HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1885-10-30, Page 6YOUNG FOLKS.
Dam e..
There were yellow heads hi the mountain,
And yellow heads by the sea;
.And now they ora in the e0400l-room,
eyed girl, and even at that tender age evino • PEOPLE.
ed so muoh briehtnese and, gond Humor, that
the family fell in love with it at once, Bin -
tie's Sir Charles Dllke's mother died
tie's father immediately made inquiries dl of consumption he shows no Gigue of the die -
parents of the child, and endeavored o
about the neighborhood, in respect to the ease. Be ie tall, strongt robust and dooid-
hili out the facts relating to the abandon• edit? handsome. His voice, however, ie hol• 1
As busy as they can be, meat of so small a child. After some trouble low an unlr
And how they
n th d old rooks would climb and clamber that a band of gypsies had been camping in Mies Fanny Lawrence, are now at their
•
But the yellow heads from the mountains Mr. Wilbur learned from a distant farmer, Lord Vernon and his young wife, who was
emepi r e ear
About with their ealpenatooks." the woods near his farm but having a lro•countryestate, where they were greeted with
priated the poultry of some neighboring an enthusiastic welcome -home by Lord Ver-
AAsitta awing o! sands and caves: farmers they had been ; driven away. Ao- : non'a tenantry.
0f bright blue skies and of sunshine, cording to this man's story, there were in Madame Wolter, who had the odd experi-
0t team oa the "white -cap" waves, the party two men,` three women, and Inver- once of acting beforea darkened and empty
And ltarery hard to remember al children large enough to walk and run. house recently, with King Ludwig of Bev -
The lessons they learned before So no evidence as to there being a very small aria as an invisible epeotator, Is known seal -
When folks are dreaming of mountains, child in the party, was found. After ob- ally as the Countess O'Sullivan.
lead —. Mr. Andrew Lang thinks that Poe had an
And sande, and the dear seashore, taiaing this information, Mr. Wilbur
the woods searched for miles around, but ingenuity, a luxuriance of fancy, and a
wieli no sitcoms, and finally, the search was _wealth of jewe1•like words that Hawthorne
given up, and Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur deoid- —.whom Mr. Lang regards as our greatest
edto keep the child (to Bertie's unbounded writer in prose fiction—did not posses%
delight), anti tonic one ,should claim it, or The Empress Eugenie iinteede to remove
its history should be cleared up. It need the remains of the late Emperor Napoleon
not be told how proud and fond Bertie was and of the young Prince Imperil from
of her little "fairy," and when the baby Chiselhuret to Aldershot.ArrangementG
grew old enough to laugh and chattel, and will.bo" made for carrying out this project
run about, she watched it with patient care, stir oon'aa made_
Em rams returns" from the
As soon as the child was old e; ough, Continent, p
Bertie taughther to read and write, and do
various little things becoming to childhood. The legacy of $10,000 which Victor Hugo
For we must remember that as feet as baby left in one of his wills to the poor of Paris
grew, Bertie advaimed in ,years, and was has the curious informality of lacking his
now quite a little lady. No other name than signature, although the clause is written en -
Fairy had ever boon given to the child, be- tirely with :big own hand. The executors
cause Bertie declared, that lie was a little and heirs will of °case treat it as a legalized g p
black-eyed sprite whom she had found in bequest. birth. Children lose weight during .the
the woods. So Fairy grew es fast as a dale; The black President of Hayti, Solomon, first three days of life, and, the loss, some -
and when she was about five years old Ber- has a French wife of great intelligence and times amounts to twelve ounces or more. It
tie induced her parents to adopt her, and courage, She has' helped him ever many .takes them ,nearly a week to regain the
she was christened with the name of Fairy ' rough`:',plaoee, and is very popular among ' weight: they had at the time: of birtn.3
Wilbur. Fairy was such a pretty, cheerful, the Haytiens. Although a white woman, ' A .twelvd-year-mkt Dakota girl, taken up
and clever child, that she „won, the love, of, - she considers bereelf, 'identified with their into the air by a cyclone, carried out of sight,
,everybody, and front' Beetle she .wee fuse- i -interests and welfare. and brought easily down in a field a quarter
pliable. Bertie alwayssaid thattshe had a ; Dr. Williani':Hayes 'yard, who wes fn, -; of a, mile away,' describes her sensations
'geed dairy, bust- that •Lion must ,h'aVe the t Bulgaria last year, says "The -Bulgarians while in transit as thae of beingra icily, and
praise of finding her, and when Bertie ' are -the moat, embitioue of all. the late: gab; *Mangy Pricked ley thoneends o, neediep.
