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* ilE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WOULD OVER. Item* About Oar Own Country, Qmt Britain, the United SUte>, and All Part* of the Ulob*. CosdcaMd ud AMorUd tor */ Reading. CANADA. Tbe deadlock in tbe London City Council remains unbroken. Mr. H. Wrigbt wa yesterday elect- ed President of the Guelpb Fat Stock Club. Mr. F. W. Matheuvon has been elected Pn-tid-ut of the Winnipeg lbia.nl of Trade. Mrs. Cynthia Bell of Ottawa, is charg- ed with horrible i-rucKv t two of her gT-in<lt-iiililren named Shortt. The old drill shed at King.itoo, the property of Queen's Univerity, col- larned from the weight of snow on tbe roof. Mr. James. Stepbensnn. General Su- pennten lent * of tbe Grand Trunk, is retiring after 40 years' of active ser- vice. HOB. Dr. Montague. Minister of Agriculture, ia in very poor health, and inte.n Ih going to New York to consult a specialist. Hon Wilfred Laurier has accepted an invitation to he present and address the St. Jean Uaptiste Society of De- troit on June 24. At the Winnipeg Board of Trade ban- quet Hi. i.. Mr. (ireenway spoke strong- ly na tbe freight ratm charged bn N . vest produce. At the annual dinner of the Thir- i^iiiieat uu.l Hamilton Field Bat- tery a purse of gold was presented to Private nayhursf, G.M. Tbe Ontario Education Department ha.s arranged for the estaulishmen of e, training school fur French and Eng- Iwb teachers in Ottawa. The annual returns of tbe London Chief of Police show that tbe detec- tive department in 1895 recovered stol- en property to tbe value of ?.! SJJ3 A despatch from Ottawa says that it is practically settled that Col. M \ I ine.r will he Adjutant -Gneral. Lieut. - Colonel Otter, of Toronto, is to be made a full colonel. The inquest into tbe death of Alice Allin/ham of Hamilton, whose death %va* guppined to have been caused by a Mw from a> snowball, reauli*.! in a verdict of death from pneumonia. Spotters have been at work on tbe Hamilton street cars. and. as a re- sult, a nurutier of conductors have been !< tared by the management for ac- i-entintj overdue transfers and limited tk-kets out of boors. Tbe H.. G. & B. directors have se- cured from tbe Lincoln County Coun- cil the right to construct and operate for twenty years an electric railway line between Grims>y and Branisville on the Qoeemton rood. John Naukiville shot \Vm. Smith. bio companion, while they were preparing to rob a bouse near Winnipeg. ~ will iin.iwl.ly die. Both men are ex- ii-nvi i.< and Smith's knovvU-d^t- of an attempted murder by Nankiville was tbe 1'uu.te of tbe shooting. Ruwell Kitchen, u lireiuan employed in a factory at Gait, Ont.. while oihnir sxFiiif of th<3 machinery, had his rlotli>-^ caught in the belting'. He waa burled \\iiii great force agairsU tbe beams atwve, hi neck, both tog*, and arms, being broken. The deceased was 22 years of age. The lUnJcera' section of the Montreal Bonrd of Trade are about to iasue a cir- cular to the several Boards of Trade and leading banks of tbe Dominion, with the object of securing, if possible, iiifoimatioii regarding the amount of United States silver, an well as of sil- ver certificates in Canada. A despatch from Niagara Falls. N. Y.. says that tbe Manaey-Harris C..T.I- pany will reutove from Toronto to Ni- agara falls. This it not correct, Imt the story ban foundation in the fact that the Masse) -Hani* Company are negotiating for a site in Niagara Falls. N.Y., to establish a branch, from which they can supply the United StaUu mar- ket. so accentuated t.hri* the may be forcnd to retire from the Cabi- i net. If be should retire, it w suggested aa a possibility that he may lead the Liberal*. It ia understood that upon tbe re- aiwembling of the Imperial Parliament t h- - Libe.nl - will chal!cng! the Govern- ment on the abandonment of tbe Ar- menians. At a later period, on a mo- tion to adjourn, they will arnurn tb* Government for refusing to Mihrnit the Venezuelan question to arbitration. UNITED STATES. A great coal trust has been formed In Now York and prices