THE TELL-TALE CON FESSIONAL.

YOU all remember the great hubbub that arose when tho He v. Peter Orriclc set up a confessional in bis church of St. Benedict's. There was :i correspondence about it in the papers; the Bishop interfered, nnd threatened legal proceedings. Mr Oracle defied his Bishop, but a mob having broken into the church one Sunday, and having smashed the confessional, Mr-Orriclc gave in. He fitted up an oratory in his own bouse, set up a carved oak confessional in it (which had been presented to him by public subscription among bis friends), and announced that be would hear confessions there, No Act of Parliament could pre vent his doing that Tbe only person who would have hud any right to object was Mrs Orriclc, hilt nt that time there was no Mrs Orriclc. Mr Orriclc did not marry Miss Ignatia SI ark until some weeks after he had reduced bis diocesan to silence; and it must be owned that if his lady parishioners hod been aware of his matrimonial intentions, the subscriptions towards tbe new confes sional iv carved oak would not have been so abundant us tbey were. Mr Orriele's jnarrin"c was not n popular proceeding ; it was regarded in some quarters as being almost n breach of faith. For bad not Mr Orriclc often talked through his nose about the single life being the blessed life ? Wo are not laughing at him because be talked through bis nose, for this was an infirmity of Nature : but, beyond doubt, bis utter ances acquired tin additional degree of solemnity l>y pissing through bis nostrils, even as mete wind becomes tuneful by escaping through nil organ pipe. The young ladies who poured the stories of their souls' torments into the celibate ears of Mr Orriclc were taken aback when they heard that be had rc-considcrcd bis theories about single blessedness ; and each said to herself, in alarm: "Suppose be should tell my secrets to that horrid girl, Nassio?" For about a year after his marriage Mr Orricle's confessional was deserted. The fear of Nnssie kept penitents at a distance. There were even sonic girls who blushed when they met Mrs Orriclc, and fancied thoy could' read in her looks that she knew a groat deal about them. But this was not the case Ignatia Orriclc, (luring the first twelvemonths of Iter wedded life, never made the remotest allusion to her husband's proceedings ill the confessional. She was n quiet young woman, neither pretty nor plain, with intelligent eyes and decorous manners—quite a pattern clcigyman's wife. Perhaps she bad no desire to see tbo con fessioiiti! employed again, She herself had only come to it once before her marriage, and on this occasion she had casually con fessed, amongst other things, Hint she should Inherit £1000 a year when her grandmother died. After her marriage, which followed close upon this revelation, she had nothing mote to confess; at least, she never asked her husband to tell her of any clergyman besides himself who kept a confessional open to all-comers. It is worth observing, by-tbe-bye, that married clergy men who advocate confession seldom en courage their wives to go and confide thoir domestic troubles to other members of the cloth. Tbe Bcv. Peter Orriclc was no ex ception to this rule.

Hut a year alter Mr Orricle's marriage his ivife's grandmother died and loft Ignatiit nothing. From this moment tbo Vicar of St. Benedict became a melancholy man, and bis wife was soured. The parish no ticed that there was something wrong, for the Vicar began dismally to allude in bis sermons to the deccitfulness of the flesh, to the blessedness of monkery and virginhood, and once more he exhorted his parishioners to come and unbosom themselves in bis oratory. Thereupon a few ladies came. If Mr Orriclc had waxed plump and prospered In matrimony, they would have stayed away ; but be was a handsome man, and doleful looks suited him woll. His nasal laments wete also very touching when he was truly end. Women are notoriously pitiful; they saw that Mr Orriclc was growing estranged from bis wife, and, while tlicy pitied the Vicar, they thronged to lib confess onal with some secret chari table hope of milking themselves very dis agreeable to Nassic. They did make themselves disagreeable to Nassic; but tbev were quite mistaken if they thought that Ignatia Orriclc was going to submit tamely to being annoyed by them and by her husband. Ignatia was not one of your nervous women, who melt into tears, scream, and scold. She bad a tongue which could cut like a razor, and a keen, perspicacious mind which could measure the shortest road out of a difficulty, and tread on the same with a resolute foot. She saw that a crisis bad arrived in her domestic affairs. That disappointment about her grandmother's money was very grievous, but she was not responsible for it, and therefore it behoved her to sec that she was not made to bear the penalty of it in the shape of a perpetual destruction of her connubial happiness. She meant to sub due her husband, to briug him back into tbe paths of marital propriety with a firm band, and make of hint a submissive and decent companion thenceforth. In older to do this she determined that her lirst step must be to abolish that confessional.

