Portfolio.
THE VILLAGE GIRL.
(Translated from the Swordish of Suneberg,) THE san went down and the evening came,
the quiet summer even,
THE CHINA MAIL.
may be found, in the driest of language, the accounts of how scores of skippers yearly fight their way into port, through weeks of storma, with bulwarks and boats swopt away, rigging" damaged, men disabled triumphing over greater perils than come from breechloaders, with greater courage twenty Victoris Crosses.
THE STATE OF RUSSIA.
A mass of glowing purple lay between the lier brig. Just as the naval officer is careful and perseverance than go to the winning of agreement. for displaying the contents of a sories requialte for active operations, are
farms and heaven;
A weary troop of men went by, their day's
hard labor done,
Tired and contented, toward their homes
they wended one by one. Their work was done, their harvest reaped,
a goodly harvest truly, A well-appointed band of foes all stain or
captured newly; At down against this armed band they had
gone forth to fight. And all had closed in victory before the fall
of night.
Close by the field, where all day long the
hard hot strife was raging,
A cottage by the wayside stood, half desolate
and ageing, And-en-ite-worn, low, steps there_set_a_
silent girl, and mused, And watched the troop come slowly by in
weary line confused.
She looked like one who sought a friend; High burned the color in her chook, too
she scanned each man's face nearly;
high for sunset merely;
She sat so quiet, looked so warm, so flushed It seemed she listened as she gazed, and
with secret heat,
felt her own heart beat.
But as she saw the troop march by, sad To svery file, to every man, her anxions
aye appealing,
tion without speech,
to-beseech.
darkness round them stealing,
More silent than a sigh itself, too anguished
CHEATING AT WHIST.
(Spectator.).
Mr. W. Pole, a well-known authority on Whist, has fired rather a heavy shot through this month's Fortnightly into the English Whist Clubs. He ventures to deprecate the practice of using a conventional signal as a call for trumps, as not only injurious to the game itself, which is an intellectual game mainly from the demand it makes on the faculty of observation, but as tending to in- crease the facilities for cheating. We do not think he makes much of his case as re- garda this particular convention, but he expresses incidentally and too timidly a view whigh deserves far more attention than it has lately received, or is likely to receive. He intends, or we misunderstand him, to warn players as well as to discuss play.
As all whist-players know, an innovation was introduced into Whist about forty years ago which has ever since been regarded as of the highest importance and advantage. It was settled among the best players that if a player "discarded" or threw away a high card and then a low card of the same suit, that, being clearly an unaccountable and noticeable way of playing, should be
a
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[No. 4972.-June 14, 1879.
to retain the opium traffic for the benefit of
with
Miscellaneous.
Dulque
But when the men had all gone past, and the bridge or in the ohart-house, where he whist memory, and are, therefore, intolerant increase of atake. The temptation to cheat disturbing public order bas resulted in two Episcopal Church was badly shattered.
not a word was spoken,
The poor girl's courage failed at last, and
all her strength was broken. She wept not lond, but on her band her
weary forehead fell, And large tears followed one by one as from below. The wreck of many a passenger Pole, however, now attacks it, as being the of cards, and more than many games, to be petards are thrown about in the most stables were blown to pieces or carried
a burding well.
"Why dost thou weep? For hope may
break, just where the gloom is deepest "O daughter, hear thy mother's voice, a
needless tear thou weepest; He whom thy eyes were seeking for, whose
face thou couldst not see,
He is not dead, he thought of love, and
still he lives for thee.
"He thought of love; I counselled him to
shield himself from danger, I taught him how to slip the fight, and leave
them like a stranger; By force they made him march with them;
but weep not, rave not thus, I know he will not choose to die from happy
life and us."
Shivering the maiden rose like one whom
awful dreams awaken, As if some grim foreboding all her soul in
her had shaken; She lingered not, she sought the place
where lato had raged the fight,
his craft.
