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"I WOULD NOT, IF I COULD.”

I WOULD not dig my past

Up from its grave of weakness and regret; Up from its hopes-which glimmered but to sel-

Its dreams, that could not last!

Yel I can look before, And profit by the lessons sadly learned; As children, playing with the fire, aro burned,

And tempt its glow no more..

I would not, if I could, Live o'er again this dark, uncertain fe This elipping backward in the daily strife Of reaching after good.

Yet I can know how weak Are all below, and so sweet Charity Will cling and grow about each form I see,

And thus to me will spoak:

I would not open out

The half-healed wounds of other years, long fled: Twere better they were nambored with the dead,

Botter than four, or doubt,

Yot I can truly say,

Let the dond past mry its dead. Wo go So swiftly onward to life's sunset glow-

"And then, there is no day 1

Life is too short to waslo

In vain rapinings or in wonk regrets; The strongest heart endures, and never frets -- O'er joys it may not taste;

Philips, of Rubinstein, and other fights of the musical and dramatic world, he gets through his correspondence with com mendable punctuality. Then, unless due at rehearsal, he works steadily at home till one or two o'clock voice, planoforte, and metronome all in full blast. Then comes the hygienic part of the programme--a walk to Hampstead-to expand lungs hungry to exchange the atmosphere of the theatre for the fresh breeze of tho Heath. But as Care sits behind the horse- man, so does Work follow the pedestrian. The long morning has been passed in mastering the work of the future-the new opera in course of rehearsal; but the im- pression made by novel aira must be, as it

THE CHINA NAIL.

steadily set his face against all attempts to make up a company of thirteen for a dinner Italloise or even to Gallicise him He party. We hear much about religious actually was proof against the Bhindisamente superstitions But there is a clond of of Colonel Mapleson, 20 atrove hard to superstitions which have not the remotest impose upon him the naine of Santelll, connection with any religious belief. They and falling therein, pleadet. plteously for ought to be purged from Intelligent minds, Monsieur. Instead of Mr j5 but in this even if they were derived by natural in cass the aloquence of the colozol was lost, heritance, and the Lancashire lad remalus plain Charles Santley unto this day.

SLINGS AND ARROWS OF FORTUNE, A majority of people believe in good luck and bad luck. Napoleon would not entrost business. Yet his own luck turned at last, an unlucky general with any important

INTERNAL NAVIGATION.

THE CANÁL.

The report of the committee upon improved locomotion was submitted to the company during the following summer. It was a and the following extracts from it may long and exceedingly entertaining document,

somo interest:

[No. 4404-August 11, 1877. T

which they are to be shipped, and by 4 or 5 o'olook the receipt for the goods is handed to the shipper.

up," and then Jones cleared his throat and coughed more vigorously than ever.

During the sermon Jonos fell asleep with

But celerity in the business of the con his head thrown back upon the back of the pow. The deacon unloaded his syringe, corn is not inconsistent with thoroughinam worked it up and down in the Ipecac threa because the dispatch is the result of order or four times and went over to Jones, and system, a system that has grown and Jones' mouth was wide open, Tho, deacon been shaped with the growth of their bust. aimed his syringe at the orifice and let ness. They first started in a very small drive. About a pint of the stuff went into way, in the first years of Petroleum, and Mr Jonce guilof. The next moment he have had ample time to systematize every was on his fest, spluttering and choking, addition and improvement they have made just in time, to see the deacon aliutting up ainoa. You go up to their yard while an his syringe and going back to this seat. At urgent ordor in being filled, you so no first he didn't exactly grasp the situation. man hurried; every man in doing that Then be made up his mind to punch the portion of the work he has to do with tho he suddenly began to feel sick, and he felt dispatok is accomplished by the afd of deacon's head right there in church. Then regularity and precision of clock work. The

that he had better belt out of that meeting machinery, a large force of men, and by the came out they saw Jones loaning over the man's work is managed and harmonized de fence, whito as a sheet of paper, and with the work of all the others. Thorough- every now and then heaving as if he would us Brat and dispatch afterwarda is the eventually throw up his shin-bones. When motto of the concern, and overseers and ex- Peter Lamb walked over to him Jones said, aminers are found at every step both in the being longer than the depth of the canal, between the convulsive geeps: And yet would dig about five hundred cubic feet of

