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LADY CLARE.

It was the time when lilies blow,

And clouds are highest up in air, Lard Ronald brought a lily-white doo

To give his cousin, Lady Clare,

I trow they did not part in scorn':

Lovers long betrothed were they ¡, They two will wad the morrow morn

"God's blessing on the day!

**He does not love me for my birth,

Nor for my lands so broad and fair: He loves me for my own true worth,

And that is well," said Laudy. Clare.

In there same old Alica the nurse,

Baidy

Who was this that went from thes " It was my cousin," said Lady Clare;

To-morrow he weds with me."

“O, God be thanked!” said Alice the nurse,

That all comes round so just and fair; Lord Ronald is heir to all your lande, And you are not the Lady Clare."

nurse,"

"Are, ya out of your mind, my nurse, my Said Lady Clare, that ye speak so wild "As God's above," said Alice the nurse,

"I speak the truth: you are my child.

Some of your griefs you have onred,

And the sharpest you still have survived; But what torments of pain you endured

From ovild that never arrived! Emerson,

THE CHINA MAIL.

[No. 4670,-Junt 22, 1878.

The old Earl's daughter died at my breast inatlon is called the to Go. In many cases, A visit to the ancestral shrine (pai tsu) who have assembled in solemn state in the to got as much fun as possible out of their has many points in common therewith; I

I speak the truth as I live by bread 1

I buried her like my own sweet child,

And put my child in her stead."

Falsely, falsely, have yo done,

O mother," she said, "if this be true, To keep the best man under the sun

Ho many years from his due."

"Nay, now, my child," said Alice the nurse,

"But keep the secret of your life, And all you have will be Lord Ronald's

When you are man and wife,"

"Li I'm a beggar born," she said,

"I will speak out, for I dare not lie. Pull off, pull off the broosh of gold,

And fling the diamond necklace by "

"Nay, now, my child," said Alise the nursa,

"But keep the secret all yo can." She said, "Not so: but I will know

If there be any faith in man.”

"Nay, now, what faith?" said Alice the

nurse:

"The man will clears unto his right." "And he shall have it," the lady replied,

Though I should die to-night."

Tot give one kiss to your mother dear; Alas, my child, I sinned for thes!"

O moter, mother, mother," she said, "So strange it seems to me!

"Yet here's a kiss for my mother dear-

My mother dear, if this be so; And lay your hand upon my head, And bless me, mother, cre I go."

She died herself in a russet gown,

She was no longer Lady Clare; She went by dale, and she went by dows,

With a single rose in her hair,

tion of those inlanda.” This cizcumstanga is

birth.

zafter mananihing ssol profmumuro for tro

ezgake them,

a

an "ideal" comes to be mado "real" there

reckons up the unproductiva classes, he the chin, wu, chou, and wei; and the k'o | of which officers are expectant magistrates. list of petty metropolitan officers (sino any but the very young, sad those whose should put at the head this class of pitiem kao upon the pin, sz, chờn and has years of Thess who hand in dirty papers are at oncoching kwan); the second are eligible for experience of life is capable of being ex- of themselves, cravers of sympathy, bewail the cycle. The subjects are, as in the case posted (t'ich ohu) as "plucked." The mi provinciai magistracies excluding their own pressed by the letter X Edwin, age - 19, ing imaginary disasters. An old French of the Magistrate's and Préfect's examina- | fếng kivan fills in the name, residence, and Province; and the third for posts in their meets Angelina, who invariably is six and verse runs in my translation -