advanced 35 cents a ton. A woman life insurance age-nt ia do- ir.,< a thriving business in and about Nebo, Kj. A bald eagle, with a big steel trap hanging to one of its legs, flew over Licking, Ky., a few days ago. Seventy thousand buna of tbe stern and rock-bound coast of Maine were shipped from two quarries alone last year. The key of Libby prison and the flag which floated over the nruon are pre- served in tbe Soldiers' Memorial hall at Rutlard. Vt. Two hale nonage nariana. Mi . rd Mrs. , Moulder, of Honey Creek. Ind., celebrat- i ed the sixty-ninth anniversary of their marriage lost week. The British steamer laureatina. sail- I ing from Baltimore on Dec. li. for Sli- | go, has been given up for lost. She had i a crew of 25 men. Mr. GRHAT BRITAIN. Rhodes baa arrived in Eng- Gen. Sir Charles Patton-Keys, G.C.B., i dead. He had been in military service in India for many years. Seidlit* powders must not be made too strong in Midland. X drutcg^t lion just t>e'n fined for over-ilosing the peoitle of !((!. Mr. I'liauibexiaia ha invited PJYIM- Kniger to visit England for the imrt>oM^ <u di&cu&sing reZoruis in tbe rsal Tho l.oiiiUm newppers publish and generally approve of th* tipeei-hes In ParlLaniwvt on Mr McNeill'a loyalty resolution. .' London tira|.bic. says if tbe Fivi. k -ii mean business in their dispute with Brazil, the AnierU-an jingooti will have another chain*- for a war scare. The Britinh trade return f'>r .lanu- ary ntu.u an increase of 1.780,000 in iiMi..iit. .in-l <>f i.'.'.Hio.iHio in expivrui, aa red v il h those of January Tlie coining Ilritish naval programme will coat 9.5<.IO.OU(I wi'h which will he -.1 four battleships, four fust- cli^> . nii.vis. four i tiird class cruisers and sixty torpedo destroyers. 1-ady Jane Fnvnceoca Sporanza V widow o/ Sir '.Villuuii l!.4x-rt \Vilta Wi''l<-. M I) . Kurv'.'ii-i vi! ,; to > JpKty in Irelaod, and mother of Oscar Wilde, is dead. Rijrht TI -n Arttur J Rilfoiir. in a po<N-ti at Bristol, announced that t he r,.. n iiwni woul .'a hill in the llou.se of Cnramoits to increase tbe id given to sectarian -. The oomlition of the tin workers in Wa!*s is dnscribed as wretched. Scarcely ne i-egu- Isrlv ire nearly on- hundred and seventy miUs idle. Much interest h.i- . I in IxintliHi military circled by u< In the St. James' Ga" "rial organ, strongly urging that ImperUl as- MaiH be given to C'aninia in the abape of a ln, to perfect the defences of the couwtry, tt iastatftd in London political clrclen that the difference of opmi' K' Ltlnl Salinluary and Mr t :m \n Orange-growing in Arizona is e<l to have passed tbe experimental stage, and will become an important in- ;du->try in the territory. Father John M. Fitzgerald, of Roch- ester, N.Y.. was convicted on Wcdnes- . day of arson in tbe second degree. The i sentence was deferred. A fifty-foot granite abaft, tbe longest : piece of granite ever taken out of a . quarry in Vermont, was quarried at I Barre a few days ago. Last year 25,115.90.1 fewer cigars wern made in the United States than in 1* '... and 8,358.380 more pounds of smoking tobacco was manufactured. | " In honour of a young lady visiting the town," a very successful dog fight waa given in Swampdale. Ky., the other day, according to a local paper. A Woman's Rights Club has been or- ganized in St. Joseph. Mo., and arrange- ments have been made for putting in a billiard table and a woman barber. The Chesapeake oyster beds are rapid- 1 ly diminishing in productiveness, i-'if- 1 teen yearn ago they furnished about 10.000 000 burheU of oysters. Tbe pro- duct this vear will not be more than 5.000.000 bushels. Tlie new popular bond issue of the I t::'.