**O, it's all right! It's all right! Never mud out of the bottom at each revolution. you mind! I'll fx him; I'll bust the head As a mud-dredge Bushel a'e patent might off of him! Just as soon as I get this be a success, but as a maivo-power it is awful stuff off of my sturamiek and am well might be out into lengths and laid side by old bald-headed rooster that he can't pro- failure; and his suggestion that the tow-path enough to be about if I don't show that side and sold for a farm, therefore, is not fans the services of the sanctuary by wholly practicable.

of William Bradley is that emptying his slops into my insides, then my

name's not Wm. Henry Jonos. That's all Lolas might be cut in the bottom of the boat, Just you wait! I'll shake the Immortal and through these the legs of the mule could liver out of him? in luck in odd numbers, why not in thir- be inserted, so that it could walk along the But he hasn't done it, Instead of fight who wait on the thirteenth disciple bottom, while its body is safe and dry inside, ing he began to go to another church. ing an Nor This notion is the offspring of a fruitful and Mus Ádeler. who was a traitor, but the twelfth.

wore, washed out of the mind, and the and he died in a miserable captivity. The obference to the plan offered by Henry house, and he did. When the congregation order and regularity with which every

music of that particular evening brought fuck of Napoleon III changed everal vividly before It. Hence, after the first times. He was a prisoner in the fortrons Bushelson, which proposes to run the boats charp walk is over and the pace becomes of Ham, a Bohemian in London and New by means of his patent propeller, we may adagio, the opera in astual work is montally York, afterwards Emperor of France, then remark that the steam engine with which the gone through from beginning to end, and

otes are made for polishing here and there. captive in a German fortress, and finally propeller is moved would sink the boat; and To the walk succeeds dinner, & welcome died prematurely an exllo in England.

Many people will not undertake any Im-ven if it would not, the propeller-blades, rito to an appetite whetted by work mental

and physical. It is an early dinner-as Portant enterprise on Friday. that of a singer must necessarily be and that is a lucky day for a considerable num- of good but simple materiale, moistened ber of other people. The French espe- with a sparing allowance of wine. After ally do not consider the thirteenth day of dinner is the Interval for digestion, en-day. And the number of thirteen at the the mouth as other than a very unlucky livened by reading of a miscellaneous kind. Mr Santley is well acquainted with the dinner table is not to be tolerated. One principal modern languages, and is, more according to the superstition is sure to die. over, a lover of the exact sciences. Che. But the exceptions have nearly or quite overturned the theory. Thirteen States miatry and mathematics appear at the first secured their Independence; and if there glance ord amusements for a great singer and an oxcollent actor, bat Mr Santley finds much comfort in these pursuits. He is, however, ng fanatical lover of science, and gives history and romanes a fair share of attention. When he feela especially fresh and vigorous he settles down to a spell at Thomas Carlyle, for whose genius lie entertains unbounded admiration. At night work sets in again; the excitement Then wherefore woo the shadows to our home of appearing before the public must be gone

The valleys to our hill?

And he who can go on Bravely and firmly in the allotted way, Gaining now strength with ovory darkened ray, Shall surely reach the dawn.

And so I would not lift

Up from the grave the shadows of my past; The clouds that all ray sky once overcast

Into the night may drift.

For there's enough to fill

Each hour and moment of the days to come;

::

BEAUTY.Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful. Beauty is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Wel sume it in every face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank him with your eye It is a charming draught—a cup blessing RIGHTEOUS VENGEANCE.Some one hav ing urged Tasso to avenge himself upon a man who had done him many injuries, be aid, "I wish to take from him neither his property, nor his life, nor his honor, but only his ill-will towards me.'

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CELEBRITIES AT HOME. (World)

through; and then comes the quiet drive home, the modest supper of magaront or tripe and onions, a olgar, and rest.

