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THE HULL PACKET AND EAST RIDING TIMES. November 3, 1882 Sympathy Among Ants. One day, watching a small column of these ants, I placed a little stone on one of them to secure it. The next that approached, as soon as it discovered its situation, ran backwards in an agitated manner, and soon communicated the intelligence to the others. They rushed to the rescue, some bit at the stone and tried to move it, others seized the prisoner by the legs, and tugged with such force that I thought the legs would be pulled off, but they persevered till they got the captive free.

I next covered one up with a bit of clay, leaving only the ends of its attennse projecting' It was soon discovered by its fellows, who set to work immediately, and by biting off pieces of the clay soon liberated it. Another time I found a very few of them passing along at intervals. I confined one of these under a All communications for the Ohm department should be addressed to the Ohm Editor, Bvll Packet-office, TheBull Chess Club meets every Monday and Thursday evening, at the Station Hotel, Paragon-street. The Ohurch Institute players meet every evening (Sundays excepted), at their Chess Boom, Albion-street. Visitors are alvxtys welcome.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. W.N.P. Duly received. Thanks for attention, B.A. White has other lines of play, but hiB combinations are disorganised, and he must lose time, whioh is fatal to the attack.

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GAME 146 (Two Knights' Defence), Played in the third round of the Preston Guardian correspondence tourney between Messrs J. Jordan, Sheffield, POETRY. AtTTUMN IN EXILE. I wandor forth in Badness for a while, And seek my bosom's burden to begrUe. The sinking sun, half hidden in the main, Oasts a cold glance on oar sad earth again, And then all things are olianged.

Not so my heart. Twas with a pang I saw me forced to part From that dear land where my glad youth was blest With lovo of friends who now are gone to rest. Sweet native land, thy oharma I view no more, For me the bloom of Autumn thou dost pour No longer on the flowers, the fields, the trees, Or the full orohavds that were wont to please When laden with the produce of the year, Yet here all stripped and desolate appear. Mild zephyr, that was wont to kiss the plains, What saddening sounds succeed your murm'ring strains 1 Gleam the sun's rays, though dazzling bright, unfelt. Failing with warmth the ohilly air to melt.

The trees of russet foliage are bereft, And nought but naked branohes now is left, Through which beard the blasts of Winter blown, Now shrieking loud, now sinking to a moan. Beneath the oaks, that drop their garb of green, O'er the bare sward the yellow leaves are seen. Driven around and upwards by the gale, Now in the air a fluttering mass they Bail, Now, sinking low, in columns on the ground, Rustling they Bweep in one -unceasing round. Twas thus with me too, was like the leaf, Now raised by hope, and now depressed with grief, And tossed at mercy on the surging waves Of the, wild ocean of despair that laves That solid rock, the heart. Yet, like the vino, Whose slender tendrils for support entwine Around the oak, my cherished mem'rioa ding To that sto'it hope whioh of thee still bring To the forsaken exile, whose sad lot Is cast in foreign dimes, by all forgot An exile I though for fatherland I yearn, I've bilked my creditors, and daren't return AFTER THE WEDDING.

All alone in my room at last I wonder how far they have travelled now, They'll be very far when the night is past And so would I if I knew hut how. How calm she was, with her saint-like face Her eyes are violet, mine are blue How oareless I am with my mother's lace Her hands are whiter and softer, too. They have gone to the oity beyond the hill They must never oome baok to this place again. I'm almost afraid to sit here so still, If it would but thunder, and lighten, and rain. Oh, oh I for some one may not be at rest Some one, perhaps, is travelling to-night I hope that the moon may shine instead, And heaven be starry, and earth all bright.

It is only one summer that she's been here It has been my home for seventeen years, And seventeen summers of happy bloom Fall dead to-night in a rain of tears. It is dark, so dark in the midnight shades. Father in Heaven, may I have rest, One hour of rest for this aching head, For1 this throbbing heart in my weary breast. I love him more than she understands, For him I prayed for my bouI in truth. For him I am kneeling with lifted hands', To lay at his feet my shattered youth.

I loved, and I love, I love him still, More than father, mother, or life, My hope of hopes was to bear his name, My Heaven of heavens to be his wife. His wife the name that angels breathe, The words shall not erimson my oheek with shame, Twould have been my glory the name to wreathe, In the princely heart from which it oame. And the kiss I gave to the bride to-night His bride till life and light grow dim-God only knows how I pressed her lips, That the kiss to her might fee given to him. WHAT THE WORLD SAYS. That excellent actor, Mr David James is Ti, about to re-enter the married state.

ear It seemed surprising that when the and navy the benches were not fuller. -uearmy many ladies srace Pefiwasna nii. 3lfi Duchess of Teck came in inst. The Cambridge was addressing the House, whiA did in most clear and distinct tones. contw 6 favourably with the weaker voices of men IIs must be much his-juniors.

The Countess nf Eoden and Lady Wolseley were in the ealLt and one or two members of the Corns Tfo7' matiqae. -pio- The Premier did not go to the Lyceum Theatr for nothing for on moving the vote of thank our successful army he quoted a line from th opening sentences of Much Ado about Nothing The galleries were crammed, Prince Teck (Iookin completely bronzed), Sir John Adye, Sir HenrS Havelock-Allan, and other returned heroes list ing impatiently to Wilfrid Lawson's inflafej phillippic, though a genuine smile was elicit when the teetotaller said that the thanks of th British House of Commons should be voted to th Egyptians for running The two officers who died last week, one in Belgrave-square and the other at Malta a tlZ rmlv turn TTooV.I T); 1 -l. uuuocuviu. j-uiauc who nave sup cumbed to the effects of the campaign. There aw not a few circumstances which are more than usually sad in connection with the death of each Col.

