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BY AN ENGLISHIAN
A LOVE STORY.
" And its determination is to r014 the nous alone ie the cause of this breabb of the
h4Phleull of R young said beautiful girl, in rides which guide the conduct of an engaged
omer to prove that her parents, who. loved 'young pervert in, Mauves"
her and have sought her happiness only, It was clear that this simple-minded and
may be shown'to be in the wrong, because excelleet man was no schemer; it was
an agreeable young man of twenty-five equally plain that be adored his daughter,
shuttled with delight. and indeed rtlY years of age has chosen to fall in love with and that the could rule him as she pleased.
goy 10 great that I wse in mentailear their onlohild." These were important points to note ; bat
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too pointed, and would reveal the drift of
our 44llusione+-18at fortunately for us, and
somewhat oddly, considering the excep-
tional intelligence of oar hearers, our obser-
vation/ and mirth excited no apparent
surprise; and itiantit's parent'', white warm -
ng to the conyereetione which .became
general at this time, gowned to consider
me of no account whatsoever, while they
relaxed their fixed attention on their
deughterea movements:
I Janette* well the hold which propriety
has over Freech 'se eople of all classes and
all 'eve to' exhibit even to the girl I eo
passionately loyed, and whose love I now
felt authorized to win for myself, any other
sign or token of my admiration then those
which words allowed or the• la of the
Diane, whose heart laid bare the warm
feeling; of her soul, and whose soul was so
pnre thatit could not hide the truth of
What she felt, words and looks were ample
to convey all I wiehed; and I can never
forget , how singularly beautiful was the
reception of those measagea of love from one
young heart to nother, and with what
rapture I marked in Diane's eyea her ap-
preciation of the love be had resolved to
accept and to return.
By the end of dinner, we were one in
heart.- soul, mind, and purpose, without
having said ono syllable which, any one
could tekteup withoiet on my part having
sesseeseettetity forme dealaratione or obliged
her teltereetinean expretieed answer to
tiny epeelfied requeeteasee _
' 'But for all that, the electric apnea -which
Prepertee the storm had been stink ; and.
I strong, im one another's 'love, young and in-
experienced though we were, we had made
up our minds to fight for one another, and
to bear cheerfully the evils %het would
ensue, certain of a heatvenly pea on earth
when the strong will of our earnest natures
bad , successfully tweathered the tempest
about lo rage upon our devoted. heads.
As ate roes from dinner, and all returned
to the drawing -no order in- whioh
me. Had I not the knowledge that M. de
Maupert was positively distasteful to
Mademoieelle Diane, I would never have
allowed my own fellings to be knownor
perceived."
re Bute' EISICI the tie luta "etuuly
•be,aware that there is nothing new in a girl
disliking the husband chosen for her. Oar
French girls are no exception to the rale of
humanity, that we all prefer what we select
ourselves to what others consider beet in
OW interest : but they get over it in time,
and end by wondering how it is they ever
opposed their parents' wish."
" I quite understand what you say, but
characters differ; and Diane's nature is not
that of as ordinariTrench girt, and will
no sithinit to that despotio rule whioh may
settekkeete
thus openly before me -au iflee wnd to
convey information sor my guidance -than
by the apparent ignorance he either affeoted
or entertained of my sentiments fer his
daughter.
I did net rt tie et. I ad ere seed_ h
direotedly on the eneject he would, as a
'netters of comae, appear wholly ignorant,
and would treat me as the moat unoon-
corned being he might casually come
morose; but for all that, he was slowly
turning into that lightning-conduotor which
Daine had so wittily 'tidied him at dinner
whether he would care to be in order to
protect us both from the impending storm.
Looking causally at his watch, the
marquis found it later than he thought,
got up, and respeotfully kissing hie sister'e
• ON A ABAN'S OKTINTROT•
Some 9user and Quaint ort of Obituary
Poets.
Buffett, News: Simple scriptural quota/
done were once not ooneidered sufficient
for inscription& and graveyard poetry was
of more important* then at Feculent. Fol-
tiewneseeeetee-efeReaW-4,49-
" original" :
Here lies the bcdy of Deborah Dent ;
She kicked up her hoels and away she went.
