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l r l r ‘...n a“... .l 31"; 1%; V I i :a of" -v-'"‘Ilmv 'do you rike it?" A I R l! u”)?- WI- ' ’9 ‘* ' 5°", . igneous see in order to keep. “I This: 11; Lake this in," remarked tbel whale a he «pimp Jonah, N” W? ~Get : presidential amnion-fin. 11' .31 pufqu natural that s nun should lee his mistake sfter be has made it. “ Piurorui" has reached South Atria; bat there is little hope th:.t it will stay '- GlSKLUJJ' the i mrrler who complains of W Wrak coil-m has unofficith grounds for complaint. ‘A'IUWJK‘X’O man in wars cted with ins -m- an that In. has to g» to church in order to go to deep. Tennis" ladiaza, c-mtmy in what is gen- undcr certain rc- Itrictiuus, much freedom and are particu- hrlygivca to walking, driving and outdr...-r Gully believe], enj -y, lmuu menu. LIrrLz Johnny went fishing last Sunday without consulting his perents. Next morn- ing a neighbour’- boy met him and asked: “ )irl you catch anytuing yesterday 2" “ Not till I got borne," use the rather sad A (limo brother in a recent prayer-meet- -ton, pilot amusement of ilre young people. It is some- tinns well toronsul; Wooster, even before in;:, not a thousand miles from spoke of pu-ig innt grief, “.1: lll’ taking part in iiiictiog. Show echnol “'crc :i'l the number of that one 3" 'I‘irr; late Dr. B Minor: asked a moroee and miserly roan lzwlv' l e was getliug .dong. Thu man rr plied: “What business is that of yours '2" meanest oi (io-i'n erratures.” “ flow are you coming on with sea-bath- ing 2" asked :\ guntlernuir of an invalid. “club uni-.41! 1 baths three times a day." I rnu .f. mice a to My after each bath to re- irtorv t" c circulationâ€"that's how I like it I" As old lady wss visiting the Antiquarian M scum in Edinburgh, the otherr’ay. On in- : 'tiug the old weapons very earnestly, and failing to find what she was apparent looking f r, cal... «l a visit“: if she he could tel bcr Vl'hul’tffllJqua-d they kept ihe axe of the Apostles. SOIlUOLTlLU‘lll-llt to a little boy whose father is a grim-r: “N( w, Johnny. if your father iris a. barrel of wbi-kcy containing forty gallons, and one-fourth of it looks out, how many gallons does he lose!” Johnny â€"“ He don’t lasc none. 110: fills it up again right Ull." IT was n coloured preach-"r who said to hi". ilouk : “ We havu a. collection to make this Ill! tiring, and for the glory of heaven whiclioxor' of you stole Mrs. Jones' turkeys don't pui. ni.yti.in,; on the plate." One who was there says: “ Evury blessed niggab in tho: clr-irch (‘lllilo down wid do rocks.” Our. Sruzclnnon nflliotod with a very bad Cough, nooking anothrr Scn‘cbinan, pro- fnncly remarked to him “that this ~â€" cough would certainly carry him off some day life: a; rocket." “ Aye, nyc," observed No. 2. “ It‘n my opinion, however, if you dinnu mend your manners you'll tak’ ii con- trary direction 1" A room: artist who lives in a boarding- bousc Wétlllm m know how he can learn to play the violi.. without disturbing the other boarders. Soup your how, young man, soup your how, am twin" a «lay lll sweet oil. Then you can sit up all night and play overtures, and nobody Will mind you. 11‘ ir it good thing for Noah that he had the only urk allow. iii all tho universe at the time «f the flood. If there b;.d been just one uiuw urk there would have been a colli- siou tiic fbivd day out, unless those things weru managed butler tlicu lhun lhvy are now. And probably they were not, as it seemed to be h.- co...sidcred dungerou. tol ‘ send out more than one nrk at a time. As rle’Ul. Cii.uiiriuiiâ€"-Pniprictnr lionrdiiigvl onsc “ You'd excuse me, Mr. Shurpsot, but your ripp.-tl‘o in no large tlratl shall be compelled .‘o clung-r you a shilling extra. lt can’t be done at two shillings?" 1)iucr-â€"“ No! for in uvnii's sake don‘t do that l I can out two nhilliiigs' woith easy, but if I have to do threeâ€"4 reallyâ€"afraid I. shouldâ€"but I'll try 1" " Ir you Walt n decent person," remarked a shrill, lulimlo voice on the railway, “ you Would shut down that window and not ex- pose luv to tln draught." “ Mndxuu,"wua the n; iy, as the Wulilnw was softly lowered, “ thought from yr or face that you wore our ‘15, Mid tlvnfmc rut of the draft." And, lliilWilidflil» ding the fuel: that this w'totcli was on the thin, the cars did liof. run off the thick or the locomotive bliist ifs boiler. Osr: of our city families sojourning in the country lwft their city residence in charge of a cook :an fvousrumid, that the head of the Lorine might lxavr :i shelter ovvr night, and “130 [ii kicp Lbc r‘oiucsfics during the year. On her first visit to the city the lady was allullll)‘ rrurprzsod at the query of the cook, of “if the lllmllll'l' wm to be botherin' round nor: as the writer. the house all the saysull." The unfortunate man had run d more over night in his own house. 'l‘iiiis the indulgent inoflicr calloili her son gcntly and in h-gh soprano notes scream- oth, “ Charlie-cl Churliw-cl" but (.‘hnr- lie ccnictli not, nor doth he give the sound a Wood“, but g-n-tli about the business of his p sy. But when his sin. enraged at the dilutory uiutions of his offspring, calleth quickly and shitl’ply, " t‘barlcs Frederick l" Charles Frcrkrfrk liiisilcs liniriownrd with alacrity, merely stopping by the way to in. scrt the cover of his lies: slclliiig book when) it will do the most good. â€"-.eâ€"â€"-..'~ Some Scenes in Great Benin. In May, 1533, Messrs. Moffat and Smith, lurgvou on bounl s niercbsnt sch-oner, went to the city of Great Benin, wrshing to open, or nther reopen, trade. The, latter, a “very promising yuung man," died of a dyaciilely caught by bow drenched with min. They were homtin to soon trench full or bodies at which the turkey innards were twig-nu, :iirl "two corpses in a sitting ~ iiiou." These victims bmi'probshly been ispstclied with as formal mo. announc- ing the aniul of strangers to the King's father in lilontdmd. The same lesuut ivy-exude v-M inbred in August, I , when ‘ , 1 visibc‘l Benin, mxminuiul by Lieutenant ’ 2 Shrkt‘, if her Majcsi ’3 ship llloirdhouud, and Dr. Kory. In t c tad rank hcrbaarr, on the fig»! iii the [with leadii. info c city, a;*§~.s. 1 the basin: of a no youn-v w, [mu- m the raid, With arms 1:: titles and wrists lutmcd to a scaffold framework if weird wands. pqu and stakes planted behind hon For n moment we thought first the wntcb wlghb Lo alive ; a few steps vincfll us of our mistake. lie had been dill-l after the African (which, mud on ‘ mg‘u “mulch stud, with a white calico ‘ . veiling: the lower limbs. Between the l.» new on uncouth image of yvl'un any. n. accruing which the Insbtcued us- 5 fives iv o aim-impartial In could not : Airppc ~f' l:una,iu mam-English a “unlit .