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THE LEAVES' SWEET SECRET.; Have you ever caught the secret Which the loaves for over sing Through each balmy day of Summer, When the birds are on the wing? Have you listened to their language

And their laughter, soft and sweet? Have you watched their shining glances

Through the noontide's glowing heat ? Oh they make such merry music,

Gayly dancing in the bracze, Every tiny leaf a-tremble

On the solemn old oak trees, That you know some happy asprot

Must have stirred each winsome elf To those bursts of fairy laughter, And you fairly laugh yourself í Up and down they dance and quiver, Back and forth they sing in glee, While the whistling winds still louder

Pipe their morry minstrelay. All along the woodland borders,

Past the reapers and their sheaves, Still the rippling music greets you, Of the laughter of the leaves. Ah ! 'tis sure some lover's scoret

Which they whisper day by day; Never ceasing, never tiring

Of the old and happy lay. Merry song and merry singers,

Merry hearts where love is king, Every Summer brings new lovers, Every year fresh learos to sing.

"ON THE OTHER SIDE" We go our ways in life too much alone;

We hold ourselves too far from all our

kind.;

Too often we are dead to sigh and moan;

Too often, to the weak and helpless, blind; Too often, where distress and want abide, We turn and pass upon the other side. It should be ours the oil and wine to pour

Into the bleeding wounds of stricken onen; To take the smitten, and the sick and core, And bear them where a stream of blaming

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Instead, we look about-the way is wide, And so we pass upon the other side.

Belected.

WHEN tired with vain rotations of the

day,

Bluep winds us up for the succeeding

dawn,

Young.

Few persons bestow half so much at tention on the preservation of their own health as they daily derate to that of their dogs and horses.-Dr. Kitchiner,

Ir you stand in need of physiclans, let these three things be your physiciensa cheerful mind, relaxation from business, and a moderate diet.. This was one of the sensible maxime the School of Health At Salerno,

ABSTINENCE is the pasteat, cheapest, and best cure for the disorders which arise from indigestion or intemperance. I do not moan what Celsus calls the first degree of it, "when the sick man takes nothing," but the second, "when he takes nothing but what he ought."- Kitchiner.

Evory physician knows, though meta. physiciane know little about it, that the laws which govern the animal machine are as certain and Invariable as those which gulde the plaustary system, and are as little within the control of the buman being who is subject to them.-Priestley.

It is of esential importance to health, to preserve the tranquillity of the mind, and not to sink under the disappointments of life, to which all, but particularly the old, are frequently exposed. Nothing ought to disturb the mind of an individual who la couscious of having done all the good in his power.--Sinclair.

A mense of duty is inherent in the constitution of our nature, and cannot be escaped till we can escape from ourselves, It does not wait on any ontological condi tions, and luncur the risk of non-existence

"Ezekiel!

THE CHINA MAIL.

CELEBRITIES AT HOME.

[No. 4367-JUNE 30, 1877.

Men; as a rule, are not wor- therefore he submitted a third motion, sez-

UNCLE ZEKE'S. CONSCIENCE. hands adrift. Like a log the old man drop-

the other those of Monsieur. From his matter, and Dr. Frow submitted a counter Some years ago there moved to the neigh-ped to the ground, lay groaning, praying, M. THIS IN THE PLACE SAINT-GEORGES state bedroom M. Thiers looks cut upon motion, describing it as a mere pro- borhood of Uncle Zeke's cabin, a gentleman and generally bewildered.