A moot indeoorone prooeeding on the part
of the woman with the demure mime.
Atwater etititaly aippata'i heseelptien :
Here lies the body of Mary Gray ;
She would if she could, but she could not "'W.
She had two bad legs and a baddish cough ;
Her lege it was that carried her 6ff.
After all, most gyve are carried off by
their lege, though net precisely in that way.
A really )(never ineeription is that found
on a photographer's tombstone
Here 1 IIe—taken from life.
Another bright and concise bit is found
upon the tomb of aeltusband and wife in a
Frenoh cemetery;
we had come into dinner, we pee eaoh
other but one locilt-sa look eo fall of deep,
passionate love that any one who *said
heve seen !it would have required no other
t•i4n of our determination to settle matters
onrealves, and at the same time ea infinitely
tender filet it, amply compensated for the
absence' cif-thoge more usual, bat in France
less cagtornary, premiums of the hand and
firm, which, if they are only natural and
tameable, are less respectful to the loved
object before the words heel) been pro-
nounced which consecrate the engagement.
"
.Soon after theesoffee had been served the
Marquise's oarnage was announced, and
she took her. leave with Diane.
Happily, X. de Bretenille remained ;
so I hid the satiefaotion of seeing
Diane to her carriage, while the
count gave hie arm to her mother. I then
told her I Amid call on her father next
dayearly, if indeed .I had not the oppor-
tunity of seeinghim thst very evening;
that I filleted she knew for what motives;
and that, had I by any misfortune mig-
N ken hernanotion to thio proceeding, I ime
plored of her.to say eo.
She smiled one of those maddening smiles
e heal simply sent all my muses reeling
ends intoinoated pleasure,and merely said
it her ordinary voice, self she wished her
re ether to hear,
• "Do not forget my roses before you leave
fer England. Mademoiselle Gerona would
b furious if yon did not admire them.
S le is pertain there is nothing in the
world like them, and I hope you will sub -
&tribe to that eentiment.",
" I shall certainly , call with your
another's permission," I replied, "though
bal" already of Mademoiselle Garoux's
opinion."
" Mother," said Diane to Mademoiselle
de Bretenille, "at what time did you say
M. de Maupert's family are coming to see
eon tomorrow ? "
" At about three, I believe," replied the
marquise, while her oloak was being put
on.
"Then at what time can Mr. Vere oome
and bid us good-bye ? "
" Will 5 o'olook snit him ?"
" It is too late for him, manfrate" said
Daine, "it he has to leave in the evening."
" Would Monsieur prefer 2 o'clock ?"
" Could he not come to breakfast at half
past eleven."
" Daine," said Mademe do Bretenille,
" what tt child you aret Mr. Vere knows
yon are a fiancee."
"So I am 1" exclaimed Diane, laughing,
and looking at me. "Comma &est drole '
she replied.
" How the part Finite yon 1" I remarked.
"I suppose," she said, "that dinner
meat have some influence on these things ;
beoanse, curiously enough, I do feel a
fiancee now, and I did not before."
te" Does a fiancee write ?" I asked se her
mother stepped into the °urine.
",By the governess's post sometimes,"
ehe replied, smiling; and then, shaking
hands with me, entered the brougham
laughing.
As soon as she had disappeared, Ray-
mond de Chantalis who was really an
intimate friend of mine -so mnoh so that
we called eaoh other by our Christian names
e Yon could have married that girl if you
had been clever."
" I shall marry her, though I tim not," I
replied.
He looked at me e moment.
e Timken well said," ne remarked, " but
di ffi on a of a ccom pliehmen t."
tiewey 2
" Parblen because
forestalled yon."
e Yes -With the tether."
" And maybe with the girl."
" I don't think oo." •
Certainly with her mother.",
e' That may be."
Taro parents against you is too mnoh."
" must bear that evil."
" Come and have a cigar before you com•
mit enioide."
