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DEP A ItTME NT is cue °Ube hugest and best equipped in the County el SuromAll wore e utr us ted to tux wale:toe v slot promptattention: Deesiens ' Regarding News- papers. eiAypersonwho takes a paperregulaely fro n theposteoffice, whether directed in his name or anothereem whether he has subscribed or not aresponsible for paain ale 2 If a person orders his paper discontinu.ed L en:lust payell arrears or the pablisher may obtinue to send it -until the payment is need°, ed then collects the whole amount, whether paper is taken front the office or not. . 8 In suite fcir subscriptions, One suit may be pstituted in the place where the paper is pal) *bed, although the sabooriber may reside hundreds of miles away. 1 The courts have decided that refusing to eknewepapers or outwits:eta fednitthe past- ille, or removing mad laterite besot tiorxei to1 eprirna faio evedsons ot itissotlea L frOoti. Whee my friends are blind of one eye, I look at them in profile.--joubert. MY DARLING'S RANSOM. BT ntonaan nowanin. CHAPTER XV. am following you most closely, sir,' said Bayless respectfully. 'To' put some of your dry money into the con.cern and succeed me. I am pre- pared to retire and hand it all over to you -with the exception of a small an- nuity for myself and my wife, and a junior partnership for Charlie, who understands the business. Of course you would, as long as I lived, have the mnefit of ray advice, should you. require it.' Mr. Starner smiled and patted one of his fat hands on the other with the air of a man who had put a business mat- ter In a. way at once straiglatforward and alluring. Bayless dropped his eyelids stealthily over his eyes, and did. not answer for a minute. There was much to be thought of in that millets. He, too, was without money, and wanted to get it by this marriage. If he married Imo under the pretence that he was a rich man, Mrs. Wanklyn might be so enrag- ed that she woad 3:tot allow theni a shilling a year while ,she was living, or leave them a shilling when she died. But then in punishing laim thus she would also punish her favorite niece, a thing he did not think tile widow would have the heart to do. But he had a constitutional dislike to work. Any way, there would be for the present no dang- er in his appearing to fall in with Mr. Stamer's views. The only peril he should have to guard against now would be seeming unbusinesslike eagarness. Ile knew that nothing was easier than to make a will leaving imaginary milliozis to the woman one was going to marry, and settling imaginary estates upon her; and then, when they were once mar- ried, what useful purpose would it serve any of the Starner family to expose the deceit? He said, 'How much would you require to car- ry out your schemer 'Only twenty-five thousand peands 'Are you sure you would not want more than twenty-five thousand pounds?' .He spoke as though the steeli- ness of the amount made him almost incredulous, 'It would. be quite enough, more than enough,' said the elder man joyously. He saw the end of all his difficultiee approaching. 'Then,' said Bayless, rising, 'you may consider the thing settled. How soon do you want the money?" 'The next call must be paid on the 1st of January, and this is -let me see -the lOta of December. Can you man- age it by that time, dayou think?' '0, yes, If we are married on the 26th of December -and that is the earliest it could be managed for -on the 27th X shall be glad to hand you the money you. require.' It was now late; so, after a little more talk of no moment, the two separated, Mr. Stamer for his comforta.ble Clap- ham home, and, Mr. Stanley Bayless for his lodgings in Clarges-street. Mr. Stainer went home that night in the very best of humors. For months he had been menaced by conamercial ex- tinction and obloquy. Now, as if by enchantment, the whole cloud has lift- ed, and in the course of an after-dinner talk with an estimable young man, not only had ruin been averted, but his best beloved daughter had been provid- ed for, and his own honorable ease and retirement attained. There was, of course, one unknown quantity in the case. No one knew, at least he did not know, what Loo herself was likely to think of the thing. But who could doubt her decision when such enormous weights were in one side of the scales against her inclination in the other, even supposing her inclination to be against Bayless? When Mr. Stainer got home he found his wife and eldest son 'in the little breakfast parlor. The other members of the family had gone to their rooms. Mr. Starner was in the best of spirits. He went over and drew a chair close to his wife's, and said, 'Mary, I've spent such a pleasant evening with young Bayless.' 