Ob, de lawsgoramity Oh, my heabenly Paris-forty-ning of which he had been a

M. Thiors had been just fifty years in his bandsome gardens. At hand are two posal," which should be remitted to the rooms on which the most extraordinary Mission Board for careful consideration, from Now York whose identity may be disguised under the name of Smith. The Marston! Who eber t'ought o'dat fy marked figure in the intellectual ranks of care has been bestowed to make them the with instructions to report to the Synod. now-comer engaged vigorously in farming, consolence done wake up my cohec'ence his country when Citizens Fontaine and oxnot counterpart of two sacred pièces de Dr. Andrew Thomson assumed the role of and by liberal cumployment and prompt done wake up! Heern 'bout it often, au Jules Andrieux, delegates of the Communs, stroyed by the communards They are the peace-maker. He seemed to be anxious that payment soon gained the good-will of all the now I knows it. Oh, my heabealy Marster! directing a horde of comminards, gutted his rooms of M. Thiers' mother-in-law, disposed the amour propre of the Foreign Committes colored men around him. Unele Zoke in if you lots up on me die time, Uncle Zeke home and proceded to raze it to the ground exactly as she left them when she died, and should not be too deeply wounded, and particular was never weary of chanting his neher tonch nuffin no mo'. Clar to good-They had hardly got the walls down when never used. praises, and many, a bushel of oysters did ness I's a change man from dis day the Versatiles troops delivered the capital shippers of the memory of mothers-in-law ting forth that, in terms of the intima Ezekiel convert into money at Bellevue, as the fright and the fall, Uncle Zeke's senses assembly at Versailles voted the owner are those of Mademoizelle Dome-the in the Synod agree to appoint Dr. MacGill as B-r-r-x-x-r "And what, with the shock, from their fangs, and when the National to this extent. By these mysterious rooms tion" of the Foreign Mission Committee, Smith's estate was called.

But all the good-will of his humble seen leaving him.

enid a solemn voice. In-something over a million of francs to re- separable companion of B, and Madame a special commissioner to the East. Dr. neighbors did not suffice to protect Mr Smith

build and refurnish his home. This present Thiers. The approach to the library is Jeffrey having withdrawn his motion, tho from pilferings. Shoats would disappear stinctively Uncle Zeke answered: "Here white mansion, in the purent Louis XIV. royal in the arrangement. Through massive vote was taken between the motions of Dre. mysteriously during the night, geese and me," and looked in the direction of the sound. style, is the Aplendid result of the As: mahogany doors you gain the sate-room; Fraw and Thomson; the former being carri turkey's would take wing for parts unknown, Oh, horror A figure olad in white was and in particular the corn-crib would re- nearing him with slow and solemn steps.sembly's most bonourable ast; so that, even beyond, through a sculptured oak door, le ed by 258 to 57, a majority of 196. quently show by unmistakable signs that its As the mysterious visitor approached it out of the catastrophe of 1871, which M. Thlers' study, and through a side door

Miscellaneous sanctity had been violated. To the story of scamed to rise until it towered to the height overed so many men with ruin, M Thiers is the room of his faithful secretary and

came at any rate no loser. The magnificant friend; Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire. these various losses would Uncle Zeke ingline of at least ten feet. The wretched Ezekiel, library in which he is now writing an alighted from the top, with bookshelves of voice from an upper window, of a serenad- The library itself in a lofty chamber How many of you are there?" asked a on his hands and knees, his eyes protruding oount of his prodigious career, and finishing a sympathetic ear, and his "Well, now,

**Four," was the reply. ing party.. who over boar de like o' dat? Clar to and his jaw dropped, remained as if his long-projected history of the Medici, is oak, picked out with stained pear wood« Divide that among you," said a voice, as goodness dese yere boys is gettin' wasser paralyzed."

not the old library, it is true; but it is on and threads of gold, stretching completely and wusser," evidenced alike his dotestation Suddenly the phantom bowed itself, and the old spot, and is filled with the treasures round it. Two immenes tables, covered a bucket of sleps fell, "ike the gentle dew of the crime and his contempt for the ita head descending with incredible swiftness, of the ancient place, which MM, Fontaine with red leather, are on either aide of the from heaven," on those beneath. effender.

smoto the unfortunate Uncle-Zeke senseless and Andrieux were good enough, having great hearth. A huge black carred cabinet OUTSIDE & Philadelphia hall, where meet- Smith's patienco was at last exhausted, to the earth.

carried them away in carts amid the yella is filled with enamels and other trasaures, ings have been held for revising English and he determined upon vigorous measures Three days later, as poor, Uncle Zeke lay, of a frantie mob, not to destroy. The on which M. Thiers has spent many years, spelling, thore was posted lately. The for the protection of his property. His racked with rheumatism and tormented with bibelots were, no doubt, to have been sold and much money, and which he is reported Fillerdelfier Convonshan for ravising the First experiment was to place a large spring spiritual fear, upon his bed in the single for the good of the Committee of Pablle to have bequeathed to the Louvre. Crown-spelling of the Eenglish langwidge has ad- rat trap, artistically ecucented in a heap of room at his cabin, the door opened, and in Safety, and as a punishment for the parting this cabinet of priceless treasures is a jorped. shelled corn, close by the cat hole in the walked Mr. Smith, of Bellevue.

