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THE "DOUBLE ACROSTICS FOR THE SERVICES."

The "Double Acrostics for the Services" are distinguished by the two principal words being connicated with the Naval and Military professions; such for example on "Sword," Marting pike, Platoon, &c. No such restriction applies to the lights. All solutions should be sent to Evron, China Mail Office, by noon, on the Friday fol- lowing the publication of any one Acrostic, with the word "Acrostic" on the envelope. Any arriving subsequently will not be entertained. A premium of $10 will be given to the person

giving the greatest number of correct solu toun by New Year's day. Every Saturday a new Acritic will be given, together with the solution of the one of the previons week. The successful names will also be published.

ANSWERS TO ACROSTIC No. II.

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AMERICANS IN LONDON,

THE CHINA MAIL.

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No. 5092 NOVEMBER 1, 1879.

"Yes, collaring the boodle."

locate a pimple on the nose of a viscount? satisfied if he cannot give you the desired "Collaring the My friend, for And no one, however diseased his imagina information. moaned. "What do you moan Heaven's sake, be explicit, his Honor tion, ever pictured a baron with an ulcerat- All the tradespeople invariably say. ed leg, or conceived of such a monstrous" Thank you," however triding may be your mouth over and over again despondently.

The applicant turned the quid in his impossibility as a cross-eyed duchess. purchase, or however harried they may be; No, my dear reader, the imperfections and quite frequently they say something but made no reply. At last he blurted out of the masses have never been-associated pleasant about the weather. And one has in despair-

with the titled; and, however radically only to soe, this London weather to un- Hang. it, Jedge. It's clear enough. practical are the teachings of common sense, derstand how difficult it must be to say any He was tapping the till."

the ignorant fervor of the imagination has thing pleraant about it. Tapping the till?" and his Honour made the deeper impression. paused to reflect. Then bis face brightened up. "Ah, I see," he said.

"He Was sp- propriating the receipts tas his own use in the proprietor's absence."

"Who's talkin' of hanging?" asked the other, "What I said is he ought to get a nip."

"Get a nip 1"

But the Englishman won't take off his And so I was very soon to see a knight. hat where he can possibly avoid it. You I was penoilling my name and address, will see him with it on in the theatre, with other information, on the calf of public galleries, or elsewhere indoors, ox- George the Third's leg, when one of the cept at church. To an American, who policemen shouted the name of Sir Charles instinctively takes off his hat in the pre- "Now, thought I, he will come sence of ladies, the spectacle of gentlemen Dilke." when he hears that The policeman seated with women, with their hate on, is a shouted again. I looked at him very at-disagreeable senention. J M Bailey's. tentively, wondering where he thought Sir England from a Back Window" Charles was,-ou the roof, or in the crypt. Again he screamed. Then his eyes sud denly lighted on me, and an immediato change came upon his face.

EXASPERATING INTERLOPERS. The club interloper we look upon as a

Oh! there you are, are you?" hein-being utterly abandoned and beyond the quired with some disgust. Why didn't onle of human sympathy. He is ever on the watch to awoop down upon any pair of you answer when I shouted?

"My name ain't Ditke," I indignantly big acquaintances who may appear to be enjoying each other's society, and his protested. "My name is"--

But I was cut short by a well-built business in life is to wake three where two gentleman of apparently thirty-five years, were company. Nobody frequents the Club with a pleasant expression of countenance,

more constantly than he; nobody is there who advanced and made himself known, members, and nobody is a greater scandal. more detested; nobody knows more of its and asked me to follow him.