'You're about the only man, sir that ever did,' said Charlie hotly. 'What do you mean, sir 7' said the fa- ther angrily. 'That Mr. Stanley Bayless is a low, mean, puling cad. That's all, sir. I hope it is offensive to no one but him, and I don't care how offensive I am to him.' 'Then, sir, you had better for the future control your feelings and try to seem more like a gentleman, in the pres- ence of your mother and father, at all events.' Mr. Starner, who was usually agreeable and placid, was now roased. Well, sir,' said the son, rising to go, 'when I want a lesson in good manners I shall go to this Mr. Stanley Bayless, who, no doubt, considers it gentleman- ly and highbred to go in an underhand way inquiring into other people's af- fairs. 'Prying into other people's affairs I What do you mean by that?' said the father, coloring.He bad been telling all his own affairs to this man an hour ago. 'You know this man at one time wanted to marry aunt Wanklyn?' 'What of that? A man may make a fool of himself once in a lifetime, and be none the worse for it,' said he, ad- vancing a platitude to break the force of some unknown fact coming. Ay, but a. man who never makes a fool ofhimself is generally a rogue or a villain, Bayless is no feel, and did not make a fool of himself in the mat- ter of my aunt Wanklyn.' Charlie came back to the fireplace, and, rest- ing his elbow on the mantelshelf, went on. 'I was dining with some fellows this evening at the Legal and Theatri- cal Club-' 'Charles, I wish you would not have anything to do with such places.' 'As clubs sir?' 'No, as lawyers or actors; but go oti.' 'Any way, I was dining there with some fellows, and all at once a young attorney began telling us of a client they had who was about to marry a woman old enough to be his mother, and that he had been making inquiries as to the extent of her property, and how it was settled, and so on. And one fellow said, just to keep the con- versation going, "Does she live in Lon - tion '?" and the young attorney said, "No; in Warwick. Her husband made his money id some filthy lime -works, you knew." knew." "Was the name 'Wanklyn 1' asked; and he said, "Well you know I onght not to tell, but between , us friends 7 may as well tell you it was I Do you, Starner, know anything about her ?" and I said that I had, beard some, thing of the affair through friends in ' Warwick, and that it the people were the same, he must be a Mr. Stanley Bayless, reported to be exceedingly wealthy. "H'm," said the young attor- ney, "I don't know much about the wealth;" and there the matter ended.' 'But this must have been sortie time ago,' said Mr. Starner, a little disquiet- ed and perplexed. 'No, sir; for the reply frorn Warwick came •only this afternoon, and has not yet reached Mr. Stanley Bayless.' 'But 1 canuot understand that. Why should he be anxious to know anything about your aunt Fanny's property? And as to hie not being rich, tliat is all non- sense. He diri us all the honor of ask- ing me for Loa's hand. in marriage this evening, and promised to put twenty- five thousand pomade at once into the business.' 'What, Loo r cried Mrs. Starner, with a short sharp cry, 'And weat did you. say to the -man, Henry '1 said he has my full approval.' '0 Henry, this is dreadful 1 A crea- ture like that for my darling 1400 1 How st'ould you do so? How could you do sof' and she burst into tears. 'Hew could I do what, woman? Are you mad, not to ees the advantage of such ai match? But I know how it is. Tills is a 'conspiracy against ras- a conspiracy .1* and be left the room in a passion. 'Never mind, mother,' said Claarlie, 'I'll settle that brute 13arleaa's hub, some daYa Ile shall never have Loci.' CHAPTER XVI. Marne Stainer, although he did ap- propriate his brother's clothes, and treat life usually as a, joke, was, wban occasion arose, quite capable of taking things very seriously, and he had fully made up bis mind to prevent, by any means n his power, the projected mar- riage between Lou whom he loved, and 13ayless, who he loathed. He learn- ed next naornirig that his father bad left the house for town without seeing Loo. She had a slight headache, and did not come down to breakfast. His first care was to see her. Already Mrs. Stainer had bean to her and told her the news of last night. Wean Charlie went to her room he found ber dressed. and sitting in an easy -chair. She was very pale, and smiled slightly when be came in. The brother and sis- ter had a long chat, in the course of which he got confirmation for what be already suspected, namely, that no con- sideration whatever would make her marry this man, and that she would never marry any man but Walter Au- byn. He, too, had made up his mind she should never marry that smooth-tongued vacuous cad. So he went immediately about the business. 