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Not long ago, n well-known Boston clor- gymau Steaohed mm meaning for n. brother who ha to be out of town. On his return he malted his friend if he had a good congrc. tion. “Oh. yes," said he. “ about five undkd brethren of whom tho greater part had fallen asleep." A. Montreal deepatch says Adelina Patti, whose agent had taken the Academy of Music here for a concert in J annary next, has declined to come, owing to her time on this continent being too limited. Great disappointment is felt b those who were anxious to hear the ca ebrated canlam'ce, but it is very questionable if her audience at 320 a ticket would have come up to the expectations of her manager. The Dukeof Richmond had the narrowest ssiblo escape from death the other even. lug. As he was crossing the railway line from one platform to another at Chichcstcr station, the train conveying the Prince and Princess of Wales run into the station. and the Duke would have been killed had not the station-nuister used rnre prownco of mind in pulling him on to the platform. Mr. W. G. Kidd., the Kinfton Inspector of Public Schools. in very il , and Ms had to give up his mum in conacqucnco. Flannel suite for the mountains. etc.. have blouse or pleated waists; neither sumngs nor shit-rings appear in these ressee,bnt the newest show much pleating. A decorative and at the same time useful disposition of apainted tile is to insert it in one of the little wooden brackets especi- ally made for the purpose. Moire antique is in‘greet favor. and will be extensively used next winter. It will be made up into scam. cloaks, and bonnet- etringa. as well as dresses. Nearly all dresses for girls have vet large oollpxs. eitherof the costume materia , ornamented with lacg. or of lace alone. - The combinatien of egg-c012): with violet lilac is extremely fashionable. Skirts are becoming much fuller, so as to give more ease in ,walkipg. Blue is much wern in silks, from the darkest tothe plainest shades. “ 011, about ten million years more.” “ Honest ? " “ Yes.” “ Den I guess I’ll walk up home and'tell do ole woman. One reason why she feels 30 bad is bekase she was gwyne down to Toronto dis {all to see her sister. an' she .‘thought ae endin’ up of (16 world might ~ato do railroad kyars from runnin’. Ten mi on y'ars mo’l Why, she'd have time to finish dat log cabin bedquilt and visit rher sister, tool ”â€"Dctroit Free Press. 000; Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 81,000; Baptist Home Mission. ary Society, 85,000; American Baptist Mis- sionary Union for Burma]: and Foreign Missions, 810.000; Baptist Theological Seminary, 82,000. The will of James Stokes was admitted in the Probate Court, New York, on Satur- day. The estate is valued at $7,000,000, and is divided equally among his children with the following bequests: American Bible Society, 810,000; American Home Missionary Societ , 85,000; Union Theo- logical Seminary, 2,000; American Tract Society. 82.000; Home for Incurables, 81,000; Society of Ruptured and Crippled, $1,000; Cdored Orphan Asylum. $2.000; American Bean-d of Foreign Missions. $10,- nan “Nor I, either; but dem Kaintuck lunatics um suifl‘m’ au’ suuffin’an’cryin’ out dut (16 world nm 8.11 on fiuh. How longusah; do you ’spect dis world will stafi‘ " Dem Africans up dar’ in Kaintuck has got me all broke up,” said the old man as he stood his brush up on end and leaned against the rear wall of the market. ’ “ Whatls the trouble 7" “ ’Bout do endin’ up of de world, sah. Some of ’em said do gran’ splash would take place 1113' week, an’ some of ’em say it has been put of! till the twentieth, an’ some of ’em am swine to propar’ to go up nex’ Saturday. When I leff do house dis mawin’ I tole de 016 woman I war’ gwine to ax some white man all ’bout it au'git ri ht down to do dead-level. Now. sah. w at am de cold tacks in de case? Am de world gwine to kersplash dis summer or not ?” “ Of course not.” . " Dat's ’zactly what I tole 'em up dar. She can’t do it. She can’t afford it. Why. sah, if do world should bust up, what would become .of all do folks ‘1‘" “ That's true.” “ Yes, sah, an whar’ would do pieces go to? Why, do: wouldn’t be room fur de splinters, let alone do big chunks. De ole woman may sot up all night waitiu’ to h’ar de fust crash. but she’ll be disappointed. You‘haven't smelt brimstun, have ye ? " .