monger. There are few occasions on whichan interloper is a worse peat than when we are There are certain businesses which we like making, or endeavoring to make, a bargalu, to conduct in private, and bargaining is one

grown Spurgeon. Your society in inorusted No, sir. We do not, as some of your with concolt like a mogatherium, and is as rikne. That is one of the mistakes an and cheerful is "good form, as you call it, accle y people insist, call ourselves Amur mus behind the times. Nothing lively uneducated and prejud cod people like the guess it is all the weather, and the want British delight in making. You love, in of legitimato political ozoitement. But your your long Pall Mall drawl to repeat that lower class, as you call it, will wake up tome we cannot pronounce the language of Shake-day, and then you will have a-high time. speare and Milton, who are as much our It is impossible for an American to enjoy properly as yours; and would be awarded himself in London after he has seen the in our favour, like the San Juan and Ala- sights. There is no acknowle iged coutre for hama questions, if ever you good old him to cling to. It is true that there is the fanhi ned people trusted arbitration again. Langham Hotel and the roading rooms We got the best of you on most lines, ex- next the telegraph office in the Strand; copt that Canadian fishery affir, on which but they are hardly contros. Both are my opinion would not be printed in this good to their way; but of late

That's the talk," roared the applicant. old country, so I will not give it. Even Americans bave gone farther afield, and Appropriatin' the receipts is the go. your comparatively liberal paper, which is have settled-some of us, that is at the You vo got it down fins, Jedge. That's evidently written for society people, would Midland Hotel at St. Pancrag The what the codger did-appropriated Fatay not allow me to express my views on that neighbourhood of King's Cross may not be Burns' receipts. So Putsy sent me round fishery question, so I will not farther allude fashionable, but it is a short, cab-ride from | to seu as if you wouldn't give him the to it, but go on with my remarks on the almost all the great places; and the hotel collar and make him produce. He's a bad meanness of British sneers at our excellen Is almost worthy of New York, ag far salot, ho in, and you ought to give him a rendition of the language o mmon to both architecture and furniture are concerned, stretob." countries. Why I ask why should old- | Americans like to feel that they are living- "What?" oried his Honour, would conner, people get impatient when l'express in a fifteenth-century house. It is a change you be so barbarous as to bave me hang my views on any subject at that longth which for us to sue the great chimneys like the the man?" the viraumstances demand? It was only genuine old ones, and the real brass lampa the other day I was interrupted to the and the furniture all of a pattern, and very onurse of an exposition of the Red Indian nio to eat nineteenth century poulet à la question by an irritable Englishman ; and | chevalière in the dim religious light of citl when I said, When I am through, I will days. So we gather at the Midland, and hut my head; but not till then, every- find it convenient for travelling, and very body laughed, and said, How droll Ame interesting to our wives and daughtera. ricana are! Now I ask you, sir, what It is handy, too, for getting to ons's friends there was droll in that remark; and bow down town, and for hunting up one's did the listeners know I was an Americau, tailors and hatters at the West-end. Our or, as they declare i pronounce it, 'Amor- wives and daughters get their fixings in riku'}

Paris, but we always get ourselves clothed - This old country le a mass of prejudice, in London, exospt in the matter of boots. that's a fact. On the pretence that your These we getia Parle, where, as in London, railway trains run faster than oura you the people who sell things are civil to a Retain with straightened arm, the weigh- make us travel without any kind of com degree which makes life very pleasant. It

tiest Ioad,

furt, and your hotels I have before this is true that they never quite understand given you my opinion upon. It may be what you want; that if they do, they make asked why we come here. The answer is as ap their minds not to produce it; and easy as iping, or falling off a log. We have that they get through with their work long got to come hore, whether we like it or not. after date; but they are very civil and good The standard of tho Buciety families of Fifth natured. I guess that if I said one tenth Averuo and Madison Avenue is high-as much to a New York retail merchant as almost as bigh as the grouse given me for Tay to everybody of the kind in London, dinner in old York the other day, the smell he would put a head on me at once. The of which made me feel as if 1 wa afloat off Loudon shopkeepers always behave as if the banks of Newfoundland We are they were of an inferior race to their obliged to come here to get a knowledge of customers. This is slavish, and rousse the iistorio places. Our people love history soul of a republican to fury; but it is and literaturo nearly as well as dollars, and mighty pleasant for the purchaser neverthe am ready to stake substantial greenbacks less. In thle country emptor is everybody; against Erio shares that more Americans in onte vendor is bors, and insults bis than English visit Shakespeare's house in customers as much as he likes. the outse of the year. There is nothing ere but history. In everything else we aro so far aloud that your politicians try to friends must protest against. Only a few of giving up to the Government which looked down upon the commoners. They close to each other in society, and are on We have nothing days ago I went into a first-class house to practices such abominations any of its gat in pew seats, arranged lika gallery the point of swallowing their pride and learn something of us.