-l Si itea Government was a great : loan having been subscribed for five tinvj* over, and at prices con- ibly l..L,'!wr than even the moat sanguine had expected. Star'tsb have ca'fs-d immense damage 1 among the Cot-.ne--ti.ut oynter heils this i senrson One . -r has spent $8,000 in > the Ivit lew mouths in an effort to i check thn ravoxev. of tbe starfish, but with iv perceptible result- Strjv. berries are ripe. aiH being pick- ed for shipment in Hillsiiorough. KU. rate of this season's strawber- lei't that place three or four days ago. The berries are in excellent con- 11 and the prospects are good for a large crop. The Washington correspondent of the London Timed reaffirms that there ia a for a friendly settlement of the Venezuelvi dispute at the White Mouse, an 1 that Great Britain's ac.e|>' once of arbitration would be followed by an explosion of delight in America. A despatch from Bui te. Montana, says complaint* come from the -tiers in 1 that forest* on tbe United States side I that foiests on the United States side of tbe boundary have been largely d-- nud"d of timber by Canadi ms and th it millions of dollars' worth of lumb- er has been taken during tbe past few years. Commercial telegrams from New York, aa to the condition nf business throughout the I uite.1 States, indicate BO decided changes yet. The success of the popular loan has not yet had time to af'tvt buHinew. but the consequences in ^neater confidence and necessarily f activity will probably be consid- erable. There b a perceptible improve- ment in ii. n. and copper ia also higher. The (woollen mill* are keeping fairly active, though lessened production is still talked of. There baa been no change in cotton. Tbe indication* for the better are improved bank clearings. ' firmer prices in several staple lines, and I an improved demand in steel and iron. GENERAL. General Campos baa arrived at Mad- rid from Cuba. Pan oi Duhomeiy is to be colonized with Alsatians and Lorrainars who have served in tho French army. The Times intimate* that tbe situa- tion in ( be. Transvaal ia much more serious than, it appears to be on the surface. "Jack-t )!-!! ipper" ia the subject of a new ojiera about to be produced at Ver- ona, music, and words by an Italian nam- ed Uu.iua. A despatch from CoiiHtantinople says the Turkish officials continue to Lin4*-de the relief of tbe Armenians. The offi- want all the money entrusted to Sixty Anarchists have been arrested in Lilon in connect inn with the recent bomb-throwing. The %>verament ha.s determined upon strong anti-Anarchist me.tsurea. Advices received in London from vre say that tbe Sikhs, under Brit- Ub officers have gained two brilliant >i ie* ever the slave raiders of Brit- ish Central Africa. Tho Government of Saxony has pre- pared a bill changing the election sys- tem, and virtually disfranchising the working classes, the object being to) ex- clude Socialists from the Diet. The intention of introducing a navy 'ill at the present atutiion of the German Reichstag has been abandoned, but the id -a has not been relinquish- ed, aixl a bill will be drafted in readi- ness for the next session. General Count von Schouvaloff. tbe Ct>\e.mor General of Hu.-vsian Poland, bis decided to submit to the Czar a ,1 programme, for the government of that country, and if it. is rejected hf will tender hi* reaignaaon. tton-hdrevinek. the Norwegian united the Aut- , says tho Antarctic continent is about four millinn square mi led In ez- tont. !( ;iy3 ih- < Miilry U habitable. but he does not think anyone is living there. Th correspondent of the African Critic at Johannesburg cable* that he baa collected damming eviden< of the refir-d torture, of a captain and a troop- er of Dr. Jameson's foroe by the Iloers. whae commander afterwards ordered tbe two prisonera to be shot. The rnanlu'ion of belligerency of the Cultan insurgents of the United States Senate has created a great sensation in S;.ain. The Madrid Epoca saya Presi- dent Cleveland surely cannot forget the traditioas of American policy. The Con- federates during the late war were nor r*>-. 'Knifed .i.s .K-lligerenU, nor were the Chilian inxurgpnts in their last war. A denpat.cb from Kimnitin Jamaica, says that four Urit.ish warships are an- ohoreji at Port Royal, at the entrance to Kinfraion Harbor, and that no for- eign warship ia allowed into the har- bor. It is probable that thu British are laying down a system of mine:*, and of courfA it ia important to keep their peti- tion a secret. The Federal Council of Switzerland has authorised tbe President nf tbe Republic to accept the proposal ten- i by tbe Governments of Great Britiin and tbe United States, that in the event of a disagreement as to the otioi.