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GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD.

The Famous Highwaymen “Sixteen Stzings Jack” and Dick Turpin.

At the Rose tavern, a noted gaming house standing in Marylebone gandens early in the eighteenth century, Sheffield, duke of Buckingham, used to toast bis coma- pavions at their farewell dinner, when, the seus «ended, in the ominous words, ‘“May as many of us as remain unhanged next spring meet here again!’ Jobn Ra 23, the higuwayman, otherwise “Sixteen Stings Jack’’ of evil fame, liked to swag- ger about at Bagnigge Wells im the inter- vais of carrying out bis nefarious deeds or undergoing punishment forthesamwe. He is described as appearing there in July, 1774, ‘‘attired in a scarlet coat, tambour Waisteoss, white silk stockings and a Jaced hat, On each knee he wore the bunch of eight ribbons which ha@ gained him his pobriquet of ‘Sixteen Strings Jack.’ ” Where were lively daings under the influ- ence of this sprightly gentleman, and on the occasion referred to he was pitched out of a window for offending honest com- pany. Only afew months later he met the reward of his misdeeds on the gallows at Tyburn for venturing to rob the Prin- cess Amelia’s chaplain.

Dick Turpin was another ‘‘gentlemap of the road’’ who amused himself in the intervals of ‘‘business’’ by frequenting pleasure gardens. He was 2°°8 moved to kiss a fair lady in public at Marylebone, assuring her, when she protested, that she might ever after boast of the favor she had received. Whether Turpin and gentlemen of similar occupation came to pleasure gardens solely for their diversion may rea- sonably be doubted when we remember how frequent robberies were in the paths 4nd field ways leading to these sylvan re- treate. Watchmen were set ‘‘to guard those who go over the flelds late at night,”’ yes even so visitors were often attacked and robbed, sometimes in the gardens themselves and sometimes on the road to or from them.

In early days at Marylebone it was deemed necessary to provide the company with a guard of soldiers to conduct them home at nights, a curious winding up toa

jovialevening. Pickpockets were of course plentiful at all the gardens despite every precaution, and one night at Cuper’s, in 1743, a thief, caught in the act of taking a lady’s purse, was rescued from the hands of the police by a band of his comrades on his way through St. George’s fields and enabled to escape justice for that time— YVemple Bar,

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Ocular Demonstration of the. Existence of Nocturnal Apparitions.

Dr. Fowler, bishop of Gloweester in the early part of the eighteenth century, was a believer in apparitions. The following conversation of the bishop. with Judge Powell is recorded: ‘“‘Since I saw you,,’” said the lawyer, ‘‘I have had ocular dem- enstration of the existence of neeturnat apparitions.’”

“Iam glad you are become.a convert to the truth, but do you say actual ocular demonstration? Let me know the partic~ ulars of the story.”’ :

**My lord, I will. It was—~let me see— last Thursday night between the hours of 11 and 12, but nearer the latter than the former, as I lay sleeping im my bed, I was suddenly awakened by an wncommon noise and heard something coming up stairs and stalking directly toward my reom. The door flying open, I drew back wy curtain and saw a faint glimmering light enter my chamber.’’ “Of a blue color nedoubt.”’ “The light was of a pale blue, my lord, and followed by a tall, meager personage, his locks hoary with age, and ¢lothed in & long loose gown, a leathern girdle about his loins, his beard thick and griz-~ zly, a large fur cap on his head and a long staffin his hand. Struck with astonish- ment, I remained for some time motion- less and silent. The figure advanced, star- ing me full in the face. I then said, “Whence and what are thou?’’’ ‘‘What was the answer—tell me—what was the an- swer?’’’ ‘The following was the answer: ‘Iam & watchman of the night, an’t please your honor, and made bold to come up stairs to inform the family of their street door being open, and that if it was not soon shut they would probably be robbed before morning.’ ’’—Penny Magazine of 1832.

Barbed Wire Burdock,

The rivalry between the different League baseball teams is nothing compared to the bitter feeling which used to exist between the Boston and Providence teams in 1883 and 1884. The players were at swords’ points, particularly the rival second base meb, Burdock and Jack Farre)). The lat- ter resorted to all sorts of tricks when he was on his own grounds in Providence, such as spreading pieces of broken glass near second base and preventing the Bos- tons from sliding by telling them that the glass was there. Farrell also was in the

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edge, and whenever he reached first base he never failed to show his spikes to Bur- dock, with the warning remark :

“I’m coming down there, and you’? Jose a leg if you get in the way!’’

Burdock was at a loss to know how to stop Farrell untilone day a happy thought struck him. He bought a coil ef barbed Wire, and after he had put on his ‘stock- ings he wound the wire around the calves of his legs. Then he went out on the field and said to Farre)}:

**When you slide today, look out for me, or I'll tear you into ribbons.”’ Jack saw the wire and became as meek as a lamb.— New York Sun.

The Source of Chalybeate Water. The chalybeate waters of Tunbridge

Wells are said to owe their ruddy tint and queer taste to the fact that St. Dunstan flung his pinchers into them after that memorable encounter recorded in the old thyme,

St. Dunstan, as the story goes,

Once pulled the devil by the nose

With redhot tongs, which made him roar,

That he was heard three miles or more, or that the glowing proboscis—and a long snout is one of the most marked features of the fiend in the mediwval] art—was itself plunged into the healing well, when its owner had taken a flying leap out of the saint’s cell at Mayfield, some nine or ten wiles away.—Gentleman’s Magazine.

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