'If he can make inquiries about ina' aunt's income, I suppose 7 can make in- quiries about his,' said Charlie to him- self as lie left thbouse for town. He was on his way to the chambers of Austin Ray, one of the smartest at- torneys living within the metropolitan district. Although Austin Ray was a member of the Legal. and Theatrical Club, he was not an empty-headed fool, like the babbler of the night before, but a hard- headed, kind-hearted, stout man, with rather a fierce and unrelenting manner. His chambers were in a forlorn -looking quadrangle, lying somewhere between Chancery -lane and where the new Lew Courts now stand. How any men could preserve so much exuberance le such a place was a puzzle to all outside the profession to which he belonged; for attorneys know that it is the nature of their order to override circumstances, and thrive where other men fail. Young Stamer found Austin Rey at home. The lawyer was as explosive as ever; and no sooner had Charlie told him what he wanted, and the whole facts of the case, than Austin Ray swore out a round oath that he'd track down the last penny the— adventurer had, if he happened to have a penny at all, which he more than doubted. Then Ray burst out into a general indictment a all white -livered blood- less scoundrels in general, and de- clared his personal willingness to hang every man jack of them with his own hands. When Charlie left him the under- standing was that Ray should at the earliest moment post his report to young, Stainer. Days flew on, and at last it came to be Christmas -eve. Loo had persistent- ly refused even to see Bayless alone; and so far from hie.gaining any ground, he had steadily lost. Mr. Sterner was depressed and taciturn under the sha- dow of his impending ruin. He had done nothing towards forcing his daughter into the marriage beyond showing by his depression that he wished it, and that his position, and the position of tbe family, depended on it. The old man could not in honor, ask Bayless to advance the money on the chance of the marriage taking place at some future uncertain date. Be had, of course, now abandoned all hope of the ceremony taking place before the fatal 1st of :January, and on the first he must pay, or declare his inability to pay. With that declaration would come the end of Ins career. There was but one course open to him, and he shrank from adopting that. He might ask Bayless to give him twenty-five thousand pounds for the business, and allow him a very small annuity; but the business was not worth twenty five thousand pounds, not quite half the money; and why should Bayless, who knew nothing of trade, give him more than the market value for a concern which beyond the return would bring bim for his invest- ment? Any way, it was worth try- ing, and he would try. Desperate dis- eases require desperate remedies, and Xis was in a deplorable state indeed. A.coordingly, a few days before Christ- mas, he called at Clarges-street, and, having asked if Bayless would spend Cbristmas-day .at the Common, and re- ceived a reply in the affirmative, he put the question to the young man. Bayless was very sorry, but without Loo the bare notion of having anything to do with a business which would for ever bear her name would be unsupport- able to him. He was very sorry. He would be delighted to do anything he could for Mr, Starner, but this he could not do. Then Mr. Stainer thought of a last resort: Vaould Bayless advance twenty-five thousand on a mortgage at five or even six per cent The busi- ness could bear such a charge, and at the soma time offer a small income to the tnerchant. ' 'Ah, but unfortunately, Mr. Starner, that plan is open to the same objection as 'the former one. Do you not see?' 