The

thirteen,

Was Benedict Arnold, the Revolutionary ingenious intellect; and if the water could traitor, in any way the victim of number ke kept from coming through the holes, it might be considered valuable but for one thing somebody would have to invent & new kind of mule with legs about seven feet long. Mr Bradley's mind has not yet devised any method of procuring such a malo, and unless he can induce the ordinary kind to walk upon stilts, we fear that the obstacles to success in this direction may be regarded

Perhaps there is no botter way than boldly to defy the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." It may be a good thing to make faces at bad fortune, to lam- paon her, and to get up all sorts of squibs at her expense. This is the way the gentle Bohemians do; and the result is that never did any fraternity Ure so comfortably on so little money, or such small credit.

Here comes one, who in a card to the New York Sun, proposes to defy bad for tune and to find happiness in misfortune. There is a philosophy which affirms that the more miserable we are the happier we are,

Hear what this modern Brahimin proposes:

**I desire to form, with twelve other young men, a Misfortune Club, for the purpose of trying the fates who especially ablior the dinner party of thirteen and visit ill-iuck upon the person who spille salt or puts on a garment inside out.

as insurmountable.

Your

canal that dias no water a licentious and

surface."

factory and the oil yard,ke a consequence there are few places in the civilized world whore Devoe's Brilliant Oll, In patent cans, may not be found.

Miscellaneous.

GREATLY to the confusion of posts and lovers, the moon has been discovered to be no better than an old burnt-out cinder. And yet the "moon" caught fire at the Greenwich Theatre the other night. At the Aberdeen Opera House the same even.

elephant went up in sacrificial smoke. "Elephants" and "moons are fair game, but how would it have been if the flames got at a star !—Yorick.

wadna gie ene o' ma fayther's dukes (ducks) for ye, for they can baith soom and flee 2"

then from end

being dealt, Mr. Oriel would spread them ia a circle, around which the dog would walk until he picked out two cards for the A GREAT PETROLEUM FIRM. * crib, and it was curious to note that when- Petroleum Oil is an article of Commerce ever it was his own crib,' he would put out obtained almost wholly from three small such cards as would be likely to fatten it, counties in the Northwestern part of such as a tan and a five, for instance; but Pennsylvania. This small territory scarcely when it was his opponent's orib,' he would 500 square miles in extent supplies there throw ont cards as far apart as possible. extent to which the trade in this oil has about there can be no doubt Sultan played grown since its first introduction is some- a capital game, and at the end of the thing marvelous (its export from the United eleventh deal he was declared the vietor States has more than doubled for every with six holes to spare, the game being once three years of the last twelve), and may be round the board. Several times be pegged inferred from the amount of capital and well while the cards were in play, once the magnitude of the works in which the securing six holes for showing the third article is refined and packed for shipment.

The largest works of this kind in America A PATENT has just been granted to one

SWALLOWING NEEDLES.

DEBTS OF Hoxo-The famous Paul A Portuguese physician has lately, it is Jones, having resolved to pay his debts," stated, recovered from different localities fixet discharged those which he deemed debts in the area of a young lady no fewer than of honor. An artisan, who was one of his eighty needles which she had swallowed creditors, called on him and presented his the New York Times assumes either from bill. I have no money just now, my hanger, a desire to store up needles for fu- friend." But, sir, I know that you paid ture nee, or to amuse the children; and the away £60 this morning, and that you have It is not to be wondered at that Mr

Mr Peterman Bostwick urges that im-journal is anxious to discover the law of still some loft." "Oh I that was a debt of Santley took kindly to dramatic musle, for

portant results might be secured by making nature which regulates the circulation of honor." "Well, sir, I will make mino his youthful ambition was to be, not a

the canal an inclined plane, so that when a needles in the human body. It is a well-one also," and, so saying, the man threw singer, but an actors beat vigorously

boat is placed upon it the bout will simply known fact that if a person swallows a his accounts Into the "fire. Paul paid the combated by his father, Mr William.

slide down hill by the power of the attraction needle it generally works its way out of debt on the spot. Santier, sometime organist in the Rev.

