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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Sentinel, 1883-03-23, Page 5a . • I • 1, •':.••,P,W.;/4',A174.4:170" ., • • 0 paikon' Arellisent. iks zottaas E. Outside itwas drearY and cold and„wet, • outh,e4gattiLwas_tlui!tirMAteell11.04 - And Wan,' lounged happily in its glow And talked,o/Li tarot awl the men to biro , • 91 tlie seed and soil and the planting days, * • ,vf his boys and girls`and t'heireleaksant ways; • „--;Wbile low in her teaing chair by niti side .Their mother eat sewing with busy &kiIl; There 'were stockings ,and coats and Melte to , mend, • But her needle worked with e right7 good will, • Till eoule one knocked at tho•door, and then „Bur pattlOrivas crowded with eagor,men, • ' 4they wanted Lary -ho 1114st not refuse- ', 'The party' on every geed man had a olairg! Anatbe club bad got most important news, nob they must discuss or bo Much to batne," •• And. inaeod a stranger might W411-11ave thought 7:That the country had boon both sold and, . bought. Then Larry stood up 'with ad aumoue Wok, But Lizzie said, ° NThat is it allabout I . For you see, good friends, 'tie a bitter night, ,,artritAkktban o: ut' rilietreeetTOU WQ, :Want 4120 right man in the right nla.oe. , a7.4„.0 vau am3 14Tnile- ; I 'Tie a principle ffiII of rare good•souse, And exactly suits both Larry and Only.teisil, the way I State the case.: • Is Th,orieht misterein the right iin,&) , allgsband at borne in the evenb3g They bowed to'ttica wifeAtcitil auan'did SMile. • And Ono 0.f.thern ipE}Wqe(1,0 "Mori mayor would • roam , • • 'If all di us had such& pleasant wife,. • • . If all of us had such a cheerful'home,• • •.• And Larry would be.noither happy nor right . If he,left his wife•and his home to -night. • . And' thou when the house was quiet again Larry seped low. to his WifPe pretty face: • °Dear little woman; So wise and eotrue;, •- You have made Out a most excellent case ; ' where's daytimo•for duty of every kind,: • And you may be Faure you will alwayr.3 find . Your -husband at home in the eveanig I .„ • Personls. • Hon. 'Oliver Mowat is 68' years of: age. . Sir John is 68,. • ' • • • • • • • Lieut.-Col..Andrew Stuart, commanding .he 8th Royal Rifles (Quebec) is dead. ' An *Athena deepatch saye-AL----Gournoun-. • doiiros, the well known Greek statesman, it; A riaden.l3aderi detpatch says Prince • Gortschekeff,• ex -Chancellor .of linage.; " dead. . • 7 It is stated that if his health will 'permit Judah P. Benjamin will accept an English Judgeship. • .,. , Mr. George,B.-Tifson tat Tilsontiurg, one. .00Pg ,M'a 10*".';g:.:.'6.:4/11tbat"ViadVFL'Atid e on Friday last. • , : . The rumor that Mr. James Beaty was to . : • be appointed Judge of ,theiCounty -ef York is positively denied. . : •-•1 • Mr. W. 3. Virbite; B.A., ' eldest . yen of Richard White, of the Montreal Gazette, has gone to 'Europe, where he will spend a year. . . • , • * , Mr. Hugh 3. Macdonald, -son of the Pre .mier, who is at present on a visit t• Ottawa, it 'le said, 'wed one 'of, the fair daughters ,of Tor•onto ere. returning to Winnipege • . • • " . . • • 'Mr., D. P. Beattie; the well known leather • Merchant of liontreal, dropped dead in his office on Saturday niorning. He leaves a gimp. The dress was out on an hirable of wife and nine children. • • , forty-eight degrees across the ehoulders and The Quarterly Board of the.Queen street carried around under the left arm. The 11,.WA D stAreirattgl: 1V110 SUM% BILI01( • iblITTERSON f" cviiisiOa act:Veva ilsc lgativror :ii.r,eporter • Au Ord woottum' (lawn $P,000 pa tile. Had, the ilioetely stattor nearostic 1,4criber's ilitaaahter - • ikec_ennt -.0‘-e0;Vegitliniiv- •• — ' VO• COnOitintOrioT The railroad reporter, With a map woad , The Fro,ofia Be,,ioter :has ,,hs'eovered before WWI. WM NOY eki.ga$ea,d wilt) struck Pattersot4 Alr.l'atierspn, last link of a reactwhich Was TS° °°46:-..th� tho fettlier of Dime. Benaparte, ' was a 'Ls:Z.:W.