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SUPPLEMENT TO THE HAMPSHIRE TELEGRAPH AND SUSSEX" CHRONICLE, SATURDAY APRIL a9.ig93. WOMAN'S WORLD. ASTRONOMY FOR ALL. IN SHADOW LAND, passed upon Murray when in the diplomatic service by Lord Derby 119 Foreign Secretary gave QUEER STORY. THE FEVER CALLED LIVING.

The Mars Canals. In DieHTatur, Dr. A. Tooaka explains the Mars Canals by the theory that they are rifts in its crust due to collisions with, its own erstwhile satellites, whioh, by their wreck and subrhergonce in tho body of the "planet, caused an upheaval of debris on either bank of the rift. In support of this view he draws attention to the faot that one of Mars's present satellites, Phcebus," which revolves round the planet at a distance of only 806 miles from its surface, is within tha limit at which the centre of gravity is in equilibrium with the centrifugal force (calculated in the case of Mare at 2,710 miles), that it is 'approaching if at ever accelerated speed, and will at no.very distant day, perhaps in a few decades, strike the planet at a low angle, running ailing its surface, and rending its crust with just Buch -results as are now exhibited by the supposed canals.

Tbat it will- form two parallel elevated crests rising to a high moun. tain at their termination, where the satellite's force was expended, which, after cooling, will be covered with snow and ice, and glaciated, while the furrow itself will be filled with, water, which will also freeze, presenting a bright line relieved by the deep shadows of the overhanging mountain chains, one of which, under the influence or the planet's rotation, will be much steeper than the other. From this anticipation of a now pending astronomical phenomenon it is but a short stop to the conclusion that the existing pheuomena are equally explicable on the assumption that Mara has in'times past been subject to similar experiences, and in support of this he cites tho views ot numerous astronomers that Mars, iu the course of its eccentric orbit, passes through space which is equally the orbit of numerous planetoid bodies revolving around the sun, and that two of its present satellites are not proper to it, but have fallen within the sphere of its iufluence iu time past, The Planet Saturn. The planet Saturn, which until the discovery of Uranus in 1731 was supposed to be the most distant body in the solar system, will be io opposition to the nun, and therefore nearest to us, towards the end of tho present He rises now soon after it becomes dark iu the evening, and ia situated in the western part of the constelia-tion Virgo, its' brightest called Spica, being at no great distance to-the south-east of him. The amazement of Galileo when he first turned a telescope towards Saturn is' well known, the oeculiarity being due to the appearance of the ring as seen throueh a telescope of small oower.

This was in 1612, and it was not until more than forty years afterwards that the cause of the appearance was explained by The same illustrious philosopher was tho first to in 1655, the largest 'of Saturn's satellites, which somewhat excoeds'our moon in size, but revolves round the planet in iess than 16 days. Cossini, the rirsr- Director of the Paris Observatory, but a native of Bologna, discovered four more, thB last two in 1684 and more than a century five was supposed to be the whole number of satellites. Sir W. Horschel, however, detected two others, nearer the planet, in 17R9 and yet -mother, seventh in order ot distance from the planet Saturn, but eighth in order oi discovery, was simultaneously discovered by V. Bond, in America, and i.assell, in England, on the 19th of September, 1848, The ringed planet has, therefore, a magnificent system or bodies revolving round him, in addition to the ring which was at first suoh a puzzle, and i3 now understood to consist of an innumerable multitude of satellites too small to be seen separately, but so close together as to present che appearance of a continuous mass.

A division, however, in its breadth was early (noticed, jiudicating that ihe stream of satellites i3 double and more recently a dusky ring has been noticed within the others, which must arise from the satellites composing it being much more scattered than in the two outer rings. They must be thickest in the interior of these two, as that is somewhat brighter than the outermost of all. By W. T. LiYDS, B.A., F.Pi.A.S in the Echo.

CHESS. Ms. Bh'd last week gave an exhibition of sitpul-tnneous play at the Newport Chess Club. There were nineteen members of the Club taking part in the proceedings, and out of that number Mr. Bird only lost one game.

He afterwards played two consultation games with a team selected from the Club, giving the odds of a Knight. Of these ijames he won oue and lost the otner. Appended will be found the name won by the Club. MB. LIBD.

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19 to UBS Kt to 6 Hampshire v. Surrew A chess match took place on Saturday lat, at Basingstoke, between Hants and Surrey. Both counties were well represented, and Hants won the match Dy 3 games to 7i. The following is the score Hants. Surrey.

Blake 1 Mr. 0 'Mr. K. 1 Unrnoek 0 lijivell 1 Mr. EklunJ 0 Mr.

Kenny 1 Mr. Rioli, 0 4r. Budden i Mr. Henderson Mr. A-her 1 Mr.

due 0 Mr. Thomson i Mr. Jl'Leotl i Mr. Sloner 0 Mr. Crwell 1 Mr.

0 Mr. OiDos 1 Mr. Barclav 0 Mr. Harold Jacobs 1 Mr. ChippnrOeM 4 Mr.

CLtrke VI r. Bo wye 1 Mr. Tnomas 0 Mr. Whe'icstonn 1 Mr. Moore 0 Mr.

Olarr.a 0 Mr. Matthews 1 Mr. H. Se.vir.ore 0 Baxter 1 Mr. Garrcr 1 Mr.

Du Fresno 0 Mr. Edmunds 0 Mr. Barton 1 Si Solution to Problem No, 157 to Kt2. Correct solution to hand from 8. Head, Land-nort Captain Challice, Great Yarmouth Aug, Lyddon.

Anerley W. H. Prince. Southsea J. Porch.

North K'id (i, A. Ray, Laudport and J. Jaclcman, Landporr. No. 159 (April 29th, 1893).