" Hose ?
" By marrying or by ettemrting to defeat
a French marriage by Englieh anus."
" I shall be happy to die in either cause."
" Surely your English blood is beircier
than that phrase would imply ? " , ,weir, hut" (turning to me) "von must
another
man has
na• e in most, and reen'ts in terrible misery
in me oat of ten marrieges thus oat,.
trate ed."
" Ay dear friend," replied the count,
'believe me, my niece, of whose character
yon evidently know more than I do, but for
whose beauty I can quite appreciate your
admiration, for I never saw her look so well
as this evining, comes froom too French a
family not to be doomed to the traditional
fate of French girls. Make your mind easy;
and though a short while einoe I wail
regretting the necessity of your departure,
I rejoioe over it now, as it will cure yon of
a passing and hopelese fancy. Yon are too
young:tie cope against the position and
influence of M. de Maupert, and though I
have no doubt the future is bright which
looms before' you, demise my twice from
any share in it. Indeed, as your friend, I
would recommend your - not thinking of
marriage at all. Remembertheold'proyerb,
• ,
"'Marione nous, carious nous,
Mettons tams la corde an con."
" Beallaymorid," I said, "1 am decided
and if I could feel that you were the friend
you always evere, I would tell you thattyour
niece is quite as deoided as I am."
" Has she told yon e� ?."
" Then bow do you know."
" By a thousand and one tokene."
"Mon cher " he exclaimed, " that is
very vague, and, to tell you the truth, not
quite complimentary to my !nee°, for it
would seem to imply that ehe is either a
coquette or is deceitful." .
44 Deceitful 1 " I screamed -4' she deceit-
ful? Why, of all the French girls I have
ever known ehe is the only one that I ban
absolutely call truthful, loyal and straight-
forward."
" Not very kind to our girls," remarked
Raymond, in an amused rather than
severe tone.
"And as to the coquette," I went on, " if
a desire to stand true to her love, and a
wish to do so without offending the parents
ehe respects, ie coquetry, then ehe need not
fear the'appellation, for it does her honor."
" Allem " eaid the count, good-
humoredly, " I Bee she has a champion, and
I wish him success, though I fear Don
Quixote has a representative in your per-
son ; but go to Bledame de Chs.ntalis ; she
understands these matiere better than I do,
and will relish having a hand in this
rontantio business; our union was a very
prosaic affair, and our lives have lost noth-
ing by being unpoetioal at the oemmence•
ment. '
" You were not forty-two, and she sixteen
at the outset," I said.
41 Thet is the only sensible remark yon
have yet made," replied the count, se he
opened the door of his smoking -room.
Hearing us going in M. de Bretenille and
Madame de Chantalis joined us. As they
did so I went up to the former, and asked
whether he would allow me to Bee him on a
private matter the next morning. He re-
plied that he would be much honored by
my visit, and would be at my " ordere at
any hour I pleased to name."
" I have promised to 0311 and take leave
of the marquise at 2 o'clock; perhaps you
would allow me to Bee yott immediately
after."
I did this because, as I anticipated his
possible answer, I feared I would not be
slowed to see Diane again after reoeiving it,
and this prospect was too painful to cam -
template; but in a manner which had much
softened since dinner he had made no ob-
jection, but on the contrary told me I would
find him in hie study among a heap of
stuffed animals and papers, engaged in com-
piling a dictionary of zoology which he
thought might be completed if he lived to
s hundred, but bad little chance of enlight-
ening his generation if he were not accorded
a longer life than most men. •
" fent bien passer le tempo," he re-
marked. " and that is how I epend my time
when I am not at the club."
"Yen will meet Diane." said the countess,
who, I thought, might home spared mo the
,ead reflection the remark entailed.
" Not at ell, btoanse she will never leave
home," replied the marquise. " No one who
'marries my daughter can de so on any
other condition."
This I thought was directed to me, but
I listened without making any remark.
" Nor," continued the marquise, " do I
think that Diane would care to leave her
old father."
" Not so old," remarked Raymcind.