ACCORDING to a report from Vienna, a le Siour Thiers' was taking in the salvation Bernard Pallasy hasd, which is unique; corn crib door, expecting that the unwary

Good morning, Uncle Zeke. Why, of his country; but Fortune did not betray and round about are the old art-critic's number of Polish agitators met at Lemberg thief, plunging bis hand recklessly through what's the matter with you, old man ?"

favourite bronzea and pictures, the his on May 4, to decide upon the policy of the the hole inte the heap, would be caught, and

"Oh, Mis' Smith! oh, Mis' Smith, I done their owner even in the année terrible,

M. Thiers descends from a Marseillais borian's maps and plans, and the earent's Poles in the present war. They will held until some one came to set him free, had some turible sparences lately. Do angi family of cloth-inerobants, who were ruined curious trouvailles in manuscripts. M. organisa a Polish legion, the expenses of But lol next morning the trap was found ob de Lord done wrustle wid me, and my by the first Revolution. Fate owed thehlers sits at work with some twenty thon- which are to be paid by Turkey, and 6,000 sprung and the heap of corn diminished, but consc'enco done woke, an', oh, my heabenly famliy some compensation, and made the sand volumes messed around him. His Poles have already set out for Kars. the thief had vanished and left no trace Smith, is you binig you done is you which wrecked their fortunes. Fame in of his labour. He is up at the first peep of The times are hard, my dear," said a man

Marster, T's one sufferin' sinner. Mis'

son the successful historian of the event eighty years have hardly slackened the rate

SOMETHING about a misplaced none;→→→ daylight and brews his own coffee, and is your

behind.

"You

At last a good-sized box arrived from Newm-miss anyting wid dat ar c-corn house latters, and in statesmanship and wealth closeted with M. Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire to his, better half; and I fad it difficult York, and the next day the local carpenter was ordered to fix two brase handles to the "No, indeed, Uncle Zake; nobody been 001n-crib; one to be put alongside the door near it everything all right now."

"An nobody done touch de look? Do' for convenience, as Mr. Smith publicly explained, of steadying one's self while lock' ebery mornin' " turning the other. The second handle had

"Yes, indeed. Why, who do you think a latch attached to it by which the door was would touch it, old man p secured on the inside, and was set in such a

Uncle Zeke answered not, but his lips position that any one turning it must hold moved convulsively as he muttered: "Knock on by the other knob to prevent being me down fus, an den look de do' an' took thrown backward by the opening door. Both de key. Now I know it was de angel ob de handles were profusely decorated with glass, Lord."

and olisited much admiration from the hands, who submitted them to a critical examination. The carpenter's work being finished, Mr Smith, in presence of all his colored employés, solemnly repeated, in front of the corn crib, the first two lines of the second book of Virgil's Eneid, and, an- nounced that his corn was thenceforward secure. A box, stated to contain seeds, was that afternoon deposited in the crib, and during the early part of the ensuing night the proprietor of "Bellevue secretly busied himself with a coil of insulated wire.

A CONVERSATION AT COURT, A Chinese official, holding the post of Superintendent of Customs at one of the Treaty ports, having recently been pre- sented at Court, the following conversation took place the Empress mother taking the lead in the dialogue:

when the busy quarter round about him is to keep my nose above water." still allent. Ha is a great economist of his could easily keep your nose above water," time and health, and sleeps regularly twice returned the lady "if you didn't keep it so in the course of the day. His drinks are often above brandy." milk and coffee, and he eats plain meats. JOHN HENRY, reading to his wife from a When he wants to gather strength for a newspaper: There is not a single mo long effort in the tribune, a copious glass of man in the House of Correction. There coffee appears before him. If he can still you see, don't you, what wicked creatures keep groups about him charmed with the wives are! Every woman in that gaol is brightness of his copious talk, and has so married." It is parlous," said she; "but eye full of light, and movements full of don't you think, John dear, that some of life, after his half century of hard work, it them go there to got relief ?"

because he has been a judicious steward of every force with which Providence bas endowed him.

