempera-
ture is nearly down to zero. In some
other place it is sigh of poverty
No1ristoicn Herald.
The Boston girl never hollers ':hello"
at the mouth of a telephone. She simply
says, as she puts the receiver to her ear,
81 take the liberty of addressing you via
a wire surcharged with electricity."-
Y Journal.
The Gdulors, of Paris, informs its