would ask Lion if he ever found a fairy, he , tooth of the Turkish Empire, and they are Since her experi. nee she has been affected.
would runto Fairy with a loud "bow wow," kperfeotly crazy for self government and edn- similar to a person with St. Vitus's dance.,
.and a vigorous wag•of his tails a cation. They have had leas culture than A•manufacttirer in Breslau has'reoently
-=.4 .. — teeny of the Armenia races, who have an al-
most equal ambition. to form a nationality
a.
What Bertie and Lion Found.
" Where are you going, Bertie ?" said
Mrs. Wilbur, as her little daughter came.
into the kitchen one morning, with her hat
on.—"Out into the woods," said Bartle.—
"What for?" asked her mother, unconcern-
edly, far Bartle was in no danger of being
lost, as she was perfectly .acquainted with
every pelt of the wood.—e"I am going to
hunt for a fairy," answered Bertie. "Don't
you think, mamma, that if I should go very
easy and look very carefully, I might And
one asleep under a fern?"—"But sail Mrs,
Wilbur, "the fairies play all night and go
home in the morning•"—"Well," said Ber-
tie, "you know one little girl fairy might be
very tired, and lie down a minute to rest
and go to sleep, and not- wake up until
it was noon."—"Very well, don't stay too
long ; and find a'good fairy, for my little
girl's playmates must be good " And Mrs.
Wilbur went on with her work, soon for-
getting all about Bertin and the w,,ished-for
fairy.—Bortha'Wilbur ;iw' s ten ;years : old.
She was the;; only child 'of educated !and
al hon htshe:lived
well-to•do Parents ; but t g
very happily with papa and mamma, and
had many advantages of hooks, pictures,
music, etc., which are denied to many coun-
try children, she often felt very lonesome,
and would wish for` a littlet'brother or [de-
ter to play with. The neighborhood in which
Bertie livedwas,rather aristocratic. and -old,
and there beint no children in it, with the
exception of-Bartie; the two adjoiningsohool
THE WORLD OVER. sibly hold good where British law reign., it
cannot in the Stake
George 1V., when Prince of Wales, found
Brighton a humble little Aehing village, and
left it an arietooratio and splendid pity, The
second empire in France virtually created
Trouville and Biarritz : and the late M.
Bland, disgusted with the meanness of little
Monaco, n creat
R e Monte silo, Lordo
dC Br u
barn, driven from Nice, where cholera was
rife went away, and was the makin •f Can.
nes ; and half a dozen pretty aid smiling
settlements sprang up with gourd -like sud-
denness round Norwood and Sydenham al-
most as soon se the Crystal Palace had rear-
ed its glittering head. Trieste, again, was
virtually a created city, designed by a oraf
ty, malevolent Austrian statesman to ruin
A carrier pigeon started from Montgom•
ery, Ala., the middle of August, reached its
home in Fall .River, t1aee., last week in
good condition.
The mental oondikion of the Empress Car-
lotta is said to have so nautili improved of
late that the physicians do notde pair of the
entire recovery of her reason.
Major Powell of the Geological Survey
has discovered in New Mexico, near Califor-
eie Mountain, what he pronounces to be
the oldest human habitationa upon the
American continent.