‘ lowed tight round the neck to a um I.» Extra 2. had been the immediate “use or death. Tut- festnru still showed slung. lsuoo. and the WV was-o lush tier. Mi; {no this were there, the .urkry bu. unlined not found the o «is. Too historians of the {sin and the mere. eppesrpuv prov- “; uni tin refiner nus slave. hum saucer. am building slut Dose, vrse shoes v the chi-min o! Dumas, mu and men, (. . lb -nwwastlmuyox ers- whsulmu u E. -wortbvtwo in the don't need to be peeked on y te. " know (.1 Alumni) thyself ’ school scholar to the teaciivr-J‘ Did you say the hairs of my head [lululrffl'ed 2" T.-aclrerâ€"-" Yes, my dear." Sunday schwl scholarâ€"“ Well, then (pulling out a hair and presenting it), What's Said the doctor : “ Oh, sir, I am one of those it ho take an interest even in the “The doctor says bathe the strings ’ I vouritc colours for surah silk sashes. (taking stout guest. uaide)â€" Sara Bernhardt style, are very f'lshionable. VOL. VIII. WOMAN GOSSIP. Yes or No. You ask to night my daughter's hand, As you‘d request a toy-â€" Do you know the weight of your demand On a mothur’s llCZl’t, my boy ! You say you love her wrb ly ; well, Will it last to the end of time, Or will the do I of the wedding bell Recound its ying chime l The heart you crave is a holy thing, ( So tender, trusting, true; . Can you to her devotion bring As warm as hers to you 3 Will you love her through the changing yearn ‘ As tenderly as now, “'hrn ills shall pale, and sorrow's tears Becloud her sunny brow? Wino age shall how her graceful form, And bleach her jetty hair, Will you protect her through each storm And shelter her from care 3 \Vben time shall dim her sparkling eye, And winter furrows shew, Will your love be the last to die 2 If not, I answer, No. Remember that her future Ill: Would every day be yours ; A loving woman wh n n \v'fc, To one whom she adores, Has no existence of her own A} art from him she loves ; She lives henceforth for him alone, And in his orbit moves. She moulds her wishes to his will, Her ways to hip.- desircs ; He leads her by love’s willing web Through life :1 rrfining fires; Sllt' walks with him ibrough fh'r' y fields And o'er life‘s rugged 11 ad, He in her idol and ideal, Her guide and household god. So if «or love will live and burn Ar bless her future years, If you will give her in return The trust her life endears; If you will guide her destiny, And shield her from distress, “Fill always'live adoring her, Why then, I answer, Yes. ~u Fashion Notes Sro'rs are the coming figure. SKin'rs are short and narrow. BEADED jerseys are the latest things out. A uuciii: of lace is Worn at the tops of long lace mits. Scssr round overshirts are continuing to be very popular. Tm; port: bonlieur bracelet is superseded by the porte urine. Gixoiuii traveling dresses are more worn than lrncn suits. BAiuuth, spikes, and tassels finish nearly every eurah silk sash. lllAcruss-s'rirciimo is very fashionable on plain skirts and flounccs. LANGUEDOC lace is not quite so yellow its when it first appeared. Sour: pretty necktits of black or cream surah silk are spotted with gold. TURKEY red and peacock blue are the fa- LAi-i-z round the neck is generally arranged to full downward, over the dress. LONG, loose, wrinkled wrists to gloves, in GRAY lininespiins, barred wfth red and blue in clieviot patterns, are very fashion- able. GATllElll'ID ruflles are no longer fluted in the laundry, but are ironed smooth and plain. III-2A i. flowers are more worn than cVer,nud are to be sci-n wrtb lure ficliiru and ruckfiea. Smi'rsii silk gloves are now sold for wear ing with the spotted sateen and frolard cos- tumcs. ’l‘iir: belted basque, pleated in the back and front, is the favourite corsage for flannel dresses. Tm; lucky trinket of the passing moment in Paris is the " little pig" of the Austrian woi'ncn. . LARGE black jet bended balls finish the ends of black surnh silk smhcs worn with black toilets. Snimii silk sashes of black and white form a part of every fashionable Woman’s summer outfit. ORANGECOMWRED lace is reported from It is more becoming to brunettes than to bloiides. 'l‘iir: wearing of anccsfrul lace has lKlCOllff‘ the height of fashion this suinurcr, both here and on the other side. BARHED English homespun, dark olive- culourcd and c.~achmnn‘s drab flannels make fho rrobbiest inruntain suits. Jarssrsn and Chinese de-igns are the new figures in cotton sicilicnnc, a soft, glossy fabric much resembling silk. LAC: fmises and jsbots are extremely popular for dressing the neck, and are worn almost to the exclusion of collars. Poms min“ (lucky trinkets) enme in the form of little gnldui and silver rigs, sus- pendml to a ring, bracelet, or necklace. Coroners: baynl uses for edging thus kirfs of Coloured dresses are very fashionable, and are much more durable than white. Gniznx leaves are hardly permitted to the flowers wnm this year, but, strange to say. for the first time We see green flowers! Guns bonds are worn in the hair, Greci- an aprons are fashionable, and the Grecian style of hairdressing is adopted by the very few to whom it is becoming. Wain!