OUR LONDON FLANEUR

Social, Theatrical, act) Literary,

(FROM OCTU LONDON COtIPFSTTiSDENT.)

London, Now Year's Eve, IS3G. Boxixf; Day, ISB6, will long bo remembered aa tho occasion of tho heaviest snowstorm tho metropolis and tha South of England have known for many a year. The streets vsost of Piccadilly wero impcs.jablo through out tho groatar part of Monday, nnd bow tho vast audience which filled " Old Drnry " from floor to ceiling in tho evening got thera is a conundrum which would lake

cloveror folk than the writer to answer. The "boys in tho gallery" will not, however, bo baulked of their annual treat by any sort of weather. A strong phalanx (which grew with every hour) assembled outside tho pit and gallery doors soon after two in tho afternoon, ana waited patiently in the •frozen snow and icy slush till tho doors ■opened at ha!f-paat six. Ton minutes later tho legend " Douse lull" was displayed outside the principal entrance, and thon (as Toole would say) " tho fun began."

" Tho Forty Thieves " is a eolosxtil panto mime—one really can't u?o any other word, ifrom tho first gonno to tho la«t everything is on tho biggest, j;roatoit, grandest, and mo?t gorgeous scaln. According; to report, .Augustus Harris haa spent mnro money on the show than ho can over hor-o to gut, back again. That, at any rate, i* what ha would liko ns to balievo, and really this fabio does not eoem altogether impassible. I havo ■seen a good many spectacles in my tim?, and am not given to gushing over them,but ':[ must confess that in this particular pnnt-i ---mime both econic artist and costumier havo excelled themselves. The opening tableau <if Mahomet's Paradise, where a host of Arabian Knight a aro discovered vopo%ing in luxurious ease, attended by liouris who dance beforo them, sots tho key noto. From thia wo pa^n 'o a bustling East ern bazaar, and go on through some thirteen beautiful pots — which merge into ono another without tho interposition of what aro known as "carpenter scenes," and in a way that would have been thought little uliort of magical a fow years ago— to the culminating glory of the show. Thi? is an elaborate allegorical representation of Eng land's powor, and takes the piano (a most daring innovation at Drury Lane) of the usual transformation tcsno. Tho act (..a ono must cill it) begins with tho annexa tion of India, and ends with a general tribute paid to Britannia by her depemien oios in honour of the Queen's Jubilee First, wo have a ruined Indian temple, of irhich a va?t aosomblago of Eastern bar barians are about to perform tha terrible isoremony of suttoo. Tho sacritico is on tho point of taking place whan Civilisation (in tha person of tho famous flying fairy, Miss (l'.nea) descends to tho rescue, and by planting tho Union .Tack typifies tho advont of English rule. A cloud of steam en velops the etago for tho twinkling of an eyelid (certainly not longer), and wo are sipon tiie deck of a massive and nobly appointed man of-war, upon which hun dreds of baby sailors aredaucicg a hornpipe Littlo soldiers-English, Irish, Welsh and Scotch —follow with characteristic gyration?, and then again the scooo mysteriously breaks up. This time wo uro in tho Temple cf Farao, which embraces tho wholo vast stage of L'rury Lane, and seeirs, by an artfui porepective, to stretch miles away in tho distance At tho far ond stands tho .majestic! golden image of Britannia. The Sidnd strikes up an inspiriting', patriotic in&rch, and forthwith commence ono of ithose portentous precessions which tho soul of Augustus Ururiolanus lovoj.