The largest apothecary's establishment is
said to be that of Waldemar Fe train of Mos-
cow, in which 800 laboratory and other se.
siderite are employed and over 1,000 pre • the maritime trade of Venice ; while Leg- .
soriptions are dispensed daily. - horn was equally the creation of an enlight-
A scientific writer says that alcohol is cued Florentine Grand Duke, who was re -
one of the constant and neoessary results of solved that in his dominions tleero should be
the proms of yeast fomentation, and it at least .one pity of religious Coloration,
seems a pity that about 1,000 gallons of it
should be wasted daily by evaporation in A Word to Boys.
the making of bread fur New York alone. The boy who has just left school and is
While riding in a procession at New Haven looking about to see what hu shall do next,
a few days ago, Lieutenant Howard of 'Gut. may perhaps be told by some unwise person,
ling -gun fame in the Riol' Rebellion; was " The world owes you a living." Is that
thrown from an ugly horse, which then at- so? Listen :—At one time this country was
tacked him with both hind heels and fore a wilderness ; where no man could live save
feet. Howard conquered the animal, never- by figlitingthe wild ben ts, Someone chased
thaless, remounted, and continuedhia march, away the bears and wolves, cut down the;
Doctors say that mothers who take pride forests, laid out roads, built towns, and dug
in the weight of their newly -born children
canals. Somebody spent vast sums of money
should weigh them as soon as possible after in constructing railroads, ateamboate, dooke,
lighthomes, schools, libraries, and all the
fine things you enjoy so freely. More than
this, somebody pays the policeman, the fire-
man, the soldie-, sailor, the lighthodse•keep-
er, and schoolmaster. From the day you
were born your father and mottoes have fed,
clothed, andsheltered you. It has cost you
nothing. None of these great public works,
roads canals,
towns, navies, and armies
goat you anything. How can you say the
world owee you a living,? 'Is it not you who
who are in debt? What has a boy done to
deserve all this ? Not a thing. It is you
who must pay --not the world. Ah, boys,
he wasa foolish creature whet first said, " The
world owes mea living 1" He told a very sit.
ly fable. The world o yes no man a living till
he has done some worthy deed, some good
work to make the world a better and a fair-
er place to live in. Those old, fellows who
dug canals and laid out towns, who built
cities and invented all these splendid' things
=these telegraphs these ships;' Cooke' mag-
nificent engines—had ad the right idea. They
worked manfully,•and the ,world at last did
owe them a living; and ,paid it. many times
over. If you mean to get out'of the great -
debt you owe the world, do something, go
to work, and show you are a man, Then,
when you have shoe n the world you can
work, it will gladly pay you a living, and
the finer and more noble your work the great-
er will be your reward.
Floating Diamonds, -
About twenty miles below Natchez we
sighted some object drifting with the cur-
rent of the great river, and after the captain
had taken a look. through the, glass he cz-
plained to the passengers : ;
"That's a eoow loaded with loop -poles for
New Orleans. She's" sprung a leak and is
water-logged."
Pretty soon We made, out that 'such was
the fact; and further- discovered that the
crew, consisting of a man and his wife were
still aboard. He Wee'up to • his knees in
water and using an oar to keep the craft in
the current,, while, the -woman was on top of
a box in the centre of the craft with her bare
feet hanging in the water. The raftaman
signaled the' gteamer to stop, and as she
drifted near hiss ho called out :
' b Captain', this; is sad."
"Yes, very sad."
"I want to git to Orleans."
"I nee."
"How much' to transfers' my cargo: and!
take us all downy; , '`.Kik, , r;,`.0
- "Shoo dWf Q dy s hear that ?"
- "'I° hear nitoffor him ten."
"Cap, a:n,,I'llgiva lye ten dollen !" called
the man,
"Umph 1 A hundred is the least."
`•Then Lyon may gittiji' and hump and -;be
• off l" ihouted the woman as she 'swaddled her
feet about. "This old thing can't sink any
lower, and we've got bread and pork and a
Bucher dock to korry us through !"
