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THE DEAD STUDENT.

Ir doesn't seem-now does it, Jack?—às if

poor Brown were dead;

take his bod.

"Twas only yesterday at noon he had to The day before, he played first base, and And then, to slip away so sly 'twas not at

ran M'Farland down;

all like BrowD.

The story seems too big to take. Most any

one will find

It's sometimes hard to get a man well laid

out in his mind.

"Twouldn't scare me, I avow,

Poor Brown! he's lying in bis room, as

white as drifted snow.

I called upon bim, as it were, an hour or

two ago. A-rushing into Brownie's room seemed

awkward like and queer: We haven't spoken back and forth for some.

thing like a year.

We didn't pull together aquaro a single

night of day: Howe'er I want,, he soon contrived to find

another way. He ran against me in my loves: we picked

a dozen bones About that girl you used to like the one

that married Jones.

He worked against me in the class, before

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He opened up and scooped me square out In the last campus rush we came to strictly

of the Junior prize,

business blows,

And from the eye he loft undimmed

viewed bis damaged nose.

In fact, I came at last to feal-and own

it

with dismay— That life would be worth living for if

Brown were out the way. But when I heard that he was dead, my

feelings tacked; and then I would have given half mý lito to get his

back again..

"LOOK ON THIS PICTURE,-AND

ON THIS."

of the lamented douth of Lord Lawrence come to hand hore, we were fortunato

of the Pioneer

in office. No words more, frank, more

a

If to have an opportunity of treating a political opponent with generosity, to seize that opportunity with alacrity, and to use it with grace, he a stroke, of good fortune, the present Viceroy may well bo con- gratulated on the resolution which recorded the tribute of the Government of India to the memory of his distinguished predecessor

a hearty, more free from any suggestion of a bitter afterthought, were ever penned than those in which Lord Lytton gave attorance to the funeral eulogy of the man, who for mouths and years past as been the centre, if not the principal moving cause, of the most formidable English op position that a Viceroy. at a critical con Jansture, has ever experienced. Of the controversy we have no wish to speak; but it is pleasant in an age in which parlin- mentary virulence threatens to become Dational disease, and in a society for which no libel is too petty, and no scurrility too base, to find that there is at least one Eng. Ilishman, whom political opposition cannot betray into a bitter mood, and who escapes gladly from the hot atmosphere of public controversy into that higher and calmer region, in which all differences of opinion put out of sight--sterling merits of character are alone regarded, and the permanent claims to a Nation's gratitude alone enforced. The happy art dissentire sine odio is a rare one, novor rarer than just now in England. Lord Lytton's Resolution proves him a said the babel of angry tongues, and must proficient in it. It fell like a note of peace have been as coals of fire to the heads of many who have thought no insult too gross, no invective too scathing, no suggestion too dishonourable for the successful author of the Cabul Campaign.

THE CHINA MAIL.

GENERAL GRANT AND THE PRESIDENCY,

DEBASING THE MORAL CURRENCY.

I have been smazed to find that some

Kermesso.

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No. 5026-August 16, 1879,

then he hits it with a second barrel. Soms-

was a clever one. Then he shoots from a

· CHAT FROM PARIS, 20

THE LATEST LONDON LION... The other night they gave the grand

Dr. Carver, the. American rifle shot, isvr. A correspondent of the New York Tribune, artists whose own works have the ideal festival at the Opera-house in favour of the rather a lion just now, and draws people It may be remembered that when the news E. V. S. writes from Philadelphia under stamp are quite insensible to the damaging sufferers by the Hungarian inundation; wherever he is. Last Moriday and Tues-

