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CAPE MAY CITY, K. J., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBEE 9, 1874.

Torkojl ud Anaj W« The Bon Franeloco Chromlele rololoo the following: The boot (raven —mnd Brighton, fire milee (ram Beonento, hora boon greoUf excited for rook oror the oppeonnoeof the imj irm in their beet fie Ido. The worm e new oomer, end boo op peered in .-stqnontitueorer on oneof otleoot throe milee. The wonne ererege obont end o hell inohee in length, ore oe k oo on ordinorr load pencil end of l brawn color, with longitndinol otripeo of block end white on either cide of the brown bock. The heed reeeml ***_^ - n*phSed*^ l7 the Beet Oompenr, end the Heidi of John J, which ere mootlj plonted with ore olmoet oo eleen oo when the 10 flret put In. Thcw oorer the I In e hideooo bind:, crawling . end prevent e moot loothocme eight. They oet the tope entirely off the beet*, not cron leering the o' * the leereo; but after theee an a they dcocend to the beet iteelf tout it. There ore e greet many willowe in the rioinity, end it ia probable ‘hot leyo the egg out of which ia botched ia harbored by them, men the wonne come oat they communedIdopredoliono on the nee—■ fleldo to the will owe, end thio foot

THE AHCIEST GOOSE. Tbet'o whet they ooid of him. Hio inoteche woo grey, be woo -peat thirty--ine, and, not being married, woo conoiderod ooUtery. It mattered Utile to him. The care of hia potion to rude ' bright and active. Bie profeeeion anffldent for hio wente. He woo the tored and reopeoted physician for half the familiee in the plooe, and he never wonted for company and friendchip. Why he never married, had been the apeonlotion of the village. The enbIcet wma now threadbare, end they had oeaaed to talk of It. Be uw much of female codety, for ha wu one of three fine, rare notnrao, that moke *• broth era to girla." Hie genial good notnre,and, 'xrre all, hio ability to keep accrete, ode him indeed the brother to half ia girla in WonohnoeUa. They came . him with their little paine and ilia, _id their Uttle heart-breakinga and loveworrowa. For one be had pillo and advleej for the other, a ready ear.

3 angry to him, finally with Sam Bam made bar the mote ait doctor baud her woeful tale, he oonld hardly fail to aindy bar fare with adYears, twenty yean hiaJnniar, rather pretty, reeaomably weU-odneeted, eenaible, end qnlte reedy for e joke at any time, she preferred the bright aide of everything. Henee her preoent aor- . She did not wiah to be “ bother- * aa abe expreesad it, with e aeriena s affair. It wu a tronblc, avexai, an interference with her piceaWellTtherel It's enUraly draedfol, - -as fairly ont of achaoL and preparing to have a splendid time with the Ciris, then this thing comes along, and I don't Ilka it. —mile oo, do. doctor had

ooaxec traveled by the ' west to the no. days ago the owner* of the tnrkeyi and turned them loose ST2 rsvegers. The tarkeya went at the peal vormcionaly, but made bet little heedway, though they devoured the worm, in miUiona, To-day 1,400 more of the 1 * ‘-rkeys to bo found for mibe terned into the field a The ensued when the entire MOO tnrkeyi got fairly to work waa thrilling in the extreme. The turkeys charged on the Mack, crawling, eeeth-'-m nmaa of loathsome things, and dejured them in. great bonebea, gulping cm down in their eagarnam like atuvief “ in gnu

. .... Aa the nrkays feU back, fresh and ^ k “i. r ‘ri“S,“aS4 r a hot contest, in which .-JST’LKSdSiSa overladen crop* and diagusted looks. After a hat of e day or two they will again be aet ■- * v -

lloua. The damage already d

and they are run by the Midttnd Oompany. They paid Pnllmaa (100,000 for mem. Aa the day for building churches npensatton for fraude ia puaed, I know what Pnllmaa will do wi th

n stood in the BL Pi

depot for e month or more before being lead, and were visited daily by e wondering people. Two of them ere draw-log-room eara, and the others sleepers. Three are the first sleeping-can in nae in this country. Previonuy, traveler* were compelled to nod away In e sitting poster*, and any Ameriean who baa - templed to while away a night in ' position ia undoubtedly eurpriaef the progrree of the English utior

i, doctor—a good ana ? Hemuatbe

E now. There are none living near are available. Perfaape we might icrt owe." Doctor, I have an idee."

may admire it." " Ton be the lover." "All right Pm willing."

ried,°or till you wiah to break^L"

" Where's the ring f

"Oh, 1 have one np-ataira—an old ce. I auppoee It will anawer to cover

rr little arrangement."