-e. of. a-i a.-'i t ra; : >r :'. .1- i:t> C;in-idi:>n - the President, of Switz- . 1 shall de.sign.ate an arbitrator. A new Russian transport company, under tli" direction of a Hn-<-iii I b.-u'iri trading In the Black Sea forthwith, and will extend its op- erati'-iis -'et is large enough. S-ven steamers ordered from ind will be built to serve u trans- port* or cruisers in time of war. and to provide a largo addi'-iou to the Ru-^iaa navy. mDKOBE OF A MONKEY, HIS OWNER A RICH MAN. HAS HIM FITTED OUT BY POOLE. r l VrrllaMr Beau Itrioum, I \w- M.i p ii.iiiiu. .mil ltiiik-K.ir ail oilirr 4 li.ilnu : \, i ...,ri,-^ of a llllB Awrll. It was in London recently that tbe owner of a monkey conceived tbe idea of providing bet monkey with decent clothes. Man. be argued, owed cer- tain debt of gratitude to dead monkeys, which they could repay in no better fashion than hy showing a decent court- esy to living ones. And to this forcible reasoning Brunixuel owes hia ward- robe. Hia maater sent to Poote. Mr. Poole is tbe most fashionable which means the must expensive tailor in London and therefore in the world. One baa to be introduced before Poole will make clothes for one. This was tbe talk: "You make children's clothes." "No." replied Mr. Poole. "Won't you make an exception to your rule, in this particular rosrf "I'm worry." answered tbe tailor, "but we haven't "got a man In tbe place who can make a decent suit for a boy." "To be f.'ir with you." was the hes- it-iting n-ply. "it it isn't & boy," "Oh." said Mr. Poole "Yea," the Ambassador went on, "it isn't a bov. if* a n;otik--v " Mr. Poole drew himself up to bis full height, and with considerable hauteur replied : "That's different. I thought it wan a boy. Will you bring the monkey ke,re, or shall I measure bun at his iinissf~ "1 .". <s you'd better send to bia nuKtui." was the reply; "he's not ac- customed to tailor shops." "What kind of a suit do you want?" "Oh, I want neveral suits. A whole wanlrobe. in fact. Brunmiel needs a dress suit, an ordinary everday suit, a golf suit, a dressing gown, pajamas and a bath robe." "II "\ bout a watch and chain'" ask ed tbe great London tailor, with a rare bun*, ot British humor. "To tell you the truth." was the re- Cly. "he had a little silver watch once, ut he couldn't digest it and it re- quired two doctors to get U out." Mr. Poole sent Dent, the famous Dent, hU bead cutter, to measure Brum- mrl. and uithin two weeks the monkey had the neaUut little wardrobe that ever uiorut.1 monkey possessed. His dress suit is made of costlfe brondcloth. faced with satin, and stitch- ed ti . Mlk HLs walking costume ia of heavy English tweed, and when you Bruminel with his cap perrhed jauntily up<ni hu head and a walking .stick in one band you have a vivid irn|inT-i.Mi of having seen some- thing like it before probably upon s traryil antic liner. Hie pajamas are of tbe lightest, finest Chinese ailk, and the monkey has be- come sr> accustomed tn them that be refuaea to g<> to sleep without them Tbe bath ruw, which is of sume fleecy material, soft to the touch, pleased* Krumonel so much that he actually learned to take a bath every morning, for the pleasure of feeling it upon bis back. Of cours*. Brummel ha* a valet to look after him. and you may de|M"' upon it this valet earns bu wagea. There i t. n.v in IILS life first task in t.he morning is to run to BrumnK'I's little bl ,nd * if Itrum- ":! in still alive. With Brummel'.s in ordinat* fondno for eating everything that shinm. fn>ru hand mirrors to wf hair brushes, this U always prob- l>-matiivil The wner however, ia very fund of the little fellow, and spare* '-r trouble or expense to make him i-om/ortoble. Ilniiniiier.s position in life is truly en- viable. He has all that he requires and has no responsibilities. Substitute for Gold. In France a new substitute for gold baa been formed by combining ninety- four parts of copper with six parts of antimony, and adding a tittle, magne- sium carbonate to increase tbe weight. It ia said that this alloy can !