date of June 7th :-

tendency of the burlesquing spirit which was common place enough up to midnight, day he was at the potty little Ranelagh. Everybody knows of the cordial friend ranges to and fro and up and down on the when the concert, at a hundred franca Club, where he drew a distinguished and ship existing between General Grant and earth, ses no reason (except a precariona seat, was concluded. Then was exhibited fashionable crowd the Tecks and their enough to be able to place before our the proprietor of The Può is Ledger. When ship) why it should not appropriate the marvel of a fancy fair, or rather of a children, Lord and Lady Spencer, moet of readers at the same time as the intimation Grant was President Mr Childs was a fre- every sacred, horote and pathette theme suburban village fete exhibited in the im the "beauty women" and a host of misor of his death appeared in our papor the quent guest it, the White Honse, and which sorves to make up the treasure of mense building with all the aids that light, nymphs, some of whom, I thought, would whenever bo oar to Philadelphia Mr human admiration, hope and love. One pictorial effects, flowers and female beauty give pounds to the others, but I did not eloquent, graceful and liberal tribute paid. Childe's house was a honio. The presents would have thought that their own half- could give. The Prince of Wales happened say so because that would have been flat by the Governor-General of India to his the ex-President has received during his despairing efforts to invest in worthy out to be in Parla-tble time he brought the heresy. Why he is a doctor or whether he memory.

The document to which we Philadelphia friond, and are kept in Mr of enblimity and the consciousness of an Saturday at the Club'of the Rue Royale, not come up to our ideal of the practitioner tour abroad have been forwarded to his ward shape the vague foward impressions Princess and his daughter and, dining of is a doctor I cannot tell you, but he does refer emanated nominally, of course, from Chlids's private office and shown by him to implicit ideal in the commonest scenes he went of 10 o'clock and took possession of daily life. A very good-looking broad- the Government, but there could be no bie callers with as much pride and pleasure might have made them ausceptible of some of the stage box, for which he paid a fabu-shouldered young follow with a somewhat lous price. But his contributions to the effeminate cast of features, redeemed by a And Brown was just afire with life. doubt that the work was that of Lord as though ho were the recipient instead of disgust or alarm at the species of burlesque charity were not to end there; they only powerful and well-put-together figure, olad only the custodian of these treasures: A which is likely to render their compositions Lytton. The following very appropriate regular correspondenso is kept up between no botter than a dissolving view where really began after midnight. A gold piece in loose Breeches and blucher boots, a tight To hear a whoop, and see the man go remarks on the minute are from the columns the two friends. General Grant's last letter every noble form is seen melting into ite for a glass of champagne poured by a fair tunfo, and a broad sombrero under cover

rushing past hero now.

was written at the Straits Settlement, preposterous caricature. It used to be hand, four or five louie for a less palatable of which bit long fair locks flow down his Singapore, April 5. He says he expects to imagined of the anhappy medieval Jews article from a handsome artiste of old nook like a woman, he presented suff teach San Francisco in July (Mr Childe that they parodied Calvary by crucifying acquaintance, half a dozen soverolgus for a olently picturesque appearance, If not that thinks the date will be about the 25th), and dogs, If they had been guilty they would Chinese hat to Mademoiselle Schneider, of an M.D. Bis shooting--I have now been intends to make excursions to s4 places of at least have had the excuse of the hatred and five hundred france to Madame Theo, bim twice is something wonderful. Last interest on the Pacific coast Afterwards and rage begotten by persecution.. Are we jolie parfumeuse, for a bottle of scent Tuesday he broke 90 glans balls, tossed up he means to stop for a few de at Virginia on the way to a parody which shall have no there were but a few of the demands on

at random, out of 100, + As a rule he doesn City, Nev., and on his way East will spend other excuse than the reckless search after the poor Prinos's pocket. The London not undertake to break more than 75. The a little time in Salt Lake City, and then fodder for degraded appetites after the papers will give you very briliant descrip- most dificult shooting was when the balls take in Colorado, where he expects to make pay to be earned by pasturing Circe's herd, tions of the affair, made up for telegraphio were thrown at him by his black servant, rather extensive tour. When he wrote whore they may defile every monument of despatch early in the day. Those, like, and he only missed then shout two out of a he had evidently heard nothing about the that growing life which should have kept myself, writing after the event, must ea dozen. I thought it appeared to be bad for plans for giving him a public reception in them human?

