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UGLY MEG MURRAY.
®lr Walter Scott’* Aneeator Wedded
Her Rather Than Be Hanged.
Visitors to the home of Sir
Walter Scott at Abbotsford may
still see on the walls of an inner
room near the great novelist’s study
a picture which tells of a curious
incident in the family history of the
master of Elibank.
A certain Sir William Scott, from
whom Sir Walter was descended,
was ill advised enough to plunder
the estate of Sir Gordon Murray of
Elibank. The marauder was seized
and brought in fetters to the castle
of Elibank upon the Tweed. The
Lady Murray, agreeably to the cus
tom of all -women in ancient tales,
was seated on the battlements and
saw the return of her husband with
his prisoner. She inquired what
he meant to do with the young
knight of Harden, as Sir William
Scott was generally known.
“Hang the robber, assuredly,”
was the answer of Sir Gideon.
“What?” answered the lady.
“Hang the handsome young knight
of Harden when I have three ill
favored daughters unmarried! No,
no, Sir Gideon; we’ll force him to
marry our Meg.”
Now, tradition says that Meg
Murray was the ugliest woman in
the four counties and that she was
called, in the homely dialect of the
time, “Meikle Mouthed Meg.” Sir
Gideon, like a good husband and
tender father, entered into his
wife’s sentiments and gave Sir Wil
liam the alternative of becoming
his son-in-law or decorating with
his body the “kindly” gallows of
Elibank.
The girl was so ugly that Sir
William, the handsomest man of his
time, positively refused the honor
of her hand. Three days were al
lowed him to make up his mind,
and it was not until he found one
end of a rope made fast to his neck
and the other knotted to a sturdy
oak bough that his resolution gave
way and he preferred an ugly wife.
—Los Angeles Herald. .
The Chineee Taxicab.
We have been told that the taxi
cab is no new thing, being, in it*
general principles, a thing known to
the ancient Romans, but now an
orientalist goes even further and
assures us that mechanical carts
capable of registering distances
traveled, by counting and recording
the revolutions of very large cart
wheels, connected by cogs with oth
er concentric or eccentric horizontal
and perpendicular wheels of propor
tionate diameters, have been well
known to the Chinese for seventeen
or eighteen hundred years. On the
top of the cart was the figure of a
man holding a drum, which he beat
when one li, a third of a mile, was
traveled. Some carts had, in addi
tion, a figure holding a cymbal,
which was struck when the drum
had been beaten ten times.—Har
per’s.
Too Long Winded.
The inhabitants of the Canary
isles, finding themselves oppressed
by famine, sent to the governor of
Galicia one of their head men as an
ambassador. They advised him not
to lose himself in long winded talk.
He promised and kept his word. He
took with him a large number of
sacks, and, arriving at the town
where the governor was on the cir
cuit, he opened one of them before
him, saying only these words: “It is
empty. Fill it.”
The governor ordered tins sacK
and the rest to be filled with meal,
but he said to the speaker: “You
had no need to tell us that the sack
was empty nor that it was necessary
to fill it. We should have readily
guessed that. Another time be
briefer in your talk.”
Books Written In Jail.
Jail seems to be a good place in
which to write books. Literary
men surpass themselves there. John
Bunyan wrote “Pilgrim’s Progress”
in jail. Cervantes wrote “Don
Quixote” in prison. Defoe laid the
plans for "Robinson Crusoe” during
a term of confinement imposed on
him for the writing of a pamphlet
called “The Shortest- Way With the ]
Dissenters.” Leigh Hunt wrote j
“Rimini” in jail. Sir Walter Ra-J
Ibigh during his fourteen years’ im-/
-pmanmeat-in -the -Tower of Lon
don wrote his excellent “History of
jihi. World”.;,Silvio Pellico and Ta*P-:»
'so both did their best work in jail." ;
A Panny Saved. y
Scrooge was wealthy, ‘but close
fisted. At a directors’ meeting he
cut hjs finger and asked for a,piece
bf sticking plaster. Nobody had
any plaster, but a merchant handed
Scrooge u two cent stamp.
. “Put that on,” he said. “It will
stop the flow of blood.”
‘Oh, thank you,” s^aid Scrooge,
and, drhtfBi|ff6rtk his wallet, he de
posited the two cent stamp therein,
taking out a one cent stamp of hia
own, which he proceeded to affix i
upon his hurt.