__ ..._v~- - â€"v v-uuev to be‘seen, and not to see. JThe Jersey Lily looks worn and faded. and her pale- grey toilet lacked the showy splendor that used to characterize her costumes in former days. I never admired her, even when I first saw her in the very height of her renown. How an (ace could be considered handsome with t at broad, heavy jaw was to me a mystery. And then she always lacked the supreme charm of beauty, namely. unconsciousness, whether real or feifned. She is always attitudinizing, and a ways on the lookout for admirers. . The Prince of Wales dropped in to. visit her in one of the entr'acm, but His High- ness had a cold in his head” up arently. as ‘he passed nearly the whole 01h s period in a series of vehement and most unroyal sneezes. The beauty of the-present Lon on useason is said to be a Mrs. Simpson, who, with her husband, has Just returned from l a five years’ residence in China. There is} also a Miss Graham, who has a most lovely hoe, but who spoils her very undeniable charms by the too free use of cosmetics. However, I think the epoch of professional beaut in London society is pretty much at an on , which is fortunate for society. 'l'lll Bfiublflll llAlJ’l‘lln. In. 141-me [fadingâ€"The New “vane. I new hire. Len try, says a. London cor- mpondent. the at or evening at the opera on the occasion of the first performance of Rubenewin'e opera. of “ ll Demonic." She at with her back to the etage during the entirepvening, having evidently come there “ No.” i? H A Millionaire'u Bequenu. Fashionable Jottingl. Endlu' up do \Vorld. “ She got on the box and I asked her for ton cents before she puthor head in the to 9. She wouldn‘t give me the ten cents, MI I let, her go; and she didn‘t put her head in. She hollered and fell down, and than you men cfnno running.“ Thu! is the graphic story of 3 Columbus. Ohio. boy who had a med to mist a Woman in com- mltgng an aide if she would give him ten m C I Lord Sandburst was married a fortnight ago in St. James’ Church. Piccadilly, to Lady Victoria Spencer, youngest daughter of the late Earl 8 noer, and haltsistor of the present Earl. y whom she was giVen away. The Prince and Princess of Wales were present and «we the bride a very handsome Chippen ale writingntabiu. An India rimwl, which appeared among tho prosentu, was. of course, from the Qumn, who sent, in addition. a goidnnmuclivd diamond pendant. wit-h her own miniature in the centre. and having a large pear! drop. A despatch from New York says a Well- dressed woman giving her name as Mary White was arrested in Paterson yesterday for swindling. ~She represented herself as a widow, and said that she was poor and had sold everything, till at last she was forced to part with her weddin ring. Then she exhibited what appeared to a massive gold ring. rounded at the edges to look as if worn, and en raved on the inside with theI initials “M. ." The rin appeared to be‘ worth 815. She sacrificed it for 84. Then she went to some one else and told the same story and sold another ring bearing the same initials. Pretty soon the Egr- ohascrs went out to make their neigh rs envio s with their bargains. This resulted in th iscovery that the neighborhood was full of the rings. A jeweller tested them and found that they were brass. and worth about ten cents apiece. The woman was arrested yesterday. now Sim Sacrlflcul nel- Wedding Ring It appears that German railway con- ductors are made happy by the addition to their equipment of a paper mill and print. ing ofliee, the invention of a Berlin engineer, to be hung round the neck, which, accord- ing to an exchange, is to completely manu- facture passenger tickets before the eyes of the wondering public. The apparatus is said to be somewhat complicated in con- struction, but its manipulation is as simple as its working is correct. for, should the operator not proceed in the way required by the mechanism, it will not print all the figures and words wanted. but the word " Falsch ” (wrong) in the place where the fault was committed: At the same time