<e drawn, wrought and soldered very much like gold, and that it also receives and re- tains a golden polish. It is worth about twenty-five ue.nls a pound. "Did you fall f" said a man rushing to the rescue of a woman who al on the icy pavement this morning ' b no." she said "I just sat down to sea if (could find any four-leaf clovers." WINTER WRINK.LG8. a girt may be bright enough to know that 'kiss" is a nuun, she's fre- quently unable to decline it. A Clear Cowcienc-e. "Don't some of old songs haunt you t" "No; I've nevar murdered any of luem." "Do you know Bilk t" "Know the in- fernal scoundrel I Why, be - " "Ah. I see, you do know him." Effie "Jack, papa said we must not see each other any more." Jack "In- deed I Shall I turn the gas out .'" First Debutante "My cheeks are all on fire." Second Debutante" 1 thought there waa a smell of burning paint." "My fuel gas bill amounted to $20 this month." said llilaiid. "You must have money to burn." replied Halke.t. Will some one tell "A Curious Read- er" why the pictures of horseless car- riages show that many of ttieae new <w are provided with whip sockets t She "Yes. that U Mr. Gamboge, the artist. He is wedded to his art." He "Judging from hia appearance. I should .say that he didn't marry for money." "What! You say that Herr Scbmi- dle, the merchant, has gone, blind t Here's a pretty how d'ye do I have a hill on the man which u made out 'pay- able at sight I' " "For the life of me." said the young man. I don't see why a woman wan orn with the Name capacity for swallowing excuses that she has for ice cream !" "Katie, why haven't yon warmed my study better f The thermometer shows only 58 dejjrreesl" "But, professor, ior so small a room it seems to me 58 de- grees are enough !" "Excuse me, *ir." said Barker to a boori>a traveler, "but what is your bus- iness ,'" "I am a gentleman, air. That's my Lu-siness." "Ah." said Barker. "1 see. You are ^fc-ng a vacation. 1 * "M.iid of Athens, ere we part. Give me back my silver heart. I can't :l; dever damsel cried. " My new beau's picture is inside." Mus Playne "U it true that you said tbe mere sight ot my face would make a man climb a fence I" Har- greavn* "I er meant of course, if the man was on the other side of the fence." "John," said tbe frightened wife in the middk* oi the night, "there's some- thing moving down cellar, I'm sure." John listened intently. "Oh, its noth- ing but thr gas-meter pegging away," he said, with asigh of i>- Hol-^Hi [ don't hear you. nowadays expressing tbe wish that it would snow good ard i..u-d. lU.cnt you got yuur cutler still?" N I'lvk-'Nol I'm married now, and we have a snow shovel in the cellar." Tbe Musician's Wife "Have you thoioii^rhly practised the atvomnaju- men't you am to play for MU Vmatour to-nu'Iit '" The Musician " No. but it doesn't matter, you know. It's a so- ciety musical and no! ody ever listens." "Waiter." .iaid the guest. "I'm a little afraid o( tins milk, haven t vou any boiled water?" "We can boil you some, sab." replied the wi'er "but the milk is all right. We iue nothing but artesian well water here sab." t ncle Josh " I ain't sure whether iiion done me any goi-d or not. Mebbe I'd adoue better if I didn't know how to read or write." Aunt Samantha "How no I" i n< ! Josh "\\>1I. 1 wouldn't a read any 'hinta to Farmers.' " lli:irifui. "Hello. Kiseam. bad your Kiamru "Yes, dear boy. i found a place where they cut your hair while you wail." Huggina "That's good. A barber shop is usually a place where they cut some other man's hair while you wail." WUfjey Walker "Say. Rogsey. <!er<-'M *guy out west curm peoplB of tmirs by just layin' bis han<ls on 'em." Ram- sey Tatters "Wonder if dat's the same liliike what told me last summer if he ever laid his hands on me he'd cure me of dut tired feelin' f" .Mother "Now. Willie, you've been eating mince pirn till you've made your- self ill. 1 