Show GOOD HEALTH OF HOBOES Tramps Generally In Itcttrr Condition Titan Any Other Clan of People Prof John McCoolc of Trinity college col-lege in recent lecture in New Haven on The Pathological Aspect of tho Tramp Problem pave the following interesting facts about the knights of the road New Jersey was the first state to pass a law punishing the professional tramp and at tho same time to define what he was This was in 1870 Rhode Island was the next and Connecticut came third A recent writer asserts that there are about 00000 tramps in the United Slate This number is a I trifle large although it is safe to say that there arc over 40000 This is larger than the army of Wellington at Waterloo Wo look on tramps as human wrecks as driftwood and yet the majority ma-jority of them are in the prime of life and in better than the average health Only SS per cent of the tramps from whom my statistics were gleaned claimed in tho dead of winter while the grip was raging that they were in bad health They arc robust and will fill you with envy malice and all other jealous feelings when you hear them snoring at midnight Eightyone per cent of tramps declare de-clare that they took to the road because be-cause they were out of a job and only one man because machinery took his place Over 00 per cent of tho English tramps are given as taking the road because of vagrant habits The majority major-ity of our tramps arc of American lirth 05 per cent of 104J being of American parentage and 273 Irish who come next Over 100 out of 1738 tramps could read and write and they nil Hpcnd money on the daily newspapers Out of 13SJ only 70 are married r7 are widowers and SI have children Thirtyeight per cent say they work for their food a I per cent beg it and 5C per cent that they steal it Over 400 sleep nt cheap lodging houses and nearly near-ly 300 in police headquarters About 100 sleep J In boxes VhUt In n Lions Don In the Hungarian menageries a fir vorito u atlon B ene is for four whist I players to tt don and play a rubber In tho lionf den while n fifth tends I by to sou fair play oa tho part of the lions I thought writes James 1ayn in the Illustrated London News I had played whist under all poislblo circumstances circum-stances and in company with the very strangest specimens of created beings but experience beyond me Some people are made nervous by folka looking look-ing over their head which unless they are my adversaries docs not affect moat mo-at all but I dont think 1 should like this from a lion the greater attention I ho pihl me the less pleased should foci by the compliment I nm wire I should be very much put out even if it wiie evoked by u mistake of my opponents oppo-nents if he roared Hungarian player play-er do not seem to mind three things The other day howe er it appears this very Intere6t1ng performance given once too often Tie lions with delicate deli-cate forbearance abstained it ir ur I from interfering with tile pi verb but I they wont for tho fifth mau whom they doubtless considered cuperlluous nnd made very short work of him In spite of the selfishness that is often though most unjustly attributed to card players I play-ers the rubber broke up at once |