JTrom alt parts of her dominion?—not in ■sues! or twos, but by battalions—come iQuecu Victoria's subject?. Australia's con tribution takea Iks form of eotao handled stalwart minors, bearing a pyramid of •Sold) "rid supported by buphnion, colonial trocps, explorer?, &c. Upwards or J. 500 .parsons gradually fill up the stage, ami ■when the tableau is complete the entira •crowd celebrate the Royal Jubilee in a mighty patriotic chorus. Th 9 efi'ect on Boxing Night was electric. The house ioso -to ita feet like one man, and cheered, and ■cheered, and cheered again. No fiotr stage picture could, in point of fact, be imagined. The arrangement of crowd and tho iiar enoniou9 massing of colours were porleofc. AugMtug Harris seiisibly left tho mai.ano meat of the scone entirely to tho tamous ftalion attii-t who invented tho celebrated •" Excelsior" ballets and procDssion?, and he lies nobly justified his reputation.

You muat not, however, suppose that tine pantomimo depends for success on tho climax alone. 'Tis almost impossible to paint verbally modern tboatrie^l effects so as to give an adequate idea of them, or I might dilate ou the wonders of tho " Rob bers' Cave," with its countless raonkoy fuardj, ou tho "Now Club of tho Forty ■Tliieir-ap," where a ballet can bo as easily or jlered as a brandy and soda, or on tho amusing scene in which Morgiana boils tho entire gati£ in salad oil. Tho "fun of the fair " rests mainly on the shoulders of Harry JJicholla and Herbert Campbell, who aro *upnorted, as in former years, by tho at tractive sisters Mario. Tho massive golden haired goddess, Edith Blande, heads the Forty Thiovos, who aro fine stalwart girls standing full six feat in their stockings. Connie Gilchrist has not boon eeon on tho •3ta;_;G for more than eighteen month?, and met with n great reception on her ■entry as iforgiana. Many strange and in teresting eights are to bo seen in thia great metropolis at Christians tinio. Tho distribution of toys at the hospitals is ono of the pleasantest, and the .eating of tho Christmas dinners at the ivarious work-houses one of the most curious. Then there is tho annual sale of damaged toys in the Lowther Arcade on Boxing Day, and the cutting of the historic Buddoly «ako at Prury Lane on Twelfth Night. Tho Lowther Arcnde affair would amuse you a good deal. The talo is attended by hordes of children from the neighbouring eiums, who sa-'e up every farthing thoy nan hide from tbo parental eye for tho occasion, and bargain for armless doll?, headless horses, and such trifles with appalling flhresvdiieaa and cunning.

The eight of tbo season pnr excellence is, however, the Oenoral Post Oiliee on Christ mas Eve. This year, between six on Fri- Friday morning and tho same tirno cm Saturday (Christinae] no 'ower than ton million letters and newspapers parsed through tho head office in Aldersgate-stroot. No vies this all. In additioa to the ten million postal packets 50,000 parcels wero dealt with, giving the enormous total for tbo week of twenty four million letters and 2C0,,000 parcels, a i-osult never hitherto approached in this or any other country, ie reflects, lam bound to admit, tho utmoft credit on the pra parednesa of the executive that tbo whole of this vast pile of London letters wcro do iiverad beforo noon ou Saturday, "rho p.taS ot sorters and porters (excluding Jettev-eSLrrieris) numbered 4,000, and they remained on duty from Sara, on Friday to 11.30 on Saturday morning, when Mia worst woa over.

The Christmas Card crazo probably voached ita apogee this anniversary. It is i-eckonod itbat bvor four million woe wore aent from London alor.o on Christinas Eve, 38SG, than on Christmas Evo, ISSS.

■Xho vagaries of philanthropists on Christ mas Day took various forms A Liverpool gentleman had 3,000 hot-pots cooked and distributed them in the very poorest dis tricts of " the good old town." Your erst while acquaintance, Mi-s Lingard, assisted by genial J. L. Toole, Miss Edith Wcod -worth, nnd other actors and actresses, pro vided a good dinner ior the children of the poorer members of the profession ; and cleri cal foods, combining prayer and pudding, ■were innumerable.

By-the-way, there is such a pathetic little story of a street waif in " Longmans MaRD, -/me " for January called " Tim : A sketch. The author, Miss B. A. Koy, looks liko making o name on fiction of H certain sort. There was some rather good work of hers an the ■' English Illustrated " not loag ago.