RUSSIA AND CHINA
town. Its width was only from sixty to eighty feet. One of the evidences of ite force was the picking up of a horse and baggy, which were carried, at a height of twenty to thirty feet, a distance of about
or on the way there, that you have the best
as much as if the partners arranged that a opportunities for studying him.
kick under the table should be a call for a
A "reign of terror" still exists at St. India With the latter exception, our The first thing to be observed in him is
particular suit. It is not superiority of Petersburg Since the attempt on the life views need in no way clash with the ex- that he is much less unlike the rest of the
skil, but knowledge of a orpher, legalised, of the Czar the troops have been held internal polloy of the vast empire which is world than it might be supposed he would
no doubt, by the practice of good players, realiness day and night. In every regi, now showing so many signs of renewed Ulio. be. The tarpaulin of Smollett's time could
but not universally known or understood, ment two companies in marching order, not now be found in the forecastle of a col
and as objectionable as any other secret equipped with ball cartridge and all acces hand to a partner. It is the beginning of kept constantly under arms of the barracks. "to drop the shop" when on shore, so the
"Confederacy," an "offence for which whist, Batteries stand ready horsed and mounted ▲ ¿THEATRICAL "star" advanced to the trading skippor avoids the use of sea terms
perhaps, of all popular games of cards, offers in the barrack-yards. A squadron of every foot-lights in Toledo, Ohio, the other night, likely to be void of meaning to his hearer.
the greatest scope. There is no delusion cavalry regiment stands in constant readi- and said to "that man" in the parquet The whole body may be divided into two well-marked classes; the masters of steamers
more prevalent or more injurious to youngness to monot, and day and night divisions "I deeply regret, air, that the play should and the masters of sailing ships. The most
men than the notion that whist, being in so of Cossacks patrol the streets. The army he interrupted by so stupid an insult. If perfect type of the steamer skipper is the
great a degree a game of skill, is one in is to be increased forthwith by one hundred the play is not of sufficient Interent, your captain, as he is careful to call himself, of a
which cheating is never to be feared... In no and fifty battalions, equivalent to about ons money will be refunded, but it cannot go large ocean passenger ship. He has shared
gato is confederacy so easy. The slightest hundred and twenty-five thousand men, on until that newspaper is put away" in the march of intellect, and looks down
definite advantage will give the balance of This is the more remarkable because the BOSTON has a citizen, known, at least by with a complacent sense of superiority on
points to the players who possess it, and evacuation of Eastern. Roumells will set sight, to pretty much everybody, who has the rougher men who command the smaller
slight definite advantage can be secured frou a large force for home duty. From an unfortunate way of displaying his igno- sailing vessala. He presides over the table
by any pair unscrupulous enough to take it, Cironiar sued by the Minister of the In- range. He is a "society” man in a small of the first-class passengers not without
almost without the possibility of detection. terior, it appears that the whole country way and loves dearly to lug in a word or dignity, and wears a uniform more or less
An agreement to hold tramps in a particular
of the new Governor-General. General the other day how his daughter, who had closely copied from the naval. In fact, he
part of the hand, or to hold the hand loosely de facto placed under the jutladiction two of French now and then. Being asked is often half a naval officer, holding a com-
or tightly, according to the number of Gourko has met with a serious obstacle in been ill, was getting on, he answered, "Oh, mission in the Reserve, and putting on sword
trumps, or hours alternately trong tuy the way of his repressive measures. It will passe, passe!"-Baston Transcript... and uniforma to read the Artioles of War to
sloped, or to discard alternately from the be remembered that not the least remark-
He was a middle-aged man, spare in such of his crew as belong to the same body
highest or lowest suit, or to communicate by able of these was the order to place a watch figure and excited in tesroh. His hands on the first Sunday of every month. If you
attitude any other information, would almost man before every door in the capital. The dorted into his trenera pockets, then Into infallibly give the victory to the players Nihilists have now pisted a proclamation" try and draw him into spinning a yarn you will probably be disappointed; he has no