A father always seems old to his child,"
Bald the margniee. " Besides, Diane has
many tastes ; ehe is an extraordinary girl.
Her fancies are not those of other girls,
and her tenacity is eerfectly surprioing. If
she helps me in any of my researchee and
1 feel inclined to give up a task grime -
times find too wearisome, so as td devote
annther time to it when I can bring a mind
fresher and more lucid to its discovery,
Daine will continue it in ray absence and
greet me at ,dinner with an I have found
it, papa,' which puts me to shame and
impresses me deeply."
How I drank in these words, and how
gloried in having found favor with such a
character!
" De Cdaupert," cotitinued the count,
"did not like her to dine out this evening,
and I told her so. She asked me whether
there was anything wrong in it. I oonld
not say there was. Her mind was made
up, and all the entreaties of her mother
were absolutely futile. As I could not back
up her mother's argumente she has had her
and shaking hands with Raymond took his
departure.
I got up also to say goodsbye, when the
countess made me sit down, and opened
out as to the proceedings of Diane and my-
eelf that evening.
Addressing her husband, she said to him,
"My dear, we have to stand by these two
lovers; for in the whole comae of my life I
never saw snob open loveneakingem both
sides."
(To be continued)
Why the Elixir Didn't Cure.
A fakir in medicine had jest opened out
in St. Thomas, when a sturdy young
farmer pushed hie way into the orowd and
eaid:
" See here, mister man, you were over at
Clifton in June ?"
" Yee, sir."
" Yon were selling this same etuff ?"
4'I woe:"
"Warranted to mire rheumatism, neu-
ralgia, headache, ague4 bad hver. indigestion
and about forty other things ?"
" Yee, eir. 1 guaranteed it." • .
" I had a torpid liver. Went to three
different dootors and all of them said she
" Noten so many words."
wasAorpieleyou el for a bottle."
she didn't cure. Didn't have no
more effect than water. I want my money
beak."
" Gentlemen 1" exclaimed the fakir, as
he looked around on the orowd, "you have
heard whet this man says. He calls my
South American elixir a 'fraud' because it
didn't cure his liver trouble."
" No ; it didn't!" shouted the • farmer.
" Then let as ewe why. Did you eat
pork? "
"No, sir."
"Sleep on a feather bed ? "
" No, sir."
• " Drink tea or coffee ? "
" No. eir."
'‚Take plenty of exercise ? "
. " Yes, sir."
" Have a bath once or twice a week ? "
" Yes, sir."
"Go to bed early?,'
" Yes, sir." ,
"Notv then, my feiend, answer me one
more question. What was the state of
year mind while taking my elixir ? '
" P-urty•feir."
" Weren't you engaged to a girl?"
" Y -ea, sir."
And didn't she give yon the shake?
Speak right up now."
•" She --she married another man,"
stammered the farmer, as he tried to get
out of the orowd.
" Ahl I knew it 1 Gentlemen, behold the
conspirator -the assassin --the Shylook
He is in love. Hie liver- is torpid. He
buys
s bottle of my elixir. It is warranted
to straighten ,the kinks out of e torpid liver
at the rate di forty kinks an hour ; but
does he give it a fair show? No, gentle.
men ! This fiend in human form pursues
hie fair victim. He offers her his heart,
but she• won't have it. He persists. She
still refuses. He finally loses her. Emo-
tion bangs hie fiver from port to starboard
-adds to the number of kinks -wobbles
all over Ontario, and then he cells me a
swindler because I haven't cured him.
Gentlemen, who is the swindler -the arch
fiend?'
The orowd oheered him again and again,
while the farmer made all haste to get out
of sight, and after peace had been reotored
the fakir held up one of the bottles and
said :
• " Now, then, who takes the first bottle ?
Compounded by a South Ameriban hermit
from herbs and roots grown in a myster-
ious valley and I'll give $100 for Any cons=
plaint it won't cure. This is' my twenty-
third farewell tour and the sales have been
40,000,000 bottle& Patented in every
country on earth and the recipient of sixty-
four need decoration& Only a dollar a
bottle and who team the first ?"-New
York Sun.
