CREMATION.

(the dying maiden's eabewell to heb LOVER.) Then the night wore on, and we knew the worst, That the end of it all was nigh ; Three doctors they had from the very first-— And what could one do but die ? " Oh, William I" she cried, "strew no blos soms of spring, For the new ' apparatus' may rust; But say that a handful of shavings you'll bring, And linger to see me combust. "Oh promise me, love, by the fire-hole you'll watch, And when mourners and stokers convene, You will see that they light me some solemn, Blow match. And warn them against kerosene. "* It would cheer me to know, ere these rode breezes waft My essences far to the pole, That one whom I love will look to the draught, And have a fond eve on the coal. " Then promise me, love, —and her voice ! fainter grew> — " While this body of mine calcifies, "Tow. will stand just as near as you can to the flue, And gaze while my gases arise. " For Thompson—Sir Henry—has found out a way (Of his ' process' you've surely heard tell), And you burn like a parlour-match g6ntlv away, ifor even offend by a smell. *' So none of the dainty need sniff in disdain, When my carbon floats up to the sky ; And I'm sure, love, that you will never ccm plain, Though a ash should blow into you eye. " Now promise me, love"—and she mur murmed low— " When the calcification is o'er, Ton will sit by my grave in the twilight glow— 1 mean, by my furnace-door, " Yes, promise me, love, while the seasons revolve On their noiseless axles, the years, You will visit the kiln where you saw me, ' resolve,' And leach my pale ashes with tears."

WHY THE BUTTER DIDN'T COME.

They have a new hired girl over at Keyser's farm, just outside of Newcastle and on Tuesday before starting to spend %he day with a friend, Mrs. Xeyser in structed the girl to whitewash the kitchen in her absence. Upon returning, Mis. Xeyser found the job completed in a very satisfactory manner. On Wednesday- Mrs Xeyser always churns, and last Wednesday when she was ready she went, tit, and finding that Mr. Xeyser had ready put the milk into the churn, she gan to turn the handle. This was at ight o'clock in the morning, and she turned until ten without any signs of butter appearing. Then she called in the tired man, and he turned until dinner time, when he knocked off with some very offensive language addressed to the butter ■which had not yet come. After dinner the hired girl took hold of the crank and turned it energetically until two o'clooi when she let go with the remark whiefi conveyed the impression that she believ&c 1 the churn to be haunted. Then Mr. Kgyser came out and said he wanted to know what was the matter with that churn anyhow. It was good enough if people .only knew enough, to work it. Mr. Keyser then worked the crank until halfpast three when as the butter had not come, he surrendered again to the hired man be cause he had an engagement in the village. The man ground the machine to tu> accompaniment of frightful imprecations. Then the Xeyser children each cook a turn for half an hour then Mrs. Xeyser tried her hand, and when she was exhausted she enlisted the hired girl, who said her prayers while she turned. When Xeyser came home and found the churn still in action, he blasted his eyes and did some other innocent swearing and then he seizea the handle and said he'd make the butter come if he kicked up an earthquake in doing it. Mr. Xeyser effected about 200 revolutions of the crank a minute, enough to have made any ordinary butter come from the ends of the earth : and when the •perspiration began to stream from him and still the butter did not come, he uttered -one wild yell of rage and disappointment and. kicked the churn over the fence. ' When Mrs. Xeyser went to pick it up ■ she put her nose down close to the butter milk and took a sniff. Then she under stood how it was. The girl had mixed the whitewash in the churn and left it there. A good, honest, and intelligent servant who knows how to churn can find a situation at Xeyser's. There is a vacancy.

A MAN OF FEW WORDS.

