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OC Ferr«M't Kwrwi. iUy llurtiiJiii M«iuUi.) I «AW lif'r wiutri« tliu tihiuli>ws IJo iUwitiu a iiiiolvy litrraia ; Anil starry daisiuii tilcaiu. Now filmy f&bru-9, furl>t-1owfd, i%)UC('aU'd hvr syiiuiu try ; llt'r only aowti tbu ligltt, whiclisliOWbd Her i'i«rwt form to Uj. â- nio*i4^ KbinLji4£ liuibs so fttly clrt*8ied, Tbo»e 1>4K brown vyf* ana hair, lliul ftMlv.l ait Hftiht at hie )>fst, Aud t\lled huii witti di'tipair. And li'TS. Bucb (lu&iutly, tiuiii WAy», Illumed by tofi alariut : Wbftt could I du but t^iixf iind t^azc â€" Auil gKzc upon bur cbaruis! But wltv thostt chiUinKi;bkQCis, luvuâ€" That trowu upon yourbrow ? Yi>u. tiuroly, an- not ji-aluUb vt A rtrst-prizt' Jorsuy cow. SHIRLEY ROSS : A Story of Woman's Faithfalness. There waBBomethiot; unutterably touching to Guy Stuart in Uagh Glynn's 'jxpressiun wbeu lie looked at hia wife, it was bo full of pasBionate adoring love; but it had bo much humility and reverence, such intense sor- row and compassion, that Shirley herself eould hardly meet it with anything like oom|K>8are; and Guy's lips (jaivered as he watcbeil her trying to smile as she lifted Hugh's head and held the cordial to his lips with a pitying tenderness which wasalmost maternal in its deep campasHion. Bhe had never seemed so beautiful in the eyes of these two men, who bad loved her with â- nch a fatal passion, au now, when the liutre of her beauty was dimmed and (•ded by Borrow. â- ' I wish you would rest a little, Khirley, â- aid Hir Hugh, entreatiogly. " Yon are 2|aite worn out. Leave me with Uuy, dear, or a time. Do you know, old friind," he went on, '• that 1 have been happier during the few clays I have been concealed here than I have been for many a long yearâ€" ezoept on that day which began so well Knd ended 80 terribly? If she h%d loved me aB deeply as 1 loved her, she could not have been kinder and gentler. And yet," he continued, unsteadily, "it in but heap- ing ooaU of tire upon my head." 8he touched his lips with her linger with m httle entreating gesture, and he smiled â- lightly. "Leave us, my dearest," he said tremulously. " Try to sleep for an hour. Ah, how many nights it is aince you have hmd any rest :" "Go, Bhirloy," Guy put in gently. '*Bemember how mach de^ieudt on you keeping well just now â€" and even an hoar's reat will refresh you." Bhe smiled faintly as she turned away â- nd passed into the little sitting-ream, where she sunk down into an arm-chair, far more exhansted even than she knew by the terrible anxiety she had nudorgone, â- nd which soemod 10 wonderfully leesened by Ouy's sharing it. For a few moments â- he loaned back, thinking of all the misery and suffering, and shuddering at the thought of what was yot to comu; and her fatigue overcame her, her eyes closed, â- nd she sunk into the heavy sleep of pros- tration. Meanwhile, in the inner room, the two men who had been friends and bitter enemies, and wore friends once more, wore talking earnuatly in low broken voices; and Kir llii^h was telling hia story, with long pauses Ijetween, cauBod by the weakness ; and Btuart listened with an aching heart, feeling that for every lin hU companion had oommitted luch aieery mast have atoned. " You mast let me begin at thel>eginning, old fellow," Hugh said, in his feeble voice. " It will avail nothing to hide any of my â- in and shame from yon, and perhaps it will make yon excuse inu a little , although, indeed, you, in your uprightness and honor. Gay, can hardly understand how low 1 have fallen." "Can 1 not? Ah, you hardly know how low my anger made me fall, Hugh I I am a murderer in intention, although not in deed - for I could have killed you in my heart." " No wonder !" Hir Hugh said sorrow- fully. " Hut 1 loved hor so madly, and I was so wildly jealous that you had suc- ceeded where I had failed. It maddened â- no too to know that your love was so much purer and better than mine. I felt that had the cases boon reversed, you would have gone away and left her to mo, con. oealing your sorrow in order to spare her pain. Vos, beyond hatre<l, beyond jealousy, beyond every other fcoling, was that awful â- ense of humiliation ; it galled me into madnesH. Iloaidc your love, mine looked Bo wortliloBi. You would have given your life for her happiness ; 1 would and did â€" â- acrillce her happiin'sa to my passion. Ah, it is not only now that I nee this, Guy ; although now, when the end is so near, I ace it yet more clearly ! The sin stands out in