English and American Fashion Hints.

Patent leather tips appear on ladies'

Tiny landscapes appeal- as figures on nine of the new printed cotton goods.

Fishes, birds, llowcr garlands, "lunar" did-, fern loaves, arabesques, moons and odd geometrical and heraldic figures are to compose tho figures upon some of the now Spring dross goods. Very fashionable ladies who adopt short sleeved evening dresses wear tbeir bracelets above the elbow. These bracelets, with dog collars for the throat to match, arc made of massive gold links set with real gems or semi-precious stones. Linen lawns and more sheer linen cam brics are imported for the white dresses of next summer, These fabrics are as soft as India muslin, and almost as transparent, and are much cooler than more cotton goods can be. The new laco-likc embroideries are tho trimmings for these. Many of the latest French evening cor sages of white satin are made high at the throat and sleeveless, but open all the way down the (rout, and laced together over a alieniise'.te which reaches to the waist. Tne chemisette is often made of rich lace, but where thoro is a c:o ollrcd fabric of velvet brocade or the like, used iv con junction with the white satin toilet, the chenii-et'e is generally made of the coloured material. Skirts are flattening and narrowing. Long waists are t-> give way to short ones. Embroidered kidisbe'ng used for small cl.se hounds. hi l.iiglaiul riding habits are tighter thru over ia the skirl. The hair for ladies of all ngo«, it is said, is lo be worn brushed upward and high. Some the latest gloves of Danish kid are decorated with tiny bifttterllios made of gold or silver tinsel and chenille in raised work. Dresses in the style of the First Empire, with very short waists and skimpy skirts, will, it is predicted, take the lead among the new spring fashions, Imagine a style of head-dress called tho "Horned Snail." and that it could be regarded as 01-g-uit; yet such was the perversity of womankind ii the fifteenth ccnMiry, Very;, 'c finis of blue, pinl and lemon are seen anion-' new wedtlin drosses, and when white is worn the haiu bouquet and hat for the cor.ngc is somutltr.es of pink s^uds. I'SEKCIi TO KNOW, Laces, with care can bo undo to look ij- much like now when lauiidricd, al* oughthoro is a ll'insy softness to new ace, which is lost the moment it is im mersed iv witter. And beside. this, tho shibboleth of most laundrcss-s is—starch, and stiffness (lestiois all the charm of lace, Nobody ever yet found starch in any newly purchased lace, but, if any firmness is de sired, a little boiling water p Hired over two lumps of sugar will, if the lace bo dipped in if, impart the required consist ency. Handsome lace ought never to be plunged into a vessel tilled with suds, but foHcd over and over, dipped lightly into soft waior in which has been dissolved a small piece of yellow soap and a piece of soda, and squeczod hard in the hand until perfectly clean, and then dipped asain into fresh soft water. Never put an iron to lace, but tak- it carefully iv the bands, and draw the damp mealies into shape, and then press undent heavy weight. A FANCY COSTUME. .Nine hundred invitations have been issued, I bear, for a grand fancy ball which i. to take place on Aiardi Gras in tde bouse of a wealthy Parisian widow. Here is one of the costumes which has been ordered for the occasion, and which is to be worn by a pretty little French brunette It re presents the Hairy of the Hoses. The short skirt is composed of rose-", shading from white nt tbe waist through all grada tions of pink down to a rrse of the darkest crimson blossoms nt the lower edge of the hem. The corsage of bright green satin is cut decollete and with short slec>es, and lias rounded tabs falling over the skirt; it is finished around the top with a row of small pink roses. A single enormous pale pink rose, as large as a small saucer, forms the coiffure ; it is to be placed at one side of the wearer's head, in v very coquettish manner. Stockings of pa'c pink silk, and rose-pink satin slippers complete this very novel and p.etty costume. — Lucy 11. Hooper.

