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Show BRITI8H CROWDS ARE STOLID, Do Not Make the Node That la Heart at Amerloan Gathering. One of tho things that nwst to pressed den. Wood waa tho stoitdrt) of tho London crowds. Tho? dlsf pomttxi mm. Ho bad Becrd ao nroon of "British cheers" that ho expoeteA to boo all American outburst thrown Into tho shade. Instead of that aw found less show of euthwtasm, era when the king and qnoea fda through tho city, than may b mat with any day In tho statoe at a baa ball match. This Is a comment wfclak American visitors often make, and Ml without reason. The London crowd la moro hearty and voelforoma than the French or German crowd, bat compared with an Amortoaa gatbsrtaa on any bin occasion, a potKtoal meeting meet-ing tor tastanoe, a orrle wesaatM ta a victorious admiral, or a vnraT'f flooV ball matob, it It aa Alter irififfftiB U Niagara. On the ottor hao4. it I elatmed that the Amaiotai MX reals ehor; ther roll. Cofnplniieiitaf y Throughout tho rural districts of Berks county. Pa, they havo a custom of "bofllng soap," the apparatus for which can usually be seen at any onthonae. While thus outraged, on one oeeasloa, a Caraer'a daughter saw her swain approaefctng, and Immediately Immedi-ately started for the bona to better her appearance, which fact the mother explained to tho caflor as he came upon tho scone. After awhile tho girl appeared, all trace gone of a few moroonta before, whereupon the onamorod youth sold: "Why, you look aa though you had never seen any soap." The Bicycle Lesson. Lttrt spring tho assistant rector cf one of the Chicago churohos bought a bRjyelo and doelared ho would Iora to rtdo unassisted. Tho first tlmo bo tried, however, ho mado a ralsoratilo failure, finding It much harder work than ho had expected. Just as bo fell off and rolled over and over la tho duBty road, a car-rlago car-rlago containing somo of his weallhy parishioners caino nlong, but tho clergyman was not recognized. How-evor, How-evor, several choir boys, who had boon hiding behind a clump of bushea, saw hhn fall, and as bo started to brush tho dust from bis clothes tho boys shouted: "Hero endeth tho first lesson." |