Tho steamer' started, and'as�ehe'got heed -
the woman stood up`'and , called after
us:
"We ain't purty, and our old box don't go
by steam, but we're.juet as good as anybody
ton this+earth=and rriaybe a leetle betters
The Bones •'or Columbus:
An attemptis abottt tobomade to settle the,
vexed question as to whether the bones of
Columbuiis rest in Cuba or in San Domingo.
Untfl1S77 no oncventured toi3oubt that the
beteg-of the great' Mivigator were removed
from the .Cathedral of. Sea Domingo, where
they had lain for two, centuries anda half,
and transferred to the Cathedral of Havana.
In. that year, however, it was announced that.
the people of Sea Domingo had'' discovered,
to their great, gratific tion :thatethe bones.
supposed to ` be=ithos of°Colufnbue, which.
had been conveyed to Havana with great.
;ponrp,.y were spurious; bones' , sed that the
genuine bones stall play, in ?Dominican soil.
These' bones;'iilleged to be authentic were
accordingly interred again in San Domingo
do the 10th of Septeinber, 1877, and a con-
siderable eine of money was raised to erecta •
monumentover them, The SpanishGovern•-
ment, nevertheless, and the Historioal Acad-
eihy of� `Madrid; still: decllneito` admit 'the
authenticity of the Dominican relics, and
declare that the veritable bones lie in the.
Haven�pa ,Cathedral7Vith the view of set
tling tfiis''point is dispute;'the Government
of San Domingo, it is ,stated, has invited a •
large number of sevants to attend an Inter-
national Congress which will open in the
capital of that Republic on the 10th of next
month. The Government' will submit
to the j uiignent of this Congress its proofs
that San Doininggo possesses the only bones
in existence of ColumbilS The reopening
enin
of the •gneetion seems' to be a Mistake.
Where ignorance Dillies 'tie folly' to be wise••.
and as both cathedrals claim the honer of
posseseing the veritable bones a double en-
loynreut is under txisting eiroumsteness;.
oxtraoted from the relies.
A lie has no legs and cannot stand; but
it has wings and can fly far and wide,
of their own.' But there ase a superior vigor
!, ' and executive capacity, among the Bulgar-
districts had been united, so the nearest ;How 'toe YletiniBecketsiit—Thom the fans.
school was three miles away.;' 0p;, account- Amerloane,..,it is ,promised, , will.. be re-,
of the distance, and because Mrs. Wilbur , 'Limo and again%has our farming commun. ;poeived cordially in, the, new` Salisbury'Clnb
was very strict in regard to Bertie'e choice ity been done up by cute sharpers, who at London,;>which,Lord. .Randolph• • Church-
- 'never been have `some wonderful patent- invention), -a sill, who has naturally much sympathy with
of playmates, the little girl had
to school and her parents had been her only lightning rod, a reaper and mower, a pe- ;social feeling here, will hove some hand in
teachers. ;But°being an only;clilild, she was ,tent steam, thresher. hay rake, corn mill, „directing. The club -house wasfornjsrly; the
more advanced ie emaritiethiaige than most wind or fanning ,mill, seed sower; potato residence of the Duke bf M'arlb'orough, and
children of her age. She was asnieinentle —digger, or seine ,one :dr..Pthens:de the very is orowded with historic memories. Wil -
reader, could write very well, and played many and useful inventions calculated to ,liam Henry Hurlbert, formerly the editor
the piano with some grace. But Bertie's - lighten labor and at the sante time exped- of the Worlii'here, ie" an active American
.favorite occupation was reading ; and as she its the gathering of Drops. • Even that cruel
wan furnished with a plenty of books suited invention, the barb wire fencing, has been
to her age, , she was seidpm in the .louse .'.introduced into=th° scheming racket to do
without a story book in her�hand. Shewas . upthe industrious lens bandinan,.nnd were
very fond of fairy stories, and had read a gret to add the operation too often prover
great many tales of sylphs and sprites• She eucceesful. The modus operandi of the
had a large dog, with whom she had roamed. sharper goes about thus : —First, be is care -
over the fields and woods of her father's - fat to select for his victim some farmer who
farm until she was at home in its re• is fairly fixed with this world's goods, and if
motest part. When Bertie left the house one can be found who has a cute aspiration
she went to find Lion, her dog, and calling to speculate—so much the better. Then, the
"Lion l" "Lion 1" once or twice, in, am,o- next point ie the bank where he deposits.