1' Its calmneas Hee in -its determinetion," r bel eve, mon-incur, lhat my fatherly weak -
Anti -Students silub.
The young ladies of Bethlehem, in this
State, have organized and anti -students'
club, the (object of which is to disco:trite-
nance the attentions of students, on the
ground that they are gay deceivers and
delight in breaking feminine hearts and
blasting matrimonial hopes. That the
study of the classics and of mathematics
should conduce to such fickleness is a
matter of surprise; and the eubject is en-
titled to the serious conoideration of the
friends of higher education. It may be,
however, that the girls themselvee are
partly responsible for this condition of
affairs. A cap and a gown sometimes et -
tract eilly little moths, just as a naval or
military teniform dem ; and in the con-
wimp:mem of power wings are sure to be
eineed. There are doubtless good young
men in Bethlehem inside as well as out
side of college. Give them a °hence, girls.
-Philadelphia &cord.
' Must Blame Himself.
New York Herald': Mr. Stiploby-Well,
madam, you made a tool of tne when I
married yon ; that's dead euro.
Mre. Stiploby-Why, Nioodemus, long
before we were married yon always boasted
that you were a self-made man. So
don't blame me.
e••••••......orm*
The banana plant has been found to con-
tain a greater quantity of pure Mite than
any of the other numerous vegetable pro -
duets used or paper making.
Here I anal—ILD. 1867.
A reprehensible play upon names is :
Here lies the hody of Solomon Podd. .4
Who shelled out his soul and went up to God.
Even more irreverent is the following :
Here lies the body of old Cregier.
Who had a mouth from ear to ear.
Stranger! step lightly o'er the sod,
For it he yawns you're gone—by —1
Here lies the Smith—to wit—Tam Gouk,
His father, and bis mither,
W' Tam and Jock, and Joan and Nool,
And a' the Gooks thegither.
When on the yird Tam and his wife
'Greed desperate ill wi' ither,
But without e'en din or strife
They take their nap thegither.
The above suggests the discord that only
died out with the strain of life.
Here lies John Meadow,
Who passed away like a shadow.
N. B. ,=11is name was Field, but it would not
rhyme.
This was intended to be solemn, but
some way it ion'a Wield, shield or yield
would have rhymed with Field'ebat eve
dently the poet was " stuck" on ebadow.
Here rests in silent clay
Mies Arabella Young,
Who on,tbe 21st of May
Began to hold her tongue.
Arabella should rise and hanut thin poet.
Here lies Margaret ex .n,
Who never did aught to vex one;
Not like the woman under the next stone.
Margaret must have fixed this up loafer°
she died.
The "ruling plosion" is apparent in the
following
1809.
Alexander Moffett.,
Chief Constable. Stirling.
Our life is but a winter day,
Some only breakfast and away;
Others to dinner stay
And exerf till fed.
The oldest man but sups
And goes to bed.
Large is his debt
lingers out the day.
He that goes suonost
Has the least to pay.
Budget of Scotch News.
Mr. Peter MeGlashan, a well-known
Scotch reporter, was run over by a train
and killed near Perth on the 20th alt. •
The Cameron Highlanders celebrated the
anniversary of Tel-ell-Kebir at Edinburgh
Castle on Saturday, the 13th ult.
At a special meeting of the -Town Conn-
ed of Glasgow on the 19th alt., it was
resolved to confer the freedom of the oity
upon Lord Rogebery. .• - _
The Rev. John MiNeill. of Regent Bemire
Church, London, preached to about 3,500
people in the Grand Hall of the Edinburgh
Exhibition on the 14th ult.
A stained glass window has been placed
in St. Giles' Ceithedrel, Edinburgh, to the
memory of the late Mrs. Cameron Lees.
The subject le the Christian virtues.
Mr. Thomas ' Neloon, of Friars' Carse,
Dumfries, died:there on.the 19th alt. in his
$4th year. Mr. Nelson had a successful
busineesnareer in Carlisle, where he owned
large marble works, and wee for several
years Mayor of the oity.