this portable printer checks the number of tickets issued. so that at any given moment the money in the hands of the conductor can be compared with the value of the tickets printed and taken. ‘had run to lose, resolved on vengeance. \McComb, having reason to believe that his life was in danger, went to Moon and asked ‘him to divide the winnings, so that he could leave Denver and go east. To his astonishment and dismay, Moon coolly refused to divide one cent, and turned him out of his house. MoComb hadbarely got into the street when Thompson’s friends opened fire on him, and he had to run for his life. Hie pedestrian abilities stood him in good stead, and he esoa ed without injury. By running and walk ng all night he managed to reach a point of safety, and boarded an east-bound train, never stop ping until he reached Illinois. He states that the day after his hasty departure from Denver Moon was shot by the victimized gang, and died almost instantly. The San Francisco Call says: Archie McComb, the San Francisco sprintâ€"runner, }recently came to grief in Denver, 001., ‘where, with the assistance of Thompson, he had won agreat deal of money. He ascertained that Thompson had ewindled him out of about 81,900 in two matches, and resolved to get even by throwing the next match. A match was made with Quirk, of Canada, who was running under an assumed name, and Thompson. believ- ing that the race was fixed for ‘McComb to win it, induced all his intimate friends to bet their money on the Californian. McComb hadmeantime told one Jim Moon that he intended to “throw” Thompson, and Moon bet all the money he could raise on Quirk.- The result of the race was that the Quirk party carried off about $6,000 ‘ from Denver, and Jim Moon pocketed as much more. Thompson and his confidante lost heavily, and, knowing that McComb any noticeable pause. The squads were stationed at400yards from the targets, and at the ward of command advanced at the double until it halted by the .bugls call at an unknown distance from the dummies. [From this point each squad fired as many ;shots as possible, and at the word of com- mand they again advanced, repeating the same process at .a second and then at a third unknown range. Although this com- petition is an improvement, it is open to question if it would be of much avail in actual warfare. For then it is seldom that troops are called upon to fire at any enemy crossing their line of fire as these dummies do. What I think would be more practical would he a target on tramways moving in the direction of the line of fire,as wouldbe the case with an advancing enemy. This. I believe, would better fulfil the desired object. ‘ A London correspondent writes: A new feature has this year been introduced to the Wimbledon shooting. a competition in which the Canadian Team were not per~ mitted to enter the lists. All through the Transvaal war. end especially at the con- test on Msjnba Hill, the Boers showed their superiority over our troops as marks- men. This our officers thought to bedue to the deficiency in practice of our ehooting ‘at moving objects at various ranges. It was this consideration which this year led the National Rifle Association, aided b the muniflcent gift of £2,500 by Mr. Mu ens, to found prizes for “field tiring " under conditions as closely resembling those of actual warfare as ssible. In this. which was named t e Mullcns Com- petition. five fist pieces of board, to repre- sent the head and breast ofa man, were substituted for the ordinary targets, and fixed on tramweys moving from right to left and left to right from mautiet to ment- 1 let, at a tolerably slow P299. and without} IIIOO'I‘ING 0N T“ nous. -â€"â€"â€" A Noni Future lured-cod In Win- A conductor-'5 Plea-ant l-mec tor Pedant-lat. Office. Robert Browning IS pleasantly described as wandering: through the crowd at the Royal Academy entertainmenm with a kind word and warm grasp of the hand for allhia friends. and, above all,’"astolen filance of affection at his son's pictures as e quiet-1y passes them by." In a meeting at New York the other day, Dr. Garrish, speaking of horses. said that greater attention should be paid to their comfort. They should get fruit and sugar