of gravitation. This seems to us a beautiful some part of the body, and this circulation Haxay, Duke of Bucelonoh, had among Hugh Stowell Brown's chapel at Liverpool,

method of adapting to the wants of man one of needles must be regulated by some law, his tenantry one named Jamie Howie, Forbidden to think of music, much less the

of the most remarkable of the laws of Nature, but beyond the knowledge that needles do whose little son, four years old, was 63 stage, as a profession, the son nevertheless

and we should be inclined to give Mr circulate scientific men know nothing on tremely anxious to see the great duke. Bostwick the first prize but for the fact that the subject. Noodles cannot evidently be Said honest Jamie to the duke," Gadesake, learned his music-lessons well, and in an elocution class struggled to overcome his

we have disbovered, upon investigation, that guided by the law of gravity, or else they my lord, I denos think he has ony idea ye natural nervousness, but for a long while

the water in the canal also would slide down would pass out of the feat of the person are a man at a, but she far-awa, onte could not get through the simplest recitation

hill, and that it would require about fifteen who had devoured them; and they are just landish o'er-the-ses ore ure." The duke, without breaking down in abject fashion.

rivers the size of the Mississippi to keep up as likely to ascend as to descend. Swallow mightily tickled with this idea, desired The boy, who was to grow into an operatio The object of this Club shall be mutual the supply. Mr Bostwick does not mentioning needles is, the New York Times points Jamie to bring the youngster into his pre singer of marvellous aplomb, once failed improvement and a constant tempting of where we are to get those rivers. He does out, dangerous to the friends of the swal-sense forthwith. Out came the juvenile ME SANTLEY AT ST. JOHN'S WOOD. ignominiously in an attempt to spout that capriolons power who or which for however, say that if it shall be deemed lower, for a father who embraced his needle inquisitor with his finger in his mouth and As & trim damsel opens the door of Mr Blahop Haber's well-known lines. Af the innocent acto sends trouble. We will dine inadvisable to slope the canal, the boats swallowing daughter might suffer consider cautiously reconnoitered the personge Santley's house, hard by the church in conclusion of his education at Queen's together once a month, on an unlucky day themselves might be made in the shape of ably; and the lover who furtively clasps before him. At last quoth the urchin, which the late Mr Bellow achieved fame is College, Liverpool, he was set to pore over if we can, and ask Miss Claxton, if she inclined planes so that they would run down the maiden's hand at singing-class is likely Can yo soom (win)? No, my little pulpit-orator, the voice of the great bari ledgers and vex his soul with the minute should be in the ofty, to dine with us. At hill upon a level canal. There is something to spoil the oven flow of the harmonies by fellow, replied his grace I ganna Boom," tone attikes full upon the ear with that G. of business. As ble voice ripened, he be that time we will perform as many reputed so deep, so amazing, in this proposition that a staccato scream when no such note is to Can ye ties (ty) 27. "No, I canxa Ales.”. came a member of a musical association unincky acts as practicable, and at the end your committee needs more time to consider be found in the score. The practice is also for which he is celebrated. At home Mr

"Well, man, for as muckle's yo are, I Santley is as much unlike Danny Mau sa itaalled the Sooletà Armonica, organised of our meeting discuss our mishaps, see if it and brood over it. is possible to imagine: a strongly built by a veteran violoncello player, Mr Joseph natural laws cannot sufficiently account for "Mr W. P. Robbins proposes to draw off comparatively useless, as the only contin- man, broad and deep chested, with a very Liedl, who at laat induced the organist to them, and send an account of them to the the water from the oanal, lay rails on the genoy in which the needle-swallowing girl becomes valuable is when there is a andden

A GAME OF CRIBBAGE BETWEEN A MAN low shirt-collar and a loosely knotted wisp allow his son, then a very good amateur, Sun, omitting the names.

