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ID Jk. "W" IsT- /BY H. UIUER HAOGAKD.) CH'APTEai n.â€" (C(mtinued.> Was Mifl8 Ii«e (tt hoinef Yes, Miss Lee wo* in tho greejihrman ; pcrhaj* Mr. I'hiJip would Btep into the gar- ten, which ilr. Philip did B(•<^o^dinKly. "HJ-'w do yiw do. I'hUip? I'm de- lighted to see you ; you've just come in tiuiti to h«iLp in the iklaui{hl«r." "SJaujfbter, itlaugbt^r of whatâ€" a p'tr» "No, green %. I'm going to kill ttKMUtande." "You crued girl." "I diir» stty it is cruidH, but 1 don't care. Gnuniis aJways said that I bad no heart, and, mo far as green fly are concerned, Gruiups was certainty right. NcAV, Ju»t look at this lily. It '» »J> auratmu. I giive lbre^and-«ix. out of my (ywn money, for that bulb laat autumn, ajid now the bloom ia not worth twoi>ence, all tbroiu«b green fly. U 1 were a maji 1 declare I should â- wear. PJease swear for me, Philip. Go outaide and du it, so that I mayn't have it on my conscience. But now for vengeawe. Oh, I say, I forgot, you know, I EuppoMe. I ought to be look- ing very aorry " "Why, what's the matter! Any one deadC- "Uh, nu, GO much better than that. It's got GruinpB." "Got her, what haa got her f What is •itt" "Why, Chancery, of oourae. I al- ways call Chancery "it." I wouldn't take ItJi nume In rain for worlds. I am too mui^b afraid. I might be made to 'aiiaw a cauM why,' and then be locked ulp for contempt, which fre- quentliy happens a,fter you have tried tio 'show a cauBe.' That U what has happened to Gruknpit. £he is now showing a cause; shortly she will he lucked up. When she comes out, if she •ver does come out, I Ibiok that she wiU avoid wiu-ds Jn Chancery In future; she will have too much sympathy with them, and too mutrb practical exper- ience of their poedtlon." "But what on e.'u-th do yoa me«n. MariH? What ba« hap)«Ded to Miss Cregbonf" (ang?<re GrumpH.) "Well, you remeralwr one of my guardiajia. or rather bis wife, got 'it' to appoint her my chaperon, but my other guardian wanted to appoint BOTuebody elhe, and after tiiking eigh- teen mt>iilh.s to do it, be baa moved the couiTt to show that Grumpa is not a 'fit and pro|)er pcri>»n." The idea ot calling Gnuupu improjier. She nearly fainted at it. and swore that, wheUier ahe lived through It, or wbet- cr («be didn't, she wouCd never come within a mile of me or any other ward if she could help it, not even the ward of a hospital. I told her to be careful, or she would be 'committing contempt.' which frightened her so that bhe hardly 8|)Oke again till she left yesterday. Poor Grumiie I I ex- pect she ia on bread aud water now ; buA if she niakcci herself half as dis- sgreeiibdu to the vice-chancellor asshe d«d to nie, I don't beajeve that they will ke«ii her long. She'll wear the Jailer out ; she will wear the walls out; she will wear 'it' down to the bones; and then they wjlil let her looeo ujMm the world agoun. W'hy, there is the l«ll for lu»ch, and not a single green fly the Ittm) Xever mind, I will do 'or tbeui to-morrow. How it would add to her buffenngH in her lonely coll if she couHd set) us going to a tete-a- tete lutirh. Vttme on, Philip, come ' quirk, or the rut.leta will gel cold, and 1 hale cold millets." And off she tj-ip^ied, followed liy ih« laughing Philip, who, by the way, wu« now look- iuf( qiiile bandfome uguin. JVlaria Ixw was not very pretty at her tb«ai ageâ€" jii«>t uightcenâ€" hut she wa«i a (lerfec't sppi-imen of a young Kn- gdish coutitry girl; fresh b.s a rose, and SLmnd us a liell, and endowed be- »id<'« with a quick wit and ready sym- |iathy. She wus essentially oue of that cliuiB of J'JnglJsh women who make the iilnglisfa u)>per cla^ what il is â€" one of the finest and soundest in the world. I'bilip, following her into tho bouee, thuuKht that she w<ih chanuing ; nor, lieing a (.'aresfoot, and therefore hav- ing con»lderal>le eye to lie main rhunoe.. did the fact, of her Iwing the heireew to fifteen bunxlre<l a year in lajtd detruil from her charms. The oiAlels were excellent, and Maria ate three, und woa very comical alx^mt the departed Grumpti; indeed, anyl)ody not aix|uninte<l with the cinuniHtances