'Yes, I see," said Mr. Stamer; and then he told himself for the hilt time that Mr. Stanley Bayless was a hard young man whom he no longer desired as a son-in-law. But the invitation for Christmas -day could not now be with- drawn, although the naerchant made up his mind that this young man should be no longer invited to his house -- while he had oue. At length Christmas -day came. It was dull, dreary, and mild, The Starn- er family were all in a oonclition of deep depression. For the first time during many years Charlie appeared in a complete suit of his own clothes, and this fact had a more chilling and de- pressing effect on Muni than if his whole wardrobe had been consumed by fire. He told Paul in confidence that he considered it unbrotherly and Alto- gether unbecoming the festive season they were then supposed to be enjoying, unbrotherly of him,' said Mum, `to round on a folio* like that when we're all down on our luck, Now, if Xis wanted to be friendly and cheerful, he ought to have worn a whole suit of mine, down to the boots.' The girls had no spirit for anything. Mrs. Wanklyn had come up from War- wick 'to cheer up the poor people e but her loquacious officiousness did harm rather than good, for by frequent at- tempts at liveliness sbe only pushed more deeply home the consciousness of the situation in welch they were. The whole family went to church, and Mr. Stainer, Mrs. Stainer, Mrs. Wanklyn, and the girls came home immediately after: the boys. notwithstanding the dull dreariness of the day, broke them- selves up into parties and went for a walk. They did not mind getting wet through, and they would be borne to dinner at six. Mr. and Mrs. Marston were, as usual, corning to dinner, and Mr. Bayless was the only stranger in- vited that day. The boys had made up their minds that they could not stand the hones that day, and bad decided not to come home until an bear before din- ner; this would give theta time to take off their wet clothes, and get ready for the last plum -pudding they hoped ever to eat in that house. When the girls came baele they went straight to their room, and each made pretence of reading. Mr. Starter took up his position behind a newspaper in tbe breakfast -parlor, and the two sisters-in-law retired to Mrs. Wa.nklyn's room, where there was a good deal of talking and no little weeping, Mr. Stainer had. told his wife of bis failure to get money from Bayless, and Mrs. Stainer Lad told Mrs, Wanklyn. Tbe result of this was, that the widow ire stonily lea all interest in her friend, and was now as much opposed to the match as any member of the family. It was a long wea.xy day for the wbole family. It was a long weary day for the London postman also. It was dark before daylight when he set out on his rounds; now it was dark after the dee'. and yet be had not finished. Valentine's day is bard on the London postman, but it is child's play compared to Christmas -day. The whole of the Starner family had assembled in the drawing -room at half -past five, and yet the one mall of Christmas -day had not been delivered. Mr. Bayless was not expected until close upon six o'clock, and, as Mr, Starner was low and desponding, his wife made it a point with the family that all should come down as soon as possible. While they were all seated together the double knock came to the door, and in a few minutes a servant entered with a vast pile of letters on a Japanese tray. The letters were duly sorted out among the members of the family, and to Cha.rlieal lot fell only two, and these were thin and unfestive-looking. Charlie drew aside. He knew the writing on one envelope very well, and a shock went through him as he recog- nised it. Thrusting the other unopened into his pocket, he haste ed to his ether, and, drawing the old man aside, Xis said, `I have just got a letter sir, from Walter Aubyn. He arrived in London last evening, and is in the Derby Hotel down the road. He would like to come and spend a little of to -day with us, if you will allow him?' 'Allow him, Charlie 1 Allow him! Why, surely he knows I have always made him welcome.' His own trouble so fully occupied the old man's mind that he, at the moment, forgot the objection he had expressed to Aubyn's visits. Yes, sir; of course you did..-Charhe's feeling towards his father had become one of extreme gentleness since the old man had declared he no longer de- sired to see Bayless -'but you know you sent mother and the girls away to Warwick early in the year in order that Loo and Aubyn might not meet.' 'Ay, ay, ay,' said the old man drearily; 'but things are changed a good deal since then. I suppose young Aubyn has learned sense since then, and is now going to sit down to work. Any man who has a trade would now be able to do more for Loo than I.' The old raan shook his white head pathetically. 'So, then, he may come, sir?' said the son, putting aside the mournful portion of his father's speech. 