Balfour was not considered to be dangerousiv or even seriously, wounded indeed, brotW officers in the Foot Guards, who had still to wait in Egypt, congratulated him on his good luck in being ordered home invalided. There seems to have been some strange mismanagement in the treatment of the wound, on board ship, on the wav home for, never being of robust constitution thl serious symptoms that might have been prevented took hold of him, and the sorrowful sequel of hk home-coming is too well known. Johnnie Wev land, of the 2nd Life Guards, will be sadly by many an old Eton and Oxford man, as well by the comrades of his later life. It was only at the end of the London season that he became engaged, and was about to send in -when the war broke out. He never arrived at seat of operations, but, stricken down with fever at Cyprus, only arrived as far as Malta to die He was the son of Mr and Lady Catherine Wev' land, of Woodeaton, and the nephew of Lord Clanricarde, Lady Cork, Lady Margaret Beaumont and Lady Hariet Wentworth.

Th.a,test incongruity is, I am told, Professor Max Muller on a tricyle. One of the difficulties of manipulating the Naval Brigade on shore is to get them to understand military words of command. I can sympathise with the staff-officer who tried, but in vain, to get a battalion of sailors to manoeuvre round the corner of a house. He gave all the orthodox and regulation words of command right wheel' bring the left shoulders and so forth but Jack remained obstinately fixed. At last a naval officer, who was standing by, on being appealed to, solved the question.

4 Get them round that house? Is that all von want 1 he cried, -luff, and weather that 1S i lhe sailors were round the corner in a twinkling' There are a number of small lint points which the late campaign has brought out into strong relief, and which ought to be thought over and improved before the next war one was the lamentable deficiency of good clerks with the itae I may seem sfcl-ange that pen and ink should be much wanted on active service but, as a matter of fact, there is always a great deal of writing to be done, even where red tape is reduced toamnnmum. In Mr Childers's perfectly organised expedition none of the staff offices except at headquarters were provided with efficient clerks. Staff-officers had to draft their own letters and memoranda, even to make a fair and second copy, as their penmen were incnnnlilo 1 In all clerical vumj metnous ror simplifying work, as known in iur yuwuu uu au private offices, the expeditionary army was strfl more miserably off. I believe Sir Garnet, after infinite trouble, extracted a printing-press out of the Store Department, but it was not fully utilised for some time and to the last there was a difficulty about aefinrintr mnJ All tne other nrocesses we 1 absence, except one, the chromograph, or whatever it is called that system of taking manv imm-P. sums of a letter by using a particular kind of ink, and transferring it to a gelatinous suface.

But the material of all theso v. Inere were no tree-writers p.HW th genious method of writing print. Worst of all" among all the clerics there were few, if any, shorthand writers. J' Another source of great inconvenience was the want of good servants for staff Those they got fwere furnished by the regiments in the force, and naturally the best were not sent. But good servants are scarce under the system of servicefand the consequence was that the men provided were not the best.

Most staff-officers had more trouble to keep their servants in order than with all the Anything more drpsm-o- nt- jt. than n0ntMl uZ-fe ng i msel vhol weary men, F- Yi. wiisiuerame inconvenience for a whole week, is not to be readily imagined. This class of exhibition is, happily, almost dead England but in' Amica it still flourishes, and a six days' contest has just been ffl? )m NeW Yrk- LonS hrl its close Eowell, who was formerly considered invincible at the monstrous pastime, if such it can be rokAa utterly-cause, affection of the heart; and Hazael, like Eowell, an Englishman, who had previously achieved renown t7y ac-mphshingsix hundred miles in six days wLTn but little better plight. The four compeloi" finished exhibited signs of prostration more orTess pronounced and altogether the whole contest afforded excellent examples corroborative of the statement that six days'mces are but one de removed from nrize-fiffh nounced to be demoralising and" begU SINGKJLAB LOVE AFFAIR Lni a buter, was summoned for dant for four Kjiio xiau irenc cnmnonT.

jr years up to November last, when he uu peace ror eix months. On Tuesdav mVM her wrist anr! imiioo0 seizea Cross examined Since last November the defendant had several times asked her to marry him, and she had refused. She would not marry him now. When he was bound over to keep the peace last November her brother-in-law became bail for him to avoid his beinc sent to Prison. Her family had not a bad opinion of Mm, but they did not know him as well as she did Tf-was a hard slap he gave her on the face and nf affectionate pat.

Mr Beard said this was a cal aa the oarties had hoon a.case where in order that '2 detained her f. e-" "ih SUIG. that the summons should parties were left to themselves thPv up th loSnlS "'ouiiBBua, and if t.hps never would Beard said for very much attached to tr orl he Wfl have followed never would occur. HI, uj oaiu Dc He was now 11 REVIEWS. MESSES GAS SELLSPUBLICATIONS.

The Magazine of Art for November opens -with a very striking etching by Lalanze, 'Maiden and the pictures throughout show even an improved tone. Amongat them may be specially mentioned 'Sheer from a picture by Elchanon Voeveer Le from a picture by Walter Gay La Plantation du and 'An Exotic' In Gleanings from Popular Authors are excerpts from 'Dean Lady Southey, 'The Tower of Longfellow, 'My Diary in by W.H. Eussell, Ihe Aarabutn Nights, splendidly illustrated, reaches the voyage of- Sinbad and Our Own Country deals with Eaglan and the Usk, -uurj ot, jumunas, ana Southampton. 'rhe Book of Sports relates mainly this month to recreative science whilst the History of Music treats of 'The Netherland With Part 60 of Science for All the work closes. Month after1 month it has been an intense pleasure to us to peruse it with extreme care.