wcxild have gathered that thai excel- lent ladjr wpn to be sliortly put to the q^iraitiom. Philip vvim not quite 0n merry ; he was oppresaed hot h by rerotlectiona of what bad haiy|iened and Bpprflhensions of what miKliI happen. â- 'What is the matter, Philip »" she Biakrxl, wJiPtt they had left the table to sit umder the tree:^ on Ihe liiwn. "f can B«<) thin. B«>methi.ng i.s Ihe mat- ter. TeJ! me all uhomt. it, Philip." Ahd Phitip (old bor what hud hap- pened tlial morning, Jnying barn h'm neRrlj-achPS, and not even concealing hiis evil deeds. Whpn hs bad dime, she pon(lere<l awhiQb, tapping her little foot, «(|)on the turf. "Philip," she said, at \iuiU In qvH« a changed voice. "I doi not think that' you< lire l)eing well treated. I do noil think that your oouetn means kindly, hy you. butâ€" but I do not think thai' you have bphaved rightly either. 11 tlon'l like th.it about the ten pouiikIki and I tliink that you dhnuiUI not hav>\ Unuvhed Osorge ; he ia not so at ronK aa you, Pltoaas try to do as your fath- erâ€"dear me, I am sura I don't woniler that you are afraid of hlniâ€" 1 am â€" t<^UR you, and regain hin affet-tinn, and niii'.ai tt ut> with George ; and, if you geU into any more troulblw^ come and tell ra«^ aliouJt them before you do anything â- foolish; for thouigh, according to GnunpH. I ;im si!!ly vaiaugh, two heads are lietter tbeo oiie." The tearx stood in the lad's brown eycei as he liste'ned to her. He gulped tWn down, h<iw«'ver, and Kaid : "You are aw/ully kind to me; yon are the only friend 1 have. KomBtimed I think th'it you) are an anweL" "Nonsensp, Philip. If 'If beanl youl tiu,Ik like that, you would join Grumps. Don't let ini- h<var any more au«-h stuff;" Imt, though blie 8iM>ke sharply, some- how Kihe di<l not !ook di.spleased. "I muHt !» off," he said, at length' "I promfMsd to gto with my father to M* a new hiiilrling on Reynold's farm, r have only twenty minutes to get home;" and ritilnK they w^nt into the houw through a French window open- ing on to the luwu. ' In the dining<-roum he tuirned, and, after a moment's hesitation, stuttered out: "Maria, don't lie angry with me, but mav I give you a kisB f" She liitJbhed vividly. "How dare you Wuggeat such a thing? â€" l)ultâ€" but a» Gitimps has gone, and there isi no new Gnihum to refer to, and therefore I can only consult my own' wisheH, perhaps If you really wish tok Philip, why, Philip, you may." And he did. When he woB gone she leaned ben head against the ooLd marble mantel- piiece. "I do love him," bbe murmured ; "yea that I do." CHlAPTKR in. Philip WHH not very fond of takina wfaJkH with bis father, since he found tlKit in nine cuhl-o imA of ten ibey af- forded opportunilies for Im^uloation <>£ taints of the dryest description with re- ference to eetute management, or to th)B narration by bis jiarent of little historiee of which his conduct upon Home recent ocoaaion wouUl adorn the moral. On this particular occasion the prospect was partic-ularly unpleasant, for his father wouSd, he was .well aware, overflow with awful jioliteness; indet'd, after the scene of the morning, it could not be otherwise. Oh, how much rather would he have spent that litweJy afternoon with Miiria. Lee. Dear Maria, he wouStl go and see her again the very next day. When he arrived, some ten minutes after lime in the antier-hung hall of the Abbey H*«cise, be found his father standing, \*~atch in hand, exactly un- dir the l.ig .l««k, utt though he was deitermineU to wake a note ny double- elntry of every piu«ing second. "When 1 .iKkcd you t<> walk with me this afternoon, Pliiiii*. I, if my mem- ory <lotw not deceive me. was careto. to fciiy that 1 bad no wiBh to interfere with any prior engagrnient. I was awanr how little interewt, compared With youx cousin George, you take in the (wlate, and i had UD wioh to im- IHJHB un uni'ongenial task. Uui, as you kindly volunteered lo accomvaoy '"^• I rfgrrt that you, did not find it con- vi»ni«nt lo be putictiuiJl to the time you fixed. I httve now waited for you for* ae\'enleen mipuAes, and let* me tell you Ihitt at my time of life 1 cannot af- ford to luNB seventeen