Br E. B. Schwann. BIjAUK (Seven Pieces). SOCIETY NOTES AND NEWS.

rPROM THE Vor.LD." The Czar and Czarina will not return to St. Petersburg until May 23th, as the Czar intends to celebrate the tenth year of his accessiou to die throne at Moscow, and will on that day lay tne foundation atone of tho monument in tne Kremlin to the memory of Ilia father, ihu Emperor Alexander II. Both the Czar and Czarina caught severe colds on their journey to Livadia, which turned to influenza, from which the Czar is still suffering, 9 9 I predicted many months ago that Lord Aberdeen would be selected to succeed Lord Stanley of Preston as Governor-General of Canada, and last week his appointment was senii-ofiioialiy announced. Lord and Lady Aberdeen will go out to Canada early iu September, and Haddo House is to be closed during their which is to extend ovor six years. Lord and Lady Aberdeen, who started last week for Chicaao, will return home early in 1 hear Lord Aberdeen is to be created a Knight of the Thistle whenever a vacancy occurs in that Order, Lord Mansfield, who is the senior Thistle," has been a ICuight of that Order for fifty years, having received his green ribbon from Sir Robert Peel in 1843; The Duke of Cambridge, however, has been a knight of the Garter for iifty-eight years, having been invested by William IV.

in 1835. it The late Lord Derby's long and tedious illness commenced at the end of last summer, and was accompanied by great prostration, as well as frequent and alarming attacks of breathlessness. Besides beinjj a statesman oE creat sagacity, although not of a very brilliant and showy kind, he was a clever and astute man of business, and no sooner did he inherit hia paternal property tnan he immediately ci-mmeuced getting rid of his Irish estates, at a time when iew people except himself realised what troubles were coining, and Irish land was still at the top of the market. Lord Derby's successor is his younger brother, Lord Stinley of Preston, the Governor of Canada, who was formerly Secretary of State, so that three successive holders of the title have all been Cabinet Ministers a circumstance almost without a orecedeut in the history of tho peerage, Mr. Charles Greville described Knowsley as "a very large place, the house immense, with no good room in it but the dining-room." The deer park, which is by far the largest in Lancashire, is very fin ely wooded, and contains an extensive lake.

The gardens are excellent. Knowsley was formerly one of the best sporting domains in England, but the late Lord Derby considerably reduced his father's shooting establishment, and he was a very moderate game-preserver. The house contains some good pictures and many interesting portraits, with a large collection ot choice There is a magnificent library', being, indeed, one of the best private collections in England, and it has always been well kept up. Lord Derby was proud of his literary treasures, and he was always ready to open the library to strangers. Hia own sitting-room at Knowsley is furnished very simply, and he had used the same plain mahogany writing-table for more than forty vears.

He was remarkably careful with his correspondence, and wrote nearly every letter himself. All his papers were preserved at Knowsley, docketed and tied in bundles. Lord Derby was a leviathan of wealth. The annual rental of his Lancashire estates is estimated at about 250,000, and his accumulations must be enormous. He was one of the largest holders of Colonial Government securities.

The settled estates in Lancashire, with the domain or Knowsley and Derby House, St. James's square, pass to Lord Stanley of Preston, who succeeds to the earldom but it is understood that the tfairhill pronerty, in Kent, and the charming residence oi Holwood, near Bromley, both of which Lord Derby had himself purchased, are bequeathed, with the bulk oi the personalty, to Lady Derby, with remainder to her sons, Lords Sackville and Lionel Cecil. His estates were most judiciously managed and greatly improved and- developed. Ho was an excellent landlord, and he regularly gave away very large sums in charity. One alone of Lord Derby's almoners distributed 10,000 a year for him.

The Birkenhead property was sold by the fourteenth Earl, nearly forty years ago, tor three-quarters of a million. 9 People are patting Sir Francis Jeune on the back for his courageous conduct committing a Duchess to gaol. There are duchesses and duchesses and I am wondering what he would have done to one of pur sang, with the blood of all tho Percies or Plantagenets in her veins, who had so recklessly contemned his jurisdiction. The widow Blair, now known as the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland, had few friends outside ber own narrow circle. She had grievously offended iu matters of tiste and propriety, and society, the high aud dry purists and straitlaced paragons who set so high an example to humbler Yery much rejoiced that a Judge has sent her to prison.

But was Sir Francis vindicating his' Court, or acting as the avenger of an outraged aristocracy, the hem of whoso immaculate" garments had been soiled by a greedy and usurpinc trespasser? 1 am inclined to think that he wouid have given a real duchets less ami Sarah Tompkins more. The offence committed was by the severest penalties, aud should have been so requited, if at all. Sir Francis Jeuna has fallen to the ground between two stools. He has "kotcoed" to the classes and visited punishment, and yet he has not dared to go to the lengths that this decision required. 5 It is stated at Glasgow that Mr.

G. A. Buird's oersonalty will be very small, if, indeed, ttere is any surplus after all trie debts have been paid, l'he estates are heavily charged, and will have to be sold, but it is not expected that they will realise more than enough to cover tho mortgage debts. 1c is understood tnat the racing aud breeding studs will be sold at Newmirket very shortly. When Mr.

1'aird came of age in 1881 ho entered into possession of nearly three-quarters of a million of ready money, hia annual income being about 100,000. One of the leading Scotch papers states that "all this "princely fortune has been squandered on harlotry, horse-racing, and priiso-fighting." a Something of a thrill was given by Cardinal Vaughan to the packed congregation iu the Jesuit church at Manchester last Wednesday. His advent, all in his new red robes, had been placarded over the city of bis first bishopric, coupled with the announcement that Mr. Santley would sing and somebody else perform on the vioiiu. Ihe art of the theatrical bill-poster could not further go, and half the Cattiolius of Manchester inurmuied, ami said that these frivolities were winked at only because the church in question belongs to tho Jesuit Fathers, of whom Father Bernard Vaughun the Cardinal's brother is the Superior.

His Eminence would be the first to the suggestion, and he probably disliked to bo posted about Manchester as one of a troupe in a sort oi church of varieties. Anyhow, on reaching the ehurcn be addressed the congregation at once on the subject, saying that to treat services in advertisements as if they were secular entertainment was to defy a decree of the Council of Westminster, and that he feared that the conduct oi the Jesuit Fathers on this occasion might be taken as a precedent. Lest it should be so taken, ho felt bound to make his protest public by reading the text of the decree, which, as it hinds Archbishops, naturally biuds Archbishops' brothers. It has been decided that the system of recruiting on the march, which was practically tested last year in the case of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, shall ho continued. It is thought that in course of time it will result iu a largo accession of "country recruits," but, iu order to ensure its success, it will first bo necessary to do away with the moies of regiments by railway.

Why should not such marches as that of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers through North Wales be the rule, not the excep. tion? They could not fail to popularise soldiering, and at the same time train the soldior in a most important part oi his 1 am indebted to a quaint advertisement, headed "In Memoriam," among the very mild agonies in tho Morning Post's Booond columu, for a reminder that iward King of England, was the handsomest man oi hia time," and that his portrait, "now in a dark room at Hampton Court, might be better placed in the National Portrait Gallery." The writer adds, tho profile is noble." By all means let us have His Majesty's noble profile removed from its dark room in tfie suburbs, and hung iu thefierce light that boats upon Trafalgar-square, The mention of his superlative beauty indicates a wane which, in these photographio days, might be supplied by a book, Handsome Men of the Time;" just as the ladies are photographed in Types of British Beauty." Tne handsomer fellows of the time inisrht appear in a less bulky volume, and the handsomest would figure by himself in tho abueudix. 19 ft 9 When the Indian who had cheated Artcmus Ward said he hoped to meet him after death in the happy hunting grounds, the showman's comment on che observation was If he does, there will boa fite." a similar rencontre on the other side of the Styx take place between the recently deceased Lancashire peer and the journalist who died many years ago, the sumo result may be expecteu. late Lord ueruy had a bitter eDemy in Grenvillo Murray. The men mention of his name coaded the irascible little' publicist to fury, as che sight of a red eloth irritates a bull.