Ladies will acknowledge tbat Mrs Orriclc bud some reason to be bitter. There wore days when Mr Orricle's oratory was full from noon till after dusk, 'ihc Vicar missed his luncheon because of bis peni tents :he would be late for dinner, and sit all the evening moping in his arm-chair, and giving snappish answers to simple and affectionate questions. He was cor mually receiving little notes on pink paper, and answering them in letters which filled four pages. Two of his penitents gave him especial labour and trouble—a Mrs Doucer and a Miss Lydin Longuisb. These ladies were after him at all times. They remained in bis oratory for whole hours, and if tbey met the Vicar in the streets, they affected to whisper confidentially iv his cars, even if Mrs Oracle were standing by. To mako all thh worse they treated Ignatia with a cool politeness bordering on contempt. But Ignatia bore it admirably. Neither by word nor sign did she express her dis pleasure. Her husband was a priest, who did his clerical duty in conferring privately for long hours with sinful women. Why should she object to it. That was the line she seemed to have taken up, and the Rev. Peter went on bis way complacently imagining that lie was free to act as be pleased, being, by the sacred character of his functions, abo\o domestic criticism. He even accentuated his nasal twang ; took frequent occasions to administer grave reproofs to bis wife about trifles, and stalked about the parsonage with the air of a superior being, whom it was seemly for Ignatia to. worship Poor fellow I Onco a year the "superior being" used to go away for three days to visit his own parents, who lived in ono of the Northern countips. When tbe time came for this annual visit, Ignatia pleaded that she was too unwell to accompany her husband ;so the Rev. Peter went off alone. This was the opportunity Ignatia had long been

watching for—patiently as a cat watches for a mouse—patiently as a jealous woman who seeks revenge. The instant Mr Orriclc was gone, Ignatia packed oil' her servants for a two days' holiday, giving them money to go see their friends ; then she shut up the Parsonage, went to the railway station, and took the train. The same day she returned with a box containing a complete telephonic ap paratus, and two workmen who were stran gers to the parish. The orders which Ignatia issued to these workmen were very precise. They must adapt the telephonic apparatus to the con fessional in such a way that its presence should not be suspected, and the wires were to communicate with v closet in Mrs Orricle's drosring-room, The workmen were not to leave the house until the work was done. They were to sleep at the par sonage ; they should have all the beer they wanted, and a sovereign a-piece besides their wages lo hold their tongues when they went aw>y. On these terms the two men sot to work vory diligently, nnd in a couple of days tbey bad executed their task with tbe utmost cleverness.

In a cavity produced by a carving inside the confessional, tbey made a hole and in serted the orifice of the telephone. The wires were drawn up through the wall and ceiling, aud the acoustic tubes were placed in the closet above mentioned, where Mrs Orriclc ;kept her dresses, and of which she alone had the key. The operation nocessi! tared the removal of a part of the wains cot in the oratory, and of sonic of the paper above it, but the wainscot was put bajlc in its place ; a few yards of new paper were procured from tbe upholsterer to replace that which had been torn off, and tbe ceiling was fresh whitewashed to cover tlie spot whore tho hole hud been nmde. Everything was neatly done, and Mrs Orriclc herself lent a band to work through out. The two workmen went away per fectly satisfied, and thinking that the lady (whose name tbey did not even know) was very pleasant and liberal. The ltov. Peter returned the next tiny, and of course suspected nothing of what bail happened. He did not learn that his servants had been away, and he noticed no signs of disorder about the house He re sumed his duties in the confessional, Mrs 1 louccr and Miss Longuish being as usual among the most assiduous penitents. But now every word which these truthful ladies uttered, and every syllabic which the ltov. Peter uttered through that melo dious no»c of liis, was carried straight up to Ignatia in her drc.»s closet. Ignatia was not so unwise as to bring matters to a too rapid crisis. The tele phone gave her the opportunity of learning till the secrets of the parish, and she got Iter moneys worth out of it by listening for six wholo months and holding her tongue. No doubt her cars and checks flamed at times, and she was strongly tempted to break out. There wero occa sions when she was moved by a violent de sire to rush downstairs, seize the dog-whip, and make the Key. Peter and his penitents dance writhing jigs out of the oratory into the street. But she restrained herself, for she was a prudent woman. "Vengeance," say tbe Italians '• is a dish which should bo eaten cold."