✓anent he came bounding along;with his;,pink He is then laid wait for at the' city, town, or
tongue lolling -out -of -hie great .=and vlliege'hotel where he is known, to put up.
hie great tail wagging like the top of a fir Here he ii carefully 'Biz id'up'. is habits
tree in a storm.. Bertie gave him a pat on are fully studied, and an acquaintance scrap -
the head. and away he went gamboling ed. am le to be free
r eon deo yaemeness way
along mistress,
and then stopping to wait , the'enormons success its sale hasemet;. how
for his mie£reea, and then rushing on far farmer Rut er cleared in one neason's deal a
ahead. The woods were about - a quarter, 8
of a mile from the house, and were on rising cool $'5,000, and so on act: finitum, as the
ground ; eo Bertie` did note hurry, for ;the story' goes. After; a long Streak of fabrica'
was not a strong child, and c:imbing was
rather tiresome to her. By the time she:
had reached the top of the hill, Lion was
nowhere to✓be seen, but as he made a point
to hunt rabbits whonever'bis tietreesnieent,
into the woods, she wannest st at :all surprised.;
Wandering "along, picking'here and there a
wild flower and occasionally stopping to
watch a squirrel or bird, Bertie land- forgot-
ten all about Lion,, until far in the woods
she heard him' barking 'igoronely. But
supposing he had treed a squirrel, or had
found something -alae of interesc,.ehe paid
no heed, until Lion came crashing through
the underbrush rand made' Bertie' follow ` presentation at the.bank is aaehed-and - poor
him by pulling at her dress, and then run-"W'farther Doli o`hae to foot<the Wille tPhis is
Hing along before her. hy, Lion, what - only one form—there are many more. The
is the matter.!'.' ticked $erne.. "What have, inventive genius of this class who rack their'
you found? Welt; you're a tilde doggie; and; - brains to °air ever ready out a swito ndling
e ettrick
to
we'll go right and find d it. _ Bow, wow,
wow," eaid,Lion, and soon clisappeal ed frim new dodge
e One of the latest is in the form
Bertie'e sight, but kept up his call. Berne of silver table wareenor some other ,house.
followed an -quick as the tangled vines and "hold articlethet will catehthe eye of the_
thick bushes would let her, and at last found thrifty housewife. This trick.' ie even car=
herself in the middle of the wood beside an ried into the stores of general dealers and
old wood -road, ,which bad '✓. of be n ;teed ;nay, have already. been nipped. Although
since the winter beforre. 'Lion'-ivae5 tliere `•repeatedlyfwarrned Int tlie,newspaper press.
and ceased to bark when he saw hie little our country cousins fall into the trap.
