Show A RECENT CAREFUL calculation shows that england owns nearly three times as large an extent of colonies as all the rest of eur pe together her colonies are eighty five times as big as alie mother coutry THE LITERARY st Bot olpha club of 1 B ston has begun a series of weekly smoke talks the members enjoying their cigars while the chosen speaker discourses in an easy conversational way the club proposes moving into the back bay district A coy IN the gallery of a springfield mass theater disconcerted the actors the other evening during a most affecting part of the play the stage had been darkened and one of the actors at the others approach re heated liis line hark 1 what is that eats 1 shouted the gamin I 1 and the audience and actors responded spon ded meeting of the philadelphia club the delaware breakwater was pronounced of more harm than benefit since it has r caused the lodgment of vast qi anti ties of sediment the closing of the ep and removal of the ice linaker were recommended as the cheapest and most effective solution of a difficulty which calls fur attention CHARLEY DAY of cambridge NY was invited to call at the residence of the aunt of nellie lovejoy a seventeen year old school girl to whom he had been attentive he called the door was locked behind him and nellies friends and a clergyman had no difficulty in persuading persua diug him that he ought to marry nellie ho did nd at once disappeared and his bride has not seen him since SINCE EASTERN parks and zoological gardens are adding prairie dogs to their collections of animals an ingenious kansan has invented a trap for catching them aliye A barrel with t a out head or bottom is placed over the hole and half fillad with fine sand i the dog easily digs his way to the eurlace eur face but once there can neither dig down through the shifting sand nor climb therides the eides of the burrel DOMESTIC are not con fined to our new york clubs tha oilier day at the conservative in James Street london one member mado complaint of another to the committee with agard to a carding transaction ono night A won from B who settled at once on another occasion the tables were turned and A lost to B but next day gave notice that lie would not pay as he was under the influence of wine at the time they were both compelled to resign s g ix TUB Ce vennes mountains in central france there is a village named la beabe the inhabitants of which practically live underground a large part of the year it is feet above the sea and in he bottom of a pass where the snow is rapidly heaped up by the winds anuw begins to fall in large quan ties says a recent visitor the inhabitants retire indoors and it Is not lone before the low roofed cottages are buried the only means by which air can reach the interior being down the single chimney which in all the cottages ia built very wide and substantial tho gradually mounts BO high that the door will not open and at last the windows are blocked up the stants lay in a good supply of bread cheese and salt pork for themselves and of hay and straw tn i for their cow and boree and although he men occasionally go out by way of the chimney the women and children live in the fetid atmosphere asmo sphere all the winter they spend their time making cane chairs and baskets doing a little rude wood carving and knitting stockings while if the snow docs not melt in a month or BO the people burrow tunnel from house to house and GO get a little society should death occur the body is then roughly coffin pd and lai dupon the roof until a thaw hakea the cemetery accessible to them |