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Portfolio,

GREEK MOTHER'S SONG.

brave

KIBTC.

O where is peace in all the lovely land f

Since the world was, I see the fair and Downward for ever fighting toward the A few white bones upon a lonely sand,

A rotting corpse beneath the meadow grasa That cannot bear the footsteps as they pass, Memorial urna pressed by some foolish hand Have been for all the goal of troublous fears. Ah! breaking hearts and faint eyes dim

with tears,

And momentary hopes by breezes fanned

over To fame, that fading or night and deeper

pain,

Have been the mold of life in every land. O is there reet beneath the meadow flowers? Or is there peace indeed beside the shore Of shadowy Acherca ? nor any more The weary rolling of the sickening hours

Will mark the interchange of woe and wee; Nor ever voices railing to and fro Break the sweet silence of these darksome

bowers!

But there a sorrowful sweet harmony

- shade.

O sweet forever in that dreamful glade, If there indeed auch deepest peace be ours!

Macmillan's Magazine,

ON MUSIC.

Sweet music! surely thou'rt divine,

No mortal gave thee birth, Or power to draw to thy blest shrine

The children of this earth.

cannot afford to do less than his best at all times, and under all drcumstances. No mutter bow unjurt'y you are treated, you cannot, for your own sake, afford to give anything but your botter service. You cannot afford to lio to a liar; you cannot afford to be mean to a menn man you cannot afford to deal other than uprightly with any man, no matter what exigencies may exist between him and you. No mon can afford to be anything bat a trus men, living in his bigüer nature and noting with his highest consideration.

LONDON GOSSIP.

An important meeting was held at Man chester on 1st January for the purposo of considering the advisability of opening up Africa as a market for Lancashire goods. A committee was appointed to diffuse In- formation on the subject. Africa was said to be five times the size of India, and to contain a population of 400,000,000,

It will be remembered that an old gontie. an owning an estate lu Hants and another in Forfarshire, recently died, and at the time of his death his penurious and miserly habits were much talked of. His executors,

Минеит,

THE CHINA MAIL.

ELECTRIC LAMP. The Philadelphia correspondent of the Boston Journal of Commerce describes an electele lamp invented in that city for pur- poses domestic. The writer sayı :—

[No. 4907--MARCH 20, 1879.

market.

COMMERCIAL.

The following is the comparative export of Tes from the Canton waters for the past three ressour

Soaaon. 1878-79......

17

.22,010,776 lbs. 1877-78..

.20,759,669 1876-77..

.18,620,550 SILK.-The business transacted, by for

31

19

The market is hare of standard

This is the nearest approach to a envere A BLEEPING-CAR ROMANCE. ungrateful to them that helps me!" The singer looked, at the Jewels, evidently sentence that we have found in the 348 It was in the Cedar Rapids sleeper. Out MEESIS DEACON & Co.'s Canton Marke worth a great deal more than the sum in pages which are devoted to delineating the slue it was dark as the inside of sa ink Report, dated Canton, 27th March, Baya dispute, and jumping at a conclusion, was gifts and graces of "The Pillars of the bottle. In the sleeping car people slept. Or

Some of them slept like Christian During the past month there have been presently induced to take up the pen and Empire." The human mind is corrupt, tried it. alga, Thank you, my dear I knowed and the literary taste is apt to be influenced men and women, peacefully, and sweetly, no transactions in Uld season's Teas; the you would, flere, Willam," he cried to by the sorry to any that too much homes and quietly. Others slept like demons, French mail of 22nd inst, took a few boxes the call-bay Hero unfastening the we are sorry to say that too much honey malignantly; hideously, fiendishly, as of New season's Congou frm Macao, but snap of the bracelet and putting it in the cloys on the palate. We get weary of though it was their mission to keep every these being "contract" tens, the prices have not been made public; the arrivals of 4 take this back to Bir Solo-eulogiums and irritated by incessant pane body olas awake. Of these, the man in same again, mons, and tell him it ain't at all the sort of gyrics. Our author reminds us that Tho- lower number three was the "bom." When leaf from the country have been too trilling thing I want?...