" She," the exeittnc tale of advonturo by Mr Eider Haggard, which has boen running through the "Graphic" (or several weeks, 19 published to-day at 6a by tho Messrs Longmans, who, on dit. paid £1,006 for tho privilege. Tho same firm have purchase, tor a atiffish sum tho Eequel to "lVmg Solomon's Mines," just commenced in their Magazine as "Allen Quatremaino. The ■old trapper and hunter is once again tho narrator, aid Captain John Good and Sir Henry Curtis tbo companions of hia re newed wanderings. Tireo* cf the re straints of civilisation, tho trio set off to Zanzibar, and pursue their way fcr into ±fes unknown baarfc of Africa, in the hope oi •discovering a white raco alleged to reside "there. The opening abapters brim with adventure, and aive promise at a tele to the fall as exciting w tho quest ior fee famous mines.

Another story that opens T?eil, though it is not without a su»p:eious reaemblauco to "The Moonstone," is "The Danvei's Jewels" in " Tomplo Bar.' A- malevo lent old Indian gonoral boquoaths a num ber of priceless jewels, looted from Brahmin temples at the timo of the Mutiny, to Ralph Danvers, the son of his ancient lady-love. Tho old man has hardly entrusted thoir carriage to England to a thick-headed but well-meaning Colonel just embarking for Cilcutta, than he is mysteriously murdered. Moroover, the most unpleasant advonturos bofail tho luckless Colonel. Association with a mysterious follow paseongor (one Alaric Carr) seems to bring upon him all sorts of misfortunes. After dining with Carr in London he ia sot upon by thieves and half murdored. The houses ho stays at are twice burglariously ontnred, and but for the morest accidonts the Danvers jewel* must on each occasion havo boen stolen. In Carr the foolish Colonel ronfidoe implicitly, evon tolling him whero ho hides tho jowuls at night, etc , but every time a trifle subsequently changes his rosolva. At length the jewels reach tho hands of Ralph Danvers. From the fact, however, that Carr appoars almost immedi ately on the scene, wo may infor the Danvers family will not bo allowed unin terrupted possession.

Tho latatt on ilit in connection with tho Campbell trial is that J^ord Colin has re solved to take iho case to the Houso of Lords, and is supported in his determination by tho Duke of Argylo. Tho elan are furi ous at iho tone of tho press nommenta on tho verdict. An article in the " World," written by an intimate friond of l/niy (lolin, hai especially roused their ire, and but for tlio wi.->o Advice of Mr Pinlay might have roMilted In a libel action

Tho now comic opera at tho Savoy is underline! for tho 22nd inst. Mr Gilbert novor fixes tho title till the last momont, but tho cast gives a fair idea of tho nature of tho work. Mr Qroaamith will take the part of Robin Oakapplo, a bucolic porson ogo, and tho othor characters are Richard (Uakapple'd foster-brother), Sir Doepard, Sir Koderie, Old Adam, HoEoMnybud, Mad Mirg«,ret, and Znrah. Act 1: A seaport village, Act) 2: A bnromal hall. Time ISIO.

BEATEN AT HIS OWN GAME.