Some alight, or punishment, She took white flower from her bair, and gave it him silently. Than he led her indoors, and returned alone to the balcony. He sat dojvn and crushed the flower she had given him to his lips, whi'e its fragrance seemed to penetrate to his sonl, I hey found him there in the early morning asleep, they thought with a smile on his worn face. But it was something else than sleep. For him the fever called living' was ended at last.

Chicago Xews. DEATH OR MARRIAGE. A Strange Record. One of the most common errors which prevailed a century ago in relation to matriago was that if a man was condemned to dio by the hand of the common executioner, and a woman was willing to marry him beneath the gallows, his lite would be spared. The Eleventh Chance.

There is an old English ballad which describes the marriage at Chichester of a merchant, who v. as in this manner saved from the gallows by a lovely while, on the other hand, the Roxburgh Ballads relate the story of a rich merchant' who preferred death to marriage, though ten lovely maideus iu succession each offered to save him by becoming his wife. Jt is satisfactory, however, to be able to record that an eleventh nymph was more successful, and the merchant avoided death by hanging for marriage A Diary Extract. rrndni- T2th December. 1602, John Man- ningham states iu his Diary that It was a custom in France if a woman of evil repute will beg for a husband a man which is going for execu-tion ho shall be reprieved, and she may obtain a pardon and marry him, that both their ill lives mnv ho hefanreri hv so holie an notion.

Hence grew a jeast, when a scoffing gentlewoman told a gentleman she heard that he was in some danger to be hanged for some villaine, he answered, 'Truly, madame, I was feared nothing soe much as you would have begd In lCngland it hath bin vsed that yf a woman will begg a con-demned person for her husband sho must coma in her smocke only, and a white rod in her baud, as Sterrill sayd he had seen. Montagu tells of a Picard that was going to execution, and when he limn.wenche comvnir to beee him, 'Oh, she limps, sho sayd he; 'despatch me quickly preferring death. "before a limping wife." The Bad Bargain, A similar otorv is told in verse by Pinkerton, the criminal in this case preferring a quick to a long and lingering death. He says There was a victim a cart, One aay, for to be hanged, And his reprieve was granted, Anu the cart made for to stand. Come, marry a wife, and save your life The Judge aloud did cry.

Oh, why should I corrupt my The victim did reply, For here's a crowd of overy sort, And why should 1 prevent their sport? The bargain's bad oh svery part The wife's the worst drive on the cart. A Frenchman' Decision. In 1431 a Frenchman was executed in Paris who rejected this means of saving his life and thero is a story of a Norman who, with the nooas actually round his neck, was offered his life it he would wed a woman. When, however, he set eyes on her he said Leyres scrrees, nez pomtu, J'aime miens fitro nenau." Which, translated into English, roads as follows Thin lips, sharp nosethougli sweet is iite, I'd rather swing than marry such a wife. To ffanze or Wedii.

Going hack to a much earlier period, there is a quaint piece of verse, from the Schole House" (1542), which says Trewley some men there be That live always in great harrowre, And say it goeth by destynye To hange or wedd both hath one houre, And whether it be, I am well-Hire lianftynge is butter of the twaynye Sooner done, and shorter payne." The Woman who Hesitates. In the Trite Domestich Inldligsnca for Tuesday, 30th March, 1680, we are informed that "at the execution oi a woman named Olark, for firing her master's house, at Southward, there was a fellow designed to marry her under the gallows (accord-ing to an ancient and laudable custom), when she, in hopes of a reprieve, seemed unwilling, but when the rope was round her neck she cried she was willing, and then the fellow's friends lis-suaded him from marrying ner, and so she lost her husband and her life together." The writer adds that we know of no such customs allowed by law, that any man's offering at a place of execution to marry a woman condemned Bhall save her." The Nine Maidens' Petition. In Parkei'a London 17th April, 1725, n.mnnn nnrwm Mine voune women. dressed irf white, each with a white wand in her hand, presented a petition to tlis Majesty George the First on behalf" of a young man condemned at Kingston for burglary, one of them offering to inairy him under the gallows by way of a The life was saved, but the sacrifice was not insisted upon. The Origin ot the Belief.

Thouh there is no evidence in England of such a law having ever existed, itis a fact that, according to "Wood's Account of the Isle Man" (1310), the punishment oi death was awarded to those who committed an outrage upon a woman. If, however, the woman were unmarried, and consented to espouse the criminal, his life was spared, and in all probability it was from this fact the oid belief originally sprang. iVukly Star. SOME QUEER EXCUSES. Intoxication, says Chambers' Journal, is often pleaded by prisoners iu their defence, coupled at times with very odd excuses.

The iuebrinte, who, on being reproached jor not leading a regular life, denied the charge by saying no returned home every uigiit was scarcely so ingenious in his defence as the Scotsman iu the following Hilloa, James, tipsy as usual. What in the tf- on rhi sriree now?" MUllll lillO "Ah, ye inaauiia be harsh, governor dm yo no hear ln'y graurt whistling canary was deid v-nir! follow leaviu" vour work and net- tin" drunk for the death of a bird. Don't you know a man should look upon sucn incidents as triiles?" So I do, governor, so I cio, man; but it ye wanted a siiiee yersel, wad be glad of odj handle to turn the crane wiV Legal annals could furnish many instances of tiuite as queer excuses pleaded by the accused, as the folioniug. The widow of a French chemist famous lor his researches in toxicology was on trial for poisoning her husband. It was proved that arsenic was the medium employed.

Why did you use that poisan said the presiding Magistrate. sobbed the fair culprit, "it was the oue he liked best." A man accused of appronriatiug a pair of boots, explaiued that "his intentions were far from stealing them. The reason he continued wearing them was that he had not enough money to buv another pair and when he had drawn his next wm-e, ho would most certainly have koii-ht a new pair, and taken them back." This defence was not considered satisfactory, and he was committed for trial. There is a Yankee smack about the follow, ini' Iha Clerk of tho Court bade the witness give his name and hold up his hand to be sworn. He took the oath with such dignified composure that everyone felt there stood before them a calm self-collected, truthful man, whoso evidence would go far to convince the minds of the Jurors in this sensational case.

