Show StrangeSurvivals 4 There Is to be a parliamentary election elec-tion in Argyllshire Scotland this summer sum-mer where a large proportion of tho Inhabitants can speak no English In some parts of the country the candidates candi-dates election addresses are issued in I Gaelic the tongue in whichas some believerAdam conversed with Eve In the garden of Eden It is fortunate for the candidate that the election takes placein slimmer as a winter campaign that included trips to the Islands of Coil Tlrce Colonsny Islay and Jura would test the seagoing capacity of an old salt From Ardnamurchan point to the mull of Cantjre Is as rough a stretch of water as can be encountered tround the British Isles the nearest I land westward being the North American Ameri-can continent Steam yachts are being offered to the candidates Who will require re-quire all the help extended to them to cover the widely scattered constituency before election day arrives Though London bridge has had no houses upon it for about 150 years taxes are still paid on the houses that J formerly stood there When about the year 1750 It was decided to clear the houses from the bridso contain taxes and tithes survived and have been paid ever since to the rectors of St Magnus and St Olave churches Not less than 300000 has been paid to these two parishes par-ishes since l the decrepit houses which formerly yielded them were pulled I down They survived not only the I houses but the old bridge itself And now there is a movement to stop this seiial ghost story of taxation English medical papers are commentIng comment-Ing on the remarkable survival of superstition at Cambridge where a dairyman dai-ryman possessed of a goat is sending the animal by request Into and around the houses of his neighbors In an area infected by the smallpox The rustic I superstition that goats bring good j luck Is widespread and the London Lancet Lan-cet quotes many instances Chicago News I |