'Of course he may, and welcome. He was always a favorite of mine.' „Without waiting a moment Charlie was out of the house and in a hansom. He directed the driver to go at his top speed to the Derby Hotel, a suburban house quite close. In a few minutes Charlie returned with Aubyn in a hansom. He gave the driver half a sovereign in honor of the day. Aubyn and he had had a brief 'chat, and when they got to the house Charlie was in an exuberant humor. He wickedly drew the house- maid under the mistletoe in the ball, and then did what he had never dared to do to her before, as she said -kissed her; but it was more out of general hilarity than anything else. Then he hurried Aubyn upstairs and into the back drawing -room, which was in. gloom. It was separated from the front room, not by folding -doors, but by curtains. Here Aubyn walked softly up and down for a few minutes, until the door opened and some one, not Charlie, stole in and immediately was folded in a pair of strong arnas. For a while there were a few whispered words, and then sounds of closer salu- tation, and then more whispered words, and then a servant opened the door of the front room and announced that dinner was ready. Whereopon Charlie suddenly withdrew the curtains di- viding the two rooms, and disclosed to view a young man and a young wo- man standing close to a small table, and, to all appearance, engaged in a very interesting' conversation. Mr. Stanley Bayless, who hacr arrived dur- ing Charlie's absence,. was now in the drawing -room, and, thrusting his head forward, to his no small displeasure saw that the woman in the other room was no other than Loo, and that she seemed to he on much more friendly terms with a tall handsonae young man, a, stranger to him, than she had ever been with bim. At that Moment Aubyn took Loo's hand, and placing it on his arm, ad- vanced into the other room. He walk- ed straight Uti to tbe place where Mr. Stainer sat with bent head and weary face, and said, 'Mr. Stainer, when I last had the pleasure of seeing you I told you I was going on an expedition to discover the famous ruby Fuego del A nthao, stolen from the regalia of the Grand Duke of 'Odenwald. I have been a long time away, having been kept by . wound for months in Shanghai, but am now aal right again. I have recov- ered the jewel, and returned it to the rightful owner, and have got the re- ward of fifty thousand pounds,' At these words the old man looked up in astonishment, 'I /aa,ve been. long enough a wander- er, and have now made up my mind to settle down. Will you be kind enough to take care of this deposit -receipt for the money uatil 1 ani able to invest some of it in a business I have in mY mind; and will you on your part allow me to take care for all my life of what is dearer to me than any other jewel ininytharemiarld-that which now rests on The old man looked up again at the handsome pair before him, and then around the room for Mr. Stanley Bay- less; but that gentleman had slipped out of the room and the house. For a moment Mr. Starner could not speak. All the boys, even including the taciturn Mum, ebeered, and all the women, including Mrs, 'Wanklyn, burst unto tears. After a while matters became more composed, and Aubyn was overwhelmed with a thousand questions, which he answered as best he could, Mr. Stainer did not say anything there and then, but Mrs. Stainer went over and kissed her daughter, and tbeu held up her face for Aubyn to kiss, whieh was taken as a filial aet by tbe boy's, and which made the boys, including IVurci, cheer; and the women, inchiding Urs. Wauklyn, burst into tears once more. And Mr. Starner looked all round him, and then at the deposit -note in his hand, anti could not °beer or cry., but stood up, and walked into the dinung- room, and ruled himself half a tumbler - 2 ul of sherry, and swallowed it at a draught, and then looked at the de- posit -note,. and said a deplorably bad word, winds be meant as a kind of prayer and thenksgiving, and whiela, no matter bow we pretend to be shock- ed, was, no doubt, taken as such in a better place than Clapham Common. While Mr. ptamer was still alone in "hey dining-roona, Charlie ran in, and speaking, all the rest came in to din- ' And before Charlie had Well finished Rav, saying that Mr. Stanley Bayless said he bad got second note that day'. svhich be bast not till then opened, and wbich tarried out to be from Austin bad not a ten -pound note in the world. ! Tbat dinner was simply ruined; but ; it is a question if among the four millions of London any dinner was en- joyed so heartily. During the course of it Aubyn told tbe whole history of , the great ruby, and of his pursuit of it, and how, when it had been recover- ed, the Grand Duke bad tried to cheat hire out of his fairly won reward. How he, Aubyn, had gone to the Castle with only a paste duplicate of the stone; and how Frederick XV. had, upon learning the stone was safely ,concealed in Vien- na, sent a trusty raessenger thither with Aubyn, and paid the money. 