fans that it was utterly trivial, and that the the nigger once or twice, for the Doctor California and in the Easternécities, for he The world seems to me well supplied with work wit and the noise of the smaller hours appeared to fire blank at him now and then. speaks of his Pacific coast journeys as what is genuinely ridiculons; wit and of Sunday morning were almost intolerable. The ballets must have whistled very close though they wore to be quiet and enjoyable humour mag play a harmlessly or benefi-People lingered in the midst of those many to the darkie's head, but no mistakes” affairs, and urges Mr Childs to join him in cently round the changing facts of egotism, dissipated actresses of Paris till long after have ever been made, I hear, and I suppose San Francisco with a few personal friends, absurdity and vice as the sunshine over the daylight. The laat man who retired was master and man have from nerves. Then whom he names among them being the rippling sex of the dewy meadows. Why probably a British plokpocket, though from Carver has a very clever dodge of shooting venerable General Patterson, who, though should we make our delicions sense of the his severe get-up and the broche of minta- at a glass ball on the ground. He manages over eighty years old, is still a great ladiarons, with its invigorating abecks of ture ribbons and crosses he exhibited he to put the ballet just as it were under the traveller and a delightful social companion. laughter and its irrepressible smiles, which was believed to be a Russian prince. It ball, which bounds from the ground, and The letter is mainly made up of pleasant are the outglow of an inward radiation claimed, in reference to this latest gentle body said it was a trick, but if it was, it

was five o'clock, and a lingering actress ex• chat about the voyage, and inquiries shout gentle and cheering as the warmth of morn friends in this country. General Granting, flourish like a brigand on the robbery unusual height. Mon Dieu! It is the pony, but that was not so very extraordi

man, who was excessively slim and of speaks of his party suffering some an- of our mental wealth or let it take its Mat-de-Cocagne walking off !" A climbing nary, though he never missed while the noyance from the heat, but says all are in exercise as a madman might, if allowed a excellent health.

free nightly promenade, by drawing the pole was one of the delights of the quasi-pony was going at a hard canter. The venerable structure a blackened rain, or bed when they were called again to prepare when he doffed his broad-brimmed hat and populses with bonfires which leave some

women applauded, from the Princess Mary A great many people had secretly gone to downwards; so clever," they said, and send a scorching smoko across the portraits for a departure to see the race of the Grand bowed and smiled towards the Princess, so of the past at which we ones looked with a loving recognition of followship, and diafi-Prix Sunday morning promised dull, and handsome" they added. Carvor is a gure them into batta of mockery-asy at last displayed. But at two o'clock it

the now toilettes, all in tender colour, were success-London Cor. worse, use it to degrade the healthy appe- thundered, and down came the floods of tites and affections of our naturs as they are seen to be degraded in Insane patients rain we have been growing so accostoned to

for screaming laughter in more topay try discovered as an over-wrapping for existing one of the poorest districts in London. Of whose system, all out of joint, finds matter for the past eight months. I do not know

If the paper stockings they have junt This locality is cclebrated as the heart of makes every passion preposterous or ob scene, and turns the hard-won order of life silken foot covering, were yet in vogue on late years various improvemente have been into a second chaos, hideous enough to Sunday. But certainly the pink and white made in the neighbourhood, and the Dials make one wall that the first was over stripes, the pale blue, the light crimson are now traversed by omnibuscs, and have thrilled with light?