making it, and in many cases could never be under the very nose of the police, threaten- his vest pockets, and again into the pockets yarns to spin. Indeed, he is far more of a
detected. There is no need of marked cards, lng all who take service. ea special watch of his long coat. Then the process was or of Theoders Hook's quaint suggestion men with death, the consequence of which reversed. All the time he' looked about smart man of business--keen in getting quick runs and cheap coal-than a seaman,
that "Come, sir," should call a club, and is thas no men osin be found willing to and around him with hungry eagerness, nod He has most probably been all his life in the
"My dear sir" a diamond, or of dealing sccept the dangerous posts, and it is kept repeating, Oh, 1 am ruined 1 All employment of the same company, and has
oneself honours-the regular sharper's trick shares in it. He looks forward to settling
for a much smaller advantage, a little almost certain that if the decree is to be the money I had in the world ! ON, dows at a great seaport as captain superin-
information communicated, by a change of carried out a military sentinel will have to dear! Oh, dear! I'd give afty dollars police are openly arresting people by a ragged street boy came along with some tendent for his company. His manners are
attitude, prearranged for the swindle, be placed at the door of every house. The if I could get it bask " At this juncture a careful copy of those of his passengers. considered a signal to his partner to lead quite sufficient to secure the plunder to the batches at all hours of the day, whereas thing in his hand. Lost 'er pocketbook, On shore he wears the most correct gloves, tramps, and the partner who, having tramps, rogues. The temptation to resort to such apprehensions were formerly made at night mister?" The middle aged man's ravinge frookcoat, and tall black hat. His family did not then lead them, should be considered practice, where the stakes run high, must, On the alightest suspicion against any stopped short. He took in one long, deep lives in a semi-detached villa in a suburb, an inferior player, ignorant of the "lang" to men who are rogues at heart, be very person, his whole family are arrested and breath, then seized the pocketbook very and his wife is genteel. Yet it would be uage of the game." The innovation, which great; and stakes at whist begin to run very domiciliary visits paid to all their acq daint much as a cat pounces on a mouse, and Boy you're-a-good-- boy }” unjust to suppose that in him the man of was not, of course, an innovation in the high indeed. It is not difficult with guinés ances, these leading to further apprehen- the world and of business has quite sup-rules, but only in the "language" of whist, points and five pounds on the rubber, to lose stons on the most frivolous grounds, walked off Reader, this is a fast, not a
fanoy-Boston Transcript, Seemed muttering in a shy distress a ques-pressed the sailor-man," to use the true was ao acceptable to first-rate players and seventy or eighty pounds in an evening; and Eighty-three furnished-lodging house keep
On the 14th April a tornado passed over ssa term. He is a good navigator, and has habitual players, that it has ever since quite easy, by raising the stakes, to make ers are in prison for not reporting within studied the ocean currents. On an emerg- maintained its ground among them, and is whist as dangerous and eatloing a kind of gam twenty-four hours the latest arrivals. Collinsville, eleven miles from St. Louis, enoy he issues from his habitual reserve, only rejected by persons who play seldom, bling as any game which does not involve,
The trial of three stadents on a charge of and destroyed a number of houses. The and can pass days and nights together on
er who are conscious of having an imperfect like brag or unlimited loo, an indefinite
of them being sentenced to pine and one to Funeral services were being held in the saatches a few moments of rest and shelter of any additions to what we may ball the of course, is developed in exact proportion four months imprisonment. The Nihilist church at the time, and the falling plaster from the pelting of the storm, whereas the grammatical complications of the game. It to the magnitude of the stake, and cheating leaders seem to be in no way intimidated and flying window glass bruised and out mates, who carry on in fine weather, get is distinctly approved and mentioned as legal at whist is so easy, if only two players by the ropressive measures of the authorl nearly all the people presont. Fences, their regular spells of sleep and dry clothes by both "Cavendish" and Mr. Clay. Mr. agree, that it requires as much as any game ties, and in St. Petersburg bombs and planke, sidewalks, trees, outhouses, and vessel has shown with what quiet heroism