There was a distinct murmur as people settled themselves to listen to his testimony. "Nov, sir," said tho Judge, "tell the Jury what you know about the matter." 1 don't know anything about it, replied the witness blandly. "Then may 1 sisk why you had yoursalf summoned as a witness So as to cut a good sight oi tna prisoner ana tho Court. Ticuets weren't to be had for love or money." UNFAMED HEROES. The myriads of specks in a midnight sky May be orbs as large and bright 4s tho sun that dazzles the gazer eye With a blaze ot light And heroes as thick as the stars on high Illume obscurity's night.

All praise to the great whose deeds are tho rays That flash in their country fame, And to those, as well, who in thankless ways, In the haunts of want and shame, Give talent, or wealth, or their youth best days, Too oft for a slandered name. The countless martyrs who die at the stake Of duty, vet seek no crown, The. hoBt who do good for tho pure cood sake, Tho noble without renown, The heroes who never a name will make, Unless the Heavens lookdown rise tn trie quarrel, and Murray conkl no more keep hia enemy's name out of an ariiole than Mr. Dick omild omit an allusion to. Charles's head.

Lord Barablias was one of tho pleasant titles under which the Foreign Secretary figured, I was lolly aware or this peculiarity when joined with Murray in the foundation of shis journal, but lie laughingly assured me that, as 1 was to be editor, I ohouid keep him straight. He started well but for the third number ho sent an attack, which I held back, and romomstrated. Soon altor came another, and another, sharing the same fate. Then I soon found co-operation in such form was impossible, and we reverted to the terms of our agreement, under which I had the power of purchasing my partner's share. Prom "Thutu." The Queen has expressed a hope that the Duchojs of Edinburgh will attend one of the Drawing Rooms, but it is very doubtful whether H.I.H, will consent to do so, as sho objects strongly to giving precedence at Buckinghmn alace to the Princesses Christian, Jjouise, ana Beatrice.

wen The unfortunate officials who are in charge of the arrangements at tho opening oi the Imperial Institute have" received upwards of 25,000 written applications for tickets of admission. The manner in which the tickets have been distributed appears to have caused great aud general dissatisfaction, but this is probably inevitable from there being more people anxious to obtain seats than there are seats. 9 a Tho Duohess of Fife has been very seriously ill but, us is usual when Royal personages are invalided, the gravity of her condition was not communicated to the newspapers, whichanuounced her impending departure for "the south coast" at a time when she was really in a precarious state. The Duke and Duchess will leave Sheen in about three weeks (if her Royal Highness is then strong enough to travel), and, after passing a short time at some seaside place (probably Brighton), they will go to Duff House, Bauil'sliire, for the summer. The Duke and Duchess of Fife cannot go to Braemar until tho middle of August, as such extensive additions are being made to New Mar Lodge that the place will not be ready for their occupation before the beginning of the shooting season.

it 9 I learn that the I)uches3 of'Connaught, who is going abroad shortly for the benefit of her health, will probably visicScrathpefferSpa, in Ross-shire, about the middle of August, I hear from Vienna that much dicgust prevails among the rank and file ot the British Colony at a circular issued by a committee of busybodies, inviting signatures to an address to Sir Augustus Paget on his departure, and subscriptions for a "souvenir" to Lady Paget. This is very natural. No one has any grudge against Sir Augustus Paget, and every one is perfectly satis-lied with his performance of his official duties. But the British Embassy at Vienna is as excjusive in its' habits and traditions aa are the Austrian Court and aristocratic circles themselves. There has not been anything in the nature of a gathering of the British Colony at the Embassy since 1887, and the majority of the British residents are as completely strangers to their Ambassador and his family as they are to the Emperor of China.

To a3k them, therefore, to offer a present to Lady Paget is a peculiarly ill-timed effusion of snobbery, Radical noblemen are seldom, if ever, the genuine article; their theories and acts have a curious way of coming into conflict. Never did a Lord- Lieutenan of Ireland place himself in a more incongruous position than Lord Houghton, nor out himself more in the power of hia enemies. Of his own deliberate will the power of appointment to all the offices of his Household being in his hands he surrounded him self with a household of Unionists, all more or less open traitors in the camp. Dublin Castle has oeen managed in exactly the same way under Lord Houghton as under Lord Zetland, and has been made no more popular. Lord Houghton has certainly not shown the courage ot Radical opinions in Ireland, but has brought the profession of them into disrepute.

Society, in boycotting the Lord-Lieutenant has had its own way. Now that the racing season is in fully swing, the boycott is put on with a vigour fully as great, ir not. greater, than that with which it was started iu the beginning of the Castle season. 9 All Lord Derby's tendencies were Radical, and only his loyalty to his father prevented him from joining Lord Palmerston in 1853, when he was offered the Colonial Ofhoe. Ho did not particu larly like Lord BeaconsSeld, nor did he entirely rrust him, but he behaved admirably towards nim.

as. by luting his finger, he could have pre vented him from oeing Prime Minister, and have dlled that place himself. Lord Boaconsfield's Jingo disposition, aud ail the "Imperial hadle-r'addle. he cordially detested, and he strongly iisapproved of the Queen being dubbed Empress jf India. He kept a very high standard of public luty before him, ana.

olten protested, witn warmth, against the theory that public life is a soaped pole, with 5,000 a year and lot3 of oatronage at tne too. A Chalmers Chair of English Literature is lbout to be established in the University of Aber leen, as the late Mr. J. G. Chalmers has be nueathed 12,000 for that purpose.

The whalmers Chair is to be in the gift of the Crowu, md it will be worth about 650 a year, including the class fees. Lord Corrington has sold a farm of 90 acres near Spalding, ro rha Holland (Lincolnshire) County Council, and ic will bo converted into smnll holdings, ior which there is a brisk demand in the district. a 0 In a Hereford paper oi Saturday there is a very unpleasant story in connection witn the so-called ioort which Mr. Oscar Wilde describes as "theun-sooakable in pursuit of the uneatable." It is sue- 'ested that at a recent htr.nt near Dorstone the fox cook refuse in a hollow tree, ann "that the tree was ienited and the poor animal roasted alive." For the credit of the hunt concerned I hope that an unequivocal refutation of this statement will be forthcoming. a I thought I had plumbed the depths of the folly of modern Sabbatarianism, but I was mistaken.

