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aunt A pie epoUp ot leer umeher, but there is
(leo masa thet tb shoula go fureher."
The intelligence had lightened the way a
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Llay began to repent el her deterreieetieh gooa a,,,,i, and they were at the melee metes
to week: Lesoonabe seemed veryfar off, an by this tune. Gerard. began rather reetully
-nhe had, au buitinot thatshe was Ma awkward i te teke leeve ; but Aoutenle, in large•heerted
eSftle wheel, Either beeanse Robio Hoed •,, oappoime and gratitude, begged oon to
walleeel too fest foe her weary linabs, or be- I
r come arid root at the house, end wait for
`°°•noe she telt it ta greater d5aY to 9baPere5 4 demlight, arid this he wee cony Coo glad to
'Nuttie than Aunteple, she fell be0k OU the I do, eapeoially ao May's secession had ina e
moo* in the rear, and. we rethee surprised i the conversetion a. little more personal. Mark Egremont„"
at the tenor of their emmeersation. Nettie was La So certainweyremlizing for " And--?"
Thie " umbrella man' wee telling of his the first ti•ne, wbat her other'smloyeity bed "Yee, minute. He is going to week and
vicar's deliabt 15 the 13°5'1°151 eh511°8 veil cheeked her in eapressing, even if the toe melee a honee----a, real, true, homely home
Annaple ofteu seemed like companion de-
ters, awl her rammed, keen, menaging
elaest-hoen like their Mother.
Annaple lay clown beide her on her bed in
the mowing twilight, and gave her the his.
tory of the occideut in playlul Menu; indeed.
Aaneple mond never help that, bat there
we something to her voioe that niade Lady
Ronnisglen sew, syhen satisfied about Janet's
hurt, 'You've mere to say, /amok dear."
" Yes minnie mine I welaed home with
tnat hal been sent by Mrs. Egremout, and
Nuttie was elnexilneteating, 58 a secret she dwell on it,
ought not to tell, that mother was worleing " Everybody outside is kind," she rend to
i
es set of stolee, and hoped to have the white Gerard "they are nice n a way, and good,
ones ready by the dedusetton aumversary , but eh they are eeaturies behindin ohurch
also that there was a box being filled for the matters and eentug, jot imu the old rem
• St. Ambrose Christmes tree, They were tor,"
"1 gathered that; I am very sorry for
you. es there no one fit to be a guide .
"I don't know," said Nuttie. "f did&
think -1 must, somehow, before Lent."
" There is Advent close at hand," he said
gravely. "If you could only be at our
mission services; we Shope to get Father
Snaith
"Oh, if only 1 (mold I But mother never
likes to talk about those kind of things.
She says our doty is to my father.
• the leedcastle vicar, whom her father come re Not toe eoremomm
monly called " that madman." Still, she "No, she would not say that, But oh,
Mad a practioal soul for parish work, and Gerard.1 if he should be melting her worldly I"
.tould appreciate the earnestness that main -
Meted itself, and the exertions made for peo-
eple of the classes whom. she had alwaya
up-
osed too bad or else too well off to come
under clerical aupervision. And. her aunt
molt of novelties had given hor full time to for you and me."
' child, my child, yen have not hung
the old. woman about the poor boy's neok 1"
"As if I would have Med him if he did
not love her, and make a mother of her I"
"But what la he going to do, Nen? This
is a very different thitio• from
Very different from Janet's notions;"
and, they both laughed, the mother adding
to the mirth by saying—
'Poor Jeuen congratulating herself that
no harm had been clone, and. that you hed
never taken to one another
"Did she really now?"
"Oh yes, only yesterday, and I bade her
not crew too soon, for I thought I saw
trying to get something ince for each of the
'choir boys and of the old women; and there-
with, to May's surprise, this youth, whom
• she regarde as a sert of shepina e, fell into
full narration a ell Mee events a a highly.
worked. parisbn—all about the oheral festtval,
sand the guilds, and the choir, and the ten-
merance work. A great deal of it was a
• strange lentgotege to May, bub she half-dis-
,approved of it, as entirely unlike the
e' soberness'' of Bridgefield wems, end like
"It must be your work to Moder it," he
said, looking at her affectionately.
"Oh, Gerard 1 but Ian afraid I'm getting
so myself. I have thought a great deal
about lawn tennis and dress, and thus a ,"
•d. n
a,nd -cousin and this young man all evidently I said Nuttie. "Somehow it has never quite
hatheir hearts iitt For Nuttio--though
felt real, but as if I were out on a visit."
Mer new world had put the old one limper- " You are in it, but not of it," said Gerard
d admiringly.