The editor, contributors, and publishers must be congratulated in the tulleBt manner on the way in which their work uocii none, jus perusal must have charmed the leisure riours oi students, and given them an inaieht a ut j.mre wnicn elsewbere tbey could not obtain in so easy and satisfactory a i. number are papers treating of Scientific Desceptions'; 'Birds' Nests' which is beautifully illustrated but what will thoroughly delight and instruct our microscopical friends the rond-hunters, is the article on Water It' is excellent, and we recognise in the diagrams some of our old and familiar friends. A better index, than the one furnished could not be desired. The Practical Dictionary of Mechanics, Part 71, is a more wonderful part than any we have noticed heretofore. The paper on Specific Gravity is noticeable for its complete grasp of the subject, its table of gravities, and the drawing of a 'specific gravity a 'spectacle spectroscope (both Steinheil's and Kirchoffs), as well as a spectroscopic apparatus and battery.

The paper on Speculums' is also interesting. This number is of special use to opticians, surgeons, and surgical instrument makers. The New Testament Commentary with the notes ranges from II. Corinthians to chapter xii. Part 32 has now been reached.

OasseUs Household Guide, part 19, has a splendid coloured plate delineating window decoration. The notice of members of the Hull Model Yacht Club may aavantageously be drawn to this issue on account of the articles on model shipbuilding, and the accompanying diagrams. There are also many other papers of interest to housekeepers on clothing, firearms, domestic medicine, WAED, LOCK, PUBLICATIONS. The second part of Dean Millman's edition of Gibbons Rise and Fall of the Soman Empire gives further proof that the work will be a valuable one, and worthy of extensive patronage. Part III.

of The Arabian Nights is full of clever illustrations, and is chiefly occupied by the history of Sinbad, the Sailor." Amongst the many admirable works published by Messrs Ward, Lock, and few will take higher rank than Rollins' Ancient History. Now it is completed by the issue of Part to which is attached valuable index and an exhaustive preface, and similar praise must be accorded to HaUams Introduction to the Literature of, Europe, Part XIV. It contains portraits oi Martin Luther and his wife, and also of Lmnams. It, too, is concluded this month, and contains a well-arranged Table of Contents, and a preface. Haydn's Dietionarg of Bates (part 14) ranges from 'Titles Eoyal' to It must be remembered that this work contains 90.000 dates and facts, the present edition being the seventeenth -Br Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Holy Bible is illustrated in part 19 by a picture of Modern- Jerusalem.

The text and notes range from Isaiah xxvii. to Jeremiah xvii. Ibis concludes Vol. 3, and now about one-half of the work is the hands of the public. Contemporary Eevibw.

(London Strahan and Limited, 34, Paternoster-row.) Perhaps no country and people have been more misunderstood and maligned than Hindustan and the Hindus. It is therefore with pleasure that we jjciucivo l-oiessor iwax muuer Has set himself the task of proving that the Hindus are, as a rule, r.n-K-Fi.l 14. i (J'ueii out tnat we persist in regarding the Hindus as an inferior race, and an icy barrier has been created between them and their rulers and the pertinent question is asked as to whether it is just that 253 millions should be all branded as being rogues and liars. As to intercourse with some of the race, the Professor says 'I have known people with a brown skin whom I could look up to as my The value set upon truth is evinced by extracts from the sacred books, and the stnrv 0m I able length is one of the best and most pathetic uuu.auuu vu. mo iauu.

mis epic, tne 'jUama-yana rests on a rash promise given by the King of Ayodhya to his second wife, and in perusing it the reader will do well to refer to the Contemporary 1878, which is given Sita's noble pleading to accompany her husband into banishment. Chinese and Greek authors have combined to prove the trustworthy character of the Hindus when properly treated. English merchants admit that commercial honour stands higher than in any other country, and that a dishonoured bill is a thing almost unknown. Finally, the Professor says that after reading the accounts of Mohammedan rule, my my wonder is that so much of native virtue and truthfulness have survived. You might as well expect a mouse to speak the-truth before a cat as a Hindoo before a Mohammedan judge." The other articles are Public Educaton in Prance Seventeen Years After' (relating to a recent visit to fahanghai); 'An Alsacian Manchester The French Tongking 'Progressive 1 SPilmg he, Egyptians (a rejoinder) Progress and and Dean Stanley as a TbFortniohtlyEeview, (London Chapman Henrietta-street, Covent Garden, If space permitted, there is scarcely an article in the current number which would not deserve considerable reference; but especially Tl notioe be found the following 'The Eeform of Egypt' (Sir S.

Baker.) This commences by adverting to the prosperity of the country irp to August, 1882 (a matte? referred to in an article fourteen days ago), for while at the nrst date five per cent. Egyptian Preference Stock was at par, Eussians were below 90. Ismail was deposed in 1879, and succeeded by Tewfik a young prince of estimable character, thoroughly imbued with the necessity of frugality. From the hrst he has been loyal to the Controller. Sir Samuel then makes a.

inst.ifinilo!r,nirnfv,Tji and shows the influence of the American war on Egypt as regards cotton, and also how larnau was in advance ot his age. His Mans embraced vast nroiects an "Rfrvntinn was to be constituted by the conquest of the Nile "ie sources or tne Ureat river. The Khedive devoted his energies to the transformation of a barren wilderness into a fruitful country that should supply the ever-ready markets of Great ritam. The Suez Canal has been a costly luxury Bjf uiruw scones at tne are pelting the glass house of their ally The acquisition of Cyprus by England awakened suspicion throughout the Levant. France then occupied Tunis.