The late Rev. D. Robert Stevenson,
Dalry, Ayrshire, bequeathed £2,500
towards the endowment of West Cbtiroh
there; 22.500 to the funds Of Kereland
Barony Church and school; and £2,000 to
the Univeroitrof Glasgow, besides smaller
bequests.
The death is announced of Mr. George
Cousin, formerly one of the, Magistrates of
Edinburgh, which took piece onAhe 17th
alt. at his renderme, 5 Brantslield Terrace.
Mr. Cousin was born in Leith in 1807, and
.had just entered upon his 84th year.
Patrick Allan -Fraser, of Hospitalfield,
near Arbroath, died ou the 17th nit atter
e long Mmes. He for many years took e
prominent part in publio business in the
county of Forfar, and was known as an
cutlet and a patron of art. He was -a native
of Arbroath, and was born in 1813.
In Dundee Mr. W. E. Baxter's will 'has
been published. Mrs. Baxter gets the in-
terest of £50,000, the • contents of the
mansion houses of Kinceldrum, Imre-
reighty, Kilmartin or Asholiff, and posseo-
eion of Inverarity or Asholiff. The herita.
ble property goes to the sons, and there
are legacies to the. daughters and beveral
toervanto.
Readers will regret to hear o&the death
on the 18th nit., Edinburgh, -of the Rev.
Charles Rogers, D. D., LL. Dt, who in hie
patriotic labors to perpetuate the memories
of Soottish heroes had made himself
known to all Scotohmen both at home and
'abroad. That he had constituted his life
mignon, and in coenection with it he about
twelve years ago Spent several months in
this eountryand Canada. He was a gen of
the Rev. James Augers, and was born in
April, 1825, at Deem°, Fifeohire.
A Pressing Invitation.
He -I gee you are fond of autumn leaves,
Mies Breezy.
She -Yee; there is a world of romance
to me in the colored leaf.
He -Can we not share the romance be-
tween tle ?
She -Yee, Me. Freebie,; 1 should be de-
lighted. Come around this evening and sit
on the family bible. -Judge.
-Long haired ohildrenare not as ubiqui-
tous as formerly. Tingled curls and
orimped tresses have come to bo regarded
among the luxuries and vanities that
hamper comfort and convenience.
A YALE AND BIAENTARD GAHM
How a Baseball Match Was Unexpectedly
WilAk
Ot all games in -which I have pleyed, the
west remarkable for a sadden revulsion of
feeling was one between Harvard and Yale
played upon Jarvis, Field, in June of 1882.
Yale went first to the bat bet failed to
visa cies-Leer eseisereetsteseesee _ as,
,srer
second inning, a muff by the Harvard &d-
ime man followed by the Yale -
catcher'''
making a " two -bagger " hit gave Yale a..
run. Oar happineea was shorelived, how-
ever, for in the third inning Harvard made
two rune, followed by another in t'ne fifth.
Yale scored one in she eeventh, but Har-
vard matched it with one in the eighth, so
that we began she ninth with Harvard four
to Yale's two. I think we had not the lease
hope of winning.
I remember feeling, eg we oame in for
the ninth inning, that this defeat would
settle our chances of the ohampionship, and
thinking how the crowd of boys who, se
knew, were eitting on the Yale fence await-
ing the news, would hear it and dwindle
moms lar first
men at the e e Zn out quickly ; and our °anther followed,
with the same reault. Wilcox, the last
wan on our boating list, oame to the bat.
Two men out, two runs to reaoh egen a tie,
and three to win I noticed tUe the
crowd was leaving the fietd, and aTeet the
young rascal who bad charge et our bate
was putting them into the bag.
Here, you! stop that 1" cried I, for we
all were superstitions about packing up
the bats before the last man was out.