tions, presa and poetry (lidng p'in wên san tut of each candidate at the end of his own Provinces only under the Laterary twenty, at a county ball, on the top of the chang, ys thou shi), but the Chancellor essays, and these particulars are then Chancellor (chiao-kwas). The on-kung are monument, or in an empibus on a wet day. devotes one day to each an average of covered over with a strip of paper and simply extra-sai-kung (which set), and the The place signifies little. She sees at a perhaps ten per cent. of condidat s obtain easted up, nothing but the number of the outcome of an extra examination held on glance that he is hopelessly stricken, no a prima facie degree, but before the list of candidate appearing. The same process is the occasion of an accession, an Imperial proceeds to plunge the unhappy yout the successful is issued (ch'u hao) a second followed on the 11th-13th, when five sub- Marriage, do One is allotted to each still deeper in the snare into which he k test Examination takes place (hi), jeats from the Classica given, and on magistracy. Like the suhung they are fallen. If he is of a poetio temperament, few days after the first, in order to guard the 14th-16th, when five random subjects eligible for the posts of instructors to Banho rains much good stationery with wild against imponition, cribbing," prompting, are given. The whole of the papers are permen at Peking. The fu-bang are simply attempts at amatory verse, all of which are THE EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM 4o. Generally about ninety per cent next handed to the numerous copyists the siu ta air who have, as already described, aimed at his mistress's eyebrows and re- of the successful scrape through this second ('ng tu kwan) to be copied in red ink, and failed to obtain a chu jin degree but who coived with much aweet winning cvyness by OF THE CHINESE.

ordeal, and the list of graduales in gus- compared with the originala by the thua tu have obtained an infertur degree under the the grateful virgin.” If, on the contrary, he There appears to be no limit whatever to pended outside the Hall the next day. kan. If the essays are correctly copied, fe pang list. The yu-kung are selected from is of a sporting turn of mind, there is Fuli the age at which a Chinese may compete at The next stop is to buy an official hat, our the copyisle are paid; if not, punished sho old tin shenge overy third year. Four and havoc amongst the smaller denizens of mounted with a git button, und a pair of The nei shouckang then hands the originals to are allowed to each Province, and they may creation for weeks, squirrels are robbed of the public examinations. No youth is held official boots. The successful ones must the Lieutenant Governor, who binds them either compete with the parking at the their fur for the fair lady's neck, said the too tender, no age is deemed too venerable, then visit the Chancellor, dressed up in op in bundles and looks them up in a chest. ch'ao kao (not the same as the th'ap-k'a small birds who lay down their lives are that one should be disqualified to outer the their official coataime, consisting of a blue The red copies are handed to the thirteen of the chin-shih), or with the fu-kung, en too numerous to mention she wants a cock silk gown with blue border. This visit sub oxaminers (also expectant magistrates), kuny and sui-kung for posts as Manchu robin to stick on her head for a fancy ball; Hats on equal terms with the majority. takes place at his yamen, in the Great Hali who weed out the poor essays, and hand Instructors. "The sa kung are taken every up goes the ardent youth's gun, and the According to the general rule, two aucoes of which they await the arrival of the the best to the chu L'ao. Meanwhile no year from the still existing lin-things who small red-breasted flutterer's life is drainod dve years, out of every three, are devoted Chancellor. His Excellency enters, takes one but the candidates have left the have held that office for its full term of away, so that he may send this token of his | a seat, and waits, whilst a couple of ser- Examination Ball. On the 25th or so the eighteen years. They are of liberty to "love" to "her,” and so the sport- is. to the examinations held by the Provindal vante hand round to each graduate from a Governor leaves (ch'u wei), and on the 4th proceed to Feking and compete for the post carried on till Angeling's wants are saids- Literary Chancellor for the degree of site hason flowers of tinsel, one of which is in or 5th of the 9th month returns and en- of Instructors to the Light Banners." fied, and she has sufficient feathers, zo., to

serted in the hair at each side of the head quires how matters are progressing. After

furnish a whole tribe of Indian Squaws ta'ai; the first of these two similar oxamine (san hue). The graduates first turn to consultation with the chu-k'ao, ho fixos a tien, is called the sui k'ao; the second the the north and Kotowo thrice to His Majesty date for sunouncing the result ('ai pang).

with head-drews for the rest of their lives. THE CINCINNATI MAN'S GAME. This form of devotion generally lasts some "ko kao. The third year is for the exspina (sich hingen), after that they turn to the On the day before this important event the

time, till at last madness culminates in Chancellor and kotow thrice to him likewise, chu kao bands to the Governor the success.