rean said that he could not despair of the it came to a square snore with variations, to allow of our forming an accurate opinion earth so long as it possessed the power of you wanted to count "lower three in with of the quality of the crop; we must "there. bringing forth from uncompromising mould a full band and a pocketful of rocks. We fore defor making any report on the toss or even the debris of its own rains the pure never heard anything snore like him. It until further musters are placed on the beauty and fragrance of a lily. The remark was the most systematic snoring that was In a pretty one, but we are lucredulets ever done, even on one of these touroa whether the Foreign and Colonlal Offices ments of snoring, a cleeping-car. He didn't have such an astounding crop of lies to begin as soon as the lamps were turned show as this book describes-N. C. D. down and everybody was in bed. Oh, no. There was more cold-blooded diabolism in It weights fourteen ounces, and is one of News.

his system than that. He waited until the ingenious contrivances of the century. Not yet patented, it has been kept away

A MAN OF FIXED PRINCIPLES. everybody had had a little taste of sleep, from the scent of the sleuth reporters,

In the winter of 1860-I think in the just to see how good and pleasant it was, so that it will come to the public pure and

The stock, "unadulterated." There le little or no month of December-weary of law, sick of and then he broke in on their slumbers eigners, in Tantlee reels has been of a paltry mechanism. A cloth combination of wheels dyspepsia, I determined to make a visit to like a winged breathing demon, and they and very restricted nature,

Washoe. San Francisco was just then catch. ever knew what peace was again that however, has become considerably reduced, night. He started out with a terrific owing to demand for native consumption, rotates a glass dice against a surface of raw silk. This wheel combination is moved by ing the silver fever. The Comstock had "Gu-r-r-rt That opened ovozy eye in and also for America, for which market in routing out the dark holes and corners a spring, wound as a time piece, and which been discovered, aud we were having the the car. We all hoped it was an accident, thread has been in instances re-realed to of the mansion, have come upon (inter alia), runs six hours. About the points of com- same fabulous tales of silver wealth as only

do it again, we all forgave him. Then he low. In woodlands dim where never tempest lowers dessert services of the earliest du Wor the constituents of which are secret with office in the city of Detroit to buzard the blasted our hopes and ourdled the sweet qualities in most of the different classes, Of timeless life in peaceful death shall be fifty-two yards of old Venetian lace, two bastion there is, aboyo, a amail carbonate, a decade before had tempted me from a law. however, and, trusting that he wouldn't i supply the place of Cumchucks and Luck. Nor branding heat can pierce the sunless oester, and last, but not least, the com-

the inventor; below this carbonate is danger of mules and Indians in a passage serenity of our forgiveness by a long-draws and the senson is approaching a termination. plete set (one hundred and odd in number) na electro-galvanic wire plated with nickel, across the plains. No railroad then over Gw-a, hh-h-hah That sounded too No. 4 is noraimally worth $380 per pioul.

Long-reels, Settiomente are put at 50 of the original etchings of Rembrandt's except the point of impact; that is the Nevada hills; no palace car by lightning much like business to be scoldental. Then pictures. Those last may be said to be raw and bare. To start the light, a trig. express from San Francisco to Virginis

held on the pillow for a minute, waiting, to India. priceless, since only four complete cots exist ger, not unlike that of a gun or rifle, City. It was in the early days of Virginia every head in that sleepless sleeper was plculs of the different kinds usually exported- Re-recis have continued in good request, in the world, one being in the British only not so prominent, extending from town when Herman Camp, and Bryant, in breathless suspense to hear the worst,

the side of the lamp, is pulled gently down- and Uncle Billy Colller were the magnates and the sleeper la "lower three" went and contracts for all gracies of Cumchnok Her Majesty's Opera Company are about ward. Thla causes a current of eletricity and silver kluge. It was when Bob Morrow,

