fad to victory in one case, would but lead to defeat in the nthes, and, to acquire the knowledge, the judgment how to act at a second's notice under il circumstances, is the highest accomplishment of the experienced jockey's art.
We will prestrae that most of our sporting readers have been at the starting post, or at least have witnessed the start for one of the great classic races in England, let no say, the Epsom Derby. As the riders in the great three-year-old races are men at the top of the tree in their pro- fession, we look for finished workmanship, and are not disappointed. There is no bustle, no
being freely used. At the Black Rock Bismarck, and the bearer of a yellow jacket draw clear away, the riders bumping up and down, and flug- ging the hearts out of ponies that have not a gallop left in them. Now is the time for the wasp," and coacrging from the rack he draws himself clear in a few strides, and canters honte alone. That the best horse won we very much doubt, but Mr. Hutchings had nearly a stone the best of the jockeyship, and that is an overpowering advantage.
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And nearly all races in China are contested in an addition to the primitive,ilitate business, wound. At last, as they began to despair, and bourhood of the cemeteries. The chief habitués
"niggling" round to get an advantage of the ́statzer, as is frequently the case in handicaps with troublesome lads in the saddle, but every jockey sits quietly waiting for the signal; with a good firm hold of his horse's head, and carefully watching the field, the starter, and his own meant at the same moment. There is seldom any difficulty in starting a field of horses with crack jockeys up, and as the tag falls they move forward in a line like a cavalry charge you note the graceful (though Without making any elaborate comparison rather peculiar) seat of each jockey as he stands between jockeyship in England, and race-riding in bis stin ups, giving all possible freedom to the in China, we may point out the glaring faults Horse he besitides, leaning well forward, with his which we have constantly seen practised on hands lose enough to restrain without annoying, our race-courses in the Far East. Our amas and his legs firm, as if nailed to the saddle. teurs tide in very bad "for" so far as style is Each forsciman seems a part of his horse, as
concet aed. The seat usually seen is ridiculous away they stream up the steep incline, through for race-ding, however well suited for a military the furies, and commence the descent to the parade ground. The habit of holding the reins famous Tattenham Coner. Now comes the try-with the left or bridle. Imad, while the whip is
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1814, he embarked at Toulouse with the British cing saloons had a reputation, and its shady infantry the cavalry was marched through bowers attracted even the Regent and Cardinal The final close of the present Tea Season at
France, and came home to enjoy in peace, as he Dubois. It was a perpetual Greenwich Fair. this part, will take place in a few days when the thought, his well-camed laurels. But the Hun-It was a desire to indulge in the wash Fe steamship Gleniffer will take away to London
red Days' soon followed, and his regiment was place that led the terrible bandit Cartouche, to what Bufe stock there now remaining
at once ordered to Belgium, where he once more take a visit, and that he said for by his arrest, with the presence of two British and one Russian During the past fortnight we have been favored
found himself under the command of Wellington. itimately ending, by his being broken on the After the battle of Waterlon, however, he was wheel. Today Belleville is mine occupied with vessels of war. It is either a feast or a famine.
mble to tell us much, or he was badly hit early politics than dances. It is so far advanced, that had any vessel of war at all in our barber. in this respect as it is now some time since we of Hougoumort. He was carried to the rear,
in the day, in, I think, the hot work at the defence it has the honour of publishing a journal for its own quarter, the first venture of the kind yet A suggestion for
and knew no more till long after the struggle attempted in the capital. To witness the penny a telephone exchange in Foochow has been mooted, and no doubt such
was over. They got him safely back to Eng gaff halls, the secker of sensations and novelties land; for two years it seemed that his constitu but invaluable chit-
tion could not recover from the shock of his and the merriest he will find to be in the neigh must betake himself to the outskirts of the city, the same manner. A frantic 14sh front the post if the place is large enough to offer adequate re-
book system will enormously a loose rein, a great deal of flogging and kicking menention to the promoter of the scheme.