Among the guests at the Alexander marriage and then, Edwin finds the tion held by the Special Commissioner (chat The Chancellor rises, bows thrice to them ful number (chung 'oh'i chian) in order of from Cincinnati, who are noted for their thinks what a fool he is. Carlyle says House, Gross Isle, are several gentlemen pastime getting monotonous, and Angelina Kao) for the degree of chi jen, which exam and the ceremony is over; the students now merit; a large piece of paper is prepared, flow of animal spirits, and their disposition Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it

retire and proceed to their respective homes and in the presence of all the Authorities, however, there is an irregularity; and, is an indispensable sequence of having Governor gamen, the list is copied out, bo- vacation. During the long evenings the call is rather a discerning of the infinite whether it be that famine, rebels, or other graduated. This ceremony is apparently ginning at the end, so as to secure cleanliness billiard rooms and adjacent bar are well with the finite-of the ideal made real

to bring before the manes of one's ancestors, and neatness in writing. Each number patronised, and there has sprang up an Now, that all sounds very fine, but when plague have prevented the holding of an eramination, or whether it be that the this evidence of continuity honour in the and name is solemnly called out, the intense rivalry among the festive individuals for other reasons, the sui and k'o k'ao wiht to that just described takes place (k'o l'ao), re-opened the cheat and taken out the and cigars. All sorts of trioka and devices remember Colonel Fane's clever pictures' Examiner has been unable to do his duty family. The next year a similar examination Governor having, of course, previously to see who shall succeed in sticking his

neighbor for the greatest number of drinks is generally a great loss of the former ingre- dient. Apropos of this, who does mob fall together, in which case a year remains immediately after which and not later than original manuscripts. The list is posted at

the seventh month the Literary Chancellor the yamen gate at midnight. The first are resorted to by the adroit schemes, but it Idoality" and Reality? The former always the case, owing to the remote situs of the two groups of new graduates (sin to the fifth are called ching kures; the sixth, little scheme by which event the most falling cascades of water-brooks, and a rassat, In Formosa and Hainan tale is holds a second examination (kao i tata) name is called the chien glan; the second was reserved for a Cincinnati man to invent was his dream of the East, rose gardens, called sui No ping tao. Moreover when chin) and of former stu t'ais, (lao hio), ya yan; the seventh to tenth ya kwet; the experienced of the tricksters were beauti lovely ethereal being in the midst. The an accession to the Throne takes place, or which latter must repeat this examination reat baing simply ten k'usi or chu jén. A fully taken in, A few evenings ago the latter depicted an old hag such as one sess

male heir is born to the Emperor, at every third year if desirous to go on com-visit is now made to the Provincial Governor assembly was unusually large, terural De extra k'o kao, which gong by the name of peting for a higher degree. This is in one fu tai), and the thu has, by all the traiters being amongst the number. Bil where but in India, making mud "brate ngen k'o, is granted to sach Provinos. subject only, prose' essay, and last but one graduates who have thus taken their second Hards and other light amusements hadi" on the wall of her house. There was a deal of common souse and human nature become a bore, and things began to be a in those pictures, and they are applicable Let na take a youth A.B, and follow him day. The result is announood, like the degree. The day is fixed by the chu 'ao, trifle dull when the Cincinnati man, gifted not only to indian life, but even to the all from the school to the chaplet of honour. Examinations, by the posting of a list Awe will take place. This ceremony gentlemen, I've got a now game." At fancies. There is not only the mystery result of the Magistrate's and Prefert's who issues notice stating when the tea with a sudden inspiration, sang out: Now; mastering passion of human haarts ar His drst step is to enter his name at the (ch's as), not, so in the examinations for resembles that before the Chancellor; a gray ramen of the magistracy, or hiem, of his the degrees of chi jen and chin shih, by the gown with blue border (kung fu) boing worn once there was a rush, and in less than falling in love, but there is also the de-