Indfoated good staying qualities---''Gwa-a

bave been booked; the greater part of these to make a tour of Americs. A special train to emanate from the disc, run up the con- Head, and Jo Clark used to make frequent in long-drawn, regular cadences, that and Locklow, to extent of 700 to 800 boxes is to be furnished for the transportation of necting wire to the platinum point, from pilgrimages mulo-back over the Sierra. It ab! Gwa-a-a-al! Gahwahwab ? Gab settlements were made in the first fortuight, the entire company of 246 persons, for the which a spark fiios. This spark is held by was before the time of Senator Stowart, or wahwah! Gahwa-a-tah !" Evidently it but latterly the demand has somewhat trip of 4,000 miles. Colonel Mapleson's car the carbonate. Meanwhile, the clockwork Jim Nye; when Mr and Mrs. Sandy is to be newly fitted up in the most insu-is started by a movement, and instantly Bowers had great fortunes in Gold Hill was going to last all night, and the slackened. No. 1 and 8 Cumobuck and

leen pillows, and the swearing began, It respectively. rlous manner. It all contain a drawing, the light is in full feather. For six hours LeCount had not been made súperlutendentary benda dropped back on the sleep. Lucklow are quoted $486 to $475 per picul Stock is compated at 400 bales Teatles, room, sleeping rooms, smoking rooms, hall it in guaranteed to give a light of nine of Gould & Curry Mr. Atchison was mumbled along in low muttering tones, like

When kept the leading resten distant echoes of a profane, thunderstorm, 60 bales Kowkong, 100 bales Cumshuck room, &c. To li will be attached a kitchen teen hundred candles' power, at a cost of great mau. and dining car. The entire company will one-half oeat per hour. It can be carried rant, and Sam Brown did the principal Pretty soon "lower three" gavo-us-a-varia-and Imsklow, and about 200 balss of com

about an any other lamp for house use; it killing, and was respectfully regarded

which sounded as though his mono had got cannot explode, and will be on the market the leading murderer of the Territory. It tion. He shot of a spiteful "Gwook "mon morts. next Spring for $8 Such a lamp, if placed was before Colonel Ormsby and Captalo mad at him and was going to strike. Then append. In a hall unbroken by arches, would light Meredith led out one hundred and twenty of there was a pause, and we began to hope us-to punish the Indians and revenge the massacre of a white family" down on the that he had either awakened from the sleep nounced,

or strangled to death, nobody onred parti Carson "-into an ambuscade whore sixty cularly which. But he disappointed every three of our comrades were left scalped and dead on the battle field, and the rest of us body with a guttural "Gurooch!" Then skedaddled; and, of course, before Colonel he paused again for breath, and when be resumed with a stentorious "Kowpi "". Jack Hays and Charley Fairies came over had soutulated enough for his purpose be with California troops to protect us from a That nearly shot the roof off the car. Then threatened Indian war. Fairfax wore a pair of summor shoes, in exchange for he want on playing such fantastic tricke

Export of Silk-Export to date:To which I gave him a pair of sixteen-dollar with his nose, and breathing things that knee boots of untanned hide. When he would make the immortal gods weep if London, 8816 bales; to Continent, 6073 bales; to America, 7163 boxes; to Bombay, One of the chief features in the literary met the Indians and came away hastily, he they did but hear him. It seemed a matter 2898 plouts total, 8989 bales, 7163 boxes, The Privazza Louise has produced a taste of the present day is the passion for was ungenerous enough to declare that the incredible, it seemed an uttes, proposterous, and 2398 picals. Of Waste, 7963 bales, and sansation in Canada by insisting upon the personal details, for minute and distinctive boots brought him anwittingly away in impossibility that any human belog sould ladies attending her recaptions in low-cut traite of character, for gossip and anecdote. spite of his valor, because of cowardly make the monstrous, hideous notes with Fierced Cocoons 755 bales for Enrops.