shall have to send for the livtor." Willie "I say. if you are sending for the doctor may 1 have an- other mince pie 1 It won't make any difference, you know." Gotrox "I think young Cheek I y in a foreign nobleman m dieguise." W id- wag" Wh.it maken you think so J" Gotrox "Well, be has succeeded in bor- rowing a thousand dollars from me, and now be wants U> maj-ry my daughter." Old Quiverful "And so you want to lake our daughter from us; you want to take her from us suddenly without aword of warningt" Young GosJow at all. sir. If there is anything about her you want to warn me against. I'm willing to listen." Wife "They say that Sarah's suitor is a man of very indolent habits. Is that sof" Hiwband "On the con- tcary. my dear, he iit a hard worker" Wife "In what line?" Huaband- "\Voll. be has the hardest kind of work trying to live without <loing anything." Yabstey "I saw another one of those stories a! out a man losing hia watch and not finding it for two yearn, and when he did find it it was still running." Muotte "Well. I know I found an old tailor's bill I had mislaid seven year* ago, and it was still running." . Uiainol Uiuvium "I see a funny thiry in tbe |pe.r wane days seucr. It said ;:i-n Fli M.V. b always wii n'. run away when she seen a sheriff I got the name complaint." Ever- ett Wrest "I Wonder ef it is po>*i !e that royal blood flows in your veins f" Sure Weed Killer. The latest method of killing weeds us by electricity. Prof. Woodwortb, of Agricultural College, has ><< M in i kilo? e\|*-iimeut.s which show that the new method U both cheap and effec- tive. A whi-elliarrow or wagon la load- ed with storage batteries from which wii'es trail along the ground. The u is then taken over the land to le clcanvi and wherever the wires U*i<-h a weed it is inslan'.ly killed clean d<-n to the roots. The professor claims that electricity ,ia prcfeiabls to almunt any- thing IMB (or destroying the dreaded Knvion and Canada thistles. These hardy peata rvaist nv*t weed-killing com|x>umla. because the roots are nut destroyed and the plants spring up again with reitt'wed vigor. The electric cur- rant. no-wever. runs down to the low- est root and destroys it. A drawback to the scheme U the initial raat of the batteries and apparatus, but in the long run it pays tor itself. LIFE'S GREAT LOTTERY SOME VERY ODD MARRIAGES WHICH HAVE TAKEN PLACE. X'lriuinnlal Tralum of Mnr Prmllar kin.l. TkMl I Mil., I 1, nUI i u I il I. ,. Old Sir Henry Parke* who. at tb* age of 81. bM just married 20-year old chambermaid in Ilia household, is by no means tbe first titled English- man to seek a matrimonial alliance in iba servant s hail. As a rule, tbe bride- grooms in suth cases have been of lea* mature age than .Sir Henry, v.h_- ia tbe nut duUnguiihed of all Australian statesmen, and lias repeatedly held tbe office of Prime Minister of New South WaLes. An-yng tbe inuttt notable cases are those at Sir David Evans, who WM knighted during his term of office a* Lord Mayor of London, and WOOM wifa waa a chambermaid at tbe Seven Oaks Hotel in Kent, where be WM in tbe habit of staying on bio fitthiug excur- sions. Sir Henry Hawkia.v tbe emi- nent English juii t 'e of the Supreme Court, married his housemaid, while tb* snnond wile uf the late Lord Brainwell bad previously filled tbe office of cook in but ebUabliahment. Tbe late Earl Stamford married his general servant. a negress, FROM THE WASH-BOARD. Nor are such marriages aa these oorw fined to tbe English aristocracy. Tbe Dowager Duchess of Rochefoucauld, mother of tbe bead of thai illustrious bouse, was a laundress, while tbe Dow- ager Countess of Waldatein. whose son now dead, married Princess Metter- nich's daughter I'aaaline had been a chambermaid in her husband's house- hold. Count Eugene Kinttky married bis laundress, and old Count Octave Kins- ky. wh<- death at tbe age of Si bad just taken place, disgusted his rela- tives by wedding a wholly uneducated and exceedingly objectionable woman who had filled the position of scullery niaiii in hu kiu-iieu. After marrying him she rendered herself so abhorrent to tbe people of tbe district, especial- ly to the peasantry, that on two occas- ions she waa shot at. The Count him- self was placed under legal restraint s couple of years ago by bin relatives to prevent bun from dimipating his vast estates and ruining his property in order to satisfy the greed uf hi* ple- beian-born wife. WOMEN OF RANK. Tet 1:1. ii,.