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A HINT. Our Daisy lay down In her little nightgown,

And kissed me again and again,

On forehead and cheek,

On lips that would speak,

But found themselves shut, to their gain.

Then foolish, absurd,

To atter a word,

Iaked her the question so old,

That wife and that lover. Ask over and over,

As if they were enrer when told.

There close at her side

Do you love me?" I cried; She lifted her golden crowned head,

A puzzled surprise

Shona in her gray eyes- Why that's why I kiss you," she said.

The Uralanjeni made a last demand that ho would produce the bewitching powders, or show where they were concealed, and he made a last appeal to the Creator of whom they knew nothing, that he was innocent of possessing any such thing,

THE CHINA MAIL.

(No. 4742-SEPTEMBER 14, 1878.

CAGED BIRDS.

SWIMMING EXTRAORDINARY. Have you ever noticed a bird, caged, or A few days since a young girl hot yet but a reoraiting ground for our nationality, drawing-room, thore work prosent no fewer time, not merely a market for our goods, reception, and at his sister Lady Mary's with clipped wings, when it has caught seventeen years of age, daughter of a for our armies, our navies, our enterprise, than 186 unengaged and yet marriageable eight of wild birds dying overhead? How professional swimmer achieved a feat our manifold life? Wide range for our young ladies. Twenty years ago it was yery eagerly the little ear follow the dying altogether unprecedented. Her father had Imperial growth, and its starting point, eo different. One of the ugliest and most forms with a peculiar far-be look in thom, in her, Nehalf undertaken that she would we know its true bearing, is already made, unpleasant-mantored spinsters it was ster I have often thought since that a little such as you never sod af other times; and swim a clear distades of winty mile is no other than Hongkong. Born on Bri- my lot to know, soon after she arrived out, toot or art might have saved him, but terror sdtastimes jou hear strange, unaccustom are told by a sporting "journal, but we de tish ground, or preferring it by exchange of was eagerly, and in spite of possessing a face had deprived bha, of both. work? E fed cheep choop as if the little prizoner not know whether upon good authority, permanent residence to their own, what like a very crusty lost, snapped up by a His hands and feet were bound to four had remembered something of the life of that no wager or hot of any kind depended. binders the extension of British national wealthy fungus-bodied indigo planter. strong pege, which were driven into the liberty, and with a sustoh of the wild-upon the result of this bold atterapi? The rights, the equalisation of British law, the Mayfair. ground, and a succession of the flat atones bird language. I know what may be said father was anxious to test his girl's poore, privileges of British citizenship to the which had been heated in the adjacent fire that the bird was one of a captive brood, and desirens also to show how much can Chinese indwellers of the Colony? Better gent person should know how to ascertain LEARN ABOUT THE PULSE.Kyory Intelli- till red hot wore placed upon his body,

A shriek, which I sometimes hear in miss it. But, then, do you think that she is trained by competent thetractors, sien. Is England too weak a mother to nurse comparing it with what it is when he is and, never having tautod liberty, does not be done by a wonian in the water if only surely subjects than aliens, union than divi- the state of the pulse in health; then by memory still, broke from the poor Dutchman birds tave winga without knowing their The girl took the water at Westmafister other children than those of her own faland alling, he may have some ides of the urgency when the first of these. impromptu instrange? As soon might yon expect a child to Bridge at 12.20 in the afternoon d'en womb? Are her means too restricted to uf his case. ments of torture touched his tender akin; he ignorant of the use of hands and feet. hot she was level with Battered Church, adopt? Do the cords of her tent admit of healthy pules of each childs now and but so great was the agony he endured that And in the case of those songsters which nicety-six minutes later she reached Barnds no lengthening? Can her heart only fear, then a person is horn with a peculiarly slow Parents should know the moaas which gradually grew fainter and migrate towards the south when the Bridge; and four hours and forty not be enlarged to the gathering of the or fast pulse, and the very case in hand may hoarser-alone escaped him, while the bondammer passes, returning with the spring, multos she found herself opposite the abundanes of the Sea? Idle foar Union be of that peculiarity. An infant's pulss in drops of profuse perspiration came rolling it seems to me little short of cruelty to Figeozis at Richmond. The tide, which of sympathy, of feeilig, of thought, of our one hundred and forty; a child of seven, over his forehead, and I turned away in imprison them, when I remember how had hitherto been in her favour, now began pose will follow close on unity of nationa! about eighty; and from twenty to slity utter horror of the scene, which lasted for strong and wonderful is that instinct which to farm and farning with it she ham existence; and Hongkong may we have nearly an hour. My heart gave a bound of guides and impele their fights. Instinos gallantly back down the stream to the lower: but to will prove the first link in the Fears, it is seronty beats a minute, declin- relief when the raport of a musket announced le, to a great extent, herbaitary memory end of Mortlake Reach. The whole dis golden band to bind in one the vastest - to sixty at faarscore, & healthful The best protected life is the one protect that he had been shot through the head by transmitted from one generation to another, tance thus accomplished was somewhat ergies of the East, and the West, China and grown person's pulse beats seventy times In ed by suffering.—Golden Sands