occasionally, and, above all things, they ought to have one day’s rest out of seven. He said that horses, though not so intelli- gent as dogs, are very 3 ions, and men- tioned an instance of a eras of his that used to stop of his own accord at the door of a patient whom he had been treating for fever ; a year afterward, passing by. the' horse astonished the doctor by stopping as before. Dr. Lambert thought that while a horse might not be so intelligent as a dog, he could see further. A long-lived horse, he said, was known by the "elasticity and firmness of its ear, and a shortlived one has a flabby ear. The same rule, he said, held good with regard to women. - A woman 3 whose ear was pulled out of shape by a ‘ heavy ear- ring had not many years to live, while one whose ear stood the strain would attain a good old age. "A new song is entitled “ How They Parted.” We have not read it, but no doubt they parted in the usual wayâ€"about 2 a. m., after kissing each other “ good night " at least 37 times. “ Well, I guess I must go." he says, with a sigh, about two hours‘ before he does go. Then, after another half-hour's conversation about one thing and another, he presses her hand with much pressiveness. says he really must go. andâ€"lovingly lingers another half-hour. Then he says he didn't know itwas so late, picks up his hat and moves toward the door, where he puts his arm around her to prevent her from falling in aswoon, and kisses her five minutes in one inning andâ€"- still lingers. Then he gives her one more kiss just for luck, and reluctantly steps down and out into the black, lonesome night. and calls around the next night. That is how they parted years agoâ€"if we have not been misinformed. “ Well, how did you get your money back ‘2" I asked; ‘ [ “Blackwalnnts are worth 82.50 a bushel, ‘ain't they? I’ll get 400 bushels this year. That's 81,000. ‘ A hundred dollars a yearis good rent for land worth $15 an acre, ain't it?" . “ Well, what else ?” I inquired, growing interested. . “ The trees.”continued Mr. Graves, “ are growing an inch 3. year. When they are 20 years old they will be 19 inches through. A black walnut tree 19 inches through is worth 515. My 2.000 trees 10 years from now will beworth $30900. It I don’t want to cut them all I can out half of them, and then raise a bushel of walnuts to the tree-â€" that is, get $2,500 a year for the crop. ‘ Two hundred and fifty dollars an acre is a ; fair rent for 615 land, ain't it ?"â€"â€"â€"Cllicagoi Tribune. 1 And sure evnough théréivjviéilzefige}: acres of hand-planted walnut trees. They stood about 200 feet apart, 200 to the acreâ€"in all 2,000 trees. - ' “ ‘ What of it. 9’ Why them” a black wal- nuts, sir. Ten acres ofy ’.em Plantad’ em myself, ten years ago. See they are ten inches through. _Good trees. oh ‘2" The smartest Texan. and. in fact, the smartest farmer I ever mat, is old Sam Graves, who lives on a. 100 acre farm west of Waxuhatohle, In Central Texas. After Mr. Graves had shown me his cattle and cotto_q, he took me over to see his woods. " W611, what of it ?" IV pointeflput Q ten-acre forest. ”blot by Inheritance ll Well as by Deeds oi Bravery. An extended interview has been had with Sitting Bull at Fort Yates. Dak. He says he was born near old Fort George on the Willow Creek, below the mouth of the Cheyenne River, and behaves that he is about 44 years old. His father was the famous Indian chief, Jumping Bull. He says, “ I am chief by inheritance as well as by deeds of bravery." He has with him two Wives and nine children, including twins. After himself he regards Four Horns as the greatest of livnng chiefs. When asked why he surrendered, he denied that he had done so. He says that when he went to Fort Burlord he did so with the intention of remaining on] a few days, and did not understand that {Is had ‘given himself up. He will new demand of the Government that it shall set him free. He was asked in what way he considered the Government wronged him, but gave an evasive reply, saying that he had never had either a - misunderstanding or an agreement with the Government. He had never made any treaties with the whites, never sold them any land, and never made war upon the United