A PEEP INTO A NITRO-GLYCERINE

FACTORY,

THEY had been engaged a long time, and one evening were reading the paper to gether. Look, loro, he, exclaimed, only $15 for a suit of clothes']" *** Is It a wedding suit!" she asked, looking. naively at her lover. "Oh, no," he replied, it is a business salt:" Well, I meant business," she replied,

also, has come to M. Thiers out of the throes and convulsions of revolution; and he is now in his old age secure in a superb retreat, covered with honours, consuited by kings albeit ex-president, with more in fluence over political events than the great gendarme at the Elysée, because he has Always been cunning enough to avoid the responsibility of the revolution he has helped to make, and has managed to reap pear again and gain as a once the champion of freedom and of society, His début la lifa is a plain key to bis career,

The mixed feelings with which French men regard M. Thiers are explained by the callent facts of his political career. He has made much and marred much. At this moment he is a danger to the Republic which he helped to create. BL. Gambetta has called him a serpent in spectacles; bat now the two are friends. Some of the Led by an interest in Croombe, Lone.day French papers refer to him an the great visited the nitro-glycerine works. How sul

I AM surprised that so tile notice has statesman, the flustrious veterno, the and harmless seemed the long "converting been taken of Her Majesty's change of tows saviour of the country; while others and room." There, in long troughs, stood rows residence. I read in the advertisement these not the ultra-democratic organs of stone pitchers containing nitric-aold and columns of the Times that Miss describe him as a great mau whose career surrounded by ice-cold water. Above them continue to receive ladies to prepare for has been a curse to France. He has not were ranged glass jars fall of glycerine that presentation to Her Majesty at her re- passed a single law; his name is not trickled drop by drop into the acld, and a sidence Grafton Street, New identified with one measure of progress light current of air impelled by steam, Steast." he is a protectionist of the most old fanned the mixture. This simple process fashioned type, and did barm to commerce changed the healing oil into a glittering A BALTIMOREAN named Caldwell has dis while President, by reversing some of the liquid charged with endden death and the covered a new propelling power for vessels. Free Trade polley of the Empire. He was terrore of earthquakes, Two men paced up He gave a trial trip down the Chesapeake the opponent of rallways; he is no friend and down, silent, watchful as serpents, their in a little boat forty-three feet long and tex to England, and nearly involved the two

movements quick as those of fine steel. If feet wide, and reports state that the experi- countries in war under Louis Philippe, but a few drops of the oil flowed too fast ment was a success. He uses neither And yet there is not a living Frenchman of into the soid-fire! If the soft air current wheels nor a screw, but propels the boat by Petit should waver for arr instant-re! The means of streams of water forced by a steam one another as they see him making a brisk stirred the fuming fluid with short tubes of pump to the stem, their unds being about (whom all France is prouder.

bonhomme vit encore,' the badauds say to men counted the drops with keen eyes, and pump through pipes which lead from the turn in the Pare Monceau, followed by a glass; always pacing to and fro, wary, three feet under water. Yesterday the light on de poak o' de vocn house rook. | jurisdiction, nor has there been any oathing eyes pierce sharply through the big speot. beast. How still and posssful seemed the stroke driving a stream into the water at tall footman carrying his umbrella. His quiet, as if they wore keepers of some caged pump made 180 strokes to the minute, each

Numerous and divers were the specula- tions among the darkies. Jim Goakley 'lowed Mis' Smith done witched dat ar corn house, eho zuff. Tell you, gemmen, you touch dem 'ere handles, evil sperit carry you away. No such ting's evil aperit? How do you know dere no such ting? Hush, boy, go see what de Bible say about dem ting: Pete Leo "didn't believe in no sparita) get a gun fx comewhar insida dat house turn de handle an' de gun go off Soon dem tings before up country when I live in Goozleum." Another theorist averred that while Mis' Smith sayin' dat ar Scripter ober dem handles be seen a white pigeon come a-sailin roun' an' roan, an' done

High! tell you, ear, sumpin' up, aho!"