••"WaiteeP" "Sir!" replied the winter. " "Waiter, I am a man of few words, and I . don't like to be continually ringing the bell ■and disturbing the house. I thank you to pay attention to what I say, and to Temember that, although there are three Ways of doing things, I only like one way in: those who have subordinate stations and'minds. In the first place bring me "a glass of brandy and (cold) water, a little sugar and a tea-spoon; wipe down this table, throw some coals on the fife, and sweep down the hearth; bring me in a couple of candles, pen, ink and paper, "some wafers and a little sealing-wax; tell the ostler to take cart of my horse, dress him well; stop his feet and let me know when he is ready to. feed; order the chambermaid to prepare me a good bed, take care that the sheets are well aired, and a glass of water in the room; send the boots with a pair of slippers that I can walk to the stable in ; tell him I must nave my boots cleaned and brought into the1 room to-night, and that I shall want to be called at five o'clock in the morning ; ask your mistress what I can have for supper; tell her I should like a roast duck or something of that sort; desire your master to step in ; I want to ask him a few questions; send me a directory; change this $5 worth of stamps into bills, none of them worn; when does the mail arrive with the letters, and what time before midnight does the mail leave ? just tell me what time it, is by the clock on the land ing, and leave the room." Thig portrait is from life*

THE O'DONOGHUES' EXPERIENCES IN AUCKLAND.

; We are the two O'Donoghues just landed, yerra a gra; landed, say about 3 months* i aj*o. And as lam far a better skolar than | my brother Jim, I may as well be telling ye . how we be getting on. Mind, I would not bother yej except for being towld that yeir paper is the best that pays, so let my brother

j Jim decide what you must pay toe every week. No kontra accounts, mind, but cash. j As I was going to tell ye, after being here ' a few weeks, we bought a two-roosted lease hold in Lorin-street, and my brother Jim

i says that it will be the worst trouble ever

j came over us yet. I'll tell ye all about it j when I am done, and I beiieve he is right, ■; for its awful to see how many is kalllng for takses. However, as I was telling ye, Jim did not stop long idle; he went into the hawking business, and now sells everything; in fact, he is now talking of buying a horse and cart, so that will tell ye» By gore he is a cuto cove that Jim. Do ye know what he was telHng me the other night ? Why, that he could fill the two rooms "with all kinds of goods, and never pay a penny ; for, if I took a bill of sale, a rub of the brush would do all the rest. Do you know I never Blept that night, but thinking over the great change Auckland had made in Jim ; in fact, he says he can't become a great merchant till he get a few rubs ; and if you please, he towld me he has now changed his religion, and become a free thinker. He saya he will not be licked, for he will do the same as all the big felloes. Do you know that I ran short this morning of a few bob, so- after cleaning up the house, I went around to the corner for three pennorth of wood, and after putting it in the kit, I told him, "score it." "No," says he. "for if I do, I shall never see your face again." Oh, he cut up fearfull about some blacksmith down Queen-street that's getting rubbed with the brush, so I knocked around the corners till Jim came back, and vfhat do ye think he towld me, for I could ace at once there was something up by the cut of his tog—no basket to-day, quite the i.WL-11—a white bell-toppered cove dandling a cone, and after axing him why he wore my Sunday clothes, he outs with it at once, by calling me Johnny Raw (New Chum), and that green that the cows would soon eat mo up. But Jim soon came too, and told me all about the row he had with the big boss of che Bank. Now, you can have it in his own words as how it happened. After striking the door With his cane—" come in." Faith, in he goes, and takes a seat opposite this big blocke, without being asked. Well, sir, your pleasure. After humming and hawing, and still looking at his fingers covered with a lot of brass rings, I bought in Liverpool for 2s 6d. Jim sings out, he wasted £5000 to lodge in for the waterworks ; in fact, a small trifle—a mere bagatelle—till the mail would arrive. I believe it was awful to hear the boss gasping out what security ! what security .»■ The waterworks, the best you

could have, and if you want more you can have my two^oomed leasehold ; but I'll be uangad if you get the goods, as I gave my • brother Patt a bilJ of sale. Kow, look old chap, I am fly, I am down to yeir moves, uekase ye <?an't tell me. Any one in Auck land able to put down £5000 ? Why, my brother, and he has plenty skooling could not kount in all in one day. And let me tell ye, if ye were'nt up to a trick or two, there would be two contracts—the one for mas hineery and pipes, and the other for poor navies. What do you mean to gay ? lam in that bleßßed ring, and with that he pulled the bell and shewed me the way out j you have heard it afll as I got it. Now, it strikes me, Jim is right, for be says he turned all kind of colours, and that those big shops want all they can get for themselves, so he is going back to the basket till something else turns up. If my brother Jim and you don't agree about the sugar, he will make me write for some other paper. The 2 O'Donoghues.