hose and the satin shoes of all shades to suit made considerable progress towards civilisa This is what I call dabssing the moral the robes were well seen and thoroughly tion. The locality is still a singular, one, currency; lowering the value of every, in-saturated. The numbers on the course and as it lies in close proximity to the spiring faut and tradition so that it will

were not as great as usual. The contest West-end, it can be easily visited by these was amongst the Freuch, only one English curious to see the inner life of London. command less and less of the spiritual horse competing. The skies were leader, The readient approach to it is from St.. products, the generous motives which aus-

and the solemn dreary face of M. Gray in Martin's-lane, orpssing between Cranborne- existence the something besides bread by which man saves his soul alive. The bread almost be called the dulness of the scene.wards here, the stranger finds himself in a The most happy-looking man, next to street altogether unique in its way. It is and more coppery shillings or assignats or

me to be Marshal MacMahon, who, free pigeon, fowl, and rabbit can be found here, greenbacks for his day's work, and so get from office, exhibited unusual galety in the together with rare birds, such as hawks and the needful quantum of food; but let that stand-house of the Jockey Club, where he owls, parrots, love-birds, and other species moral currency be emptied of its valuelet was chatting with the Duke of Aumale and native and foreign. There is a shop for

greedy buffoonery debase all historie

a score of others who would not for worlds specimens for aquaria, with its tanks of baauty, majesty, and paths, and the more

be seen speaking to the present President waterbeetles, newts, water-spiders, and other you heap up the desecrated symbols the greater will be the lack of the sunbling owner of the mare Nubienne, who won, is British song birds, larks, thrashes, ball- of the Repubilo. Edmond Blano, the aquatio creatures. Others are devoted to emotions which subdue the tyranny of the

an almost-beardless, youngster, the second finches, statlinge, blackbirds, &c. Here and suffering and make ambition one with so-

son of a shrewd father, the late M. Blane, there are shops filled with cages of all kinds ofal virtue.

of the Monaco casino, who began the world and sorts, and one or two dog-fanciers have We have been severely enough taught in little sabots, and gained in it, as proprie also settled here. Passing through this lane (if we were willing to learn) that our civi- the rock of Monte Carlo, very nearly fifty streets meat. If it is desired to see poor tor of the green cloths of Hombourg and we are in the Dials, a point where seven lization, considered as a splendid material fabric, ia helplessly in peril without the millions of francs. Edmond is not as close-London, it is better not to go straight on, spiritual police of sentiments of ideal band a penny to the waiter where he Hero poverty is to be seen in its most fisted as his father, who would sometimes but to turn up any of the side streets. foolings. And it is this invisible police which we had need, as a community, to dined. At least on Sunday evening he painful features. The shops sell nothing strive to maintain in efficient force. How handed his good English jockey, fifty but second or third hand articles-old And well he might; for. dresses, old olothes, ald hats, and at the top if a dangerous "Swing" were sometimes thousand france.

as Count La Gr.nge said when condoled of the stairs of little underground collars, disguised in a versatile entertainer devoted with on the nou-success of Zut, it was

old shoes, so patched and mended that it is questionable whether one particle of the I confess that sometimes, when I see a car-Hudson, not Nubienne, that won the race.

The scene at the Chamber of Deputies on original material remains in them. These taia style of young lady, who checks our tender admiration with rose and henna and Monday, when application was made to strecte awarm with children of all ages, all the blazonry of an extravagant ozpen-have Paul Cassagnac given up for trial, was engaged in any kind of game which diture, with slang and bold brusquerie in- dreadful. The Times alura it over; but childhood is capable of enjoying without tended to signify her emancipated view of read the report of the Standard. Even that the addition of expensive apparatus. Tip- things, and with cynical moakery which is subdued. The members rushed down on eat, battledore and shuttlecock, are great the floor, and each side used the most favourites about the Dials, and the passer. two came to blows, and the obscenity of sequences. Children sit on door-stepa and tongue was awful. It was the Assemmoir, on the pavement, they play in the gutter, barring the women, on the floor of the they chase each other in the road, and dodge were in the galleries, and were evidently House of Representatives. The women delighted at the scene and clapped thoir

I called upon him, as it were, an hour or

two ago. The room was neat beyond excuse the

women made it so.

Be sure he had no hand in that, and naught

about it know.