"1o, I'm not so good. as that ! I like it
all.—almost all. 1 thought I liked it bet-
ter till you came a,nd brought a real true
breath of Mieklethwayte. Oh ! if I could
only see Monsieur's dear curly head and
bright eyes 1"
ently aside—had plunged into all the ol in-
terests, and asked questions eagerly, and
listened to their answers, as if Mickle.
thwayte news was water to the thirsty.
The two were two happy to meet,
and, it must be • confessed, had not
gnite manners enough, to feel it needful
-to include in their conversation the weary
:.figure that plodded along at a distance from
them, hardly attending to the details of
their cbatternyet deriving new notions from
eft of the former life of Ursula and her
mother, matters whioh she had hitherto
thought beneath her attention, except so far
as to be thankful that they had emerged.
--1 rem it so presentable. That it was a more
oectively religious, and perhaps a more intel.
leatual one than her own, she had thought
impossible, where everything must be second-
- rate. And yet when her attention had wan-
olered from an account of Mr, Dutton's deal-
ings with a refractory, choir boy beat on go-
ing to the races, she found a discussion go -
in -about some past lectures upon sateen-
eomy and Nuttie vehemently regretting
This had been the tenor of the talk, and
these were the actual last words before the
whole five—just in the first streaks of
dawn—coalesced before the front door, to
be admitted by a sleepy servant; Mark
tied up the horse for a moment, while
Annaple sent the man to waken Sir
John Delmar, and say there had been
a slight accident, Mit no one was much
hurt ; and, as they all entered the warm,
dimly -lighted hall, they were keenly sen-
sible that they hasi been deeming or walking
all night.
Reso in the chairs which stood round the
big hearth and smouldering wood fire was
so extremely comfortable, as they all dropped
down, that noboay moved or spoke, or knew
how long it was before there was a voice on'
symptones---1 ,
"You dear darling minnie I Think of
that 1 'Before we either of us knew it, and
when he is worth ever so much less than he
wasbefore !Not but that I am enraged when
people US; be hes anted nobly, met as if
there had been anything else for him to do!"
"1 own that I am glad he has iroved.
himself. I was afraid he would be dragged
in the way' of his uncle. Don't be furious,
Swathe. Not at all into evil, but into
loitering; and I should like to know what
are his prospects now."
"Well, mother, I don't think he has any.
But he means to have. And not a word is
to be said to anybody except) you and lie
father and May till he has looked over the
top of the wall, and, seen his way. We
need not bring Je,net down on us till then."
"1 must see him, my dear. Let me see
him before he goer; away. He always has
been a very dear lad, a thoroughly excellent
right-minded fellow. Only 1 must know
what he means to do, and. whether there is
any reasonable chemise of employment or
fixed purpose."
Lady Ronnisglen's maid here arrived with
her matutinal cup of tea; and Annaple, be-
ginniog to perceive that she was very stiff,
went al in hopes thab her morning toilette
would deceive her hardworked little frame
into believing it had had a proper night's
ethe not attending two courses promised for the stears--- '1 Eh ? what's tms, Annaple?
the coming winter upon electricity and on An accident? Where's Jana ?" and a tall
Italian art, and mournfully observing, 1 barly figure, candle in hand, in a dressing -
gown and slippers, was addecl to the group.
"Janet will be at home presently, I
hope,", said Annaple, "bub she got a out
with some broken glass, and we sent her
round by Dr. Raymond's to get it set to
rights. Oh, John 1 we came to grief on
Bluepost Bridge after all, and I'm *aid
Robinson has got his leg broken 11'
Sir John was a good-natured heavy man,
whose clever wife thought for i
him n all
that did not regard horses, dogs, and game.
He looked perfeotly astounded, and required
to have all told him over again before he
could fully take ib in. Then he uttered a
suppressed malediction on engines, insisted
that all his impromptu guests should im-
mediately eat, drink, and sleep, and declar-
ed his intention of going off at once to Red -
castle to see about his, wife.
"We never go to anything sensible here.
May et first thought, "Impertinent little
thing, and felt affronted, but then owned.
to htrself that it was all too true:. Other-
wise there was hardly anything said about
the contrast with Nuttie's present life
Gerard knew already that the church atmo-
sphere was very different, and with the rec-
tor's daughter within earshot, he could not
'utter his commiseration, nor Nuttie her
regrets.-,
Once there was 'a general start, and the
whole five came together at the sight of a
mipectrally black apparition, with a huge
etufted head, on- high-,^ -bearing down over a
•itistieliedge upon them. Nobody screamed
except Nuttie, but everybody started,
though the next moment it was plain that
they were only chirmiey-sweepers on their
Reteibution for our desire Meet ghosts 1"
• said, Atinaple when the sable forms lead been
'warned of the bridge. "Poor May, you are
awfully tired 1 Shouldn't you like a lift in
. their cart ?"