At the ciiil of six months, however, the hcadmnstersliip of an important grammar school in the parish of St. Benedict fell vacant. The salary was £1,000 with a rc-idence and extra tuition fees. Now, of all mon on the Clergy List, Mr Orriclc was the least likely man to obtain this pot and be did not even think of applying for it. But Ignatia resolved that it should be piven to him, and that ho should hold it along with his living. He could take an extra curate to look alter tbe parish, and if the school threw hard work upon him, so much the better, he would find the less time and inclination for talking with women like Mrs Doucer and Miss Long uisli,

It wns n fine winter morning. The Rev. Peter had just breakfasted, solemnly yot heartily, after his wont. Ignatia bad said little during the meal. As her hus band was about to leave the room, how ever, she stopped him, and there was a look on her face which he he had never seen there before.

"Peter, I want to say a few words to you," she began. "I object to your rc rcceiving Mrs Doucer and Miss Longuisb into",tlus bouse any more. They arc im modest and improper women, and I shall tell them so if they come hero again." " What do you mean ?" asked the Rev. Peter, scarcely believing his ears " I mean what I say, dear. I cannot any longer permit the objectionable and nonsensical conversations that go on be tween you and all the bad women of our parish in that confessional I mean to have it removed and tho oratory devoted to other uses."

"Are you mad?" asked Mr Orricle. " No, dear; only resolved not to be any longer slighted in my own house. Just conic into tbe oratory with me. I will show you a telephone, by which I have beard every word you and those women have been saying for the past six months." The Rev. Peter Orriclc felt bad. When he saw the telephone, and discerned how, by her cool ingenuity, his wife had en trapped him and held him at her mercy, he looked a very sorry person. He turned red, then pale, and if anybody had offered him a little weak brandy-and-watcr at that minute be would have imbibed it. He tuned his nose for n protest, but Ignatia checked him : " You need not try to excuse yourself, Peter. I have heard everything, mind; so prevarication would be of no use. I can only hope that you will be a more sensible man and a better husband in future, and in that trust I forgive you. But now listen to me Mr Doucer can get you the hcadmastership of the Grammar School; he is the most influential among the Governors. Go to Mrs Doucer nt onco and tell her you want the place. If she does not get it yon, let her beware ofmc. Don't forget to tell her of the telephone."

" Good gracious, Ignatia, you would not surely . . ." "Do as I tell you, dear,"said Mrs Orricle calmly. "If Mrs Doucer does not obey you, she will know what .to expect. As to the other women, T will use the power I pos sess over them in my own way, at my own timo, and for your interests and mine. I have not the slightest objection that all the world should know about the telephone. The laughter will be on my side." "Good gracious!" was all Mr Onicle could say ; but ho took up his Gloucester hat, and went forth feeling much the same sensations as a donkey must experience when he is saddled and bridled for the first time.

Mr Orriclc became a very good bead master ; aud the ritual of his church under went considerable alteration. Mrs Orricle took tbat department into her own bands. As to the confessional in carved oa*k, it was transformed into a commodious linen cup board.—Truth,

The Humours of Gambling.