-and the 0- k.t. reado, terwleg wealthy, Baltimorean, Upon One oeeaeictn, -grand trunk line between tile important points of A. and Z., the rpoeot loot traffic of which would pay, 'operfdiegexpeOse,s, fixed charges, 5 per cent. .quarterly dends, 'With an occasional soriP issueto holders Of preferred paper. While thus engaged, the society editor turned in hie' Chair„ pulled down his corsage,and said: , Are you much Of a ladies' man?", r• " Me ?. Yes; • k' ; always on'Atiree, althdugh r may not look it,'" said the rail.; road reporter very calmly.. "At one time I was a rmular , standard-gauge, steel -rail, stone-balKet swell, but Of late yeareI have uncoupled ,frein that sort of business; and 'xiig"1.11)-t (1076f Sau24-rn-lig.T. acould differentrelie line," e e • while Mr, gatterson was in Franklin look- . lug after his property, a galena row ooeurred arnoog „0,.e , boy', in Whieh he beegmeinvOlved. In the confusion, indeed 4301330' QUO SOMA Ur. PattersOn a tremend pus blow,.!and this so angered him that he walked through the crowd,: inquiring in stentorian tones, " WI,to kr:xi* *filly Vat. tenon ?" Mr. Patterson was ' a; larg�. and powerful rihan.0 ancl under ' the oirOUM, stauCeg no One among the fighters appeared clesirOus .of holding himself : responsible. -The Inquiry passed into a by -Word, and Ora( to this day the inquiry can. be heard, "Who struck Billy, . Patterson? The original Billy pursued the inquiry with • °rem' .. • ''• • ierche' a'14'4!` "mong, the notice. ' the hiie ..,de.gth, curiously- enough, inserted a W agtonishing vigor; but without avail, and at .• 1 think 1 oan, if there's time , to heirs or executor set t rl teting aPart $1,000 to be an who touensem e o , niake the transfer without miseing connec. struck bim. The fiahtgliin.OU.1.wdire t.1111 tions" •• : . - • • 'Patterson WaR struck Occurred in 1783, an a be on time to witness thedenone-, it is passing strangethat just 100 years after meiit. .It's the Marriage . Of *Cel. .D'Oille'S a 'claim Should be put in for the reward. daughter. PaY. 'Allot atter:4RM to the And yet a correepondent of the Register says bride's costume and writ s up a! detailed that fia011 is the.,__Oaae., . A ' Kra. Jennie: (1-. de9e,Fiption of it." '• .. .., ' . Covely, Of Athol, 1st Y.., daughter Of George The railroad reporter. took outliki linen W. 'Tillerton; has written to the Ordinary duster front the bottom of his escritoire of Franklin. County,, claiming this legacy of borrowed a chew of tobacco from'the poll-. QI,00.0. Sho states that she is =invalid; tical reporter; and started' for the reel- Aged ' and infirm and in great need, of the donee of Col..D'Oille.. Among the Wedding money. In 1783 her father was quite a. notices next 'morning was the fallowing : . .,5reking mat, and being ' in great-feer of Mr, "Itarli nighta large nUttiber ot high Patterson 'fled the country • at once ,and joint'blOokaded the residence ef • Col. ,oever heard of • the ' reward or legacy. She D,tOille ' to Witness the marriage; • of 'his says" she has often heard herfather speak: lovely daughter,- Jeanne Baptiste, ' to _Op of the fight and the blow he gave -,Mr. Hon. John , Quincy Jeans, jun. k.a...ot. Patterson' and the fierce' angor of the letter.- DZille was general : manager '. of thThe thumb of 'Tillerton'e hand was di13-• entire guest system, and had his • head- jointed by the blow, and Was 'so severely quarters 'established • inthe •dialog injured that it remained* useless mamba .-Teomiz-LitOdr,--OnlY-:•-left---hiS-40st-sin4---tiler -43-tliirday of -pi -With. : As .the facts she sideboard, Where the . gentlemen were fre- gives correspond so exactly with the facts iquentlY Bide • tracked for repairs, :to go of the".ease,the eerrespondeot Presumes through the parlors one. trip of bispeetion. ,that Mrs.. CoVelY Wilb receive the . legaeY Mrs. CO1, P'Qillti acted as commissioner of without delay... . • .