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I had some slight acquaintance with this entleman during his college career, where e had distinguished himself as a good bil- liard player and a melifluous and flowery speaker at the Union; but we had not much in common to ether. He belonged to a fast set, and rat er looked down upon me. as being only fast by fits and startsâ€" as in that expedition to the Derby which was my first one. by the way) ; be ad a knowledge, too. of practical mathematics, which enabled him to make a book upon every great racing event of the yearâ€" although it did not sufliee to make him win. Atall. handsome young fellow he was, and. though not of an aristocratic type in other respects. had fine white bands, which at that time we thought little of. The were not noticed much in deal- ing at 00 or Vingt-et-un, where it is one's own hands only in which one takes any articular interest; but they after- war s served him in some stead. He did not make much maney by those games. I believe, and had none of his own to start with; but those who knew him best were wonttoaver that Theodore Pyx was a shrewd fellowâ€"an opinion which, though I did not share it. I am and to say, has since been amply justi ed. About four years after I left the Univer- sit I happened to be spending a few weekn' hofiday at a certain seaside town on the south coast. with an aunt of mine who was given to ritualism. She attended mating and vespers every day at the district church. and was rather scandalized at my not no- companying he}: on those expeditions. " I hope, at all events, my dear," she said, "that on Sunday you will not go to any church save St. Ethelburga's." This I really promised. since it left me more alternatives than she was aware of. which she presently added, which decided me at once on accompanying her, “ that 1 should then have the privilege of listening to that most eloquent ot theologians, Mr. Theodore Pyx." " Why.good gracious, I know him i" cried I. " I am truly glndtohear it," returned she. gravely ; “ for it shows that your acquaint. auce have been well chosen." There was a reproof in her voice which I at once under- stood to have been evoked by my having alluded to her favorite divine in a too jooularand even somewhat disparaging tone. and I hastened to remove this unfortunate impression. . I. said he had been a moat admirable speaker at the Union, and she replied, to my surprise “ that he was so now whenever opportunity} offered." I subsequently dia- covered that she meant .thal. res table assembly of High Churchmen ca led the Church Union, and she was much pleased to find. or rather to infer. that even in my und radnaee career I had been aconstant atten ant at it. I ooni'ess I looked forward to the ensuin Sunday with even more than the wanted enthusiasm that the prospect of hearing a fashionable preacher always awakens with- in me, for in the meantime I had gathered many interesting particulars of my old college friend. l'rom the rich widow.Lady GergoyIO. who had erected and endowed the church, down to my aunt's ancient handmaiden, Betty. his congre ation it seemed adored the Rev. The ore Pyx. He might have hadaa pair of slip rs worked by fair hands for every day 0mm that day was his legs; he was taken out head foremost at his lodgings in Bury street, St. James’, and put to bed by two charitable undergraduates, whom he in~ treated to make an apology for him to Dr. Paley, with whom. he said. he had made an engagement to sup thatevening at Cremorne. In this impression of course mis- taken; but I mention aimess to Pyx. since it shows that his recent course of theological study had not been obliterated, though he just then confused it with mat- ters of a somewhat different character. his etiuflibrium was out of gear, the native genie ity of his disposition remained un- impaired; and we could hear him singing all the way underneath us, no doubt at the top of his voice. but mellowed by distance and his position so as to resemble the lay of the humble-bee between two panes of lass. . The last I saw of Theodore Pyx lug proceeding. the Derby is natural y out of my line. A serious writer. I am well aware. should be careful how he contam- inates his pen with such a eubject-and especially if he doesn’t understand itâ€"but he may go some lengths it actuated b a moral purpose. This may be seen any ay in the way in which the most respectable journals handle the most disreputable topics. “ They