" thesis is truth in wine," says the maxim which the wisdom of tbe world owes to tbe wit of Alceus. It is no less certain that there is truth in the card-table, or in tbe wheel of roulette, or rather tbat these things are touchstones of the character of men or women. Fortunately, or unfortu nately, it is no longer easy to watch people as tbey frankly display their natures and tempers, their courage and cowardice, under the stress of good or bad fortune. Once every gentleman's house had 'these touch stones ; the tabic for ombre, or quadrille or whist, or (when cards were under tho ban of law) the E. 0. table, where a game was played that requires some explanation. _ A circular table was divided by rays which spread from a sniall circle in the centre. Each division was marked with the letters F and 0 alternately The gamblers placed their stakes in these divisions, a little to tem was spun in tbe middle of the board, ran out, and fell either into n division marked 0 or marked E. The bank paid people who hai staked on the lucky letter, and raked in tie gold of tbe unfortunates who hud backed the wrong vowel. The simple nature of this sport proves how keen our ancestors were in tbe pursuit of these significant pleasures which we now neglect. The moral Teuton has shut up the Palaces of Truth at Baden and Honiburg, and it is only the austere Prince of Monaco who allows the heirs of M. Blanc to try the cha racter of visitors from all parts of the world. Japanese, Russians, Spaniards, English, French, and Americins still display the seamy sides of their t nature to public in spection. In the rooms at Monte Carlo, in an air not wholly fresh or pure, the con sumptive patients of Mentone anil Cannes pass fevcri-di hours. Round Monte Carlo quite a legion of gamblers' adventures have grown, and the people tell a hundred anec dotes of good and bad luck, of failure and success, of croupiers, and the thieves who pick up orphan and neglected stakes, and who are culled les St. Vincent de Paul.

The Riviera is a kind of hothouse of the gambling passion, which flourished among rich and idle people, as the pnlins and lemon-trees flourish in the southern sun. The sight of all the gold and banknotes, scattered as profusely as if they were mere theatrical properties, on the tables of Monte Carlo, fosters rapacity and greed. This, at least, is the ordinary moralist's view of the matter. Yet it is noticeable that people who are not at all avaricious are often unable to resist the temptation to play, That temptation really appeals to men's vanity. They believe in their own luck, and are eager to throw a main with Dame Fortune. Many tales are always being told at Monte Carlo about lier caprices. Six years ago, tor example, a young mnn went up to one of the roulette-tables as soon as it opened, and placed nine napoleons (the maximum) on number 13, with as many other coins as the rules permit en cheval, or on the sides of the square which encloses the' number. For three consecutive tunes 13 came up, and the fortunate youth informed the company that he had fallen asleep at Veutiniiglia (where the Italian Custom house examines luggage), had dreamed of 13, and bad returned to back his fortune.

This story gives an example of a charac teristic which exists in most human hearts, and which roulette brings to the surface. Wo are all fetichists at the bottom, and are influenced by purely irrational super stitions. Thus, one man will persist in backing the number of the ticket which he receives for his umbrella; another notices the number of the garden scat on which he sits beside the Mediterranean ; a third hag in his pocket a little piece of the rope with which some Buicidc hanged himself. Others have odd ways of staking tha^r money. A man will lay down a bank-note on blank at Trade el Quuranlc, and then rush to the end of the room that he may not hear the words of doom pro nounced by the croupier. At Trenle et Quarante these words arc exciting enough. Ah most people know, the croupier deals out one row of cards for rouge, and stops as soon as ho has passed thirty-one; and another row of cards is dealt for noire in the same way. The row which reaches thirty one by the lowest number of points is the winner. It is on record that rouge once made thirty-two, an extremely good point; that twenty-four had been dealt for noire, and that then seven aces bad been laid down making noire the gainer with thirty one. Tlie disappointment of the backers of rouge may be imagined. It is odd that, amongst all the desperate people who shoot themselves at Mont Carlo, not one has spared a bullet for the croupier who deals out destiny. Very lately somo traveller chanced to knock at the door of a lonely American shanty. No one answering, the traveller entered. He saw a dead man sitting at a card table, with the blue mark of a bullet wound in his forehead. The murder was easily explained. The dead man held four aces in his stiffened hand. Opposite him on the rough log-table lay four kings, with which his opponent had hoped to win, and, being met with four aces, had taken a hasty revenge.' Now confirmed gamblers believe in the good and bad effect which certain croupiers exercise on their fortunes. One croupier always deals in such a way that there ore no regular " runs " or series, not even a run of alternate blacks and reds. Another is a more fortunate croupier; when his hand is in, "runs" are not infrequent, As the dream of the gambler is to back a run and see bis capital doubled at every coup, this croupier's luck is eagerly followed, and he receives elegant presents of cigars and champagne. It is unnecessary to add that tliese observances are as purely superstitious as the red man's dance round his red cedar trc. Croupiers know the value of their place too well to try the trick of substitut ing arranged packs of cards for those of the direction, and theories of their luck 'are wholly fantastic.