"Or I could put you up on Robin Rood,"
'said Mark.
"Thank you, I don't think I could stick
on. Is it much farther ?"
"Only up the hill and across the park,"
said Annaple, still cheerily."
"Take my arm, old woman," said Mark,
.and then there was a pause, before Annaple
said in an odd voice, "You may tell her,
Mark."
"Oh, Annaple 1 Markt is it so ?" cried
May joyously, but under her breath; and
with a glance to see how near the other
;couple were.
" Yes," said Annaple between crying
and laughing. "Poor Janet, she'll think
we have taken. a frighfully mean advantage
her, but I am sure 'never dreamt of such
a thing ; and the queer thing is, that Mark
says she put it into his head 1"
"No, no," said Mark ; "you know bet-
ter than that—"
"Why, you told me you only found it
out when she began to trample on the fall -
1
She was quite ready to appear at the
breakfast table, though her eldest niece, a
long-haired, long -limbed girl considerably
the bigger of the two, was only too happy
to preside over the cups. All the four
young people were in the greatest state of
excitement, welcoming, as the heroes of the
night, Mark and Mr, „Podfrey, and clam-
ouring to be allowed #o walk down after
breakfast wibh their father and the gentle-
men to see the scene of the catastrophe and -
the remains of the carriage and the bridge.
SirJohn made a courteousreference to the
governess, but there was a general sense
that the cat was away, and presently there
W08 a rush upstairs to prepare for the walk.
Annaple had time in the course of all the
bustle, while the colour came back to
her cheeks for a moment, to tell Mark
that her mother had been all that
was good, and wanted to see him.
He must manage to stay till after eleven
o'clock; she could not be ready before.
Then he might come to her sitting -room,
which, as well as her bedroom, was on the
ground floor.
Mark had to work off his anxiety by an
inspection of the scene of the disaster and a'
circumstantial explanation of the details to
the young Delman, who crowded round
him and Mr, Godfrey, half awed, half de-
lighted, and indeed the youngest—a consid-
erable Tomboy—had nearly given the latter
the opportunity of becoming a double hero
by tumbling through the broken rail, but
he caught her in time, and oho only incur-
red from Sir John such a scolding as a great
fright will produce from the easieet of
fathers.
are 3E CONTINUED.)
The two gentlemen were committed to
the charge of the butler, and Annaple took
Nuttie and May to hes. sister's dressing
-
room where she knew she should find fire
and. ;ea, and though they protested. that it
was not worth while, she made them' on,
dress and lie down in a room prepared for
them in the meantime. It was a state cham-
ber, with a big bed, far away from the
entrance, shuttered and curtained up, and
with double doors, excluding all noise. The
two cousins lay down, Nuttie dead asleep
almost before her head touched the pillow,
while May was aching all over, declaring
herself far to much tired and excited to
sleep ; and, besides that it was not worth
while, for she should be called for in a very
short time. And she remained conscious
of a great dread of beingroused, so that
when she heard her cousin moving about
the room, she insisted that they had scarcely
lain down, whereupon Nuttie laughed,
declared that she had heard a great- clock
strike twelvebefore she moved, and showed
daylight coining in through the shutters.
"We can't lie here any longer, I suppose,"
said May, Bitting up wearily; "and yet
what can we put on? It makes one shiver
to think of going down to luncheon in a ball
dress 1"
"1 told you I had only understood my "Besides mine is all toin to pieced to
-own heart. make bandages," said Nuttie. "1 must
"And I said very much the same—she put on the undersleirb and my cloak again."
made me so angry, -you see." "Or Annaple might lend us something. I
"1 can't but admire your motives 1" said must get out somehow to know how poor
May, exceedingly rej owed all the time, La,dy Delmar is, and what has become of
and ready to have embraced them both, if everybody. Bono, Ursula, plemse, please,
it had not Inert for the spectators behind. and. lie down till somebody comes.'
n' In fa,ct, it was opposition you both want- The bell was answered by a maid, who
-ed. I wonder how long you would have told. them that my lady had been brought
.gone on net finding it out, if all had been home by Mr. and Mrs. Egremont elbout 00
smooth 1" hour after their arrival, She was as well as
"The worst of it io," said Annaple, "that could be expected, and there was no cause
I'm afraid' it is a very bad thing for Mark." for anxiety. Mr. and Mrs. Egreinont had
"Not a bit of it,' retorted he. "It is then gone on to Bridgefield, leaving word
the only thing that could have put life into that Mrs. William Egremont and Miss
tay Work, or made me care to find any 1 Blanche were sleeping at Recleastle, having
sent home for their own dresses and the
young ladies', and would call for the rest of
their party on the way. Indeed, a box for
the Miss Egrernonts had been deposited by
the Canon from the pony -carriage an hour
ago, and Wag already in the dressing room;
And find it I tall now ! Must we get the
whole world in to know before l'have found
it Annaple ?"