bottom, and then put the boats on wheels demand for a needle. “At such moments

AND A DOGA novel game of cribbage is of silk round his bull-neck, clad not into go to Italy to finish his musical educa Is it lucky to be under the ban of 1- and run them with a locomotive. a careful investigation of her surface is noticed in the Kapunda Herald of July There he foll luto excellent handa luck I think so sometimes. There is a committee has been very much struck with nearly always rewarded by the discovery of 6" At the conclusion of the ordinary get cost of sporting ent. Not one of the His.mantor, Signor Gaetano Nava, was one popular superstition that the person who this proposition, but has concluded, upon the protesive paint of the desired implo performance of Mons. Oriel's clever dogs gorgeous dressing-gown, but in a short ton languidly ornamental order of beings, bat of the good old 'solid' school of Lablache destroys a cat will have seven years of redeation, that it is rather too revolutionary ment, which is uniformly free from rust, on Monday evening, at Grase's Room, a A bine-eyed, fresh-coloured, vigorous La and Rubini, who utterly abjured the misfortune. In my life I have destroyed If canal navigation should be begun in this and in condition for immediate 180. cashire lada very Englishman to look hothouse system of instruction. He was fully one hundred cats. Hence, I am to manuer, probably we should soon have the Still, the demand for needles is raroly so game of orib' was played between Mr. W. upon, albelt his accent-as is not unoon-accustomed to compare the young vocalists have 700 years of bad luck. Does not this railroad companies running their trains on importunate as to justify the systematic oach and the dog Sultan. Two referees mon with Liverpudliane-batrage traces of pushed rapidly on to the lyric stage fact guarantee me a lease of life far beyond water by means of sails, and stage lines conversion of a girl into a peripatetic needle--one of whom shuffled and dealt the cards Hibernian influence. Across his powerful before they had half mastored their profes. that of most patriarchs ? Then let us count traveling in the air with balloons. Such caso, and the most earnest seamstressor the dog having been introduced, took us chest meanders a heavy silver chain, with ssion to Jonah's gourd, and fairly lost bis our evil star of destiny, and take a new things would unsettle the foundations of prefer to carry small needle-cases in their his position se ustal on the top of the table, lump of lapis lazuli, at one end and at the temper when he saw a veritable mudlark lease of life from the dark side of daily society and induce anarchy and hace pockets, rather than to swallow a paperful whilst Mr. Roach faced a desk, the table other a mighty silver wateb, like those taken out of the Arno and brought before events." worn by railway guards, and weighing half the pabilo in six months, to the no small It is remarkable that notable men-men incendiary canal; and it is equally improper and trust to nature to bring them to the being at his back. On the dog's cards s pound or thereabouts. All men have had detriment of a voice of magnificent range of the broadest intelligence-have cherished and equally repugnant to all conservative their cherished fancy, their pet ambition. and power, Like Mr Henry Phillips, be the strangest ruperstitions. Dr Johnson persons when, as Mr Robbins suggests, the Mr Santley looked foward to the possession throught three months not too long to must put his right foot foremost in going boats are floated in tanks and the tanks are of a huge watch. During his brilliant spend in studying a song, and drilled his up stairs. Sir Walter Soott firmly believed run on rails. career he has acquired several specimens of pupils with tremendous thoroughness. that all marriages in May were unfortunate; "Your committee has given much thought horological art, but was never truly happy Thanks to the teaching of Signor Nava and and more than half the intelligent people and patient examination to the plan of Mr till he made his recent purchase, which his own industry, Mr Santley first sang with whom we have conversed on that Thompson McGlus. He suggests that the completely realises the dream of his child publicly in opera at Pavia, during the point firmly agree with Sir Walter Scott, mulos shall be clad in submarine armor and hood. On this bright morning he is hard Carnival of 1856-7. His first appearance and are ready to alte any number of striking made to walk under water along the bottom at work-exercising his memory and his was not calculated to elate the English instances in confirmation of that theory. of the canal, being fed with air through fore the whole world with light. The By whatever means the result was brought lungs-rolling cascades of sound out of his baritone to any dangerous extent.