its breathing machine that the fellow in DEUGS AND SPICES--Cassia Lignea, la dresses with the thermometer standing at Addison long ago remarked that our interest habits acquired from the former owner, twenty degrees below zero Her Royal in a book very much depended on whether We made up a purse to purchase for "lower three" was making with his. He quoted at 80.30 in mate, and $9.55′ in Highness has bean remonstrated with in it was written by a dark or a fair man, and Ocional Jack Haya a war charger-bridis ran through all the ranges of the nasal boxes, Sales: 4,000 pioule. Stoak: 8,000 every possible way that you op ramon.so there seems an insatiate desire abroad with Spanish bit, saddle of Mexican adorn- gamut, he went up and down a very chro- pigula. Cassia Buda, $16.00 no Saler strate with the wife of a Viceroy, especially to hear something about the personnel of the ment, spurs jingling with silver bells, Womatic scale of snores, ho ran through Stock 30 pioals. Alum, $1.70 a $1.76 when she is herself of royal birth. But it loading men and women of the epoch. The chose an orator to make the presentation intricate and fearful variations, until it per pioul. Camphor, $20.00 a $2.60 par is all to no purpose. Low dresses or desire to learn something about the latter specob. It was earnest and eloquent. I seemed that his nose mast be out of joint picul, pasked.

SUNDRIZA.-Fire Crackers, 71 à 78 cents medical certificate is the rule, and it in has produced the mania for photographe of made it myself. I referred to bis berole all night through he told his story. per box., for Gowqua's No. 1, gold shop.

in a thousand places. All the night and believed that one of these days the Princess reigning beauties, and the craving for in deeds in Texas and his patriotic achieve Gawohi gurth gu-r-al Kowof!! Gaw Vermilion: 33.50 a $94.00 per boz. Mat will have a reception all to herself, and a formation about the appearance and habitements in the Mexican war we relied upon aw-wah! gawah, bati gwook! gwart: gwahi ting: Fino contract, White 4/4, 12 dents, table covered with medical certificates, of the former has given as amongst other his valor to revenge the dead and to protect hh-h-whoof 1" Just as the other passengers 5/4, 13 cents, 6/4, 18 cents per The gentlemen expect to hear next that productions the sketches lately published our settlement from the horrors of an Indian they are to appear in the Viceregal Court in the Home News, and now republished massacre; closed up with a little poetry and had consulted together how they might yard; Rod Check, 4/4, 18, conta, 8/4, in the Highland costume, or, as one of the under the title of Pillars of the Empire. peroration to the American flag, the starry slay him, morning dawned, "lower number 16 cante, 6/4, 18 cants; Double Extra three" awoke. "Everybody watched the Imperial, white 4/4, 15 cents, 5/4, 17) conta, emblem of liberty, and handed Colonel Jack curtains to see what manner of man it was 6/4, 20 cents; Red Check, 4/4, 164 cents, American newspapers put it, in low-cut This book contains forty-seven pen and ink trousers, his plan of lusisting upon ladies portraits of distinguished British subjects; the bridle. An audienos of miners, pro that made that beautiful sleeping-cat a 3/4, 15 cents, 6/4, 23 cents per yard. attending levees in low dresses was tried a most of them connected with the colonial spectors, speculators, and gamblers stood pandemonium. Presently the tollet was Cargo Ginger: new, in syrup (Chyloong) few years ago in Newfoundland by one of and diplomatic service.

around in aager expectancy of his reply completed, the curtains parted, and "lower $3.70; Mandarin, $4.20 Young Stem, the governors, and persisted in till two or

It came. remember it as though it were namber three" stood revealed.

Great three popular physicians, finding them

yesterday. I can repeat it from memory,

Who can resist thy magic sway Or not feel charm'd by thes?

When thou dost speak all must obey

Howe'er untam'd they be!

Celestial gift, from heaven above

To elevate the soul, And win us less from fear than love,

Our passions to control.

With thrilling strains thou dost inspirs

Our souls with thoughts sublime, Infusing such seraphie fire

Unquenchable by time!

Oft nerving many a brave, young arm-

To deeds of world-wide fame, Rewarded with the victor's palin

And a bright unsullied name, What power like thine can soothe the heart

O'erwhelmed with grief and care, Or calm with such a magic art

The wailings of despair.

F'en natures fierce are tamed by thee,

As fingers glide along.

Awakening noten of harmony.

Boft blending with thy song f

Oman thy heart would be of stone-

Could'st thou her voice repel, Unseen she comes with pleading tone.

Har influence to tell.

Now melting chords enchant thine ear

Like sounds of sweetest love, Swift chasing from thy heart all fear

With gentleness of dove..