only conventional signal used in whist which carefully guarded against exeuser for col he can stay to meet inevitable death with is pre-arranged between two partners, as lusion. So far Mr Pole is thoroughly in the populous thoroughfares every day, although sway, and gardens were destroyed. The being purely arbitrary, and as being salon right, and we hope his paper may help to troops are encamped in all the public cyclone, as usual, was rotary in its motión, aquarés, and patrol all the leading streets, and struck and bounded from the earth The skipper of the brig or barque, the lated to give an unfair advantage to highly induce honourable man playing for any as if the city were in a state of war. A three times during its passage through the burly man with sunburnt face, who may be observant players, as against neophytes or preciable stakes always to mention whether peasant has been arrested, in whose pockets Been rolling about the streets of foreign careless persons. He does not precisely see they do or do not answer the call for tramps were found the dispositions for the revolu-
We wish Mr Pole had gone further, and seaports with a gait and in a dress which why, if a pre-arranged signal, like the call
tionary troops. In the universities the at once announce his profession, is a very for trumps, is to be allowed, a klak under condemned with just severity the practice, students are leaving their classes or masse, different man, He is a seaman to the mur- the table is forbidden, or any other made of which only too many players condone, of
fifteen rods, and dashed to the earth, the row of his bones. Not that he is without collusion between partners. He admits that playing for the booty, and checsing inferior and it is probable that these institutions
horse being crushed to a jelly and the shrewdness in monoy-getting much the the rule is recognised, but sontends, first, players to play with at high points. It will have to be shut up.
waggon to splinters. The cemetery Just contrary. Only his trading smaoks more of that the players ought not to need signale; occurs even at whista game in which bad the manners of Sir John Hawkins than of and secondly, that the introduction of ar- players bore their opponents to suffocation
outside the town was laid waste, nearly those of these more peaceful times. In some bitrary pre-arranged signals between part and must occur pretty frequently, or 80
The Novoe Fremys of St. Peterburgery tombstone being levelled to the respects, indeed, his knowledge of business nors is a dangerous precedent; it might many boys and careless men would not so
ground. is better than that of the packet captain. possibly be the thin edge of a wedge of un- frequently lose so much, The "null" in states that, according to information deriv
Some interesting statistion have been The latter has his freights and voyages foreseen length and power. Who can tell favour of good players is said, indeed, noted from well-informed quarters, the obfef settled for him by the agents of his company, where such signals would stop? We have to be very great; but that idea is naturally object of the special Chinese mission to pubilehed respecting the circulation of the whereas the former frequently sails his own seen that they have already begun to multi- one which very good players foster, and Russia has entirely falled, the negotiations Bible during the present century. The graft. Her portrait bangs on the wall of ply, and where is the line to be drawn? If their calculation is based upon an erroneous respecting the salon of Kuldis having British and Foreign Society is far in ad his home between an Otaheitan club and a they become common, there would seem no assumption. There is a point of whist been broken off in consequence of the catevance of any other existing institution of stuffed South Sea fish, with her name, The reason why they should be confined to their knowledge at which a second-class player gorloat declaration of the Russian Govern the kind as regards the number of copies Mary and Jane (after his wife and daugh- present form. Mr Clay draws a distinction has a fair chance against a first-rate one, ment that Kuldja will not be surrendered, lasued. It was founded in 1804, and, ad- ter), in elaborate letters underneath. How between indications by the cards themselves the difference being only about five per and that even at a later period there can gording to the statement referred to, has did he acquire possession of her? He has and indications by the manner of playing cont. ; but there is also a point of ignorance, be no question of the cession of that pro-airculated upwards of 82,000,000 volumes. The American Society, fustituted some been at sea this thirty years, he tells you. them; but this is hardly tenable. When a
or carelessness, or unfounded self-confidence, vince to China.