After referring to Arabi in September, 1881, the writer shows the value of the enthusiasm of the 'Young Egypt' party; and how, at the first prick of the bayonet the bubble burst the ass the lion's nKn a. desert in cowardly without an attempt to rally the unfortunate troops which he had abandoned to their fate. 'Sic transit Gloria If we intend to gam the confidence of the Egyptian people of all classes, we should interfere as little as possible with their institutions and respect their prejudices. There would be no difficulty in guiding the affairs of Egypt, provided that the an-angement were confined to herself and England France had her choice and was invited to col operate, she declined the refusal upon her part was tantamount to resignation not of her riAts as those rights will be supported by England but as France declined to act in the moment of necessity, when the ioint mntrnl annihilated, she cannot expect to revive that system through the military power of England. Ensland alrma Tnnof 4i ouitan must retain his Tmsitinr, Eyp.c must become an independent State, although forming portion of the Ottoman Empire, by acknowledging the suzerain power." With some nnancial remarks, this admiwHo J.

he other contributions are: 'Lucius Carey, Lord Falkland 'The French Eepublic and M. I 'The Life and work of the late Professor F. M. The Future of Zulu- 'A New In this paper the writer says If the belief in a life to come should ever regain a firm possession in men's minds as of old, that belief will surely be held in a noble fashion. That life will not be conceived as a devotional exercise nor as a passive felicity, but as the prolongation of all generous energies, and the unison of all high desires.

It may be that till we can thus apprehend it, its glory must be hid from our eyes. Only, perhaps, when men have learnt that virtue is- its own reward, may they safely learn also that that reward is British Agriculture in 1882 'The Irish Parliamentary Party Some Objects of American Public Life 'The Eleventh Plague of 'The State of the Opposition (by two Conservatives) and "Home and Foreign This is the first number brought out by Mr T. H. Escott, and it is iiKeiy to be famous tor at least one article mentioned above that one being The State of the Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. (London, Wm.

Blackwood and Sons, 37, Paternoster-row.) The Ladies Lindores' has reached Part VIII. In 'False coin in the writer (who is presumably the author of False Coin in Poetry uwfiuca tut? luruiauuu uj. ouuioty in ja.merica ZO save scripture from its professed friends, to prevent its habitual and ingenious methods of torture by tearing out of a passage doctrines which never were in any way or degree connected with or involved with it at all. The Eabbis of Israel were the oldest and most flagrant sinners in this respect. To these doctors of the law, the Old Testament from beginning to end was a congeries of riddles, to th6 solution of which they dedicated their lives, and examples are given of the method pursued.

The Fathers caught the infection from the Jewish Schools. Between the Fathers and the expositors of the modern world, the mediaeval schoolmen form the connecting link and of these the chief thing to be noted is that, besides keeping up the mystical and fantastic method of interpretation, they had their own peculiar stone of stumbling in their endeavour to weld together theology and philosophy in a compact, logical system of knowledge. Thus, we are told, How uncritical was the Schoolmen's use of Scripture may be learned from the fact that even the greatest of them, the Angelical Doctor, Thomas Aquinas, takes "The least in the Kingdom of Heaven" to mean an angel of the loweffc rank in the Celestial hierarchy establishes the pre-eminence of Satan by the highly poetical descriptions in the Book of Job of the hippopotamus, in Isaiah and Ezekiel of the cities of Babylon and Tyre proves the justification of a sinner to be the greatest of God's works by the text, His mercies are over all His works," and to be instantaneous by the suddenness of the sound at the Pentecostal effusion of the Spirit and bases the seven orders in the ministry in the Eoman Church on Isaiah's prediction of the sevenfold grace that should rest upon the This paper is well worth close study both by clergy and laity. Each will learn much from it from it they may learn, if they will, that it was by means of perverted texts that PaDal accomplished and consolidated and the worst corruptions of the primitive faith- enforced as divine verities on the outraged conscience of the Church. It was the foul wresting of Holy Writ ucviuau enua Bieeiea tne Heart or the persecutor, sanctified treachery, lying, and outrage, worked the racks and kindled the fires of the Inquisition, and reddened the story of Christendom with intestine war and bloodshed.

In religion What damned error but some sober brow Will blesa it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with some fair ornament The other articles are The Factor's Shooting Baghdad on the Queen's Birthday My Bath; 'Experiences of a Naval Officer in search of the Eira 'Sketches from the Dutch Sea-side 'Ee- semDiances in 'Jewish Tales and Jewish and the usual political article, the title of which is The Late CouiraiLi, Magazine. (London, Smith, Elder, and 15, Waterloo-place.) It is given to few u' JMcnarn a. rroctor to render the science of Astronomy truly popular. This month the genial writer discourses with his usual ability on The Menacing managing as so often he has done before to lighten his pages and the darkness of Anglo-Israelites at one and the same time by a sly tilt at the Great Pyramid theory so persistently expounded in certain quarters. The lengcn or me urand tfallery, as all the world knows, is 1,882 inches, the number of years that have elapsed since the birth of Christ, and the date of the arrival, according to these amiable theorists, of a new dispensation otherwise, the beginning of the With this, apparently, the Comet has a good deal to do, and the question has arisen if really it will be absorbed by the sun, and thereby the heat of the central luminary so raised as to destroy every living thing on the earth.