To see the order lying round had made him

very blue.

A sweet bouquet of girlish flowers smiled.

in the face of Death.

We have thought it fit to bring the above prominently forward to point a moral. This too shall be done by means of a

San Francisco to meet the ex-President on Speaking of the projected excursion to his return, Mr Childs says that none of General Grant's personal friends are in any way concerned in it or take the slightest interest in it. The affair, he adds; is evidently a business speculation, gotten up by individuals who hope to make some money ont of the interest felt by the public doubt aided by the railroad companies, who in General Grant's return. They are no

would naturally be glad to get the profits ou a heavy excursion business. Mr Childs says there will be undoubtedly a handsome reception tendered to General Grant by the city of San Francisco, and a few personal friends will cross the continent to take part in welcoming him, but their trip will be a private affair, without the slightest political significance.

As to General Grant's political plans, Mr

General Grant entertained any expectation of being nominated for the Presidency in candidatos, Mr Childs is confident he would have written him on the subject. As the ox-President has never once mentioned the matter in his letters, Mr Childs feels con- vinced that the possibility of being called upon to serve a third term in the White House is wholly foreign to his thoughts. Mr Childs says that any movements to beatow public honors on Grant after his arrival which have a political purpose, and seem intended to put him in the attitude of a candidate for the Presidency, will be die tasteful to him, and will be discouraged by all his personal friends.

SEVEN DIALS..

Straight through the open window come quotation which is only brief. A London Childs is confident that be, has nous. Iliala the charm såd elevation of our social the State stand-house added to what might street and Long-acre. Turning up north-

the morning's fragrant broath."

Close-caged, a small canary-bird, with

glossy, yellow throat,

correspondent writes:-

At the Cobden Club dinner held at

Skipped drearily from perch to peroh, and Greenwich, under the, presidency of Lord 1880, or meant to enter the lists of winner of the family may demand-more Edmond Blanc, I saw that day seemed to the abode of bird-fanciers. Every variety of

never sung a note,

With hair unusually combed, sat poor

M.Farland near, Alternately perusing Greek, and wrestling A homely little girl of six, for some old

with a tear,

kindness' sake, Was sobbing in the corner there as if her

heart would break.

>

The books looked worn and wretched like,

almost as if they knew, And seemed to be a-whispering their titles

to my view.. His red and gun were in their place; and

high, where all might sea, Gleamed jauntily the boating cup he won

last year from me.

I lifted up the solemn sheet. That honest, Showed signs of culture and of toll that

earnest faco

Death could not érase

As western skies at twilight mark where

late the sun has been, Brown's face revealed the mind and soul

that once had burned within.

Northbrook, the noble Lord talked with a

vengeance according to the feelings of his audience, for more radical sentimente than is I have rarely heard. Lord Northbrook is a wooden speaker, but a good bater. He is also an ingenious assailant, or he could nover have made Cobden Club dinner the occasion of attacking the "seation of the Cabinat" who were in favour of the Afghan war. The Viceroy must possess a very forgiving spirit, otherwise there will be a day of heavy reckoning in store for Lord Northbrook. If the latter had been one of the most uncompromising of politicians he could hardly have acted with greater brutality towards his successor. All through the discussions on the Afghan question.neither ex-official restreint nor the amenities of that polite circle in which he moves, prevented Lord Northbrook criticis ing Lord Lytton and his policy in pretty much the same way as such rabid politicians as the editor of the Echo treats Lord Beaconsfield. Lord Northbrook's Afghan comments at the Cobden Club dinner show ed an undying animus, and have done the None would be more sorry than we to see the noble rale de mortuis nil niti bonum ing that all men who are fortunate enough to be dead are to be bespattered with ful- some flattery whatover kind of life they led, whatever their public sina and short- comings. But we do believe in a handsome acknowledgement of a great and good man just passed away, whatever his sense of duty may have led him to do in contra- vention of our own feelinge and it may be

noble lord no credit.