How a Lady Student Got Ahead of

a Practical Joker

Kkckstly a young physician of tho Harvard Medical School conceived tho idea of play ing a joke on Miss Annie Copelaod, ono of tha lady students of tho College of Phy sicians and Surgeons, and at tho samo timo rubbing Out an old score ho has laid up against her. ITta plans were cirefnll y mapped out, and, everything being in readiness, tho laiy waa called upon to at tend a caso of fracturo of Iho leg. Some what astonished, she promptly answered tho summons of Buffering humanity, con fident in hor ability to sustain the dignity of the profestion sho had adopted. On arriving at tho roiidonee indicated, slto was surprised tc find hor patient to bo a man about -10 years old, apparontly sutl'oiing the most excruciating pains. Moving (ho covering, *lio discovered the fracturo to bo that of :i wooden leg. Nothing daunted, and without showing uny ovidftnees of her discovery, she quietly replaced tho covering, sad sha must go for somo splints and bandages, and would return immediately. Sho did so, bringing with h.< r some small pieces of bra>s and brads, with which the ;"t onco proceeded to repi'r tho fractured l'tnb The surgical operation was per formed in a remarkably shott spaco of timo, and the injury left to tho healing pro cess of nature. Sho quiotly guvo tho neeea sary directions, informed tho man that ho would bo all ritrht in a day or two, and that hor bill was S'2j. It is soarcoly necoestary to say that tho fee was not forthcoming, the matter boing treated as a good joko. Next morning, however. Miss Copoland ap peared on tho £-eeno with a constable, and mu=h to the chagrin of tho son of Esculas pius, collected her fee. It would seem that, if tho young graduates of Harvard Medical School wish to get ahead of tho lady student of the Colloga of Physicians and Surgeons they will havo to rise very early and use, mora brass than Misa Copland did in re ducing tua fracture of the woolen leg.

A Cobbler Cardinal

Cakdism. SiMor i^ accepted by tho Hun garian population as tho long-ex pscteil t'rophet Elias, whose reappenninco on this earth forotolls the coining reign of Christ Tho history of Cardinal Simor is but littlo known in England, but has long occupied tho attention of m!!o?opher3 both in Russia and tho East of Europe. The journals of tho we=t spoke lightly, although with some little surprise, of tho Slalo visit paid by tho Emperor Francis Jweph, eith all tho court and Uio entire Hun garian Ministry, to the Cardinal to com pliment Uis Emineuco on tho fiftieth an niversary of his ordination ns priest of tho. Calholio Church. The Cardinal was born in an obscure village in Hungary. His father, a cobbler, had died and left hi* family so poor that the widowed mother was compelled to fell tho fatted Galf to buy tho new surplico in which he was to appear in the occasion of saying raass for the first time. This was on Ilio 31st Oeto ber, IB3C ; and on the same date of tha year Jacques Simor, Princo Primate in all Hungary, Archbishop of Gran, and Car dinal of Rome, stood to receive the Etn pre.ss of Austria, with all tho Catholic no bility of tho Empire, who were presently at tha great Mass in tho Cathedral of Gran, ar,d tho cobbler's eon ahono forth in a snrplico embroidered by tho Princess Clotilde, ar.d a chasublo upon which all the ladie3 of tho Imperial family havo worked in gold and silver and precious Btonea tho mystic emblems of fruit and flowers with which the holy vestments are usually adorned. It iH thought ihafc tho Emperor Francis Joseph has for a long time placed himself under the political guidance of Cardinal Simor, find that his policy of peace and corciliaticn of parties has calmed tho spirit of opposition and o'isoontent which at one moment threatened tho ruin of the Empire.

•■ You nra fur too rich," said Popo Piui'lX. to Siraor's predecessor, Cardinal Haynald. Tho man thit has succeeded him remember* t'ne reproach, and bestows every farthing of his revenues almost equal to thoso of tho Imperi.il Crown -upon the poor and needy ihroushout tho wholo of Hungary "The rich want my help to give to tho poor, but tljo poor mpd my help to live," was the reply given to a solicitor far subscriptions in ad of the charities of Vienna. His own mode of Ufa is but littlo altered from that ho led a 9 tho poor village priost, and yet ho is the chief of the piagnates of Hun gary, and occupies tho highest seat in their assemblies. Tho proud maguatea all bow their hcac's to receive his bless ir.g i'.s ho passes by, in acknowledgment of hia* supreme power. But ho has never made use of his iu-Qncuco to oppose freedom of opinion, whether political or religious. He is on intimate terrr.3 with the Pro tostant leader of the liberal cause, and when tho excitement against tho Jews was at its height, it was Cardinal Simor's pastoral letter which restored ptace and ended the sfcrupg'o. It was ivoiu Iba hands of Cardinal timor that the £inporer of Austria received tho Gron-n of Hungary, and