only touch upon the mat- ter in the interest of morality " or “ for the purpose of holding it up for public reprehensicn ”â€"just as though a barn-door should apologise for the poleoat nailed u on it. I. however. have an excuse for allu ing to so sad a thin as a race-course which is more than vali ; the two Derbys I have in my mind are indissolubly connected with a reverent. it not a sacred subject, in the rscn of the Rev. Theodore Pyx. On the rst occasion when I stood beside him on ‘ Epsom Downs he was not, indeed. a olergy- ‘ man. but he was very near it. ~He was not the rose. but, so to s ak, stood in the next pot to it; tor he he passed his “ volun- tary.” and was to be " japanued " in a Jortnight. That was the expression which, I am grieved to say. he used in those unre- gensrate days for the ceremony of ordina. 43_m We went together from London on a drag. with a good many University men, and Pyx was not the greatest of the party. He had never been remarkable for gravity, and this was almost the last occasion when he would be at liberty to indulge his natu- ral instincts for liveliness and larks. He called it, with a touching pathos, his “ last fling”--and it was a tolerably high one. There was nothing that he did not do that Derby day that was to be doneâ€"from throwing at his Aunt Sally up to losing “ the tenner" which another aunt had sent him (on hearing he had “ passed his V01") in backing the first favorite. I can see him now. with his hat stuck round with dolls, having his fortune told by a gipsy. who, with all her talents for prevision and de- sire to promising him that he should be one day Archbishop of Canterbury; he looked so exceedingly uniike even the very earliest formationâ€"the merest chrysolisâ€"of any \ development of that nature. He did not come back on the drag.bnt inside of it. along with the empty hampers,by reason of our solicitude for his personal safety. Though I 1:- -hhele Eion. As 9 sporjing qyouj 39¢! a, wicked gsmbl‘ CHANGE OF VIEWS. His conversation at dinher was confined to the two graces (by which I mean. of course. _ his benedictions) and the new sinted window at St. Ethelburgs’s which sdy Gargoyle was putting up in memorg of her late husband; which, combined wit the way in which he put aside with a. gen. tie sigh any allusion to our college days, I confess exasperated me. I felt like Hot spur when the com-tier met him. He made me mud to see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet And talk so like a waiting gentlewomnn. When my aunt ileft the room I said, rather curtly. “Now. Pyx, have a ci ar. This in one of the old brands you us to like so." , He aback his head with? d'éiririfihiilo. " I should hardly know which end to strike with." “ And yet. what ll. dab you used to be at pool, Py x! Do you remember how you used boy laugh at. Jones 'ior putting his trust in l’rovidenco.’ as he called it. when he used to go in for a fluke ?" “ You don't object. to other people doing it, I ho s?" It was clear by the look be cast at iis long silk waistcoat. that he did. but I had already lit my regsliu. which I was glad to think distributed a. fine full flavor of tobacco-smoke such as no incense would resdil take away from that gar- ment. “An billiards?" I continued; “ I suppose you never touch a. one now." “ I am i'haxxkful to myrthat I have for- gotten thoue matters." said he, taking a sip of port. ”What anoblo character is you1_'_deart_|uptl" 7 77 " Thank you. no.” he answered. gently; “ I 119% gm? g_iyeq qp sgpoking." _ ' “Yes; she's n jolly good woman."said I. cheerfully. " I hope you are not think- ing of marrying her." “ I ? M good friend." he answered, smiliqg. “1 have a wife alrpady." _ Perhaps I was {Jiqued at this, but his mode of receiving my welcome when we first met had not pleased me ; it had not been frank, and had suggested apprehen- sion; as though it was just possible Imight have told some stories of his career before the blessed St. Bungay the Elder had taken himunder his immediate protection. “The deuce you have!" axolaimed I, with astonishment. “ That's not generally known, is it?" “You mistake me," said he. “ I mean tbntnl‘my already wedglogl to the Church", “ Oh. I see; you go in for celibacy of the clergy ‘2" " Must certainly I do. A priest should be vowed to heaven. Perhaps you have not readumy ‘little woyk {1909th aubjegt_?