GENERAL GRANT'S ENTRY INTO

CANTON....

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to the amusement of mixed audiences ? And

He looked so grandly helpless there, upon degenerate into a clap-trap utterance, mean have been pressed into space by some system she mistakes for penetration, I am sorely infamous language to the other. One or by must guard his face or take the con

that lonely bed! Oh, Jack! these manly foes are foes no

more when they are dead! "Old boy," I sobbed, twas half my fault

This heart makes late amends."

I took the white cold bande in mine--and

Brown and I were friends.

-Will Carleton

A WONDERFUL BABY.

'Tis a wonderful baby, I cannot deny it,

The loveliest, sweetest, that ever was

made; And no silver or gold in the country could

bay it, Nor jewele--though e'en a queen's casket

were paid.

little hands,London Cor. (Pioneer.)

School Beard has not mash power in the in and out of houses. It is evident that the neighbourhood of the Dials. Fablis-houses

abound, and it is evident that whatever there may ba a lack of in the Dials, there is SOME curious experiments have been no lack of money to pay for drink At made at the Times Office with the view of night the public-houses are ablaze with ascertaining whether the loading newspaper light, and on Saturday evenings there is a cannot be simultaneously printed by means great sound of shouting and singing through of electricity in several towas each morning the windows, while the women stand outside This has been a favourite project with the and wait, hoping against hope that their chief proprietors of the Times, for several husbands will come out before the week's years. The idea was that the electris money is all spent. Nowhere within reach current should cut at any distance the fac of the West-end of London can such a simile of any papier-maché matrix which glimpse of the life of the pourer danses be might be submitted for copying. Happily obtained as on a Saturday evening at the for the provincial press the scheme has Dials-Dickens's Dictionary of London, fallen through.

The N. V. Herald's correspondent, writing about General Grant's entry into Canton, says:-It was an extraordinary sight. The colors, the surroundings, the barbaric pomp, the phases of an ancient civilization, so new, so strange, so interesting, and beyond all, this teaming city, alive with wonder and curiosity, giving this one day to see the foreigner, to look in awe upon the face of the American whose coming had been dia- cussed in every bazaar and by every silk loom in Canton. The multitude seemed to of artificial pressure, the people were so alose tempted to hiss out "Pétroleuse!" It is a together men, women and children. email matter to have our palaces sot aflame At intervals of a hundred yards were compared with the misery of having our guards of soldiers, some carrying spears sanse of noble womanhood, which is the shaped like a trident, others with etaves or inspiration of a purifying shame, the pro- pikes, other the clumsy, old-fashioned gun. mise of life penetrating affation, stained There is nothing martial in the Chiness and blotted ont by images of repulsiveness. soldier I am afraid, but his dress was Thee things come-not of higher education, specially decorated and helped to give color but-of dull ignorance fostered into part to the scene. Then came groups of Man-ness by the greedy vulgarity which reverses darins (officials), their bats surmounted with Peter's visionary lesson, and learns to call the button which indicated their rank, all things common or unclean. It comes of holdir fans, and as the General passed debasing the moral currency. to our individual hurt at the time. Lord saluting him in Chinese fashion, raising both The Tirynthians, sudording to an avolent Lytton has proved himself a large-minded hands to the forehead in supplicating story reported by Athenaeus, becomlug con- liberal statesman; Lord Northbrook has attitude, holding them an instant, and solous that their triek of laughter at every bringing them down with a retatory gesture. thing and nothing was making them unfit brought discredit on bimself by this Wherever the street was intersected with for the conduct of serious affairs, appealed lamentable display of his ferocity, small-ether streets the crowd became 30 dense that to the Delphis oracle for some means of additional troops were required to hold it cure. The god prescribed a peculiar form mindedness and unfairness. The former in place, and at various points the Chinese of sacrifice, which would be effective if they We humor and fondle, we kiss and caress it, has dous u graceful act which will go far to salute of three guns was fired. The road to could carry it through without laughin