all its blackness." "Deiirold follow, do not think of iiie ,now," Guy pleaded gently, his eyes dim as ho looked down at the pale face and ema- ciated form which had once been so hand- â- omo and strong. " Burely it ii not nouos- â- ary I" " I sliDiild like you to knnw it. (luy ; it will make yon think more goiitly of inu in the time to oome, and you will much more readily forgive the sin against yourself." " I furgavo long ago, Hugh fully and freely." " Vos, I know yoa did," he answoracl, a faint smile irradiating his pallid face. "Htill I want to tall yen, so that you may know that, if I Hinned, I have HutTered. I'^ven whan 1 congratulated von on your engagement," he wont on, after a pause, 'â-  I was resolved to steal her from yen if I conl.l, mid I racked my brain to know how I eoiiiil Hiioood. That very night I told /ler how maitly I loVcd her; 1 fanoimi that my wealth yim ware a poor man then, (lay, â- llhough you ware rish soon after would tempt lisr, that, like many other women, â- he wail to be bought. I am iifraid my proviuiiH experiouce iif the sex had taught nie to think of them as mercenary" with a faint bitter smilo , "but 1 do not know whether I hated or loved her nioAt when â- he tariiud til iii'jaii'l saiil ho iiniiiilly that you would not so botray your friend. \Tell, I tried to cAngiiiiie my angainh ; hut Lnt reille Heaven kuews that I .voiild nut â- |Niak in anger now! tempted mn. Ilu told inn how Hhirley's mother had boon Invoifilod into a Hootch marriagei A»d how easy it was to steal a wife in Scotland ; nd from the time I heard that story, Guy, I never rested from seeking an opportunity of obtaining the same power over Hhirley as another miserable traitor and coward like myself had obtained over her mother. And the opportunity soon came. You were oalled away, which removed one obstacle from my path, and then came her brother's letter, which she opened in my presence. Do yoa remember, old fellow, that almost your last words to her had been that she wsB to trust me? I reminded hor of them, poor child, in her misery You know how I drove her to Uiicntlfe and passed there as hor husband; the little note which was such conclusive evidence in my favor she wrote me i|uite unaware how greatly it would tell against herself. I knew, and Latreille knew, that when wo left the inn she was my wife by the laws of Scotland ; but she, I need hardly tell you. was as ignorant as a child of what had been done. When I left her at the Court, 1 pot my lips to her cheek with a laughing little speech which she did not understand ; but she shrunk from me with a little cry of pain which made me feel ashamed and furious at onoe. Then I went away. The accident I met with prostrated me for weeks, iind the preparations for your marriage went on ; and, when I could spare Latreille to go and see what was doing, the wedding day was tixod, and I lutdâ€" Yes. I know that the rest need not be told. But, Btuart. if I could have undone it then, I would. Great Heaven, shall 1 ever forget Shirley's face when she shrunk from me? I think I saw then for the first timo the heinousncss of the sin I had committed. " He fell bitck upon the pillows, faint and exhausted, and Guy brought water and bathed his temples and raised him on bis arm as tenderly as a woman would have done, and, as be revived, he looked up aud smiled faintly into the grave face. " Those were not happy years," he con- tinued brokenly, -how could they be? Uow could the poor girl be happy with a man whom she did not respect ? She failed in none of her duties, but I know how she suffered. How often have I watched the misery on her face when she thought herself unobserved, and the tears which lay upon her cheeks when she bad cried her- self to sleep ! Never, until you had spoken to her, had Bhe treated me with anything but coldness, and I could not complain. I knew that 1 deserved even worse at her hands. My poor Shirley I And then you came back, Guy, and you forgave mo so niibly and generonsly, and after a time you induced her to think more gently of me and to forgive me. That night at Kaston â€"ah, shall 1 ever forget it?â€" she told me that she had forgiven me, that she would try â€" poor darling!