as peace seemed secure, his friends warned are gues and detective pollee, with prostitutes and then a scramble home--fo as the usual We are informed that the Stewards of the value of his commission would perish with him; bunishment from the city. If they retira, they Mr. J. BRADLER SMITH, Mr. D. MELAURIN
him that if he slipped out of their hauls the undergeing the first degree of expulsion, that of modus operandi. Of course there are excep
Fokien Race Club hell a Meeting on the 14th and so, to save the purchase-money, he sold ent
From THIS DATE and during the absence of tions to the rule, and in addition to Mr. Flot Meeting, and that after some conversation and
instant to consitice, the question of a spring Race in 817, and closed as a helpless invalid sixty- before them where to choose. Respecting pros. will act as Secretary,
are conducted to the frontier, the world being all things who is facile princeps, Mr. Tennant is a weighing carefully the pros and cons,
three years ago his career as a soldier. This istitution, the new Perfect of Police, is doing ex- very fine horseman, an excellent finisher; and nanously decided to hold a Two Days' Meet
why he never rose above the rank of colonel cellent work, by compelling the Ihrynes and Mr. Nickels, Mr. Bidwell, Mr. Ogle, Mr. Branding inediately after Easter. We do hope the partly in England, pardy in Denmark. He was play their charms as rarely as possible on the From that time onward he spent his quiet life Aspasias, and the hetaire race in general, to dis- and Mr. Lewis all bear deset cedly excellent re-
elerk of the weather will take into consideration always a man of active habits and very simple high ways. Conviction for disobedience involves /ANTED, EMPLOYMENT, by the Ad- patations as accomplished amateurs.
the disadvantages under which the racing com munity enjoyed themselves in December last.
tastes. Scarcely two years back he paid us a a fortnight's imprisonment; the second offence, We team that several of the parents of the for half an her in the parks; he was always
visit at Oxford, and used every morning to walk entails expulsion, Chinese Students who have lately returned to
ready to take his part in anything that was going tenced to prison for a month; he, as did others, Ex-Communist General Eules, has been sen- China from the United States, have sent a pati. tion to the Peking Authorities requesting that
on. No nie would have thought, from the fresh endeavoured to make political capital out of an permission be granted to their sons to return to
ness and life of his face, his plentiful grey hair, anniversary pilgrimage to the lanes of Blanqui America in order to complete their studies,
and upright, tall figure, alive all from the un-The red flag was displayed too soon, and hence These parents also say that if the Chinese Go-ness of his mind and memory, that the intervention of the authorities. On the 18th vernment do not care to defray the expense, cindy last summer he went over to Denmark as had at that ting passed his ninetieth birthday, they add that they will guarantee that their sens fatigue; we heard that one day he had been donia, they are simply handed over to the police they themselves will do it, and, in their petition usual, travelling, apparently, without the least
cance will be attempted. As no sympathy is ex March nest, a manifestation of greater signiti. shall serve the Chinese Government, upon their
pressed towards the ex-residents of New Cale final return, for a given length of time.
seen swimming in the sound at Elsinore, for attention. The remark is being made, how The failure is
and that the same evening he had taken put in does Rochefuit, who in his paper bounds on all bath guests of that quiet little watering-place. He the wall, never show at these manifestations? It his strength seemed somewhat to have failed, he pals exclaim-Now is the moment to show came home again before the winter, and though recalls a scene in "Ragabas," where two political seemed to be in his usual good health. At the end he passed away serenely, without pain or ourselves-let us hide." He is more inefully in-
comrades, and was, perhaps, the last surviving be as great a failure as when he rises to address illness; the worn-out machine had quietly ceased Buential by keeping in the shade. He could enter to act. Though he had long outlived all his parliament at any moment, but there he would officer who had been through the Peninsular war a Jacobia auditory, packed by his dupes. few, besides his own kitsfolk and descendants, and at Waterloo as well, still there were not a who admind and honoured the fransk and cordial old man, and had listened with deep interest to great talker, and had none of the proverbial arility of old age; if however, he was in the back to days and scenes now historic, and to the vein, those who heard him fell themselves carried society of men who seem to us to belong to
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sorely tested as they thunder down the hill and make for the dreaded run into the straight, sec how the younger and more during riders closely hug the rails risking life and litab to save a few yards, whilst the older and more cautions "jocks" | keep well out, and running rather witle at the turn, lose a little ground, but have the upper ground and a clear course to finish on, no mean advantages at Epsom in a large field of horses. Watch closely, and if you are a practical horse delicate handling of the reins, the rare judgment displayed in taking a judicious pull at the right inament, or the daring which, taking advantage of any and every favorable circumstance which
pernicinas one, and extremely unsightly. How can any horseman form a correct idea of the amount of "go" lelt in his mount, if he aides one handed and with a stack rein? How is it pos- sible either to support or nurse a beaten aninial, or to finish with streng, and resolution, if the dexter hand is only used for flicking the empty air with the riding whip? The great weakness, however, of our horsemen lies in their want of tact, patience, and judgment; and as these quali
and the managing partner, a Chin-chew man, is at $50,000 in $60,000, said to have fled from his disgrace. It is stated that its difficulties were mainly connected with could the hang only have recovered what was the disastrous season of 1885-1881, and that, due to them from their connection up-country, the crisis would have been prevented. The hong has been in existence three seasons, we past season following its predecessor it is nut only under its present constitution, and with the surprizing to lean that one of the monied partners was anxious to clear out of the concern.