Are auxions whene'er it's out of our sight;

the viceregal place was three miles, and as They did their host; but the flimsy joke of No barber knoweth, says the Detroit Free And we call it pet names such as "queen make him live in the minds of the people the pace of the coolis who carries your chair a boy opast their unaccustomed gravity, Press, whom he may shave, and the man

THERE was a little difficulty about finding lamb," and "blessed."

as a nobleman in the best meaning of the is a slow one, and especially slow on days and in the way the oracle taught them that who rushes into a shop and drops into a Baron Rothschild's will. When discovered "Dear old precious darling," from morn-word; the latter will only be remembered of multitudes and pageantry, we were over evon the gods could not prescribe a quick barber's chair without seeing who occupies it was found to consist of two sheets of

ing till night.

as the Viceroy who was connected with the an hour in our journey, and for this hour cure for a long vitiation or give power and the next chair to the right or left, may got note-paper tied with a bit of ribbon. we journeyed through a sea of faces, a dignity to a people, who, in a crisis of the badly left, as a case proved the other day. Though the Baron is known t› have been Baring Bros, and never drew his salary for hushed and silent sea that swept around us, public wall being, were at the mercy of e

A solid old citizen in the wholesale trade worth about fifteen millions sterling, be his services, such as they were, as Go- covering windows, doors, strests, roof tops, poor jest.-George Eliot's Theophrastus Buck. was taking it easy, his face covered with personally was sworn ander £3,700,000.

wherever there was room for a pair of feat

lather, when in came a young man, who This must have been disappointing to the or hands. Some of the party estimated that

ftung off his coat, bounced into a chair and Chancellor of the Exchequer. But even there werd 200,000 people to witness General TALKING with an old gentleman from a called out: "Burry up, now, for I mast Grant's progress through Canton.

rural district, the other day, we casually get back to the store before old Blank does, £2,700,000 will yield a fine probate duty. Albert Weber, the piano manufacturer

Tax famous Egyptian obellak, which was The young men were, as a general thing, remarked upon third terms, and asked his or he will raise thunder. Hang him, he who died at New York, June 25th, leaves handsome, especially those of rank, who opinion as to Grant's chances. "Grant!" won't even give a man time to die!" The recently ast up on the banks of the Thames, an estate valued at $501,000 to $750,000.

were known by their buttons, and who gazed said he, faquiringly, "who's Grant ? solid oltizen turned his face to glanco at the and which it was fourd would ratidly King of Israel; and the Hebrew heart of contemptuous expression, very much as General Grant, President Grant, you his face,

"Wine maketh glad the heart," said the upon the barbarians with a supercilious and "Why" we replied, "Ulysses Grant, other, and the barber noticed a reddening of become disorganized by the action of the "Going on a vacation ibis peculiar atmosphere, has been coated with a ad'icious wash, which, it is believed, will David's day was gladdened by a real wine, young men of the same class would regard know." The look of interest passed from Summer?" asked the barber, who was pre- the wine of grapes; while the ancient Sitting Bell or Red Cloud from a olub his features, and his voice returned to its pating to shave the young man. Vaca succesfully protest ita surface for years. Egyptian heart rejoiced in wine of barley window as the Indian chiefs went in proces- wonted tone as he said, "No, I guess I tlon! How In Tophet can I get away from The effect of the process, it is said, has aut that is, beer. The invention of beer as a sion along Fifth Avenue. As a matter of never heard of him." What was our old Blank? And if I could, he pays euch passed expectation, and is only to be com beverage is ascribed to Osiris, twenty cen- fact I suppose they looked upon General amazed rejoinder, "never heard of General tingy, contemptible salary that I couldn't pared to the restoration of an old oil paint, And over the brow where were ringlets once turies before the Christian ara, and it was Grant and his party as some of us would Grant, the hero of the great rebellion whers afford even a ride on the ferry-boat. ing. The obelisk now appears as if üs kuown to the ancient world as wine of bar rogard Red Cloud and his braves. We so many precious lives and such a vast" Why don't you ask him for a raise ?" chiseled from the rock, stowing its origina There now are soft tresses of silvery gray.ley. In modern times the nationalities of were foreigners, outside barbarians, and if expenditure of money were offered up as a queried the barber. Why don't I ask for colors, the quartz and feldspar glittering in Latin origin drink wine more freely than we came at all to a viceregal palace-if we saorific As we had proceeded, a show of the band of his freckle-nosed daughter the sunlight. The intaglio also comes out those of Saxon origin, who consume much were received with music and the firing of intelligence had lighted up the face of our He'd discharge me in a minute, though much more distinctly than before.**