" I could not but tell my mother," said
Annrsple. It would come out in spite of me,
even if I wished to keep it back,"
"Oh yea Lady Ronnisglen is a different but Miss Ruthven would not have them dis
thioga said Mark "Just as May here 1 tubed. Miss Iluthvon,—oh yea, she was
is---" • 4 up, she had not been in bed at all.
"And she will say nothing, I know, till
we are ready—my dear old Minnie," said
Annaple. "Only, Mark, do pray have
something definite to hinder Janet wieh
there are any symptoins of hawking her
• commodity about.
"1 mita said Mark. "If we could only slept, even if she had had time. Her first
;emigrate," care had been to receive her sister, who had
Ah, if we could 1" said Arinaple. "Ron, been neat at the entrance of Redouble by
ald is doing so well in New Zealand, but I ; her husbaud. There had been inefuse offere
don't think my mother could spare me, of lempiteliby to Mr. and Mrs. Egremont,
She could te ot collie out, and she mot be the latter of Whoin looked tired out, end
with me, whereever I AUL You know— offers of sending messengers to Bridgefield;
don't you—that I ono seven, years younger . bat Mr. Egremont would not hear of them,
than Allele./ I was a regular surprise, and and every one euspected that he would tot
the old nuane at Ronnisgleh said 'Depend incur the ohanoe of tieing without Gregorio
meet it, My teddy, she io given to be the and all his appliances.
comforb Of your old age.' And I Immo I By the time they were disposed of, and
alweye made up my mind never to leave her. Lady Delmar safe in bed, it was time to re.
drat think she would get on with Jenet pair to her mother's room, no as to prevent
en any of them withotit me, so you'll have her from being elanned. Lady Ronnieglen
to take her, toe, Mark." - 1 was English born, Silo was not by any
," With all my heett," he answered, Metope the typical dowager. Her 111Valid
4'/ Attd, indeed, I have promieed my father condition wee chiefly owing to an accident,
not to emigrate, rattan and will, find which bad rendered her almest increitable of
work at hand, and make it home for you 1; walking and she wait also extremely the -
both 1" ceptible of stela, and therefore hardly ever
"Thtt yoti veill tell paps. at once V' said wont out ; tint there as so much youth and
My. it Will hurt him if yotl do met" life about hot at sitty-three that she and
CHAPTER XV.
A CASTLE Or 'UMBRELLAS.
No Annaple Ituthven cotild not have
How to Win Bnescees in Trade.
Affability plies custom, fair dealing keeps
It is better to lose a few sales than to
uy an article that but few use,
When you have selected too many goods
tiot steple and. likely to go out of style, sell
hem if possible betore the season closes.
Make it a rule to prepare in time for bills
coming due first, rather than to settle those
maturing later, even if a large discount is
offered.
Don't buy an old article because it ire
cheap ; better pay a fair price for a quick
selling article. You don't buy goods for
show, but to sell.
Foresight is an essential requisite; always
carefully consider what the outlook for
trade is, study well the condition of the
crops and all indnotries in your section.
Never try to make your credit solid with
O new firm at the expense of an old One;
always remember the bridge' that carried
you over and the firm that aided you in
building up your credit.
The old darkey preacher's idea of perse-
verance was that it was just like a bull dog:
"He takes a fast hold, hangs on, and nebber
lets go until he carries the .point." This ap-
plies an well to merchandistng.
When you find your clerks not showing
the proper interest in peer business, tell
them so. Every olerk should study the in,
tenets of his employer, ' By so doing he &a
himself to become einployer ; otherwirte
be will never make a gooa clerk. '
Care and economy hold the little things •
the little things melee the big ;mean It 4;
the penniee thrit rnakes the dimes, and climee
dollars. Don't' forget ibis ; it means none
than you think. It bas been the bads of
every men's fortune who started without
money, and has been the means of those
having it being able to hold it.
•Brether Senn
BY HANS recomom
Onee on a time, we'll say, fer so
The Moines all begin,
There lived a maiden good and true,
Who stood, ae melds are apt to do,
Upon her rights ie deeliug with
Her ftionds or next of kin.
Her older brother neer her dwelt,
And, positive I am,
ioted travel very fttr to find
A man of larger heart or mina,
Or larger limb and bank acoeunt, ,
Than this big brother Sam.
The maid was fair to look upon,
Thouiele rivals called her 8 tout)
She loved her brother very well,
But still, I deeply grieve to tell,
About a very foolish thiog,
They had a falling-out.