Uncle Zeke, like the rest, was troubled in his mind, but, unlike his fellows, he de- termined to waste no time in speculation, but to seek his information direct from headquarters, Prepared with half a bushel of oysters as an excuse for conversation, he sought an interview with Mr Smith, and boldly propounded his questions.

last.

Q. When did you arrive i

On the 14th day of the moon before -You have come at the expiration of your term of office, have you?

A. Yes. I have been honoured with a favourable recommendation for further em ployment.

Is your distriof all quiet ? The district is all quiet. There is little distress, but soup kitchens have boon established for relief."

g.There is no disturbance among the common people, in there?

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4-There is no disturbance.

adherents of some religious sect,) in your

Are there any sectarian rebels jurisdiction?

4.-There are no sectarian rebels in my off of tails.

acles, noting flowers and trees, and bonnes room, how punctiliously clean the floor was Are the foreigners in your circuit and babies. Paria delights in him. He kept. It was flooded every day, I after all quiet?

4.-The foreigners at-

is French among Frenchmen. It was hewards found, to carry chance drops, may be coo-who bearded Bismarck, and extorted Belfort which, stepped upon, would have hurled the sidered reasonable.

from the greedy Gorman, It was he who watchers beyond human reach and left the Q-How many foreigners have you ? paid the milliards. Above all, it is he who fastory a splintered ruin. dred, bat in summer, when foreign men-of-spiced contemporary history with mots. -Ordinarily about two or three hun has said sores of good things,-who has come, there are a considerable number Its his youth, when he wrote on art, there more.

was an undercurrent of poetry and senti- Q-You are very well versed in managment in his compositions which reminded ing foreign affairs,

the reader that the author was a cousin of A-The foreigners at are few; André Chénist; but this has long since evaporated, He makes ideas flow from manage

facts,' said Sainte-Beave; he puts life I am told you are very well skilled and movement into everything. The same in managing foreign business.

oritie observed of him that, although he 4.I have been six years in office.

would pile details to a monstrous height, Q. How did you enter the servico?

the mass formed a shapely monument, and A-I entered ass Graduate of the Hen the horizon was never blocked out. lin.

"Mis Smith, what you bin a-doin' to datwar ar urib o' yourn ?"

"Why, Undle Zoke, what do you to know for P

"Oh, nulin, sar; zorter curus like. Hearn

want

should no assurance be gained with regard all de boys talkin' 'bout it--nebber see muffin the business, so far, has been easy to

to a being and a life beyond us. Етеп though we came out of nothing, and retorn-like dat." ed to nothing we should be subject to the claim of righteousness so long as we are what we are. Morals have their own base and are second to nothing.-Martineau.

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is liked

JEALOUSY.

"Well, Uncle Zeke, I can't very

well explain it to you; but I just advise you don't go near that crib after dark, or you may see something you won't like.” And Uncle Zeke departed, revolving many things in his mind.

It was midnight-the hour when church yards are said to yawn, not with exhaustion, but returning animation. In front of the enchanted corn-house stood Brother Ezekiel, a lengthy pole in his hand, and a capacions meal bag over his shoulder."

In silent meditation he stood for some minutes, deliberating on the best plan of attack. The great Newfoundland watch dog bounded toward him, evidently in rejoining welcome. Forth from his pocket the old men drew a savory bit of fried bacon, which the faithless" Bosen" eagerly devoured.