- Kimono by telephone is about as uiisfnc~ tory as scratching your head with a sun- beam. Tin: army worm got as far as Baton when a miss with eye-glasses call. d it by its real name. It immediately lay down and died. " iiow dots painting agree with my daugh- ter 2" salted an snxous parent. " It makes her too red in the face," replied the teacher. "THIN, ‘Adel‘gitba, you will be mine 2" " Yes, l-‘erdim , if pa is willing. Islwu 1 do what he mt: me or." “ But will u 've his consent!" “He will. l’a always fibre slat I want him to." Nowsnsvs it in in: blc to listen to the cunv. ration of half a drum young “soul-3y" ple without feeling that the Auntie-u "wags: should be more appropriately call. Ann-vicar- slanguage. III was a little variant or he never would have as d : “ Perhaps we had better walk on till we come to a setth where a c an sit fq-otber." "Oh, no," she replied sweetly ; "you s t down in the chair and I will be the "the." A Lotus. «heel t other, who deserves a your cquslto bar wit, so is she is in s qmn~ dary what» to get y to go any on a nation and stay at home. or not to get ready and She can afoul to do one or the other, not both. ‘ 5i ed ll. E" Q l A1 a fashionable wedding up-towngecent- 1y, quite a number of people congregated to View the bridal party on their exit from the church. A passer-by, recognizing one of the job 2" “ No,” was the laconic answer, “ I’m wait- haclrmen, said: “ Waiting for a ing for the tied.“ “ “'us'r in the World induces Mrs, K. to Wear so many puffs and flounces 2" said is lady at a ball, as the poison referred to vision of milliuery. “ \\ by," was the reply, “she has indulged so much in fashionable dissipation that she swept past, a billow‘y has the ‘ delirium trimm'ms.’ ” An Analysis of Marriage. J ohn Ruskin, in Nineteenth Century, says: There is another difference in the woof of a \Vaverley novel from the Cobweb of a mod- ern one, which depends on Scott's larger Vluw of life. Marriage is by no means, in his conception of man and woman, the most important business of their existence; nor love the only reward to be proposed to their It is not in his reading of the laws of Providence a necessity that Virtue or exertion. virtue should, either by love or any other external blesun'r, be rewarded at all; and marriage is in all cases thought of as a con- stituent in the happiness of life ; but not as its only interest, still less its only aim And ..,,-on unnly zing with some care the motives of his principal stories, we shall often find who; be l .v-: in them is merely a light by which the sterner features of character are ;to la irradiated, and that the marriage of the hero is as subordinate to the main bent of the sis-ry as Henry V. ’s courtship of Ka- therine is to the battle of Agincouit. Nay, the fortunes of the person who is nominally the subject of the tale ar; often little more than a background on which grander figures are to be drawn, and deeper fates foreshad- owed. Thc judgments between the faith and chiva'i-y of Scotland at Drumclog and Both- weif bridge owe little of their interes’unu the urind of a sensible render, to the fact that the captain of the Popin'ay is carried a pris- oner to one battle, on returns a prisoner fr.nn the other; and Scott himself, while he watches the white sail that bears Queen Mary for the last time from her native land, very nearly forgets to finish his novel, or to tell usâ€"und with small sense of rrny consola- tion to be had out of that minor circum- stanceâ€"dbat “Roland and Catherine were united, spite of their differing faiths.” Nei- ther let it be thought for an instant that the slight and sometimes scornful glance with which Scott passes over scenes which n nov- elist of our own day would have analyzed with the airs of a philosopher and painted with the curiosity of a gossip, indicate any absence in his heart of sympathy with the great and sacred elements of personal ha rpi~ ness. Au era like ours, which has with ili- genes and ostentation swept its heart clear of all the passions once known as loyalty, patriotism, and piety, necessarily magnifies the apparent force of the one remaining sen- timent which sighs throu h the barren chamber or clings inextrie. ly round the cbasms of ruin ; nor can it but regard with owe the unconqucrable spirit which still tempts or betrays the sagacitics of selfish- ness into error or frenzy which is believed to he love. Lord Byron’s Daughter. Ada Byron was m-irried to the Earl of Lrnelaee in March, 1835. The marriage was not an unhappy onc. Ill r husband, ro- spectuble in talents and domestic linbits,lord Iie‘utennnt of his county and high in social position, suitable in age, and possessed of large estates. regarded his wife with mingled feelings of affection and admiration. Uri- w'illing that she should be known publicly as an authorcss, he, nevertheless, oftener than oncc,gavc permission that certain of her articles on various branches of science,about which thinking men made inquiry, might be acknowledged as hers. Children were born to them ; their tastes were no more dissimi- lur than was consistent with common, if not promotive of unusual, harmony; and their borne was of;cii spoken of by those old enough to remember the two, as furnishing a happy contrast to that which her mother had abandoned twenty years before. But Lady Lovelace craved excitement. Neither- town life nor country wasssuflicicnt to satisfy her inherited desire luv Constant stimulus. Neither her studies nor her pen, the care of her children, not the pleasures of society, her rank among the aristocracy, nor the ad- miration her beauty and gifts received wher- ever sbc appeared, were sufficient. She speculated in the funds, but at horse races, bought and sold in the stock market, and finally, during the railway mania, that, under the lead of Hudson, was second only in its uniVersality among the rich and great to the South Sea bubble of the early days of the last century, partook largely in the veil- turrs. All this could well'enongh be with- out the knowled c, as it was, of her hus- bai.d. Beside f is ample “ pin money" allowed her in the marriage settleinentdargo returns came to her from trust funds held for her in llt'l‘ own right. But she went too deep. Her risks Were unfortunate ; and though she might have recovered from all this, most inopgortunely her attorney bo- camc a bankrupt, and her operations were exposed, in his assets before the courts, to th‘: w'or'd. Terribly mortified, she appealed to her husband, who, to save the scandal of any legal process, cancelled her liabilities by 1. very considerable pecuniary sicrilicc. The shock, however, was too great for her excit- able nature, and it but; always been believed by those who beet knew what followed that the shame she felt at the exposure was the remote, if not the proximate, cause of her death. “ Fetch the Pie. " A [{rcfly little anecdote about Patti is told a ’ienns paper. In the year, let us say , Adelina Patti was :i chnnning young girl in the first bloom of be‘uity. It is, how- ever, not necessary to refer to portraits or anmdotcs in order :0 know this. as it is quite sufficient new to see her and hear her sing. Well, at that time Berlitz was one of her most ardent admirers. One evvn‘ng, after dinner, Patti requested him to w to some- thing for her in her album. "Two lines, or only two words," begged the charming singer, with her most bewrtcbing smile, as Berlioz did not smui inclined ta- grant the request. At last Patti said: “If you will do what I desire, you can make your own choice. You can either have 1 kiss fmm mo, or one of those pics from my cool: of which you are m very fond." Berlioz at once tank the n and wrote nu one of the haves of the bum the two words, "()portet pati." “ But I don’t uitc understand this,‘ said the din, a litte perplexed. “Oh, that is cook's Latin," smwu'ed Berlioz, slyl ' laughing. “lt means, ‘Fetcb on the ' ' ' .