‘{ read my nttle work u on that subject ?" “No; but I ghoul like to read it im- mensely. I hope it has a portrait of the author for its frontinpieco." II “In" van ‘l Ilnn " na::‘ In- -â€":bl. -« :._._ " Well, es. it baa." said he. with an im- perturbab o gravit ; " It WM by desire of my congregation t mt it was inserted. " ' His hostess received him as though he had been a prince of the blood royal who had taken holy orders from conscientious convictions. and set before him, Imust needs confess. a much better dinner than she had hitherto thought it worth while to provide for her nephew. If he hag not been sitting at m own tablo, I think I must have burnt out an h- ing: unit was. I only said. “Well, t at was rather hard upon the ladies, Pyx. It appears to me that they adoro youâ€"as in- deed they always did." A roseate flush spread over my com- anion‘n features. " Let us recall. my rio'nd. no hnmjliating antecedents. He was thinking. Inlmew. o! the milliuer in the High street whom he certainly Would have married at college, only. as he had frankly owned. he bed not the money to pay {or a npeoial license, and to have put. up the bonus would have been ruin. in his cupboard. I called upon him the next day, and sent in my card, but he was compelled to de- cline to see me; it was the eve of St. Bun- gay the Elder, who, it seemed. was his patron saint, on the anniversary of whose martyrdom he was bound to be “in re- treat " for twenty-four hours. He accept- ed. however, the invitation I carried tohnn from my aunt to dine with us on Wednes- day and renew his acquaintance with his old college friend; and at the hour ap- pointed he arrived. He had, indeed, certainly made flesh, whether it was mortified or not; his hands were considerabl plumper and one of them wore a ringâ€"per aps a pastoral ringâ€"with a line diamond in it, which I am quite sure he had never possessed asa layman. He was said to be a very “earnest worker," and it is certain that he worked with his hands and that in a very attractive and graceful manner; when he raised them in supplication my aunt said that they re- minded her of a dove with folded wings, which in the act of benediction became a pair of ditto. His voice was really a good one; only when it dropped to a sweet murmur, or solemn coo, 1 could not help recollecting how it had sounded among the hampers under the drag upon that Derby day. It was very illogical and unoharitable in me to revert to such a matter, for the wildest undergraduate may become the best of men and clergymen in time, and Theodore Pyx had not been so very wild. Only somehow, as I watched him, those lines about the “ snowy-banded, delicate. handed, dilettante priest” would come into my mind and I could not quite believe in that hair shirt, nor yet in the scourge in his cupboard. When. indeed, I had the opportunityâ€" or “ privilege," as it was the custom, I found. to term itâ€"-ot seeing the Rev. Theo- dore Pyx in his pulpit, he appeared to me to be in [funicular-1y good case, and to have suffered ittle or nothing from those morti- fiostione of the flesh to which it was his habit to submit himself. able enough; there was uothin to speak of tastings and watchings in iis ap ear- anoe, nor did he eve. allude to them im- aelf. except in such confidential communi- cations with certain members of his congregation as were almostâ€"though not quiteâ€"under tne _se_al _of the confessional. year it he could have brought himself to wear them; but his habits were asoetio. He wore tight boots. not to show 03 ieet (though they certainly. as I had alterward observed. looked smaller in them). but for the sake of the discomfort. Under his buttonless silk waistcoat it was understood that he had a horsehair shirt, and there were whispers abroad that in the cupboard of his private oratory hung a scourge that had drunk deep of poor Theodore Pyx's blood. What was so charming about him. however, said my aunt, was that you would never guess these things to look at him ; to the outward eye, he appeared comfort. able enough ; there was nothing_ to speak I felt that. though Pyx was a humbug. Another outbreak of milk-scarlatina is re- orted from Dundee. Scotland. For the ant few weeks, ecarlatiua has been unduly prevalent in the town amen st families in good circumstances and wit: healthy sur- roundings. It has now been discovered that a female servant employed at a dairy visited a house in which was sear- latina.aud was attacked by the disease, which was communicated to a person mu} neeted with another dairy. From these two sources the disease spread