mistrese,,andran to her, frolicking, .a}ound Either their ambition to turn an easy pen -
so gleefully, 'that .Bertie *Oaf or`:A minute "'Joel id too. streng to resist the temptation—
g ld " . or their trai ht reed for gain dairies them'
quite don't
y red. .Now, Lion, 1: c four , .clear' as 'wheat theyshifulsee ua'fraud , of i
why yen she* me what you've f oand ? P i . „ i their peaceful nicer•M i , a schism ?' Atnpskea Fella on the Merrimac River'
Oh l oh ! oh I-My/sakes 1 Yen blasted little i'; M eturd reflection, or still Worse; they` ar'e. of importance recurred among the Disaen g > >,
darling 1" cried Bertie in delight( -fol` Whet'. gnorant,.bjecause they havelioon too 'Veiny- ters themselves. Under these eironmetanoee' -was Olive the great fishing plica of New
do you think "Lion showed ? A tiny bit ' ioaato. eubsorfbe for a ubwe`paperr,andt'tlius , they deemedit advisable to assemble a Conn. Hampshire, It was here Paesaoanaway and
of a baby in a market basket. obtain a fair warning. Just now there are ell of their own. Ale was held last month has tribe of Indiana laved and hadtheir not
Of course Bertie did not stop to think of many of this class of dandy business specs. in Moscow, under the auspi:es of those who ed fishing place in primitive times, when
any thing else but to take the basket and'latera hustling around Ontario, and we say not only deny the authority of the Czar and ' the water, teemedwith salmon, shad, and
hurry home as fast as she could. Her burden to one and ail—look, look thoughtfully ;— the Established Church, but refuse to rem- lamprey., eels. Forty years, ago a high dam
was quite heavy; and she oil" ld'not`earry it'; , dont look at the amount to be gained, but _ .nine marriage, and pretend to live'in, a lib was built at 'Lawrence and another lower
without some diiliculty, . but she was too'look at the way that' end is to be reached:c ,any. The beat 'men of both parties' hoped down. These stopped all the fish, of course,;
mach delighted "and'exoited tee rate Lion lust remember-that:.you have had a. air for reconciliation. The anti•rriarriage,•fao and the o upper •giver became; hareem Ton
to b h 1 t f h $ yeas q w ya Wer`ed put in the dam ,r
but they ilii little good. In 1981 a citizen
carried 200 lamprey eels above the dams and
put them iuto the Merrimac., The result
is this year thou:and'e'of'eels have appeared,
gone up the fiehwaye, •and up the river 130
miles above'Amoskeag Valle, showing that
the river has been cnccessfully reetooked.
Mr. Bouoicaujt is, 03,,not,68 as stated in
the Australian papers, having been born in
Gardiner street. Dublin; oh the 22nd of Feb•
runty, 1882. His birth `is registered . in 'the
Episoopal Church in that,etrebt. He was
aunounced by Mr. Charles Matew'', on in.
troduoing him tut the author of"London
Assurance " to the Covent Garden audience
in 1840, as 18, but with his then black our-
. ly hair.and very boyish appearance he seem -
tions comes the finale, "Say,` look here i
you are•just the man to take hold of this ;
you have the reputation of being the most
successful farmer in all this country,I don't
want to put this in everybody's `hand.
There a Joe, Littlejohn, he's ambitions to get
hold of it, but he, ain't the man from, Gal-
way. I'll put it in your hands, give you
the ,eole-the-;only --right to sell ' Thus
flattered up a contract is entered into, and
an order signed, accepting the agency.
This document is 80 cunningly arranged,
that it is torn in two, and a bona fide note id
then left in the hands of thedodger that on
built at hie factory a chimney over fifty feet
in height entirely of paper. The blocks
ueed in its construction, instead of brick or
'stone, were made of layers of compressed
paper jointed with a eilioious cement. The
advantages are the fire-peoof-nature of the
ulateria1, the minimum of danger from light-
ening, and great' elasticity, "a ''
Senator Walker of Nevada was attacked
by a band of ooyotes.near Wamsley Gulch
'recently,( and' was tobliged to take to a tree
to save his life. He had a rifle with him,
and killed a number of the animals, which
:mere. quickly, devoured. ;by.:their.; oomradee.
member of the Salisbury. He remained in the tree all night, closely
watched by the coyotes, but was rescued in
As two out of twenty-two Presidents the morning by a party of hunters,
have b en assassinated, or about 10 per cent. Tne gardens of the Tuileries are just now
the risk in life insaranoe Is extra hazardous. •sbeing'taken possession of by groups of Paris
It ie said that Arthur had a policy of $10,- °roughs, who render this favorite resort un -
000 on entering the office of Vice -President, .,approachabie,,-by visitors, These ruffians
and that aft r becoming President he oletain fntitilat+'�the statues, and their latest exploit.
ed a second for the same aounts e.Five °has' -been to break off the quiver held by a
thousand dollars were lost on'Lincoln and nymph. The Director of the Louvre has ex -
twelve on G ✓field. Cleveland had policies pressed the intention of taking back into
for $16,000, all issued before his election, , the building all the statues under hie admin-.
and a month ago application was made .for ietration which aro now in the gardens.