Good or bad luck cannot be reduced to pump. As we have never seen a mule musomiar throat-rattling his fingers over opera produced was that since-forgotten a science, and therefore both lucky and in action while decorated with submarine the keys of a Collard's grand plano- work, Lamberte Malatesta. It is perhaps unlucky men are something of a mystery. armor, we are unable to say with positiveness forte and watching the methodical hardly fair to say it in forgotten, for it was Nor can we fully account for the popular what his conduct would be under sach Hok of the motronome For this never known-literally never heard. It belief in unlucky days and numbers, on circumstannas. But the objections to the he entertains a profound may be roughly described a coup d'essai any other theory than this, that it accords plan are of a formidable character. The affection, and invariably falls back upon altogether. The book was written by aatud-with the observations of a considerable mule would, of course, be wholly excluded it when the rhythm of a new melody ent, the music was composed by a student, the number of people, that more untoward from every opportunity to view the scenery appears to leave something to be de- opers was performed by students, and the events are connected with certain numbers upon the route, and we fear that this would sired. To Mr Santley-educated in the audienco was made up of the same merely on certain days than with any other. As have a tendency te discourage him. Being and those of which the name is best known of the editors of the Evening Bulletin and good old exact school of opera-time is the promising material. No more complete for Friday, we are met with the stunning under water, too, he might be tempted to in the East are the works of the Davoe the Morning Call newspapers of San best-anchor of song. Before dreaming of fatco was ever seen. Amid a chorus of declaration that Columbus set sail from stop frequently for the purpose of nibbling Manufacturing Co., of New York. Their Francisco for a method of rapid telegraph- greets of expression, he is careful that ex- catoalls and Homeric shouts of laughter the Lisbon on Friday; and discovered the at the catfish encountered by him, and this establishment, covering several acres of ing of stereotyped plates. It is claimed gos de, and consequently pericot rhythm, curtain descended on the ill-fated Lamberto New World on Friday. But then, a great would distract his attention from his work ground, and including yards, docks, stables, that by this process an entire page of a shall be secured. From his severe stand Malatesta, brought to a premature conclu- many people would be disposed to raise the Somebody would have to dive whenever he machine shops, tin can factories, packing newspaper can be transmitted by telegraph point he looks upon a correct interpretation sion, to the derangement of the Pavia opera question, whether that was a lucky event got his hind leg over the owlins; and sheds, de, dr, thould be visited by every in from fifteen to thirty minutes, delivering of the composer's meaning as the first duty season and the funds of Mr Santley, who There was room enough in the Old World when the water was muddy, he might lose one interested in Petroleum, or in seeing the copy directly from the instrument In of the sluge. This honestly fulfilled, it is found himself shortly afterwards in Millan for all our ancestors, and it might have his way and either pull the boat in the the ingenuity with which mechanical ap- such form that it can be handed immediate time enough to think about expression with a purse as light as his heart, Hore been better that this continent should have wrong direction or be continually butting pliances are adjusted to the work which ly to the printers. In other words, the that pitfall of young artists, who, over-ho was working hard, studying and singing lain fallow, the paradise of Aztecs and against the bank.

is a wished they abould 'perform. The copy will be a substantial reproduction of anxious to produce the maximum of affect in publie at the Santa Redegonds Theatre, aborigines, for another five hundred years. "Of the various other plans submitted, surprised visitor will see there a complete the original, except that it may be givan with the minimum of study, are but too when the late Mr Chorley suddenly turned As for the good luck of seeing the new