NECKKECIUEKS,

what are called esthetic neckerchiefs are of tinted mull muslin—pale green, ro-c, blue, or cream—with largo flowers, cs pcciallv mammoth pnnsie» of natural colour, printed upon them. Tliey aro (is Sd.. Others hnvo large moons or baits of dark colour on light ground, such as red on pink, dnrk green on light Ni'e green, navy blue ou sky blue; these are 4s each, while others of less pronounced patterns are fifty cents. Beautiful squares of pale ecru mull, very large and in many wrinkled folds, are used for neckerchiefs. They arc ed.od with white niorcsquc lace, and are tied at the waist line with a knot of pink or blue satin ribbon. Embroidered pineapple cloth, pink, blue, or white. Jnpancse crinkled crape, and also China crap-, are used for large kerchiefs, and are eoged with white silk Spanish lace. Chemisettes of Spanish or of niorcsqno lace are made to lit in square necked drcscs, or may be added to a high-necked dress by turning it ilown and tints give it a flusby finish.

How Four or Five Men Decided the Fate of Nations.

Marshal., yon Moi.tke, now eighty-one years of age, has virtually retired from active service. Two positions which the Marshall filled have been given to the Count yon Waldensec, which would not have beeu dnno bad Moltkc felt himself equal to performing his post duties. As the London "Spectator" says :—"Unless all history is a myth, the defeat of Austria and the conquest of Franco were effected by a committee of four or five men, among whom the King was the arbiter and ulti mate referee, the Crown Prince the critic, Count yon Bismarck the bruin, and General Moltkc the sword, tbe weapon which when armies were iv collision secured victory. All Count yon Bismarck's astuteness, all General yon Boon's success in the organizi tion, discipline and mobilization of his battalion?, would have beon useless, if, in the hour of actual combat, Prussia had not possessed a strategist who could use the va*t machine to effective purpose—who could so place the brigade? that th. y could win, and, winning, could nuke victory definite. It is that capacity which makes tho dif ference between the good army which conquers and the good army which retreats, and that capacity, it military history is worth anything, is the rarest of all, and can no more be produced by training or ex perience than the eloquence which moves nations, or poetry which makes ordinary words live in the hearts of men forever. The conqueror's genius may be as evil as you will, but it is genius, and not capacity, and may, therefore be irreplaceable.

Extraordinary Frauds.

Tim Birmingham polico are cngagod in investigating one of the most extraordinary cases of fraud ever known. During the lust two or three years, a woman, named Mary Jane Bumeaux, disguising herself as a man, lias personated Lord Arthur Clin ton, who is generally supposed to bo dead, and has induced a. great numbor of porßons to believe in bor aliened identity. She has obtained upwards of £12,000 on the strength of the property which she has roprcsentcd hers If as owniogin London, Leicestershire, and Ireland. From one man alone, named Powell, sho obtained nearly i. G',ooo. She showed those people to whoso confidence she appealed fictitious letters from Lord Cobridge, the Prince of Wales, Sir Richard Cross, the late Conser vative Homo Secretary, mid many more. The credulity of her dupes has been quite a_ astonishing as the audacity of her fraud, and oxen at the present moment there are two or thri'C of liervictima who refu»e to believe that she is not the nobleman whom she counterfeited.

'I be prisoner lias made a confession, in which she says she begun the fraud . with out any intention of robbery, but hoped that she would t.'ot au appointment and so bo able to pay all. Tlio following statement has a somewhat important bearing on tht story of Miss Kurncaux's impersonation of Lord Arthur Clinton, and the relations which hud subsisted between tho pseudo Lord aud Miss Jennie Ward, iter old Birmingham sweetheart. The story was that Ward fully believed that het'.riond wa. really a man, and that they formed a lovcis' attachment. The " noble lord," however, so the story ran, transferred " bis" affections to a Liver pool lady, and making this discovery Miss vVard became so much affected in her mind that she had to be taken to a lunatic asylum I'iwell says tbat while he and his wife wero residing on tbe Hnrplow estate Miss Fumoaux and her sweetheart, Miss VVard, made many visits during four or five months, sometimes stopping weiks at a time, Wi.h only one exception Miss Ward always accompanied Miss Fcarm-aux on these visit". It was not until afUr Miss Knrueaux's arro»t that the Fowcllb became aware that she had ever represented herself as other than the granddaughter of the lion. Lady Butler, Many persons, how over, wcro struck by tbe somewhat mascu line bearing of Miss Furneaux at Harplow and Chenille. By some it wasrcuiarkid that she was "more like a man than a woman," and on one occasion a labourer who was employed on the Hnrplow estate said to Fitwcll, "That person you suppose to bo a lady is a man by the way she handles the r. ins." So far as the Howell* understood thn position of affiirs, Miss Ward was act ing as companion to Mis. Furneaux. In tha voluminous correspondence which passed between Fowell and tho ad venturess when he wan pressing for a settle ment of his claim, many of the letters written by her or on fur behalf, bore large seals, and some of the letters had monogram, upon them. In some ol her letters to Mr and Mrs Fowell she often in voked tho nnnic of the Almighty. "If it pleased God," sho would do so-and-so; ami another time, "Wo must trust in Uod. He has never forsakou mc through all. He never will." More than ones she expressed her gratitude to the Fowolls for tho manner in which they had befriended hur, stating that _h« was " not the person to forget a kind action once rendered to hor." Fowell is firmly of opinion tbat Mias Furneaux bad the aid of other persons in tho frauds that are attributed to her.