To this place he batakes himself under the guidance of the tin shing, ozone isao of a gang. This list or notice is of a instead of a blue gown with gray border. tharty seconds fifteen or twenty thirsty fightful alo, which to outsiders surrounds The examination for the degree of chin. gentlemen were ranged alongside the bar. the two beings who are in this blissful of the senior graduates of the magistracystyle Ican solemn and imposing than the (This term will be explained farther on pang, or official list. It should have boon shih takes place at Peking, in the third one put his forefinger on the count state; to married people, of course, the de hande in a te'a bos, or slip, inscribed stated that in the first of the three years month of the year succeeding that in which said the joker, at the same time setting illusion is non-existing, as they know all with his name, age, village, the names of his the Chancellor holds an examination of all the chi-jén examination was held. Four the example. Instantly every man gravely about it," but the unmarried friends the father, grandfather and great grandfather the former riu ta'air of the Province (kao i) officers of high rank, oalled taung ta'al, are complied, after the manner of the young man as he enters his club or the haunts of his san tei. As a slave carries the sur. in Law. These are arranged in three grades appointed by the Emperor to hold this people at a country corn husking, who play his bachelor's confreres, la looked over

**Simon says thumbs down.” Now, then, name of his master, and an bis children ara (42 ting), the two first grades of which examination in the Great Ball (Kung-yutan) | the first man that lifts his finger treats the onciously, as if he had been engaged in Always slaves, the manumlesion of any of Dave flowers stuck in their hate (san a) at Poking. The subjects are the same, as

some dreadful tussle, and ought to appear these instantly makes him free, and quallas in the case of new graduates (sin chin) for the chigen, and the ordeal lasts nine crowd, calmly continued the wicked, wily minus an eye, or a leg, or some frightful The Brat grade are eligible for the honour days. Not more than from a dozen to Cinonnatian, Every victim turned pale fies him for examination. Le Ping-chang of lin chéng, which casts upon them the thirty from each Province are successful with horror, and stood as if rooted to the car to mark him out from the rest of mans; formerly a slave at Fatahan, subsequently duty of guaranteeing the respectability of No si ta'ai or chit jen who has entered upon were men in that crowd that wouldn't with awe or tender emotion. They can see kind. The young woman is surrounded by epot. It was no laughing matter. There adoring friends with a mixture of curiosity Viceroy of Szehnan, was thus manumitted. No one can compete at a Publie Examina- each tung sheng of their magistracy, who an official career (dh'u shin) may compete tion whore genealogy will not go back this may apply to them, upon entering his name at the examination for the degree of chin stock their elbow for anything less than a nothing particularly engaging or delightful For this guarantee a shih (hut shih). It is obligatory upon all twenty-five bent drink and who never in "Charlie," but then dear Emily adores far at least. Bis three generations are for the hien kao, not clear" San tai pu ch'ing. As no one is small charge is leviable. There are a fixed oht jene of the last distribution to go up to smoked anything but the finest imported him. If the young woman is romantic or Oking ever fails to keep a genealogical amber of in cheng for each magistracy, Peking for examination. All former chi Ravanas. The loser was destined to have record, it simply amounts to this, that the which are vasated by death, mourning, gens should also present themselves at the a nice little hill to settle, For one hour mental she has looked forward to this and accordingly feels barself immeasurably descendants of playsetors, executioners, office, promotion to a higher degree, or the hui shih, and if three of these pass without and twenty minutes the helpless victims moment as the most important of her life, gamon-torturers, and yaman-runners (ex tax) lapse of eighteen years. These eligible for their baving put in an appearance, their stood there, their forefingers glued to the raised above the crowd of commonplace quot compete unless there are three olear in shangs come in in order of seniority. degree of chu jen is taken from them, bar, while to add to the discomfort of the mortals; of course those dreadful boge, male ancestors between them and their These two years being ended, study for Sickness, tourning, or other obstacles, situation the condition was imposed that her brothers, will treat her with increased unqualified ancestors. Barbers, personal the degree of chi gen is the next step. which must be properly certificated, will man should drink or smoke white the respect and away the coats into belghts... The lily white due Lard Ronald had brought servants, nail-cutters, sunvengers, and the literary degree of sin ta ai, the Chancellor through the magistrate of his district a becoming very interesting, when another she is rudely awakened by a terrible fall CCM JE Odings The situation that make her brain dizzy, till at length Leapt up from where she lay,

descendants of these to the third generation Dropt her head in the maiden's hand, are stated by some to be excluded too, but examines the sons of gentry in arobery for despatch of identity from the Lieutenant Cincinnati man rushed in to get a cigar. which takes all the gilt out of the gingee.