to the cus- tomcrs supplied with milk from each dairy: â€"-Tho Middlesex county oorhouse. near Strathroy, was opened on \Vlzadnesday week. The G.W.It. placed a car at the disposal of the County Councillors and others who went out from London toattend the formal opening; and Messrs. Stiff and Dawson. who represented the staff of the road. were repeatedly complimented on the excellence of the arrangements of the line for securing the safety and comfort of the travelling public. his hair-shirt and his scourgeâ€"if they ever existedâ€"I know not; perhaps he had left them as relics to the shrine of St. Ethel- burga. It is very improbable that I shall re- visit Epsom again ; but the association of it with the Rev. Theodore Pyx will abide with me forever; it seems. so to speak, to hallow those two Derbye.-â€"â€"James I’ayn. in Belgravia. â€"Tho handsome brick residence of Mr William Moffstt. " Scotch Block." Ancester, together with one of his children. had a. narrow escape the other night by the ox- plcsion of a coal oil lamp. Mrs. Mofl'ett. with great presence of mind. he t the flames under subjection until ass stance srrived,without which a. total loss of dwell- ing would have been the result. ABomboy dos (itch says the cause of tho ilnoss from w ioh Lord Ripou. Viceroy of India, is suffering in that. city was snu- stroko, resulting from tho exposure to which he was subjected while attending to his official duties. He is now in bottor condition and his early recovery is con fidently predicted by his physicians. â€"It is a rare thing to find a case of diph- theria except in houses where there is defective plumbing. “ You offered me a weed the last time I saw you. my good fellow," he said; “ now take one of mine ; " and he gave me one of the very longest oi are I ever saw, except the one he had in is own mouth, which was its twin brother. When he gave up celibacy, it seems. he resumed tobacco. What he had done with Mons. Do Losseps read a paper sometime ago before the French Academy. stating that he believed he had discovered the actual lace where the Israelites crossed the Re 80s. A French priest. thinking his arguments conclusive. is anpealing for funds for__d_redging purpeses._1n_9rder to bring to li ht in“ f‘omiina bf lemohi's army which may under the sand. _ And he' winked unutterable things. I felt myself in quite a false position, for it was evident not on] ' that Pyx had been playing his late ecclesiastical game for something like the very thing he had gained lay it. but also that he thought it one which 1 sensible persons, including myself, must symgathizg with and admire. “ You must some down to our house in the country," she said, and stay» week with your old :ollege friend.” "There's an zpital billiard-table,” added Pyx. “ and yo: will find me in pretty good prqotlce agility: -She was a fine women: but older than her present husband: I should say five-and twenty years older. She had some cold chicken and salad on her lap, and a. tank- ard of claret-cur in her hand. and seemed to be enjoying F erself_exceedingly: . ' In answer, however, to my astonished stare, he at once informed me that he had “ out the church," to the health of of which. nevertheless, and to show that there was no ill-feeling. he would be very happy to drink a glass of ohamPagne with me. " But where,’ said I. "is Mrs. l’yx?” " Bush I she retains her maidenâ€"I mean her courtesy title: Lady Gargoyle is inside." And he introduced me to her through the open window-accordingly: ‘ I neither saw nor heard anything of Pyx again till last Derby day, which found me, for the second time in my life,u on Epsom Downs. It is no matter why I t us revisit- ed a scene of pleasure so unsuited to my own respectable habits. I disdain to pro. test that I patronized it because the insti- tution tends to improve the breed of horses ; suffice it to say that I was there, and that there I met Theodore Pyxâ€"onoe more upon a dragâ€"his own dragâ€"and in very pleasant company. He had a red silk tie, which contrasted with a well out white waistcoat that set off his appearance to It was not witho'ut some diflioulty, for I was interrupted by several paroxysms of laughter, that I could write the required letter of sympathy and oondolement to my aunt upon the backsliding of her favorite divine. I said I blushed for him as though I were the painted window put up by Lady Gargoyle to the memory of her late hus- ban ; a metaphor which pleased my re- spected