Siberian Sketches - Some Facts From a Philo-Russian Source.

Aiiout IS,OOO exiles iro sent to Siberia per annum, but this number includes wives and children who des.re to accompany the ex iles. Of these nearly 8,000, on their arrival in Siberia, aro set free to earn their own living, about :i,OGO of them being sent to Eastern and about 5,000 to Western Siberia. The hardships of the exiles on their way to Siberia are now greatly less ened by the railroads and steamships. In former years they walked tho whole way. Now they as'cnibto at Mo.*cow ond are sciit by rail and steamer to Ekatarinoburg; thence by vehicles they arc conveyed 200 miles further to Tinmen. Now begin their distribution. Those condemned to Eastern Siberia are placed in a barge and taken to Tomsk, where tbeir walking eastward begins. The knout iB a thing of the pact, but the plete, a short-handed whip, is still retained for tbo worst offenders, who are sent to Eastern Siberia. No free man can, by Kussiau law, lie condemned to corporal punishment, and thoso punished in this way have gone through deportation, prison, etc., and remain incorrigible. Books like " Elizabeth ; or, The Exiles of Siberia," " Buried Alive ; or, Ten Years Penal Servi tude in Siberia," by Dostoyefl'sy, misrepre sent the facts. As I know from good sources, in the year 1881 only seventy-two political offenders were sent to Siberia, which number includes nearly forty con demned to the mines during the years 1875, 1871),' 1870, and 18S0, but who had been de tained meanwhile in the central prisons of the Kharkoff district. The story about the quicksilver mines is untrue, because no quicksilver mines exist in Siberia. Silver mines exist, but a srrcat deal is exaggerated about the prisoners there. Drunkenness is directly or indirectly the cause of the crimes of half of the number sent to Si beria, and those aro tb« most troublesome. lii l.u-sia only a military tribunal can award capital punishment, and th >it for a very limited number of offences In We. t Siberia, in Tobolosk and Omsk, where tho Governor-General of West Siberia resides, as well as m Tomsk, where the Governor- General of East Siberia resides, you will find as good society as in New York. Schools are opened everywhere, the tele graph runs throug the country, and rail roads will soon make their appearance.— Father Bjering in Vie New York Telegram.

An Anecdote of Gambetta.

M. GAMIiETTA, referring to certain appoint ments which have recently created a con siderable stir, is said to have remarked .lately to a Deputy :

"I had recourse to these men because I saw they possessed the nccessarv quilifi catims for the posts entrusted to th'-in. It would have been hotter, no doubt, to have done like the King of Bavaria, who selected bis Ministers and other functionaries by thoir photographs. It was the custom to lay a certain number of photographs before him, and Loui< 11, after inspecting them, would say : ' This man's beard and mous tache point him out for the Ministry of Finance. The big one would r'o for the Ministry of Justice. As for the thin indi vidual, I think we will make him our re presentative at Brusselk' 'Sire,' might reply his confidant, ' you have uo Minister of the Interior yet. Here arc ten photo graphs to choose from.' " For the Interior,' responded his Majesty, 'I must have an authorit -.five, though affable looking fellow. I rather like tbe look of this photograph.' 'Perhaps his chin is a shade too short.' ' Yes, but he has a magnificent nose. Give me the pen, I will sign his appointment.' "

Negro Religion and Superstition.