is v,-aa ho who pi;o-i" J.ed over the as sembly wherein the Protestant TicM, bond of tne Liberal cause ; Dealt, the lender of the revolutionary party ; Aneirasy, tho aj'is'ocratic leader; and Fa'k, the Jew, all took each other by the hand and swore to sot aside all prejudice and devote them selves to tl'uir country's cause alone The words of the Primafo on that occasion have been printed in letters of gold, and are now circulated amongst tho people of Vienna:-'Tho man who ful fils his duty, fulfils the task which hai been allo.ttcd to him on this earth. Soma men have no other virtus than thii single one. no other light to guide thorn through tho temptations of tho world, and yet thoy may b?come a=> powerful in their nphero of action, as solid in their position, and as deeply respected as the sovereign of his throrie."

The well-known musical etltlo of Chicago. Georgo P. Upton, has written a book en titled "The Standard Oratorios," which is intended as a companion to hip recent and popular work, >' The Standard Operas." It is a description of thirty eight of the best oratorios, with biographical eketchea of their composers. The principal numberg of each oratorio are giveD, and the book ia as worthy of n place in the library of any one fond of music as was its predecessor. The author devotes a closing chapter to Bacred music America. The little book is uni form with t»»e other volume, and is hand somely gotten up. IXShieaEO.: A. C. McClurg & Co. For sole by Bancroft; price, 1.50d015.] ' ' ' '

KILLED BY A NEEDLE.

Physicians I'nzyleil for Year-;

j REMARKABLE HOSPITAL CASE.

I A Woman Who Would Apparently Die and Again Came to Life.