He had some important correspondenes to And followed ber all the way.

This ex- Governor of his Province, addressed to there is a donet upon this point. The the military degree of six te'an. Tankas of Canton are excluded unless three amination takes place ones in three years, the Board. On arrival at Peking, which prepare for the early morning mall, and bread, and teaches her that "being in Down stept Lord Ronald from his tower;

the other hand, there is the eminently clear generations have taken to land," not twice, as in the civil examination, and must not be later than the last day of was in a tremendous hurry. What's up?"love" is not all beer and skittles. On "Lady Clare, you shame your worth.

the 2nd moon, he hands this in (chico) e inquired, as he witnessed the strange practical young woman; now she will tako (shang chieh,) and unless the neighbours always in the sui kao year. Similarly

Put your finger the disease Why come you drost like a village maid,

guarantee the applicant's respectability, military ta'al examination of former to one of the under-secretaries of the spectacle before him.

very mildly, she is not That are the flower of the earth P

The magistrate collects there slips and, in military graduates, is held by the Chancellor Board of Ceremonies (li pu ez-ytian). On down," said the joker. Almost mechanical

take year.

Lense. Do she looks about her with well- There are special the 6th these despatebes or certificates are ly he obeyed. Then the conditions of the marrying for love, not ale; she has too much the early autumn of every sui k'de and l'examinations, too, in Hunan, Kweichow, forwarded by the Board to the examinors little game were explained, and the new- k'o year, issues a notification, naming a

each victim who falls into hor not, till day for the hien kao or Magistrate's (mao shih), for Mino-tez graduates (sung ts'ai). On the 8th the candidates comer was mad. He raged and stormed opened eyes, and weighs and measures

and pleaded business, but to no avail. examination. The entering of the name (msao shông), also by the Literary Chanool enter ander the same cironmetances an at the others wouldn't let him off, and after the proper one has entrapped himself. She at the gumir entitles one, as it were, to the lors.

knows that there are certain circumstances the chi jên examination, leaving the Hall appellationof t'ung sheng, or undergraduate. The examination for a chi jen degree is on the 10th. The same process is repeated holding out for half-an-hour he succumbed The examination is held in the Magistrate's held by the chu kao, a special Commissioner on the 11th-13th, and on the 14th-16th with a bad grace and net om up." There peculiarly favourable to falling in love, so cases out of ten the process is successful, yaman, where there is always accommode appointed by the Emperor to cach Province The list of successful candidates is then wasn't change enough for the 5 dol bill she lays herself cat as it were, and in nine tion for five or six hundred undergradustes. for each 'e or examination. This func issued (fa pang), the first obtaining the which he handed the bar-tender for getting and the result satisfactory; the tenth un In Provindal Capitals, where there is a tionary is always accompanied by an assist honorary title of hui yuan, and the second his boots blacked in the morning. And the regular Examination Hall, the examination ant examiner (u chu 'co), and occupies to the tenth that of hus-kwei; all the others Parties who had been pressing their fore fortunately perhaps turns out one of these were better that both "he" and "she" is held here instead. The magistrate ex- the Town Hall (kung kuan) of the Provincial are simply chin shil. After this examina-fingers to the marble slab for nearly two happy tales of human life in which it "had hanged a millstone about their nacks amines in seven relays, each time discarding, Metropolis, not having, like the Chancellor, tion comes another called the tien shah, or hours laughed feebly, and remarked that it

was a tip-top good joke, you know.” (ko), the least preseworthy. No candidate a yanên appropriated to his use.

and bean drowned in the depths of the He honours examination, of one day's duration,

sea" before over they had started in the need pase through more than two ordeals; generally arranges so as to andre at the This is held in one of the Imperial Halle-

rams of life together handicapped with "in but, of course, the object is to remain Provincial Capital on the 1st day of the called the pao ho tun, and upon no parti

QUEUE CUTTING ORDINANCE.