Correct answers have been received from "Silenua" and "Taeping." The solution "Rebecca" has been adinitted for No. 2 although the fate of the unfortunate vestal more clearly answers the light.

III.

In strength I bave few equals, yet can I With swiftest ease through narrowest chan-

nol fy;

And in the ocean take up my abode.

A piece of steel, yet I can float! Sometimes a nas or woman, Employed to fashion gown or coat, Yea most things chiefly human- My part incisive, yet can make the pace And hold my own in many a headlong race,

1.

In one of Shakespeare's plays my declina-

tion*

Caused in a nation's mind a strange sensa-

tion.

2.

Pride and rebellion aure will have a fall, The flaming earth proved his dire funeral

pall.

3.

Impersonal, unknown and often luckless

one !

How swift round thee the speeding vessels

ren.

4.

An adjective for something very small- A noun you will not tolerate at all.

5.

Don't standjupon, or touch me if you care.

A whole skin in your body long to share.

6.

Some of my kinsfolks have been known to go, Yet when they do, it's only with a blow.

YORICK,

*Properly declension."

A MODERN SAGA. (With acknorriedgments to Professor Longfell w)

NAMED like some Viking oldi Thy deeds, brave NORDENSKIOLD, No Scald in song hath told,

No Saga taught us! Telegram brief and terse Did the strange tale rehearse. Worthy, of deathless verse

The news it brought us! For in the Northern land Gathered a gallubt band, Under thy guiding hand, Swede sturdy as sago; And, with unstrrinking heart, For the sixth time made start, To ope to mind and mort

The North-East Passage. On, pust that Kara Šea, . Erst ice-bound mystery, Now to its stout Keel free,

Slowly yet surely, Eastward the Fed bore, Till round that headland hoar," Never yet turned before,

Sailed she securely. Then, spreading wing, sho flew Where. whilst the white whule blew, Laboured her learned crow, Dredging and standing. Trao modera Vikings they, Born of our better day, Finding in bloodless fray Pleasure abounding Fighting a daustices fight 'Gainst Nature's Titan might, Winning from Arctic night- Light for their fellows. Fearless and scorning ease, Sure stouter souls than these No'er of those northern seas Braved the chill billows. On till with ice pack close Compassed, and endless snowe, They, midst the frozen floce,

Fixed winter quarters. Night thrice a hundred days, 'Neath half a sun's scant rays, Looked in those luy ways White waste of waters!

Many a hunting bout Helped the long winter out, Whilst the Norse savants stout

Searched, watched, and noted. Then, that grim season past, Scattered the floes, and fast Through Bebring's Straits at last

Safely they floated.

So Courage wins the game! Brave Swede, thy Viking namo Ranks on the roll of fame, Northern DE GAMA! Who shall applause refass To that long Arctic cruise, Told in that brief, swift news

From Yokohama ?

Three hundred years or more, On that far Aretic shore, For way that eastward bore,

Man, hath contended. Now thou hast reached the gaol, Swede, sage and stout of soul, Skoal to thee, Norseman, Skoal! Thus the fight's ended I--Funch.

Cape Chelyuskin, or Severo, the northern miast promontory of Asis.