States. Without ever having committed any depredations upon the white 'man or the white man’s country, he had been driven by force from lands whose possession he had never yielded, and had been placed in a position where all his acts were dictated by neces- sity and not by any desire on his part for Queer Things About Hones. A Black Walnut Story. “ How They Pal-led." SITTING BULL. asked. as be said, “ Now. come to mev if anything goes wrong.” In these days some bar keeper turned great man has replaced the host. whose ambition it is to appear to do nothing and to look haughty and intellec- tual, as if a glorious ancestry he t his impulsiveness in cheek. Some 0 these parvenns run four or five hotels and e mi most of their time travelling between em, instead of lookingafter the personal comfort of the bird they have caught. The word table . d'hote they are now affecting means the table of the host’s family, at which he preé sides and carves, but the average host now- a-days is so ashamed of his guests that he hides his family like a Mexican or Brazil- iau grandee from the sight of travellers. Women have an opfiiing in the hotel business here as in Euglan . They are not‘ hotel speculators, and are willing to undergo a host's res nsibilities. At Brighton, England, which is the largest watering place on the globe, with above 100,000 - permanent residents, the chief duties of hotels are performed by women mainly, the porter's work excepted. The hotels frequently send the guest out toone of the thousands of clean private dwellings, where for from 15 to 30 shillings a week room and attendance are furnished. British extortion; so celebrated among Americans, omits the exasperating ‘solioi- tstion here, but more boldly expresses litself in the tarifl'. The British hotel sys- tem, ra idly intruding here. is popular with landlor see a means of greater revenue; in general the same cooking is served as at the public table, but with higher tarifl's on the various dishes. Wine, which is the matter of greatest profit to the foreign landlord, is of small relative consumption here; a profit of about $10 a case is made upon champagne. Claret, which costs 40 ‘cunts a quart bottle from the grocer, is changed ‘51 and upward at the hotel table. In passing through Germany on her way to Switzerland the Empress Eugenie, who travels as the Countess Pierrefomis. first drove to the new palace in order to view the rooms in which the into Princess Alice iivad, and afterwards proceeded to the Royaannsoienm.where she was met by the hereditary Grand Duke and the Princess Irene and Alice. The Empress then knelt before the tomb of the Princess. and after passing some time in silent prayer pieced several wreaths upon it. (Johnny Bouquet in N. Y. Tribune.) “ Mine host " was once a. term of mean- ing when tavern keepers were not above their trade. and the guest found at the door a plain, well-fed man. with honest eyee, who took his baggage _or his hand and If walnut is not replanted at once. the outlook for good furniture in the future will be very dreary. If it were planted along the shores of Lake Erie or in the counties before mentioned, or in any part of the Province west of Toronto, in twenty years’ time it would pay 5.000 per cent., so says an old arborioulturist. In the meantime the prospect is gloomy in the extreme, and dealers look forward to a speedy and com- plete exhaustion of the supplyâ€"Toronto Globe. “iiâ€"D __ l.’ ..... Cherrywood, which is as enduring as walnut, and which has been rapidly growâ€" ing in favor with furniture dealers. has doubled in price within the last two years on account of its scarcity. The principal value of Walnut is that it is an excellent wood for furniture and is lhandsome in appearance. It has a close grain, is not liable to be affected by changes of temperature, and at the same time is not hard to work, which renders it a very valuable timber economically. Another reason why it is so expensive is that it has to be hauled a great distance by teams before a railroad can be reached. A SUBSTITUTE. ' Butternut has been considered an excel- lent substitute for walnut, but as it can seldom be obtained without flaws,it will never fill the place of the