WnKK Nellie Steela went to Bellovuo Hoa pital she was a comparatively youi.g woman, and it waa thought that after a tow days' or weekb' treatment sho would bo out again cured of the diaenso from which eho was siiflaring. That was nearly thirty years ago. Weeks, months-, years passed away, and Nellie still remained. She bo came a fixture, and a? much a part of the building m the dull blno stones of which its walls aro made. She had tho gentlest disposition, and her pationco under suffer ing was a part of the small talk that every ono heard who visited Bollovue. When aho first entered tho hospital hor complaint was diagnrsed as load poisoning and general debility. Tho troatmotit indicated was given with no parceptiblo result, She eeomed to failj«lowly, and when everything known to tho medlOil profession failod (0 be of any bonofit thero was a wUo shaking of head*)* among the house staff of physicians and they gravely camo to tho conclusion that thoy did not know what was the mittor, a conclusion renchod as usual aftor the stomuoh had been turned into a drug mill and the system weakened by useless experimentation. Bflfore a your had passed sho becamo so weak that .-ho could hnrdly mnva, anil tin;only pl-tee wlmro Am foil oany w:\i in liorr.it. Nearly thirty years ago «lie wont to bcil and novor got up afterward*. Hor caso had boon a pu-.'.z'e, and she had been watched by hundred* of phyaioiana during hor loiiu tiruo of sickness. Ono of hor peculiarities waa lit?, which camo ro gularly evory two weeks. Tlio uttacks lasted about t.vo hours. They wero not generally severe. If thoy had b;on, hor weak system could not have stood tho shook. LiK'it >s thoy wore, thoy wore looked upon with nlorm, as it was ex poctod that she would dio in ono of tho convulsions. Hut whon years rolled by and tho liti camo and wont with surprising regularity, (hey wero lonkol up on as harmless, and deoined an effort of na ture to got relief from pome troublosomo condition. Painting was another strange characteristic. A slight shudder would pass over hor body, hor oyea would turn upward, and then sho would t-eeama unonnsotous. Thera was no regularity in tho fainting periods. Somotimes tha faint no»a would appoar every day, nnd then it would not come for wcoka. It wox a strange condition. Hvory indication of death would bo manifesto-:), and so perfect waa the rensmblaneo that on ono occasion, when two now ly appointed ordorlios saw her tho first timo, they judged that sho was dead, and got the dead box, and carted her off to tho deadhouso. Sho camo to her neneoH and mado hor presence known in time to keep horself off tho dissecting table. Tho shortest fainting attack lusted nino minutes ; tho longest seventeen days ; the avorapo eight days. During these periods she did not eat Stimulants n ore given hypodormlcally. Digitalia wove freely used to strengthen tho bcirt'a aotion. How she lived "on from year to voar no one couM t;ue°s Tho amount oi food the ato would make the legs of a mouse weak in a week. Tho most interesting fcaturoof the oas.\ from a medical standpoint, wan tho irregu larity of tho heart's action. Thora waa 11 marked disturbance of tho mitral valve, and its llutterings could be plainly heard wilh oiit'tho stethoscipe. Tho mitral valvo was' not only affected, but ovory heart murmur known to specialists c.iuld be do tectod. Ifor ca?o was well known to tlio medical school-, and whon loeturoi upon tho hoirt woro givon'.U was roforredjto, nni hundreds of Btudonta havo eofc a correct idea of heart symptoms from a physical examination of tho pitient Dining tho years that sho has boon in tho hiwpital, eavowhon sha first entered, there li*h not boon a physician who had tho courago tc <nvo a name to her di*ea3o for publication. Whon Laweon Tate, tho grent English fur peon, was on>r hero last voar, 10 was shown hfc pitient, and mad Iri thnrouih examination of hor, Ho connludo.l that it wad sDiiio spinal trouble, but admitted that it was tho mo.»t puzzling ease that ho During tho last few months overy part of h»r body w.v dry and hot to tho touch. ?ho seemed to havo a high fever,.but waa not restless, nnd made no complaint Her pul.*o wns ho rapid that if could not bo counted. Hor body was eroally onaoiatod, and tho flesh wan unusually sensitive. Wheivver even a lieht prevsuro mi put on it a wilnesa would follow immediately, and an annoying ulcoration would bo tot, up. Tho ulcers were unusually persistent, and soothing treatment waa given, but with no ide-x of healing them. One of the patients in the same ward with Nellie became de lirious, and threw a crutch that Btood noar her cot, and it struck Nellie's foot. An angry inflammation followed _ that ppeedily developed into 11 malignant nicer. Gangrene eot in and spread rapidly. This was a danyorous complica tion. If the foot was not removed blnod poisoning y.-ould soon appear, and if it, wns cut off tho shock would probably kill the patient. It waa coneidored that thora waa a chance, if tho foot was taken nil and none if it was left on, and it v.m dote) mined to operate Ethor was given. The foot was cut Offjast above tho anHo. Tho flush was almost bio dkso, and of a dull white colour. It had an unusual odour. The operation was quickly porformed, tho stump bring carofully ligatured and tho pationt taken to her cot. She rallied from tho shock. On tho second div after the opera tion she had ono of hor faint periods, and hor body had tho aopearanco of death. Thero was no r>n!=o discernible at the wri-t, the heart-beat wai only a fliyht llutfor, and tho breath was confined to tho throat. At the end of ton days thoro waa r.o sign of life. Still it was not deemed tafo to cay j that she was dead.

At tho end of fourteen days tho body bo ean to putrefy and it was then known that Nellie was dead. There was no pomp and ceremony at her funeral. Her bier was Ihe dissecting table. Doctors had grown old and died waiting on opportunity to find cut what was tho matter with Nollio. Tho various organ? in tho body woro removed. Thoy woro all bloodless and every one heart* was pxaminf)'! la»t. It was larger than normal Tho knifo sanlt easily through f.ho mu.'culfir (i-suo and then camo to an obstruction. It was near tho mitral valve A caroful dissection was made, and whon tho flesh »vas cleared away tno surgeon held in his hand a perfect needle. It vn» en cysted. How it got thore U not known, but it must have been many jews ago. That it caused all her ailments by interfering with the ciiculation thero is no doubt.— New York Letter in "Cincinnati En quirer."