It may interest ante-
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man you cannot fail to admire the close seat, the fications are notto be easily acquired by gentlemen believe in the land simplicity or who his reminiscences of early life. He was not a allow, Madame Judic to appear in thice creations:
who commenced to ride inte in life we simply point out the defects, atel ask non-believers to care fully watch any race in China for coroboration of our assertions. Knowledge of pace is another
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Vandeville, Lili, in three acts, by Messrs. Hew-HONGKON nequin and Milland, with a few successful ballads The Varietes theatre has brought out a comedy-
that will grind, by Hered. The piece aims to viz. Lili as a girl, a mother, and a grandmamma, following in love with a regimental trumpeter years later when he became a distinguished and cook when in her teens, meeting him ten. lieutenant, having seduced 15 Arab wives, who horses, and sheep, less their husbands; for which razzia he won his epaulettes; at this age be re-meets his inainorata. whose husband by his neglect throws her in the saldier's way; a baby
brings the soldier, now an old man, in contact appears, and to assist at the latter's marriage is the consequence; in time a grand daughter
with Judic's third character of grandmother, where they recall the souvenirs of the past. Th
may crop up at any part of the race, shows a qualification, not to be easily acquired by atd Dr. W. A. P. Martin (American), President of another work!, so far away had they come to be." followed him to the camp with their babies,
and go in for such transcendentalisim as "China is a child in diplomacy, and needs to be led," that, at the late (fifth) International Congress of Orientalists held at Berlin, a l'aper was read by stagers, although constant practice will assist International Law. The Lecture illustrated his the Tung Wen College of Peking on Chinese any careful rider greatly in this respect. We subject by a translation of an international have seen gentleman jockeys who has so little treaty concluded between five states of China, faith in their own judgment, that when riding anwhich, as as regards principles, might easily form five hundred years before the birth of Christ, exercise gallop, or a tial, they constantly carry the basis of the international treaty to be con- a stop-watch in a handy pocket, and trasteluded between the Great Pavers of Europe." entirely to "Benson." As in the actual race
It anticipates everything now consideret essen- they could hardly have an oppmanity to resold proverb, that there is nothing new under the tial, even to an extradition clause-verifying the to the time-piece, we cannot think this plan, sun. however ingenious and deserving of success, can improve these gentlemen's competency as judges of pace; in pusint of fact we have had ocular demonstration to the contrary,
tmaster of the art of jockeyship in the saddle, Note how carefully every horse is being nursed for that supreme effort when the Dell is passed, although few of the field will be handy when that well known landmark is reached, for the pace is a strung one, and they can't all live home. 'There has been no tailing off, as the lot, well to- gether, tam their faces homewards, but a few strides father and the gradually shortening stride, and the lessened pull on the bit tell the experienced pilots of more than half the field that they have "shot their balt." As their horses begin to falter, each man sits down in his saddle, and with hands and heel resolutely To show how little attention is paid to this rides his mount home. the road two distances from the chair, three which we personally witnessed in the Happy As they approach accomplishment we may mention an incident grses have drawn out of the ruck and are Valley about five years ago. Teving their competitors behind at every stride.