minutes. May I link wliut has delayed youfi" This long speech liud given PbilM the bpportuiuty of recovering the bresith that he bad U»t in running home. Hk' reiuitied promptly : "I have been luluching with Miss It*." "Oh, indeed, then 1 no longer won- der that yi/u kept me waiting, and I mii)tt suy that in that partii^ular I commend your tjutte. Miss Leo is a, young lady of good, family, good man- lu^Th. and good iiieims. If her estate went with this properly il would com- lillete OS pretty a live thousand acres of mixed soil as there is in the country. Those are lieautiful old meadows of hem, lieautiful. Perhaiia " but here the old man checked bimself. On leaving the house they bad passed to(«(tber down a walk called the tun- nel wiilk, on occiMuit of the arching boughH of the lime-lreei that interlaced theinsc'ivefl uverliejtd. At the end of this avenue, and on the lx>rder8 of the I luke, there stood an enormous but still I growing Mtk, known as Caresfont's titaff. Il was the o;<l squire's favorite 1 I ree, and the beMt, topi>ed piece of tim- I Ijer for many milett round. I "I wonder," suid Philip, by way of I making a little pleasant conversa- tion, "why that tree was called Cares- foot's Staff." "Your Ignorance astonishes me, PhiJip, Iml I supiKKse that there are some tieojiuo who can live for years in a pJace and yet imbibe iiiotbing of its traditions. Perhaps you know that the monks were driven out of these ruins by Henry VIII. Well, on the siiot where that tree now stands there grew a BtiB'l greater oak, a giant tree, its trunk measuring sixteen loads of timber ; which had, as tradition said, lieen iiJnnted by the firat prior of the Abb«^y when i'^iglund was still Saxon. Tim night Ihe inonka left a great gale raged over I'iig'iHiid. . It was in ()<â- - tober, when the tree« were stiill full of lenf, anil lt« fien'est gust tore the prreiit oak from H« roothold, and flung It unto tho hike. Look t do you see tibttl riise in the sand, there, hy the edge of thn deep pool, in Ihe eight-foot wtater? That IH wliere it is su,pp(is- ed to lie. Well, the wliole country side suid that It wus a sign that the immks hud gr>ne forever from ilrat- hum Aliliey, and the count ry-«ide wajl right. But when your ancpfitor, old yeoman Curesfoot, bought (his place and came to llvw bet's, in a year when there wus a great black frost that set Ihe waters of tha Inke like one of the newfangled roads, he askfed his neigh- liors, ay, and hi.s laboring folk, to como and ditip with him an<l drink lo the .snirceas of hiis jAirchase. II was a prouil day for hum, anil wlien dinner was done and tb'^y were all mellow with strong iUfi. ne bade them step do^vn lo Ihe borders! of the Ilake, as he would have them lie a witness to a rereniony. When they reached the .i)iol they haw a wirioua sight, for tlreri^ on a Htron« dray, and dragged liy Karmer Care.sfoot's six' best horses, wa,s an oak of fifty years' growth com- ing BiioKB the ice, earth, roots and all. "Oil thil Riot wihere il stands now there had been a great holle. ten feet Civiyi ly fuiurteen square, dug to re- ceive it, and iivl<» that hn'.e Care«.foofc Staff wati UltiMl and leverad off the dray. And whtan it had been |>!anted, and the frozen earth wedl trodden in, your grandfather in the ninth degree Lrougut his gue«ta back to the old ban- queting-haill, and made a iiipeet)h which, aM it <vaB tho first and last he ever made, was long rememliered in the coiintrv-side. It waa, put into modern Kngl'ish, something like tbia: " 'Neigh Ijorsrâ€"Pnor'a Oak baa gone into the water, and folkls said that it vnxn for a sign that the monks woulUI never come back to Bratham, and that il was the Lord's wind that put it there. And, neigbljors, us ye know, the broad Bratham lands; and the fat marshes down by the BYook passed by king's grant lo u man that knew not cfllay from luam, or layer from pastur- age, and from him' they peeeed by the Lord'si will to me,' ae 1 have asked you. here to-day to cediebrate. And now, ueigblx>rs, I have had a mind, and though it aeem to you but a childish thing, yet I have a mind, and have set myB^f to fulfill it, Wlw-n I