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Show TIIK NK1VLY- DISCOVERED CAVES IN ENGLAND. The digested report of tho explorers if the Kibblesdalc caves will correct many false iuipressions as to the social condition of England after tho withdrawal with-drawal of tlie Koman legions. The .aives were evidently used as places of rel'ugo by llotnauo-Ccltio inhabitants, who had fled from their comparatively luxuriant homes beforo the incursions of tho .Northern tribes. Numerous broaches and armlets have been found in the upper strata of debris, and from their workmanship, as well as from the coins which have been exhumed, the period of occupation may be fixed with tolerable accuracy. It probably ex lended from the middle of the filth till late in the seventh century. Pew districts in England could have better served for purposes of concealment than tbe region between the Mersey and the llibble, in which, at the Doomsday Dooms-day survey, a quarter of a million of acre3 were covered with a network of separate and dense woods. In the lower strata of these caves, indications of an earlier occupation have been found. 'Two flint flakes, a bone harpoon, har-poon, and the remains of red deer and bear, point to an era long anterior to the lloman invasion. An Old Hand at it. In New York, the other day, a sharp-looking little fellow, with a shock of light brown hair that looked as though it had no very recent acquaintance with comb and brush, said to his teacher, very abruptly : "Teacher, I ain't coming com-ing to school any more." "Not coming com-ing to school any more I Why, what's the matter? don't you like your teacher?" "Oh, jimini! don't II You bet. But I'm going back to the theatre!" "Back to the theatre I" "w'by, yes; I act, I does." "You act! Where?" "Yes, I've been on the stage lots. I'm an old hand at it. I was an angel up to the Black Crook, and a bull-frog down to the White Fawn, and I tell you what it is, teacher, I'd a heap sight rather be a bull-frog than an angel, any day." |