I

are a real live people in the States; and

But there is one custom in your public restaurants that I and many of my Southern

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to learn of you; and only me to inspect give my friend Colonel Skoster of M›bile a you and your institutions and your relics little lunch. The waiter ushered us to as we go to a museum of curiosities. We convenient place, and we prepared to enjoy a square meal, when two full-grown buck we are closing out your grain-farms, your niggers came right in and sat down opposite shecas-farms, and your bacon-farma, and to us. I thought my friend Colonel Skooter shall soon send you all your best into the would have caved in, and died right there, bargain. Wa bave nothing to learn on any He turned as pale as if he was going to of these lines; but we want a kind of old hand in his checks, and tried to speak;

came like the summer tempest' of tears to Mr Tennyzou's warrior's widow. It is

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"Yes; go up the river." "I gee, I see," groaned the justice, Go to Sing Sing. My friend, we will try to accommodate you. But this conversation is trying to a man of my constitution. Go to Patsy Buras, I beg you. Tell him to bring his grievance here in person, and for Heaven's sake let him bring a little of the vernacular along.'

The applicant bowed his head enllenly.

May be you're right, Jedge," said he, "an' may be you ain't; but it does soem rough on a citizen and taxpayer if he can't get justice Unless he's swallowed a lore dictionary and crammed down jawbreakers fit to bust him. So long," And he stalked gloomily away in quest of Patsy Burns. New York Herald,

CHINESE CRIMINAL LAW. Sir Benson Maxwell writes to The Times: Before the horror excited by your account on Saturday of a Chinese punishment and of the "Boatching Interrogation of Chinese procedure that, la, torture, which is ha dies away and the subject is forgotten, allow bitually inflicted to extort a confession- me to mention a fact which ought not to diminish it. It is that we are in the habit

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And I followed him by the policeman, and along the bali. This was Sir Charles, bma fide knight; and I examined his ap pearance with engrossing interest

He was a well built man, as I have said, but ordinary appearing. He might have been a rural lawyer or school-teacher; but he was a knight. And all the while he was going ahead, and all the while I was fol lowing after, I tried to clothe him with a lance and shield and helmet, and fell back from the task exhausted.

of them.

An intrusion on such occasions is apt to stop the transaction for the time being, and bargains, once anspended, are Wives are often not always renewed. interlopers of a very pronounced typs. They will persist in putting in their words when their husbands are telling stories. They are generally as well, or even better, quainted with the facts than the narratore, and, with the characteristic feminine par- tiality to trifles, they cannot endure that the slightest details of the stories should be It was not, to first appearance, a large passed over. If politics or theology form side, and one at each end. That over the apartment. There were galleries at the the subject of disc asion, they By to the rescue when they fancy that their lords are speaker's chair was devoted to shaggy.inching from the battle, and refuse all headed and baldheaded men called re. quarter or compromiso when it is offered porters. The opposite end gallery was by the enemy Wives rush in where devoted to the quiet and patient sight husbande fear to tread.

In the lobby he bade me good-by, and went back into the House; and I climbed up the stairs, and came out into the galleries, and took my first look at the House of Commons in session.

seers.

How many quarrels would be made up were it not for interiopera ? It sometimes happens that men who have out Then I each other on some foolish pratext, for months or years, find themselves standing

The first glance showed me that the entire place was of polished oak, which gave it a sombre appearance.

aubjects charged with any crime against its seats, in tiers, one above the other, from laws who may fly for refuge to British ter the middle aisle to the wall, on each side. Treaty of Tientsin twenty-one years ago at the upper end of the aisle, sat the ritory. We bound ourselves to this by the In a heavy oaken box with gorgeous roof, Parliament unquestionably never gave, and speaker, in a fainting condition, apparently, over would have given, the Executive the from the enormous wig of wool on his head. powers to carry out such an engagement. In front of him, in the aisle, sat three mon But the sanction of Parliament was

It is to Hongkong that the of him, sat the conservatives, tiored up not in gowns and wigs. In front, to the right песенвагу.

effect.

means a dead letter --Mr William Lalrd-

from A similar fate?