Mr Proctor discusses-the motions of the Comet and points out the results of spectroscopic observations on several of these visitors, at the same time asserting the actual risk from this Comet being destroyed by the Sun to be very small indeed. According to Dr Huggins we are justified in ascribing the original light of these Comets to matter which contains carbon combination with hydrogen. Wells's Comet last spring showed evidence of the presence of glowing sodium. Finally the writer believes the whole heat of the Sun would be little increased it the whole of the Comet were absorbed at once and very httle indeed if, as is certain, the approach takes place piecemeal. The readers' -interest will be well maintained in the instalments of and No New Miss Part is given, and other readable matter will be found A Corner of 'A Gaelic A Eoman Penny-a-liner in the 18th 'The Decay of and 'Back from the The Quiver.

In the current number will be tound a family story of modern times, 'Barbara 'A Biblical Glimpse of by the Eev. J. Holes Hitchins, D.D.; 'Critical Periods Prophetic The Quiver' Onnstmas Annual is announced for the 27th inst and will be entitled The Bow of Strength Cassell's Family Man. i i.pj thm gazme another volume is completed. The contents of the part are excellently diversified.

A Family Doctor writes on 'The ommn Deformities of W. Harris, M.A.,on "How many senses have Animals there is a song by Eric Eobertson, with music by Humphrey Stark, Mus. and a charming variety of general literature. Illustrated Bible for the Young. Messrs i ook and Co' have iust lssued the first part of a bible for the young, which will be accompanied by questions and explanations for children.

A large and splendid plate is given with the first number of the work, which is to be completed in fifteen parts, will contain sixteen beautiful coloured pictures, and eight pages of wood engravings. In this Bible all obiectionahlp LITERARY EXTRACTS. Celebrated Trees. Hardwick Park is rich in great oaks with abundant foliage, but Welbeck excels both these places in the magnificence of its trees, which are distinguished not only for girth but stretch of limbs. The Greendale oak in the latter park is called the Methuselah of and writing of it in 1790, in his 'Descriptions and ketches of remarkable oaks at Welbeck, Maior Kook said the tree was then thought to be 700 years old.

In 1724, an opening was made in this oak large enough to allow a carriage, or three horsemen abreast, to pass through it. At that time the girth of the ancient tree above the arch was nearly 36 feet, the height of the arch was 11 feet and the topmost branches were 54 feet from the ground. Althougn crippled with age and some rough treatment, the 'Greendale oak' still flourishes. It has, like some old men, to be foliage bright. The timber taken from the tree's heart was 1724 made into a cabinet for the Trf (Mor(' and this cabine which is now at Welbeck, contains several inlaid pictures, one or two of which represent a former Duke of Portland driving a coach and six horses through the cavity cut in the old oak's trunk.

On the estate the story is told that his Grace, in an after-dinner frolic, made a bet of 1,000 guineas that he could drive a coach and six through the body of the tree without touching the bark, and that he accomplished the feat and won the guineas. The porter one au teet hieh and tbo ntTic. inn foot- Ai i -u 1 7- in. awuuio, nave long been objects of interest in the park, which also contains 'The Seven Sisters' a very erratic tree, ttiaf ji. fvocu.

iuiwi very JUGtUV no Se, tnmks groag from one root. Ine 'Duke's Walkinjr.atir.!?' a. fi f.o high, has finished its career in the park but in the plantation nearr-WM sJl ne tick 129 yeara jtf piece of clay at a little distance from the line, with his head projecting. Several ants passed it, but at last one discovered it and tried to pull it out, but could not. It immediately ran off at a great rate, and I thought it had deserted its comrade, but it had only gone for assistance, for in a short time about a dozen ants came hurrying up, evidently fully informed of the circumstance of the case, for they made directly for their imprisoned comrade and soon set him free.

I do not see how this action could be. instinctive. It was sympathetic help, such as man only among the higher mammalia shows. The excitement and ardour with which they carried on their unflagging exertions for the rescue of their comrade could not have been greater if they had been human beings. A Family Doctor on Tricycle Eiding.

I stand face to face with the questions (1) Whst particular classes of persons are likely to derive benefit from tricycle riding and (2) who are those that should avoid such exercise The name of the first is legion, and includes everyone who is strong and supple enough to ride the machine, and who does not possess other and ample means of obtaining healthful and enjoyable exercise in pure air. To shop and office people, to hard-working men of business, but more particularly to brain-workers, the possession of good, tricycles would, if judiciously used, indeed prove a blessing. Tricycle riding, if not carried to excess and weariness, relieves brain fatigue and incipient congestion of the liver it causes the kidneys to act more freely and lightens the whole system it banishes ennui and lowness of spirits, strengthens the whole muscular system, induces a free action of the skin, braces the nerves, and insures a healthful sleep. More I surely need not say. As an answer to the second question Who should not attempt tricycle-riding I may reply The very aged and very feeble, and the extra-nervous, those who have a tendency towards apoplexy, or whose lungs or hearts are not strong enough to bear strain.

This is a general answer it is of course impossible to individualise. But I know many men to whom the tricycle seems to have actually brought back health and strength, who from being able to walk from rheumatic stiffness, or obesity, have become really good riders, and whose very minds have been improved by the pleasant exercise happiness and contentment with life have taken the place of lethargy and indifference, or utter lowness of spirits. From Cassell's Family Magazine. The Extraordinary Eainfall. To the ordinary unscientific individual, whose notions on subject of rainfall are, as a rule, somewhat vague, an inch or two more or less may appear a trifling uiuiimu, auu lour incnes ana a quarter a fort- nignt a comparatively insignificant amount.