'Twas this way, as perhaps you've heard,
Their mother was a mum
Who gave the girl a deal of. land, „ _
With lovers, hake, and mountainsgrand,
Coast waters—gulfs and baye--besidee
Much fish that ewine unseen.
The brother was a self-made man,
Though he was rich and great,
For he had, many years before
Cern° out and slammed the pallice door,
Defied his mother, gone to work
And earned his own estate.
Now, he was rich in gold and lands,
And all that hear t could wish, ,
Coast waters that could not be beat,
And yet the fellow longed to 'eat,
And wouldn't condeneuel to buy,
Some of hie sister's fish:
When she' hed heard his heart was set
Upon this special dish
She straightway told him she would sell
And maned her price and waited, well
Some little time, I wean, and yet
He didn't buy the fish.
Ile said he wouldn't pay a cent
Per halibut or clam
For oodfish, mackerel, or pike
For lobster, herring or the like
For fioh to boil or bake or fry;
0, naughty, naughty, Bain.
Eo guessed a girl nineteen years old
Would hardly dare resist
if one so great and strong as he
With all his wealth by laud and sea.
In fact, her eldest brother too
Should on the gift insist,.
Indeed he thought he'd help himself
And so he sent his men
In several Gloucester fishing boats
With nets and lines and. oilskin ooats
And bade them bring no small amount
When they came back again.
The girl was quite prepared for them,
Though straame'perhaps, 'tis true,
As one by one his boats were teen
The maiden made it very plain
Whate'er her brother did or said
She meant to have her due. s
Quiet but firm she stood her ground
Waited with brow serene.
It was a most amusing sight
To see him bluster, want to fight,
And vow he would be even yet
With her, e girl nineteen.
Prize Competition Essay on New Year's
Day.
I always know New Yeaa'a day, because
papa givers a dinner party to some men with
Short petticemts. They are Sootohmen.
They ehove a lot of hz own gunpowder up
their noses, Pa bays it's snoffia'. 1 know
it is sornefing—you bet. All they say is,
" Pass the whuskey." They make a great
noise Gornetimea and sing "collared Iter -
Meg" and " Ye alenlielde Brays." Nobody,
ktowe vvhat they mean. Then they melt for
more whusisey. Than they finieh up with
"For Aldgate Sign, Peek Freer; I" Then
they have all to be carried out by the
servants. Then elm remainder are loft
Onder the ()Mime -room table till Sto-morrow.
Then (—, the goveroess says I,have too mealy
therm,"
The annual production of the wine.fields
of Campatincn it about I4,000,000 gallons on
an average.
SOLENTIFIO. ETIELIN'S LATEST sE4SATION.
Pesteurae method of inoculation has been nmeraordiniley Career or the Men Manna
I:amplified by a Hungarian physunan. 1u
tad of teking the spinal cord of an infect-
ed rebbit and attenoeting its poison by dry-
ing, Dr, Eiegyes takes the spinal ord, rubs
it up with water containing chloride of
sodiorn, of, wnieh a solution ot any strength
can be made, The dog is then immeesed in
thie eielutions and. after five or six Werner.
alone in the bath oecuree, "complete hie•
rinueity Morn rabies,"
• A German writer has recently ouggestcel
o oew liquid to beused intim thermometer,
dieplacing mercury on the one hand and
spirits on the other. The eubstinete
pliurie aoid blackened by the addition of
auger. It expands uniformly uuder a wide
range of temperatere, and it bulk changes
as
outcome Dunne Shot At.
The shooting affair iu Dalelin of which
yon helve reeeivesi somo particulare, is at -
treating a good Med of ;Attention here be-
C&LICIO ef the high, serial position of mime of
tlus people eegeged in it. The Rev, Henry
Whyce Melville, who betrayed naptein
Ducee's dtbugheer, and uarrowly esemped
death at the bends of the infuriated fattier, ,
has no blue blood in his veins. Ho formom
ly rejoiced in the unromantic petronythics
of linegineon, aud wotked as a jcurnalist
for sortie time in Dabline and also, it is said,
in America. Later he entered the service
of the 'rine Customs, married and started
raising a family. Mrs. Whyte Melville was
about three isnd a 'half tilllt$ ranch
News always travels with the wind,
This reached her mother's ear,
Who told her not a, word to say,
If all her fish he took away,
Lest he should make so great a noiee
That all the world could hear.
Make all concessions possible
And let him have his way,
He always was thus quarrelsome,
From bitter words to blows he'll conte,
You see, I've had experience,
And know whereof I say.
The girl, not easily repressed,
Spoke up, unheeding still
The cautious words of old madame
And threatenings of brother Sam.
And said, "he shall not have my fish."