was yet a little lad, und drave the swine out to feed oiu the hill yonder, when the acorns had fallen, afore Farmer Gyr- ton's father had graoious leave from the feoffees to put up the fence that doth now BO sorely vex ue, I found one day a great aoorn as big as a dow's egg, and of a rich and wondrous brown, aotd this acorn 1 bore home and plants ed in kind earth in the corner of my dad's garden, thinking that it wouSd grow, and that one day I wouiW hew ita growth and use it for a staff. Now U>at was fifty ivtag yearn ago, lads, and there where grew Prior's Oak, there, neighbors, I have set my Staff to-day. The monks have told us how in Irraei every man planted his fig and his vine. For the fig, I know not; rightly w;}iat that is; but as for the vine, I will plant no creeping, cling- ing vine, but a hearty hjignsh oak, that, if they do' but give it good room to breathe in, and save their beir-looin from the ax, shall cast shade and throw acorns, and burst into leaf in the .spring, and grow naked in the winter, when ten generations of our children, and our cluldren's children, shall have mixed their duBl with ours yonder in the graveyard. And now. neighlors, I have talked too louif. though I am lielter at doing than lurking; but ye will even forgive me, for I will not talk to you again, though on this the great day of my life I was minded to siieuk. But I will bid ya« every man pledge a health to Caroifoot's Staff, and ask a pmyer that, bo long as it shall piiHh its leavwj, ao lon^ may the nu»i at my loinulie here to sit lieneath i'tsi b1i:uU'., and even, mayhap, when the corn is rijui and the moon is up, and tlieir heartH grow soft toward the iiaat, to talk with kitaMuan or with sweet- heart of the cdd man who struck it in this kindly soil.'" i The old VBjulre's toce grew tender as hie tuld this legend of the forgolten dead, and Philip's youjng imuginalion mummoned up the strange old-world .si«'n<" of the crowd of rutilics gathered m the anow and frost round this very tree. "Philip." Kiid his father, suddenly, "you. wJJI hold Vbe yeouuiu's staff oin day ; Iw like It Ml an oaken Kngli^ heart, and you will defy wind and woather a« it has done, and as yiur forbeam have done. Come, we must go on. By the way, Pbiiip," he <oii- tinuel, after awhi'le, "ydu will reiiie- Ijer what I said lo you this luorniiig â€" I hojie that you will rwuemlier il, Ihiiugh I ^H>ke 1,11 a,u«?er â€" usvep iry to deceive me again, or you will regret it. And now I have sometliing to say to you. I wisib yon to gu lo college and receive an education (hat) wilil til you Ui hold tho iiueatiuu you must in the coni'se of nature one day fill in the co«mty. The Oxford term liegina in a few ilays, and you have for some years liecn entered at Mugdaleu Col- iiege. I do not expect you to be a scholar, hut I do expucC you lo brush off youx rough ways and your local idetui, and to learn lo liet'ome sufch a pei-«on both in yoar conduct aud your mind us a gentleman of yuor Btuliun should lie." "1m George to go to college, toot" "No; 1 ^ve H]ioken to him on the HUbject, and he doos not wish it. Ho says very wisouy thai, with bis Huiall prusiiei'ts, he woulld rather spend the timie In learning how to earn his liv- I'ng. So ho is goijig lo bo articled lo the Ko.\ham lawyei'H, Foster & Son, or rather Foster & Uellany for young Blellamy, who m a lawyer hy profession, oaine here this morning, not to B|ieak aliout you, but oiv a inesBape from the firm lo say thai be is now a junior p«irlner, and thai they wiM lie very nappy to take George as articled clerk. 