At Porthcawl, a watering-place on the Welsh side of the Bristol Cnannel, mere is a hcuse-owner, I am told, who only lets his cottages on condition "that no water Oe got from the pump on Sunday." I should very much like to know whether tho attention of the local Sanitary Authority has ever been called to tnia tact aua, if so. what i3 tho view it takes of this piece oi insanitary Sabbatarianism, which certainly con-llicts with the proverb that tells us cieanliae33 is next to godliness. All efforts to settle the estminster will case have failed, so it will be tried heforo Sir Francis Jeune iu a few weeks. Lady Westminster's will is uphold by her youncest daughter, Lady Lheodora Guest, who is che principal legatee under it, while the document is opposed by her sister, Lady Jane Lindsay, and other members oi the family, I hear that the real and personal property at stake amounts to upwards of half a million. It was well known after Lord Westminster's death in 1869 that he had left his widow ali his personalty (about intending that sue should mane aaequato provision ior tneir younger children.

The Duches3 of Sutherland has most justly been sent to prison for destroying a letter which sho hud been ordered to surrender to the custody of a Court of Justice. I understand that she stated in her affidavit that the letter in question referred to the first wife of he: late husband, and was in the nature oi a private communication between herself and her 'husband. This may possibly have been the caso, but even it so it was no justification for disobeying an order of the Court, One would suppose, however, from the newspapers, that to imprison a Duchess is almost as important an event as to cut the head elf a King. On Saturday I read the following bulletin Her Grace slept fairiy well last night, nud is in good spirits this morning." Last summer I remember that this same Duchess went with her daughter bv her first husband to the Cnanel Roval. aud the two ladies took their seats in a pew reserved ior reeresses ami uiai diwsoi.

unmarried daughters in this otli.iial House of God. ot tne learasses, and they made audi a russ that they induced the Lord Chamberlain to issue an edict that By "the eldest unmarried daughters of Peeresses was meant alone the young ladies wnose wo.o 1 thouWit this a singular instance otdunkeyism, indeed, is the reservation oi a pew 111 a church or Peeresses and their oldest daughters but the Peeresses have now been outdone oy tne rresn in their bulletins as to how this Duchess sleeps, bow. her "cell is niruianeu, s.uu. sumes whilst iu durance. The following gem has just reached me from Dublin -V little girl named Eliza was charged before Mr.

Swifte by Console 178 with dis. orderly conduct on O'Gonuell Bridge between eleven and twelve o'clocic yesterday. The girl took a piece of paper from the ground and attempted to fasten it on trie back of cho constable's tunic Mr. Swifto fined the prisoner 1 or fourteen days' iniivisomnpnt. If this is tho way they deal with disorder in Dublin, I am curious to hear what is going to happou at Belfast.

1 A LETTER FOR LADIES, In the Park. Therewas asgreataci-owdin the Park on several occasions this week as hough it were already the height of the season and, indeed, so tar as weather, dress.and surroundings were concerned, it might have been if not July. Several girls wore smart-looking- gowns of brown hoiland, which is to be a very fi.vonrite dress material. One was exceedingly" priitty. It was trimmed round tho skirt with tliree bands ot the now fashionable rather thick make of white lace Bertiou the bodice was cut with wide full skirts, but those only at the back, and it was lined with white moire and opened wilth very wide, pointed lapels faced with white lacisand having rather a high wide collar faced also ivith lace over a white accordion-pleated chiffon blouse front, with a wide white satin sash and pretty tie of lace.

'Ihe wide straight-brimmed Leghorn hat was trimmed with white satin toverlaid with lace round the crown, and with three very eoft full white ostrich tips arranged as one ide. Princess May, Every eye was turned on rineess May Iat Saturday, wheu she attended this wedding of Miss Graham Montgomery and Captain Dundas. It was the first time she had been to a wedding since such a terribly sad stop wat put to the preparations for her own. Ihe Princess looked very grave and sweet, and was dressed in pale heliotrope. Her skirt was qmita phin, and mit unduly wide, and was finished round the hem with two zigzag ruches of silk.

She wore deiip cape of velvet the same colour as her dress. striped with broad bands of jetted galon and fmiihed with a rnff of velvet. Her pretty and becoming little bonnet was made ot heiiotropa straw, with fans of pleated liase puwdered over with amethyst jewelling. The Duciieas of Teck word a gown or heliotrope chenfc silk ehot wita aprioot, a.bluck and gold mantle, and', a bonnet of gold galon trimmed with shaded apricot rosec ihe Unke was present also, and rrmces Alex- andor and Adolphus of Teck, who are both very handsome and very fine, tall, soldierly-looking youqg men. The Drawing Rooms Thnrs will be quite a number of important and interesting presentations on marriage at the May Urawi.ne-rooms.

The Duchess of Bucaleueb will preser.it her daughter-in-law, the Countess of Dalfceuth. The Oountesa ot Mar ana Heine is to be presented at the first Lady Miller, of Manderston, is to go on the 9th of May. Lady Arthur Grosvenor will probably be pre- senteel at the second. The Hon, Mrs. B'eginald Fitzwiilliam will go to the first.

Lady St. Oswalii will not go to Court, on account of the recent jdeath of her father-in-law. It seems a though! the May Drawing-rooms would be very crowdeji, oven though the March ones were snch unusaaiJy large anair. An impression prevails that the1! Qneen will not be present at the second but wo nelieve it will be proved erroneous, and that only will Her Majesty be present on both occasions, but for even longer than usnal, TheQuetjn 'is very well, and is anxious, in the absence ot the Princess of Wales, to do all that her physi cians will allow to brighten the season, I Marriage Oddities. Some cjdd things happen in great families with regard to marriages.

Countess Temple, who is a daughter of Sir Graham Graham-Montgomery, married twenty-three years ago. Earl Temple was r.hen Mr, Gore Langton, and was heir io the Ea rldom of Temple, of hia uncle, the late Duke of uckingham and Chindo3 and Earl Temple. The Duke was then married, but had no sob. Later he became a widower, and eight years ago he married Miss Graham-Montgomery, the eldest sister of Countess Temple. Had this lady had a sod her sister's husband wouid not have succeeded to the Earldom, and there would still have been a Duke of Buckingham.

As is known, siie had no children. In Lord Alington'a family tljera was no heir male after his eldest son, the Hon. Humphry Sturt, who married Lord Hanhvieke's daughter ten years ago, and had only.lone daughter. This little lady was eight years old when her grandfather married for the second time, and was one of her step-grandmother's bridesmaids. Now thismaiden has a brother who wil in course of time, be Lord Alington and should Alington herself have a son, his prospects Would be sadly interfered with by the birth of wis nephew.