Jealousy issuch a stupid, illogical passion! Somebody likes you better than me; there fore, I am to hate you. Thus jealousy reasons, and seems to forget one of the most obvious facts in life-namely, that one any person accordingly an one presents a likeable appearance to that person. Nothing can prevent the operation of this natural law. It is no good your arging that you are the father, mother, brother, sister, husband, or lover of the person by which you wish to be supremely loved. If you are not loveable to him, or her, all argument, all exhortation, all

The reflection ended, the dog lay con- passion is thrown away which is intended tontedly on the ground and watched the to produce love, You can force the out Consequent proceedings with the air of a ward show, but not the inward feeling. A totally disinterested observer. jealous person will exclaim; "Why don't "Clar to goodness, now," muttered Undle you confide in me?" The real answer is: Zeke, "wish't. I un'stood 'bout dis ting. You are not a person to be confided in "Can't be ne spring trap like a last time, kase and all claims for confidence some to noth how he gwine to spring froo de do'r Kel ing when confronted with that important kel Done bodder Mis' Smith sho 'nuff when fact. Jealousy is, therefore, the peculiar he find dat ale rat trap sprong and nuffin rice of stupid people-Sir Arthur Helps.

cotch. High I Can't fool disser chap wid no traps. No, ear! Done see too much for dat." Uncle Zeke paused, scratched his head me. We easily know a nervous man. You ditatively, and then resumed his soliloquy: gay "He never walks, he runs," Bern in "Well, I declar', of disser don't beat s hurry, he lives in a hurry, and you antiel preachin Mus' be a gun in dar. Ef ain't pate that he will depart this life with corno gua den dere ain't muffin dere all responding precipitation. Full of fears foo'shness. Anyway, I's gwine for to try freely expressed, Afraid he will be too him,"

THE WORRY OF THEM ¦

late for the train, or the train will be too

Unele Zeke threw his bag to the ground, late for him. Afraid it will rain, or afraid stepped on one side of the hours, and with it will not. You ought to pity alm, but his pole struck a sharp blow on the brass you can't. Entitled to commiseration, he knob nearest him. Nothing followed. He awakens only venation. You pronounce pried against it with his stick, but still him a wearying companion. He comes in without suocess. He went to the other side with a when uttered or expressed. A of the house and repeated his experiments sh-sb-th rises to your lips as he approaches, on the eccond knob, but stiil all remained and you long to administer to him some quiet.

• quictus. Eo makes door knobs ache and.

Uncle Zeke now drew from bis pocket a break. In your provocation you call him skeleton key, mounted the ladder, and in a en animated threshing machine. He is trice had opened the padlock which held the unconvalous, outside of active nervouRDEN, door.

You know how infectuous it is. As catch-Dar now, jus da I thought. De tous to the small-pox. You feel that if you done humbug dem fool niggers make um in't get out of his orbit you will be just tink diseer house witched. "Ain' aufin der,

he bin. His watch outrune his neigh-sho nuff"

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Q-What province do you belong to? d.-Fokien.

Q. How old are you? A.-39 years.

Q.-Have you boen to Yunaga ? A.-I have been in service in Ho-nan. Mao Chang-hel?

Q. -Were you serving in the field with

for three years.

4.-Yes; I was under Mao Chang-hst

Q-Have you been in battle? 4.-1 have. Q-Have you had a command ?. 4.-I have.

Was it against the Nicafei that you were engaged? ·

Yes; against the Nion-fel and against the Canton rebels.

Q.-Was that in Shantang? 4.-I was first under Mao Chang-hai and afterwards under Ting Poa-cheng.

-Has the Futal sent an officer to act for you while absent ?

A.-Yes; Expectant is acting for me

QAre the forts all finished 4-The forts are finished, but the outer wall is not yet completed.

and he is quite conscious of the necessity

TO THE TERRESTRIAL GLOBE. (By a miserable wretch.) Roll on, thou ball, roll oa Through pathless realms of space

Roll on 1

What though I'm in a sorry case? What though I cannot meet my hills? What though I suffer from toothache's What though I swallow countless pilla

Never you mind; Roll on!

Roll on, theu ball, roll on! Through seas of inky sir

Roll on.!

P

Bond

the stern of the boat. The vessel yesterday made ten knots an hour, and was easily managed.