„. . . the gueilti pool and superintendent of the •• - • dining service, and spent the , most .tot• her . time fixing the divisions of: the supper sieoete litotes.. oburses and geeing them forwarded to their At a meeting held in -Glas ow recentl dot3tinittiou-on-seiteduletime-:---IrWeeigh- jt -Wits -a -greed• -lb rape • 5, 00 to conetruct fact. a_ Miller. a.A.ellen a c:'.1...shEAFAta*.i.sEve Tara , aper-carifhWrixToiTdon. Just Nevis, ' • before the arrival of the reverend conductor' Principal Robertson, the historian, was , who was to imllthe bell-oord for the matri- buried in Gri3yfilars' churchyard, amt.& norther catch the first shake of• au ,1 ar th 4 4011,11T14 IIATROIONIAL , ATIEST, NEWS, nuoeund, and _Wlic 4s!oultedatiOle Man* Irle410:00 • In 180,0 Frank Lee 'NA •BljZa "Plumy were married in Troy, N.Y. Four yeara. later he- went to 1Sew Xork Search, Of eMployment. While there and under the thiluence of liquor, he enlisted and was Sent to Arizona. About two years later he was taken prisoner by the Indians. Mrs, Lee, who found etOplOy,inent in Ida Cellar Faotoryl one day received a letter' saying thather husband had been killed. Boon afterwardS-,She married Merrit Cody'', Of West Troy- When Lee regained his liberty he wrote to his mother, who did 4not deem it advisable to tell Cody that her first hilsband was alive. •in another letter to Ms mother, Lee advised ,her to keep the fact Of his being . alio a secret. Ile then, went to California, 'where be made money. Desiring to see hie Mother 'again he came East- Arriving Troy., last week his mother told • him that his ' wife. had sepa- rated from her ai300114 hllaba0d on acCount of his ill-treatment, and was living with .her` daughter. Representing himself na a dewing machine agent, Lee called on his daughter,- and in muse of conversation told her be had ,been well fundliinted w,Ith made hithso affeoting scene followed. ee an will go to California in a few days( a • . /St. Louis boasts of forty,five catholic congregationa. •. "Sacred Sunday Cencerts " are not per. •7A • ' to Prevent !overeroWding• in 014ttrodc:, Philad, is- „ churches is pending 111 the Ohio The bell. used at . Wellesley College, Mao, is from an ancient Buddhist temple in japan • - . church in: Bavaria, • with a Heating es,prify of 1,090, will be built entirely Of papier Maehe. ArtIowa town of 1,300 inhabitants IS en- deavoring to maintain twelve 'church organ- izations. . „., . • N:31 Joe Smith; the son Of the founder of the Morman faith, etill preforms to receive revelations from heaveo. ' . In Jaffna College, CeYlote,tility Out of the seventy.three students -have renouneed Paganisni for Christianity. • Rev. Father Tracy, of Weston, W. Va.; recently peached a sermon on death, and • in illustration used .a byinen Skull.' • . 7 . , About oneithird of the fund of 61,060,000 being raised by the • Episo,opalimis, for est night he °ailed again and. ,ohtirch extension has been subscribed.. " An in,g7thheectoiNlaciertot:hilhuat4bes:IseyonLan:042.4000oal 000,viorkSodr,t •..There are thirty.five-Ohinese among the scholars of Tabernacle Baptist Ohurek, NewTheTrerla.• re fifty Catliolic 'churches in Chicago: Fifty years ago there was only In many Pimps the Salvation,Arety forced to do what an army has never before done -appeal to the .1)01ka for pro. . • The ;Buddhist priest v• of japan are Or - (misting „translated eeties,, Ingereoll's lectures for the purpose of counteracting the effo, Os of Christian missionaries. There. -I; at • Redcar; a sinall village' in England, a model, of Lincoln :Cathedral, built of 1,000,000 old- corks. ,It was made by at 01QUghl21011,' who Worked at.it for ten • yeareandeeven Months before comPleting the task: „ • •", . • " Little Arthur has been te church. "Row . did you like the sermon ? " asked his sister. 04'retty's-Well;"reep5fiffearthe you elltiot_.:12Wegiptinemm„.yetygoeskfiLini se.. Was me end, but it had too much middle.".. -Exchange. . . ' Heavy Mows.