Getting the Best of his Pabishion ees.— Old Dr. Strong, of Hartford, was not often outwitted. On one occasion he hadinvited a young minister to preach for him, who proved rather a dull speaker, and whose sermon was unusually long. The people became wearied, and as Dr. Strong lived near the bridge, about the time for the commencement of the after noon service he saw his people flocking across the river to the other church. He readily understood that they feared that they should hear the same young man in the afternoon. Gathering up his wits, which generally came at his bidding, he said to the young minister: "My brother across the river is very feeble, and I know he will take it kindly to have you preach to his people, and if you will do so, I will give you a note to him, and will be as much obliged to you as I would to have you preach for me, and I want you to preach the same sermon you preached to my people this morning. " The young minister, supposing this to be a commenda tion of his sermon, started off in good spirits, delivered his note, and was invited to preach most cordially. He saw before him one half of Dr. Strong's people, and they had to, listen one hour and a half to the same humdrum stermon that they heard in the morning. They understood the joke, however, and said they would never undertake to run away from D,r. Strong again.— Worcester Spy. " What are you after, my dear ?" said a grandmother to a little boy, who was sliding along a room, and casting furtive glances at a gentleman who was paying a visit. "I am trying, grandma, to steal papa'a hat out of the room without letting the gentleman see it'; he wants him to think h«'» out."

THE GRAPE VINE.

I have not been successful, says Max Adoler'in the "Danbury News," with my experiments in grape culture. I bought a vine somo timo ago, and the man who sold the cutting to mo enjoined me to be careful to water it thoroughly every day. I did so, but it didn't seem to thrive. One day I asked my neighbour, Pitman, what he thought was the matter with it, and when I mentioned that I watered it daily, ho said —" Be gracious, Adeler, th&t'd'kiU ally Qp?{ A griifie vine don't want no artificial waterinV* Then he adyised me to discontinue the process, and to wash the vine with soap suds in order to Still the btig?. My anxiety to know why it stiii didn't thrive was relieved some time afterwards by overhearing a man in, the cars remark that " some men kill their grapij-vines by their durned foolery in ptittin' soap-sflds on'em." He said all a grape-vine wanted was to have the earth around it loose ened now and then with a spade. Then I began to Sg around my vine every morn ing, but one day, while engaged in the ex ercise) Cooley came and leaned .ovfer the fence and said—" Adeler, you'j] kill that ere vine if you don't stop diggin' at it. Nothin' hurts a vine wuss than disturbin' the sod around the roots, now mind me. That vine don't want nothin' but to be trained up on a trellis, and fastened with wire." I ordered a trellis that afternoon, and tied tender shoots of the vine to the : cross pieces. The job cost me 84 dols." On the followiug Tuesday I read in my agricultural paper that if a man wants to ruin a grape-vine the quickest way is to tie it up with wire, as the oxydisalion destroys the wire. Sol took off .the-wire, and replaced it with string. I was talk-. ing about it to the man who came over to bleed my horse for the blind staggers, and he assured me that thore was only one sure way to make a grape-vine utterly worthless, and that was to i*un it up on a > trellis. In •France, he told me, the vine yard owners trained their vines on poles, and that was thp right way. So I got the axe and knocked the trellis to pieces, and then fixed the vine to a bean-pole. Still it didn't thrive very well, and I asked a nurseryman near nje to come and look at it. He said he couldn't come but he finew what was the matter with the vine a's well as if he saw it. It wanted pruning. I ought to cut it down to within ten feet of the roots, and then manure it well. I did cut it down, and emptied a bag of guano over it; but as it seemed sort of slow, I insfctod en the nurseryman coming over to examine it. He said that his fee was 10 dols in advance. I paid him. and he came. Ho looked at the vine a' moment: then he availed; and then ho said, " By gosh Adeler, that isn't a grape vine at all! It's a Virginia creeper.' 1 So I have kind of knocked off on grape culture, and am paying attention to my cabbage.