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have nothing in front of them.

The atmosphere below us was smoky; and through the hazy canopy appeared the England, with uncovered heads and crossed

legs.

a conversation with one of them, and the

shaking hands, when an idle fellow begins "pportunity is gone, perhaps never to re- turn. Agato how many marriages are prevented by interlopers. An interrupted proposal is not always continued. An in- nocent person entering a room in order to the critical moment; and even a servant write a note may spoil all by appearing at

condition of the drawing-room fire, or com mence preparations for aftern on tea.** But on what trifles important mattera depend. jumping over the flower bed of a relative.

Saturday Review.

worid knowlodge to pass muster at home. but his tongue clung to the roof of his refugees fy, and the ordinances of flong there in gloomy array. Opposite them with a coal-box has been known to put to A Europeau tour gives us all we want of mouth. I guessed what was the matter. kong give the requisite powers to the local were the fiery radicals, similarly tiered. flight a nervous suitor. Indeed, servants. this; and for pleasure-as the Sotobman and led him gently away to the bar at the executive, who give the treaty practical Each man, when occasion requires, can in a superstition about our old home; and corner as if it was ashamed of itself. delivered by English authorities to the the back of the sent in front,-all bat the ward question broached, an over-zsalons said of Peebles-give me Paris. But there end of the room, tucked away in a sly

How many wretches have been reat himself by bracing his knees against are much given to interloping. If a wito la to be consulted, a child scolded, or an awk- nothing about it, but the England of te into articulate condition, and then speech punishment of Chinese tribanala £ do not occupants of the front or lowest seats, who tomestic is sure to become interested in the we must see, not your England, we oro con lo of stiffish borns brought the Colonel searching interrogations and unutterable know but I gathered lately in conversa pilgrim fathers and the older England of abot and Drake. You creatures of preju lica imagine that we care about you, and needless to repeat the expressions of my years in our colony that the treaty is by statesmen of educated and aristocratic We remembor a boy losing a fine estate by tion with a gentleman who was for sone have no love for any historg but that of the esteemed friend, whose warm heart spokes writes as follows:-In The Times United States. This is one of the mistakes out of its depths, and startled the young of the roast-beef mind. It is the England ladies who poured out the drinks to which of the 13th instant there appeared a letter

from your Shanghai correspondent detail attitudes of the members, wearing their The smoke, the lounging and careless of the past, that we care for, not that of the he owes his life. present; and you will find our intelligent I am writing these lines from Newmarket, ing, certain facta relating to the way in hats, and carrying, in a great many in- WHAT STANLEY IS DOING. citizens at very shrine of genius in this old delightful place, whither I have gone to which Yakoob Bog's innocent relations are stances, their hands in their pockets,--- We have received the following import country. We do not believe, ne you with a attune my mind for Doncaster Races. I boing treated by the Chinese Government. reminded me so forcibly of a Western hotel ant particulars with respect to the move kind of clumay jucosity pretend, that the same down, on the faith of the 4.B.C., by It seems probable that Maiti Kuli, though bar room, that for au inetont I was be ments of H. M. Stanley, the African ex- Queen lives at the Tower; but we go to train which in that wicked guide was set confessedly he was not privy to the trea-numbed, and could merely stare down upon plarer, from a correspondent whose sources the Tower for the sake of the Queens who down 28 running every night instead of ons le designs of his parents," has already the astounding spectacle, without the of information are thoroughly trustworthy.

suffered the vindictive outrage which is faintost attempt to understand it. lived and diet there. I guess we pretty only on Friday to bring the jockeys bome.

