Iasked the governor of the Not^^tingham jail how they made sure^they'd got an old hand if he consist^^ently denied his identity and stoutly^refused to admit he'd been convicted^before. He told me that, failing^other indicia, the man's demeanor^and unconscious familiarity- with^prision ways were always, sooner or^later, spotted by the warders. But^they bad one case of a man they^were quite unable to catch until one^morning he inadvertently folded his^blanket in a particular way, so par^^ticular that it was instantly noted by^a warder as the fashion only prac^^ticed and enforced at Warwick,^where, sure enough, he had not long^before been incarcerated.
AsLa Rochefoucauld observes,^^One can be sharper than the indi^^vidual, but not more than all the in^^dividuals.^^Cornhill Magazine.
Onthe Hop.
Atraveler in hops, when paying^his first visit to a famous brewery in^south Germany, was about to enter^the office when he noticed a plate,^with the inscription, ^Hop travelers^upstairs.^ Concluding therefrom that^a speeial room was set apart for in^^terviewing travelers ho t^^ok the^hint, and on reaching the top of the^stairs he found himself iu a lougpas^sage, the walls of which were^adorned at intervals with the image^of a hand jsjinthig in one direc-tiou.^At the end of the corridor another^hand pointed to a second flight of^Steps, leading downward. At the^bottom of the steps a baud pointed^to a door, which he opened and^found himself ^in the street.^Flie-^Keude Blatter.
AWEDDING TRIP INCIDENT.
Thetirooui Thought of HI. Hrlde Just In^1 i.e. to Kav* Her.