" How aplmdid of you. doctor 1“ •' How yon must go. Old afro. Davis ooming with hat. neuralgia. Shall I

UherT'

; • Tell her what T"

"Yea. Ju^brnTit, and before night

ic tosrn will know it.”

And they did. How they matched up the atray morsel of goaaif sUrred it into their tea with the ■

History Ukf'titt osnno port all that was amid

Hia nesting with Belly wu not particularly affecting. Bbe wouldn't allow it. That curious, antique, diamond ring flashed in hia astonished eyre, end hie affection melted eoflly away into nothing, like the cloud of white eteem under which he eeeaped in the 3 .AO - -‘'-tie echo* 1 a, and th . »sigh. Borne of the other girl* oonld hardly torgire her for driving away the only available young man in the place, but they aoothed their lacerated feeling* with the sweet hope that, u the Hummer vacation wu near at band, a new importation of city visitor* from Boaton and New fork might “ make it gay again,” and epread wide onoemore the matrimonial horiaon. The euddennau and complete moa of the victory rather surprised the ‘or. She had succeeded beyond hex

“ He-i not mubable. Snubbing folia

"TeU him you're n •AThon be frevre fa : will call again. A " Poor boy 1 Be hu it very bad this no. The symptoma are alarming." " They are, doctor, they are, and don't like it. It'e a nniunee, and ' 'her. and breidre that, I bate him ear Feel better, my dear r Yu; for I'm getting mad. I feel J bracking Uringw and—* y You do. You do it an Poor boy 1 Pm not go about the ’ do yon expect f" ” “ For Heaven's eeke. doctor, vri don't you do eomething f Advice me “Get married l" “ Doctor, you are too hateful." "I presume ao ; doetera alwaysmr But that:* my adviea. Oet marriee “ 0 ho can no longer trouble you." Now, you're ailly, dcotor, and a •han't tell you any more. You don't straw for my trouble*, after "

my fault, I didn't make.

nth the engar. It aoured on rs, not the Me.

jood Bohaa did n expreaaing with just what they

•DOUtlL

i an old gooee to be taken in leeigning Sally Depford I The ba little contriving, artful—" ——— ' i* is not pretty.

The next day Sally boldly ai

him? It wu not her Laos, tie mould aak for it. Cousin Mary fairly raged. For the first time Bally waa really unhappy over the matter, and tn a little passion she prBIod off the ring and throw It in a m" return it by mail, Mary I Now leave me in peace I" no pesos. Without a walked up alone to the ough the village street to get the evening mail. It did adem aa U the whole town were waiting for their letten. It waa too warm for glovu, and in her haste to get her letter* ahe forget the absent ring. Booh e lifting of eyebrow* ud whispering I Flushed ud angry with ■ herself, ehe darted out of the letter office ' Into the dootor-e the folds of her dress, end with e forced smile bade him good-evening. He spoke pluuntly, led, ud passed on. In a moment ly heard hia footsteps behind her aa walked rapidly home. She would d only make mat-

quietly ud firmly put her arm in hia. For a moment ahe experioc.x-d a sense ‘ nnnttcrablo relief ud satisfaction, e leued upon him for support, ud e gratified u he seemed to draw her •or. How good in him to come M " The curtain baa not been rung down yet, Min Depford." The curtain 1 Oh I he was only carrying out the joke I With a forced laugh ahe took the bint, ud in a moment waa as merry ud chatty as ever. Onee the doctor looked at her in a quutioning way, ud onoo he was silent for a whole minute. They walked arm in arm up the village street, ud at the sight half the