A gentleman, who was reputed to be the best horsçinan A chestnut and a bay are racing neck and neck
(not pony-rider) in Ching, had a leg up to in the centre of the course, first the "all scarlet," give the Australian horse Claymore an and then the "yellow, red cap" having the ad. exercise gallop of une mile. Having but vantage, whilst a couple of lengths off on the recently arrived from England, where for many lower ground a yellow jacket and black cap, years we had frequent opportunities of seeing borne by a great slashing chesnut, look danger exercise gallops en Newmarket Heath and ously prominent. As they near the Eell the Middleham Moor, this particular one astonished jockary of the big chesnut takes a "feeler" at
us not a little. Catching hold of the horse's head the two struggling leaders, racing up level, but | Mr. went off at score as if he were actually apparently contented he drops back again re-engaged in a half mile race, and drove the game serving himself for a final rust, The Bell is le sag along without one single judicious pull passed, whips and spurs are being vigorously until both rider and horse were so dead settled used, and every accomplishment of the jockey's that they came to a complete standstill three ari is being brought into play for that last "half furlongs from home, and had eventually to walk
distance." The deafening roar from countless thousands of huntan throats is all, unheeded by the three jackeys as they make the last ef
fort, and the finish is a work of at, the bearer of the "yellow and black coming with a well timed rush and winning by half a lenght in the last few strides, the other pair finishing a dead heat after a punishing struggle Let us change the scene from Doncaster's Derbynt Epsom to another "yellow and black Derby victory, that of Girths in the Hongkong Blue Riband three years ago. There is no great crowd at the starting post in the Happy Valley os at Epsom; there are men in the saddle; and the start is a fairly good one, although one or two
PARIS LETTER.
Now that promise is what few believe, es
bills for long time. is a uiumph for Judic, and the play will keep on
fair way to love
About seven years ago Paris had only one
Vagner; the French are in capital has four. At them alt, the extraordinary Sunday Concert-Pasdelnup's, at present the feature is the execution of elegant extracts from the scientific German compositor as much as
auster. I will never forget the sunday, as it King Ludwig himself. It is not seven years since daring to give the obstreperous overture to Taur Pasdeloup was threatened with the lamp-post for
a Prussian, and when I placed it on my head. I like others, I was accused of sympathy, of being cost me a new hat; holding the latter in my hand
of an umbrella from an enthusiast, that dispenser was charged with disrespect and received a blow with all ventilation for the tile. Faure sang ma-
jestically the dream song from Massenet's opera,
Leo Saxil, is bringing out an infamous publica- tion in serial parts-the "Comic History of Jesus." He has written also a comic history of the Bible, and his scurrilous romance about Pius
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PARIS, January 14- The Republic may have prosperity within its walls. A fortnight agoon New Year's Day, limited crowds were wishing Gambetta tunny wishing him at Nova Zembla or the Lord knows happy returns of the season; to day they are The "typhoon"tea-drying apparatus appears to
where. It is difficult to know Gambetta's game be effecting wonders on the Assam Tea Planta-
or penetrate his play; he is beyond doubt set- tea as well as other things, diversity of product has diminished his popularity and raised serious tions. Our readers, are of course, aware that in stand the hazard of the die. Sink or Swim, he ting his political life upon a cast, and will
may arise from a variety of circumstances, and that difference in manufacture has as much to
doubts as to his ability as a statesman. Even
preparation, and on it much of the goodness of proposition for the revision of the Constitution, do in the commercial classification as anything ready to devour him.
moderate men condemn him; extreme people are else. "Drying" is an essential process in tea-
A year ago when Carodet brought forward his the out-turn is said to depend, as regards color, he was regarded as an idiot and laughed into the flavor, and strength. Where English capital and enterprise has been leavily launched in the Ten reform the Senate, and Gambetta turns the post shade. The general elections took up the cry of, industry, we are not surprised to find Western tion to reform, not so much the senate, as the provements in the processes of its production and newly elected Chamber of Deputies, by insisting science and resources brought to bear on im- manufacture. The natural result is an outcome blee for each departement, shall supersede the that his dad or hobby, of electing members en of numerous "patents" all purporting to dely existing immeritorial plan, of osemember for eachfrodite. competition in their respective domains. In this the disadvantages that most of these particular minds of all rational men could wait some treeing wife, and having a grown up son, has been electoral division of a departement. The former, competition "dryers are well represented. 1tut commonly known as the scrutin de liste, in
A M. Lapeyrouse, aged 6o, married to a charm- inventions labored under were want of simplicity years, when the present Chamber would be ap tempt viclate the pretty spouse of one, of his and excessive prime cost and working expenses.proaching its natural span of life, the more su,
sentenced to two years' imprisonment for an at- great measure overcome in Mr. Rebenson's ap would he apply the law if vored, before the period These difficulties have been apparently in a pliance, which is rather eccentrically designated
since Gambetta alleges, under no circumstances
clients. The Code punishes the attempt just the same as the commission of the decd. as the typhoon," A Committee of India gally fixed-four years, for the dissolution of the Planters thirteen in number-qualified to exa
Chamber. time and report on the subject have pro- pecially since Gambetta's opportunism has drifted the lins led to his being fined roof. noimced satisfactorily on its merits. The ap-into accepting black for white; or in making no in. The remark of the rider to his friends on dismounting, that both himself and the horse construction of brick and iron, which can be canism and the life-long devotees of that same paratus is described as a simple and inexpensive difference between the arch enemies of Republi- of the most painful exhibitions we ever witnessed. material employed is coke the consumption of Burke and the French, is the mother of surety. were out of condition" was a poor apology for one erected without skilled labor.