-r nobleman who has mar- ried a -ervaut LI Prince Gregory Stour- !za. the Roumanian general, senator in-i ->iateauum. There are two instan- ces ot wouueu occupying menial posi- tions wedding royalty, uue twin.,' Uo-iiia, the inorguntic wUeu< the U;e K.lug V i c - tor Kuiiuanuel of Italy, who was a- cu.uuberuiaid at an uin when she at- tr.u.ied but attention. I he other was thai of tbe consort of Peter the Great, who was elevated to the dignity of ttn- presd of Russia, and. from who la de- aoeoded the present occupant of the throne. Still more numerous are tb- I imt an- ces of women of r.utk --elcing males in the kitchen or stable, it'iniesti Adolph Chuiiay in married to her I.'U^IL.U but- ler, who rejoiced in the name of Jub- aoii beforw Mm piuvh.ued fur huu tbe lL.iiia.ii title of count, ivuil Uie Uuke of sister. Latiy Ida H'l*-. first elop- ed with an<l tbsn n .in ir l her groom. : YKI.-'TV* 1- ;,.: it>ei li Uobenlobe married one of her uih<-i i r^.t-p. era juat a few weeks be I ore giving birth to a cuild oi whu-h he was the lather. Besides these there are a gund many families of rank who are descended from servants. Sir U,.r,u-e lUmbold, Ihe Bri- tish envoy at The 11 >; , of the most distinguish* -d diplomatists ia the service of Uueeu \ .< i ; 10, is des cended from a 01011 wtio worked bi way up FROM. TIIK BUTLKHSHIP of one of the clubs in LuuUou to tbe punt of Governor uf Madron, and it was for hia services in Vh Latter capacity tu.it he was crrauxl a bu one., tbe dignity now borne by e>ir Horace. Then t hurt) id the iLu HULK Ucrvey de Saint Denis, one of the leaders jf I i.-i.uj -iety. and an intimate frieud oi tb* Countess de Paris, who Is tbe daughter of an English groom named Ward. -\ ho, commencing as HI able-boy, ended by becoming tbe Prune Mu:i-!ur of the Duke oi i'anua. Prince Henry' of Bat- teikx-rg's sister-in-law, the now widow- ed PrincotM Alexander of UatUtiiberg ajid Countess of Uarteiiuu. is the issue of a uuiou between ttie -. .ilet and tbe cook of old b'ield Marshal Count M u - tini. The entire princely buae of Mar- it is descended troiu King Joscbim of N n>li, *m> oi'^au life a.s a stable boy, while the Cin>t IVince Kutunoff, the fouii'ier al the puwerlul UusMan family of that name, achieved bis greatness by the skill which he displayed aa valet and barbcT to Czar I'aul. ITie Dukus of Marlborougb are des- cended from, a chambermaid, while the first Duchess of M.u 'n>ugh lived to M< a uuui who had bvu in her service blossom into a Secretary of State and a Pustnxaoter-iieueral. Brougham's Ready Wit. Lord Palmcmtou on one occasion took the chair at a meeting in connection with University CoiU'ii*'. London. He was not so fauuliar. \viiia .Mrs. S. bi- de Morgan in her reminiscences, with tbe sort of speech expected in such a place, as he would have been at \Veet- uiiuste.r, and. meaning to adapt bis rbe- uiiu 1 to the occ.kHiou, began very ap- proprLately, "It baa been said that a little learning ia a danoerous thing,' bu'. it in boiler than better than better than" Uere came a dead stop. L/ord Uro.ik.-lj.uji. who sat betu.de the speaker, caiiue Lo the teocue, apeakuig with hia peculikT nasal twang, '!' than a gt>Mt .I,MI of ugnorance." This of course brought dovvii tbe house, and duriiitj a voliey of lau^hu-.r. cheen uid Kentiah fire. Lord 1'nluifrsti-n re- oovenHl tho font threo<l of. his six'ech. and finished il wiiu the usual ease and fluent/. Waiting ior Developments. First VillaKei How do you like yout new neigi. Second Villager Can't tell yt whether I like hun or bate him. Why sol Tbe first thing be did was to pet op a high wall, and I haven't ijeen able to er whether it is to koeu bia I ens in or my chickens out.