it they ai >o doctor

Dep-

aho might keep it just Cousin Mary Deplora ! to spend the night, ud it . ther amusing to wear the ring e little longer, end to let her into theeeeret. She would retom the ring in the morning. Pleased with this unspoken plan, ahe aet the ring firmer on her finger, ud prepared to reoevre her "company." Oouain Mary Depford waa charmed with the ring, ud waa profuse iu her eougratulationr. Badly took them -luletly enough. Ira all a joke, you know, dear," *■ A joke r « Yea, dear, a little-well-gsme, if : may so apeak." Cousin Mary In the retiramen • • W, and declared the ring uothr moment. It was a pretence and—a - shame to do •ash e tiring. Bally was atartled, amf pleaded the dreadful necessity of the ease. " — ' ‘ \ you know, ud, . f It was aB in fan. There's nothing eeriona. I: .v- —s—- M-morrow."

She paused. Waa it right? Waa not carrying the joke altogether far? The blood mounted to her t

pin*, and ahe was silent. "Will yon not come in, 1

ford, ud make us e little oe

" No—I—thank you. Not put out her hud to an

to faint with morid^eatien, ahame, ud disappointment. Tbis waa the end. It Miu lip'fSi" mddShTdoetor,

hiding it In her drees, turned away t Mde her face. "Pardon me, pardon ms, doetor ; n much to blame. I didn't meu u.

It wee a very proper engagement, ether eooL perhaps. What oonld you -rpoot ? He waa past forty,- if a day, did not return the ring Un day. It reined. She sent a note to the doctor by a friend, the following day, uking him to call for IA He wu away —wouldn't be bark till M'n-lcy. Of eoone ahe must wear the ring one more Sunday ; ud ahe diif, in a&Ce of Oouain Mary Depford’. rc^c-vrer On Monday she carried the ring, i i her finger, to the doetor. Ire tat starting off on a profeaeional I hu ahe eame, ud ho wu eo marry, udothere were so muy tlungato talk about, that ahe quiM forgot the leeidee, thorn stood the Widow nr In the next yard, pretudinr to ang out her eleen clothes on the line, ud watching with both eyes. Ceasin Mary Depford wu harassing, ■hey had a little " tiff,” after the m~ er of girla, ud made it up on trongth of a promiae from Sally t i would certainly return the ring

try by the names of the gnat BUtea of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, ud Nevada, which have bean formed of it. What wu desert to wa ia prairie to you, boye; whet we thought barren sand, you know to be rich soil ; and you cross It ‘by rail in three days, where we. In -‘--m coaches, need tn make the trip in mtean. The Pacific railway killed — pony express ; but In Ha day the latter wu a great institution, which would have put to the bluah the pony of the Buaaians ud Tartars, or ■'army couriers. It wu not a government line, either; private enterprise started ud kept it going on a grud scale. It "need up end " broke down " more thu 1,000 horses nd Indian ponies a year. It employed 900 or 1,000 courier* ud ooaoh-drivers ud station-keepers, ud more thu 100 Oonoord coaches. Erory day in the no of these stages started from at ud ud one from the west end route, ud ofton u many u fifty naking the trip at the same time, aeeh stations were ten mIIce apart, lere were more thu two hundred

of them in all.

route led from Atchison, Hu., the plains for five days to Den1. ; then five days more up the

Sit T.U. re»_

Utah; U

They walked

ore Sally

epettad isld It wide for her to

Wuehe

o passengers the novel pleuu . .bailing each other in July, dreary mountains few persona .hen to bo met. other thu members of the family of Mr. Gristly Beal, who, if he happens to bo hungry, ie a very unpleasant fellow to travel with. " - plains the enemy most dreaded to red-sklnn-' 0 buds almost coach ee. To repel , passenger wu required to carry a rifle as part of his baggage. A " crock driver" waa one who could drive for horses at full apeed with the reins i hit tooth ud a rifle in his hud Every eUtic