- „ "Yes, sir,"'contixitied the Texan, wiping hie inustatike and contettplating the Mon- tana man thoughtfully.. "Yes, sir, a TeXaB norther is Such as is regarded as consider- able by them that has seen it in full opera- , ' . •, . . is is callated to beet . a 'Montana bliz- zard,” inquired the men from the North- west, whetting his knife on his boot and apparently reueh, interested in the narra- tive of hie companion. • " It are," replied the Texan, solemnly. I am prepared Witty thatitiaeallated. to beat anything that blows., Stranger; I've seen a norther carry :a keine wall twenty miles ; and set doWn. as it picked it up; without displacing a dornicit ! Semi. it done myself,: Onset I seen Que. that turned: an apple orchard upside down, and,,the Man lied to dig out his harvest. And that Wasn't much of a norther, either 1" ",L„hearn.thes -was..„-pretty-powerful conceded the 'Montana man, "but they 9 i* " Stranger,"continue'd the Texan, filling into the trap, "stranger, I seen a Texas . English Bishop querulously remarked - ,to his servant that', he was dying. "Wall, ' my lord," said the .good felleW, V. you ere going to. a better plass." ' ";thus" replied the prelate, with an , air of Conviction, . "there is no place like old England." • •Sinde Mr. Spurgeon's. 'return from his• ktetvacition in Mentone, he expressed the . opinion that Olimate bears the strongest resemblance to Palestine' of any part of • Europe, and that it is more , like whatAlto Holy Land was in Christ's :time than the Holy Land itself•is •, , • ' le• 'a Virginia einireh, while a preacher ; was delivering a sermon on the "Prodigal Son," a young Man in the congregation jumped up; and pulling 'eut his six -shooter - shouted, "I will not stand thessrefitiotienn on me," : He threatened in -shoot the parson_t_ • oat hilted his, remarks, and pious members had to take the young man in' hand and lead him gently to the door. :The maxim that "there is room -at the tOr• "la 11000 encouraging as it one° wae,for the reason that the road to the top is more crowded and less eesy than it used to be . but the ministerial avenue tothe delectable table land land thought' to • offer More elbow- room than any other. The Boston 'Congrega, tionaliat states. that "a careful inquiry 'recently made finds, twenty-five of the. leading and most commanding pulpits of our denomination' in .New England vacant, - and inquiring for pastors, end., in Most of them instances, it must be believed that d• filling them will be to create a Vacancy . somewhere. elsa" • Lamm Frail' Ireland. • , Mr. E. B. ;Walsh, ex -Mayor of Werlad was releinsed from risen •• At the 'Earl of Meath was Greasing a street in Dublin, he was hawked down by a dray, and sustained a fraotUre 911 the - head. head. . Mr. W. Stevenson,' for 40 years manager' Of the. Northern Bank at Downpatriok, droppedt e ri n g the bank. aesa the other day, •• 6.,;z1 a=‘ ' 41-51Z11:ttti-titlitt1126,Gfil&A.*1 Limerick On -February for interment in Mount St..Lawrenee Cemetery. The total expense of brio:Ong over heti, the Wed- Indies...the_ -WemtgatIN who falsely , Moused hinMelf of- complicity in the Phcenin Park -murders; '11.1110W011 to about 2800. . • • Mr. B. -Callan; of Kingman% died t the ri hagiseroefsidenee the ot 'monist train, Col. D'Oille left the side- handsome mausolehm was erectedlover ble quake and carry it right over our town board and started up . grade with a 'heavy remains. .It is near the place known as . before that .quake could. get a grip any - load, and in consequence slipped an•eccen- the "Covenanters' Prison." ' •• ' ° . . where1 s . . peed I • speed! Why, stranger, I trio and came into the Parlor running on One ....seen a 'norther ketch it.. mortgage *otit'n S. side, but 'Wee. flagged down in time to pre- 4.hey.have exoiting ; BOOMS OecasionallY man's hand (Meet, and that mortgage was at Cardross, Parochial Botta, meetings. due before the Min picked.hlmself out'n. ireUt his jamming his headlight' through a .rm.. ._ .1.... 1Vt 1 hiti • bay'windoxfi, • The .aelonel, in stopping to ....oe otner way! tua tali aapnan, _r. -o 44.,e mar . , , • : .. Bell, called', Mr: MeWilliam "-a liar" and fili bre tank too often, lost the right of Way - "a puPpy," 'and threatened • te " Fiend his '''-‘, Didn't think they . went so fast," 71 head.spinning ea the •window:." ' : • ' .