some savage who had grown weary of the and arising in this case from that all over twenty miles, and the time occupied: Bagland,"

a minute; there may be good health down The wealth of a soul is measured by how protracted labour of forturing him, and powerful instinct of self-preservation which was a little under siz hours and a half, much it can feel; fts poverty by how little. Perhaps wished to test my powers of en- 28 impleated in all living creatures. The giving an average speed of more than three mar their effent by adding any reflections of working i.self out, there is a fever or in- These are golden words. We would but to sixty; but if the pulse always exceeds seventy there is disease; the machine is In matters of conscience first thoughie durance in the same fashion,

impales mast, indeed, be a powerful one miles an hour. The oldest of sporting our own. But we cannot refrain from add-Bammation somewhere, and the body is After what I had witnessed, the reader which drives these little gingers, ench as papers declares the performance to be the ing the earnest hope that present and future reeding on itself; as it consumption, when www best In matters of prudence last thoughts aro boet.-Rev. Robert Hall.

may imagine my emotions when the same the nightingale, weak as to defence and, greatest feat of endurance ever known to rulers and legislators of Hongkong would Kindness seems to know of some secret terrible hands under which Bruine Kastoel indeed, with no defence except their wings have been achieved by one so young At always deal with the interests of the alien the pulse is quick, that is over seventy, fothian of joy in the soul which it as I was dragged closer to the Inkosi and passage north or south, struggling, swimmer, and of professional swimmers true Englishman, Mr. W. G. Palgrave.

had perished wore roughly laid on me, and twice a year to brave all the perils of the the same time the girl is a professional population of Hongkong in the spirit of this gradually increasing with decreased chances touch, without revealing its locality, ad

of oure, until it reaches one hundred and caise to send its watera upward and over-conneillors, who daring all this episode of porhaps, against fierce winds, and with the of the fair sex, as of professional lady.

ten or one hundred and twenty, when fow the heart.-F. W. Faber.

horror had been composedly sitting oross-wild son under them, and exposed to the riders, we not unnaturally expect great

death comes before many days. When the Nothing, says Brodie, in all the world, legged, and smoking their daght pipes. attacks of the birds of prey, which watch things. How then, we not unnaturally

pulse is over seventy for months, and there My forage cap, a common regimental one, for them and levy their fatal toll as they ask, can our lady amateur swimmers acquit is so good as usefulness, which gives to

is a slight cough, the lungs are affected, the individual's own character a finish and with the Scottish okequer round it, was now

pass. It is doubly hard for these birds to themselves? By a singular coincidence, an influence which mere station cannot gives or impatient fellow, whose assegal whistled impulse to rove stifled in the narrow prison performed on the Thames, the Ladies struck from my head by some mischievous bo caged, and have this almost irresistible at the very time that his feat was being #kich also binds him to his follows and them to him,

where they pass both their summer and Amateur) Cadogan Swimming Club, was It was then, that on seeing my face fully, their winter. The wings of a bird speak holding its annual meeting at the King's Thalone street of Florence Michael An-

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Miscellaneous.