Ofton the ooeobee hid be guarded from station to station I the soldiers, who followed on bon back, ud at times the soldiers ai passengers wore forced to fortify them selves in the coach and fight until help eame by the approach of other oov"— Seventeen days of a trip like this

it wu the swift mait-carriere this line who ran risks ud led adve

ftnroua lives full of daring ud duger. They run the guntlet of the Indiana all alooe—at night, u well u by day— and a rough time muy of them had of

_ o escape from him. that 1 am afraid I've done very wrong—very wrong indeed. "How eo?" " In carrying out this dreadful,dread- . jl joke, u yon call it, lam well punished for my folly. I took the ring oil L rose I most—return it to yen." But—Bally—I do not wiah you to

Bho took his arm agim without a Word, ud they walked slowly up the ^rarelled path toward the old manaian.

Iu opart, ai 1 to be mad

tripe between

. full gallop, ud in

two hours ud a half, win to

lay or night, over plain

The horacs were hardy Indiu awift ud aore of foot; but the • ~ • ... Ttle

grud and impresr. The erioketa began to

, — _• gnu. The air usmed laden with the perfume of summer

flowers. The ancient ivy sum vaguely hint of autumn.aa it

a sober air about the

&

rvinrtlv ud dignified hi* Bis hair waa gray—with hi able toil. He leaned over her, “Hut.old-feehloned place, ud I ancient, solitary- " •'tou’forthalato

■oakcj In Troable. of Virginia City, hu _ ...of monkeyo, badgers, foxes, eayotaa, and the like. Ho alio hu a large Newfonndlud dog, on whou *—*- “ ttimea plaoea one r* vl - when he U going e town, tha monke, .. .. ened to tha collar of the dog by a string. ‘ - a general thing the monkey enjoys ride, but wa uw him a day or two m when be would willingly have led himself off for some leu privileged Specimen of his species. HU eanlnp steed, being allowed to roam the streets it will, uw another dog that he thought be oonld whip, ud forthwith went for hia tike e hairy hnrxioue. In a moment both dogs were on their hind legs and going for each other like two nuaage meohraee. ThU made times very lively for the monkey, u **-- -trenge dog evidently oonoulered part ud parcel of his utagonist.

Crossing the Plains.

r.Ool

Mountains

City, CaL

stage coach reached 5,000 feet above the plains, and

„ long deto: . quietly formed in a aeml-enrole to seaward of the dark group, which appeared placed, Se P leader fired a gun, and we bore downupon^the whalre an-'*2ey*n uj slowly at flrst,”them increaaing their •peed, rush in a foaming orowd toward

theohora.

Wo follow at our utmost speed, regardleu of the spray that dashes over the beak Suddenly the fiah pause, feeling, perhaps, by inotinot, that they are getting into aboil water; they torn. n to deliberate, and select the week- ... spot for a charge; our apeed U slackened, ud ail prepare for a strugAfter a moment a pause, heeded the largest of the herd, they rushed my boat, which happened to be in > center of the line. On they came, sing a wall of foam, behind which i dimly seen arched backs ud agiu1 fin* ; no shout, fire our guns, throw moe, ud clash the oars in the water. iey hesitate ; a few plunge under thi at; I feel their backs aorape against ) keel u wa are thrown over and half filled with water from a gigantic fish ; ' ~ ' blood, the whale

herd, ud heads

ir the shore in hia blind agony, - We redouble our exertions, ud tin. finally, yielding, ^follow ^their

the shore, where the/lie wal-

lowing in the shallow ‘ * ’ T ' ‘ v ‘ cry of triumph borne — - -* o stood on the cliff, during

" ir arms in delight at the ibundut winter supply

wed for the

first to

wounded a

saab striving to b the fight With

a drove the boats in among the sped out, ud began to atrike

right ud left Quite ntiafied with my exertions, I fat in the boat and watched *•— " e combat already closing, u . itupid fish, ignorut of their strength, fell easy victim* to their do- — ight wu etrange ud striking ;

idless sun wu shining on Ihe ‘ “ie bay ; blue, except or —Main extent, _

.IhfSSS. lately swam lor

enty-flr

re old;