A Thoujdil JTea'er, In London, where levery novelty in every particular line is sure to meet with consideration, the latest development iu curative art is now being practised. This is a Thought 1 Healer. Id America it appears that there are numbers of these practitioners, and one has been imported for th'e consideration of our ladies of position. 'The thought healer here with us is a woman Ve do not know if men go in for the profession. The process is simple the operator sees thoj patient, has a sympathetic interview, and henceforward devotes all her.

mental energy I to thinking her patient well. No taking of degrees is required for this profession, though, probably, the taking of fees is not an unimportant portion of it. The new idea has been tried by seiveral women of rank and position whether they have benefited or not we have not yet learned. Indeed, they may still bo under treatment, which may go on for long enough without causing! the patients any inconvenience. The notion is decidedly novel bun whether hard cash will bs put down for such intangible tieatment it is difficult to say, Children's Dress.

The most general way' of making girls' dressei just now is with yoke a.cd sleeves of Bilk velvet4 or surah, and the "skirt in material of a contrast-ini? colour. This is by no means new, and there are, of course, endless varieties of frocks but mothers do not seem to tire of the above. A reen cloth dress seen on a beautiful little girl in the Park was made with a tightly fit-ting bodice reaching about two inches below the waist, Bevers of the cloth edged with silver braid passed from the waist in froua across the shoulders to the waist at tho back. Immediately above the sleeves and under these revers were two epaulet or shoulder-frilis, also of cloth bordered with silver braid. These made a great fuluess on the top of the arms.

The sleeves were very full and baguy above the elbow, hut tight below it and done with long lines of silver braid, rlound the little skirt, which was very full about the hem, was a narrow frill of cloth" bordered with silver braid, Hints on Fashion, Those who have to bring last year's eowus into some sort of harmony with present styles, will find that two "nightcap" frills, put on round the hem, will hare a very beneficial effect in this direction by setting the shirr, out in soinethiug resembling the orthodox mauner. These frills need not match the material or colour of the eosvn. A grey dress may have black satin or silk. A beige can supplemented by brown or black. Crepons can have lace with ribbons rim through it.

The nightcap frills am not always cut on the cross, being intended to stand out as stiffly as possible. Sometimes a soft ribbon makes capital frills of this sort. A clever girl we know managed hers in this way by lining them with some kind ot surah or soft musiin. Her gown was a reseda crepou, and her Irttrelu nf tniuivr' Thrpfi inns weio similar frills formed the orthodox revers, being narrowed close togemei- i-uu uutouwumi; mMf nn tUa sVirttildprs. With narrower bUclL lull n.ivu..

ribbons she made an "'Lmpiro-' belt, with a long -E Ul.nnn Ir, tr-nm willeh piece 01 wuaicuo ribbons gradually approached each other at the sides. A Fancy Dress Ball, The fancy dress hall givea by the proprietors of the Gentlewoman to the graduates, associates, and members of the Children's Salon, iast Friday, at tho Westminster Town Hail, was a very pretty one. The dresses were all fresh, und some of thein were very new and original. A pretty child wore the garb of an Alsatian lady, and made an effective contrast withher fair-haired comuauion, who represented "King-cups" in a dres'sofold gold silk, with yoke aud sleeves of lemon-coloured Dengaiino, on wuiuu uuuuica ui king-cupa were fastened with brown velvet. A charming child was dressed in yellow silk as a Cocoon, and her biitheful motions were in curious contradiction to the reposeful state suggested by the character.

Ia the- yew eie qttatn the costumes looked remarkably picturesauo, especially the Torea-dors; Watteaus, and which the Dadodil was the beat carried out. Cinderella danced with a duster round her pretty hair. Margery Daw wm delightful in pink cotton frock and suu bonnet. A small Diana with the softest brown eyes had found her bow too heavy, and a rat'her substantial fairy lost her wings immediately ou enteriug tha ball-room. The capital string baud of the Royal Artillery eupplied tha music, aud the arrangements were such as to reflect the greatest credit on the young and charming Levana," who ia the presiding genius of the Children's Salon.

Tho nroceeds eo to ihe oot established by tills youthful society iu tho Victoria Hospital for Children, and named by tha Princess oi Wales alter her late ton. JOAJi A. NO Slhu WJiy Giiosts Wander, Foremost among the many reasons why ghosts wander, and visit tho scenes of their former existence, is that they have, either by another's act or that of their own, been hurried to their end before the appointed time. Hence, it has lone been supposed that the spirits of those who have suffered a violent or untimely death cannot reBt, hut must-walk until the wrong has been duly expiated. Thus, the ghosc of Hamlet's father says I am thy father's spirit, Doomed for a certain time to walk tba night, And for the day confined to fast iu fires, Till tho foul crimes done iu my days of nature Are burnt and purged away." Comparative folk-lore proves how widespread is this belief, the general idea being that the avenging ghoat returns to convict the guilty.

Ghosts Abroad. The Chinese dread the spirits of those who have come to an unfortunate end, and their most common form 'of ahost story is that wherein the ghost seeks to brine the murderer to justice. The Siamese fear as unkindly spirits tboBe who die a violent death and the Australian peasant tells how the ghosts of the departed hover about because their death has not been expiated by the avenger of blood. Whittier describes the well-known ghost of tho "Shrieking Woman," a Spanish woman murdered by pirates in the eighteenth century Strange sounds swell up the narrow glen As if that robber crew were there The hellish laueh, the shouts of men And woman's dying prayer." At Home. Tn this countrv many an old house i3 said to have its haunted room, whore the unhappy spirit of some murdered person at times appears because justice has never been satisfied.

The Little Shelsey people long preserved a tradition that the Court-house of that parish was haunted by the ghost of Lady Lightfoot, who is reported to have been imprisoned und murdered and St. Uonart's Castle, Glamorganshire, has its ghost in Lady BtradlinL', who, according to the popular story, was murdered by one of her family, This apparition appears, writes the late Mr. Wirt Sikes, when any mishap is about befall a member of the house of Stradliug, the direct line of which is extinct; sho wears high-heeled shoes and a long trailing gown oi the linestsilk." The Suicide 's Fate. Suicides cannot rest, and on this account cross-roads in various parts of the country are oftentimes avoided by the peasantry after dark, fro being haunted by headless and other unemry apparitions. A story current in the neighbourhood of liaschurch, Shropshire, tells how the ghost of a man who hauged himself at NesclifF is to be seen "tiding about in his trap without a head." A similar belief prevails "among the Sioux, who aflirm that suicide punished in tho land of spirits by tho ghosts being doomed for ever to drag the tree on which they hang themselves hence they generally suspend themselves to as small a tree as can sustain their weight.