EPIDEMIC AMONG THE UGLY MEN IN NEW YORK.

The men are certainly suffering from some dreadful malignant complaint. Everywhero I hear tales of some petty, annoying insult quiet ladies, in some cases middle-aged and unprepossessing women, are receiving from men in horse-cars. You can tuck your feet under your seat as far as you please: your nexifc<neighbour is euro to poke about in the' with- his No. 225, and make you wretched trying to change overshoes. II the villain has a newspaper, ho opens it out wifle, and lets the hand holding it oext you rest against your arm with a gentle prossufe, whicHi increases from time to time as the para graph under consideration Bcefflff to re gulate, If the car is crowded, ho" throws his arm behind into the window, and pokes you occasionally in the neck. He makes1 a donkey of himself in a hundred ways, but occasionally he meets his matcE. In a broadway vehicle a lady entered and found a seat next a melancholy-looking man a sallow, sickly specimen. (It wouldn't be half so bad if the nice-looking men did these disgusting things ; but they don't; it's always the horrid ones). And this particular man was very horrid ; his dress was dismal; he wore black worsted gloves and a stock. A man who wears a stock is capable of anything. But'this unsuspecting woman did not know that. She saw ihat he carried in one hand five or six numbers of Beecher's " Life of Christ. Perhaps his baggage reassured her; certainly she felt no solidiation till, she felt one pudgy finger poke her on the shoulder. She sat forward. The pursuing finger made another prod. She got on the very edge of the seat and hung on by the button of her coat. Still the nasty man followed her up, and this time gave net a very pronounced invitation to fall off with the miserable old worsted glove. This was top much; asd the* lady tu*n»d round and aaa^essed him in a loud voice thus ; "Ain't you a nice sort of man to be carry ing around the ' life of Christ,' and poking woman in their backs ?" It was a short but decisive oration, Every man on the opposite sWe jumped to change seats with her. The offender undertook to make some shgw of defence, but he was hustled about so he pulled the efcrap and tumbled off the step indiscriminately, amid the jeers of the passengers, one or two of whom expressed themselves as satisfied that, if all ladies took their eases in their own hands in lilac fashion, a speedy stop would be put to the daily insults in street cars and stages from which they now suffer.

MEASUREMENTS OF ANCIENT CITIES.

Nineveh was 14 miles long, 8 miles wide and 44 miles around, with a wall 100 feet high and thick enough for three chariots abreast. Babylon was 50 miles within the walls, which were 75 feet tfrick and 100 feet hjgh, with 100 braces gates. The Temple of Diana, at Ephesus, was 420 feet to the «upport of the roof; it was 100 years in building. Tb,e largest of the pyramids was 481 feet in height, and 863 feet on the sides. The bate covered 11 acres. The stones are about 60 feet in length, and the layers 208. It employed 350,000 men in building. The labyrinth of Egypt contains 300 chambers and 12 halls. Thebes, in Egypt, presents ruins 57 miles around, and contained 350,000 citizens and 400,000 slavey The Temple ofDehlpos was so rich in donations that [it was plundered of $60,OOQ ? 000, and the Emperor Nero carried ayray from it 200 statues. Th* walls bt Borne weip 13 i miles aroato*.

DIFFEY'S DOG DUPLEX.