FOLGGGING CRIMIyars-The first flog-

on June 16, when a man named Hooten, ging of criminals since the old military regime is appointed to take place at Sydney convicted of garotting, will receive twenty Ave lashes. The judges who passed gen.

In the mire He dog about it, soiling his exclamation, expressive of astonishment, and it is of a genuine love of nature which phraseology may be allowed.us, consisted of willing to Introduce the punishment of Richardson, passed the usual examination, gho found a fine block of marble imbedded the presiding chief uttered a fierce guttural of liberty and the free air of heaven, and Road Baths. The "ovent," if sporting tence, expressed themselves as belogun in the Treasury Department by Secretsry holiday attire, for, said be, there's an angel to it . He felt that it was his mission to let the angel out, and he did it.

stepping forward threw his well-oiled arms about me, quite as much to my astonishment

as to that of his followers.

When the probationers in the school whom I had saved from the claws of the He proved to be the great ohief, Bandilli, Pythagorah krew weary in trying to be helpful to others, and preferred to be idle tres tiger, and who now recognised and in and self-seeking, they were treated as dead, gratitude protected me. Obscqules were performed and tombs werely brother chiefs and emapataki,' he raised, with inscriptions to warn others of exclaimed, while brandishing his aesegai over my haad, ib token that he would foster and guard me, he saved my life from great and terrible leopard! Behold the marks of its teeth,' he added, showing the barely healed laceration of his shoulder, and I shall save him now!'

their wretobed end.

Brazything, asya Bugh Miller, is writing Nature's history, from pebble to planet, The patches of the roll og rock, the shaznels of the rivers, the falling rain, the buried form, the foot print in the snow and every act of man inscribes the map of her manch. The air is full of sounds, the sky to fall of tokens, and the ground is full of memoranda and algoatures which are more or less legible to the intelligent,

SHALL I WIN HER? BY JAMES GRANT.

tion of a scene of torture and bloodshed.

bull-hide,

horror of beholding that of another sealed.

her,

were helpless to assist each other.

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But if spared he will ight against us gain, urged one of the woolly-headed councillors.

He shall fight against us no more, said Sandilli, with a grin that showed all his teeth,

How know you that?" asked others, with darkening looks.

cramps these little wings into narrow barred prisons, simply that we may have

Leisure Hour. their joining in the great choir of nature. the bird voices all to ourselves fastead of

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ging, which Terry's Act gave them the garoting had reached such an alarming power to inflict, but they added, that they could not shut their eyes to the fact that pitch, that very severe repressive measure had become necessary.

has rendered an opinion with reference to WOMEN OF WOMAN'S DRESS, Press despatel from Washington states that Boll. attor Raynor, of the Treasury Department, a claim of Dr Mary Walker. In March, 1875, Dr Mary was appointed to a clerkship

was duly sworn in, and ordered to report

objected to De Mary, unless she would for duty to Treasurer sptuner. She did so eport, but some ladies of the department leave off her semi-masculins attire, nad assume the dress which is recognised an CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS.-We un-proper for women. The female clerke derstand that the following arithmetics? carried their protest to Secretary Rishard. a diplomatic appointment: If four that she must dress as other ladies, or he question was recently set to a candidate for son, who informed the eccentric Doctor clerks could copy despatch of twenty could not assign her to a desk in the would it take six clerks to copy a despatch at abandon ber reform notions about four pages in three days," how many days reasury Department. The Doctor would of thirty-six pages ? The candidate and female dress, and in consequence was never ing some difficulty in answering this assigned to duty, although she reported according to the ordinary rules of arith regularly at the department for two years, MR. PALGRAVE ON HONGKONG. The Cornhill Magazine-March 1878, Lon-pend entirely upon what kind of fellows from the date of the appointment to the metic, sens up the following diplomatic as the avers. As her appointment was not (China Review, Vol. VII, No. 1.)

reply 1--With reference to this question, revoked by the appointing power, she claims it appears to me that the answer innet decompensation at the rate of $900 per annum don: Smith, Elder & Co.

