| “(Jive rue a band of musicians.” ho
said, “and before nightfall I shall
control all Madrid ”
He must have been a man of raro
personality lo have been able to per
suade the authorities at all in that
dark hour to give him anything of
the kind, but be did
doing out with the musicians, he
I wandered through the town. While
they played he sang—folk songs or
some national air. When these bored
the people he mounted old boxes and
told funny stories, and bj' and by tho
people forgot to bo angry, followed
their now leader wherever he went,
laughing over his stories and songs
By nightfall peace reigned in the
city, and the mob broke up and went
home to bed The man’s name was
Dhilipe Duca/el, and ho was only 22
years old when fm did ibis clover
thing.
We hear * great deal about heroic
things in saving countries by long
and terrible rides at night, or by tho
sacrifice of one’s self by dying in
somebody’s sfend, but few of us re
member before of any one who saved
h town by laughter
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J bp crystal palace in London covers
an arc.ii of 603,072 squate feet, is
1 608 feet long by 38-I feet wide,
height 147 feet, and, including the
! grounds, It covers 280 acres of land.
* ihe glass weighed 500 tons, hail an
' ari of 25 acres, and if Ihe panes were
laid singly end lo end Ihoy would t*x
tond to the enormous length of 243
miles
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