â€" l‘siis Kins divine (of advanced opinions, who has recently introduced an organ into his cbapl) : “ I‘m sorry to hear, Mrs. Mc- b l Lit in y: or uttrndsnoe st clinch as you cred to be." Fair Beggitc (indignant at the at- Betting. Past and Present. (From the London Field.) of bookmakers sprang into existence. Robert Burton, to whose learned “ many rich lovers of horse~racinz do gsllo themselves out of their fortunes and estates, ' making it evident, as we know from other sources, that the turf existed at least three centuries ago, inasmuch as the above quoted passage was written about the year 1600, student of Christ Church. But there is no- thing in the chapter which sets gaming down among the causes of melancholy to reveal that the money lost by the owners of rocehorses in James L's reign went, as it usually does now, into the pockets of the ring. A century later it was recorded by a visitor to N ewmarket in the reign of good Queen Anne that there was a large assem- blage of noblemen and gentlemen upon the Heath, all of whom were eagerly engaged in “biting one another.” But biting had not degenerated into betting, as we now un- derstand the latter word, and it would ap- pctir that the wits of speculators upon horse- races at the commencement of the last cen- tury were sharpened to the kcenest edge in order to circumvent others who belonged to their own order. The distinction between classes appears to have been more sharply accentuated upon the racecourse when horses were owned only by men of high de- gree, when trainers wore livery and bore the name of grooms, and when matches over the Beacon and Round courses at Nev/market, and for even longer distances at country meetings, were, as “The Druid " uts it, the “life blood of the turf." But itis probâ€" able that in the middle of the last century there was no lack of round betters, since we are told that the Duke of Cumberland, who founded Ascot races and was the breeder of Eclipse, succeeded in resuscitating horse- racing, but “not without an immensity of expense and incredible losses to the sharks, Greeks and blacklegs of that time, by whom His.Royal Highness was surrounded, and, of course, incessantly pillaged." \Vhether, however, these blacklegs were of high or low degreeâ€"there being plenty of the former class event'n our own timesâ€"is not explain- ed by the anonymous writer in the Gentle- man’s Magazine from whom we have borrowed the above words. It can hardly be doubted, however, that between 1780 and 1800, when George, Prince of \anes, afterward the Prince Regent, was “in his glorious youthful prime,” book- makers of the modern type existed in abun- dance. The Duke of Queensberry, who died in 1810 appears to have come into contact with many of this order; as, for instance, when Dick Goodison, his jockey, told his master that he had been offered a large sum to purl one of His Grace’s horses in a heavy betting match. “ Take it,” said the Duke, “and I will hear you harmless." IVhen the borne came to the post his noble owner rode up and observed to Goodison, “This seems a nice horse to ride ; I think I’ll get on him myself.” Throwing all his great cost, the Duke appeared in racing attire, and, jumping into the saddle, won without an effort. It could scarcely be from a dread of gentlemen blackle 8 alone that Philip Dormer, the great Ear of Chesteifield, who died in 1773, left a provision in 's will enacting that if his son ever sle t two nights at New market consecutively he should forfeit £500 to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, whom the witty Earl had found to be so sharp in money matters that he felt certain they would exact the penalty from his pcceant successor. Indeed, we have distinct evidence from a well known passage in “Rnikes’ Diary ” that when Lord George Germaine and his brother, the Duke of Dorset, were, together with Delme Radcliffe, the three best gentlemen jockeys in England, the ring was, as our American kinsmen would say, “in full blast.” In those days, says Thomas Ruikes, “ the Prince made Brighton and‘Lcwes races the gayest scenes of the year. was full of guests, and the Steyue was crowded to repletion with all the rank and fashion from Lpndon. The legs and betting .men, who had arrived in shoals, assembled on the Steync at an early hour, and the buzz was tremendous.” It is probable that at the close of last century the Derby was so insignificant that many other races provoked much keener speculation. Thus it is on record that Charles Fox won £30,000 at one of the Newrnarket’ spring meetings, about the time when, in 1790, the popular print of the day was “A view of Noblemen’s and Gentleman‘s Trains of Running Horses in their full Liverics." Sir Hurry Vane Tem- pest was said to be ready at all times to but ten thousand pounds upon a horse match or a prize fi lit, with gentle or simple alike. Thus, in t 3 same week that his horse Hum- bletouian (who had a hip down) won his in- mous match over the Beacon against Mr- Cookson’s Diamond, the sporting Baron. drew the Princn Regent of a couple of thou- sand upon a “ merry mill,” which took place within a few yards of Jerry Abersllaw’: gibbct upon \Vimblodon Common. The traditions of the Derby, as it has flourished so far back asthe memory of men still alive will carryâ€"not evcn excepting Lord