your committee have to say that A. R. can made out of blank sheets of tip it less in a larger-sized letter 1 so desired. The apt to lose sight of the composer altogether up. This gentleman was well acquainted moon over the right shoulder, and the lil Mackey's proposition to run the boat by than four minutes, and proveeding to the stereotype plate requires no preparation Solo-singing in concerts and drawing with Mr Santley's family, and taking luck of seeing it over the left shoulder- sails, and to fill the sails with wind by oll shed will see twenty-four of these cans for the purpose of telegraphic transmission, rootus has a tendency to exalt the execut strong interest in the young singer, adviced that hypothesis is left for sentimental young means of a steam blower on the vessel; filled with their exact complement in lese other than the filling of all its depressionE, and at the expense of the creator. The him to return to England at once. Armed people. It may be observed, however, that James Thompson's plan of giving the captain than a minute and a half. The business of or spaces between the faces of the letters, former is master of the situation, and pro. with a letter of Introduction, he presented a considerable number of young man never and crew small seows to put on their this house is simply immense. Scores of with a non conducting substance which vided he makes bis points and brings out himself to Mr Hullah, was received with propose without having seen the new moon feet, so that they could stand overboard and vessels are either waiding at their docks for may be quickly applied, the faces of the the best note of his voice, whether it be set the grand courtesy natural to that master, over the right shoulder, and if jilted they push behind William Black's theory that their cargoes, or at points remote are being type being left clean by means of an equally down for him or not, may take liberties and told that he had got a great deal more firmly believe that somehow the position motion could be obtained by employing supplied by barges and lighters nailing be simple process. The plate thus prepared is with the score without suffering, except out of Italy than most people, but had yet was shifted, so that the baleful influences trained sturgeon to haul the boat and tween them and the Company's docks placed upon a cylinder arranged to revolve from the gradual deterioration of style much to learn. Mr Santley appropriately of the moon fell on the left shoulder. Martin Stotesbury's ples that propulsion The number of cases daily put up by this rapidly, so as to present each success YO brought about by free-and-easy rendition, commenced his English career with the There are not a fow gray beards also, who could be given by placing a cannon upon the concern is from 10,000 to 15,000.

letter in Bogera attached to a travelling With the operatio singor it is far othervise. part of Adam in the oratoric of the Creation. always survey the new moon from the poop-deck and ring it over the stern, so A few statistics in regard to this business frame. As the cylinder bearing the platea He has to think of others as well as of After singlag for a while at St. Martin's porch, taking good care to bring it over that the recoil would shove the boat along, might not be devold of interest to there to revolves the frame gradually advances by himself, and must keep bis genius within Hall and at the Crystal Palace, he was the right shoulder. They are not at all are wonderful evidences of what the whom the brand of Devoe's Brilliant Oil the operation of a sorow; and thus each certain limits. The study of a prominent engaged by the Sadred Harmonie Society, suparatitious. But then it might be just human mind can do when it exerts itself; in improved patent cans is familiar. Their and every time in successively presented to part in an opera or oratorio. Involvis and bang at the usual round of concerta as wall to have all the currents set in the but they are not as useful as they are caus are made of tin plates imported from the fingers or magnetic points above knowledge of the whole, and consequently until he commenced regular operatio work right direction.

Eagland in boxes containing 112 sheets mentioned. Necessarily the circuit la open many hours of hard work and patient at with the Fyne and Harrison Company in "The fact is the folk lore of the world is The prize has not yet been awarded. It each of these boxed they use in a single when the points are passing over the nons tention to the business of interpretation 1869; since when his comings and goings pretty well saturated with superstition. is thought that the canal company will have month over 12,000 For making their condooting surface; but as often as the Those who liatan to operatic music have in the Old and New World have been Now and then a brate man comes to the to make it larger before ther secure exustly cases they consume about 100,000 feet of metal type presents itself to the said Engers little idea of the anxious hours which written with a bold haud in operatio front and boldly defies all the bad luck of what they went.-Mas deeler.

lambers day. The wire they use for making the circuit is closed, and the corresponding precede the production of a new piece, and history,

unfortunate numbers and days. What is

handles to their cans they buy in half magnetic points or pens at the receiving the careful attention to general effect which Married to a daughter of Mr John wanted is some image-breaker to go through

mile bundles, and it takes twenty four of station make the record there in the sam is an indispensable qualification of an Mitchell Kemble, the son of Charles the world and break all these images of

THE DEACON STOPPED HIM,

these bundles or 12 miles of wire per week letter as the original delineated in a ancios. to supply their needs for these small of fine lines either upon chemically propars operatic singer. Mr. Santley is one of the Kemble, Mr Santley delights in Elling superstition. Now and then one of them

Last winter a inan named Jopes used to handles. hardest workers and quietest vera in he his house with memorials of the theatre: goes down, but some other one bottles in-to