In chorus, now, she comes again

Thy spirit to entrance, Hark! listen to the swelling strain

Inviting to the dance,

One cadence 'mongst the rest is heard

With melody so fraught, Wen unimpassioned hearts are stirred,

The flame divine have caught.

The church bella ring from early daws,

Their music fills the air,

They tell thee 'tis the Sabbath mom,

Aud summon all to prayer,

Repair then to the sacred pile, There join the pious song

Whose moving strains float down the aisle

Exciting fervour strong.

O listen to the words of praisa Now chanted by the choir, With them your grateful voices raise,

Devotion to inspire.

The air with music doth resound

From grove and forest tres, There's sweetest eadonee in the sound

Of the ever restless sea.

What tones like music, so sublime,

That speaks to every heart;

On native soil, or foreign clims

It softens porrow's emart.

And stirs within ar such pure love

F'en death cannot subdue,

A blessed gift from heaven above,

Bo lasting, deep and true.

Midst all the sorrow, pain and grief

It is man's lot to bear,

He'll ever and a sure relief

In music sweet and prayer.. Foronica.

of truth.

The agitation of thought is the beginning Wobe have less praise than those who

funt most after it.

The best way to condemn bad tralto, is by prastiding good ones.

EVENT man thinks Cesar's wife ought to he above auspicion, but he is far less artistide into what Casar himself ought to be

Beat distinction is to be obtalostí not by doing anything different from what your Reighbour does, but by doing everything better than he doens

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live on the train during their stay la various gitles as well as whou en route.

Professor Leone Lavi has published some statistics relative to the present Anencial

position of the working classes. He re- marks that far too much of the extra amount earned by all classes has been spent in malatalaing a standard of comfort higher probably than a labouring man is warranted in looking for, unless he has put by something for the rainy days, and more especially in an excessivo expenditure for eating, drinking, and smoking."

A telegram has been received at Allaha- bad bidding Archibald Forbes speed to Natal Immediately.

an entire house.

Edison uses a carbon point with his ex- periments. This gentlethet does not con- ne himself to a carbon, but rather to a carbonate. The latter impingement will last a year, at least, while that of the young sage of Menlo Park incrustates and excoriates after a few hours' to.

"PILLARS OF THE EMPIRE,"

a

We have no authentic quotations to

Wasta-No settlements have been and

JETTLEMENTS FOR THE PAST MONTH.

-1875-79. 1877-78,

160 bla, 65 blo,

300 bxs.

For Europe,........

&a, Ro-reels,.. 700/800hs. United States,

Bombay,... 50 plo.&00 bls

مامة

selves worked to death, and threatened at on finishing each sketch ie that there has word for word Firat he looked at the heavens! It was a fair young giri, with $0.80 per case of 6 jars.—Soy : $5.25 per

ments,

orator, then at the crowd, then at the golden hair and timid pleading eyes, like a battle charger, and taking the bridle, he hunted fewn's !---Burlington Hawkeyo. said:

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TEA AND COFFEE SUBSTITUTES. During the past year several vegetable products coming under this designation have found their way into commerce, and have been brought under my notice.

1. Broussa Tea.-Mr George Maw in

pioul.

IMPORTS,

LEAD-During the earlier part of the month a fair enquiry existed, and about 150 tons were reported as sold; thore has been less demand latterly, but the market is fairly firm at $6.25 a $0.30 per ploul for "raised brands and L.B., and $6.30 a $8.40 per plonl for W. B. and Bole Chop

QUICKSILVER has fluctuated but little and closing quotations are the same as those

SHIPPING.

The rate of Freight to London, pa 30/ per ton of 40 and 50 cubic fest respec tively.

The rate of Freight to New York, po steamer, is £2.17/ and par sailing vesse 23 per ton of 40 cubic feet.