about nine months ago Mr Stanley snd- mucu keep up your shows. Our first move So I had to drive across from Cambridge, But surely, something may yet be done to for regulating registration of deaths. He He afterward turned up at Zanzibar, in a prescribed by the Chinese law in such cases. A conservative was speaking upon a bill | denly departed for the east count of Africa, is to Westminster Abbey, where you have proceeding which doubled my expenses. just bad the sense to lay Rowland Hill by us it is pleasant now one is here by the save his two little brothers, Yims Kuli and had a poor voice, a faulty pronunciation, chartered steamer, but no one could under- the side of James Watt; and I conclude side of the archway under which one of Kati Kuli, and his nephew, Alaan Aburg, and spoke so low, that only an occasional stand with what object the distinguished that we are guberally prepared to under your old-fashioned aristocrats drove a team',

Will not our word could be understood in the gallery traveller had gone there, some supposing stand your Vaihalla--as you like to call it of stage. I hear too that in this remote Government at least protest against this I watched the reporters, equally distant that he had gone for the purpose of sond -by reading Dean Stanley's book. We corner there is a slight relaxation of pre- ghastly piece of barbarity? I have from him, and having no earthly interesting one or two small rivers. Now, advicss Ding it up, sir, as your public school boys judice concerning the American method of bitherto waited in hopes of seeing in in the subject, and wondered what sort of have been received that Stanley sailed from call it, and are thoroughly posted when we trying racehorses by the lime-test. This your columns some cune to the abow. After the Tower and has been laughed at and steered at for the effect that the British Minister a report they would make of his speech; Gibraltar for the West Coast of Africa three Westminster Abbey wo are bound for years by your line old crusted trainers; but, has made, or has been instructed to make, but they scribbled on as uninterruptedly as weeks ago, having come through the Saca Windsor-the finest show you have got they are giving way at last, and the time earnest representations on the subject to and then go to Shakespea e's house at

the Chinese Government, but I have waited Stratford-on-Avon, which would be a poor

in vain. Perhaps, therefore, you will allow place if it were not for American patggnage.

me to be the means of once more calling We go to other places too. Only the other

attention to the matter. If only Parlia day I went with my friend Colonel Lintbi.

ment were sitting, it would at once become cum van Winkle to look at Dr. Johnson'a

known either that we are doing our duty house in a little three cornered square off

by protesting, or that we are meekly a Flebs rest; then we weal to Coxwold in

quiescing; but during the recess the public Yorkshire to see the church Sterne preached

has no means of satisfying itself that in connexion with such questions we, de a in; and coming back to the Strand, went

Christian and civilised nation, are acting to bathe in a Roman bath near the Thames, ery clean, and so cold that I am not quite Bure whether I have overcoats enough on yet. We are interested in the homes of Shakespeare and Sterne and Charles Dickens (although he was a little rough upon us) far more than you are. The fact is, wo care for these things, and you do not. -Thousands of Englishmen come to America, bat not one cares for the relics of Washing

ton,

We should see more good points in you if you did not persist in shutting yourselves up is the spleen, as the Frencb call it. To us you are as lifeless in manner as the mastodon. We guess you amuse yourselves

test my yet be generally adopted on New- market Heath. I bail this happy omen of things American being better understood in this strange old country.-liejus P. Chickering, in the " World,"

JUSTICE IN A QUANDARY. The envoy that come from Patsy Burns' saloon yesterday to get us a warrant for its propriotor was hoarse, squat, and bull- necked. He loaned across the bar of the Jefferson Market Court, and whispered confidentially: "Say, Jedge, Patsy Baras wants to shut down on a kid that's been skinning him."

"A kid! skinning him? Impossible," said his Honor. "Where is the animal?" went on, "what dishes out the boose in -“He's a young rooster," the applicant

Patsy's drum.".

His Honor looked perplexed. "Oh, it's poultry you're complaining about," he re marked. "I thought you said it was a kid just now. Well, what of the rooster!"

The app'icant took a good long look at his Honor, and tumbled his hat lining nervously. Then he began again with an air submissive, but reproachful.

an we ought,

announcement to

AN OFF-HAND VIEW OF PARLIA-

MENT.