'And so you see, Lao,' said he to her. , when later on they found themselves once more in the baok drawing -room, I 'you see both Bayless and I started in the world with only a small sum of money, and by one lucky chance 1 fell in love with you, and by another I got a clue to the thief who stole the great ruby, and by a third I reached home finaottim, the hetomboeny your use to your father, and m Ito save you from that other an. In our father now has in his pocket has proved to be my darl- ing's ransom.' ' A month after that, at the parish church, Walter Aubyn, and Louisa, a daughter of- ' But why go farther? My tem *er has sonie experience of fiction, if not of fact. (The End). ITEMS OF INTEREST. Boston's late census gives that city a population of 496,920. One-third of the butter used in Great Britain last year came from Denmark. About one-fourth of the voters in Stonetown, Maine, are old soldiers and pensioners. Pulverized tiger bones are used as a medicine in China. It is believed that they impart to the invalid the -strength of a tiger. Venezuela has 200,000,000 acres of for- est, in which grows all the varieties a ebony, as well as rosewood, satinwood and mahogany. There are in Russia thirty-six mort- gage banks, the only business of which is to loan money on real estate. The fees for searches are very light. The fruit product of the Santa Clara Valley, Cal., has almost doubled since 1891. -In 1895, the shipments were 5,000,000 more pounds than during the previous year. A salt mine has been discovered un- der the town of Little River, Kansas. It is 500 feet below the surface of the earth, the vein is 300 feet thick, and the richest in the world. A German chemist has hit upon a new method of making delicious champagne of a.pples. It so closely resembles the genuine artiole that only expert judges can distinguish them. The only rocking -chair in the neigh- borhood of Marceline, Mich., sixty years age, was owned by Eli Ridgly. It was loaned for miles around, to sick neigh- bors. The chair is still in use. Seven brothers, the youngest 65 years old, and the eldest 84, recently bad a reunion in Fresno, Cal. They are mem- ' bers of the Funek family, and have three sisters between 60 and 70 years of age. Two steam whalers of 400 tons each are to start: from London next .tigust for the Antarctic in pursuit of whales and seals. They are to be supplied with steam launches, in which to chase blue whales. • Horseshoers in Saxony are compelled to. pass a public examination ere they are permitted to work at the business. They must understand the care and treatment of horses or they will not be licensed to shoe the animals. Just "to change his luck," Policeman Tobin, of Chicago, purposely jostled against a hump -backed woman. He soon afterwards discovered, with the aid of another officer, that the hump was formed of a package of stolen silks, and linens. A race against death was lately made by Samuel Lance, a boy of fourteen, of Akron, Ohio. He was drawing a charge frorn a rifle, when the weapon was dis- charged, lodging a e bullet just below his heart. He saddled and rode bus horse two miles to a doctor's house, where he fainted on the doorstep and soon after died. - FROM ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW. When I was a young unmarried man, said a fond father. I used to wonder why there were so many makers and repairers of shoes; now that I have a family I wonder there are not more, ----- ainks-2Whet's the cause of this twaddle about elevating the etage; I'd like to know?" Filkins--" "Want to get it above the level of the women's hats, suppose." Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria! • TO RELIEVE KASSALA. The Object of the lOrltisls Egrletias _ pedition-The question ef Funcls-Ads wince on Dongoia. A deaPatoh from Cairo says -Or- ders have been given to advance upon Dongola without delay. The Con- naught Rangers have been expected to proceed. to Wady Haifa, and a, bbok Egyptian battalion is also about to start for that plaze. A later an,nouncement is to the ef- fect that the North Stafford regiment not the Connaught Rangers have been ordered to Wady Haifa,. The transportation of troops who will take part in the Anglo-Egyptian ex- pedition to Dongola will begin on Metall 20. A despatoh from Cairo to The London Globe says that as the fast of Rada- naan will end on March 15, it is prob- able the Dervishes will immediately thereafter advance northward from Dongola. A great deal of