We learn many particulars about our great ones, and the conclusions we arrive with more competition than they thought rarely been so able an administrator or so pleasant, explained the case to the governor, agrosable a social companion as the subject a retired Admiral, and the rule was aban of it. This book makes us positively long doned. It will have to be abandoned is to make the acquaintance of the virtues "He's a derned good hoss, and I'm much Canada, I expect, unless the Princess is and capabilities that are regnant in the obleeged." prepared to abandon her recaptions.

hearts or prominent in the public careers

I went by way of Sacramento-where The premature death, after a short ill-of our governors, judges, and proconsuls. I bought a saddle horse Placerville, ness, of Mr Eliot Yorke will be deeply We feel foclined to exclaim after the Strawberry, Hops Valley, Genoa, and deplored by his relations and by a large perusal of each essay, "of such is the Caraon. At Yank's I fell in with a sinewy, circle of friends to whom he was endeared kingdom of heaven.” To take a few in-handsome gentleman, mounted on the beat by his frank bearing and genial manners. Mr Eliot Yorks accompanied the Duke of Stances: It is pleasing to learn that "Namule I ever as outside of the artillery forms me that this has become within the given in our last roport, say, $61 per picul Edinburgh as Equerry in the voyage which Cabinot Minister ever received deputationsmules in the Spanish army. It was a last few years a regular article of com- Galatea, and was by H.R. A.' aldo when and bostowed more attention to their argu- and black as night. On the narrow snow the oke of 24 lbs. From specimens of tho steamer, is £1.12 and per satling vesse

Politeness has been defined as path it would ficht a paok-train for the plant producing it, obtained by fr George the attempt was made on the Duke's life at

Maw, it was identified with Vaccinium a picnic at Sydney. Un his return from generosity in small matters, and bow right of way, and was active as a cat,

generous in small matters as in great Lord His master-well-informed, courteous, arctostaphylos, a shrub abundant on the the voyage, Mr Yorke married Annie, the Carnarvon is, colonists in all parts of the disposed to be communicative was so Bitbynian Olympus, where the leaves are second daughter of the late Sir Anthony world know." It in gratifying to learn,ugreeable companion up through the pine largely collected. They are gathered in Rothschild, and then resigned his active though the writer frankly admits that the wooded heights of the Sierra, down through spring, and after being laid in the shade appointment in the household of the Duke fact is not commonly known, that Mr the cold winds of the Carson, across the on a straw mat, ars rolled in the hands and of Edinburgh, retaining until the time of Childers is a born financier." It must be dreary valley till we reached the Devil's dried by a slow fire in an oven. They are his lamented death the post of Honorary permanent source of comfort to the re- Gate. Ele was bound for Dayton; I to said to make a very palatable beverage. Equerry to H.R.B. The Loess whick sidents in Hongkong to be informed that Virginia town. Everybody remembers the 2. The Arobe.-M. Durando has forward- proved fatal was an acute attack of conges. Mr Pope Hennessy is great grandnephew road-aida gin mill at the mouth of the ed to Kew a packet of this material, such tion of the lungs; but only last apring Mr a lady to whom the illustrious Edmund canon, there we dismounted for a parting as are offered for sale by Algerian phar- Yorke had been greatly enfeebled by an Burke once wrote a letter, and that the nip of benzine to lighten our award macists. The Tea itself, whatever may be attack of typhoid fever. The marriage of bead and figure of the present Governor of journey. Before mounting I said to the its medicinal merits, is not reported upon Me Yorke with Miss de Bothschild was the the inlaad olony are curiously like a stranger:

very favourably, though apparently enjoy. mer, first of the mixed Rothschild marriages portrait of Sir Arthur Wellesley when he Beg your pardon, elr, but we bave had ing considerable local reputation. It proves which have been contracted with the full was a Sepoy General. We learn too that a pleasant ride together, and I am interest- to consist of a mixture of the dower of consent and approval of the patents, Major General Roberts who is doing sucked in you enough to inquire your name and Paronychia argentea and nives. The name

excellent work in Afghanistan is called business "

the Arabe" is also given to infusions of Globularia alyssum, ŝistus albidus, alegria citriode a. The paronychia Tea is dis- tinguished by the name of "Sanguinaire." B. Coprosma Ooffes.-Mr J. O. Crawford has recommended to the Wellington Philo- gom-sophical Society the use of the berries of Coprosma baueriana, a New Zealand abrub not unfrequent in English gardens, ad Coffee substitute. The usefulness of a pro- dust of this kind from a temperate olimate is to manifest that the suggestion deserves a trial:

also welcomes his guate at Government **Weil, then, I am a professional house with a gontal cordiality wbloh makten bler,” he replied. them feel at home directly, and in these matters he is ably aided and seconded by Lady Robinson, who is one of the most charming hostesses in the world."