Wanting Burial. Another reason why ghosts wander is that their bodies have not been honouied with burial, Under one form or another this belief may be traced all over the world. And as Dr. Tylor, in his "Primitive Culture," points out, "in mediteval Europe the classic stories of ghosts that haunt the living till laid by rites of burial pass here and there into new legends, where, under a changed dispensation, tho doleful wanderer now asics Christian burial in consecrated earth." The Australians go so far as to say that the spirits of the unburied dead become dangerous and malignant demons, au'd certain North American tribes believe that unless the rites of burial are performed tho spirits of the dead hover for a time in great unhappiness. The Spirits of Murdered Men.

According to a Swedish piece of romance, the ravens which pour forth their plaintive screams at night-time iu forest swamp3 are the ghosts murdered men, whose bodies have been hidden by their undetected murderers, and not had proper burial. Sometimes when the unburied body could not be found, and the ghost -randereri, the missing man was buried in effigy, for, "according to all the laws of primitive iogic, an effigy is every bit as good as its original. There fore, wheu a dead man is buried iu effigy, with all due formality, that mau is dead and buried beyond a doubt, and his chost is as harmless as it is in the nature of fchost be." Madness duriu" life is said to produce restlessness after and Miss Burne, in her "Shropshire Folk-Lore," records the conversation of a villager. "Parson Digger, at Condows, he came again. We wasn't richt in his head, and if you met him he could not speait to you sensibly.

But when he was up in the puipit lie it preacn on, ueau- tiful The Souls of Murderers. In Wales there is a very stroDg prejudice among the peasantry against hanging, tna laea being, that troublesome spirits, neina let muse, will wander about and annoy the living. Indeed, there seems to bo a widespread idea that the souls of murderers find no peace in the grave, but must wander ceaselessly about until they have in some degree done expiation for their wickedness. Such ghosts, it is said, haunt churchyards, occasionally terriiying people, and making all kinds of weird and uncanuy noises. But evil-doers guilty of a lesser crime than that of murder are said to wander after death.

Tnose who in their iiietime have been guilty of fraudulent and other dishonest acts are thus punished. A miikwoman of Shrewsbury is condemned to wander up ana down Lady Studley's Dicho iu the tiairu meadow now tne c.iiiuiuciu peatni! these words Wflisrbt and measure sold I never, Milk and water 6old I ever." Likewise, on the Continent, the gho3ts of -those who removed their neighbours' landmarks are compelled to ream hither and thither, "sometimes forced to remove the old boundary line, then to move it again, constantly changing their course with their changing purpose." Wheu an unjust relative has purioined the title deads, in order to cheat the rightful heir on tot theestate, he is prevented resting in his grave until the title deeds are restored ro tho proper owner. In short, any sort of wickedness has, from time been thought to cause the souls of the guilty to wander. to A id. Sometimes it is to fulfil a promise or to afford succour to the helpless that the ghosts return, stories arc told mothers who have come out oi their graves to help their persecuted children, numerous illustrations oi which are found in German folklore.

-Then, again, excessive erief in supposed to disturb the peace of the -soul, and keep it from rest iu the other world. In an old Danish ballad the lover's ghost tuys to his mistress "Every time thou waepsst. for each tear in that flood, The coffin I am laid in is iilied with much blood. Itis still a popular belief in Denmark that one must not shed'tears over the dying, as it wiii hinder their restini; in the gr.ive a superstition which also prevails in this country. Sir Walter Scott speaks of this beiior, and tells us that iu Scotland "the excessive lamentation over the loss or friends disturbed the repose of the dead, anil broke even the rest of the gravo." Th i Parson's Fright, It is also further adder! by Mr.

(iregor, in his t'olK-Lore of the -North-Eit-'t oi Scotland," that undue grief, for a departed friend, "combiued with a want resignation to the will of Providence, had the effect of keeping the spirit from rest in the other world. Rest could be obtained ouly by the spirit coming back and comfortiusr the mourner by tho assurance that it was in a state of happiness." Agaiu, the ghosts of uu-baptised children have long been supposed to hover about in the form of phantom lights, the idea being that, because such spirits cannot enter heaven, they make their abode in dark and lonely places. An amusing story' is told of a Dutch parson who, on his return home one night, was confronted with three of rhese fiery phenomena. Remembering them to be the soula oE uubaptised ohildivu, he pronounced the words of baptism over them. But, in the same instant, hundreds of the moving iights made their apnoarauce, which so friL'htenod him that, forgettiug his good intentions, he ran home a3 fast as he could.

Evening Standard, SHORT AND SHARP. Do you favour Home Kule, Corrigan No but my wife docs." So Yes her home rule ia 'Lookod out after Contributor: "What ought I to get for this poeiii Editor You ought to get about fifteen years." 9 Anson "I am going to get married this April." Jcirown I wouldn't do that if I wore "Why not?" There's oue fool's dav in it already." 8 a Miss Campbell: "So you are financially embarrassed agaiu, are you, Cousin Llcorge I notice you continue to weir patent-leather shoes, all the same." Cousin George Oh, yes but but, you see, the patent has expired." His doom had been phft7A by Ktber unprofessional Jion'- tdlra-calfed the scene VY.Ured led a selfish and useless lire, but be had found the An i urly amusing until it had begun to bore of late it had bored him profoundly so 'tfdiiotcaroso very much i he was "going 'ie, lie phrased it. u-as aToid excitement. The doctor had 1 s0 Again ho smiled as he re-ealled this For years his Hie had been a restless Waiter fi-eah distractions and excitement, "Vpe'sated worldling thought how entirely Mpcrli'uous the counsel tendered by his physician Well, no at all events, idly lounging in the luxurious little smokiug-room. Ho rid not feel am' penitence for his mis snentvears 0 manhood.

Iso Bince one cummer nitern'oon long ago ho had made up his mind to give up taking Hie seriously, and to regard it merely as an opportunity for having gesed and uow iie had nearly spent his life he the irnnrl time" and felt reckless. UOli in. vi davs. weeks, or months it did not interest him to speculate which the men at the 1.1 rt rt.iu nnntliPlv Hfillo. BO I See ooor old Devereux is dead, and the cousin who was to inherit his property wouia cong himself that there was anything left to inherit.

That was all. It might have been so different nn; it was her fault. Was it quite fair, though, "lav the blame on his old love? Jt es, yes; uli cast him off, she had sent him adrnt, t-d his lire's shipwreck was due to her. Km desoite these melancholy reflections, I'erer'eux would net give' way to gloom. On the rv he rose, exchanged ms siooking-jacket sa coat, studied bis list of engagements, t0r.