With referenca to the above statement thirteen years later, has attained olroufa He began at ten years old, on more kicks player says to his partner, If, holding two at which the inferior player has, as against than ha pence, as cabin-boy in a collier brig, useless cards, I throw away the highest first, good players, no chance at all. Very fair the Berlin correspondent of the Standard tion of nearly 35,000,000. No other in but existenes at all approach these two pegants He was in Lancaster Sound before he was I want you to lead trumps,' what is the es players exist who are not safe players at writes: twelve. Then he reamed furthe abad in sential difference between this and his say any time, who cannot, that is, resist the some squarebowed tub to Chinese or Pacific ing, If, in playing two cards, I throw the temptation to run a great risk for the sake waters-in old days, when the master col- first sharply on the table, and lay the second of a dramatic coup at the end. Man who lected his freights in cash, kept them in a down softly, I want you to do so-and-so?" have learned whist by playing without canvas bag, paid his expenses therefrom as And what would the noble game of Whist stakes almost invariably make this blunder, he went along, and handed the balance to then come to? Yet the signal for trumps is and it is the unconquerable temptation of his owner, or banker when the vessel was
an introduction of the principle." We con- female players, and of boys who think they his own, on his return after a two or three fess that as regards the unfairness of the are going to teach old hands how to play. years' voyage. Discipline was kept up with rule, wo can see no force in Mr. Pole's ar- Many more cannot play decently if the run a rope's end; and the veteran growls that it gument. The rule, which, he says, is pre- of the cards is against them, getting gradu is scarcely possible to get along now, with arranged between two partners, and there- ally irritated under defeat, as old chess that Plimsoll and the lawyers ashore." He fore unfair, is in usual cases pre-arranged players do, and running nasless risks in tried opium smuggling, and has had many a among all four players, and therefore legiti-order to soothe their own wounded amour smart brush with the junks, making good mate. They all know the signal, they all propre; while at least one-half mankind hauls of money to repay him for his perils. agree that it may be used, and they all, cannot play at all, after an extra glass of Very possibly he has had a few years' service therefore, are playing fairly, and the same wine. The fine edge of the whist memory
ABT CRITICISM.-In its columa headed before the mast in a man-of-war, and could conditions granted, would be playing fairly, is gone. For first-class players to play with of the Amon; not only will the learned still work at a gun or wield a cutlass if they asked for trumps in an audible voice. such people for the sake of high stakes is, Commissioners be more effectually protect "The Town Crier" the San Francisco connection with the fighting sea life much There is no more cheating in the matter if not exactly swindling, at least not honoured on the spot than at a distance, but News Letter writes" We have been more real if less dignified than that of his than there is in remembering that you able; and to lis in wait for them, deli- whatever operations may be undertaken favoured with a photograph of a very ex brother skipper in the packet, the lieutenant should return, later on in the game, your berately preferring them for opponents, is against the Tekke, that numerous tribe, if cellent painting by Me Picou, and to which in the Naval Reserve. Whaling, both up partner's first lead, or in recollecting that if disgraceful conduct. It is common enough, so minded, will always have five hundred we cheerfully call the attention of persons towards the frozen north and after spermace your partner leads trumps, you should, if we fear, particularly in tewus outside horsemen to spare to harass and annoy the furnishing new houses. This is the first He thought of me and of himself, the battle-ti in the Pacific, has added to his little store. you are alive, and have any, lead them back London where a habit of play happens to Engineers in their hydrographic surveys thing we have seen by Mr P., who is
fald be scanned,
Economy, sobriety, and plodding hard work to him again. The one convention is as have sprung up, and any refinement of Bat it need hardly be said that while armed probably one of our rising young artists, And then betrayed his brothers' hope and have done the rest. Having satisfied the arbitrary as the other, and almost as whist tending to make it easier should be simply with medieval weapons the Tekke but we say unto him, keep on, do not be Hundreds of will be unable to withstand the German discouraged." The scene represented shamed his fathers' land.
Trinity House that he could read and write widely known. The signal is. not patent, summarily frowned down.
explains itself to the spectator at a glance. (not nearly so well as the kid-gloved skipper, like a kick under the table, only to your lads would not gamble who would play breechloader in Russian handa.