compatibility of disposition. But there is amongst the best in the last relay, the first 8th moon, and, as, in fact, the Literary cular date. The subjects are chosen at of whom is called the an show. A lat is Chancellor too, in welcomed by the High random by the examiners, who are in this

(Alia California.)

the falling in love which comes of experi posted (ch'u an) of the first relay, and Authorities of the Province and conducted caso princes or the bichest officers of State

Mo Ah Kow brings suit in the United once after years of life together," when another of the other six (ch's chan) when to his lodging. His assistants and secrets (ahien chih wang ta chin). The names of the examination in over, about three days riss, are all men of another Province and the ten candidates who have composed the States Circuit Court against Sheriff Matthew each knows the other, their weaknesses, are brought with him as part of his suite. best essays are handed to the Emperor (ju Nunan, through his attorneye, J. E. MeElrath their temptations, when throng troubles The examination takes place at about 8 As a matter of form, his lodging is "sealed zil-chia), and His Majesty of the Regent and others, to recover $10,000. damages and sorrows, they have still clan together, A. and the subjects are selected by the so as to prevent any intercourse with the selects from them the best three who are The oomplaint wets forth that the plaintiffs when the "soft auswer" and be gentle a subject of the Emperor of China; that on influence have bound the two hearts more Magistrate in presence of the undergradne outer world. On the 6th day of the 8th tormed, in order of merit, the chung tian the 28th of April, 1878, he was tried, con- alosely to each other, when woma ates, after the doors are closed. One theme moon both he and the Lieutenant Governor pangger, and tanhia. The first map of in prose, and one in veree (wen chang shih) (or the Vineroy where there is no Governor), the second grade is termed the chalu, visted and adjudged guilty, in the Police has proved herself the "helptest" and The best part of health is fine disposition, are hung up within view of . The single etter the Examination Hall, and take a Tot another exatafuation must be passed Court, of the crime of misdemeanor, for comforter" and the man "rong wil It is more essential than talent, even in the advantage which attaches to the an shot is their residence there till the examination is by all but the first three of the abore, who violating Section 2 of an Aot of the Legisla ng protector," but it is a love ist cannot to become fully developed as anOWA, It is works of talent. Nothing will supply the that, as a matter of courtesy, the Proteat, over. On the 8th day of the same con at once become. Haslins, in which the osuture, approved April 30, 1876, entitled, belong to youth, it must be tried by years

An Act concerning lodging houses and want of sunshine to peaches, and, to make at the next examination, will endeavour to the siu ta'dis are admitted. Their nomes didates are ranged in three grades, the first sleeping-apartments within the limits of in- o sudden growth of passion, but the for- knowledge valuable, you must have the place bis name among the first ten are compared with the t-tfal list, handed grade being drafted from time to time into cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever you

About a month after the hin 'co, the in previously to the governor, and a call the Imperial Academy (Hanlin gilan) the corporated cities;" that on the 27th of April getfulness of self oven to curbing the mild- are sincerely pleased you are nourished. fu kao takes place, at the Provincial Methgo she) is allotted to each individual sesond obtaining plates as petty others at he was sentenced to pay a fine of $10, or est and gladdent of its hepen if they do not five days' imprisonment in the County Jail; tend to entire happiness of the creature The foy of the spirit indicates its strength, tropolis in the Examination Hall, at other There are twenty cells in each lane, and the Ouurt or clerks at the Boards (chushh), that he did not pay the fine, and was beloved. It comes but rarely in life, and All healthy things are sweet tempered. Prefeotures in the Prefect's yamen. A candidate is free to converse with any one and the third being appointed by let to

fined for five days; that while so impri to the insty and, for the reason, that who according to magistradles in the Exantin as his name is called. This examination is sheng-fen) or to lower posts (ching-shu) at the defendant wantonly, maliciously, Genius works in sport, and goodness amilos notice is insizod, and the students assemble in his own Jane, Each man is sas oled expectant offices in the Provinces (fenfa incarcerated in jail, that he was there apppy are thoes, who are the fortunate ever sees the law which distributes things, son Hall, when seven successive examina much more severe than that for a su tra, the Capital. The next step in to invite the without authority, and in violation of e does not despond, but is animated to great tions are held in the following manner,