^ rapidly. 1

pioneers, who knew iditna ud how ‘

to their daring ud their sense ol duty. The long trip of 2.000 miles oo cup »ed the mail-carriers eight da vs, al a rate of mote thu tea miles u hour

o track,, ud ha hu gone further

eataeomba of Paris are simply the reoopMole of the banes of • number of the grave-yards of the city, remov

great solemnity In 1780. They are thought to contain the remains of at ’-Tt 8,000,000 of human brings. The g galleries, lined with bones from — r to bottom—the arm, leg, ud thigh Iwnes, ud the grinning ekulla piled in

mmJi'fr >t all the

gone through the

— , .ople on i anal have beau interred

lidaous vaults are really dangerous. There are muy ohumi yawning along the journey, ud the roof Ir-* If it might fall in at uy n There is imminent peril, too, of being loot, unleu you keep clou to your guide, ud once lort, th— *- »'-»•>—

hope of your recovery. •*— 11(1,1 and shade out - L boau and dreary burnin( tapen wu and appear that the broken getting themselves toget ing to join fat a hidoona

iunity, the mu who ——— — really worth having, S7l^5r&E*s’»5'* i ~ •g'sgjgTaaravs

Oonoord coach, Hi, Bill Updike and Jake Hawk were at that " e driving apukiug aii hors* coaches _ Wells, Fargo A Oo. Hi drove from Central City to Georgetown. Coe fine day there arrived at the Connor House, in Central, a young "squirt" from Philadelphia, in whom the wisdom of Salomon and the beauty of Adonis abided. The next day he took a box

iaiue, the Rockies were nowhere compared with the Alleghenies of his State, ud that he wu very much diaippointed in Colorado scenery. “And,'

. ... ... .... . ’t you touch horses up' a little ? Now, in Pennsylvania's mountains, the coaches make marvelously fut time; they never break a vapid fut trot up bill or down.

■bdued while the

..lied slowly up the mountains. He chawed hia fine ont iu manner boding no good to the young u Beside him. On reaohiug the head Virginia Canon, Hi pulled up ; asked e two Georgetown men to get Inside, e then wrapped his lines around the —ako, yelled like e Pawnee at hia leaders, ud started dawn that-four-mile hill ea if all the demons of hell were after him. The yonth from the East tried to look unconcerned for - while, bnt when the coach began careen like a ship in a aquall, aometimea two wbeela on the ground a— 1 sometime* four, euh horse running t dear life, ud Wuhburn yelling sry jump, the young man weaken! it were. He implored Hi to at., it terrific speed. "Speed, this ia the

SX-'b.

strang* la of the

e the ibouto of tl

Taking Care of One's Self, A writer eu health, in an English journal, incidentally and that at the a^e 11 prettyaoeuratelyof whatoomplainto e ahonla die, "barring accidents. This doubtless seemed to muy

ud knows— —- — -— —— enemy ie always lurking, in Madu •- -“—V SJ— »- "•* strouoret piece teMSUly a week place, althoagh it nh.> not always tw detected. Yet, observed t ' there, ud will prodi. sr or later. And how to guard ■st ito ooneequenoee—how to alive

ut humorou writer, M. Quad, pubis the following under the caption My Neighbor's Do* :"— My neighbor keeps a dog—my nearest neighbor. Other neighbors keep other dogs, but it is this neighbor ud this dog l apeak of. The neighbor is all right—kind-hearted, votes my tieket, •nd his wife borrows tea ud ooffu from ly wife, but bis dog ia gradually kOlig me. During the day, when I am down-town, the beast aporta around

riving at I itranger left the eoai ■urued to Denver ol

a reprimanded by the Superintei -• ud adjured to leave off hia reel ranks before he killed some on t now the poor fellow has to while driving a virions team, ai a abandoned nil whip ud eettl« to Belling cigars and tobaooo, bi his fund of ueodotes and jokes is m impaired, and be is the boy to tell then Gambling Women In Englud.