A letter on this subject says :—
It is that of a travelling burlesque company it must be confessed, for the spelling of the partner, but to all the players, and we may whist for very high figures, and Mr Pole is, we believe, in a very decorous and gentle- English language undergoes a wondrous sea ada, owing to that fact, is very often dis-
China has relations with both Russia and proceeding from one country town to change in his log), knew something about finetly injurious to the signaller's chances. manly way, pointing, under cover of que England, but hitherto, we have never been another by means of a canal boat a most navigation, and was a thorough seaman, he Nor can we think the superiority it given to tion as to the fairness of the call for trumps
contact with Chinese territory. Now we evident fact that the company have had I sorrowed, but my grief was mild, it had gained his certificate. His savings are in- the observant player at all unjust, it does at an evil which, if it were to spread, would brought, as the Russians have, into direct humorous anggestion in the picture is the rested in shares of ships, made safe by not, as Mr Clay showed, give any superiority very soon revive the old horror of card-play bear that Kuldjs is after all to be given their everyday clothes seized by the sheriff 1would have lived a thousand years to mourn insurance. His wife, a thrifty woman, to the highly skilled player, who would ing in any shape.
back to the Chinese authorities; and the during their last performance, and aro keeps, or has kept, a email-shop, and adds to know without it when to lead trumps, and
question arises, What other arrangements consequently forced to travel in their stage the winnings. The children, at least the who, through its use, loses some of the bene
are to be made? It cannot be to our fu- dresses. The expression of the ticket-seller, older ones, go out to work early-the girle fits of his skill; und if men will play care
terest nor to that of Chins that Russia who is gotten up as a recording damon; we to service, the boys to the sea. And so after lessly they must suffer, whatever the rules
should obtain greater extension of territory think, is a masterpiece of desubrokadass.. twenty-five years he has reached the 'sum- we make. John cannot fairly be asked to
in the reglan of the Amoor or that her A group of hungry looking supes pretending mit: he owns the ship he sails. In this play oarelessly because fem never will
growing influence in the Factiu thould be to play on property harps over the male position he is not free from faults. In par- count the trumps out, and that is what
still farther increased. Yet these are the house is also admirably handled. Ferhapa ticular he is hard to his men, exacting the Mr Pale's argument about the increased
points to which one naturally torna if com the moral tone of the picture would I continuous tail by which he has himself pressure on careless players really involves.
pensation is ta ked about. In any event better preserved, however, if M P had risen, and is loud in his contempt for people if Tom would observe attentively he would
the Chiness have smerted themselves in painted a heavy villain or something else on shore who sympathise with Jaok, a see the signal just as readily as John and
Cential Asia, and bays disposed of another opaque in front of the soubrette who has drunken lazy fellow. Perhaps he himself if he will not pay attention, he must be
of our buffers." It behoves us then, in been in swimming, and who appears more no longer keeps his grog within such limits beaten, as in every other game, chess itself
view of the ugly turn which matters may any absorbed in the receipt of tally from the as he formerly did, and in moments of ex included. Mr Pole would not, we suppose,
moment take in Burman, to remember that business manager than in the early ro citement. is addicted to profane swearing. argue that because John habitually guarded
both here and in Nepaul our own influence ajustment of her drygoods. The picture His contempt for the young men who have his queen, or habitually remembered that
encounters that of Peking. The Chinese will make an excellent chrome, and-"Not The merchant skipper, in spite of our love always served on board steamers is as in two knights have three times and not twice to a sudden stop, began fumbling in her re rapidly mastering, if they have not als we go to press we learn that the work of the sea, is one of the least-known types soargely recognizes them as seamen at all. Philidor a secret, and retained the mas dropped. She started on, but had not gone European polity, and it is scarcely probable and Cleopatra. It in too late to low out tense as his scorn for lawyers. Indeed, he the forms of one, or habitually attended to pocket, and wondered what she could have ready matered, the broad features of of art referred to above is that of Antapy of English life, though certainly one of the They, again, regard him as an old bear, no tary of the four sentral squares, therefore far before she same back, impelled by that the tenderdy of events in Asia has the article, but in justies to Me Picott, most characteristic. Indeed, that very large better in education and manners than his he was playing unfairly! part of the English people which lives by
the practicity, and began a careful search of the escaped them. That they are tenacious the Town Cries ill be assassinated the we know. It it for an, therefore, to first thing in the morning-Editor News the sea is the least studied of all. No men, and doomed to speedy disappearance. trumps is no more unfair than the practice walk.