"Good," said I; "now one inquiry more and I am content. I am anxious to know how so highly educated and intelligent person as yourself becomes reconciled to such a life. Every one has a chart of principles, a sort of code of rules to govera himself. What are yours!"

LOADING AND ON TAX BERTH,~~~At Wham pos-For London and New York-None- At Hongkong.-ForLondon.-Sumarlide Stracathro, Priam, str.

For New York-Hazelhurst, Golden Rub

4. Goddard.

For San Francisco.-Black Hawk, Char

DEPARTURES. From Whampoa.- Ba London and New York.-None,

From Hongkong-For London, Glav cus, str., Black Watch, Ulysses, strier

For Now York.-Mary Whitridge, For San Francisco.—Rosita "MoNeil Matchless.

Miscellaneous.

Tur most unpopular petty officer in th army-Corio al l'unishment.

Cann man belong to a brass band an be a Christian?" asks an eschange. Lee no impediment in the way. But if-

In Mr Barton Baker's recently published book on the stage there is an amading" Bobs," not only behind his back, but to Readily be replied 1 "Certainly, only I anecdote told apropos of salarien,

Few ble face; and that Sir Hercules Robinsonam afraid that when you learn my ovenpa London managers of the presort day (saya has nothing of the great bahawder about tlon it will lessen the good impression. I the writes) would condescend-or for the him but is easy of access, civil and have evidently made," matter of that, be able to carry out such obliging to all who approach him." He Oh, no," I said, tricks as those recorded of Bich, who occtt ples no prominent a place in theatrical bis- tory, and whom Cibber declares to have been as sly a tyrant an ever was at the head of a theatre." A worthy follower in his footsteps was found in the person of a now defunct manager of the Princese's, of whom a story is told which, so far as we know, has never found its way into print M., the ingenious impresarie in question, was giving operas, and his grima donna having made a brilliant succese, received offers of higher terms, at other houses. M;-did not like the idea of kaing her, but neither did he relish the notion of pay ing her an increased palary; and one day Mr Gathorne Hardy, anathematizing his

to be discourteous, and offend; and lastly, goso reeds," on the Zambesi as a substitute to close a biliet dous to Araminta with t when she called upon him to decide the evil star, because the Lord Chancellor re- I don't care a damn what happens to aty for Coffee Monteiro, however, states in words Yours without prejudice," there question of staying or going, the observed fuced his application for “silk.".

body, so long as it don't happen to me,"his" Angola and the River Congo (vol avoiding the annoyance of a breach | Argonaut.

We are also thankful to learn that the

Governor of New South Walus is straight" on the turf. The Marquis of Salisbury is

4. Negro Coffee-The Commissioner of is a member of a brass band and is given Customs forwarded to me in the early part practising on his cornot or trombone introduced as " the young man with the "Well," he answered, "I am governed of the year a sample of an article imported home, It is an utter impossibility for t severe cast of countenance, the clearly by certain rules I would call them prin as the port of Liverpool from Bathurst, man living next door to be a Christian. chiselled features, and the slightly stooping ciples I suppose they are. I have three. River Gambla, ander the above name. They figure," making the afternoon pligrimage First, I never ask any one to drink, lest I were identified at Kew as the seeds of Cas of Fleet Street And the Strand and we first might tempt him to excessive indulgence se occident lia. According to Livingstone aigned his letters to his frienda" Tours see the new Secretary of State for India, as I never refuse to drinks, lest I might seem these are used, under the name of "Fede aight," and a lawyer advised a young me