,$10,000 more. Tnis will bo granted at ordi-
nary rates. It is said that the `first restrictive liquor
ij The Rev, Mr. Talmage was greeted; with law ever passed in th'eStateswas enacted in.
enthusiasm last week in Brooklyn); ,at,the town 1n Rhode. Island and read as follows :.
Tabernacle, on his return from Europe. He Every lame t keeper who sells more than,
gave a facetious account of his experience on one gallon of liquor to a minor shall be fined'
shipboard and in England, describing both one dollar and costa, The first temperance
the Queen and the Princess of Wales with pledge remembered in circulation in New
el:quent appreciation, and heard himself England was thus worded : "I solemnly
,praised by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, swear to abstain from the n:e of intoxicat-
There was a striking picture when Mr. Tal- ing liquors. onall occasions except on train-
mage
rain-
ma a and Mr, Beecher clasped hands in the ing days, wedding days, banquets, and
presence of three or four thousand persons. other great occasions." .
Mr. Talmage's coach was• dragged home : ' 'In the register df deaths of the pariah of
afterward by some of hie affectionate Sun- San Lorenzo, Seville, there is an entry under,
day -school boys. , date of the first of November, 1788;
The oak tree planted by Lord, Byron at of the burial in the crypt of of the ehurclt
Newstead Abbey is Large and liourishi g, -;io vicaruan anManuel
of the teeychalder-
although the alder on which he cut thed 'chaplain,
names " Byron and Arigusta " long since died at the age of 130 years. He was mar-
died. The portion of the ttee onwvhioh the ried five times and had fiftenone children hey
Haines were carved is preserved among the. fore he became priest,, He was noted for hie
treasured memento( s of the poet in the Ab- piety and 'benevolence, and at the time of
bey. The tree planted by Lr: Livingstone ;his-death:wa•s,engaged in writing a religious
is on the lawn, as well as the one planted by wor r. priest ae•90 years old when he was ore
Stanley. The present owner of Newstead r..� a
was the one white friend and bosom- dein• "Mme:'Lotinga, a very smart Jewese, who,
panion of Livingstone during his years of in imitation of Mrs. Weldcn, has been pos.:
wonderful work in Africa. This Col. Webb ing as her (inn lawyer in`tho English courta,i
who bought the Abbey of Col. Wildman, pursued gentler and more effective methods
the wealthy,;Weet Iaelia,npienter„,who•boaght . She Dame to court ,eyetwedee with.a.wig,
it of Lord Byron, is the man who saved Liv- iae'autiful dei ghter, who eat beside her.;
ingstoues 1ife,:by shooting ethe,;lioneebieh,. peeling, ef,the prooeedinge„she offered, a:
after feerfi111g meditating ,hrjn; f align stood photegrajib to Mr. Justine i' wkin , whale
over'`hie ptoetrate• body, -..,...., e.. e�3 .,.�- Ses , try.mg, the case with;: a.s eoiai..liui�y. Fids
Aed
She
turned to
the Raekoireat ri ksron orisnow Diaaei>ers of Russia. on , . her daughter eand t�desired gherlto give it to,
Two years ago the Czar promised a degree his Honor, which, with much grace, Rebeooa
c f tolerati,in; audgrante_d certain o}yilrights, did. The Justice blushed beneath his wig
But;the,,Holy,.Sy;addhetedetermined ,tgoheek„ Et1I tdolG 14.;:'e his hashdi�bs'er r`tr"i d;;`iiero
gee, east me
trotted along beside her, and every min• warning a on t e a er ora arpers, an tion, however, won the day, not by an open;
ate or two he would put up his nose to the thenif you will bite, why of course you and thorough consideration of the disputed
wer
basket to see if its °entente esafee Ber alone are to blame for, Making yourself a paints, but by expelling the leaders of the