Said he, "indeed I will."
Then loudly lifting up ilia voice
09 the daughter of Lord Bateman, pseud -
tom ot mereury, whim pernuts the reeding dr ase .slate.r marriege of the fifth Duke el
off of temperature to a inueli greater mecum Li-19eetrs' ackhicu,17.hillHoeft,ndoe,elZhst:rgoeyr2h°11i, 115'tne
soy than is possible with the instruments
A New York man has invented a device
now ue use, husband. outs beeea acquainted
atiihittleaterrd.realm.lewith
tt ohIarriat Isom° Ay nntoiReitts emaeinea be-
come
to save horses in ease of fire. It can bo ably almem hirn in the social scale is at pre -
Worked either ,by electricity or by hand. sent goinowbot of inyat/Ary ; but moo mel.
At a certain temperature a bell will ring, vine was elderly, vain, romantic in her
and the moment the bell aunt ring the door ideas, and enormously riah—just the ape/
Will flY open, the horses will be; unhitched of woman to tem e prey to any hendsome,
uuecrupulous and aurly. young adventurer.
Iiigginson filion eheoe conditions to the
letter, and ea an monis° foe the old widow
it must be put on record that since he mys-
teriously disappeared from Dahill), he had.
acquired the ad &newel attraction of a clerk -
Professor Medelelef has succeeded in pro. ship in holy °Here. In other word, he
ducting petroleum artificially, from which had become an Episoopal olergyman, having
he argues that the same process is censtant. been ordained in South Africa after a ehort
ly going on in the earth. He produced it and exciting care,er, during which he was
froth minerals and supposes that in the more familiar with taverns and gambling
eerth water which has found its way below hells than with churches. Min. Melville
the crust, encounters oarbidee of metals, became enamored of Higginson, who, she
particularly of iron,. in a redhot state. The sopposed, was a single man. As a nutter
water decomposes into gasses. The oxygen of 'fact he had a wife living, and had de -
unites with iron, the hydrogen takes up aerted he and her children after a vain and
carbon and ascends to a higher regionwhere infamous attempt to obtain a divorce. Hig-
part of it is condensed into mineral oil. The ginson had no difficulty in asoertaining the
social standing and peeumery position of
the love-lorn old widow. She had not long
The immigration to the United States before inherited something like B500,000
during the -first eleven months of the past under the *ill of the lete Dake of Leeds.
year was 486,660, against 365,453 for the He responded to her advancers with stimu• '
corresponding period in the year before. !Med ardor, and attended her publioly and
Ib is somewhat remarkable that the immi- in private like a lap dog. The Viseountees
gretion from England and Wales this year Massereene heard of her mother's infatua-
te larger than newt 'from Ireland -79,000 tion and passionately protested. In vain
people haying come from the former and- she in oked the memory of her idolized
71,000 from the latter. Scotland sent 20,. dead,father. In vain the family influence
000, Germany sent 106,00, the Scandina„ from Lord Salisbury downward was brought
vian countries (Norway, Sweden and Den. to beer to break off the threatened mesal -
:nark) sent 76,000, while Italy sent 42,000 lianco. The etrangely assorted couple were
and Russia 31,000. It is scarcely to be married, Higginson taking the name of
wondered at that so great a proportion of Whyte Melville in order to evade certain
the population of the great cities of the awkward clauses in the Duke of Leeds' will.
United. States is of foreign birth. A few days afterwards Viscountess Mas-
ereene vented her grief and indignation in
Instantaneous photography is no longer a form of a memoriam totice publithel in the
question to be determined by st•ady and ex. obituary :column of all uevespomers in
periment, but has assumed the place of an which, after reciting in most pathetic 4rths
accomplished and familiar fact. One of the the virtues of her late father, she coact ,ded
most interesting achievements in this di- with the significant words, "He wEs the
rection, as described in a London paper, or- last of his race." But Higginson is not a
ioinated in the question as to whether the sensitive man and he found ample ma:rota-
tion. if he needed any, in the widow s,£40,-
000 a year and her lovely bankers' balance
of which he quickly proceeded to make of.;
freest use, although Mrs. Melville haa
the wedding day settled 212,000 on him. 'a ,
Higginson tired of his wife's mature
charms, and turned his baneful eyes on Miss
Dunne, a pretty woman of twenty-four, who
lived with his wife as half friend, half com-
panion. She was •of good birth, and her
wonderful accomplishments included a fluent
and two small stream of water will strike
each horse in the- facie. To memo the
water the horses will back out of the stalls,
and once out of them they will have an op-
portunity of seeing it way of escape through
the open doors.
supply of oil on this theory would he ex-
haustless.
upper part of the wheel of a vehicle when
in motion travele fester than the lower part.