long rase of 120 yards, a diving competi tion, a consolation race of forty yarde, and teen years of age. The prize in the first cadet race confined to members under £f. centest fell to Miss Barnes, who covered the distance in three minutesand ten seconds. Miss Phipson carried off the eighty yards prize in two minates and seven seconds. For the diving Miss Robinson in two plunges Staspoole; who alone entered for the cadet brought up twenty-four zinc discs, and Miss prize, "walked over the course" if the style that the committes, in the absence of term may be permitted-in such perfect

competitors, awarded her a silvar bracelet.

foreign competition affects one of the chiefed in cross-examination thit it had been A STRIKING instance of the mode in which aut in the Treaty Department, who admit

was recently offered for steal rails, which would promatrospecting it made la für brought to light. It appears that a contract substance of the Anglo-Russian Agreement branches of our industry has just been stated in the defendant's presence that the

amined however, more closely, and with the the cost of the iron and of the carriage to

TOTAL DEPRAVITY OF FLIES. (Now York Times.} through his persistent presence where he is Not only is the fly an intolerable bore, not wanted, and his offensive familiarity, but his habits are every way bad. As a "dead-beat" he has no rival in animated and utterly disregards the law of health and nature. He keeps all manner of late hours, decsney. He loafe about bar-rooms, and sense of shame or degradation. He eats partakes of free lunches without the least and drinks of everything that can be eaten somebody else, and without the slightest or drunken, and always at the expense of

the olerka were; for within my own limited date of her formal resignation. In his writ One of the ablest English writers of our experience of the service, I could underten opinion, Solicitor Raynor recommende I have reason, sald Sandilli, patting me him as elegance and luxury, and he has a time, a man of world-wide knowledge and take to select six who would never finish it that one year's salary of $900 he allowed.co

show of gratitude. Filth is as attractive to I thought mine would soon be sealed, and indescribable cunning stole over his face, gessible mass of pollution and straightway Canton, Macao-paints a brilliant but faith-mediately recommended this gentleman toom the Foreign Office was concluded at on the shoulder, while an expression of most repulsive habit of exploring every actiole on The Three Cities"-Hongkong that the Civil Service Commissioners faz-Charles Marvin of having stolen a document reputation, Mr. W. G. Palgrave, in an ar gased wearily and wistfully at the hordes and he led me a little way apart from where betaking himself to the unprotected check ful picture of what British enterprize bad the Prime Minister for a secretarysbig of Bow-atrest on Tuesday. The only witness at all" We are happy to be able to siste Tas bearing of the charge against Me that gathered round me in greedy anticipa the remains of the poor doctor were left of beauty or the delicious cates of the fast-done in Hongkong, the public buildings, Giddy, half blind by the recent blow, and have desoribed them, with the greedy asvoman, from whose labours he derives his chief warehouses and almost countless shipping of pagged to the earth and mutilated, just as I dious eploure. He delights in tormenting the roads and Gardens, the long ranges of

egation

examined was Mr Francia Irving, an assist- slok at heart, the whole scene appeared kogels, or vultures, already lapping their black sustenance, and will take any mean divan-Witoria: the cordial geniality, retinement, a phantasmagoria.

Aware that our troops had retired past the wings in the branches of the trees above. stormed position to the camp in the ralley. Carysfort being in the hands of people stick with a towel, he will rally bis forces and cribes, and then he adds, as a resident who When I thought of Clarice and Fanny has the misfortune of having to part his hair Merchants. All this be truthfully des

tage to give him annoyance. If his victim education, and hospitality of the British below, the Cafres had no fear of molesta- as these, I felt life almost valueless, though make the sensitive expanse of the bald era- tlen at that time, and in the crowds that there was a great relief to my tortured mind niam a regular parade ground. He will has not been unobservant, a few suggestive | fell to a German manufacturer, who has now and a statement respecting it made in Par swarmed about me there appeared something in having escaped a death so terrible as that ponce upon a man while he is helpless in a diabolical in their ferocity of aspect, their by which the doctor perished. Yet, strange Barber's chair, with his arms swather to minuteness in detail, uniform in general of which he will manufacture at bis

paragraphs.

bought in the West Cumberland district aliamout. At the close of the case for the blood-smeared visages, their large white