â€" to be ft better wife to me and 1 cried like n child to think that there might bo happy days in store for na both â€" thanks to you." "Dear old Hughâ€" poor fellow!" " I had deserved to be miserable, Guy. Kven now my punishment has not e>|uallod my sin," he said pitifully. " Let mo con- tinue. I had dismissed Latreille as soon as Shirley came to Maxwell. She was ill for weeks, as you know. Think, old fellow, how sad it was for one who loved her to know that the illness was nil caused by him. Wken she was better, we went abroad, I heard no more of Latreille for some tune. I had paid Inm liberally for aiding and abetting my villainy â€" I must call it so, Guy â€" there is no bettvr wordâ€" and he was spending the money and enjoying himself ; but a oouple of years after he reappeared, demanding, rather than begging, assistance. Heveral times I gave him sums of money; but at Inst, wearied with his importunity, I refused. lie then threatened me; if I did not accede to his demands, he would pabliah the whole story of the Scotch marria;4e aud my treachery, and disgrace me. I have always been a coward, then. Again and again I gave him money, at times largo sums, and he grew more and more insolent when ho saw the cowardly wrstch with whom he had to deal. His letters and constant reapi>earance made my life miserable. I lioiied that you, and perhaps Shirley herself, might be induced to think that the marriage had not been a voluntary act, and that 1 had been ignorant of what I was doing. I was maddened by the fellow's threats and insolence ; and, when 1 told him to do his worst, the world would not believe him, ho said that the world would believe you, and that you would make it public. It was just at this time that we went to Easton, and it was you who casually mentioned having hocii him passing the hotel. 1 knew then that he had followed me. Late that night, when 1 was alone en the balcony, fueling grateful- Heaven knows how grateful for the won- drous happiness which Hoonied to be 0{>en- iiig for mo, he passed again, looked up, and accosted me. I went down to him, and ho runuwod his entreaties and threats, and, fearing that my now-found happiness would bo destroyed by his means, 1 agreed to meet him the next morning on the cliffs." " Hugh, rent now," Guy enfrcftted, as he saw the exhaustion and faintneus which Hir Hugh struggled against so bravely. " Von shall tell me the remainder another timo." " There may bo no other time for me," he said sadly. "Tho best thing 1 oaii do is to ilio ami Isavo her free, and perhaps Heaven will let ino do it. No ; let me tell you now ; nml then, when you know all, 1 will rest. \ oil roincnibor," he oentinnod, after along pause of weakness, "how wii started together â€" shall I over forget Hhirley, an she stiio<l on the balcony thiit lunrning ? - anil how, as we walked across the b<moh tn- gethar, I tried tu thank you for what yuii had done for me- 1 never loved you ns 1 loved you then, (luy. lOvon in our boy- hood, when we had been such friends, yon had never been no dear to me ; and I stood and watclied you out of sight, and iiat on the rooks wailing for him. When he came, I saw at once that ho was preiiareil to ho mnolent, and I resolved to bo firm with him. Iliad brought with me two hundred poiindH ill gold and notes that Tear^ had brmight me down a day or luo before, wliii'h 1 intuuded tu give hii-i as a last bribe, lie was in a iiioft insolent miiod ; he had left the iim in a neighboring villii^o wliiirn ho had been slaying, saying he would not return, and he had niado up his mind to iip<iak to yon. Hut even the taitatiiig worils and iiuiiills were no excuse fnr iny anger. 1 tiriiiMl upon him at lust, ni«l lifted the iitic.k your stick, old felltiw, which I hail abked you for a keep Krtko cih, how sorry I was for that afterwards ! and struck him. Ho fell iminedlati'ly to tho ground, and never iixike afterward. I had â€"oh, merciful Heaven,! bad killed him on the spot !" Sir Uugh covered his face with hia trembling hands, and lay back, shuddering violently, the cold dews gathering on hia forehead, his whole frame shaking with horror and anguish. Guy, scarcely less agitated, could hardly utter the few words of consolation he strove to speak ; and there were a few moments of painful silence ere Hugh Glynn resumed the pitiful story. " Heaven knows I had no intention to hart him," he went on, with an accent of unutterable sadness; "and, when I saw him lying there, I had no thought but that he was stunned or bad fainted. I knelt by him and did all I could to restore him, but, of course, in vain. Then, when I reali^ted what I had done, when I found myself a murderer, with the stainof blood upon me, I went mad, I think. I had but one idea â€" to escape ; and then a horrible notion entered my head. If I could