Seventy or ( ..ji prevalent

Onr readers generally

• Chartoa Jgmea Pc i at play, while other distinguished personage* were equally heavy loe-— The women were u infatuated ao

if them actually kept

—.roe of them, Imdiee Buckinghamshire, Areher, ud Mount Edgecombe, were partionlarly notorious and were nicknamed "Faro’s Dough.

' Kenyon —"* “■

n °ort E!* 11

i they are too great for the they could bo punished. 'cutiono of this catu

convicted, white'

’tcTbriuIhat' d^oo ” , na. My naighbov ud hia wife are old ud deaf, ud they have idea of what their dog dou. I make it a rule to go to bed predaely nine o'clock, unless the President of the United States or some of hia Cabinet officers are stopping at my ' louse. At just five minute* alter nine, rhen he knows that I have got the heet over me, that canine sits down in rent of my gate. He wriggles ud twists until he gets firmly imbedded in '"on, and then be opens his mouth,

h 1 boo f hoc ! ‘ -

stant rbere is such ■

s that my ba

Uyard

I hi I hoo I”

mly gases at

shriek to bis w

ing thro thirty si

_onth agsi.. Oh ! whoop!

_t this I —‘ ‘

of wood, ai

him. Ha . „ draw back to throw, and when the slick strike*, the ground a rod to tha left of him, be utters a quiet chuckle, coming, he saunters off is a careless muner, ud I go back to bed, hoping for peace. In about fifteen minutes that brute comes through a hole in the fenoe, plants himself under the bedroom window, ud getting* ail ready, he " Ha I hoo 1 whoop ! General Jack-

son's dead 1"

I throw up my window ud shout at him to get out, go home, vuiah, dry up, but be rite there and calmly contemplates my night-cap until I begin to shoot at him with the revolver. Then he walk* around the corner of the house ud studs there, knowing that no revolver can shoot on a circle. My wife begins to interfere about this time, and I haul in the revolver, rioae the window, ud swear by the born

hia duty. I have thrown

■ "

„ , wasted eorde

pounds of powder myself, bnt no g fat and his howl growl worse. I s

ilghbor, bnt he replied -a -*£-

was bard time

got discoursed. _

light o'clock, ud between eleven I will be a dead mu or ri that dog into eternity.

valuable", while a few must, for the generality of mankind, be ut uide u impracticable. They might be beneficial if they oonld be carried ou‘ • '•"* ,h * difficulty la that they canuol out It is like the advice eo

UTaSBRr

law—i^ui

flirty^broug— .

HTj^a though they should be the first ladies — ‘he land, they ahould certainly eatbemaelvce in the pillory." When thieplain-epokeo. judge actually came • try several aristocratic dame* to

picked one lady u undergoing a public worth's novel of " Belinda," the blackleg mania am eng the fair sex is graphically portrayed. Playing at cards for moderate stake* is still much more prevalent in England thu ia this conntry, but lady gamesters are much more rue thu they formerly were. Yet we read that a tiUed lady, name not given, hu recently lort *500,000 at carafe, which will compel her husband to sell a portion of hia — 1 —*

Tit for Tat

A young lady, the daughter of the raer of the house, wu addressed by joung mu who. though agreeble to ir, wu disliked by her father.^ Of lion, ud ahe determined —ia night wu fixed, the the lorer placed the ladd«

ad In a few mi

In blear

fib*

‘^from"^

lady broke the silt 'ell, you see a hat pi

often ncocaaarj to get on wl

auoua state of

ttmea get on batter, ud the -footed and ragged children of the street are pointed to In verifiea---mark. Bat hew mn*j kind sink into the grave mortality rer in NewYork

