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Show BRITISH CROWDS ARE 8TOLID, Do Not Make the Noise That la Heard at American Gathering. One of tho things that most Impressed Im-pressed Oen. Wood was the stolidity, of tho London crowds. Thoy disappointed disap-pointed him. He had heard bo much of "British cheers" that he expected to see all American outbursts thrown into the shade. Instead of that ho found less show of enthusiasm, even when the king and queen rods through the city, than may be met with any day in tho states at a baseball base-ball match. This is a comment which American visitors often make, and not without reason. The London crowd Is more hearty and vociferous than tho French or German crowd, but compared with an American gathering on any big occasion, a political meeting meet-ing for Instance, a civic welcome to a victorious admiral, or a vars"y football foot-ball match, it Is as Abcr waterfall to Niagara. On the other hand, it Is claimed that the Americans do not really cheer; they yell. Complimentary. , Throughout tho rural districts of ' Berks county, Pa., thoy havo a custnai of "boiling soap," tho apparatus for which can usually be seen at aay outhouso. While thus engaged on ono occasion, a farmer's daughter paw her swain approaching, nnd immediately immedi-ately started for tho house to bettor her appearance, which fact tie mother explained to tho cnller as ho camo upon tho sccno. After awhllo tlio girl appeared, all traces gone of a few moments before, whereupon tho enamorod youth Bald: "Why, you look aa though you had nover seen nny soap." The Bicycle Lesson, i Last spring tho nsslatsat tcc,r i ' ono of tho Chlcugo chu:cae3 lioiig t n blcyclo and declared he would ." . to ride unassisted. Tho flrct tin o tried, however, ho made a ir.lcm failure, rinding it much harder .u.,: than ho had expected. Just as ho foil ofT nnd rollcl eve" and over in tho dusty road, n c"-rlogo c"-rlogo containing somo of his woallhy parlshlonors camo along, but the , clergyman waB not recognized. How-over, How-over, several choir boys, who had been hiding behind n clump of bushes, ( saw him fall, and as he startod to brush tho dust from his clothes tho boys shouted: "Hero endeth tho llrst lesson." Havemeyer Fights Saloon. Henry O. Havomoyer and his neighbors neigh-bors at North Mlanun, near Greenwich, Conn., are Again nt war with Charles N. Yuono, who wants to opon a saloon In tbitr neighborhood. Last year tlio samo man applied for a license, but was refused on representations made to the commissioners by Mr. Havemeyer Have-meyer and others. Now tho fight must be mndo over agiln. |