disfigure him enough â€" Oh, Guy, Guy ! ' For a few moments there was no sound in the room but the ancontroUable weeping which broke from the baronet and rent his weak frame witk terrible sobe ; Guy's face too was hidden â€" he was trying to shut ont the awful scene which the words conjured up. It was indeed an awful one â€" the dead man lying with his face upturned, the sky overhead, the soa beyond, and the murderer trying to escape the results of his crime, if it might be so called. " You know how well I succeeded," con- tinued Sir Hugh, when he coald speak. " I took off his coat and put mine on him; the clothes he was wearing had been mine onceâ€" I saw that directly. I put my ring on bis finger, and nil that 1 bad about me which could lead to recognition I put into his pockets, and then I left hini there. I never imagined but that it would be thought an aocident; and I did it all with an awful calmness which I think of sometimes now and wonder at. My one thought was to escape. I rthrunk with an unutterable hor- ror from what was before me if I gave my- self up, although now I can see that I ought to have done so. I had ploaty of money â€" that was one difliculty removed ; and I walked to the nearest station, carry- ing the bag Latreille hud with him, and took a third class ticket for London, which I reached late that nightâ€" that terrible night. Do you remember the storm? Will you ever forget it, Guy? The next morning my first action was to disguise myself ofTectually," he went on, after a long pause, " With money, in London, it was nut difficult ; and thpii I took iiniet lodgings in a part of town where I had never been in the old days; and for a time I remained there, ill and weak with a ner- vous fever, during the continuance of which however I waa never light-headed. Strangely enough, I had no fear of pur- suit ; I knew that tho poor fellow would not be missed, and I felt sure that the body would bo taken for mine. One day â€"the very first time I was able to read a newspaper- to my inexpreaiible horror, I saw what a mistake had been iiiado â€" what a terrible mistake!" He had become very faint and exhaust- ed durin;; the last few minutes, and his voice had sunk so low as to be almost inaudible; but he was so anxious to finish his story that Ciiiy had not sullioiont strength of mind to prevent him and make him rest. Itaising him gently. he gave him some more of the restorative which the doctor had left with Shirley, and, supported in Guy's strung armsâ€" for it was easier for him to breathe thus- he resumed his story. CUAl'TEU XLIX. " When I read that you had been arrested on the charge of having murdered the poor fellow," Sir Uugh wont on, " 1 think 1 realized for the first time what a miser- able coward 1 was. My first impulse was to go and give myself np at any cost ; but my courageâ€" bah, I had no courage, so I cannot say it failed mo!â€" my cowardioe comiaered. Heaven only knows what 1 Buffered daring those days, Stuart -you in prison, and that poor broken-hearted girl did not suffer moreâ€" at least you wore not tortarod with remorse as 1 was. Again und again 1 lived those terrible honrs on tho rocks, in that awful solitude 1 had so dreaded lioing disturbedâ€" again and again 1 saw in anticipation the trial, the crowds of accusing faces, the hooting niultitiido. How I shrunk from it all you may guess when I toll you that two or three times I went out to try to obtain poison, and that once I went down to London Bridge â€" Don't, Guy, dear old friend, don't grieve so -I have hoon a coward from the begin- ning. A coward's death wonld be a fitting end for my career. But 1 will not speak of it since it pains you," ho added brokenly. " When the time of the trial came on, 1 went down to Kiminster. I had no definite plan, except that, if you were convicted, I was determined to confess all, aiul--^ ' " Stop !" Guy said breathlessly, lifting his hand for a moment. " Yon wore at Kxininster- Then it was not a delusionâ€" 1 saw you." " You saw me ! Where?" " It was at night," Major Stuart said un- steadily. "1 was leaning out of the win- dow of my room at the hotel, atd a niun passed down tho streetâ€" a man with a great dark beard, i\nd - " You rocognixed ino?" " Tho face reminded me of yonra , but I fanuiud it wan a delusion- you wore so much in my mind," Guy said tremulously ; and Hugh looked at bini in silence forafow momonts. " If 1 had recognized yim, Guy," ho fal- tered, " 1 think I shoulil have told you all. Would to Heaven 1 