relative very much, by the we , and gave her a higher opinion of my intel i- gence than she had been hitherto p eased to entertain. ‘ i I had seen nothing about Pyx in the pa- per in question. and rushed down to the club at once to look at it. There was nothing about him in the police reports, nor yet in the proceedings of the Divorce court. which my eye naturally sought in the first instance. What could he have done? At last I found it underaepeoial heading. “Marriage in high life." The Reverend Theodore P x has been united in the bonds of wedloo (with full choral service) to Emily. reliot of the late Sir Anthony Gargoyle, K. C. B., formerly Governor of Petagonie. duct 0! your friend, Mr. Theodore Pyx; it will be a. sad blow. I fear. to the cause with which he has been so unhappily iden- tifies]. _You doubglgss 391w ygstgrdqy'q Post." it would still be inhospltshle to roast him further. so I banned to assure him that nothing I had known to his disadvantage in his sslsd days would ever pass my li . and then turned the conversation to in perish. And so we parted good triends. Six months after my return to town I had a letter from my aunt which con- tained the following postscript : “ We have ell been greatly distressedhere by the oon~ great advantage, but certain]? detracted 1'er it in an qcclesiasticgl point ot viqu. It is reported that the half-time system is giving great antistaction at Ottawa. The children M0 and to make more progress under the new system than under the old. while the change has ledto a savin of 8600 a year in the management of the no oola. Mr. O'Connor has vacated tho head mantorahip of tho Ilarriaton high qohooi to assume a similar osition in Owen Sound, tho provioua hoa mastor of tho latter school taking the position of classical mas- ter. Mr.O‘Connor is a mathematician. Lung Diseases in Omar-lo. The Canada Health Journal for‘this month has an article on the prevalence of the disease of consumption in Ontario. The average proportion of deaths from this most destructive of diseases during the past three years was about 11.5 r cent. Dur- ing these three years the eaths of 6.918 farmers were registered. and of these 916, or 13.2 per cent. were from consumption. 0! laborers. 2.102 were registered. and of these 3-18, or 16.5 per cent. were consump- tives. Of shoemakers, 240 died. and of these 40, or 16.0 per cent. were from the same cause. 01 the 80 carpenters reg- istered. 19.5 per' cent. was from con- sumption. Over 25 per cent. of the merchants registered was from this enemy. Oi servants the percentage was over 30; of teachers 37.4 per cent.; and of book-keepers and clerks (classed to- gether) 91 out of the 227 registered were from consumption. or a proportion above 40 per cent. According to the same au- thority, during the past four years there were over 22,000 deaths in this province from lung diseases of one kind or another. The great common cause of nearly all these attacks is re-breathing breathed air. The worst months for these diseases are March and April. The article concludes: “No intelligent individual who will study the facts in relation to this important subject will doubt that with abundance of fresh air permitted into all dwellings, schools, shops. etc.. and with attention on the part of each individual to the condition of the skin. a very large proportion. if not nearly all, these deaths from lung diseases might be prevented. loll col. and Teacher-I. The South Wellington Toaohors‘Assooia- tion have roaolvod to momorializo the Min- ister of Education in favor of requiring only a portion of English history to be taught in the public schools. instead of the outlines of tho wholo of it. At the same meeting a rouolution was carried. after a apiritod dia- ouasiou. in favor of allowinfz English spell- ing to tako ita course in tho uturo as it had done In tho past. and in opposition to tho ao-callod " «polling rot‘orm " movement. body were filled with them, and in his intestines were found parent trichinm in various stages of reproduction. There were millions of parasites in his body, which were subjected to the microscope, vibes it was found to be fairly alive with t om. Loalhsomo Deathâ€"Millions of Para-hos In the Vienna’s Body. NEW Yonx, Dec. 7.