Strudlirokc, the elder brother of Ad- miral Rous, who was born in ITEMâ€"mark flrc great race at Epsom as a point of de- parturc from the heavy matches and sweep. stakes upon which the solid betting of our ancestors was mainly concentrated. Efforts have often been made by sporting writers of the past to ascertain the first Derby in con- nection with which hackers and round bet- tcrs were divided into two distinct classes; but it must be admitted that these efforts resemble the discussions in the Sorboune at Paris, which, when Isaac Casaubou attended them in 1608, had existed for three cen- turies without deciding anything. Ir may be remarked that the first Derby recorded in Body’s Racing Regularâ€"n chronicle which extends from 1709 to fS42â€"upon which the odds at starting are quote], is rho me won in 1502 by the Duke of Graftou's Tyrant, who beat a great favourite in Mr. ‘hristopher “'ilson‘s bay colt b Young Eclipse. But the unwritten tr itionx oi’ the race course allege that when Sir Hedi. worth Williaurson's Pan won the Derby in 1508 a lsrgn sum (about £10,000) was land ed by the rough north country buronet upon his outsider, and that it came mainly out of the kets of the ring. Admiral Eons was fan of relating that when Smolensko won in 1813 Sir Charles Bunbury gave Torn Goodisrrn an extra £10 note, adding that he would have mule it more End not a book- msker, called Brograve, cut his throat b..- forc settling day arrived. It may safely be mum-d that there was a regular ring whim betted upon the Derby, as the most impnr» taut noeof the year, so far back as seventy can ago, but that it was reserved for s star date to develop the wagering upon each succession of the great Epsom race in- to a gigantic system of speculation, involv- ing scent combinatirsu, plots sud rnsn. flash}, the you are by no means to regu- licence without number. From 1840 to 1870 the some fashion continued to wait, “d puke}. it was at its ppogtc in l .l to 1860, tor's lstettimquity) : “ Kirk, indeed ! \ 'ud within which prriod u the era of ye lure me he Rome wi‘ the rat 0' them, the “Leviathan Davies, sic like layer of odds, and withal the ram upri t N», us, until ye gin me “1' and high sold bunder'mgsin without the whistle: this century wi' your oigim In' anthems m' abominations! I'll tak' ms' Ipeeritual comfort at buns l" rm: spirited quinded member of the ring t t has new. The younger gener- aticu of turf We“, whose mcmpry goes It has never been satisfactorily settled at what time, in the long and splendid history of the British turf, the ring or community 11 we owe the “Anatomy of Melancholy,” tells us that when its author had lately been elected a T118 Pavilion I; have little conception what the Derby was, sue. These times have now passed away, big book: on the Derby has changed, and, second, whether the old or the new system :ie i‘nore conducive to the well-being of the or . To the first of these questions the obvious answer is, that the enormous multitude of modern race meetings has subtracted from the Derby that sbsorbin; interest which it possessed when, from 1840 to 1860, it afl'ol‘dA ed atopic of incessant conversation at the dinner tables of thousands in town and country for eight or ten months before the decision of the race. In those days there were gentlemen bookmakers no less than profeSsional members in the Ring, who made a comfortable income every year out of the competitive examination of three-year-olds at Epsom. It was possible for the owner of the winner, if an astute man, to win a pro- digious sum ; but the ordinary backerâ€" who, like the coneys of Scripture, belonged to a race of “ feeble folk "â€"went to the scene of action upon the eventful day with an amount of “ dead money " which would have appalled his modern antitypes. In the interest of little backersâ€"and in these days there are none othersâ€"it is an undoubted advantage that few bets are now made until the Derby is close at hand. The fierce light which heals at present upon every training ground forbids that false favourites shall be backed for thousands, to the impov- erishment of the foolish many and to the (-n- ricbment of the cunning and unscrupulous few. But, on the other hand, it is doubtful whether turf morality is enhanced by the impossibility of landing a great stake upon the Derby, sinceâ€"as in the case of Isonomy â€"the owner of a first class horse is driven to handicaps for a chance of backing him. Everything which nominees to the discour- agement of weight-for-agc races and to the advancement of handicaps affords material for just regret, and the late Lord Derby ex- pressed the opinion within a few months of his death that the practice of pulling horses had incrrased wofully during his experience of the turf. Furthermore, the publicity furnished by the “ training reports ” which appear daily serves immensely to enhance the circle of those who, understanding little about horses, are drawn into the vortex of betting. Forestallinu, of which it is impos- sible to cure the British public, drives owners to betakc themselves to all kinds of unseemly tricks, and the result is that the indisposition felt by men of wealth and high character to mix themselves up with the turf is so markedly on the increase, that the Derby will not long continue to hold its pristine pride of place as the foremost race in the world. ________‘_...