The heating ism. He is suspected, and that, according to Yet this gentleman was, strictly speaking, a very as 1 to 4, by weight, an admittedly satisfactory seats, to vote a Damocles sword for themselves, which in proportion to the dried ten produced is To ask some 570 deputies not year warm in their fair horseman, only he lacked judgment and result, particularly as thess are localities where placing the right to clip the hair which suspends knowledge of pace as a race-rider. It would be such fuel is not always or readily pracurable. it over their heads, between the hands of Gam- folly to expect our amateur tiders ever to attain be at the rate of forty pounds of thoroughly dried beita, is what neither they nor their constituents any gcat amount of proficiency or skill in race tea per hour; but there are grounds for believing deputies would be in the position of so many employed.
be
comprehend. If the thread be not severed, the for her wit. riding for reasons stated at the commencement the apparatus capable of accomplishing more. condemned with halters round the neck; on the of this article; but we do certainly believe that Over and above these satisfactory results, as first sign of independence, Gambelts would great improvement could easily be made on the regards quantities, the Committee give a tribute the cord a memento mori, a Marwood chuck,
of praise to the manner in which the work was in capable of being misunderstood. style of horsemanship at present in vogue.
If standing in the stirrups is of so much ad- performed. The quality of the nut-turn is best vantage to the horse as compared with the or- in advance of those ons, which are slightly tactics, and Gambetta is Boured because he influenza, in which all the symptoms which char THE NAMES OF THE OFFICERS
attested by London
Fublic opinion is not at all favorable to these
of the "jocks" display a great deal of nervous dinary seat, and if it enables the rider to collect, entire cost of construction-material and labor- had faith in him, and expected he would have headache, weeping from the eyes, red and puffy by other methods. The receives more kicks than half-pence. The public acterise the disease in the human subject are anxiety to get well away. After the start there is
or keep the horse well together with so much fur believing these recommendations will not only thing so far, and the little he has effected, is hau, eyelids, discharge from the nostrils, and swelling is under 30/- each, and there is every reason removed mountains: he has done next to no- no other point of resemblance between the horse-
case, it ought to be practised by all race-riders. lead to general adoption of the apparatus, but if his Reform Bill he defeated at the coming Con- of the legs, with much general fever, are among manship, or rather the jockeyship, displayed in the respective races. As the ponies race up the short gallop not at all uncomfortable. The reins ness and quality are the desiderata in the pro- will resign. People do not take that alternative lungs, nor any cough, as in the aggravated pul-
This seat is an execedingly easy one, and for a will simply enable it to defy competition; cheap-gress-that is the reunion of both Chambers-he the symptoms. There is no trouble with the HAIR DRESSING SALOON should be held one in each hand; and the rider duction of a commercial article, and as these hill by the Black Rock, and stream round by catching a fast hold of his horse's head, should requisites are suplied in a very high degree by very much to heart, but they shrewdly know it monary influenza. The disease lasts from three the village in Indian file, we have every aford the aminal all possible suppor: keeping the Typhoon" described, we have not hesitated member of parliament, Gambetta might be more appears without any secondary complications.