Few persons are aware that an inch of ram over an acre of ground means 101 tons, or 22,623 gallons, of water. Accepting as correct the Eegistrar-General's estimate of the gross area of finndnn diate suburbs, it would therefore appear that an inch of rain over the London district weighs in "uiuuciB jxiimoiia or uons, ana amounts to the overwhelming volume of 10,000 millions ot gallons of water. With these figures in mind, the ociiuus uiiecis proaucea oy a sudden downpour snch as we occasionally get in thundery weather, or. by a long-continued spell of wet such as we have recently had, do not seem at all surprising. Estimating the total amount of rain in London during the past fortnight, as four inches and a quarter, and applying this amount to the above figures, we find that the weight of water which has fallen has exceeded 190 millions of tons, while in volume it has amounted to 42,500 millions of gallons.

In attemping to grasp such enormous numbers, the mind becomes lost but some idea of the immensity of the volume mav be gained by imagining it all to be concentrated into one reservoir or basin. Supposing such a reservoir to be quite square and 40 feet in depth, the sides of the square would be more than 13,000 feet in length, and a walk round it would entail a journey of very nearlv ten miles. Tf the water to be enclosed in a cubic vessel, the sides of such a receptacle would be each about 1,896 feet long. With such a volume of water pouring down upon the district it is by no means to be wondered at that the streams and rivers have all oversowed their natural embankments and discharged some of their superabundance upon the adjoining lands. An inquiry into the causes which have produced this excessive precipitation shows that we have been exposed to the influence of several depressions or cyclonic disturbances, each of which has been accompanied by unusually heavy rains.

The Highland Brigade at Tel-el-Kebir. It was close on 5 a.m., on the morning of the 13th, when a lighter cloud in the east told of daybreak coming. There was a slight mist clinging round the sand hills, and it shrouded both English and Egyptians alike when suddenly a single shot broke the stillness, followed by a score of dropping shots in quick succession-. A dark line seemed to grow out of the dim night in front, and General Alison's voice is heard above all else, Lie down nx Dayonets Then the dark line in front lit up with a blaze of fire rifles and big guns roared and crackled lockets whizzed overhead and at the magic word the whole brigade sprang to its feet, and rushed straight at the blazing line the battalion on the left meeting so hot a fire that five officers and sixty men went down before thev got to the ditch. For an instant the onward rush was checked, but the bugler beside Sir Archibald sounded the A wild cheer was the response, and the Highlanders dashed forward with a bound, and, after a race of some 150 yards found themselves under the great sand heaps which formed the enemy's stronghold.

No time to. stop now over they went, clambering and climbing, using each other's shoulders' as ladders sticking their rifles into the sand as posts to hold onto; one way and another they got over and inside, to begin that short, ghastly work, the beginning and end of a glorious victory." There was no pause on the parapet, but each group of soldiers as it gained the crest dashed at the enemy, and the mitee became general and desperate. The 79th and 75th could be seen in a large knot engaged a hand-to-hand fight with a body of rebels who were desperately defending an inner line of works, which met the front line at right angles, and was strengthened by redoubts at the angles. Ihe men gallantly stormed these, which were as resolutely defended. Generals Alison and Hamley the former revolver in hand, were in the tf- a-'' ScotehmaQ on iot, leading a dozen different assaults, where the Highlanders VU WoMted the Egyptians.

The fighting had lasted about half-an-hour there was still a strong redoubt to be taken, and a crowd of the men went at it. The enemy's fire was extraordinarily bk and rapid the air was alive with bullets and shells. The Highlanders in front of the curtain found themselves fired on on three sides, and a great number began to retire. That was a very ticklish moment, but the officers succeeded in stopping them, and they were reinforced from the second line, and again went on. The point in the entrenchments which the Highlanders carried had been fortified with much care, and was apparently the key to the position.

A strong line nearly two miles long had been constructed at right angles to the main line to guard against a turning movement a second line parallel to it in the same direction. Everywhere redoubts had been constructed, and wherever oT Ter Jere lhe Egyptians stood. General Hamley, however, rallied the men who were standing thickly but i in no formation, inside the front line which they had just carried, and led them straight along these entrenchments settini on both sides of them, and thus tak nl theif defenders reverse. Arabi's camp now lay under the view of the storming party, who at thlt point did not amount to more than 300 or 400 landers, supported by a Horse Battery which come up on the left With this small force a rush was made upon the camp, which was Kfr wV 1lsorgamsaon, and the complete wreck of the rebel army only took a few minutes to accomplish -From "The Late Campagn? Blackwood's Magmm for November. uuud.

jraiKer, trrimsoy. WHITE (MR JORDAN) BIiAOK (J. PABKEB). PtoK4 Kt to 3 Kt to 3 PtoQ4 Kt to 4 to 3 takes PtoKR3 BtoQ3 to 5" to 2 1. to IS.

1 2. Kt to 3 3. to 4 4. Kt toKtS 5. takes 6.

to Kt 5 (oh) 7. takes 8. to K2 9. KttoB3 10, Pto 4 11. Kt to 5 12.

to 4 This works round to the book position by a transposition of moves. 12. GastleB 13. to 3 to 4 14. KttoR 3 RtoQsq Mr Monok who annotates this game in the Preston Guardian, prefers the book move to 3.

15. Kt to 2 White does not avail himself of the opening for his Knight at Kt 5. This is a point in favour of Black's 14th move. If- to Kt 2 16. Castles takes 17.

Kt-takesP takes would leave him with a disadvantage in position, and a weak pawn. 17. KttoQ4(?) He would gain nothing by takes Kt, on account of White's reply by to 5, afterP takes takes P. IS. to 5 Showing that BlackSs last move was not the best on the board.

18. PtoKt3 19. takes takes 20. QtoKt4(!) He is now sure of obtaining an attack with four pieces me course oi a mo re or two. Mr Monck favours to Bq, 21.