WANTS TO BE AN EDITOR-A young man writes to the New York Graphic that he wants to be an editor, to which the New York Graphic editor replias Canst thou draw up leviathan with a hook thou lettest down Canst thou hook up great ideas from the depths of thine intellect, and clean, soale, and fry them at five minutes' notice i Canst thon write editorials to measure? Canst thou write an editorial to fit in a three-quarter column of the paper, which ahall be in length just twenty-two Inches, illsharing three inches of fine sentiment four inches from the beginning, and nine inches of humour in the middle, and an outburst of maxim and precept, ning and threo- quarter inches long, at the close?

PROPOSED VISIT OF DR. MACGILL TO JAPAN, NORTH CHINA, AND INDIA

AN intellectual yosog man, a proinfaing student just back from Brown University, was met at the Union Depot by an elderly man who made a grasp at the young man's hands, and even ossaged to clasp him in his arms. The young man shook hands with the enthusiastic native in a non-committal sort of way, and said, in not unfriendly toves, Wall, Indeed, my dear fellah-I really your face is rather familiar ; it seems to me I have mat with you somewhere, and yet I can't exactly place you." And as the father gazed at his distinguisbed son in dumb amazement, and thought how only

his youthfal back with a piece of lath, for bred welts and orthodox blisters all around five years ago he had distributed thorough

taking the old man's razor to trim off a

bind out his other sons to shoemakers and shiny club, he sighed, and wont back to the office with an unalterable détermination to blacksmiths-Weekly Globe-Democrat

As a conversationalist there is scarcely a subject on which M. Thiers does not sparkle. He is the prince of causeurs. Fir intellect reminds you of a swarm of fire-flies rather It's true I've got no shirts to wear; than of a great shining light. De Lamartine It's true my butcher's bill is due; formed a similar estimate of him as, an It's true my prospects all lock blue; orator. He never struck great blows, but But don't let that unsettle you! he dealt an infinite number of Uttle ones,

Never you mind; Roli on! by which he broke ministries, majorities, and thrones. He had not the grand (nepir-From the "Alta!" ations of Mirabeau, but he had his strength in pieces. Out of Mirabean's club be made. arrows. M. Thiers' shrill weak voles, pro- ceeding from his diminutive body, could never have compassed grand effects; but it has force enough to barb showers of darts, at Glasgow on Monday, the 14th inst, after At the United Presbyterian Synod held he is under of driving his polit homo Inoh the general business had been transacted, by inch.

He has understood, perhaps, Dr. MaoGli said that there was one matter value of sounding phrases and epigrams and refer. He might call it the Eastern Ques: better than any of his contemporaries the personal to himself to which he wished to chauvinisms among his countrymen ; and he tion. A very solemn proposal had been has made himself a superior M. Josaph made to him by the unanimous decision of Prudhomme. His prudkommeris is as con- the Foreign Missions Committee. It had An ingenious plan, by which a large army apicuous in his plump figuro, his dimpled given him a very great amount of concern, may be destroyed by one person without bourgeois face, and "bis immortal white but he was not there to say much about danger to himself, has been devised by a brutus, cultivated possibly as an outward that. It was whether he would visit the French chemist, who intends proceeding to mark of his connection with the Mon missions of the Church in Japan, North Constantinople with the object of obtaining archy of July, as it is in his conversation, China, and India, which would involve an the Sultan's permission to try the affects of and his readiness to settle everything expedition of somewhere about eight his scheme, in the first instance, on the under the aun, eron to the manner of wonthe. He felt the matter to be deeply Rossians in Romania. He proposes to commanding an army. His military pra solemn; and he felt that he could only effect his purpose by a system of land tensions, when the Versaillen army was consistently do so on the principle of duty. torpedoes concealed beneath the ground preparing to enter Paris and scatter the Dr. Frew, of St. Nialaus, expressed his over which the invaders must marsh sa Commune, were most diverting. He would opinion that the Bynod should be consulted, they advance towards Turkish territory. have shared the command with MacMahon, not only in regard to the means, but as to These torpedoes will all be connected There has been one dreadful drawback, whether there should be any deputation at together by wires, and will be exploded however, to the military career of Frud- all to these distant parts of the world, and simultaneously at the proper moment by homme Thiers-he has never been able to whether there was any necessity for it. He means of an underground wire carried to s show himself on horseback,