â€"A young butcher named Franz Axler, 19 years old, came to the dispensary attached to Bellevuo Hos- pital on November 2lst_, and asked for medical treatment for rheumatic pains and fever from which he said he was sufl'ering. Dr. Hemmingway, the dispensary physi- cian, sent Axler to the ward of Dr. Geo. H. Muller, jun.. where a day or two afterward Dr. Muller discovered that Axler was not suffering from rheumatic pains but from trichinosis. The faculty of the hospital became interested in the case, and Prof. J aneway out a piece of muscular tissue the size of an old-fashioned three-cent piece from the patient’s arm. It was found to contain, when subjected to microscopic scrutiny, no less than thirteen trichinte. On Saturday Axler died, and today an autopsy was made of his body. His entire system was found to be impregnated with trichinm; the muscles and tissues of the The New Fell-Inc alums. 01 Which no flinch Is Expected. At Detroit the other day an influential assemblage of ladies and gentlemen. includ- ing representatives of the G. W. R. and other rominent railwa s. took place at the Detro t dz Bay City ro . They were in- vited to take a trip on a train drawn by the new Fontaine engine. to which reference has already been made in the Truss. The engine. which was manufactured in Pater- son. N. J.. arrived in Detroit from Fort Wayne. Ind.. on \Vednesdtiiy. it having been subjected to a trial in ‘ort Wayne. In going to that city from Jackson the engine is reported to have run one mile in forty- eight seconds. The Fontaine engine dif- fers from other locomotives. in the fact that it has four drive wheels instead of two. that is to say. the drive wheels themselves revolve above the boiler and turn upon a smaller wheel below. which rolls along the track. The drive wheels in the air revolve upon a flange of the lower wheel. which revolves one and three-quarter times to every revolution of the upper wheel. The engine is a very handsome jpiece of work. and the wheels which re- ‘volve so far above the boiler make it very imposing. It is. however. not a large sized engine. and weighs but 800 pounds over forty-two tons. which 18 the weight of common engines. The train made thirty-six and a half miles in thirty-two minutes, including a stop at Utica of four minutes and one at Air Line ‘ Junction of three minutes. but no particu- lar efiort was made to increase the speed. Eugene Fontaine. the inventor. is 46 years old. He was born in the country near Quebec. of French Canadian parents. and at the age of 18, without knownng a word of English. he went to Rouse’s Point. in' New York. to learn the trade of a machinist. After his apprenticeship he roved over the United States and worked at engineering and the machinist’s business. Going to Detroit five years ago he was given charge of the Pin Works on Grand River avenue. and in April last he began making the drawings for the new engine. He received little encouragement from brother mechan- ics and machinists, but when he showed his plans to some capitalists of the city he found no difliculty in organizing a stock company. the result of which is the Fon- taine engine. ' REVOLUTION ILLOBOMOTIVES. TRICIIINOSIS. The high winds of Manitoba which give our famous “cold waves " great boosts in this direction, cause the snow to drift to such an extent that the roads and fields are generally bare. while the piles of snow at» cumulate in hollows and against any ob- struction. This heins the case the Mani- tobitee construct a novel sleigh road. A gentleman who knows says that in the fall when the ground is soft the Manltobers plough two deep furrows along the road, just the distance apart spaced out b a vehicle's wheels or the runners of a sleig . The fall rams fill these furrows with water, and the forty degrees or so below zero con es] the miniature ditches into two splendi sleigh- tracks, while the horse trots along on the solid ground between. Thus are the Manito- burghers independent of the snowfall in the matter of rapid transit. Rev. J. G. Macgre one! Elem, and his estimable wife com etcd their fiftieth year of married lite. an their golden weddin was celebrated by the resence of severe members of their family from a. distance and others one day recently. Currox, 0nt., Dee. 10.