1 Xt ascertained that Mrs. pvDccteii him at a ball in Kensington and Jones e.M ji(jerartle had sent a card for her cresh in Brook.street, he sailed out into the frhTinrinc street. it. more llevereu felt a momentary pleasure a citizen of the brilliant world and then he thought of the summer nights that were to rest vear, when all this lne would go on r'Cthe same, while he would be lying in six i of earth somewhere away from the sound of throbbing the wheels, and the never- fall of feet on the London pavements. He shuddered.

After all, death was not hVforced his mind to thoughts of the ft" and presently to such good purpose that f1 had forgotten Mrs. Pottinger. Jones and Lady Pildemrde, and was leaning on the parapet of fiP embankment, whither he had strayed, and was watching the sparkle oi the stars in the dark river. It was a sunny summer afternoon, and the fresh hreeze blew from the sea. The tide was out and the lone lines oi toam were white osainst the blue.

(In the cliff edge, where the poppies flamed and the bees hummed in the thyme, stood a young p'ink dress and a hat with a shady brim, and there was a look of pain in her beauti- fill js this your final decision?" said the young man. "Have you no pity lty. ic nrntryvou. Indeed-indeed, 1 cannot, she an- 1 would do anything, anything," he pleaded, to make vou love me again. 1 know I am un-wonhy of you," he vent on, You are an a goddess But she only listened to his frantic praise with head averted.

"Xo, no, it is too late, was all she would vouchsafe in reply to his pleading. Her mingled expression oi pain and scorn toid the young man bow he had been weighed and iound wanting, ami he his hands in despair and mor-tliLaticm. Then he drew himself up and spoke slowly and deliberately. "Verv well," he said, "since you cast me off I have nothing good lait to live for. But don't thiu's I shall waste my time in vain regrets, or tiiat 1 shall ever come back to you.

I will commit every sin and folly that can hide away the oi this parting. I will squander my life as cireietily, as recklessly, as I (an. I will never try sjua'ta be or to do anything pure or good. My only object henceforth shall be to forget veil and ail my foolish dreams, my belief in von and your love, my misplaced tiust in womanhood, and ail my sins shall be laid at your door. Vou may repudiate them, Mary, "but my sins shall be upon your head.

You could save mo if you would, and you will not." His face was Hushed, and hers had grown fffiirry and scornful. Suddenly he softened again. "Don't you see, Marv, how you are spoiling my life bh: made no reply. He asked her for a last kiss, trie flower she wore at her throat. But the remsed, boih by silence and a downcast gaze.

And so the romance of the young man's had ended. Devereux thought of all this as he gazed iDto the flowing Thames. Heavens How well he Lent bis word about squandering his life Mary is in town to-night," he reflected, as ah bowled down the embankment and came ti.e towers of Westminster towards Ken-" I wonder if she has changed much, rn'Mra r.ri-oac pur iipfnrp flii' his tin ne il: reacnea his destination and nn a carpeted stairway, wrule the t.w StfuaasS above biro. He couid not dance. 'in- aov-tar hud forbidden it, so he strolied aim.

I'K-yoato: ihe bali-room. C3 one seems to know by premoni'ion r.h.: is io happen next. So it was with Deve-rt: and he scarcely started when the girl whom Ueo so recently thinking about appeared smell of the sea, the freshness of youth sa impossible happiness seemed to come Vu; i him ai he icoked into her beautiful, eyes and rcitiraeci her sedate no longer a mere eirl, but sho was very indeed, little changed from what she she suffered him to lead ber out on to a 1 heard little ot you since we parted," I have heard much of you." my credit, I he said, Van see, Mary, kept my word, and i'iy Lie as I tore told I should." nude no answer. yo think-, Mary, that I was really so bad sslievcd me to he? Due grows older," she said, gently, "I creed grows less narrow, I treated 1 part of her reply was barely audible, leaned forward and cauzht her baud, and i it lightly, while his frame thrilled with a be ha.i thought he could never experience she was thinking sadly of him whom she chit adrift years before of a young man, worldly, perhaps, but with many possi-' ia him ot good, who had, however she aia.r aniy too surely since chosen evil. And harteli bitterly fur her self-sufScient for her intolerance of what, through softeuine influence of time, E''i i to be ouc very human weaknesses after i- rrold narrowness of mind had been lost with kiiowiedge.

The girl had led a sheltered Rti't was ignorant of the world and its aautbns. That woman who sat in the gloom tald herself that she' bad been Ihat was all. But it had spoiled a man's whs a weak man, to he sure, to have over the loss of a girl's worthies heart sac sat in trie darkness conscious that she had a jpeat and grievous mistake. hcvereux sat there as iu trance, drinkinc ry iine tier face, dimly Keen in the gloom, lilted unexpectedly witn the sweetness uuiy pure love it had ever felt. Life had a lever lute, a hot delirium, but he had ne wis not worn out and weary oi it as he hjiieved.

spoke for a few minutes. At last reuxsaki Maty, could you love me now Lush she said, you must not speak so. I awrried." i l.ope you are happy," he said very was silent. yo know, Mary, I am to die very soon 'j 'a die doctors say I cannot last many her breath coma faster, rr: w'" you K'vo mo 'at: lt's3 yu refu8c ''cut forward and pressed her lips to his Old you remember I asked for a flower. Yon tiov? glvo il to m8, w'1 yu Sive me ono 0 'O f'Sh 'MM iil; a IB 111 y-ff 'WHMB (Ten I'lSOeSj.

White to play and'mute iu two moves. JUDY'S JOTTINGS. "Soorsino the Basis- Degkeks." Shakespeare, Mother, dear, how old is father?" ihirty-seven. darling." "That isn't much, ia it, mother? Why, my bath's ninety-eight." Sbntimiwt Bernard: "Why are you so sad, Mabel, darling?" Mabel: "I was just thiukms, dearest, th.it this was the last evening we could be tofiether ti.l to-morruw Blosbomino. Well, Jack, what do you think of the pictures?" Not much, uncle.

1 never was an admirer of th9 ITiue Arts-I prefer the Empire." P'lNTUD. Scone Publichouse Parlour. Discovered -Dohatinrj Society Committee. First Committeeman I rise tae a pint o' order'!" Second Committeeman "I rise tae order a p'int 1" (Loud cheers.) He Had Gone Timouotr. the Mili.

luquirinrj Child Papa, why do people always cry at weddings Papa (abstractedly) Because, my dear, most of them have been married themsolv.es, I suppose." Quite is Good Part, op Codiise First Person Fancy Ethel having to take the part of Carmen to-night. I can't imagine her doini; it, somehow, can you Second Person (who didn't get tho unueratudy): Yes, I can imagine her doing it somehow badly 1".