QtoK 6(ch) 22. to 5 23. Kt to Kt 6 (ch) BtoB 4 It is a choice of evils. to sq to Kt 4 to Kt 2 takes Kt to 4 to 5 Ai. to JB (5 Ich) 25.

to 5 (oh) 26. to Kt 4 (oh) Mr Monok reoommends Kt to 5, whioh would be met by takes Kt. The variations are interesting. 28. Qto 2 (oh) takes 29.

QtoK 2 (oh) to 6 30. takes Kt Resigns This game is played by Mr Jordan with great force and spirit. Mr Monok plays. 27. Kt to 5 28.

takes Kt takes Kt (ch) 29. takes to 2 30. to Kt 3 (ch) to 6 31. to Kt 6 to sq 32. takes (oh) takes And adds "White will have some difficulty in win.

We leave it as a useful problem. White to play a a to Kt takes KBP and mate in four moves. BLACK (9). WHITB (10). GAME 147 (Frenoh defenoe).

This lively game from Turf, Field, and-Farm was played at the Manhattan Chess Club. white (Mr de ViBser). 1. to 4 black (Mr Munoz). to 3 PtoQ4 to Kt 5 takes Kt to 3 Kt to 3 Castles to Kt 5 takeB Kt Kt to 5 2.

to 4 3. Kt to 3 4. Ptakes 5. Kt to 3 6. to 3 7.

Castles 8. to 3 9, 10, to sq takes 11, to 3 Kt takes i. An attempt to win a pawn, whioh meets with but poor 12. takes (oh) 13. to 3 (ch) 14.

Kt to Kt 5 (oh) 15. takes Kt 16. to sq takes PtoKt3 to Kt 2 to sq RtoR4 Blaok appears to be inaugurating a lively attaok, but White next move rather changes the aspeok of affairs 18, Kt-toK4 takes Kt 19, to 5 (dis oh) Kt to 4 A poor move whioh costs the game his best reply was to 3, whioh would certainly not have led to such a speedy defeat of the Blaok forces, 20, takes White has now a winning position, and winds up matters in an exceedingly lively manner. to 2 takes (en pass) 22. to 4 PtoKB3 23.

takes Kt p. to 7- (oh) 24. takes to sq 2a. takes BP RtoR8(ch) '52K takes (oh) 27. to 5 Resigns CHESS ITEMS.

The chesB season has fairly oommenced, and promises to be a memorable one. The chess journals are full of reports of matohes on the way, and mmours of matches to oome. The most sensational event is that recorded in the New York Turf, Field, and Farm. "Steinitz is coming Now will the old world be revenged on the new, for ignominious defeats sustained at the hands of Morphy It is the old story. The hare has gone to sleep, and the tortoiBe "walks over" and wins.

Herr Stemitz left for Amerioa on the 25th ult, having accepted an engagement from the Philadelphia Chess Oiub to play a match for 50 against Mr Martinez, one of the strongest American chess players. The winner of the games, exolusive of draws, under a time limit of fifteen moves an hour, will be deolared the victor. After the match Herr Steinitz will probably make a starring tour. His engagement in Philadelphia is for forty days, and to play only with members of the Philadelphia Chess Club, 100 being allowed him for travelling expanses. The preliminary arrangements for the International Chess Tournament are being prooeeded with vigorously by the St.

George's and Oity of London Chess Clubs. The tournament is expected to equal in importance the great congresses of 1851 and 1862. To the Troiooupian Club, however, will belong the honour of having brought the subject before the general public. In Turf, Field, and Farm we find a curious specimen of a circulation game played between Messrs O. O.

Moore, C. A. Gilberg, S. Loyd, J. Elson, and the Rev Sir Fitzgerald, WHITE' ur.lrar if, is.

to js.t sq to 3 1. 2. 3. 4. -toli4 PtoK4 Kt to 3 Kt to 3 PtoB3 KttoSs to 4 Kt takes to 5 Kt tn IT 9 5.

6 Kt takes Kt to Kt 3 to 3 Kt takes KBP 8. takes Kt This brilliant little coup by Mr Elson brought the eame pmreuij uimuBu Xltrr, however. SUUu uuuMumvugn Ior Ine aetenoB. Circulation games are obviously unfavourable to sound analysis. The short matoh of three games between Messrs Mason ana Mackenzie has henn wnn hv wuu w.u.a.

MU UUD Will and two draws. This remU. will terest in the forthcoming match between Mr Mason and Mackenzie returns to Amerioa this The three leading rmwa in u. problem tourney have gone-lst to James Rayner, Leeds: 2nd to G. J.

Slater. Rnlnn 3 a ts' Mackenzie, Kingston, Jamaica. Another viotoxy' for England The following end-game occurred on 1fV reoent visit to the Leeds Chess Club White (Blaokburne) at an ft. nt -r er)KatKBo; RatK sq; Kt atQ Rsq; P's at Kt 5, and Kt 3 (5 pieoes). White to plav.

The it i jis a pieces), iilao gtiiua jjiiuoeuun ou. jr lu a nages tr ao. to 7 and White won by the ingenious com 37. to aw ll I mmm fOIDX'M v-'i, MMMt 'l I WSBt i Mi jl mm mm mm. g' WIT AND HUMOUR.

It ia maintained that the most inspiring natural sight whioh a glazier oan contemplate is the gleam of early dav breaking through the windows. In proof of the assertion that cattle will stray into oaugo iuiiuoo. wo may say xnac we nave seen a cow-hide in a shoemaker's shop. a curious article is the JSgyptiati mummy. It is never a uuuj uuu jbc 10 is always pressed for time.