Meanwhile the boys in the tree had atiffed take in the whole bearinge of the Letter 1" Hardy, no George Eliot has drawn a picture Let us hope both are wrong. Steam and unknown, by the way, in Asia-of castling of the life of our fishermen. Marryat has the telegraph are indeed rapidly pushing the the king, being equally known and equally their fate in their mouths to keep from situation, and to a derstand which LORD Vivian's dream has been the topla left a series of vigorous portraits of the older type of seaman out of existence; but open to both adversaries before they sit soaring the game, and dared hardly look Power, England or China, is to axeraise of conversation at Home in circles which below for fear of laughing out A sympas suthority at Mandalay and Khatmandoo, entertain themselves with stories of zeval officer of his day, but he has had no they need not, and we believe they do not down to play;
But nevertheless there is an idea in Mr thetic sister came along, and together they if to fe certain that the Russian or the wonderful psychology. His Lordship QUASHION. In contemporary novele few prevent many of his best qualities "being res naval officers mingle with the soldiers whom produced in his suosestore. The audatinted Role's article which any one who reads a picked up stores and turned over all the Englishmen must be in virtual control of dreamt that he had fallen asleep at Epsom, every writer appears to delight to honour! courage, the pertinacity, the readinest of little between the lines can recognise, and in chips on the walk. No money, no key, Asia Minor, so is it beyond dispute that that he was awakened by a gentleman As for the trading skippers who pass on wit which finds resources amid the most which, if we read it rightly, we most heartily nothing did they find, and so went on to England or Uhina quast hold supremsay in who informed him that a certain horse the ass upon their lawful occasion, they pressing perils and has made aur merchant consur. It may haypen that two players their homes, perhaps to worry all night; or Barmah. At pressut, of cou so, it would had won the city and Suburban Handicap. have scarcely been so much as caricatured. and war fleets alike the first in the world, who know the conventional signal sit down perhaps a giggle in the tree turned their be a small master to annez be country. On reaching Victoria Station the first pers They deserve better and yet it is perhaps are as needful now, when man carry to play against two who do not know it look of disappointment into a cheap smile, though, that is not desirable į but it would son to meet him was the gentleman he had atural that they have not been treated breeze in the engine-room, as they were and in that case, and that case only, they and a laugh from the same plays made them be a mistake to pursue any very strong seen in his dream, and to him his lord- socording to their deserts. To describe a when breezes dame only from heaven. Nel are taking an advantage which, though not swal winked thoughts about boys policy here without previous finderstand ship expressed his intention of backing the The trick is harmless; no one breaks & ing with Oblos This may already have horse whose name he had never befste class we must live among them and, azcept ther is there any sign that they are wanting illegal, is in a degree unfair. They may, SE In the case of the great Elizabethan seamen, Not a winter passes without contributing He Pole hints, mention to each other that leg or loses an eye in its process. It might been arrived at but to looking at auch heard, for the rage. He laid £100 on the salt water has been fatal to literary tastes. new tales of the heroism of the toilers of the they use the tall for tramps, and in any be recommended to constitutional tired bay matters ous may reasonably consider that horse, much to the surprise of the owner, Even the comparative culture and leisure of sea to the thottande already recorded. And ones they will in a hand or two rooguías each as a good way to sweep the walk. The the Chinese Empire, ask, as it is as pro who did not think there was any change of the Navy have failed to produce many officers it is strange how little attention they ate ather's knowledge and thenceforward they intime will throw all chips and stones into sout, would be a most valuable ally to the its being the winner Lord Vivian was ezent of any difficulty with a European afterwards Induced to withdraw the bety who aan write the history or describe the treet. All the naval disasters in a year, are not partners, but unfederates, comments the street by curiosity power) ss it more,