->â€"â€"â€"__. A Young Couple. It. is comparativel y seldom, in these prosaic days, says the New York Herald, that the tangle of parental objections is severed by a young couple’s elopement, and even in re- mance such immature fugitives of love as Frank lluriger and Louise Kemp have rarely been heard of. The story of their wooing and their flight was told at the central office yesterday by the father of the heroine, who had come to invoke official aid in hunting down the runaways. His daughter was a girl whose 16th birthday had not yet dawned, and her lever: was a swniu who had just at- tained that interesting age. But while Louisa was tall and mature looking for her, years, Frank was slight and small for his, and it was a cause of surprise among the youthful gossips of their acquaintance that the pair seemed so intimate. Two months ago the Kemps went to live at No. 190 Orchard street, and there, loitering about the door or patrolling the sidewalk, L-iuisn mot Frank, whose parents lived at No. 193, directly opposite. Attention is seldom iven to the friendship and the romping»; of a boy and girl of 16 ; but this young couple, from the beginning of their acquaintance, be- came so inseparable that even their elders took notice of it. Young Hurigcr was em- ployed as .1 messenger boy by Schmidt &. Co., lithographcrs, of No. 154 Chathnm street, and as years lay between him and manhood and his chances of making a living at an early date were very slim, the paternal Kemp tried to dissuade the young Miss from keeping his company. As is frequently the case in such instances, opposition only brought the couple more closely together, but instead of openly associating as formerly they arranged private niretings and went tripping about the neighbourhood where they could escape rarentalsurveillance. On Sunday morning nuisa seemed a trifle pre- occupied as she busicd herself about her toilet and put on all her little fincry. She was goin 1 to church, she said, and Would probably 0 back at 10 o’clock, so no one iiiferfered with her as she went away. The family awaited her return in vain through- out the day, and at night they became r uitc anxious. She had gone, they suppose , on an excursion, and no inquir was made until past midnight, when Mrs. lurigcr called at the house to ask if anything had been seen of her boy. He had gone off, she believed, with Louisa, and. nothing bud been heard of him. That set both families agog wrtli ox- citcment, and at once they came to realize that the son of the one had sloped with the daughter of the other. The Hurigcrs re- rtc-l tl: at Frank had made no preparations. e ball on only his ordinary working clothes, and had but thirty-five cents in his packets. The pair Would have to make a speedy re- turn, it was supposed, but when the Kemp family chanced to examine their bureau drawers they found that Loniru had been more provident. Forty dollars that belong- ed to her sister had disappeared, and it was evident that she lIMI taken it with her. “’hcn all efforts to gut an the track of aw sin and maiden failed, Mr. Kemp went to Sopcrinfeudint Walling, yesterday morn. ing, to report the matter. He had a goal picture of the girl, who apinnrcd to be a scdaic looking crraturc with a pretty face ,of Teutonic east. The police think the couple are likely to be in New York yet, and they have begun to look them up. __.â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"...0 ‘- Parted Lovers. They Were ve ' fond of each other, and had been rugsg ; but. they quarrelled, and were too proud to make it up. He called a few days ago at her father‘s lion-.o to see the old 3- ntlcmsn on business, of course. She was at the door. Said he : “Ab, Miss Blank, I believe; is your father in 2" " No, sir," she repliel; “ p. is not in at plrleacnt. Did you wish to see him person- . f, ‘I‘ Yes," was the blufl’ response. feeling that she was yielding, " on very puticulsr per- sonal basinuu," and he turned proudly to go sway. him, as be struck the lower step, “ but who shall I my callel 3" lie never smiled' again. Exoueus natural caverns, one 600 feet long, have lately been found near Wells, ' back for ten or fifteen years and no furtbbr, ray in Teddingtou‘s and “'est Australian’s years, when Davies had a £100,000 book upon the race, and when every heavy backer -of horses had hundreds of bets upon its is- apparently forever, and it is a matter of in- terest to consider, first, why this fashion of “I beg your pardon," she callid afterl ‘«@ mi § NO. A. Harnessed Whale. That Run Awavwlth a. PluckyBoat Crew at the Rate ore Mile 3 Minute. [From the New Haven UnionJ “Wandering around on the wharves a day or two ago, among was once the scene of hustle and activity in the good old days of whaling, a Union re porter encountered an old scu captain who had a good story to fell. Near by was moor- ed a whaling vessel, and casks of. oil were ranged about, so that the old tar seemed at home. The conversation tnmed' on the reprnt boat races and the :iino for two miles made by theflarvurd and Colombian freshman crews. The old sailor thought that the boys rowed Well and went prettv fast; but he had gone faster, and probably faster than many ineu ever went in a row- bout. The scribe ur ed the mariner to tell the story, which he id substantially as fol- lows : It is about thirty-five years ago since 1 w cut out from N ew London as a boat slower. That is a pretty lively birth, as any whale- imin can tell you, especially when a whole is tackled. The stccrcr has virtually the con- trol of the boat and the safety of the men in it, and when the whale begins to Irish the water with his tail, lookout ; there's danger in being near the big fluke. Soinetiuiesyou can put an iron into a whole and he won’t splash on the surface, but will start off like a rocket, or perhaps will go right down, and you have to cut loose and lose your line and irons. Still, a whilenian gets used to these things, and when a bout is slovc by a whale, or When the crew get into any difficulty, they generally know what to do, and take inaiters philosophically. They are tough fellows, and can row for hours (and without training) and with heavy oars resting on the “ gunnel ” (gunwale) of the boat. In fhose days a different class of men went whaling from what go now. Previous to the w'nrâ€" that is, some years rcviousâ€"thcrc was money in both oil so bone, though just before the war they sold for less than you could get them for. But when there was money in whaling, Captains could get a passably good ick of men for their crews. Stout your-g cllows, who couldn't make more than their salt on the. farm, came down to New London to go to sea. They had heard of the big chances for a good voyage, which, if realized, would give them in a few months more money than they ever saw. If the owners got the lion’s shire of the money there was still a. grad lot left to be doled out in “ lays " (proportionate shares) to the incu. In fact, fortunes were made in one Voyage, or what would pass for an accept- able competency for the man who was con- tentcd to live. modestly. “'0”, on the chi on which I was boot steel-er‘tliis time there was as