lead to grave complications. As a privatę to ten days, and with good nursing and rest dis- opportunity of comparing the style of the riders him well up to the bit at the same time. The in giving it publicity-Herald. with the Epsom recollections we have sketched whip, held firmly in the right hand, should point
troublesome as an obstructionist than as an op- above. There is no standing in the stirrups, no
downwards, and should never be raised until the
portunist, for France will not pardon being de- while preaching in a Nonconformist chapol at A singular accident befell a Scotch clergyman artistic manipulation of the reins, to be seen.
last moment. In finishing, the rider should sit
ceived in her idol, and would close to him the shepherd's Bush on Sunday, Jan. 8. He is said close to the saddle, so as to be able to
avenue to the Presidency. I do not say if he to have had a vigorous style," and now and Bismarck's jockey is sitting well back, his legs utilise his full strength in collecting his horse for
fell, he would fall like Lucifer, never to rise again, again the "portly preacher" would lean his dangling against the saddle flaps, the reins the last grand rush, and to afford him every op
The Rev. W. Kitchin writes from Oxford to but the halo surrounding his name would be dis- whole weight on "the reading-stand, gazing in- bunched in one hand, whilst the other bears aloft In England you rarely see a jockey lift his whip on December 15, of Colonel James O. Lindam, mained for some thirty years in the cold shade thus gating, the correspondent says, "the au- The Times as follows:-"Near the end of last sipated. In 1840 Thiers was regarded as the tently into the faces of his auditors to deepen the par unity of punishing effectually in a close finish. year you announced in your obituary the death, Presidential man; he was defeated, and he re- a cutting whip with which the rider makes frantic until well inside the distance, and many of the K.H., at the age of ninety-two. I have waited in of opposition. Indeed when he returned to power, dience were startled by seeing the reading-stand impression of bis counsels." While he was once slashes at the empty air, as if he were practising most experienced of the craft prefer to finish with the hope that some one better qualified might it was relatively short, and cut sliort. the art of gentle Isaac Walton. They have only the bridle alone; but in Hongkong, and at other fumish an account of this old Waterloo man; as,
topple over the platform, followed headlong by travelled five furlongs, but Dismarck is being race meetings in the East, fogging commences however, none has hitherto appeared, I venture ment of the scine; the quinquennial census re- his assistance; but, although, the fall was one of MONTHLY CUSTOMERS TAKEN AT REDUCED
Paris and its suburbs constitate the departe the energetic preacher himself. Many rushed to driven along as fast as spur and an unceasing
with the fall of the flag; and frequently before a to send you the following scanty and imperfect cently taken indicates a total increase of the "jag" at the bridle can drive him, and the othery has fairly settled into his stride the tider is reminiscences of my old friend. James Lindam, population of 352,000, the figures in 1876 his footing, and at once returned to his place at above seven feet, the minister quickly regained gentlemen are energetically following suit. Every the animal's temper, or causing him to change got his commission, in 1810, and was sent out at 1,989,000 now boasts of 2,226,006. The results
whipping with might and main, usually upsetting who was half a Devonshire man and half a Dane, being 2,411,000. Paris proper, which in 1876 had the restored reading-stand." Before resuming post is being made a winning post, and the race his leg and Rounder about all over the course;
once to Portugal, where he joined while the
the awkwardly interupted discourse, however, is only a rough scramble as to which shall get
and the loss of the race is the result,
for the country at large will not be known till Allies under Wellington were still lying in the the close of March. The Germans, however, are We have few hopes that our remarks on the lines of Torres Vedras. When the time for the still far ahead, despite the swarme annually
the preacher remarked that "those who leaned home first. But, stay, what is this coming quietly subject of:
upon the Master would be better sustained than along a dozen lengths behind everything! We style of horsemanship to be adopted by the pre-in the scrious business of war, for he was one of superiority in babies, France has the advantage
in China, will cause a new forward movement came he was at once initiated thrown off from the hive. If Vaterland has the stand of His servant."