• • 'observed the Montane, man, with an omin- and did witness the Oare1110ify. . !' The bride, i slender beauty, was dresse'cl , oue 'mildness. "That's pretty fair goire, in a flowing robe' de •chembre of yellow -What is known as the "Aberdeen Ritual- and I think a great deal o' money could be tinted bobinet muslin *la ecru, looped 'up istio case" reached its final stage lately, the made by importing them northers into our at the gam with a• Hungarian pompadour .Fresbytery doming to a finding that the parts for little breathing places when we of blue grenadine andzficilus or Queen Anne doctrinal ete,temen_ts attributed to 'Mr. have i blizzard on." , ' Cooper are not set% as to warrant a judi-• ' "Does blizzards go faster than thatP" cial inquiry. • ' . - • ' . • inquired . the Texan, who Wanted to •kiek Among the subscriptions to Make up the himself for not letting the Montana men Peddle defalcations With .the Dissenting get hisworkin first. • •• _ .__ inisters!--Wiclowe'LFund'are-J;7drk.--001itfc ----/t'Irneverimion but one that wasn't making Paisley; £1,000; John Ciark, Paisley, £250, 10,090 Mile an hour," replied, the Montana and Stewart Clark, Paisley, X250. ,, .. num °melees y. W..ed . As the result Of the recanthat seemed to be the, matter with "eas railway strike 1...._" the desperate Southerner, in'Sootland both the Caledonian and North "" 7 r British Railway, • Companies have made • Baraaati"11k1" ' ' several very important eoncessions to their • "It Was a longtime before we: could find the hours of labor. • • • • • . , 'as to , shortening out," continued he froin- "Montana, "but finellY when hegot a backset somewhere, Methodist Church, 'Toronto, has unani- bosom of the fair bride was .surniounted. moueiy_requeated-tbe-return-of-Dr--Hanterwith o. ttestle-workofLouis XIV.lace, and • - her waist was surfaceduP and filled in with 'aiktheir pagtor for a third year. Mr: Adam Hudspeth, Q. C., of Lindsay, -, has been appointed Deputy Judge of the County Court of 'Victoria; during the absence (*the judge of that court. , . . Re*. D. G. Smith has returned, to King: •,ston from St. John to take the pastorate of St. Andrew's Church, to which place he has received a call. He is given until May • te give his ,deoision. His @elegy will be 1l2,-500 per annum. , Mr. C. E. Tolmi.3, who for a...long time • past has been freight' agent of the G. T. R. at the station, and in this city, will take • Mr. HYndman's ,place in London'on the . same line. Mr. Hyndman • has -accepted the position recently held by Mr. Barr on the Blue Line. 'The Awful Fate ot a•False PA:whet. • There is but One way to dispose of Wig- • gins and his weather, and that is to kill him. Thi ti was successfully and ,effectually done in London, some years ago, in the case of a: fairolifie qqackalmantio maker Who used t3 predict all sorts of por tentous things, weatherwise and otherwise, • for a year to come. • A wag wrote and a leading journal published this weather- ,• „.--..z.,-.•1,-.74m,varmiO12.1.m.ht.t.M..-277,.?=&-lo. 4.3.g.ti'el:Lle:ZS:'4atFVa'tia4ttllb'ta =prophet'," lorO: test through the papers that he was not dead. The editors pronounced his " cards " to be forgeries by pretenders whd, wanted. • --etuctieed-to-the-qtack's name. and shoes. ' The people who had.believed in his pro- .phecies now believed in his death -and . dead he .was..as .a prophet, from that time forward. -Hartford Times, • • Ai. patient there arefive judges in Eng laud over 70 -Vice -Chancellor Bacon, 84 ,Mr. Miriam Manisty,,' 74; • ,Mr. Justice Phillimore,- 73; Mr. justice Grove; 71; and Lard Chancellor Selborne, a little over ID. The late Lord Chancellors St Leonards and Campbell presided over the Courts of .Chancery in admirablemental vigor at •ages respectivel g; :69, and the ancellornett at 74, and Lord Chief Justice Lefroy 1 • The two •• youngest judges Entha nc'w are Judges Cave and Bowen, 4tud 47 reSPe° tively. Dk. ° Luntkinc, Clerk ,otala B°ard Health, of St., Louis, hi found tilt cholera ravaged that city 149 ancl in .