the duration being nine days; in three bouts Emperor to is a date of singing the personal rights of the plaintiff out the hair It begins like that and for those happy dasires and endeavours. He who desponds in the gate of the magistrate's examination of three days oath, during each bout of Eames, (chuan lul. This is a very Feon of his head and queue off to within an inch mortals in the words of a popular writer of betrags that he has not soon it. Ties Suppose there are ten thousand in all which the candidates are rigidly confined, liar ceremony. All the chin shit, including of his scalp; that it is the custom his and the present day Their grapes are ripen. Datah proverb, that paint costs nothing," After the fist bout, perhaps ten per cent. night and days to their examination cells the four first who have special titles, present all Ubinamen to shave off the Avat portioned their harvest is yellow, the light is such are its preserving qualities in damp are excluded, and the names of the others or lanes. The fest examination is devoted themselves on the date fixed at the Imperial of the hair of the head, and wear the shining on them from the golden hills of allmates. Well, sunshine costs less, yet is are hung up outside the Hall, apcording to to assays upon subjecte taken from the Falace, and are received by his Majesty in remainder braided into a meus; that the heaven. Madras Alhansum, Buer pigment. And so of cheerfulucis, or a magistradas, the Arat teu in each magistracy Four Books (sa shu); the second three to silence, a list of names is handed to the said custom is of ancient and honorable goed temper, the more it is spent, the more being apatisly noted. This is continued essays on the Ulessics (ching)) the third to Emperor and, at a given signal, all fall origin among the Chinese and it is so held of it remains. The latent heat of an ounce seven times, the Prefect each time excluding miscellaneous eassys upon subjects chosen down on their knees and knock their fore by plaintiff, and the privation of the

heads aing times on the ground. After rab the sazas ship of pine to the paint of composers The result of the last heat is no longer ranged socording to magistración,

Chinese, In consequences of the set of the kindling, a hundred times; and the power that about one tenth of the whole number nor socording to the date at which they hanging down, each one in turn raising his defendant's mutilat he has been disgraced of happiness of any soul is not to become of bach magistrany is selected the names graduated as stu, te'as. From forty to one head and chaunting, "My name is Sand in his own eyes and in the eyes of his pated or drained. It de observed that of the ten best of each of these are specially Aundred chi jen degrees are allotted to sack, Loma from such, and such a Provinces friande, and is ostr tabed from the associa depression of spirits develops the germs of a prominent, and the first in each ten receives Province. Under the name of fu pang are prefecture and magistracy do, do, imtion of respectable hembers of his country plague in individuals and nations. It is an the honorary appellation of on yuan or an ranged those who have reached high mediately he has fuisbed, he drops his and commendation of right behaviour is thots The advantage gained by the an tuan standard, but who receive an interior degree head once more on his breast, and the