fine a set of men, pluck rind endur- auce considered, as you ever saw. In my boat’s crew there was some particularly good men. But what happened to us one day tried the metal of several of them, “70 were laying becuhned one day off the Cape of Good Hop -. It was as smooth as a mill pond for miles : you couldn't see a rip- ple on the water, for not a breath of wind stirred. There were several whnlcrs lyiu off the land, close to, waiting for the winil or something to give them occupation. By and by we saw two or three whales coming up to blow, about two miles away. The Captain called the watch up. and a couple of boats started for the whales, which wurc lying still as if sunning theiriselvcs. In my boat was a big nngro, block as the ace of spades. Every time he rowed a stroke the bout Would shoot ahead, and he would open his mouth and grin, showing a wonderful display of ivory. \Vc raced with the other boat and "ot aherid, for my men were lithe and tough, and by and by we got alongside of one of the big fellows. The steering oar was rolled in ; tho ours were packedâ€"that is pu led in so that thny couldn t; strike the water; then an iron was thrown into the floating island. The whole laid still for a minute, as if struck with amazement that any one should dare to touch him. The rope which was coiled up in the tub in the bottom of the boat didn’t seem to be of any moment. In the mean time the other boat hzid come up. Suddenly the whale made up his mind whutio do. He skirted off like .1 locomotive, the rope whining around in .1 way to astonish a land lnbbcr. The boat didn’t follow slow. “'hcu the rope was out we were rushing by the Captain’s boat like mud. The Captain took off his but and waved it at me shouting: “(lo it, young man : you’re going out of town faster than you'll t-vcr go again.” All we could do in that double-ended boat was to sit Hill and see her go through the water. I candidly believe that we went at the rate of a mile .1 minute, and the water was a very Wonderful sight. It reminds me now I think of it, of Poe's description of the interior of the Maelstrom, where the water went round so fast and was so black that it must have secured like a wall of polished ebony. The pressure downward piled the water on both sidcsof us so that it seemed to be at least three feet higher than the edge of the bout, bntit couldn’t run, for we were going so i fast it hadn't time. Every one's eyes were blurred with the wind, which seemed to be blowing a hurricane against us. The lim: hitched to the iron in the whale was rushing (through the water as r7g"d no an iron rod, and there must have been a lino of foam a mile long behind us. This thing couldn't go on forever. The negro find got a liLtlc scarul, for it looked as if the whale would never get tired out, and we wore going to sea at an amazing rate. The ship went away as if by mngro and we had lost sight of the other I) at. The negro stoppul grin- ning, and the other men expected at least to have a row all night in the dark unless the ship should follow us. Firrnlly the line all at once slackencd. The whole hadn't utop- pcd, and, for all I know, is going ahead at the rate of a mile a minute still, but the iron had come out. We rowed back to the rdrip, and as We clnlu along the Captain csilr (I over the rail, “ \Vherc's trrc whale? ' “ 0b,” said I “ the iron melted out, he wont ro fut." I " Just What I thought," raid the Captain ; l and that night we all had "plum duff" snd use for .1 8708' . ..‘._.‘.>». u.- ..» ..... _ A. Country of Oontrarles. In Australia the swans are black. limb climb the trees, and cherry stones grow on the outside oLthu fruit. interestéoi! of these contradictions is a fly that catches in ideas, an 1 spiders which are big Luau h an strong enough to catch small birds. 'robsbly, for, though we are not informed with accuracy on this point, the foxes ebasc the bounds and riders ; the car: drivers pull the bone can, while the horses empon the brakes and make change; the steamboat: run on rails like Captain liads‘ ‘ turns mr-r the but In own rnadicine and die, while their patients go about their business. â€"â€"---o-â€"-e» o O a Cwâ€"o ~â€" 1) of cattle and pigs into Franco. One of the mostl proposed tmrsit on the Isthmus of I'allllul ; the women court the men, u if it were leap , year all the time ; the rigs eat the man who (xxflfia four places a railroad car ; and the doctors talu- taeir GENERAL. Tins year’s yield of tea in India is esti~ mated at 70,000,000 pounds, nfurly double that of 1373. Ten yam arm: was under 14,000,000. SKYKRAL oi the «xpeliul French Jesuits have been ruvi.ml by the Dal»? « a Norfolk (to 5 my .t he cssllu of Arundel. ‘A‘IR. l‘t’WKI‘S, of the Season's Uni-ll, Lbicauu is in Hamilton and will visit Toronto, Port Hope, Kingston, and other ports. Hismmtui. haddmuya the Pam ‘ are becoming more sud more the rage. The swell hairdressers go to the Louvre to study their models. 11' is claimed that a new Swedish gun (ado lul by the Russian navy) is even more dead y than the Gatling. It can be carried up into the insintop if access-tr . A MINE near Anonus, Ital ', was last month explodid with so mwerfn a charge of Bowler that a small yacht two miles off was fled out of the sea and capsized by the con- cussiori. 'l‘iu: House of Lords threw out the Dc~ the remnants of what ceased Wife's Sister bill by 101 to 90. Sev- GI'JI Whigs-Lord Selbome, the Duke of Argyll, and Lord Coleridge, who spoke at lurigtliâ€"«iplwsed such insrris is, while new era] Tories voted for them. he Prince of \Valcs and Dukes of Edinburgh and Con- naugbt voted in favour. “Lorin Rii-ox,“s.iys the London MM, “fancies himself a Roman Catholic; as a matter of fact he is an English Puritan, be- lieving ver' strongl in certain truths of revealed re. igiou and thinking that he can only live up to his ideal of faith by strict submission to the laws of the old doctrinal code of Christendom." IN 18691.0ndou find thirteen gas coin panics. employing an aggregate capital of £7,828,814. Now there are but four oom- pruiivs, but their caiital is £12,68l,818. The gas sold per ton u coal carbonized was in 1870 8,428 cubic feet, but is now 9,431. Illomuvel', improved methods have also largely reduced the loss of gas. THE famous brigsnd, C. Giordano, has to appeared at the head of a band in (.