Croupiers do not seem more interesting than bank clerks to the world at large; but their ways and their society have a kind of fascination for confirmed gamblers. They know many stories of Fortune's freakish ness—for example, of the curious absence of the number 17 at Homburg, which ruined the half of gambling Europe. For ten days, at a certain roulette table, 17 never came up, never took its turn with its thirty-five brethren. The strange news was telegraphed to Baden Baden and Emß, and the public crowded to Homburg to back 17, " which must come up soon, you know," as people Bay. . Few people could wait till 17 did emerge, and the bank, in consequence of this craze, did a really good business. It is an amusing trait in the natural history of tbe croupier that the functionaries of the card tahle are much greatei men than their comrades of the roulette-table. The former are messieurs, the latter, simply homines. In private life tbey are olien good friends enough, but their wives de not visit each other. When be is not spinning the little ball or dealing out tlie cards, Hie croupier often has some respectable trado, which he exercises at home ; lie is a taUor, a waiter, perhaps a fencing-master, father a good story is told of the impassiveness of tbe 'croupier. It was at Baden Bad«n, between Sadowa and Sedan; tho ruler of Germany was walking in one of the alleys with the Em peror of France. Tfce^crswd had deserted

the table to stare at these great monarchs Some Ono asked the senior croupier, Ie pere Martin, why he did not take it holiday and see tlie crowned heads. ''King William we are always seciug," said the old man, "heis no novelty here." "And the Em peror Napoleon?" "Ah, the Emperor, he still owes the bank twenty-five louis." The bank in M. Blanc's time was not the impersonal thing which wc presume it is to-day. There was a whole legend about the eccentricities of M. Blanc. Once a ruined player forced his way into the bed room of the banker, and asked for 10,000fs. M. Blanc replied that he must consult his partners. The gambler then locked th« bedroom door, and began to hammer a great nail into the wall. "What do you mean, sir ?" asked the old man, in a rage. " Why, I mean to hang you to this nail, unless you open that bureau and pay the 10,000 francs," said the other, still hammering. There was nothing to be done but to pay the money. M. Blanc had his superstitions, like his patrons ; and, when he was at Monte Carlo, played "patience" all day, to judge, by the results, li'iw his other batiks were prosper ing in Germany. He once played himself at Homburg. The day was very hot, and Mine. Blanc had come out into the gardens without a sun-umbrella. She bought a very pretty one, which cost four louis; and M. Blanc, who hated paying away small sums, tried to win back the expense at the card-table. He would not take the chair which one of the servants hastened to offer him. He put down two louis on noire, won, then lost, after many losses took a seat, and stayed at the tables till they closed.' By that time the umbrella had cost 91,000 francs From this veracious anecdote we gather that M. Blanc would have made a thoroughly bad gambler. A good gambler backshis good luck with courage, and leaves off playing when he is not in the vein—a bad gambler has no pluck when he is winning, but backs his bad luck with desperate tenacity. M. Blanc had aU the courage of the Chevalier dv Barri, the worthy uncle of Mr Barry Lyndon. The usual maximum at the card-table is 12,000 francs, beyond which sum a player may not increase his 1 stake. The great Garcia, the hero of Spain, found these limits (which make the fortune of the bank, for they stop all martingales, or systems of doubling) too narrow for his genius. He asked M. Blanc to let him raise the maximum to 60,000 francs, to which the banker courte ously assented. In a few weeks the victorious Garcia borrowed a few louis from the bank to take him back to Paris. M. Blanc, if we may be lieve M. des Perrieres, to whom we owe much of this biographical information, had a genius for advertisement. In Monaco, as in other towns on the Riviera, a rite is per formed on Good Friday which draws great crowds, but too closely reminds the specta tor of the spring festival of Adonis in ancient Greece. M, Blanc seized the op portunity, and placarded Nice with adver tisements in these terms:—

VilleTde Monaco. Grande Procession Allegorique, A l'Occasion de Vendredi-Saint II ny aura qu'un Uemi-Refait.