In determining this matter by instantane-
ous photography, the artiat took the photo-
graph of an ommibue wheel en route, and
in this photograph, while the lower ends of
the opokes immediately adjacent to the
ground are not perceptibly unsharpened by
the motion, the tops of the upper spokes
show au angular motion corresponding to
about ten degrees. The photograph in this
case most successfully expresses the fad knowledge of French, German and Italian.
that the wheel it represents is in rapid mo- Her father, Capt. Dunne, had been in reduc-
tion. ed circumstances hence her dependent posi-
A Cumous Cum—A French paper tells tion. Dunne is relaMd to the best families
of a curious CaSe in which the magnetic in Ireland, and the position of governor of
needle plays an important role. The daugh- one of ner majesty's prisons, it must he re- ,
ter of a Mr. Preece accidentally stuck a membered, is in this conntry considered a
needle in her hand which broke into three dignified one. Poor Ghazi Power, the gal -
parts. Two of these parts were easily found lant young jeurnalist who was Gordon's
and extracted, but the third could not be trusted comrade during the long siege of
located. The Hughes. induction balance Islarteurn, and who, with Col. Stewart,
plainly indicated that the piece of needle perished in a vain effort to break through
was there, but not its position. Mr. Preece the Ilahdin grim cordon and join hands
highly magnetized a fine needle and sus- with Wolseky's advancing columns was
pended it by a single fibre of silk. The de- the dearly loved nephew of Dunne. ' Not-
viations of the suspended needle always withstanding his family connection's, Dunne
plainly indicated one particular spot when was a good nationalien and enjoyed the
the sore hand approached it. After a num- friendship of Isaac Butt, the father of Home
leer of trials with the dame result, this point Rule.
was marked, an incision made, and the Higginson found favour in Miss Dunne'
third piece of the broken needle four milli- eyes, and he soon acquired extraordinary in -
And calling her by name, metres long was found and easily extracted. fluence over her, rumor says partly by mea -
Remarked," I've said I'll never buy, —Philadelphia Bulletin. inerisin, of the result of which the cable has
__ already, advised you. Mies Dunne arrived
...- LAU LIGHTNING ON TEE OCE.
AN'
Retaliation I will try, ri unto
And raise the income tax." Said shein. Dublin iast night with the emowed inten•
To the genetal public: the most interesting
"Guess I cell do the same." Mon of seeing her unfortunate father through
matter printed on the December pilot chart
iption the trouble. She was in terrible distress,
And so to -day the matter stands, of the North Atlantic Ocean is a deur
but firm in her resolve 10 remain, This
So far as I have heard, of globular lightning --that strangest of all
morning, however, her paramour' gained
And neither one will yield a bit, electric pheaornena—seen byCapt. Moore,
access to her and ordered her to return to
But if they ever settle it ofithe British steamship. Siberian. To Lieut.
States London. She wept and implored, and even
In any Christian sort of way, Cottman in charge of the United
went on her knees to the scoundrel, but he
I'll surely send you word. Branch 'Hydrogaphio Office in this city,
was
Capt. Moore reported that at midnight of obdurate, and finally succeeded in so
November 12, while off Cape Race, a large bending her to his will that she obeyed his
every word and gesture, and she is now on
ball of fire appea.red to rise out of the sea to
the height of about 50 feet, and come right her way to the British metropolie.
against the wield close up to the ship. It It is comfoeting to learn that Mrs. Whyte
then mitered its course and ran along with Melville now sem Higginson in his true
tt-
the ship to a distance of about one and one-
colors as a heartless, ungrateful, unscruplous villain, end will do all m her power to
half miles. In about two mioutes it again
help Capt. Datum It is additionally grati-
fying to know that Higginson has made him- „
self liable M preeecution for bigamy, and
that he will &mon be enjoying the pleasure
of penal servitude, unitise Lord Salisbury
ehould try to hush matters up in order to
prevent &public, recital in the witness box
of his commie shame and folly.
Starting a Balky Ease -
1 was attracted yesterday by a consider-
able gathering of people in a dowo town
street, occasioned by a balky Ursa, which
even the policeman himself could not per-
suade to move on." All kinds of plans altered its course and went away to the
were tried. First, about a dozen men shoved Bouthea,st against the wind. It lasted in
the waggon behind; but even then, by firm all not over five minutes. The captain says
planting his fore feet, the clptermmed beast that he has seen such phenomena before in
managed to resist progresmon, although I about the sotne locality. It seems to indi-
thought the breeching would burst. An old
piece of cloth was then carefully tied over his
eyes, and, after a short pause, he was gently
requested to proceed; but he stood still, and
oath the coining of an easterly or southerly
gale. No satisfactory explanation of this
globular lightnitig has yet been given, lor it
seems to be entirely different from the 80 -
the crowed jeered. Next a rather wage. caned St. Elmo's fire, which appears daring
quential person came forward, and standinthunder storme, and remains stationary at
ear whispered into it something which he the yardarm or mast head of vessels 'and
are analogous to tho "Brush discharge"' f
on tiptoe, 80 that he could reach the horse's
eons and miraculoue effect; but the animal e o . t ,
au eleotrie machine. e
evidently thought would have an instantan-
Tent n °mono OF THE AIR DRAKE.—oaiu
. , . so. much for the beautdul present you eo
em
was deaf to this syren, and the consecinen.