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AN EDITO VS REVENGE

Norristown Herald,

PROFESSIONAL PHRASEOLOGT.—A bank •

. p. 249), that Fedegoz needs are used promise suit. It is reported of Earl Ruess only medicinally as a substitute for quinine that in the multiplicity of his parliamenta The seeds are roasted and ground, and duties he would forget the names of

large party just as" a symptoms" by whi an apothecary who put a leaf in his hat at he might recover iti

on the table a superb diamond bracelet. Though the volume, however, is sadly i began: He could not afford to pay disfigured by too facile a subservience to more--his money was safe while promises the unhealthy taste of the hour, it contains KINDRES sets to know of some secret of high pay elsewhere might not be kept, some readable sketches and several of the

Last week the proprietor of the leading their infusion taken either alone or children, and refer to them under the hea fotintain of joy in the not which is an o, and he need all bis potters of garsud biographies are well done. But everybody soda water fountain on Jefferson street generally mixed with Coffee." Extract of schedule A and schedule 3, o, I kne tously without revealing its locality, and sion to induce her to sign the engagement gets too much praise, and, indeed, after

use to send its waters upward and over which he had prepared couldn't bear reading about so many incarnations of all took ap and cancelled our annual pas. From the Report on Kew Gardens for

to part with you, my dear," he said, tabing the virtues, it is a relief read the admis-We do not regret this act on his part. On 1877-78 Gasty flow the heart.-F. W. Füber,

EVERYTHING, says Hugh Miller, is welting her band, we've got on to well together, sion that Lord Northbrook's foreign the contrary, we are rather glad of it, Nature's history, from pebble to planet, and your reputation is sure to increase in policy may be described as one of adherente because a conscientious regard for the publia The scratches of the rolling rock, the shanty theatro. I wish I could afford to give to the principle of masterly lagstien laid safety and & Bus sause of our duty in such pels of the rivers, the falling rain, the you more, my dear, but if I did others down by Lord Lawrence, and is certainly matters were just impelling us to say that buried fern, the foot-print in the snow and would be jealous and I should have to in direct antagonism to that of Lord Lyt fountain soda is composed of sawdust, every ast of man insoribes the map of her false everybody. Just sign the engagement ton. That Lord Northbrook le somewhat gravel, old gue, aquafortis, leather chips, tan bark, iron flings, marble dust, sand, batch. The air is full of sounds, the sky there, and we'll see what we can do not deficient in fexibility and originality may river water, red ink, orange peel, yellow season." I can't afford to give more money; be admitted. That he is pre-eminently la lud of tanda turged as moof but (taking up the bracelet) I ahotild Ehon adapted for the administration of a polley soap, syrup of rhubarb, ammonis, fusel oll, br Inps legible to the intelligent.

molto sige hulgale are more how to return kindness, my dear, if you were whose principles are fixed, cannot be denied. Ismp black, bolled tallow, and Indian to algo," Half unconsciously putting the He le ant the man to reorganise an Empire turnip Thousands of people bave drunk A Nax cannot afford to be ungrateful bracelet on her arm he continued, "Look in a period of storm or stroms; but of a good fountain soda. We are no alarmista, but Ender any circumstations; a man cant how it sparkles! Now, my dear, just put system in times of peace, no better or more where are those people now Burlington `pferd so be mina at any time, a man your name there, and you'll me that I ain't) preetical exponent could be found,?

A FATHER who had passed innumeral CRICKET FOR TURKs.-The British coldier sleepless nights has immortalised hims had not been established forty-eight hours by discovering a method of keeping bab under the shadow of the Cyprian Olympus quiet. The modus operandi is as follows: before the inevitable bats, balls, and stumps as soon as "pet" awakes, set it up, prope were produced; and the game of grloket by a pillow, if it cannot sit alone, and ame naturalised in the island by the Black Watch its flugera with treacle; then put half and 101st Royal Bengal Fusiliers. It is dozen feathers into its hands, and it will proposed to initiate the Moslemn inhabitants and pick the feathers from one hand to t into its mysteries, as the first step towards other until it drops asleep, As soon se making them decent members of the human wakes again, repeat the operation; and brotherhood we are going to establish in place of the fret and ery of former alg those parts,

there will be silence nad gulit repones