"Such is Hongkong) e picture chequered very large quantity of Bossemer iron, out pr sacution, Mr Vaughan said that he falled as it may appear, I soon dismissed all beneath half a dozen yards of calico, and

to see that the evidence was sufficient to teeth, through which they biased like snakes, thought of the unfortunate Dutchman; for the perilous edge of the razor at his throat, colouring, and that colouring English. Ex works the rails required. It is stated that prove either of the charges made against while,soms who were in excellent humour at

when one is on active service the sense of and will harry bim almost to distraction, the prospect. of making mincemeat of me danger and the actual value of human life, He will catch bis viatim in the act of taking eye of a resident rather than of a traveller, Germany will be more than one-half that of I ed." Mr Vaughan, in giving his deciaton, the defendant, who was therefore discharg- sang to themselves a guttural chaut, and danced with a slow, jerking step to its

like sympathy for human suffering, grow or trying to take a sap, whether in the deed on the surface, but existent imme- duct. It is evident, if this be so, that the opened, he was strongly impressed with the a further characteristic, hardly perceptible the eum to be received for the finished pro-ald he confessed that when the case wen less and less every day, from the mere motorious notes, tapping the while their circumstance of being hourly face to face morning as a fringo to the disturbed slum diately below it, and extending downwards very low rate of wages and the long hours belief that a great breach of trust had been glittering assegais on their shields of tough with death.

bors of the night, or after dinner as a resto Before my fate came to be known I had the had been heated a large iron pot was filled maddening ingenuity will keep him from the come to view. It is the deep demarcation † are giving to those conntries advantages in 50th of May the contents of a private do- On the same fire by which the fatal stones ration from the cares of the day, sad with to the lowermost layers of Colonial life, of work in some of the Continental countries committed in giving to the public on the with Caffre corn, bailing for the breakfast of desired boon, and bring him to a state where line that sunders the entire community their competition with us which we shall find sument of much importance to the State

the defendant had heard that the same kind old Dutch medical man who had with them; but I felt overpowered with wicked wife.

Dr. Hans Bruine Kasteel, of Cradock, the ahiefs, and Sandilli invited me to share it he is ready to accept the counsel of Job's/into two parts, a line not less real beginssit difficult to contend against. Moreover, but

at first sight unapparent, a gulf all the more in addition to the disadvantages under which substance of the Anglo-Russian Agreement attended me in my strange illness there, thirst, after all I had undergone mentally of iniquity paraned by this depraved insect?/dinance, but by custom and instinct. On wages, our manufacturers have to contend | for publication the next morning, it did And what are the consequences of the life impassable because not dug by law and Or- we labour owing to short hours and high was about to sent round to the journals somehow had been taken prisoner; and having failed to sure one of the many

and bodily, and preferred a hunch of honey- daughters of Sandilli, of some mysterious they were growing wild.

pot grapes from the nearest bush, on which Is there retribution adequate to his offences the one side of this social gulf are the with heavy charges for the carriage of the not seem so extraordinary that he should prepared for him either in this world or the English, with a few, by no means the ma manufactured article. The cost of carriage be anxious to secure priority for a journal allment, was now accused by the Umlanjeni, Fear nothing now,' said Bandilli, 'you are

world to come? On the theological branch of jority, of their European compaers; on the from one of the chief seats of the manufac with which he was himself personally or witch doctors, of having cast a spell upon not my prisoner but my friend rather, and this inquiry we shall not presume to offer an other almost all those included in the generture of rails to the port of shipment for Gerocanseted. With respect to the document ral designation of 'foreigners'; but esper many is eight shillings per ton, while the which be supplied to the Globe on the 14th Mein Gott, mein Gott in himmel, the life of Sandilli must be as the brother of by his fall desert here. He is idle, dissoluto, natives of the land. Years of a common Thus it is that we are being beaten by rivals because he must have known that the full

as such shall be protected. He who saved opinion, but we are sure that he never comes

cially the sie-Portuguese and the Chinese Germans have very cheap water carriage, of June, the case was somewhat different ; Mynheer Richard! exclaimed the poor all the Koussie of the Amatolas."