1U^ itt a hard-workmg, shrewd young man, and it will lieugreal advantage to George to have bib advice and ex- ample before him." Philip assented, and went on in sil- ence, reflecting on the curious change in bib iniuiediate pruepet-ls thai this walk had brout^ht to light. Ue wa.s unU'h i-ejoiiced at Ihe prosjiect of los- ing sight of George for awhUe, and was siijficieiitly intelligent to appreciate the advantages, social and mental, that the uuivenuly woullid offer him; liut it struck him that there were two thingsi whu'.h he did not like aliuul tho si'heuie. The first of these was that whiiiti he was pursuing his ucademical Bftudies, George would practically !» left' on Ihe sjiotâ€" for Koxhain was only Biix iniilos o«fâ€" lo put in motion any whoines he might have devised ; and Philip was Buxvi that he had devised fo'bemes. A)id the second, thai Ox- ford was a long way from Mlaria Lee, Hluwever, be kepi bin tihjei^tions to hijnwclf. In duJn coiii-we they reached the ImiildingH lliey had set out to ex- amine, and the olid Miuire, having sel- tlleil what was to lie dome and what was to 1» left undone, with characlerLslic promptitude and lihrewdness, they burned homeward. In passing Ibrougn the shrubberieji, ' 001 their way back to the house, they I suddc^nly came upon a stolid-looking : Itid of about fiftee.n, emerging from a ftide walk with a ne.slful of young j li4lHX(kbirdB in his hand. Now, if there v/\M one thing in| this world more, cal- culated than another to rouse the riiosl ohjwtionable traits of the old squire'.s ! chanii'ter into rapid action, il was tho I diBi'iyvery of boys, and more especially I bird-n«bling boys, in his (nlbntalions. In the first place, he hated trespassers; aliid in the second, it wna one of his ' Bimpile ple:i8Urea lo -walk in the early I morning and Histen t.o the singing of tho birds that swarmed around. Ac- cordingly, at the obnoxiouB sight be stojvped Builde-nily, and drawing him- I44i u|k to his full height, addressed the trembling youth in bis sweetest vwice, "Tour name its, I )>elUeveâ€" Brady- Jim Bradyâ€" correct me If I am wrongâ€" aaid you, have come here, youâ€" youâ€" youngâ€" villianâ€" to steal my birds." The frightened boy walked slowly backward, followed hy the old man with his fiery eyes fixed uipon his f'w'f' till usta.st concussion against the trunk of a great tree prevented further re- treat. Here he stood for about thirty se«;onds, writhing under the glance that Beiemed to pien^e him through ajid through, liil at last he could stand ill no longer, buiti flung bimaelf on the gr<<und, roaring : "Oh ! ilon't ee, squire ; don't ee now look III me with that 'ere eye. Take and thmsh me, squliire, but don't ee fix uie so 1 I hiayn'b had no more nor t'wenty this year, and a nest of apanxes, and 1'om Smith he'sl had fif ly-two and a young owl. Oh I oh I" Fnrageil beyond measiuire at this last piei!e of information, Mr. Caresfoot took his victim at, his word, and, cea&- ing his ocular experiments, laid into the less boborable jiorUonl of his form witli the gold-headed malacca cane in a wliy tliat astonished the prostrate Jim, liouyh he was afterward heard to declare that the squire'^ cane "warn't not nothing compared with the squire's eye, whii-h ware a hot coali, it wore, and_ frizzled your (nnardid as sich." When J .m Brady had departed, never to return again, and the old man had recovered his usual suavity of manner, he remarked to his son : "There is sooae curious property m the human eye ; a property that is, I believe, very much developed in my own. Did you olserve the effect of Jmy glance upon that boy * I was trying an experiment on him. I remember it was always the same with your jpoor mother. She could never bear me to look aj^ her." Philip made no reply, bu,t he thought that, ii she haxi lieein the object of ez- jwriments of that na^ture, it was not very wonderful. ' Shortly after their returta home be rei;eived a note from Mjtia Lee. It ran thus t I "My dear Philipâ€" What do you tbinkJ Ju^ aft«r you bad gome away, I got by the midday pott, which Jones, the butcher, brought from Boxham, sev- eral letters, among them one from Grunips and oos irum Uncle Tom. Grumps has shown a, cause. Why? 