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Canal in this chartered steamer, full of

though they heard what he was saying,

The speaker continued to sink down into carriers. The object of this journey to the capacious folds of his chair, until he East Coast is therefore now disclosed threatened to disappear entirely. Some of namely, to display the great desideratum of the members shoved their hands to the fall carriers, and no doubt he has all the mor depth of their trouser's pockets, and, with who accompanied him in his last journey hat-brims drawn down over their eyes, fell through the heart of Afrios Having left to thinking upon the condition of the Gibraltar three weeks ago, Stanley has now country. Others simply crossed their legs, steamed down the West Coast of Atrios and picked their teeth meditatively. direct to the Congo, with the intention of Only one man listened. He was a opening up the mighty river from the West attention was explained when the conserheen dispatched from Antwerp within the radical, and occupied the front seat. His Coast. A steamer Indea with goods bas vativa occupying the floor sat down. Then last month, under the patronage of the he commenced, talking rapidly, and reading King of the Belgians. This steamer, which harrowing statistics.

will remain at the Congo till: Mr Stanley's Several times during his occupancy of arrival, has on board two or thren steam the floor some one among the rudicals disbarges in sections, which confirms the sup A few days ago I made application to a member of the House of Commons for Winctly said, "Hear, hear.

position that it is Stanley's Intention to sa permission to witness a session.

There were other speakers. The light and the Congo, oarrying these sections me to be in waiting in St. Stephen's lobby nothing: I always do say nothing on sach work for the opening up of commerce; and I received a prompt answer, requesting the gas?" asked my companion. I said wish him all exccess. He is doing a great grew dimmer. "Aren't they going to light piecemeal round the Gellaia Fallands We at five o'clock that afternoon, where the occasions. I think it looks profound. writer would meet me, and "pat mo

although the Belgians have taken the lead, through." He didn't use that phrase ex-

Now there was a radical talking. He we have no fear that our own English mer actly; but that was the substance of his and a very nervous face and quick voice. been opened ur. Tals country is once was a slim man, with hair frosted with age, chante will lay bihind when the way has note. Knowing it would not do to trifle with the time of a member of so illustrions The moment be rose, various grosuings more deeply indebted to the King of the in your own dreary way, but you never seem

a body, I was on hand promptly to the like shouts from a deep sewer, or the Belgians for the e sergy he has displayed in to feel for anything or dare for anything

hour, in the central hall, so called, where rambling of a heavy vehicle over a distant connection with such an important move- What the men and Jadios of the Voited

bridge-ascended from the conservatives, mont.-Liverpool Post, two policemen gaarded the hallway to the It was a protest against his taking the States require is something that enthuses Say, Jedge, don't you play me. I'm House, I explained my errand to one of time; a sort of staical, wooden opposition, them. There is nothing they love so much givin' it to you straight; honor bright, the officers, and was told I would have toga if the makers of it were doing it by the sa getting enthused about anything. It Patay feels dead sore over the thing and wait there until the member came ont, as day. Not the least change of position, not the China Sen, are curions and peculiar in does not matter much what it is-Capoul wants the young terrier hauled up before the House was already in session. or Sarah Bernhardt, a canal through the you."

I found others in waiting, and now faces the least show of animation, was visible most respects. They excited the wonder of Isthmus of Darien or a crusade against Po- The Jadge dropped his eye-glasses help-constantly arriving. Some effected an im-radicale as stoically preserved their loung while surveying a rock east of the Boath where this rambling ascended. The our naval officers who recently visited them meranian dogs; but our emotional naturelessly. "Look here, my friend," he mediate entrance; others were interviowed asks to enthuse itself for enthusiasm's sake blurted out, "if you come here to complain briefly by members with whom they had ing as if the success or failure of their Capo of Formosa. These aboriginals, who Now aver since I bave known thisold country about a whole menagerie, say so; but this made engagements; and the rest wandered bath acted as if the entire debate was a and could not be made to understand the it has never once been thoroughly enthused, parade of flesh and fowl is distracting. Let around as I did, and felt of the mouldings dreary farce, of which they long ago had object of its use. They had never tasted fellow was of no moment to them; and are of Malay stock, know nothing of money It came near to being so under the Jingoes, us understand each other. Kid, rooster, and again under the Napoleon fever, when or dog is Patsy's trouble with one or all courtesy I am indebted for the view of the Sir Charles Dilke, the member to whose