Unsocial Lord Salisbury.

Tiie Marquis of SalUbuiy is not very popular, I fine), in his county of Hortfprd. Ho ia ton studious and too reserved a msn to bo a particular fnvmuiro with a race that is as breezy as the lulls of tho counly that;, accordine to i s proud inhabitant?, ha 3 nothing between it and tho North Polo. He i">, ini.'cc/l, a singularly unsocial man. I wns told'by a gentleman who often travols the line from Ra*field that ho never sa-v him oncn enter into oinvorpation wilh anybody in 'he train. Ho ia always im marscd, or profe-sos to ba itnmeraod, in some book. His social gifts to the county consist solely of an annual ball, and " that's o great bore,'! taid'n stiunch Con servative to me. Then Hertfordshire re- Mnts Lord Salisbury's comp'ofo _ indif ference to aporfc and soma wicked Liborala have spread the story that ho goes out shooting in a black frockcoat and a tall hat. His eldest son, who as yet has given no public indication of pos?9<=Mng the amount of brains possessed by hia father and attributed to his mother, is move agree able to Hertfordshire, aa far as sport is con cerned. He ia an oilicer of the Yeomanry, and the oilier day he won n raco in which the ownsrfl wtire compelled to rido their own horsea. Tliero is a wblspot that the jpung gentleman contemplates offering his hai)d toa very protty andalso wealthy young lady pf tho Coy/per family whoso charms have rnnde captive many hearts, and who hns already rojectod tnoro than ona suitor. The lateet fashion among country laflite.at leaat in the Homo counties, is to rido third cla?e. They will not' travel second cla33, universally adopted by their servants.

A FATAL VOYAGE.

'Two Inventory SiufTcoatod In n SnU marine Ship.

I was in Na-sau for several months in tho interests of the Confederate Government, and among tho queer things which happened in connection was tho arrival of a couple of men with an invention which they desired to sell to tho Confederate Oovornmcnc. It was about tho time torpedoes were doming into uso in our Southom bays and rivers, and whan the Federals had tightened thoir grip on tho blockado so that not more than one iinner out of six could got in. These strangers had invented a submarine torpedo boat. Ono waa a Frenchman and tho other English, and the work had boon done in England. The boat was brought to Nassau by a British steamer, and it was there that the Confoieroto Government was invited to examino her. The boat was supposed to have baen constructed on scien tific principles. Sho was of iron, t-vonty six fott long, five foot bourn, and a liltlo ovor four feet depth of hoi J. Sho was pro pelled by an atmospheric engine, and was intended to mako her wiy in any direction below tho surface. In attacking a vessel cha would sink below her, attach a torpedo to her bottom, and thon b.iek off and ex plodo it by electricity. Just how the torpedo was attached I can't tell you, though it was plainly i lustratol at tho time. The boat arrived ntNas.-au in piocos, and for fear that?omeof tho Federal spies in tha port would get. on to the Invention, the boxes woro carried oil1 to tho country to a eoaahoro plaalalioii, uml it who thcru that wo found tho boat niter sho ha-1 been put together, That tho would run 011 tho Mir face and below it waa demonstrated t.a our satisfaction within a fov.- hours. Steering by compass whon bolow thu surface, sha preserved a oourso as straight as at] arrow, making a epood cf ton or twelve milos an hour and remaining bo'.ow sorno forty to sixty minutes Tho problem of how to got rid of the Fo.ieral blockadors seemed to have boon solved. With such a boat as tint in Chariest'n harbour, tho wholo Yankee lleot would bo torrovisotl.