had!" " When 1 saw that you wero ao<|iiitt«d, 1 went back to town," Hir Hugh uontinued , " and 1 lived there as long as my money lasted. After a timo I got less fearful of recognition, and 1 uved to go out and wander almut the oily, and I became familiar with all kinds of misery which I had never uvon xuspeetoil before ; and whoti luy money failed 1 got odd jobs all kimlx of work. I have driven a hansom for weeks, old fellow, and held horses, and But 1 said 1 would not dhitroBs you," ho broke ofT, with a faint smile. " Is it not strange?" ho went on, in a momenU " When Shirley was iu London, wo ooiilii nut hare bfliii far from each other, I fool so thankful now that wo never mot." " Uugh, my poor fellow!" " Have ymi any pity for such « tuenii. niiBorablf, cmvardly wretch ? " the unhappy man said brokiwtly. " lleaven blcwj yon, tiny. 1 might have known how yini woulil have ruoeivod mo. 1 in lit of had faith in you; but, old fellow, in one oonsohttioii ' all this time lay in the thought that you and Shirley were happy together. Old fellow, why was itâ€"" The wistful eyes seeking Gay's face so inquiringly finished the ijaestion, and Ouy answered it with a grave gentleness. "She sent me away," he said with a slight smile. " I'oor child, she feared that theâ€"" He heBitated, knowing that hia words could not bat add to the Buffering which Sir Hugh was already enduring; and the latter gnessed the conclasion of the answer, even as Btuart divined the end of the ijuestion. " I understand," he said. " Well, it was as well perhaps. Soon â€" very soon, old friend, she will 'oe free indeed," he added feebly ; " and I shall be truly glad to leave her in your care. I'oor darling, how greatly she has suffered, and how nobly she has forgiven ! Hers is a heart of gold, Guy, and you are worthy of each other. But, to end my story. 1 must tell you how I came here. Give me another mouthful of that cordial, old fellow â€" just enough to enable ine to finish." Guy did as he was reijacstcd. " My health was failing ine, and I be;^an to long for a breath of fresh air again, ' Sir Hugh resumed. " The London fogs were killing me, and I thought it would be so terrible to die in the midst of all the filth and misery and degradation in which I had passed the last months of my life. So one morning I set otT on foot and worked my way along the road, getting a few pence for an odd job here, or a meal there, and sleeping in a barn or wherever I could get shelter, I hadno route to follow, I jast went on and on, until the snow overtook me outside this village, and I lost my way in the fields on that Christmaa-day. I had wandered about for over an hour, night waa coming on, and I was weary and ex- hausted, when I saw a light in a window a little diatance. I managed to straggle across to it ; the curtains were not drawn over the window, and I could see into the room. A woman was sitting alone by the tire and I was just going to knock and ask her for shelter, when she rose and came to the window. The next moment I recognised her, and the surprise so overcame me that I fell forward on the snow, and lost c<.'n- aciouaneaa for a few moments. When I reoo^red, I managed to creep round to the door. A numbness waa stealing all over me. I felt that I was dying, and my one wish was to hear her forgive me before the end came. I tried the door ; it was locked; and there was a soand of a dog barking violently. I remember dimly trymg to pray, but even ray senses were too dead for that , and then I recollect nothing until I found myself lying with my head on Shirley's knee, and her dear face bending over me, with Heaven's own pity rellected upon it. How can I tell you how good she was to me then, Guy â€" how she warmed and fed me? And, oven when I told her what a gailty wretch 1 was, she did not shrink from meâ€" she only hid her face for a moment, and let me keep her hands in mine," He was silent . his wife's noble self- devotion and perfect forgiveness had touched all that was good in him ; and there was a t:reat admiration mingling with the andnesa on his face aa he thought of her. She seemed to him more than woman â€" better, nobler, holier ; she was no longer the girl whose beauty ho had coveted, and who had been his wife; she was an angel of goodness, of oonipassion and of mercy ; and the halo which surrounded her in his thooghts surrounded Guy also. By their nobility he saw how high he might have risen ; by it too be saw how low he had fallen. Very wistful and entreating and sorrow, ful