nruggio ijs •• — ■umve. When the dugerene ie passed, with aU if ee,thtreisstill max .. abaad. In tha midst of apparent good * tta mflr *- —r of axiat all. the " rules " ever deviaed early," aoma uy- and yet euly rising may aomrtimu be poiitiT^tojuriima. ’Tj£5fS.«.w- J a.™ s u, healthy men or wosnen in the world la exceedingly amell—eo email that it .. — 1» we oonld only aa—jtoM proportion of tha bard work of life ia done by maehinary which ou only bo duenbed u being in a riokety condition. Tha amount of nerrona energy eometimos Kr“j’£p:.T'Ka. b ss leu have •urprteedna all Ttieyaeera _ though a puff of wind would sweep them away, and yrt they eutliva atoms* u , rale, know jnrt how far [th will earry thain, msfi aai-

to their

The Russian Courier Service. Daring the Crimean war there oeetn I u incident, illnrtiating the eevei

ithfnl offl-

t stood before the Cxar, ud above ell. not to loco tight of the precious meeasgi. which ho bore. Away went the officer in a sleigh belonging to the Curia couriers. At the end of each twenty miles, he found fresh liorac* awaiting him ; theee wore quickly harnessed to hia sleigh, eu place of the weary animals, ud the sen-aula ud

stable-men would cry ou!:

"Your Excellency, the horses are "^Away then !" the ofllc*, would uy to the driver; ud off ho would go - again, at the most rapid pace of which the horses were capable. Biding in

eeveral day* ud nighta, th ooid, ud pursued by forest, the officer, weary log hia dispatch'.* night ud

day, at length reached the palace of the '’-ir, and wu immediately ushered into i presence. Ho had no sooner handthe Emperor th* letter of. the general. thu the messenger sank into a chair, ud fell fut asleep in the royal presence, u offense which, in some »gea, would have been punishable with instant death. When no had finished reading the dispatch, the Cxar wished to sak the < " *~* a a

■ dia-

After a whUi

i - good hual— — ~— . >Uow, ud gruffly answered — T * perhaps ■"*'

lis|>s I may,

claimed : Oh, what ahall wo ■ arc left my money behind me >om." “Than," eaid he, “w > book ud fetch it” They wi J'lta ‘ li— BSis - r the delayed to oome, ud eo he gently called : Are yon coming ?" when she looked ont of the window ud uid - '• Perhaps I may, ud perhaps not;' ud thu shnt down the window, leav in* him to depart alone. An Exriteblc Temper. They uy in the Indepmdmt office .atTheodoi- " u, ‘—*— a *- •- —

“ Dlaoharge him f " If* Aer, not Aim. Discharge >mu for spelling 'enjolru' with two Muy an oh scour* ooourred, for wbu..«r a mi*take occurred in Theodore’e oopy, he mold blow np ud diaeharge

ably i • out — wre», or an apple Into I basket u be puu* along. In due tl

qnertiu, but found

•offering * wolves in tl

olardd the poor follow dead. The Cxar ' grieved thereat, ud wont to a 1—i vi- pulse, put id declared

was only asleep. But he soon found ‘hat the offloer oonld not be ronud by ho usual meant At leogth the Omar, itoopiag down, cried in his eu: "Your Excellency, the hone* are

ig to hla fret ud cried : I us toad of driver ud bane*, he strand the Cur before him, liaghing heartily at hie oonfnsiou ud dienay, Yon may ba ar— v ** -**— *"■-

sleeping wbe: fSthfnlnest

Kaistu Camrl’i-Halr, Etc. The flout eamel'a-hair for winter BarmenU, uy* a fa*hlon journal, .will be that brought from Buaait Though used in that cold climate for lit great warmth, it ia neither very. thick nor very heavy, bnt is light, eolt. and ‘‘-ooefbnt'lrith ’thrt ind^OTbabie S!5 tling that makes, thia pure fabrie an suut to the tonoh. It ia only mad* the natural gray-brown ahadei, ud . Jl cost at retell 810 * yard —fortunetely it la a yard and a-half wide. grey or brown. Another noreny ia toe mottled oamfl'e-bait •hewing two ibadu giving prrtty ud peculiar effect* from odd mixtures of the ahadea in the warp. There are also

plaia diagonal! of laa! year

fl Ann gooes, to thi

ie half-u if half mongrel hi

in the mouths of May and Ji

Bmptsd