tobacco or rum, nor had they any subati- poor little Bonaparte was killed; but the The applicant looked about bim hope House in session, would be, when he got that the representatives of a great nation liked anything and everything of an orns- When I first looked at the pews, and saw tutes for these. Nevertheless, the females period of incandescence was short, and you lessly. Then he said: Boon froze over again. I fear you are un-

"Jedge, this looks like a dead open and around, the first knight I had seen. I am had no desk to put their feet upon, and spit mental or decorative character." (Woman,"

not much used to titled personages, my sympathetic and not whole-souled, like oar

knowledge of them being obtained entirely under, I was sorry for them; but, I am not be her state or surrounding what it may, in glorique citizens, who go the whole figure,

through prints. right or wrong. This defect of yours has

always drawn to adornment.) They ad more to do with our objection to stay long

This keeping on of hats in the House of mired brass buttons, tin vessels or anything With the imagination thus left to itself, in England than the climate. You don't

and being blessed with an imagination that Commons was a greater shock to me than bright; freely gave goats and pigs for them, understand us, and will not take any pains person who dispenses the beverages he has constructed a party worth seeing that The English, represented as being burly, to obtain, and they would dive for a button "Oh, Patsy has a saloon. It is the never knew a day's sickness, I very naturally it ought to have been, with my experience and could not get enough for their delecta- to do so. And you are prejudiced to the trouble with.

of the English in assemblage.

tion. Any shining object they were eager extent of forawearing yourselves about our

Common sense teaches us all that s "That's the racket, Jedge," and the member of the nobility is bat a lump of suspicious, reticent, and stif, are, on the or a coin if thrown into the water, and often oysters, our terrapia, and our canvas-back applicant starcped with delight. You're human clay fashioned on models common contrary, a most polite people I don't seize it while it was sinking. They played dacks, which are the best things in that got it dead to rights. You see, Patsy sets to our seeing; but, unconsciously ignoring know as they are particularly cordial with in their canoes about the ship for hours, world which revolves once in every twenty this bloke in his shobang a sending along the teachings aforesaid, we find our mind strangers, and I cannot say that there are watching for an opportunity to dive for the, four hours, subject to the Constitution of the old stuff, and everything goes hankee imbued with a being who shows traser of not Englishmen who are all that is above to them, precious trifles. The natives are the United States. Our beef must be sold dores till the sees his nibs sporting a super nobility in his very step and bearing, whom complained; but as a people they are as primitive as they can be. Thay live on to you as prime scotch before you will eat and togged out to the Queen's taste. Well, no density of human crowd could hide from emphatically polite. As a stranger in taro and yams. They have no it; the cheese we export by thousands of Patey's pooty fly, he is, and he dropped to our vision.

Imple tons you will sat as Cheshire, but not as the caper. So he spotted the feller, and

London, I have had occasion to make many ments than axes, spears and knives, made New Jersey. You will not have it that to day he catched him working the damper." Let as sec. Dan you conceive of a bow. have received obliging answers. It is an shells and the beards of gos Sur, OSTA Am l'exaggerating this mental weakness? Inquiries, and, without a single exception, of common iron but the females employ De Witt Talmage is superior to your home- "Working the damper ?”.

legged duke 7: Or is it posible for you to Englishman's habil to look ■telde disa monta --Chicago Timor,

shut. You don't seem to temble me at all. Here's the scheme: There's a jigger behind Patsy's bar that's crooked, and he wants him taken in. See?"

tired,

How.

STRANGE SAVAGES.

The natives of Botel Tobago, an island in