A TBICK THAT GOT THE BEST OP HIM. Almost everybody in town has heard of Jimmy Diffoy's dog Duplex. Ho had fa thousand tricks, but none that were '■ vain." Catching ball and all that sort &f businosa afforded him much pleasure. Make but a Single motion as though throwing some thing into ihd mi find Duplex was all attention. His nose w&s &Mt m a moment and his ears were vibrating "six rtiifs for Sunday/ while his tail was extraordinarily inflexible ■ When he had fallen into this attitude the majctflif tff asternal things were not heeded by him until M« pecftme convinced that he was not going to ne&t anything drop. Not only in this but also in many other' fSsp-fifitg, the dog was a stud.y. Well, poor Duplex is itead now. Last Sunday afternoon the Chinese i&di- ■ dents of this place tendered their god Gumboots' att Oration, in which fire crackers and bombs largdy predominated. Jimmy Diffey went down to Ohiflatown to see this blow-out, Duplex following at his heels. Hardly had the Joss-house been reached when a Chinese worshipper of the ci'b'3S<ete4 dtfg above mentioned threw high into the air 6flfi W th^SS Wicked spherical, wicker-covered bomos, & tuing which no other nation except the Chinese wcftild ever have thought Of inventing. Poor Duplex sat* the ball ascend, and rushed forth from his master's side, con fident that, as H trained dog, he1 tyas eipected1 to do his duty. The ball had not yet done ascending ivheh Duplex was underneath it, squatted upon hishauJnchos; | nose in the air, ears vibrating and tail laying out along the ground as stiff as a small crowbar. In vain did Mr. Diffey, shout and call i " Here, Duplex! You Duplex ! Got out! Come hero ! Ah, You ?' Duplex knew too well what under similar circumstances had always been expected of him—knew his duj,y. As the hissing sphere reached its greatest altitude, paused the fractional part of a second and then began its descent, the slightest bit of tremor imaginable was to be observed in the extreme point of the tail of the alert animal; then, as tho ball descended nearer and nearer, he was as firm as a rock —he was accurately measuring his distance. At the exact and critical moment, Duplex darted from tho ground, straight as an arrow from the bow, his rigid, well formed tail pointing directly to the ground and his mouth open to its widest capacity. Down between the distended jaws of the dog fell the bomb. " Drop it, you ras cal ! " shouted Mr. Diffey—" drop it, drop it, sir ! " But Duplex did drop it, Ay heavy, dull explosion was beard —a sort of thud —and Duplex, where was he ? The greater part of him lay wliero the explo sioli occurred, but one of his eye* was sent across tho street through the window of Hop Lock, tho Chinese Doctor, the end of his nose fell in the boudoir of Miss Soo Chow, and a shower of teeth rained in the meat-market and pig-killing establish ment of the fat and easy-going Ah Luck.

A GOOD PATENT MEDICINE STORY.

Lives there a man with soul so dead as never lo have heard of Professor Benton's •'Holloway pill* " and ointment? These curative medicines have been constantly advertised for tic last twenty years in every newspaper in tlio workl, th 6 result of its publicity being that the Professor has realised &n enormous fortnnp. He and his wife are now well stricken in years, and they have no children. So ho is spending his monoy in beneficence. Believing—possibly from the largo sale of his qnaok medicines —that most people are mad, he has built an asylum for the insane at Virginia Water, near Windsor at a cost of £100,0Q0, and he is now about to erect at Egham a university for ladies, on an estate which he has just bought for £25,000. The best professors wili be engaged to give the highest education possible to women, and the scheme will cost £150,000. This Mr. Holloway once asked Dickens to write one page of matter mentioning in some way or other Holloway's pills. In the envelope contain ing this request was a check for £1,000. Dickens who was greatly annoyed, put envelope and contents into another, loose, and returned them by the messenger, saying there was no answer. I had this from Dickens own lips.— London Corr. New York Herald.

WHY BIRDS MIGRATE.

Dubing a long attack of illness at Hel singfors, in Finland, the Swedish poat, Hunfeberg, has occupied himself in observ- thfc habits of birds, and especially regarding the habits of migration, conced ing which he offers the ingenious explanation tbkt it is til 6 tesuJt of an intense longing for light. When the days shorten in the north the birds go South ; but us soon as the long northern nights set in with their luminous long-drawn hours the wanderers return to tfieir old haunts. It is generally supposed that they move southward to get more abundant food; but why do they leave the rich southern feed ing grounds to return northward ? Simply because one thing is richer there, and that is light. The same instincjfc that makes plants turn towards the light, and stretch their branches to reach it, also works in birds and compels them to fly after and Mow it.

PURELY PARISIAN.