„1866, and was Salk time pritae4 by ve2Y high water in the Miesissipf6 A./.another 'seventeen years Jim; passe ncr the Pre- monitory high water is at and, havdlr not be astonished' if the emmie epidemic againnext Stalla/XI be added, he says, thatbf • Made its appearance in th Aline visited Asia, and thus commonly free from Dr. George E. Walton d dial value of the climate ' Northern invalids, eve& with pubhonary troubles. Science Zonal!article he tives. to keep away from th of the warm, -humid, ire! ,,titatter of the attoorrphe artificial flowers, made &Weedy° by several marrow,gaugeshort.Iines of red trimming,* which skirted around and -centered' at a common terminal point on the crest of her polonaise. Down the front of the robe was a midland •route of antique buff' serge, intersected by numerous feeders of costly fes merino. The neW agreement was suc- cessfully consummated, and the first annual reportwill be awaited with interest." queer Curitoms:„Anatong she _ • • The Manitoba • Superintendent thus refers to =atoms among the Indians at Lake of the Woods :. • Interniarriaged betweenfamilies of the same • crest are interdicted, being Considered morally im- proper. The custom followed by an Indian suitor is to make some present, either per- sonally or otherWhise, to the girl's father, with theObjeot in view communketed. If the •prepoial is • favorably received " the young man is summoned to his .intended father-in-law's tent to a place therein pre- pare&for him. • Upon his entrance he is direoted to be seated there. ' After he is through smoking and eating, the girl is ordered by her mother to be seated -beside This . command must ' be obeyed, .316E.T=1..c„".741. hi ide, but continues his conversation with her father. Puttineup . tents, making -canoes, chopping wood, fishing by mete, dressing. andlanning-skins;:making-moisaaktiklara. ing and cooking are considered the woman's work, whereas hunting, sheeting, spearing, trapping and dog -driving are considered the man's work. It is only upon 'Very rare 00131e3i01113 that women are, allowed t� speak at councils. Looks of ,haix and other relicts of departed consorts are handed to 'medi- cine men with appropriate 'offerings for the purpose . of dissolving the marriage ties. After going through some ceremony with these trinkets the medicine man buries thorn, andptiblidy proclaims that the dead have no further olefin upon them, and that the are ati liberty to marry .again but public presents to the relatives ofthe deceased are neoeseary to dissolve the ties of kindred, without which- those . relatives could rob' them after Second marriages wereeen- tradted.", • ' It has Allt William Stafford ti15,00otto star" thie seaSon. • , .21fory Anderson will, open London, playing Pardo/dd. . On April I9th, Nilsson and Patti sail in the steamship,pellia for Europe. An exchange speaks of the "hotel of the • Well, if they have hotels there; ere will be a lively deal:awn: • the employees,. particularly In. the High Court o un us ery, Edin and wasn'tgoing•over 100 miles a, minute, we get en to what troubled him. bUighTon :February 19th, jamas -Smith, alias Archibald Thomas; aged 19' Years, ready to fight. . • ' • " Was he sick ? " demanded the, Texan, belonging to Castle Douglas, twice found " No , 'he. was trying to haul that dog - guilty of having murdered James Rennie/ gonad norther of yours along I I know it assistant gamekeeper tothe Earl of Stair, was the same norther, 'come /..00„ _the on the 29th November, by sheeting him mortgage sticking iihroihi eery, 'fie .was Sentenced to be hanged in Ayr prison on 12th March.And then they went at it; but when the , • . - police got there the Montana man Was Hill Rev. Mr. Stewart, better known to the a little ahead..7-Brookko Eagle. , ° world as. " Nether' Lochaber," has devised •.. • ,? . a plan - to make up the defittiency in the IW • eked HUE Trite. .'. ' falling revenue of Britain.. This'he formu- lated at a congregational soiree at Fort A geed old %deacon was going the rounds William reoently. . He suggested that a,tax making a collection for the ohurdh, and ran should be put on all baehelors, on all the upon a tough oustomer in Bill Jones. Bill ministers who preach longer ' than halt an had not been to churohlor years, and when hour; and on, all 'the soiree orators who the '' deacon 'made . known his . errand, he declined giving anything. "Come, speak for more than twelve minutes. ' • ., . - - • William, give something," said the demon. . 