That is to say, on Good Friday the bank would only take half of its usual advan tages. A place like Monte Carlo, full of money and full of dupes, naturally attracts gentle men who correct the errors of Fortune in ways more or less ingenious. A certain Compte de Montvilliers has left a legendary fame. At Wiesbaden he found out a way of stopping the gas by which the rooms were lighted. He laid his plans well, in a moment all was dark, and the Count was off with an armful of banknotes, and as much gold as the ancestors of the Alcmce onida; carried from the treasure house of Croesus. Next night the rooms were lighted with lamps. Montvilliers, who was an in telligent bandit, changed his method. He managed to sneak under a divan in the rooms, and stayed there when all the com pany and the croupiers had departed. When all was darkness and silence he crept out, lighted a dark lantern, and uncovered the roulette table. With a pair of pincers he gently tightened the wires of all the red compartments, so that the roulette ball could not easily enter them. Next day he hacked the block, and naturally with success. But a judicious croupier had marked the run on block, and examined tthe roulette wheel. Without saying anything he reversed at night night the arrangement of Montvilliers, who next day lost all he had gained by resolutely backing his favourite black. Scoundrels who have not the nerve for these heroic measures watch the tables and sweep up the stray money of the unobservant. It has happened to us to detect an amateur thus removing our stake to another colour, where the amateur proved unsuccessful. One of these scoundrels hit on a really happy thought. A player had left a large sum of gold on red, where it was doubled and doubled again. Two louis rolled ofFJ undetected by the owner, to, the marked off space called envers, where roey prospered, and became twenty-four louis. A thief who was looking on knew this, and the head croupier was also well aware of it, and of the intentionsfof tho robber. But the latter succeeded, sliding up to the real owner of the money, he said, " Sir, wUI you do me a favour? I have twenty-four louis on the envers; I dare not take them up, for my father-in-law has just entered the room, and I have promised him th»t I will never play." The other bowed politely, raked in his own twenty-four pieces of gold, and shortly afterwards presented them to the ingenious guardian of orphan moneys. We may leave the topic of modern play ing at public tables with a piece of invalu able advice, borrowed _ from M. des Per rieres :—"C'est de ne jamais aller au jeu avec la femme que lon aime, et d'eviter meme d'y aller avec celles que l'on n'oime pas." ~

Someone asked the late Chelsea philoso pher to dinner, but he did not keep his time. "Here ore the onions," said the host, peering into the sauce boat, "but where is the sage ?" A " new chum " settler at the Waimate Plains having been advised to plant part of his form with turnips this yean and to sow gorse seed along the top of a sod fence, Eroceeded, as he thought, to do so, but to is astonishment he now finds that he will, reap a rich harvest of gorse from his fields, while the sod fence is producing a first rate turnip crop.

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'% Funerals conducted with dispatch, and at prices to defy competition. / n LANVILLE & TfILLYETT \ S TEA DEALERS |j .'AND - FAMILY GROCERS, lU, QUEEN STREET, .* M (Opposite the Union Bank), AUCKLAND., NEW SEASON'S TEAS, j \S Highlit Recommended. j WIZARD OIL; is a distinguishing name, given by Frank Weston to 7 his Medicine, which is composed ot various "Vegetable Oils, Healing QtUn%l Rare Balsams, Boots, Barks ana Herbs, (found only on the Great Amer ican Continent,) forming the Chemical Compound universally known mm "Weston's Wizard Oil/ This Medicine was first introduced, by Prank Weston, to the Australian Publio in 1864, and the wonderful Md : mysterious influence it exhibited!* stopping the most excruciating Famß9 Aches and Infirmities, in a fewdayl¥ after its use is weU known. Itsmirao ulous power in rising the Bed-ridden, Crippled,BheumaticlTeuralgicdive»i> I rag the system of aU suffering from I pain, inflammation and weakness, I curing in a few days the sickness and § diseases of monthß and years giving | instantaneous Ease and Comfortin aU I ordinary pains and aches, either inter- ■ naJ or external, all cramps, spasms, § congestions, &c., is well known. Weston's Wizard Oil has the power ' r,o distribute itself over every part of I tha body internally as well as extern ally, curing the most inveterate cases " ol tumors, ulcers, scrofula, diseased liver, piles, swellings, wounds, &c.,&c.