The new order of things is manifesting itself iv a conflict between the opposing tendencies in the negro churches aud among their ministers. Except in the larger towns, most of tho older ministers depend on mere noiso and excitement to influence their bearers. Thoy work them selves into incoherent fury, stamp and veil and appeal only to the " feelings" of their uninstriictcd followers. These old men de nounce "de high-flyin' preachin' we has deso days." They say "It's all book- I'arnin'; dey ain't no Holy Glios' in it, at all. Dia new religion mighty smart and miebty proud, but it ain't got no feelin' to it." There is a good deal of 'truth in this. Tlio more intellectual preaching of the younger educated men is ill-suited to the tropical and impulsive nature of thccoloured people Tlieii life is far more a matter of instinct than of thought, and to attempt to teach religion to] themj by means of ap peiling to their reason is to disarm religion at once of all its potency. The prcacliers and missionaries who are best adapted to the peculiar conditions of the people are the young men who have received an industrial .education, who bad been trained to manual labour, and have learned either farming or some mechanical art at such schools as the Normal and Agricultural Institute at Hampton, Va., or the other admirable in stitution fostered by the American Mis sionary Association and the churches' of the South, "f course, this class is still very small, but it comprises some excellent men whose influence is already widely felt in the South, and it is a potent factor in the soundest and most hopeful rcl'gi«u« work now going on there. Savage African beliefs, or stipe stitions, as to the intcfcrcnce of supernatural powers in the affairs of human life, prevail everywhere among the negroes of tbe South to an extent which Northern people would scarcely imagine without special study on the subject. This is not to be wondered at when we observe how prehistoric forms of thought survive them even in cultivated Northern communities. 1 think there arc no negroes, perhaps, ex cept tbe few educated young men referred to above, who are free from the influences <if the general belief in signs, charms, dreams, spells, and mag'cal incantations— February A tktwtie.

Prince Leopold's Wife.

The future wife pf Prince Lopo'd— Princi's Helen of Waldcck accompanied by ber fa.her, the Prince of SValdeck, and by PrinCß Leopold, nrrivil in Eng land ou February 21 on a visit to the Queen. She was received with great cordiality at Queeuborongh, and is des cribed by tbo newspapers as having " won all hearts with he winsome smiles." She ■was dressed ia a tight-fitting velvet mantle and silk gown of the colour known as myrtle green. Prince Leopold, who walked by her side, appeared far from well, look ing pale, we uro told, being very lame, and generally bearing traces of recent pain. The length of the visit of tbe Princess Helen to Kn.'lund is not yet decided nor has it been settled whether the will return to her own country before tbe wedding takes place.

Fun.

A Syracuse hotel has the following placard: "Excuse the impudence of the clerk, as he is ray son." The son says his grandfather hung it out when his father was clerk.

A man intruded into an Irishman's shanty the other day. "What do you want?" asked Pat. "Nothing," was the visitor's reply. "Then you'll find it in tbe jug where tne whisky was," He was siti ing on "the club hou=c steps, when a gentleman came up to him and asked him if there was a gentleman with one eye named Walker iv the club. " I don't know," was the answer, "what's the name of the other eye J" " My son," asked a clcrican parent of his hungry boy who was just in the starvation period, " 1 wish you would make a study of Watts on the Mind." " I will, pa,'' was the quick answer, "as soon as I have studied what's on the stomach."

A fashionable young lady of New Orleans, whose dead uncle had been an undertaker, said loudly, while riding in a street car, "1 wonder what has become of all the nice people." A young shop girl re plied, " I am afraid, miss, that your uncle buried them all."

A certain master of hounds sent a New- Year's present pate de foic gras to a farmer in his locality, who, in acknowledging with niuch grntitudo the receipt of the delicacy, assured the donor that since his wife had dressed her children with the salve she had experienced the greatest possible relief.— Manchester Timts.

A capital story is quoted by Sutherland Edwanis, in his pleasant book on the opera, of a young lady, who, buying a piece of music, ivos asked whether the fact of its being "in four flats " would be any obstacle to her playing it. She replied that it made no difference how many flats were marked, as beyond two she stratched them out with a penknife.