a railroad men to me to -day :--' Ill net not kmdly sent us on our wedding day. Al -
01
slunk off, porotted by the sarcasms
ono in a hundred of the people who travel though simple and beautiful in itoelf we val.
ot a bootolack. The driver was now in a.
rage, which ventetnitself in blows and impre- on railway trains understand how the pro- tie it moat for the kindly, generoifs and
ghtful opilit in which it was seht and
eure of air is used to apply the brakes a thou
cations.
But j.ust as he was paasing from this con- ttain. When the air brake was first iitvenn shall ever treasure' ' eli
t as a precious me pato
ed the air was turned into the cylinder of d I e
dition 111t0 one of stony despeir, a quiet your regard for us.
Wider each car when the oar was to be ,
young fellow waved him aside unharnessed Very gratefully yours,
the horse, took him out at th'e shaft, and, stopped, and bhe pressure was exerted to Illr
o AND MIN
zo
after leading him aer0S8 the street and back force the brakes up against elle wheels. ei ' '' J. DEWITT MoNTAGUR."
rcharneseed Min mid handed the reins to the But at the preeeet day the brokers are held In the privacy of their own home Mrs. J.
driver, who now drove off without the against the winds by springs, and the air is DeWitt Montegue is eaying toiler husband :
least trouble. The expedient was simple turned into the cylinclere to mush the *rakers" What hi the world are we going to do
but effective, and it suggeste what is, I be- away from the wheels as long an the train iewith that abominable picture old Mre. Pe -
lice°, the true philosophy of the balky horse, he motion. When 11 is deoirecl to stoWthe nurious sea es? I honestly believe it's an
The effort should be tot to overconie Me fix. train the air is let Ott, and then the twinge old one sheas had he some back room. I
rid idest of standing still, but to supplant that ' apply the brakes mid Mop the train. Tins wouldn't have it even in a back room.
notion by diverting hie attention to Son10., 18 a t method of nahm air pressure has great Stingy old thing 1 I might have known
The Truth of the Matter.
OM Mrs. Pentirioue is seated in her own'
elegant room when she receivers and reads
the following note:
"Dear Mrs. Penurious We thank you
advantages over the old way on the score of she d palin some such thing off on us if we
thing 0190. m mem_s_ eamty. « whemeer A n „cement happeee invited er. The picture she I go to the at.
' ' • 1
If the working men in the States are as to a mein, 0110 of the first effects it is apb to tio.') ,
comfortable as they are represented to be, , helm is to rupture the air pipes loading from v here Rio WV'? Stopped,
why therm continued etrikes ? And if the the ermine to the anlindere wider the care ;
. . , e ,,
employers are honest, considetate, and care- and that of itself EitOpo the Mane xnetently. • " With all her faults," said Jones to a fel-
ful to act upon the live and lob live prin. It is very iinportaut for evetybody to under- low Benecliet, " my wife can at least beast s
ciple, why thou costly mansions I Why , stand this matter,bemuse a child five years; of a euperior educaticee. Sne is an, exams
-
this valger extravagance everywhere so pre- 1 old can stop a train in thirty seeonda,from • tionally good arithmetician, and uncleretando
valent? There is something wrong some. 1 aoy car hs the train, if he eimply under. ' all about decimals and vulgar fractions, and
where, otherwise the rich would never be stando how. Volt will see, if yon look for all that kind of thing."
on rieh and the poor would never be so poor. . it, that there is e sorb of rope projecting ', "You're Ittelty," groaned he ef the well.
What is the wrong? .And how isil that ; front the toilet room of every can 'that filled quiver. "My wife stops shertatniun '
wrong to be rectified? It may be difficult ' cromects with the air pipes under the train. tiplication." -
to say, but some remedy will have to be dim 1 If You catch held of it, mid give it a little, And Joieed is begunutig to tumble to the
covered and applied ii Stormy times of con- ' jerk, it will stop the traitabefote it hes gone fact that some husbands are worrier Off thort
Yu I slim and confusion are to avoided. . 0#0 yard& -
e
he atthr