â€"Burglars entered the residence of the Rev. JameaGordon. Easter of the Presbyterian church here. uring last night. It is supposed they gained entrace by turning the key in the door-leek by use of a air of pincers. After searching difl'erent c ests and rooms with no apparent success, and scattering pa rs. etc.. they entered the room of Mr. Rem. Millikan. of Markham, who was visiting Mr. Gordon on his way to Boston. They succeeded in securing his wallet, contain- ing 8150 from his pants, which were on a chair by his bedside. also a silver watch which was in his vest. Mr. Gordon only misses a valuable sealskin cap. This is the most daring and best executed burglary that has taken place here in some years. It is a wonder the thieves did not awaken some one in the house, nearly every room in the house having been searched for valuables. Gambling is very greatly increasing in London. At a club. which is sufficiently well known to all who take an interest in such matters, a gentleman lost at baccarat â€"and paidâ€"no less than £5,000 in ready cash the other night. What makes it more serious is that this same gentleman had pre- viously lost some £9,000 at the same game at the same club. Dr. Oscar Lenz, the Austrian explorer, who started from Morocco. has reached Senegal via Timbuotoo. He is the fourth European who has visited Timbuotoo, his predecessors being Major Laing, in 1826 he was nfirdered and his papers were lost); aillie. a Frenchman, who in the same year started from the south and reached Morocco, and Barth, a German, in 1853. The Emperor of Germany his been very sad since the death of his trusted and be- loved General Goeben. It was noticed at the recent Cologne fates that the emperor paid marked attention to the deceased general. LieutenantGeneral von Dannen. berg, the commandant of the 2nd infantry division, is spoken of asthe successor to General Goeben. ' Rev. Mr. Gordon's Dwelling Bnnmckod. had been tenanted by a beautiful lady who, after an interview with Sir James Hannen,- had been released from the bonds of matrimony. Before taking up her resi. deuce in the house the ’vert called in a priest to sprinkle it with holy water in order that it might be pnrifieihm A tragedy occurred at the Poitiers Theatre the other night. In the last act of the drama. “ Les Pirates de la Savane,” the actor who took the role of Andrea shot his comrade, Martigne, dead. How the accident arose is not explained. except that he was' unaware that the weapon used was loaded with shot. ‘ The other day a. convert to Roman Catholicism took a. house m London which Of female beauty the late Sir Alexander Cockburu was an appreciative admirer ; but to win his good graces a lady had to be witty as well as beautiful. " Belle, main par trop bete,” was his verdict on one of the professional beauties who had been “it.“ by his side during a dinner party. .. The marriage of Prmce William 6: Prussia, eldest son of the Crown Prince, with'Princess Augusta. Victoria. of Angus- tenburg, seems to be definitely fixed for the 25th of February. The royal pair, it also appears, will reside at Potsdam in summer, in the Marble Palace, and in win- ter in the Schloas. Freemasonry is as much detested in Greece as it is honored in Sweden. The last insult which one Greek applies to another is to call him a. Freemason. “ My brother. you are a. thief. a liar, a curâ€"a Freemason l" In Mugdeburg there have been forty cases of trichiasiecaused by the eating 0); uncooked sausage. The caees have been com nretively mildâ€"that is to so dea_t has occurred. They are all attri uted A Russian priest named Betsohnaistari. who at the age of 113, undertook 3 Hari- mage to Jerusalem, died on boar the Lloyde’ boat Espero on the way from Alex- andria to Julie. to the same source. It is not a. little curious that Prince Bis- mark's two greatest enemies. Prince Gorts. ohakofl‘ and Count Harry Arhim. are both staying at the same hotel at Nice, where they intend to pass the winter. An English paper has i: an the beat authority that her majesty has no inten- tion whatever of issuing a. medal to the troops who took art in the relief of Capt. Boycottâ€"in looa words, in the invasion of Mayo. Colonel Paard' 13 dead. He was at one time well known as “ Garibaldi’ 3 Eng lishc man ” and did good service in the Garibll- dian campaign of 1860 1 “III“ “"1va H V. ‘VVV' _ “What is this I hear.” asks Life. «afloat the heir to a baronetoy being on the point of offering his baud and heart to the fair managerese of one of our metropolitan theatres ? " The Ordre‘ststos that ngonmtorls has invited the Empress Eugenio to spend the winter with her at Windsor. Lord Odo Bunsen. the well-known mot. will shortly be raised to the pa ‘ Labouoheriana: “ What dish radicals in their frankness. I a cal; therefore I am frank. . Latest British and Foreign No Non-l alt-Isl: 'l‘nTcIn In nlnnllolm. BURGLARY AT CLIFTON.