A Parisian lady called on her milliner the other day to "take up" the character of a servant. Tbe respectable appearance of the latter whs beyond qucs-iouing "But is ehc honest ?" asked the lady. "I am not so certain about that," replied the miliinor; "Iliav. _ent her to you with my bill a dozen times, and sho has never yet given me the money.'' The Law of Compensation.—Child of in quiring mind: "You nra«t be very old, Betty." Be'ty: "Just ninety, Miss." C. of I. M. : "Do ynu think you'll ever be two or three hundred?" B. : "Bless you, no, miss. They did used to 'aye sich 'abits of living' in times gone by, and very on pleasnnt 'abits they was, 'cos after reachin' a few hundreds they got co orful b_d at last they 'ad to be drowned."

On tbe Bourse the day of the krack.— " How are you coming out of it ?" "I lose seventeen millions !" " The dene c you do!" "But I have a scheme. Have you six millions about you ? There are twelve millions to be made fur each of us." " Six millions, no." "Ah! lam vrry sorry." "So am I." "Well, no matter, lend me ten sou- ?"—The Parisian.

Slightly sarcastic was the clergyman who paused and addles-cd a man who was coming into church nfter the sermon had begun with the r mark : " Glad to see you, sir; cine in always glad to see those here late who can't come early." And decidedly self-possessed was the man thus addressed in trie presence of an astonished congrega tion as be responded: "Thankyou; will you favour mc with the text l"

The following amusing incident recently occurred in Berlin :—A tragedian occasion ally gave a pass to bis landlady. She was sitting with her littlo girl in the pit of tho theatre, when the_ heavy villian was about to stab the tragedian in the gizzard. The child, seeing her friend's danger, instantly started up, and with tears streaming from her blue eyes, shrieked out: "Oh, please don't kill mm or ho won't give us any more tickets for the theatre !"

Neglect the Children More.

Dr Felix L. Oswald in the "Popular Science Monthly," strikes out vigorously for the children. lie says : From tho moment the child is born, he is treated on tbe princi ples that all his instincts are essentially wrong aud must be thwarted and counter acted in every possible way. He is strapped up in a contrivance that he would bo glad to exchange for a straight jacket, kept for hours in a position that prevents him from moving any limb of bis bodj. His first at tempts at locomotion are checked; ho is put in leading strings, he is carefully guarded from the outdoor world, from the air that would invigorate his lungs, from the sports that would develop his muscles. Hence, the peevishness, awkwardness, and sickli ness of our young aristocrats. Poor people have no time to imitate the absurdities of their wealthy neighbours, and their chil dren profit by what the model nurse would undoubtedly call neglect. Indian babies are still better off. They are fed on bull beef, and kicked around like young dogs ; but they are not swaddled, they are not cradled, and not dosed with paregoric : they crawl around naked, and soon learn to keep out of the way; they are happy, they never cry. If wc would treat our youngsters in the game way, only substitute kisses and bread for kicks and beef, they would be as happy as kids in a clover field, and more over they would afterwards be hardier and stronger." Every week the newspaper tells us about babies tumbling down stairs and breaking bull arms ; boys falling from a fence and fracturing their collar bones. From what height would a young Comanche have to fall to break such bones—not to mention South Sea Island children and young monkeys? The bones of an infant a-eplastc; letting it tumble and roll about would harden tbe bony tissue; guarding it like a piece of brittle crockery makes its limbs as fragile as gloss. Christian mothers reproach themselves with ne.lecting their duty to their children if they do not con stantly interfere with their movements, but they forget that in points of physical educa tion nature herself is such an excellent teacher that the apparent neglect is really a transfer of the pupil to a more efficient school.

Gentlemen's Fashions.

Overcoats are finished with a velvet cord. Latest oracles say, no button-hole bou que's. Tie, gloves, cane and shoe tops are selec ted to correspond in colour. Blue trousers, whether in solid colours or striped, have a run, and arc exceedingly sty!i-h with an eastern-gray overcoat of English beaver. Many gTOoms in Washington and New York are seen at the altar with blae"k satin or lustreless silk of ebony, accompanied by black kids. Jet or white, but nothing in colour, is tolerated to accompany Men delssohn's march.