were the blue eyes now, which Gny remembered so gav and smiling, and, if it had not been that he feared to distress Sir Uugh, Guy could have hidden hia face and wept like a child at the recollection of the past days and tho knowledge of his com- panion's great sufleriugâ€" a greater (:ir than his or Shirley's since they had not tho heaviest burden of all to bear â€" that of remorse. He saw too that Hugh was very ill ; not only was he weak and debilitated to a degree sad to witness, but he breathed with ditlicnlty, and more than once his narration had been atopiwd by a lit of coughing which racked his weak frame with a terrible force. It was evident that oven with care he could not last many months â€" even weeks ; and Uugh, looking up into the grave pitifal face, read the thought, with (juick intuition. " Yes, I shall not last long now, old fellow," he said â- luietly. " And it is all for tho best. These last days have not been unhappy, except when 1 saw how much anxiety I was causing that poor chilil. It waa so pleasant â€" ah, so pleasant !- to be nursed by her, to feol her hand about me as gentle and tender as if I bad not been the worst foe she sver had ; to hear her voice with its pitying tones was sutVicient to mako me happy. At tlrst I was too ill oven to thank her, or to realize how terribly 1 was adding to heranxioty by my presence hero; but I can imagine now what those days must have boon to her, in her anxiety for mo and her dread of discoveryâ€" a dread which my wild terror must have increased a hundred fold." " lluj^h " Major Stuart's voice was very grave and tender and compassionate " 1 cannot let you talk any more uow. You have talked more than yon ought to-day. Kest a little, and when you arc stronger we will consider what is best to be done. Ah, lipro is some one whoso iulUencc is greater than mine !" he added, sniiling, to Shirley came in ipiiotly and went softly as tho other side of tho bed. " Nurses' and doc- tors' ordurs are paramount, are they not ?" " Shirley knows that 1 shall rest all the bettor for the relief of telling you all this, Guy, and makiug you sellisbly- I confess sliare my burdenâ€" and hers, poor child ! Havo you rested a little, dear ?" ho added wiatkdly. Hliirley forced a smile to hor lips as she answered in the afl'irmative, and, sitting down by his side, took the attenuated hand in hers and hold it hotween her own ; and after a time, the wsary, blue syos which dwelt upon her with suiW lovo closed, and hsfi'tl aslopp. Gently and noiselt'ssly Shirley disen- gaged hor hand frani his, and, with Guy, went into the otlior room. The day had worn on toward eveniug now, and tho gray, wintry dusk was filling the littlo mom, wliiiili looked drear and desolate witliout fire or lamp, luv a few monuMile tkey stooil in Hilence faiiiig each other, both too (♦eplv mov«d to speak ; thou Hbirley said softly under her breath - " Quy, tell me, what must wo do 7 " " I am almost too stunned to think," be answered. " It is a terrible position for yoa, my child." "And for him 1 Oh, Gay, think of the conse-juences of discovery !" " You trust me, Shirley ?" " Fully," she answered, looking up at him with steady eyes bat quivering lips. " Will yon let yourself be gtiided by me in this ?" " Oh, so gladly, Guy !" " Dear, will you let me trust Olipbant ?" he asked, very gently. "If you think it best. Gay," she ans- wered faintly. " I think it is our only coarse, Shirley," be said, with the same extreme gentleness and pity. " Already Hugh's presence is suspected here, and only the people at the Hall can do away even in a measure with' the suspicion. Besides, we mast find some way of removing him to safer quarters." " Kemoving him!" she repeated, with â-  frightened eyes. " He is so weak, Gny." "Yes, poor fellow, and we must wait for a day or two. Let me ask Oliphant'g advice : and, dear child, it will surely be a comfort tu you to trust Lady Olipbant ?" " Lady Olipbant ?" she repeated shrink- ingly. " Oh, Guy, must I ? She was very crael to me today." " My child, think anderwhat impressioc ehe labored when she spoke to yoa. BeUeve me, it grieved her to the heart." " And â€" and â€" and vou think it beat, Gny?" (To be continaed.l • % StaKe Gossip. There are sigus of a deoa<lence in the popularity of amateur theatricals in Brooklyn. The scandals that have arisen in these silly organizations within recent months have opened the eyes of prudent parents to the dangerous allurements of Thespian diettanteism. The tragical story of the