The scene is laid in Paris —it could not well be laid anywhere else. December 19fch, in the evening, a young woman had a quarrel with a man—apparently a love quarrel—in a room on the third floor of a house in the Boulevard Meailmontant. Made furious by the quarrel she threw open the window and jumped out. There was a hard wind blowing at the time, and this mating a balloon of her skirts, sus tained her weight so far as to let her gently down into the deep snow, and she called a cab and drove away. The man, not to be outdone by a woman, when he saw that she had jumped out of the win dow, placed a pistol to the side of his head and fired. The ball entered the right ear and came out of the left, apd'now he who was deaf rejoices in his hearing. The couple have'since made up, and are as happy ai turtlef doves. ■ It is very ■hock ing tndy were not both killed.

SOME FUN.

A young man of Jersey City poisoned himself rather than see his widowed mother marry a momber of the Legis lature.

An impassioned swain, under a bad s})ell, wrote: " Mary, I love the well." ■?ne replied ihj^t she was glad he didn't drink liquor".

It looks bad to see a dog preceding his master down the street, and calmly turn down tlic stairs to the first saloon he approaches, It shows there is something wrong, something lac&iasf, a deplorable tendency on the part of the dog<

An Irish Clergyman once broke off the thread of his discourse and thus addressed the congregation: "My dean brethren, let Bie tell you that I am now Jwst half thfOu'gli taj, sermon; but as I perceirc your impatieiitfeV I will say that the re maining half is not tnuts than a quarter as long as that you have heard.

"When a Detroit boy is out until Jialf past 10 o'dodk m the evening, and his father says to him i " 'Boy, the first thing in the morning I' 11 settle ibh with you ! " that boy arises at daylight, seeks the btick-sa'rr and wood-pile, and he never lets up for a mdrhtOtt ttntil after his father has eaten his breakfast attd Mt the house.

One of the boys, just before fetnrning to Cornell the other day, sent a young lA&J friend of his a cake of Lubin's finest variety of'toilet soap, with the request that she would draw no inferences in receiving such a1 gift. Tftejoung man was some what astonished the text day when ho received a letter from the yotnag ladj con taining the present of a fine tooth ctfmb, with the request th^t he would draw He? inferences therefrom.

A chunk of a boy was seen studying the weather report charts hanging in the post office yesterday, and, wondering &t the lad's interest, a gentleman approatehed him and asked ; "Well my sdn what do you wish to find ?" " I'm looking to see how the old thermoffl stands at Duluth, said the boy; "If she's ten below I've ' got to dust for home and split more wood ; if she's at zero I can go off with Bill Jackson to see his dog fight a tame coon ! ",

A Wisconsin school boy handed in the following composition recently : " I co to school to learn to read and rite and siphor to slide on the ice and trade of an old nife if I have one, in summer to pick wild flowers and strawberries and to get out of ' work hot days, some boys has to go to school to get out of their mother's road, but I would rather stay in winter than go to miles and set by a cold stove and freeze my tose. I like to go to school to see the teacher scold the big girls when they cut up, some goes to sohool to fool bu± I goto study when we dre old we can't go to 1 school and then we will feel sorry that we ■ fooled when we was young and went to school. I don't get no time to fool any way for I have enough to do when it, ■ comes to my geography. The following is the lament of an ill used woman ; " My husband's crosser than a bear, And won't give me a thing to wear ; When I of him the reason axes, ! He grumbles ' Thoee confounded tax.es.' " Her fate is a sad ofce. She can never enjoy life as much as the gushing woman, who lias access to bar husband's pTfrfie whenever she feeh like it, and sifigs, merrily : ; " Mjr husband's good as he can be ; Says ho, ' My love,' says he to me, • Take all you want, for heaven's aate, Ere taxeß leaves yoil none to take.' ". Many years ago, wßen David ©tockett^ was a member oi Congress, and had re turned to his cc*istituents after his first session, a " nation" of them surrounded him one clay, and began to interrogate him ■ abeut Washington. '' What time do they dine at Washington, Colonel?" asked one. " Why," said he, " comjnon people, such as you here, get their dinners at one o'clock, but the gentry and big 'uns dine .at three. As for the [Representatives, we dine at four; and the aristocracy and the Senate, they dont get their victuals till five. " " Well, when does the President fodder F' asked another. "Old Hickory P" , ' exclaimed the colonel, attempting ip 1 appoint a time in accordance with the dignity of the station, " Old Bipkory ? Well he don't dine till next day."

