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w.ldom wo hoar in this oonntry tho acknowlodgmont: Tea, I was in the wrong; 1 am sorry for it; bnt in Turkey it is considered a violation of principle and a breach of politeness to ■fnso to bo convicted of error. When yon have nothing to say. to old yonr tongne. ■ The '^irrks never dk for tho sake of tafti.»c ‘ In America

Tho London Riamlner says: Houso builders who wish to make thomselves independent of tho water companies, by sinking wells on their own premises, should take warning by the fate of Major Welland. Major Welland is Die al flno blocks of buildViotoria street, and to supply them with water ho ha# sunk wellsTibdor them. Hut the fa

health declared that in his opinion no olla sank within the oity of Ijondon. and, ho believed, within tho whole of the metropolis, can bo safe, owing to tho number of burial grounds in Loudon and tho sewage. Tho aubeoll is saturated with impurities, and nothing

A Test Cue. novel scene was enacted in the snt, oironit. Now York city, in the progress of a snit for tho recovery of tho amonnt of a cheek purporting to bare boon certified hr a bank toller, Imt the certification of which is olaimod to hare boon a forgery. A photographic artist, having darkened tho oourt room for tho purpose, produced on tho wall an enormous picture of the certified chock, and on comparison of it i -1 '*- nimilar certifications, acknowledge, be in tho handwriting of the teller, pronounoed it to be genninc. The evidonoo on this point was, however, r •