gluttonous, peatiferous, and tormenting, doctor, writhing his trembling hands as he A pleasant fraternity," thought I, bowing and yet he seems to pass his life gayly, free home, common parsnits, common interests, who draw their crude materials from our next of the Agreement was a State docu- ment, and tifere could be no doubt that he 1 recognized me, though in the bush-fighting an assent in silence; but he now proceeded human and divine. He even defies the law ledge of each other's characters, habits, evening, and as a crowd gathered round he (Mr Vaughan said) that some hesitation. uniform-of the 74th Highlanders; but we to ask me a number of strange questions of gravitation, and travels with equal ease and modes of thought, brought the Briton began:- Wine is a mocker-strong drink! Would have been felt by the proprietor of

from cara or trouble, and defeat of all law, have not for social intimacy and domestic own atores.

intercourse, hardly even for mutual know- He stood on a chair in the "dusk of the copied is literatim. I should have thought and as he listened to my answers his large cars He gave me a glance that, like my own, seemed to quiver like those of a staghound, in any direction or on any surface not and the Chinaman one step nearer to each is raging. The Lord made cold water the Globe in accepting such a paper from a was expressive only of hopelessness or despair, uneasily and nervously at the same time.

smeared with some treacherous stickiness other than they were when the flag of and turned to the presiding Inkosi, whose head and face was partially hidden or muffled language with fluency. But the reason of servas, except when he is entrapped through fish and other nationalities the division is

He was surprised to find 1 epoke his native from the retribution which his sonduct de- island thirty-five years age. Between Eng-white-headed old man at the bar. I pleaded possession of the same by some surreptitious Apparently, he enjoys complete immunity British Sovereignty first waved over the tell you what I saw. Last night I say a

atan made whisky !" (Pauso,) "Let me young man known to be employed in the Foreign Office, and who must have obtained the latter was speedily explained when more his insatiable appetite into sloughs of poison Like the other chiefs about him that than one chief, with whom in quieter times or intricate traps from which he never not quite so rigorous, yet the barrier-fence my words. He filled a glass with deadly been asked except as to the socuracy of the personage was seated oross-legged, solemnly I had bartered old muskets and ammunition,

with him to come away, but he was deaf tea but no questions appear to have smoking the dagha pipe a kind of primitive hookal, made of a bullock's horn, filled with beads, buttons, and knives for ivory, dia sonpes alive. We believe it is a fact that exists, and as yet gives no sign of weaken- liquor, and as it went gurgling down his information it contained. apelss of hemp in water, like the madden-monde, and asses, recognised in me the know a fly to be stricken down by disease Colonies of the Old World and of the New and he cursed mesh oursed the the man poor emaciated woman, with her head

he never dies & natural death. No one ever ingat any point. Something of the kind tbrost, I said to him, Old man, thou art

may be observed in many other British doomed?"

AMONG THE MAD.-We enter one of the He laughed a synical lough,small sleeping-rooms of the ward, and find ing and intoxicating bang of the Hindostanee. once friendly trader.

or to linger ont a painful existence under but in none I believe, is exclusiveness car who sought to save him "(Commotion in half.hidden in the coverlet. This is gently This they imbibed through a stem of reed,

medical treatment. Fevers and headaches ried so far as in Hongkong, where eircum the crowd.) This morning," continued the raised, and she is asked whether she would let into the side of the horn.

are to him unknown, and he breathes constances, many of them beyond the control man, I was at the morgue, where the like to listen to a few words of Scripture The hapless Dutchman, who spoke the

tagion with perfect impunity. He some. somewhat musical language of the Caffres Amongst recent inventions in the way of times falis a victim to bis invincible curiosis of the Colonists themselves, bové promoted, unknown dead rest on the cold slaba, I but she replies:No, it is too late, too with frenoy, now began with solemn sarnast telephones we notice one by Mr. J. Ewing by ar insatiable appetite, and is scalded in and in a manner rendered inevitable, 'a con did not think that my words of the night fate!" She is told that Jesus is able to zess to repeat again and again that he had and Professor. Fleeming Jenkin, for which ten, drowned in milk, or smothered in mo.