BULLS THAT WIN THE RING.
Th*M Fierce Brutee Are Teeted Tim*
•»)d Again For Bravery.
A lurid description of a bullfight
concludes a recent American novel,,
the author of which, discussing bull- ,
fights, said in New York the other 1
day:
“The pluck of the bulls is the i
most impressive feature of these
festivals. The bulls, up to the very i
last sword thrust, light indomitably j
on. They face wounds and pain .
and death with the fierce and eager i
passion wherewith youth faces love, j
“Some people think that there |
is one certain race of bulls that
inherit this incomparable bravery, i
Others think that the bulls are ]
maddened just before tlie light with I
alcohol and drugs. But these no- j
tions are false. The bulls are so
brave because each animal is the j
pick of a huge herd.
“A herd of picked pedigree bulls '
at the age of two years is tested, •
one bull at a time. This bull is j
overthrown by a man on horseback,
and another man jabs it with a j
spear. If the bull lights it is mark- j
ed O. K. If, however, it shows the j
least fear or if it sulks it is taken j
from the herd.
“The bulls that have passed this
two-year-old test are tested at four
and again at five. Many at each age
fail and are discarded. But a few
succeed. And these successful bulls
are the ones that enter the bull ring
—the ones that for ten or twelve
minutes in the blazing sunshine of
Spain afford a spectacle of such in
domitable, hopeless and pitiable
bravery and then are dragged off
dead by a mule team, whose harness
jingles gayly with innumerable tiny
bells.”—Buffalo Express.
When Trousers Were Barred.
The latest instances of a general
enforcement of laws concerning
dress occurred at the time of the
French revolution, when some rul
ers of German states forbade their
subjects to wear trousers, these be
ing held to indicate revolutionary
opinions. The elector of llesse
Cassel, besides prohibiting the ob
hoxious garments, had the convicts
employed on road sweeping dressed
in trousers, so as to inspire disgust
for sans-culotte fashions. No gen
eral prohibition of this kind was is
sued in Prussia, but until 17!)8 all
Prussian officials were restricted to
knee breeches for their nether gar
ments. Trousers were held to be
“unbecoming to the dignity and
gravity of any holder of an official
position.”—London Chronicle.
Cure For a Cold.
A cure for influenza or a bad cold ]
used by one English physician was j
complete rest in bed for forty-eight
hours, giving the digestion rest by
abstaining from all food except the
juice of fresh fruit in water, taken
as freely as desired. Apple juice
or orange or grape juice was most
commonly .used. Of course the ab
solute bodily rest in bed is neces
sary. It would be very unwise to
try to keep about as usual while
fasting in this way. People wno
have tried it report excellent re
sults from this “cure.” We have
always found that careful dieting
was a necessary part of the treat
ment for any cold or influenza.— i
Rural New Yorker.
Won Her Release.
A small girl was invited to tea
by a lady who was very fond of chil
dren. but who was not exactly a
past mistress in the art of juvenile
entertainment. At the end of an
hour the little guest looked up sud
denly and asked if her host wasn’t
very tired of her.
“Tired of you, darling?” said the
latter. “Not the least bit in the
woijld. But what made you think I
could he?”
“I thought, perhaps,” said Miss
Innocence, “that you might be tired
of me, because I’m so very tired of
you.”
The Five Paul*.
Here is a good example of what
frequently happens in the polyglot
Balkans. A man named Pavel—
that is, Paul—had five sons. One:
,settled in Athens, called ’ hijp^elf;
Pavlopoufo, the Greek form of Paul
son; the second went to •> Belgrade *
and called himself 'Pavlovich ; the
third,'in 'Sdflt£lcaHe8. himself Pav
loff ; the fourth made his home in
Bucharest under the name Pavles
eu, while the youngest set UP in
business in Constantinople, assinn
ing the Turkish form of Pavloglu.
—Harper’s. ^; . ! .
A Fair Fiald.
, “If 1 can do’ anything to cheer
and brighten the lives of my fellow
men I shall be perfectly satisfied,”
‘remarked the long'haired poet.
“Then,” replied his weary wife,
“why don’t von quit writing poetry
and get up a comic series in which
the humor is furnished by some one
who hits another over the head
with a club?”—St. Louis Post-Dis
patch. *
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