tie was very tired when elm reached the victim. t > new party at the very op4ning of the Coen.hones, but she scarcely realized it, being so ell. , ° °
wrought up with delight. She did not Ismail Pasha, the ex -Khedive of Eeypt, Bishop Spaulding saw a most pronounced
think but what she should keep the baby whose marked ability and luxuriant fashion case of dandy drag itself inertly past. ' The
always, and forgot that the wee thing had a of living have made him conspicuous among fellow had all the symptoms of acute Idiocy
mother, who wasperhaps vow seeking after Egyptian rulers, asked permission recently so markedly visible that there was no nus,
it, and nearly frantic( with porrow; at ,its to visit Constantinople; ,-.$nt'the Porte has taking the social disease, Angloinania, that
loss. No, Bertie wan only te'jil yodel fold , refused his rcquett I. t ' i:- 1.. t a had pitifully altered him from the healthy,
and 31131 not think of those things. Bang'The Rev, y)r'° George Jefftey, ofllasgoty, vigorous, sensible young fellow that he
went the aittingeroom door, and in rushed 'Scotland, has preached more than forty-six might otherwise have been, "Well, here's
Bertie with her basket. years to the same congregation. To one of a thought for comfort,” the Bishop is quot.
"Oh 1 Mayumi, see whet I've go nee ills-; his - former parishioners, efta New York ed as saying: "I 'happen td knew who hd is.
little henls; and oil, its going to Open ite -merchant, ,Dr, Jeffrey (*plaided the,eeoret His family are wealthy and very fashion.
eyes, I guess 1 It was asleep, and I took it of his being able to interest the same audience , able, He has been brought to think that
and came home quick 1 Oh, my 1 and Lion so long, "I read every new book that bag a work is not for him to think of, and that his
barked first and 1 went, and Oh, oh, oh• --e I" bearing upon my special work" he said, "and life le destined to be perfectly idle. ^ sw that• 8d much younger, ;His present fair bride,
and Bettie was actually obliged to Mop and make extracts from it, and index them, ao I view, don't you comprehend, thin -best tonne`-whtf is not As old�ae represented, is of res.
take breath.—"Why Bettie ! What baits '•can find them when wanted. In this way for him to pursue is theone,thistle moetherm- pectable family, but her father is not a title
ou done, where did you,find this baby?" and 1 keep myself from moving in a rat. I work lobo, and what obuld helve less aotual?vieious- ,l or -General, and has never been on the staff
Mrs, Wilbur opened her eyes in great aston- as hard as I need to at twenty, and I keep nese in it -than the 'oared' of an- atfsiduoue of the Prince of Wales, which is already
iehment. After Bertie had sufficiently gain• so far ahead with my sermons that there fop 1 Just think of it. Hemight be a gam- crowded with fiotitioue creations. She was
ed her breath she told her mother all about are always ton or more unfinished ones ly later, a brawler, a sensualist ; or ho might cdueatod for a governess and turned to the
the finding of her "fairy," as she persisted in ing in my drawers ready to receive the re• even take to burglary, arson, murder, Oh, stage, and is very pretty and accomplished,
calling the little thing. The baby was not suite of my latest readings. I call them yes, if a young man is bound to bo nothing He has been three times married, His so-
oner three weeks old, and was so small that 'sleeping sermons, but it is they that sleep, useful, thea by all means encourage him to and wife, Agnes Robertson, is still living,
it was almost a fairy. It was a little dark- and not the people who hear them," be an innocuous dandy." and though his present marriage may pos.
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