dition Bot otherwise wholly uncongenial before would come back to me with auch done nothing to bewitch Mariqua, the provisional protection only was granted, lasses, and occasionally he is crushed or to be said in its favour, something also in looked through the glass door, and, my words of prayer she will offer is a petition to the British mind. There is something awful signifdance," (Crowd drew closer,) dreary words of despair. And the only save to the uttermost, but she repeats the daughter of the great chief Bandilli, but The object of the inventore is (or was) to slaughtered as a penalty for his temerity, blame.. that he had successfully oured her of a fever, produce a telephone simple and powerful, but he never dies of sickness or old age.

hearers, what do while in dread of his own life; that she was and also suited for the transmission of two Barring accident or violence, the fly is toma, wide enough to make the one race shouted twenty voices in chorus. No, my cases as these, and a fearful warning are True that a diversity of ideas, of cuscoldlabs before me u the law on the to us to extinguish her life, in pity, by me ju "The old man "some quick quietos. Truly and are such now perfectly well, and as a reward there or more messages simultaneously in either practically immortal, a perennial nuisance, at first sight the seeming antipodes of the friends, I didn't see a darned thing! fore he now prayed for his liberty. ·

direction along the same wire or part of the a standing example of total depravity,

they of the danger of neglecting ssivation. Hstened to all this anxiously, and while same wire. The transmitting and receiving without, so far as we know, the stormai ethes, separates the Briton and the China-Beveral meu chesed him, but he mundo doing so would little foresee the trouble this instruments are similar in construction pantshment which is its proper corollary.

man nor can we wish it done away, Little good his agape,

these instances of despondency, we may identient damsel, Mariqua, was to prove to they consist in one form of the instrument

indeed, doea a nation gain-much, Incales- me, in the form of a wife.'

of a wire or wires, capable of vibrating to

THE NORTH POLE.Me Americus Symmes apply the fine words in which Elisabeth lably muck, does it ever lose by abandon- He urged his innocence and his claims to definite musical notes, and so atretoked,

ing its ways for the ways of the alien, its thus explains his father's theory concerning Barrett Browning says co tenderly, and gratitude in vain; the witch dostors of the with or without resonators, in a magnetic

usages for his usages, its fashions for his the North Pole, which he is endeavouring truly of Cowper tribe, who had been jealous of his skill in the field, as to vibrata when in action across the

fashions, its gods for his gods. History in to have thoroughly tested by the Howgate

Christian! at your cross of hope sure of one or two musket-shot wounds, were lines of magnetic fores. The telegraphic the afternoon, a war, fierce and deadly, was lesson, and its latest Dustration is to fur after he passes the eightieth degree the And herein is comfort for the friends of

All day long on Wednesday, until late is this, through all har pages, reads pa only one expedition: "The explorer will find that A hopeless hand is clinging i all powerful with the chief and councillors, cireult consists of these wires, the line, and going on at the north end of the Semi-Troplether from China that is Japan. But the weather grows milder; when he reaches the those who are suffering from this most to the work-the pleasure they deemed It-the earth the circuit is never interrupted. oflcs, and many thousands of the com- fusion of mutual advantage, of good feeling, eight frat dezres be will find some open fearful form of depression. Happily, these of torture and death speedily began.

I know not whether I ought to relate that group of wires, at each end is in unison o'clock our attention was attrasted by than beneficial; the more so that the glaring reached he will and math water, and great Many of the patients look up cheerfully, The wires are turned so that one wire, or one batante on both sides perished. About 9 and of kindly Intercourse is not lose possible waters when the eighty second degree is extremely distressing asss are roep ional I saw but as it was the favorite mode of with one ware or one group of wires at the swarm of what was at first thought to be but superficial unlikeness between the Bri- quantities of wild animals and some water and seem happy in their day-dreams. Ons patting prisoners to death, and as I fully other. The electrical currents capzed by bass, perched on the gable, and flying about at and the Chiness types dovere much of wil when the eighty-third degree is such, for instance, whose mind was put out expected to perish by the same awful means, vibrations of one wire or group pars elong in close proximity. 4 doser examination deeply seated real resemblance, pay, ie that is 2000 miles in diameter, and if he gaily and made quaint remarks in a ringing. the scene made a deep and terrible impression the line, and give rise to corresponding showed them to be wall winged anto,regards, identity of character. And in this