A DRUIDICAL WEDDING.

The following description of a marriage in the Druidical days ia given in Saintine's ' ;■" Myths of the Rhine :, ; At a place where two roads tnefet the , oracking of a whip is heard; hogs, sheep and small oxen are driven aside to make way for a kind of procession, consisting of grave and solemn men and women. It is a wedding. ' Two young people have just had their union blessed by the priests under the sacred oak. The bride is dressed in black, and wears a wreath of black leaves on her head. She walks in the middle of her friends. A matron, who walks on her left holds before her eyes a white cloth; it is a shroud— the shroud in which she will be buried one ef these days. On her right a Druid intones a ohaht in which he enumerates in solemn rhythum all the troubles and all the anxieties which await her in wedded life. From this day, young wife, tlou alone j wilt have to bear all the burden of your, united household. You will have to attend the baking oven, :to provide fuqj, and to go in search of food; you will have to prepare the resiaous torch and the lamp. You will wash the linen at the fountain, and you will make up the clothing. You will attend to the cow and evcta. to the horse if your husband requires it. Always full of respect, you will wait on him, standing behind him at his nieals. If he expresses a wish to take'you with him to war, you will accompany him to carry his baggage, to keep his arms in : goed condition, and to nurse him if- he should be sick or wounded. Happiness consists in the fulfillment of duty. Be happy, my child. What is still more strange is- that this dolorous wedding song, but slightly altared, is still ia some parts of France at fiiis day addaesaed to brides by local dm* itrels.

THE COURTSHIP 0F LOUIS NAPOLEON.

NAPOLEON. At a ball given by President Napoleon.at the Elyseo, before the coup d etat MUo. Eugenie'm«t her future emperor and husband. The manner of meeting was somawhat romantic Louis Napoleon did not cars much for tho rush of ball-rooms, and he had chosen a propitious moment to escape with his friend, Edward Ney, the Duke of La Moskowa into the Elysee gardens, when he suddenly came upon a radient, blushing girl, who was tying up her hair alone opposite a glass in tne conservatory. Her hair had come goto during a waltz, and the crowd was too trrAXt'to admit of her reaching the ladies Sessing-^ i so she had glided in here hoping to be unobserved. Louis Napoleon seeing her in this ife-flit, gallantly gave her his arm, and led her" round by the private apartments to the anressing-room in question, and from this time there was a mutual regard between the President and the fair stranger. During the follow ing twelve snotaths Madame de Montijo and her daughter were invited quests at all the Presidential residences—Fotftame blean, Compeigne, St. Cloud—and it escaped no body that the Prince paid Mile. Engenio an inordinate amount or attention. No one supposed, however, that these attentions could end in a marffegfc, for the President, having per formed hie coup d'etat was en the point ot becoming Emptier, and it was no secret that his ambassador at Munich was trying to ars&nee a match for him with a;Princess of Bavaria, The King of Bavaria refused to give away his relative to a prince Whom iie styled an " adventurer, and thenifwas that Louis Napoleon, much mortified at he^rt resolved not to expose himself to farther rebuffs in courting royal princesses. Possibly Ma<feme de Montijo had been waiting her oppertunity, for two days after the news of the Bavarian snub had begun to get bruited she begged a private audience of the Prince and told him that his attentions to her daughter were beginning to exite comment she had the intention of leaving France. This was at St. Cloud, whtre the mother and^ daughter were bdth staying. lii-e mcc asked Madame de Montijo to tarr/ one day more for he might have sonjp"ttiig to say to h»r, and he employed these twenty four hours in aquainting his minister of his intention to marry Mile. Eugenic. The news fell upon them like a shell, nothing of this kind had been apprehended by any one, and both Count de Morney, M. do Persigny and Edward Ney earnest ly implored the Prince not to contract such a mesalliance. The communication was made to the cabinet on the 25th of November. Oh the 2nd of December the Prinoc wafi proclaimed Empero^ on the 2nd of January the coming marriage w»s officially notified to the French people? and on the 30th of January it was sedem niied a* Notre Dame.

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