A London novelty is a leather necktie made of the finest French moroccn, cut in a flat scarf. The front is tastefully decorated with wood flower', hand painted. O'hers are sprinkled with stars, and one finished without glaze has a combination of polka dots, with spirals of fi^e gold. Some of tne new Eng'ish swallow tails have the collar rolled in round lapels and have no step ; two buttons are worn, but are always open to show the three-buttoned vest. Another style bos deep lapels, with silk facings and three button holes on each side ; two buttons nnd skirt rounded at the waist

Little People's Ideas.

"PA," says the child thirsting for know ledge, " they say that beavers are the moat industrious of animals. What do they make? Is it beaver hats?"

A Western woman advertises that she cures the pernicious habit some people have of biting their finger nails. "1 know," remarks a little maiden of our acquaintance, "she puts mustard on them."

A clergyman one day sat watching his little boy and girl at play, when the former angrily marched away from his sister, saying: "If she does that again I will certainly heap coals of fire en hr hcad." School teacher—Johnny, what is your father's occupation? Johnny — Alum? Teacher—What does your father do for a living; what is his trade? Johnny- Father calls himself a carpenter, mum; but Uncle John says he is a jackass at all trades.

As a young shaver of five or six years was reading at school one day, he came upon the passage, "Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from guile." Master Hopeful drawled out, "Keep—thy—tongue —from—evil —and — tby—lips—from — girls." * "Ma, am I all made now?"said a little miss of threc-and-one-hnlf years, at tbe breakfast labley. sterday morning. '• Why, dear?" said the fond mother. " Because I have had my ears pierced and was vac cinated yesterday," said little Tot. An old soldier was teaching his little son his elementary drill one evening last week. He was surprised a few evenings later, whilo watehiug the youngster unawares, to behold him going through the pace with a broomstick in his. hand, and shouting, " Wrong about face!" "Mamma, when I noticed all the people after they came into church this morning lean their heads down against the back of the pew in front of them, I did just as they did and leaned mine down too." "That was right, my dear; and yon uttered a prayer- like a good little boy!" "No, mamma, I counted ten."

"Mother," said little Ned one morning, after having fallen out of bed, " I think 1 know why I fc'l out of bed last night. It was because I slept too near where I got in. 1' Musing a little while, as if In doubt whether he had given the right explanation, added: "No, that wasn't the reason; it was because I slept too near where I fell out."

A King Asking Pertinent Ques tions.

When the King of Italy lately visited Naples nmc Protestant ministers asked and were granted nn interview. The King seemed su'pr.sod wkeu one wa. presented to him as a Wesleyan Methodist, another as a Baptist, the third as a Presbyterian, the fourth as a Waldense, and so on. " I do not understand," said King Humbert, " how can all ymi be ministers of the same Gospel and yet have so many distinctions. Perhaps one of you will he so good as to ex plain to me." One of the number promptly replied : "In your Majesty's army there are many regiments wearing diffeient uni forms, and called by different names ; nev ertheless they are all under one commander in-chief and follow ono flag. In like man ner wc Protest ants are divided into several denominations, but we know only one chief—Jesns Christ—and we follow but one banner, namely, that of the Gospel of our crucified and risen Lord." It is said that the King listened attentively.and,thanking the speaker for bis clear explanation, said : "Youwish mo to understand that while there are differences among you on minor matters, there is unity in all that is essen tial." _ The Protestant ministers, thanking the King for his courtesy, then withdrew.

The Lamson Trial.

New York, March 9th.—A cable special to the "World" from London says : The Central Court was crowded to suffocation yesterday at the opening of the trial of Dr. George Henry Lamson, the American, for the wilful murder of his brother-in-law, Percy Malcolm John, at Blenheim House School, Wimbledon, on December 3rd. The case, by consent of the Crown, bad been postponed over one assizes. Jußtice Haw kins presided. A large number of Ameri cans were present. The prisoner is a dark complexioned man of average height and slight build, and hia age is entered on the re cord as 35, although he looks fully 40, He waa very pale, but cool and collected, and paid little attention to the proceedings. Lamson pleaded not guilty. Tne prisoner's father, the American chaplain at Florence, ie said to be in town, but he was not in Court. The case against Lamson is re garded by lawyers and medical men as being almost hopelessly fatal to tbe pri soner. Dr. Stevenson's evidence regarding tbe piece of aconite in the body, and Dr. Lomsjn's purchase of aconite, when taken together with the finding of the poison identically the same in the capsules left behind by Dr. Lamson, after his visit to his brother-in-law at the school in Wimbledon, form Buch a close and deadly chain that it is hard to see what chance there is of escape from it for the unhappy man.