Feached he will and the open Polar sea of gear by a railway sccldont, always spoke en the; and yet, though face to face with it, vibrations in one wire or group at the re some red sad some black, who were waging fusion it is for us, the uninvited intruders will go into the sea when the weather istreble, flowing like a brook, with pleasant. my soul wes with Clarice-Clarice, who deiving end. easted but a memory now, for our sepata made to vibrate at the sending end, the They would wheel and dart, now advancing, chester goods and Opinis are excellent that the Symmes theory neys can be found constantly nursing two black dolls with the

When one wire of group is a war of extermination with one another, on Chinese territory, to lead the way. Mans Warm and gental, he will find the country sharps and glancing lights, Another tion appeared a kind of anticipated death, wire or group tuned in unicon will Vibrate on retreating, until at last a dozen or two things of their kind, but honour, justice, are foreste of timber, large rivers and gieo of a child. Some who are well enough a Which might be followed, ala by no te at the other end but the other wifes or would make a dash, and grappling in a good faith, and good government are more animals than can be found anywhere else discharge, because they prefer being there red land, and the home of more wild to leave the Asylum do not, wok their suffection:

groups will remain practically silent. By last ettbrets, the whole bunch would fall of these, unless England be indeed untrue At given signal at least a hundred having a number of pairs or groups, means to the ground together, there to continue to her imagined self, we have plenty and in creation, and water fowl in abundance.” trilling hands were fung upon the miserable are afforded of transmitting independently the combat until one or the other was to spare these too we can in our mea man. His clothes were rent from him, and a number of andible signals at the same time atong to death. All day long wad the sate communicate by a polloy not wholly

to going into a workhouse. Very amuning, Tribuna

of outre, are some of the delusions,AM he stood stripped in the sunshine, the white-elong the same line without interference, fight kept up, until the ground was strewn summed up in Po violis and Gunboats to MARKET Formarly any young lady of voice as a rook tells you calmly, het ahe la OVERSTOCKMENT OF THE INDIAN Marriage woman with about as much manis in bes tess of his skin forming as singular a contrast The vibrations of the wires at the sending with the alain. There must have been fully the fore! to the dark forms of his captors as his round end may be produced either directly by blows a quart of dead bodies left to tell of the

passable appearance who want out to Indis Jenny Land; a mosk creature protests that and somewhat paunchy figure did to theire, or otherwise, er indirectly by causing sounda sanguinary struggle,

But on our own national soil, within might count upon receiving an offer of mar she really has not usurped the throne with which were all bone, brawn, and muscle, to be made in their neighbourhood, The flight, or why it was to bloody and relent- should now be our device. Elsewhere, evan and that empire was often considered by grotesque as coming from about the last What caused the our own waters, Hongkong for the Empire rage within a twelvemonth of her arrival, a tone of quiet earnestness which is very He was dragged to where a fire had been telegraphio circait is constant the sending less. ll have to be told by some more more abundantly than here, we have mer the unmated and desperate spinster as her person in the realm whom one would lighted, and then thrown on the grass with and receiving wires are both included in the skilled bugologist" than ourselves, but santile relations, mercantile interchange, laat and often successful, resource Bas saspect of high treason) another may his face to the sky, or, rather, to the branches circuit, and to magnet has its magnetism we saw the baths and pointed it out in mercantile duties with Ching! why not here now, as I Insin, the market is tremendously decline to sit down, because she has the of the trees, which grow so densely overhead sensibly changed by the sending of digauls, others. It was a very singular affair, and at least Imperial also? Why should not the overstocked out there, especially #Medres, unsomfortable impression that her back i

* shut out the blus canary skovs.

Engkah Haakanis

we would lies a radional explanation of it 'Flowery Land' bo to us in dus process of | Thaother day, as foo Duke of

in a blood-stained cloth.

À MUSICAL TELEPHONE.

A BATTLE OF THE ANTS. (Colton Semi-Tropio.)

But with reference to some, at least, af