therefore moved that the Synod delay the convenient distance. If successful, he will The hotel of this most remarkable French consideration of the proposal of the Foreign make no charge as regards the destruction of man is a palace. The hall, of red and green Committee, and that it be remitted to the of the Bursions in Roumania, but he will marble, is monumental; the reception Mission Board to reconsider the whole require a large sum (to be paid in advance) rooms are those of an arcbassador. The matter, and to come up and request the for performing a similar service as regarda How is the Revenue this year? groat reception salons, in Louis XV. style consent of the Synod to the arrangements the Russian hosis in Asia Minor, Sir Thomas Wade (Wei To-ma) hav.white and gold, and with some exquisite they had made Mr. Gilmour, Helen- BERKELEY, Bopt, 1860.-Gentlemon, I wood-carvings are hung with red-silk sburgh (older), supported the motion of feel it a duty Lowe to you to express my damask. The salle à manger, in the ground Dr. Fraw remarking that it was the gratitude for the great beneft I have de floor, is a superb apartment for the plata appointment of the committee, and not rived by taking Norton's Camomile Pila roast and boiled which are the dally fare of of the board. Dr. MacGill said it would I applied to your agent Mr Ball, Berkeley, Monsieur and Madame, The soulptured be a great relief to him if he could get for the above-named Filla, for wind in the consoles and the carred wall-panels, the the appointment of the Synod. It had stomach, from which I suffered exprusiss dressoir in varlegated marbles and the not been customary to bring up matters of ting pain for a length of time, having tried flower-paintings of Rey and Petit, make a that kind before the Synod, as the board nearly every remedy prescribed, but with delightful coup d'eil from the Hitle Louis had appointed deputations again and again out deriving any benefit at all. After XIV, salon at the entrance. A broad stair- ) without consulting the Synod,

taking two bottles of your valuable pilla, I cate rises from the marble vestibule to a The discusssion, which was one of the was quite restored to my antal state of spacious corridor or gallery Opposite, unpleasant bind that suggests something health. Please give this publicity for the grest doors lead to a saloon, which is a under the surface resulted in three motions benefit of these who may thus be afflicted, museum of antiquities and art work collested being made. DraGeorge Jeffrey prenosed I am, Sir, yours truly, HENRY ALLFASE. the lustrous bourgeats. On the one a motion, in which the visit, of Dr. Ma-To the Proprietors of Nonron's Camo- hand are private rooma of Medeme, and on Gll to the Deal was treated as a settist | Mema P1528,"nu/10/77,

Q. How many batteries are there 1

One open to the sky, and two cir qular batteries.

Q.--Are they strongly built / 4. They are built according to foreign model

4.How do the Prefects and Magistrates under you get on 1.

4.—They all set uprightly and obey the law.

-You must look well after tham, A. Yes.

Are you also Buperintendent Customs 1

A-Yea

log boon et. Yental this year, discussing matter, the merchants were few; and the crops also helug poor, the revenue will be Iess than last year.

-You must see to it that no smuggling takes placer A-Yen. Q.-Go back to your post, then, 4.- entreat Your Majesty's saoral

sommends.

bors' time-piecus. Trus, he is always in The old darkey reached up witlouisly and time for everything but at the oust of turned the handler Tite door opened a whatever comes in his way, You plty little, and, casting away all feat. Uncle his tried-looking wito. How can life go Zoke boldly reached for the other knob, to smoothly with her? He loves her dearly, steady himself while he swung back the but as you look into her worried face, you door. remember that poor pussy never parts Iterally ke a dash of lightning the You go back to your post, and look when you rub her fur the wrong way. As elestris discharge passed through him. The well after the Prefecte and Magistrates, and for his own quantum of comfort, you can't mucoles of his fingere "contracted, and he so that no smuggling ghen on. see when he stops to take it and the fun could not release his hold of the enchanted will evarently obey Year saprad gies of it is he utterly repudiates the idea handles. At last his fest slipped from the commands with my whole heart, Q.

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