he had been while leaning upon the reading to the public as unrivalled by any prepare had overlooked the wasp" jacket, and here doubtless have such exalted views of their derous battle of Albuera, 'stood triumphant on
sent race of jockeys
tion ever produced for promoting the growth These gentlemen will the 1,8co English soldiers who, after the mur
Some important Mss. have just been added to
of the hair. The basis of this compound is it is apparently out of the race, according to the dictum of bystanders. Not so fast gentlemen, in their own estimation, outside the pale attached only 600 out of the 1,500 were unhurt. Commercial treaty with England the latter is missioners, January, 1551; Papers relating to the
own abilities in the saddle, as to place them, the fatal hill. Of the brigade to which he was
in francs, as the material prosperity of the country the Manuscript Library of the British Museum. made of soap root; the natives of the Philip No light has been let in on the question of the of Winchester, to the articles of the Royal Com washing their hair; they are never found bald, if you please, here is a glimpse of real jockey of improvenient The inordinate
Among them are the answer of Gardiner, Bishop pine Islands never use anything else for ship at last. The rider, although not standing of men who can ride a little, and who fancy described to me the scene on the hill-top after Tray, Blanch, and sweetheart, bark at her. 1299-1306; Commentary on the Odes of Horace, conseils The old man once, with graphic simplicity, being roundly abused; the Ettle dogs and all, English Catholics; a Year-Book of Law Cases,
and it is quito common to see the females with in his stirrups, leans well forward, his hands themselves better horsemen than Dick Christian the struggle was over. But we young fellows, Not only does perfide Albion decline the offered
hair fron's to 6 feet long. By constantly using' are low down, just in the position where he have long since become a bye-word among sport-ravenously hungry; and so, while some gathered duties, but john Bull's hesitation and sulks are
this shampoo Wash as directed, you will and equal in jockeyship to George Fordham, he added, soon found out that
bound up with comedies of Terence and the "Ars Frenchman's generosity of quadrupled import Poetica," fourteenth century; the "Aurora," or
NEVER BE BALD. can at the same time guide and support his ing men, so it is not for these necomplished ar- spline of gun-carriages and the like, others imitated by Switzerland, Holland and Spain. One century; and an munt. He is not elegant, but he looks effective fistes that these lines have been penned. There made rough gridirons out of broken iron
"Biblia metrica" of Peter de Riga, fifteenth entirely confident that by its restorative pro- The proprietor offers the Wash to the public and workmanlike in this crowd. He has also enough after a fashion, who have not had oppor-and others cut steaks out of the bodies of the arrived in Paris to renew negotiations, and that queathed several illuminated service books contain any poisonous drugs. By its cooling are many young fellows in China who ride well ramrods which were lying all about the place, stereotyped wire, that Sir Charles Dilke luas. The late Villiars Barges ins-beand cures all distasry of the scalp. It does not of those mornings we are expecting the usual
Italian version of Bae pertics it will without fail arrest decaying this "De Consolatione," fifteenth century. ridden with judgment and carefully wrsed his.tunities of practically becoming acquainted with horses that had been killed, and grilled them he has skedaddled the next day to London to
hair. It completely eradicates scarf, dandru horse, hardly noticing his opponent's carcering the rudiments of true jockeyship, and who, we over the fire; and I don't think I ever had a bet. away lengths in front, knowing quite well that feel assured, will not hesitate to avail themselves ter dinner in my life. After Albuera Lindam seek, or blind man's buff. The English delegates Psalter of the same period, with initials and gro. their hair.
and other MSS. to the Museum. Among them properties it allays the itching and fever of the consult Ministers. It is a case of hide and go they must come back to him. And so they do
of the hints we have given above, as it is only by followed Wellington's victorious march through do not even remain long enough to allow tesques; the "Roman de la Rose", the "Cité
are a Latin Bible of the thirteenth century; a scalp, which is the great cause of people losing. with a vengeance." It is a painful struggle from that any aspirant to fame can even hope to of the fighting, including the taking of san Belleville was once, in the last century, one of of Juvenal and Persius, 1453; and the "Rimu" ferment, and he will guarantee it to keep any
a thorough adherence to the principles laid down North-Western Spain, and was present at most conscientious hotel-keepers, to the half-mile post, where whips and spurs are
Mr. MOORE has succeeded in being able to witch the world with noble horsemanship."
Recce them. des Dames," by Christine de Pisan; the satires put this wash up in battles withou allowing it to. Sebastian. At the close of the Peninsula war, in the most favorite suburbs of the capital: its dan and "Trioni" of Petrarca
length of time in any climate;
-COLONEL J. O. LINDAM.
we were
never was so marked.
present. Languor, disinclination for exertion,
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