anxiety is felt at Cairo over the situation, and the military authorities were in conference all. day yesterday for the purpose of considering what steps should be tak- en, The Tiraes publishes a despatch from Cairo saying that the ultimate object of tee Anglo-Egyptian expedition to the Soudan is undoubtedly the relief of Kassala, which if it should be captur- ed by the Dervishes, would become a serious menace to Suakin and Telma', Possession of the fertile province of Dongola is eseential to the protection of Egypt from Dervish raids, inasmuch as besides being a convenient base for hostile operations it furnisbes large food sapplies to tee Soudan countries rul- ed by the Rhalifo, The writer of tbe despatch hints at a final advance to Onia.durraaa and a reconquest of the Sou- dan, The Paris Temps makes a vigorous at- tack upon the Angloaaagyptiau expedi- tion, It declares that it is a mere pre- text to enable Great Britain to pro- long her occupation of Egypt. A despatch from Cairo says that Lord Cromer, the British diplomatic agent in Egypt, announced an Saturday to the Egyptian Cabinet that 1,000 Bri- tish troops to reinforce those already in Egypt would. leave on March 18 for Cairo. The despatch adds that the Cab- inet decided to defray the expenses of the expedition from the Egyptian bud- get. At first credit of A1,000,000 will be asked for. Pu.blie opinion is against the expedition as being needless. France, as one of the guarantors of the Egyptian bondholders, will not agree to charge the Egyptian funds with the cost of the expedition, which. it is esti- mated, will amount to £2,000,000( OUR AGED SOVEREIGN. Showing Increased Signs or Feebleness - Grieving Greatly for Prince Ileury-A Special Mark or French Respect. A despatch from London says :-The departure of the Queen on Monday for the south of Prance has drawn forth a pathetic account of the increasing feeble- ness of her Majesty. It is said that she is evidently grieving greatly at the loss of Prince Henry of Battenberg, who was never tired of waiting upon his mother-in-law, and who no doubt had sincere love for the aged Sovereign. In view of the state of her Majesty's health much of the usual state was ab- andoned, and she was carefully wheel- ed on board the royal yacht in a epecis ally constructed chair. Upon arriving at Cherbourg there was a dense fog, which did not tend to improve the Queen's condition. The gangways, it was noticed, were decorated with black and white flags, and by her Majesty's command all lforal and other decora- tions were removed, and so she was escorted ashore, a pathetic picture of woe, an. almost heart -broken woman, mourning her dead, and seeming to take but little interest in her surround- ings, the funeral aspect of which added considerably to the depressing nature of the scene. As a special mark of respect to the Queen, the bandmaster of one of the French infantry regiments in garrison, at Cherbourg composed a piece in her honor. But, she would not al- low it to be played, though she did not forget the bandmaster's thoughtfulness as a nice little present, taken to him by one of the gentlemen -in -waiting, testified. - ATE HER OWNER'S UMBRELLA. An English publication tells a. story of a cow's remarkable appetite. The animal, a large Holstein, broke into the yard and ate a pair of trousers, a vest, a cardigan jacket, two silk handker- chiefs and a pair of lady's walking boots. She was engaged upon the leg of a boot when interrupted. A slight at- tack of indigestion followed,, but the village "vet" gave her some soothing drops in a bran 'rash and she recovered. A day or two afterward the cow was again found upon the poach. Nobody seemed sure what she had eaten this time, but as she was taken ill the "vet" was again summoned, and this time was obliged to perform an operation. He extracted from the cow a rib, not one of her own, but one of the ribs of her owner's best umbrella. The rib was 25 inches long, besides the hinged part, which gives us some idea of the cow's powers of digestion, for the remaining ribs, as well as the stick, handle and cover, gave her no inconvenience at all. THE LARGEST LEAVES, • The palm family of trees bear larger leaves than any other kind of tree. The Inaja, palm, growing on the banks of the Amazon, has leaves which mea- sure from 30 feet to 50 "feet in length, and from 10 feet to 12 feet in breadth. Leaves of the talipot palm, a native of Ceylon, have been met with 20 feet long and 18 feet' broad. The leaves of the double cocoanut palm are of ten 30 feet long and several feet wide. 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