downfall of Mias Murphy, who was one of the favorites of the amateur stage iu Brooklyn, has capped the climax. A record of the domestic aisasters growing oat of this fribbling in dramatic art would be surprising as well as interesting. Mr. Herbert Gladstone has felt called' upon to make a formal and even official denial of the report pablished in this country that he was to marry Miss I'lmer, the comic opera songstress. This act was pronounced a bratal cut by the little brunette's admirers and one of them declared himself qaite ready to call Mr. Gladstone out for it. Word to this efiect was carried to the Tremier's athletic son and in reply he returned a message stating that hia footman would be pleased to attend to any gentleman who might call in the capacity of second to Miss Ulmer's champion. That ended the twaddle about a duel. London gossips are pazzled over the identity of a completely pretty girl who drives in Rotten Kow in carriages em- blazoned with the crest of the Duke of I'ortland. It might ease their anxiety to know that the fair. haired beauty is none other than Miss Jennie MoNtUty, who played ducks and drakec with dudiab hearts when with the Adonic oompany at the Bijou. Joiie Ball, wedded to a Ger- man baron. Miss McNalty sporting the arms of the House of Portland, Adelaide l>etchan whistling her way into the com- pany of lords, the gypsy-like l>e Lussan carroUing a career for herself among the belles and blades of Belgravia, Mary Anderson declining coronets as disdainfully as though they were stale bun.^i, Mariinot snubbing prinoes from the door of her Paris salonâ€" what a great people we are. to be sure I â€" Animcan i:sihani:. All the Pa«s«DKer« KtherlzeU. A very peculiar accident that set a whole railroad car fall of passengers in a state of intoxication occurred on Sunday last on the North I'onnavlvania Uailroad. I'r. Ott, of rieasant Valley, got on the train at that atation to go to Quakertown to perform a surgical operation on a patient. The doctor took with him a large bottle of ether, which he laid on the seat beside him. The jolting of the train agitated the potion to such an extent that the bottle exploded, and in a moment the atmosphere was laden with the drug. The maU passengere in the car maJe a dash for tho door, but many of them could not get out, and, together with about a do/.eu ladies, wero overcome by the ether. When Conductor Hammond went into the car to take up tho tickets be, too. was overcome before ho OMild retreat. The brakeman missed the conductor, and on looking into tho car saw him, with the others, laughing and grimac- ing. As soon as ))Ossible the windows were thrown open and the passengers reviveil.â€" Pliitihlflphm i;^,-.>r,f. Whjr We Keep C«>ol. Trof. .Vrchibald is a leader of phvsical' inetiHjrology in England. Ho has' been interviewed on the ice question. Asked why it is so coUl, he replies after a naturiii and rational fashion, and his theory, strip- [led of its scientific jsrgoti, is as follows : "The late winter in the region of the north pole was one of abnormal severity. Vast icelloes and icebergs wero carried far to the south. These deposits, breaking up in the usual manner, have detached and sent off fro.un emissaries to prove onoe more that in years of great abunilance of floating ice in the north Atlantic the month of June and the summer generally have been abnor- mally cold." In America, so far, the etYect of the -Vrchibald thwry has "oet-n to givei us an abundance of moisturo and weather which, especislly for small grains, can- not bo bottered.â€" C/iicui;e .Vfir.s. Poat-t>niet> Searelly. Kotiador, with about one raillioii inhabi- tants, has only 17 post ofiices, but they are so widely ilislributed that it re>iui'res a mail carriage of .â- ..3S'.> miles to reach them all-7J lailes by cano.s and. ".,;!! 7 by horses and mules. Aliout .MH) miles of "the sea- board is also TOvered by foreign steamship mail sorviw. Between Quito and Gnayaijuil there are two mails each way wo«kly by couriers the usual time one way, travelling day and night, being six days. Other sections of the country are less favored, the rectipls aud departure of mails raiigiiii; from once a week to onoe a month, as people hnp|HMi to l>e going. " I d»n't 800," said Mr. MoOnire, as he sat in the stern of the vessel, "bow the csnl.iin can find his way across the ooeau. H he was going tho other way all hod have to do would be to follow that white streak behind there, but in front there is nothing to point that way."