time-honored walnut. Besides this it is also very scarce, and is gradually increasing in price. _ ' I'll. -Â¥_A, , , Mr. Hay, of Toronto, states that when he first came to Canada. walnut was used for‘ rail fences. out there, and now the wolnnt‘fihion £6? a. lighter shade and consequently not so good) is obtained from the States of Arkan- sas, Kentucky, Kansas and South Ten- nesseo. _. ~-â€"-vâ€" vv v-vai one there was two years ago. and that there is more difiiculty ih procuring a few thousand feet of the precious lumber now than there was in ‘ securing half a million feet three years ago. When walnut first came to be used it was obtained in large quantities from Port Stanley, the counties of Kent. Essex and South Middlesex, and it also grew in abun- dance on the banks of the Thames River, Ont.; but now the Canadian supply is exhausted, and lately it has been obtained from the State of Indiana. There was such a great similarity between the wood of the two countries that manufacturers had no choice, and paid the same price for either. Since the Canadian su ply has failed the immense drain on the gorests of the State of Indiana has caused the suppl to give out there, and now the walnut (w_ ieh is of .. I:_LL-_ _I A 'I i The Supply Almost Bus-sud. and No Subculture You Ian â€"A Glee-y ou- Iook {or Dunn-re on. A few years ago black walnut wasa drug on the market. and was not at all gopular with furniture manufacturers and ealers, ‘but recently it has been so universally ’sought for and used so extensively for 1 almost every kind of furniture, that latterly it has become very scarce, and now it is found next to impossible to obtain a suffi- ‘oient supply to meetthe increasing demand. at almost any cost. An idea of its scarcity and value may be gained when 8100 per thousand feet .as been paid this year {or walnut as could be purchased last year for 870. The rapidity at which the supply has decreased is owing to the impetus the trade has received through the organisation of a large number of extensive furniture companies in the United States. The immense number of sewing machines (the wood-work of which has been manufactured ‘ from black walnut) that have been annu- ally turned out both in the States and in 7 Canada is one of the principal causes of‘ the rapid consumption. A prominent dealer in the city stated to a Globe repoer that tlfere are now ten anxious buyers distributed throughout the States to _ev_ery Ann LL‘..- __-â€" ‘7, BLACK WALNUT. note! Keepers. ,____ -..~‘_.-nv \-vvvll' “There are gum or nléht moré'Eleep. But little care they whom the waves once drown How far from the light they sleep. But who. In sorrow though he he. Foam note doc r at!“ 1’ Ah God! that an V were like the salt lea. Whose topmont waters km.‘ “A .correspondent of the New ‘York firming Post Mk9 it any one can give him the authorship of the following striking lines: - ~‘ lioiow the dark Wavofi‘w‘hore ghpdqnd no down. mm--- -..- -“Qp- _. k -A!coholio fermentation generated in the roots of apple trees has been found by Dr. Van Tioghem to be often the qauee of disease in such trees. As the roots do not sometimes receive enough of oxygen in wet weather, drainage is the remedy recom- mended. â€"" Hii Where did you get them trousers?” asked an Irishman of s man who happened to be passing with a remark- ably short pair of trousers. “ I got them where they grew,” was the indignant reply. “ Then, by my oonsoienoe.” said Pat, “ you’ve pulled them a year too soon!" ‘ rosrns'rnwu'rs's soon. 0 come out of it, ‘ Come out all m Soul, thouare not at For this vile o- ouse. where day by day Wisdom and reverence are sold at mart, And the rude pie rage with ignorant cries sinst an heri e of centuries. t mus my calm : wherefore in dreams of Art And loitlest culture I would stand apart, Neither for God. nor for his enemies. â€"Oooar Wilde. the aesthetic. â€"There is a war among the weather prophets. Vennor predicts one sort a! weather for August, De Voe. the Jersey meteorologist. another and the Weather Departments third. And. in the mean: time, the average citizen is made thoroughly aware of the fact that it is hot. -Little Johnny had been caught by his aunt teasing a. fly. “ Johnny.” said she. “ supposing some great beast a. thousand times bigger than yourself should tease Ken. and perhaps eat you all up ?" “ I ope." said Johnny, “ he’d feel as bed as do when I swallow a. fly.” â€"On account of intuitionaliem we have relapsed into utilitarianism,- or universal- istio hedonism. This gratiffymg statement is made on the authority 0 a profeasor of philosophy at Concord. It is too,tooâ€"â€" -â€"The mighty have fallen! Edward Hanlan. the omman, has been summoned for selling liquor on Sunday on Toronto Island. and his brother John is also sum moned on four charges of selling liquor without a. license. -â€"A queer story is told from Toronto of a man named Loudan selling his wife and children to a. man named Heines. The wife had deserted her husband for Heinee. Feilin to induce her to return, Loudan handeg her and his children over to Heine? on the receipt of 85. --A torexgn exchange 111 an article on music says: “As in cookery. so in music, the question may be asked. ‘What goes with what?’ ” So far as summer music is concerned, it may be said that the same nights that produce the cats produce the aocordeona. â€"â€"A “sad” warning to bibulous-fclks is telegraphed from New Brunswick. N.J., 5'; follows: Annie Powers, of this city, diofl today from the effects of tartaric-acid gisoning from “ lemonade,” of which she ank fifteen glasses at an cxcntsiolj recently. V, ,7 Vv_--_ -â€"â€"J uâ€"v a. fertile causvev, or too much ice water. They die from similar causes in this neigh- borhood. 'â€"It is said the children are “ dying like flies " in Brooklyn. and the cause is a mys- tery. It is suggested_ that baq mjlk may be A £__L:I_ - â€"--- .LOlIlmy, am you not hear your mother call you?" “ Come I did I" " Then why don’t you go to her at once ?" “ Well, yer see, she’s nervous, and it‘d shock her awful '11 should go too suddenly.” \ â€"We shall have a’new comet on exhibi- tion in about ten days, when the fiery visitor now being examined by the astrono- mers will be visible to the naked eye in the northern sky. â€"-‘”Tom‘niy, dig you nag hear your â€"This is the latest Western form of saying a man was hanged : “ He was unanimously chosen by a. convention of six property-holders to jump from a new pine platform into the sweet subsequently." -â€"A woman may'ofl'er in excuse for her red nose that she laces too tightly, but what shall a. man say ?â€"Rochester Express. Wfill’, old follow, what would you say your- so â€"Souns near the pyramids: 1'. My (1011!: good donk !” “ My donk he speak Inglees! Be very good I” “My donk name Yank’ Doodle! Have my dank?" â€"'1‘he 'giraffe is a very timid animal. His neck is so long that when his heart comes up to his mouth it takes him half a day to get it back where it belongs. â€"“ Mr. Smith, father would like to bor- row your paper; he only wants to read it.” “ Well. go back and tell your father to send me his supper. Tell him I only want to eat it.” ‘â€"â€"A strange astronomical phenomenon is seen in the fact that when the irate father takes down his trunk strap there is liable to be spot; on the son. â€"â€"The polo quadrille. just introduced at the watering laces, is much like the old basket uadril e, mad the feature is a very rapid a] hands round. â€"â€"-As a rule girls rather like military men, but they universally complain of General Indisfoaition when asked by their mothers to he p wash the dishes. â€"â€"Pineapple shortoake in one of the nu; departures 1n cooking. But the old veteran, huekleberry pudding. still holdsiita own â€"â€"A Buffalo girl will not have her wedding dress made in that city. for fear somebody will my she was married in a. buffalo robe. â€"â€"The Citizen is the name of a new tem pornnoepa ubliehed in Toronto. Itia edited by pug:- ‘gilliam Burgess. -â€"-Recent tests show no eroeptiblo change in the strong th and e astioxty of iron after fifty years of bridge service. --Says G. A. 881.: “ The object of III ‘ devile’ in cookery is to provoke thirst and to incite the guests to dunk heavily." â€"Gmn corn and green 4) no akin. ~Ezchan e. And fill an“ ' othegm. on yutkinto â€"A went and young gman calls his sweet- heart “ Silencs.’ because when he wan“ to kiss hot she “gives consent.” TBA TABLE GOSSIP.