There's no place like repeated Mr Henpeok. at a motto and lie heartily added' I'm glad The good die young. bad live to lie about the weather, and ate spoken of as the oldest inhabitants. There are two reasons why we don't trust a man one because we don't know him, and the other because we do Fifty-seven years ago people were gazing in wonder on their first gas light. To-day they are gazing in wonder at their last gas bill, Misprints will present themselves in other oolumns be-sides those of newspapers, The author of a temperance novel who wrote Drunkeness is was horrified to read Drunkeness is It matters not whether our good-humour be constructed by others into insensibility, or even idiotism.

It is hap-piness to ourselves, and none but a fool would measure his satisfaction by what the world thinks about it. said an Englishman the other day, I belong to a country upon which the sun never And said a Yankee, belong to a country of which there can be no correct map it grows so fast that the surveyors oan't keep tip with it. Josh Billings thus explains the difference between the words 'mistake' and If a man put down a poor umbrella andp cks up a good one, it is a mistake if faYblunder'11 lunbrella picks up a poor one, it Sir Robert Peel, speaking of Lord Eldon, said that even his fadings leaned to virtue's side, upon whioh a bystander observed that his lordship's failings resembled the Leaning Tower of Pisa, which, in spite of its long inclination, toad never yet gone over. Stopping at a village inn, there oame a thunderstorm, and a visitor, surpnsud that a new country should have reached such perfection in meteorologioal manufacturers, said a bystander-' Why you have very heavy thunder here. Well yes, rephed the man, 1 we do, considering the number of 8 A stranger, on taking his seat lately in the pit of a theatre, accosted a gentleman who sat near him with 7l mV 1' stranger's amazement, the gentleman, starting from a reverie in which he had been plunged, exclaimed No, sir, but I have two next week, and both unprovided for A Dutchman thus describes an accident 'Vonce.

a long vile ago, I vent into mine abble orohard, to climb a bear tree to get some peaches to make vrow a plumb-budding nut and when I gets on the tobermost branch, I vail from the lowermost limb, mit von leg on both sides of the fence, and like to stove my outside in Professor Knowlton spells potato according to the following rule Gh stands for as you 11 find from the last letters In hiccough; ough stands for as dough phte stands for as in pthisis eigh stands for as in neighbour te stands for as in gazette and eau stands for as in began a small boy as he entered a grooerv yesterday, 'nia, bought some mackerel here last Yes. In making change you gave her No I didn't I hayent had a quarter with a hole in it for a monthl' But ma says you gave her a Don't believe it-don't believe it I remember, now, I gave her half-dollar, a quarter, and a nickel. Ma says you' gave her a gold-niece for a penny and here it is. Good graoious alive I so I dd sol did! I remember now that I gave her a dollar bill and a lot of small ohange. But what's your name, and do you think you could eat three sticks of lemon candy Ah! it does me good to find honesty and (From Fundi.) Doctor sotto voce to his colleague) We must reduce the fever and abate the thirst I-Patient who had overheard) If you'll redooce the fever, gen'le-men I'll uld'take to abate the thirst myshelf the early bird that be-aolda the Comet, Oub Heroes at And oh, by the bye, my son telJs me you don't mako bis shir.nnlT0;0 washes for im when he comes 'ome, and he don't make The Red Tape Army.

Government officials, (From Fun.) Tent-atite, Arabi's tent has arrived in England, and iT aowever, another vow lujJiiauu VYiUUlillU AtI8 UlSCOn-Tent. The herring season has been more than usually suocess- u.jwuuu oiuS, imiu jour cue -catcnes "roes to great numbers. An Abch Aitaik. The ThameB is to be spanned bv a new bridge near the Tower. Though it is to have but one aroh, it will be ex-span-sive.

The river will not become smaller, notwithstanding this new attempt to u-uiiugo lb. 'Self-preservation is the first law of as the lady A Contested Spieit. Elevated Briton Hollo, old chap Goin' to play us a Scotoh song Scot I oanna, mon. E. B.

Well, then, play us a Scotoh dance 'at ii ao as wen. Scot 1 shanna, mon. E. B. All ri: Stan' us threepenn'orth of Scotoh whisky 'at satisfy It is said that a troupe of Parsee nlavers intend shnrtlv to visit Xondon.

It will not cqst them much for ex- penses, iox 01 course xney wm be iTU'see-momoua (From Judy.) set ahotheb kono man. Old Gent I say, have juu uv uuo juuuiug wun mis neelr Waiter (puzzled and rubbing his chin) Yorkshire pudding, sir WaII. nir. think noft. air hnf.

i tart and oustards 1 N.B. This really happened but where had that creature been reared (From Funny Folks. That Angel to Lady Gregorv, Arabi is aa angel. His popularity proceeds from tie fact that he is incapable of an untruth, "All men are liars "except Arabi. His oharaoter ia one mass of piety and patriotism.

As a positive proof of all this, one day Lady Gregory Bhowed Arabi a portrait of her little boy. Jtle raised is to his lips, kissed it, and expressed a wish that the child would some day come to Egypt to be the friend of his children, Who oould disbelieve him after was equally entitled to be protected from tion of a man. The taking hold of comXnalt's wrls suit he had no right to persecute her. He fined him 20s in 2ot-na UmfVer ia Us Snfaanc 20 to keep the peace for six months. Odeed in a Few Pats, Cobns.

Bdniowh Enlabqed Toe TBoen! Plastebs are the only real remedv Plasters, hTvetd' Instantly softening the callons surrounding, lhe zoeo Toe Jomts require more time for perfect enre, but the action is certain and rekef instantaneous. Any boots SS.5? mth 0mfrt three hon after applyhS EadS laboratory, Bayleyteeet coat A Man of Cuffs and Collars (from the Street I to Tagrant's pomt oi view), -The polioeman, 'B4.