311/IstrNilssett and the Princess. szgAisie,,AzgooPmilr=t0V-e.. "Can't do it." " Why not? Isn't the •-m51:P4- • r-c,rat Jipzehl, -iyoulcaust uleutiund'd sirbitiitlentrillustrative -Of the give a better reason than that." "Well, kindness of the Princess Lembo. When then; Iwo too mil& money, and I am she was On the Pacific coast she was invited just before I am generous." "Ab! But to dinner by Her Royal. Highness, and hellitren-a -larger- debt te-Itelfp thisengagementimme- than you owe anyone else." "That's true, diet,* 011 her -arrival at San Francisod, deacon, but Be ain't pushing ane like the she had not time to dress en grande tenue, helmet) of mY•orbditors." but went in a isiraple travelling dress. On her arrival at the Princess' hotel she'found Joseph IL Bradford is negotiating with that the latter; with characteristic .0On' Mine. lariaiisohelt to write a play for ber sideration, was attired in a. walking slut, for next season. • having known that Mme. Nilsson could not appear in any other costume, and thus she A London wont= r example t° the rest of Wired the diva any .possible discomfort etiquette, . • • a00011116 of A breach, oti f pocketbook was stolen might feel ifilteaduf calling &vilifiers 1 e neare'st Mine. Christine ' Nilsson thinks that cab, drove to thstopped payment of a chequ,, American women are beautiful. The men whioh, with some finial change, w,a,13 in this country, she thinks, are not as that the purse contained, and drota, polished; formal, it,:p4, do not exhibit as once to the bank. When she arrived there muoh outward politeness, as the European she found a' ,policeman. explaining to an gentlemen, but they are more chivalrous'. astonished young man t • and -exhibthjt their, devotion AO the womenlooking,theyexpiated a hey. that he . 'from e,bottom of thmast wait awhile, as eir hearts. • He will wait three years in prison. • - The Prince of Walehas been 'The Italians have prayer which reads s create a Field -Marshal of the German Empire. i"f razhat I n" evetr be Maried. 3ut t be arry, pray the .no • When a Man is 'a foot and knows it he is deceived: But if 1-1 am deceived, I pray a comparatively harmless animal, . but that I may not know it. But if I know it, three-quarters of the troubles of our human I pray that I may be able to laugk at the ife are caused by fools Who are net aware whole affair." • of the fact. - • -The good wives of Huddersfield believe -A. young lady Of two-and.twenty yeare in obeying "our howebande in what lawful refused to .marry a man of fifty, saying is;" - but they reserve to themselves the that he was neither one thing noianother. right to define the word "lawful." The He vi as too old for a husband, and too consequence is that the 'wives of Hut:Mere- young to held out any hope of immediate field are no better or more obedient than widowhood'. • , other women. .-Joaquin Miller ,recited to * lady who A Scotch lady, whew daughter, was d invited him to her house some of his recently married, was asked by an old es. Thow beautiftall " she said. said. friend whether themight congratulate her don't you print" your poetry soineupon the event. -64 Tee, yes," she answered, -Mr. Mille?' Then, sayer the " upon the whole it is very satisfactory; Repo/Verna, Joaquin etid big rorde, tzuo Jeannie Wes' her gudernart, but t rapidly hoine; •• then there(' aye a something," •.. bn encroaoht. Which Mov: a fash.flowinh helpless. Margaret Mat,o engagement at the...",t, °wee cancelled on 0.44 is Very seriouslyill at Hotel, Balton, with Ott night there _was- a consul the Oriti par3sed "but eau give no 'regarding her :xeouttery. It is mid that oats neve the attaohment and gr masters that are ehown be true :Louis Mantes fa exeeptionto the rul, the habit Of wad stairs every even the said to wire di doe joesohambet: iof drink. 14