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Show THE V.1CE OF AUTHORITY. Guide Was Not Asking the Party to Accept His Word. A New York man, who spends a portion of the summer each year In England, tells of an amusing Incident Inci-dent In connection with his first visit to Richmond castle. On that occasion occa-sion he was accompanied by a guide who relied for his Information mainly on a putrto book, which, from time to time, ho would furtively consult If he thought tho visitor was not looWr. his way. "What Is tho height of this Bno old keep?" asked the Now Yorker. "According to hlst'ryV replied the guide, "it's 92 feet." Similar replies were made to other questions of a Uko nature, each being be-ing vouchsafed with the assurance that It was "according to hist'ry." Finally there was reached a part of the battlements where tho hill on which tho castle stands descends abruptly ab-ruptly to tho river. "Pretty s-Uop descent'!' exclaimed the American. "Yes, sir," came from the guide, In his monctox-v:3 tone. "According to hlst'.-y, It's almost perpendicular!" Hamor's. |