Besidee, I was the next batter, if Wilmot
should by any chance reach his base, and I
wanted my bat. " Two Bullies," I heard
the umpire call, and then at tho next bell,
to my great joy, " Take your base," and
Wilcox trotted away to first. I remember
thinking how much I would give for a '
home -run, and then there oome a good bell
just off my shoulder, and I bit it with alt
my power. It went between third and
shors-stop on a swift drive, but boundedhigb,
high, as I afterward •learned, for 1 was
meanwhile running at my best
speed towards first. When I was
fifteen feet from that base, saw
the baseman give a treme dotes
jump up into the air and I knew sone: r • r y
bad made an overthrow. How I ran then!
s. r-every-bese-/-peseed 1r knew W1111_017_,0
nearer to tying the score. As I came dash-
ing past thirdhese, I saw Wilcox just
ahead of me, and we armed the home -
plate within three feet of eaoh other. Oar
next batter took his base on poor pitching
and stole second ; the next/followed with a
base -hit past second which brought the
first runner home with the winning run.
We then went into the field, put three
Harvard men oat and won the game -
when probably halt the seven thousand
spectators were already on their way home
with a victory for Harvard in their minds.
-Walter Camp,in St. Nicholas for October.
A Cabman' a Opinion of Women.
Said an old cabman " I have been
standing in Forty-second street here since
1867, and never have I had an extra ten
tent piece from a women. They are
alike and their name is oboe. I never drive
one that she doesn't want to go like an
engineer, and if I demand extra pay for the
time made over the road she wilihold beak
and fight with her mouth every time. They
all want their money'e 'worth. If they
agree to travel et mile rates and doubt my
estimate of the distances I have to whit
while they go into a drag store or telegraph
office for pointe, and then I lose more time
than the difference amounts to. If they
hire me by she hour they will hold the cab
till the full hour is up. I never knew one
of them to cheat in the time, and never met
one who paid for a fraction over. A. man
will allow me half an houvor half a dollar
000esionally to get bacok to nand, bet a
woman never pays for anything she doesn't
get. Uunless she is with a man I don't
°ere mush about carrying her." -New York
World.
How to Eat Peaches.
" The art of eating a peach" is, it ap-
pears, one of the questions of the day.
According to one authority on the etiquette
of the dinner table a peach ahontd be
pioked with the fork, quartered, peeled and.
eaten piecemeal. But as so mnoh manipu.
lation would evidently leave all the juice
of the fruit on the plate, this method, to be
palatable, requiree the courage of the young
lady in the story who, at her firat appear-
ance at a dinner party, raised her dessert
plate with her two hands and oalmly drank
the sweet juice of the nectarines. The
French rule of eating peaoheo will, there.
fore, be accepted with much favor, and
that rale is, " D'y mordre a pier s dents."
—Pall Mall Budget.
A Fool at Large.
The following letter, dated St. Paul, has
been received at the Free Press office, Win-
nipeg :
" Sr. PAUL, Ootober, 1890,- -Dear Sir, I
have heard about Winnipeg, and I am
going to bo there on October 16th. I am
well known as Jack-the•Ripper. and I am
going to do some work there. I am going
to kill three women and one man. Look
out for me, and don't forget October 16th.
'Lice. THE ItIPPER. Good-bye until you gee
It Stands Much Mnrdeijn
"Do you know what the dead la ages
are, Willie ? " asked the minister
"Yep Latin, Greek and English."
" English ? "
" Yep. English is dead, too. Pa said you
murdered it in your sermon last Sunday."
An Absurd Query.
Burlington Free Press: He (reading) -
Then their lips met, and —
She (interrupting) -Was it a protracted
meeting,'I wonder?
So great is the prosperity of the Find'
Presbyterian Church at Cleveland, 0., that
ii employs throe hardworking clergymen.
The oldest man in England, who hag jest
died at Elgin, attributed his good heath and
longevity to oatmeal, whiskey, tobacco and
fresh air.
'Justice McMahon opened the Brnoe
Anima at Walkerton yesterday. A. girl of ,
17, namod McDonald, brought anetestbin s
for seduction against a married man named
Williamson and securefle verdict With $500
demagog. The parties reside in South.
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