It is stated tha ten additional suite of Indur, sapiens riot," which our English pro is that, as a matter of courtesy, the Literary which qualifies them to go to Peking and Emperor ticks off his name upon the list like character will be commenced at once, verb translates, "Be merry and wice 1 Chancellor will, as of course, pass film for compete for the post of Instructor to Bans which he holds with the Imperial Foncil. and no good firen will regret the wiping know how easy it is for man of the world to his Degree All the other distinctions, nerman (po ch'i chiap tea). The exsizing. It now becomes necessary to give some out of this graceful ordinance. loak grave and axeer at your sanguine consequent upon this reptaple analysia, dion for a chú fén degree is conducted a explanation concerning another plass of youth, and its glittering dreams. But I count for nothing but loss, and ephemeral fallawa ;. At, about # p.m. on the 8th day graduates, collectively termed kung shẳng, find the gayest panties in the air that were honour amongst one's friends. The first the this 'ao and Governer decide upon or ww kung. These are divided into the ever piled, far better for comfort and for of the last bout is also called #4 thou. four themes, thres as shy and one shih chẳng, pa kung, fuckung, fu lang, yu-kung, and se, than the dungeons in the air that are The examination for the degree of sit which are out and printed on the spot, au kung. Once every twelfth year the lin daly dug and caverned out by grumbling, that takes place generally in the eighth Twenty themes are thrust into the gate of shings of the past eighteen years, who still discontented people. I know those miser month of the Chinesa autumn, in a per cash line, and the candidates are free to hold that office together with the sent Able fellows, and I hate them, who seemanant or teinporary booth erected for the spend the evening, as they choose within thing of the most recent Law Exam hick star always riding through the light purpose at each prefecture, and, at the their cells. The 9th is spent in preparing tion, are examined by the Changelic for and calgured clouds in the sky overbead; provincial metropolis, in the Chancellor's the essays, and on the 10th there are copied the degres of jeung thẳng. One sulaire wayss of light pass over and hide it for a yamón. The Laterary Chancellor has a out and handed in. The three essays and one honorary degree are allo disfigured for life; or else, it passes harm dinners, to make love or morning visits, in faoment, but the black star keeps fast in the yemen of his own, and receives a Commin (pien) must each consist of 100 characters, each magistracy. The advantagestlessly off, having done the patiens more an outrage on humanity. Calcutis and the senith. But power dwells with sheerfulsion for three years. The first of these, and the poem of 80. From noon till dark degree in that, if the substantive haug kong pats me in a working mood, always a dia, viga, wu, or yu year, is the on the 10th candidates hand in their papers, fails to obtain a chi jen de willst despair is no muss, and ustunes the year of the Chancellor's appointment and and ars lat ons in groups to refresh, them, go to Feking and enter for Methus powary. A man should make liis sui¦ journey; the older two are the sui kro and valved sizes) nail the next moming. The examination, at which th Medan käggar to way or he had passer seven 10: AGO DI TERMS OF Cxacination (or the diary sad hanand cont show sigan buen, “ll the Proviamos sen fos bera: When its multius) asemin | degren af nu toʻch. The sul k'ne falls upon who banda, karna 10 x må ting boan, dobi | rauka) the Bros conk armi

"If I come drest like a village maid,

I am but as my fortunes are;

I am a beggar born,” she said,

"And not the Lady Clare."

"Play mo no tricks," said Lord Ronald, "For I am yours in word and deed, Play me no tricks," said Lord Ronald,

**Your riddle is hard to read."

O, and proudly stood she up!

Her heart within bor did not fail; She looked into Lord Ronald's eyes, And told him all her nurse's tale.

He laughed a laugh of merry scors;

He turned and kissed her where she stood; "If you are not the heiress boru,

And I," said he, "the next in blood--

"If you are not the heiress born,

And I,” said he, "the lawful heir, We two will wed to-morrow morn,

And you shall still be Lady Clare.” -Tennyson,

after its commencement.

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"I could not love thes dear so much, Loved I not honour murs,"

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of wood or stone la inexhaustible. You may - about ten per cent. of the least meritorious at random (¿â'¿ lun). The candidates are that they stand in rows with their heads 9205 is a mark of disgrace among the prove to you that a dog bus ten fáila?”.

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THE Culentta May of 1878 will surely live in history. It has been cursed with every evil which can make life a misery. The atmosphere can only be compared to soup; it varies from Palestine to turtle, from Geotoh broth to mulligataway. It is **FALLING IN LOVE,"

refreshed with the blasts of Kamtschatica, This is one of those mysterious "states clouded with the desert of Sahara, and. being" which no felish can under drenched with the deluges of Cherraponn stand It generally is looked upon se a fee. It reminds one of Milton's conception sort of periodical illness which is went to of hell, ranging from the heats of derung- attack its victims with more or less force, tion to the sows and ice of Caucasus. By like measles or scarlatine, and finally de turns we are hot, damp, and cold. To live parts, leaving them sometimes scarred and in such a climate, to eat breaklests and

king good than harm. Now there are several universe are a mistake; the solar system hoy still forms of the disease, but day or two will is a round-sbont nuisance. Love and de pas suffice at present si examples, the wout votion pre at war with the thermometer, Tu: from and most dreaded form is when the patient the barometer, the fan, Aze wind and sha

DE KING WAWA mess to be a ** raensel railojen Orgullo Corrependant of ble