According to Humboldt, the oldest town beer. The agriculture of European coun- cannon and the beating of drums it was interlocutor, until he suddenly broke out, he's making money and can afford it. If tries is largely influenced by the popular because the Viceroy was in a gracious moodLock here, you! I remember there was the old byens would have a stroke of in the world is Jakutsk-five thousand in demand for beverages. Within the last two and deigned to give the barbarian a sight of some talk of a row long in '61. Tell us apoplexy the junior partner might do some habitants in Eastern Siberia. It is no decades beer has been rapidly gaining favor imperial Chinese splendor. But while you how it came out. Did they really get to thing, but such chaps always live to be a only the oldest, but probably also the cold in Latin countries. Beer saloons now saw this curious, inquiring, contemptuous fighting right down in earnest ? You can handred years old." Conversation cossed est. The ground remains always frozen t flourish to Parts, Rome and Madrid so well expression, now and then you saw in some imagine how refreshing this was after here, the solid man got out of his chair, the depth of 800 feet, except in midsumment in Barlin, Vienna and Hamburg. In hurried observation and the ripple af mook- months' reading of Congressional speeches took a brushing and sat down, and when when it thaws three feet at the surfsor Paris, for example, the annual consumption ing laughter which came with it, that you replete with reminiscences of the late un-the clerk arose from his chair and turned The mean temperature for the years of bear has risen to over 100,000,000 liters were under criticism, that your black cost pleasantness. In the overpowering joy of around, snowballs would have looked black 18.7 F. For ten days in August thi (about 250,000 gallons), and many Parisians or white cravat or crashed opera, hat-that the monest, we hld our face in our hands, beside his face. The barber wet the young thermometer goes as high has 6555. Fron have come to the conclusion that beer, your braided hat and embroidered shoulders while the fountains of emotion burst their man's head and bald cologne to his nose, November to February the temperatar though interior in attractiveness to wine, were inspiring emotions like those which the barriers and we found relief in tears Yas, but he walked sideways when he went out, remains between 42 and 88 below mand allays thiret, stimulates digestion, refreshes plumes and paint of Bitting Bull would in- we wept, and we care not who knows it— and there was an uncertain wobble to his The River Lens remains frozen for aim the system and is nutritive

spire in the bosoms of cynical New Yorkers. Boston Zvanscript.

months in the YORK,

If we have any joys, if we have any trouble, If over our pathway a dark shadow lowers; Our griefs we divide and our pleasures we

double

Because of this wonderful baby of ours.

It never is cross, or impatient, or fretful,

Like some other babies that you and I

know

And we should be never unkind or forgetful Of all that to this precious darling we

owe.

Its face is all wrinkled-now isn't that

funny ?

Its step has been feeble for many a day,

annny

1

You'll think I am frivolous, may be

Declaring the truth I have surely not told But this precious old darling, this wonderful

baby,

So dear to our hearts, is near eighty years

old.

By care and caresses we give to no other,

Her care and her kindness we strive to

repay; And we thank the dear Father in heaven

that mother, With heart young as ever, is with us to

day!

ine Pollard, in Christian Union,

vernor-General.