Power haring interest on the Pacifo but General Taylor, a friend of his, to life of their servios. Jahieel Brenton and unless on the scale of the Northfest, are bating on a most important point of play b
Bussian interests there, as deewhere are whom had been related the cirenmstances of Marryat have been almost the only seamen less talked about than a railway collision, a private signal,- that is, a signal unknown
| pdiely, aggressive our tatsrents are as the dream, held dimly to the belief that the eminent in lettera, The merchant seaman, even a small one. By far the greater part to their opponents: The case cannot very
purny commercial. We desire only to see heres would win, and backed him to the ax #gain, is not say to meet at home. The never even and their way into a newspaper, often occur, but Whan is does, we do not sen
sando making way, Andreu more tent of 830. The horse came in fret 103 greater part of his life is passed on bine but remain baried in the dry record of any argument by which it can be defended meter, syorly all of. Il abroad.: 10 is there, notarial and consular protest books. There 20 la aŭ undag påventego taken of ignorance,
1 point, # some appear to think → | the Generel got #1,009,
And atole away and swiftly fled and vanished
out of sight.
An hour went by, another hour, the night
kad closed around her i
The moonshot clouds were silver white, but
darkness hung below them. "She lingers long O daughter, come, thy To-morrow, ere the dawn is red, thy
bridegroom's hers again!"
toil is all in vain,
The daughter came; with silent step she
came to meet her mother, The pallid cyelids strained no more with
Cears she fuin would smother; Bat colder than the wind at night the hand
that mother pressed, And whiter than a winter cloud the maiden's
cheek and breast.
Make me a grave, O mother dear; my
days on earth are over! The only man that fled to-day, that coward
was my lover;
"When past our door the troops marched
by, and I their ranks had numbered, I went to think that like a man among the
dead he slumbered;
no bitter weight
his noble fate.
"Omother, I have looked for him where'er
the dead are lying,
to sit and sigh,
But none of all the stricken bear his
features, calm in dying; Now will I live no more on earth in shame Es lies not there among the dead, and,
therefore, I will die." The Cornhill Magazine'
THE BRITISH SKIPPER. (Pall Mall Gazette.)
· THE SMALL BOY'S FUN, He had a long string and a brass key tied to the end of it, which he said was the ins strument of torture, Over the front sides walk a maple tree sent some pretty strong branches, making a seat hidden by leaves, Into this, after dark, the boys olimbed
"Now wait," said the principal, till the first victim comes, and don't make a noise,
Pretty soon an ordinary dressed woman came along, and, just as she passed, he let drop the key on the hard sidewalk, im mediately pulling it up again. Both now watched developments. The woman cams
Tas man who tie të build a fire with Wet wood asin to a camp fuel-ish manner.
Tua baby who puts his toes in his mouth lorplug how to make bath anda merkin
The statement that the Russian Govern.aatlona in respect of the magnitude of their ment has absolutely refused to restore operatione. All the German sodities to Kaldja, and that the Chinese special mis gather have issued 8,500,000, the Swiss so. alon to St. Petersburg has entirely failed dieties nearly 3,060,000, the French upwards to obtain its objects, is unfounded. The of 1,600,000, the societies in the Nether expedition against the Tekke Turcomans is at last admitted in the Russian press, but it is stated to have nothing to do with the conquest of Merv, and to aim solely at preventing the Turcomana attacking the learned Uom uisston despatched to investi- gate the dried-up branch of the Amou, The reason alleged is almost too naive to require refutation. Not only is General Lomakin's campaign carried on in a district two hundred miles south of the ancient bed
lands, a mething over 1,287,000. It appears that the present contury has witnessed a circulation of the Bible amounting to the prodigious number of nearly 150,000.000, This total, however, represents only those organisations which are primarily Bible publishing societies, and does not appear to recognise other institutions which, while not engaging in this work as their chief function, nevertheless do a good deal in this way.