The Kind of Man to Marry.

Let us look at another case, A young man, receiving a smaß salary, determines to put aside each week a certain sum as a foundation for the pleasant home he some time hopes to have. It forces him to mak« many sacrifices; he eschews jewellery and canes, sodawater and cigars, and carries an unperfumed handkerchief. When in this semi-rustic plight, and wearing a suit (per fectly preserved) two seasons old, he calls on a maiden whose company he desires, she looks with scorn at the dowdy dress, and is suddenly otherwise engaged. Dis couraging as this may be, he plods on in the chosen path, and finally lays his heart before a quiet maiden who has read: "I see a man: I do not see his shabby dress I see him in his manliness • I see hia axe, I see hia spade, I see a man that God has made. If Buch a man before you stand. Give him your heart, give him your hand, And thank your Maker for such men; They make this old earth young again." The beginning of their wedded life is devoid of much of the splendour that attended the oilier pair, but to them is no rude awakening of misery and woe. Their affection having never been trifled iiway, but reserved, each for the other, proves a cons'ant joy and ever present delight.

The Non-communicative Female.

I GOT into the cars and took a seat in jux taposition to a female. That female's face was a perfect insurance company—it in sured her against ever getting married to anybody but a blind man. Her mouth looked like a crack in a dried lemon, and there was no more expression in her face than in a cup of cold custard. She^ap peared as though she had been through one famine and had got about two-thirds through another. She was old enough to be a great-grandmother to Mary that had the little lamb. She was chewing prize popcorn, and carried a yellow rose, with a b»nd-box, and a cotton umbrella nestled sweetly by her side. I couldn't guess whether she was on a mission of chanty or going West to Btart a sawmilL I was full of curiosity to hear her speak, so I said : "The exigencies of the times require groat circumspection in a person who is travelling." Says she, "What?" Says I, " The orb of day shmea resplen dent in the vault above."

She hitched around uneasy-like; then she raised her umbrella and said, " I don't want any ot your sass—get out!" And I got out.—Mark Twain.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is ours if wo do not give. To find one thankful man we will oblige many tbat are not so.

A little girl, nine years old, having attended a soir«se, being asked by her mother on returning how she enjoyed herself, answered, "I am full of happiness; I couldn't be any happier unless I could grow." "

Printed and Published by the P. oi.iietor. Henrtt Brett, of Symonds-stroet, at his Genera Printing Office, Wyndham-street, in the Pro vince of Auokland. New Zealand, i , aP: t Saturday, April 8. 1882,

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, APRIL 8, 1882.

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/ n LANVILLE & TJILLYETT \ TEA DEALERS -AMD. ' " ,"'..; j ' ■" , FAMILY GRO C| R S>; "j 111, QUEEN STREET,, (Opposite tub Union Bank), , AUCKLAND. NEW SEASON'S TEAS, , Hioirtv Recommended. : 'nd')' EDSON'S NEW REMEDY FOR ASTHMA. The following testimonial as to the value of Edson's Syrup of Hypophosphltes nnd Enphor bia Pilulifera will be road with interest:— "Newton-street, Newton. Auckland, February 27th, 1882.—Mr Edson: Sir,—lt is a pleasant duty to testify to the very great benefit I have ■ experienced from taking your new medicine. I had previously tried many reputed remedies without obtaining any relief, thereby necessita ting a change of climate, which, from the severity of my case, I was compelled to. seek, and by this means being put to considerable expense and inconvenience, having to leave my family on two occasions, each absence extend ing over a period of llvo years. Immediately after returning from Australia last September my old complaint attacked me: with great severity. Hearing of the virtues of your Syrup of Hypophosphites, with Euphorbia ttluiifera, from a frionS, who had found great relief by taking it I was induced to give it a trial, 'jrae first doso gave mo relief, and by taking a little occasionally I am now able to sleep, and breathe naturally. Having suffered for sixteen years, I think your invaluable medicine should be mado widely known.—l am, &c, Fkedk. Bacon."