Winning A Bride

All tlie Yeur Rouud. 8o hito ís tlio seventeenth century it was oustomary in some paris of Ireland for the bridegroom's frierais lo receive thoo of 1lie brido with a shower of darts carefoily directed so as to l'all harmless, and Lord Raimes, wlio died in 187"2. doposes that tbo marriage obsorvancos of the Welsh of the day were significant ly synibolical of niarriage bv capturo: the respective friends of the bride md groom meeting 011 horsebaok; the former refusinof to deliver the lady on demand and brlngiDg about a sham eonlïiet. durfng whfch tho noarest kinsiniiji of tho bride, behind whom she is momitod, gadjopeii away, to bp pdrsued by tho opposite party until men and liorses had liííd enougb of it, when the bridegFoesa was permittel to overtake the preteuiled fugitivo and bear her off in triumph. rJ'he Borriuors of trance are the only Kuropeaii people among whom the form of capture still survives. ITpon tlie day of a wedding tho doors of a bride's house are closed and barricádod, the Windows barred, and her friends niustered within. Prosontly the bridejiroom's party comes, ïsking admission on nuil false pretence after another. Fiading speech of no avail, they endeavor to forco au entranoe, with no better fortuno. Then comas a parley; tho besieg-ors proclaim that they briii"the lady a husband, r.nú are admitted witliin doors, to Hght for tlie possession of tho hoart, win it, ai, d the bride with it; tho oonple being fórthvvith united iu ttic oit iii'dox fashion. '¦Now, my dcars. yon must do as th Romans do," said old man Scraggüis to bis daughters on tlioir arrival in Italy. And tlie lirst tkingr the girls saw was a boy tryiugto stand on his head in tho corner of a railway station. - -Willhuns])orl Breakfast, Table. The intorchano-e of christnias prosonts in niany casos means sometshing yon can't añ'ord in return for flomotliing you don't want. - Wilniino-ton (inzette. To possoss a superior edueation, without natura] ability, is to havo a quiver full of arrows without abow.