‘alabria, of which province he was formerly the ter- ror. Twenty years ago Mr. Giordano emi- grated to the United States, but not boin ' favourably impressed \vifli the udvsiiccl stage of civilization. in the New “'orld, he returned to his first love in the Old. The royal cambiueers are after him. Mn. RALLI, lately returned as member for “'allingford, England, is son of an original member of the celebrated Greek house of Ralli Brothers, which has interests and agents adl over the World. Its headquarters are in London, and it has important. branches here, at Calcutta, Marseilles, sud Smyrna. At one time it almost inonopolizcd the grain trade of the Levant. Greeks iiinkc fortunes everywhere out of their own country. ACCORDING to the Parisian Lady Caitli- nose, the mother of the Duke of l’ouinr, author of “ Passion rind Fashion," o. book which attrantcd soino notice on the other side of the Channel, has decided torcsidc in Paris, where she has taken possession of the famous llotcl l’ozzo-ki Borgo, in tho lluo do l'Univcrsite. Lady Caithuess proposes to astonish the Parisians by the splendour of her fetus and by the brilliancy of her din- inonds and jewels, some of which adorned the beauty of Mary Queen of Scots. Tm: Ministry of Commerce has for the first time published statistics on the imports The return applies to the first four months of the pro- ‘ sent your, and shows that during that period in 1,1137,an head of horned cattle, 575,000 sheep and 95,000 ple lmvo‘lieon imported : that of these only 131 oxen, 1,405 sheep Mid 36 pigs were brought from Aiiicriczi, and that the principal cx ortir of och to France is Italy, which scudb nearly two-thirds of the total for )oi‘tcd. Algeria sent on loss than 63,000 8 map. 'I‘iii: l’arisimis and especially the l’ririsi- enncs, have of late become veritable Saint Antonius, not because they resist tempta- tion (far from it I), but because they have the some Companion as he had. Crosses are no longer fashionable, nor lockcfs neither; the trinket of the hour is a little gold or sil- vcr pig, with ruby eyes or r-ycs without rub- ies, ajim't coo/ion part: bonheur, or, as some say, porte wine, for the Parisian of the present-‘1" ' driy bankers after chance rather than hap'fiI-._ nor-is. He seeks luck at the races, luck at the“ card table, luck in woman. ' - ’l‘iur Italian Ministry of Public Instruc- tion is actively engaged in reselling from captivity those monuments of Rome which had become private property and turned to every use which speculation could suggest. Nearly one-half of the Ilatha of Titus Will be opened to the public next autumn, and also i. int portionol the Forum of Augustus which extends from the Via lloiicllu and the Aron dc I’antoni or the Term dcl Conti and the Forum 'l‘runuiforiuin. The gowrinucut ox- p. oil», also, to buy the Vigua B:rnobo, which nrrcupiin one of the most beautiful sections of the Baths of Bltl‘ncflllil. At the eleventh mile- stone of the Via 'l‘iburtino, the pnvuincut of the old road was discovered for some hundred feet. There are remains of tombs on each side of the highway, in one of which ii bronze statucttc was found, eighteen inches high, Tl”: Bennett family moved in the most fashionable soci-ty in Cincinnati ten years ago. The {other was the \\'cstorn manager for several life insurance companies, was worth about a million dollars, and had a princely residence at Clifton, ii suburb of the city. His wife was a brilliant l‘eziuty, and the entertainments over which she pro- sidcd were notably fine. His daughter, Blanche, carefully named and educated, witty and pretty, was tlir. light of the house. A son was flu: remaining member of the family. The first change in this household was the elopcmciit of the wife. She went to Chicago, where she died in disgrace. The son fell among bud associates, and finally Wl‘lll’. to prison for stealing. In St. Louis, is few days ago, a rugged ruin-craved woman (was arrested. This was Blanche. The heartbroken lather, having but his fortune, in a clerk in a \Vesfern insurance agency. “ lliuticsrm'," myn the Paris Figaro, “ M. and Mine. Iilondct gave, in tluir park of Miroucr,u little fete in the very teeth of the authorities, whom they had previously In- vitcd. After luuub Mine. lilondct nmml all her guests of both sexes with s crossbow and conducted their: to the boundar of the pani, where tlrere’isa lovely little eke, en- . circled by enormous trees, which are reflect- ' ed in the limped wafers b-riu ath. There for two home they bunt thouâ€"frog f This species of hunting in very amusing and affords roan-Action for two long hours of the alter- nemi. 'l'be mmuer of procedure is simple. The frog approaches and is transfixed, the ' u ntlunen assisting the ladies to submit the rug, and we need oarccly so ' that the list of frog honirusurir bceorrres «lei y larger. The results of the Clifton are sbio in. ind} . to the guiimmndn _rsnd furnish so lionolilll’lfz means-«tho only one pcrhupc~of gratifying the taste for frog. Avenues H('il'ibl.. s wit who has inherit- ed the mantle of (Jimrnfort, says that thus larc- scversl sorts of pretenders in France. There are the pretenders to the Crown, my (tenders to the Presidency and preteu on wro look upon the l’residenc u A means of arriving at tlie'l‘lrronc. M. isriibctta is the successor, already designated by the public 'opinion, of the honourable deules firev , l but there im: others wrig ling about in t e bottom of the basket, so their movements sometimes serve to throw side fights on Punch politics. There is, for instance, Jules Simon, who is trying to'strsugle Adonrsl l'oibusu, who is a mute pretender ; M. Jules Perry is another pretender who limit}: his prwv. Then comes the patirnt » Prince Jerome sad the Due d'Anmslo tangy nothing of the Counts Clumbord and Pens. Inst of all, and not but active, though on- noticed, is His Excellency General Chanzy, mot Ambassador at Ht. Petersburg. ' It A senses should never be so short, in 0! life the General has had his name care- tbe opinion of The New Hum “cm, the women sbion notes. will not have time to take ls- that his ambition is to be I seem: that fully kept brfnre the public, and pen lo Icy Mar» from, mum the final intestpr