Their hands, men and boys, ed or ordinary paper fixed upon a OOK avorare about 400, and their pay-roll from responding cylinder at the receiving stan profession, Like many other successful The very platures on the walls are the take its place. Fortunate events do not come to our churob regularly. Jones had a men he has found that success masus work of histrionic draughtsmen. Be in marshal themselves by lucky days or num habit of coughing and clearing his throat 4 to $5,000 a week.

tion. The meat surprising foot about their increased work that the position achieved the happy peeressor of an arsellent water bers. The thirteenth an Ifves and pros constantly, and when he would cough a cough

"BERKELEY, Sept. 1889.-Gentlmen, f by infinits labour can only be held on colour drawing, 'Great Expectations-an pers after he has dined at the club, or with would go clear around through the entire business in the celerity with whlob they feel it a duty I owe to you to express m similar conditions and has wisely pri son old woman watching a very little optout his friends. Friday le still as good a day congregation, as it always does on these execute orders. The Fresident or Secretary parti. He may be said to live in his planted in a pot of enormous dimen as was ever set down in the calendar of occasions. When Jones would clear his of the Company in their office in New gratitude for the great benefit I have de profession and his family. There la not alone, the work of that inimitable and over. saints. And as for any run of bad luck throat about sixty persons would follow his York, will take an order for 5,000 cases que rived by taking Horton's Camomile Pills. the faintest aroma of Bohemia in his pretty Bowing humorist, the veteran John Farty resulting from assing the new moon over example, involuntarily, until the volos of day and guarsates to ship it the nart, I applied to your agent Mr Bell, Berkeley. house in Upper Hamilton-terrace. All to and is sleo proud of a series of pen-and- the left shoulder, if that is not a libel on the preacher could hardly be beard As Their yard is 7 miles distant from their for the above-named Pilla, for wind in the quiet, orderly, and calm-not to say ink sketches of maritime subjects by Junos, the moon, it is upon moon-strunk people. Jones used to go through with this perform-efice, but by private telegraph line the atominek, from which I suffered excrucia business-like. Perhaps the love of method a basso of the good old legitimate school, It might be worth while for some one who ance every Stinday, it bad at last got to be particulars of the orders are rent to the ting pain for a length of time, having tried which has led Mr Santloy to convert one who, after graduating in the French marine, has the patience and time for investigation, intolerable to Descon Pratt, who is a singu superintendent of the yard in less than half nearly every remedy prescribed, but withs room of his house into an oflce, with huge turned, like a continental Dibdin, to the to enquire whether the increase of Intellilarly nervous man. So the deacon made a minute. He sende to the Tin Can Fan-out deriving any bonefit at all. After caken deak in the centre, was Imbibed lyriu stage. At the end of the garden in gence does actually lesson the superstition up his mind to stop it. One Sunday he tory to make the cans and to the box. taking two bottles of your valuable pill? during bin early days in a Liverpool St. John's Wood is the evidence of another of the times! Whether with the dropping brought a jugful of Ipecac along with him makers to slide in the cases, and in about was quite restored to my usual state of counting-house, but whether from tempera-fancy's crowd of fowl of choise breed, out of one superstition, another quite as and put a huge syringe in his pocket, half an hour the order is started, and that health. Please give this publicity for the ment or habit he is exact in all his ornamental and useful le keeping the house absurd is not adopted; Rir Blatthew Hale When Jones had coughed about a dozen night the whole 5,000 cases is on the dock benefit of those who may thus be amicted dealings. To his office he betakes himself supplied with new-laid eggs. In this, an in firmly believed in wiches, and led quite times, the deacon stepped over to him, and marked and ready for shipment, The next Sir, yours truly, HesET ALLFASE early in the morning; and surrounded by his other tastes, Mr Santley is an English, e tumber to his time. But we know a in a whisper, asked him if he wouldn't try morning by 8 o'clock they are op lighters To the Proprietors of Norton's CANGA A bust of Fechter, perizalts of the late Henry Iman tudeed, haring throughout his life | Judge of this day who on ne semount would to stop. Jones curtly told him to "day sun belog towed down to the #9349) din | MILA FILIA: "==84/18/7?.

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