'It' Olid th.at Bbia was not an improper person; IhiI, for kll that,, she ia so angry with Uaale Tom tha<t she will not come back, but ha^ accepted an offer to go to Cutuwla as companion to a hidy ; so farewell Grumpe. "Now for UnoLa Tom. "If suggested that I should live with some of my rarlHtiims tin I c^aane of age, and pay thiam four htibdred a year, which I think a good d«ali. I ami bure it can't ••out foua- hundred u year to feed me, though I have such an appetite. I bad no idea they were all ao fond of me tie- fore; they all want me to come and iA\e> with them, exowpt Aunt Cham- tierH, who, you know, lives In Jersey. Uncle Toco says in his letter that he »h.ill lie glail if his daughters can have the advantage of my example, aud of studying hiy i<. i'^h 'd lu.inners, just fancy my poli.shcil manners ; and X know, because lii.UIe Votu, who is a brii;k, tofd me that only la«t year he heard his father, tell Kuiilyâ€" that's the eldeaitâ€" that I was a d<»wdy, snub- noeml, iJl-mannered miss, but that ithe muiit kee|i in wHb me aod flatter me Up. No, I will not liv« with Uncle Tom, and I will tell 'It' bo. If I must leave my home, I will go to Au'nt ChumlierH at Jersey. Jersey is a lieautiful place for flowers, and one leaj-n» French there without the trouble of learning it; and I like Aunt Cham- bers, and she has noohildren, and noth- ing but the memory of a dear departed. Ilut I don't like leaving home, and feel very mucli inclined to cry. Hang the Court of Chancery and Uncle Tom and his interference toolâ€" there. I supiKise yiiu can't find time to come over to-morrow morning to see me off ? Good-bve, dear I'hilip. Your af/eition- ate friend, "Maria Lee." Philip did manage to find time next morning, and come back looking very dia'i insulate. (To be contlnuied,) IN A FKW WORDS. The gre^it bridge to be built at Mont- reiil,. 7,000 feet long will have twenty- three spans of 242 feel each and one of 386, There will be two railroad tra<-ks, two trolley ways and two foot-paths. The bridge will be completed within a year. The authorities ot Milan have de<-ided to stop street sprinkling on very -warm days on the ground that the process only aggravate)* the siluutioin, as moist heat is much more iliHagreeable than dry heal. It is u'lwi argued that the sprinkling favors the growth of injur- ious bacteria. It is i-ali'ulated that a fluent speaker utters between 7,000 and 7„')00 words in the course of an hour's uninterrupt- ed speaking ; many orators of morn than usual rapid utterance will reat:h 8,000, and even 9,000. Kut I2h words a minute, or 7,500 an hour, ie a fair aver- age. The largest creamery in the world is said to be near St. Albans, Vt. Twelve thou.sand cows, owned by 700 farmers, supply the cream, and the average daily product is 10,000 pounds, or five tons, of butter. The .Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, of Portland, Me , has prevented two entertainments, in which the chief feature was to be cha.s- ing grea.sed pigs. A storekeejier in Uath, Me., says that rats never gnaw heiivlo<'ik. He keeiis all his grain in hemllo(^k chests. There were 300 applications for a sin- gle chaplaincy in the Unitetl States ar- my re'.enlly. LOVPinS' ALARM CLOCK. An Irish genius has invented a lov- ers' alarm clock. At 10 o'clock it strikos loudly, two lillliB doors ojien and a fig- ure oi a man attired in a dret,.sing gown apjiears, holding in tiis right band a sign on which are inscribed the words, " Good night." SPRED OF OCEiAN STEJAMERS. The Sliced of our faistest oceaji steam- ers is now greater than that ot express trains on Italian railways. GRAINS OF GOLD. Mallow drinks half of it« i*'*^ poison. â€" Seneca. Censure ia the tax a man pa^s to the public for being ejiiinent, â€" Swift. Flattery is a sort of b»d money to which our vanity gives currency.â€" Locke. Good 'will, like a good name, is got by many actional, and lust by one.-* Jeffrey. He that ca;lls a man ungrateful, sums up all tiie evil that a man can be guilty of, â€" Swift. Fire and sword are but slow engine* of destrucLion in comparison with the babbler.!â€" Steele. No man ever offended his o'wn con- •cience, but first or lust it waa rereng- ed uiion him for it.â€" South. Men are never ao ridiculous for the qualities they have, as for those they affect to have.'â€" Chanon. The greatest part of mankind em- ploy their first years to make their last miserable Jâ€" iBruy ere. Gaiety is not a proof that the heart is at eaaei for often in the midst of laughter the heart is sad.^ â€" De Genlia. Friendship improves happiness, and aliat«s misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief.â€" Addison. A good world is an easy obligation ; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.â€" 'Hllot- •on. Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others shar* their happiness -with them. â€" Toylor. Good qualities are the substantial riches of the mind ; but it is good breed- ing that sets tlicia off to advantage.-^ Locke. He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over whioh he must iiosa himself ; for every niian haa need to be forgiven.â€" iHierbert. For drunkenness, drink cold waters for health rise early ; to be happy, b* honest ; lo please all, mind your own bu^iues8.â€" Franklin. He that is a good man is three-quar- ters of his v.a.y toward the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, OX whatsoever he is called.â€" South. An unjust acquisition is like a barb- ed arrow, which must be drawn back- ward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction â€"Taylor. Energy will do anything that can ba done in this viwrid, ami no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, wiU make a two-legged ammal a man will> out it. â€" Goethe. It is imixissiMe to make i>eople un- derstand their ignoranc« ; for it re- quires knowledge to pieroeive it ; and therefore he that can perceive it bath iX not.â€" Bishop Taylor. To pardon those absurdities in our- selves which we cannot suffer in others, is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have othen so.â€" Pope. woivtEa^ OF -me MIm Edic najoaage, the young tin^ liAiiWtkman whose BLarria«e to a Span- iard, Don Franoiaoo de Paulo Ossohio, was recently celebrated, posed as a child for MilUis, and was the original of his famous 'Cherry Ripe." The Queen, it is said, is very nuioW hart that Sunday is nuw so much lees carefully observed th»n in early Vio. torian days, and would gladly issue, were she able, a ooudemnatijon of Sun- day dinner parties and uusuitabU amusements. Airs. Clara Fisher Maeder, the ones famous actress, has published her me- moirs. She is 86 years of age, and first went on the stage when 6 years old. For Ti years she acted continu- ously, and at th» age of 78 retir- ed. She was at one time considered the best Sifaakespe&reaa actress of her day. Allle, Cleuieuce Iloyer, who first trauslate<t Darwm's books into French, and who has written several metaphjr. sical hooka, was taken from tho Galig- nani Hume for De«litule Authors on her seventieth birthday, and treated to a dinner at the Grand hotal by a num- ber of French and foreign scieulifio men. Miss Laiura B. Parsons, of Denver, a former art student in Munich, sayS that on going into a Munich gallery oue day she saw a bsautifut new Ce- cilia. Lt was the ideal face of a saint, -calm, serene, and rapL, V with the heavenly melodyâ€" and Miss Parsons le- coguizeu in il the face of a model who had a few days before stolen her purse. Wueen Louisa of Deumark is next af- ter Ijueen Victoria the oldest of the sovereign ladies of Europe, She was born in 1822, Princess Ixiuisa of Hes.se- CYtssel, and on h*r father's side is re- lated to the Koyal family of England. In 1842 she married Prince Christian of Denmark, who Later came to the Dan- ish throne under the title of King Christian IX. The anniversaries of British victor- ies won in the Ciimean wan are never forgotten by Florence Nightingale, in spite of her 76 years and her broken health. She always I remembers to send a message to the veterans of the Crimea, and at Christmas time she never fails to send some token oli re- membrance 10 the workers in the institution for trained nurses wliich she founded at St. Thomas' hospital, lAindon, not long alter the close of the war. WllONGLY INFORMED. I have been told that the beautiful Miss Renfrew married a man who bad not a cent to bi^ name. Whoever told you so didn't know what he was talkl-ng about. She mar- ried a man named Garliok. GBrriNG OFF OHBAPJiY. Mrs. Common^ook, at the summer hotel,â€" They say that the waiter atoiui table ia a foreijgn nobleman. ' Mr, Commonstock, excitedlyâ€" Good 1 I'll offer hiim one of our daughters and a share ia my busijiess and escai>4 tip* plag him.