Tho only point upon which wo had doubt* was tho working of tho torpedo. If (hat failed to work, then tho bout was of littlo uso. Tho inventors had not yet mado a practical torpedo test, and they seemed to heHt:ito. However, when thoy woro told that tho succ:fs of a fids depended unon a practical illustration, thoy asked for tivo or throe days' timo. I prosumo they ma ia experiments during that interval, far when wo virited them again thoy wero quite prepared. An old flchoonor hid boon towed from N:ie-au and anchored a milo off shoro in pevont.y foot of water, and they wero to practise on lior. Tooy Boomed to have perfect confidenca in Ihemaolves, as they shut thomsclves up in (bo boat and sunk below tho surface, and wo had very littlo doubt of thoir sucreas.

There wasn't a ripnlo by which v,o could trace tho progref.i of tho boat, and aftor giving hor twtjvo minutes' timo we began to expect tho explosion. Wo waited a full hour, and woro fion satisllad tint eomo fching was wrong. Alter two houra hod gono by ft couple of men rowod oil'to tho schoonor, but no fi^'n? of tho tovf.odo bout eoukl bo Foen. Tlirte weeks later (ho b.rit was wished up on tho nhoro of one of tha small islands to tho south. 81)9 was bont and bruised and broken, and in her hold the corpse* of tlio tyro inventors wpro wash ing about The torpedo lu\d not bo.m ex ploded, but tho engino had broken down, and tho poor follow* had lain at the b itUm of (ho Hia until thcif fresh air was ex llttliatod, and then died a horrible death.

WALTZING FOR A PRIZE.

How r. QiiCKtlon of Gr.ico .iml Skill Was

Settlo.l In tho Wos:.

" I.i-t her go, Gnllaglior," paid Chief F'uttor son. Fourteen yonng nion put their fourteen right arms around the fourteen waii-ts of fourteen young women, tho band struck up

" When iho Leave* Begin to Fall," and tho fourteen couples, each oh'spod in a elofc embrace, b;gan to pivot aiouud in timo to tho music

Tho waltzing was strictly according to tlio rules prescribed by tho bc-n.t sot i jty. A euro (irao fulness of movement, and :is

(.•racefulr.oss U the chief paint to bo con sidered id competitive waltzing, it follows that tl:o performance w:-s of a romrwliat alfuctionato character. Each ycung man had tlio lingora of his left bund "intertwined with thoso of tlio young woman* right, and tho two arm* exrondsd at full length in the horizontal lino, tlio fourteen pairs of ex tended arms thus circling around like the fans of a windmill. Most of (lio girln kept (heir eyoe shut and pillowed their china or noses on their partners' manly bosoms, content to bo whirled whithersoever t!io young men pleased. Ono or two couples trioJ to got in a littlo fancy work, Tho young man would lose hold of his partner for an in stant and fnrt of glido around hoi' as a him trry cut glides around a pin of boilingnaitlc, then grip her tighter Ihan over and oft oneo more. Another would throw bin liuad bank fiorn lii-i pirtnor an though ho had suddenly discovered ;hr;t somoboriy had been eating onion?, ami then start on a backward roverfo s-.top ih.-t brought him into collision with another competing coup'c and caused nr. interchange of com pliments more forcible than polio.

After (ii'toen minutisnf Uii", and much whispering among tha judges, Chief I'attor eon rapp'd his htol on tho lloor and tho mufiic stopped,

" Come forward, ladies and gontlsmen," ho said. "Thomas 11, l.'attor^on will pleaeo li avo tho II ior."

'i I expaoted that," s-ii:! Th'omai ruefully, im ho and hii girl sought thoir peats. " Kj cause I'm his brother ho'o afraid to give mo a show."

"Samuel Mitch-ll will please loavo tho II >or." continued Chief Patterson. "John B;uco will al?o retire with his lady lam very sorry, gentloraon and ladies, that wo cannot give all of you pitchers and mugs, for you uro all good dancers. Alec Ander son will ploa?o leave tho Uoor."

Finally t!io daneors woro reduced to fivecoiiplos.aisdtlio tnusicntarted onco more. It was tho s.uno tune, and that (liere inif'lit bo no mistake iiboiit", if, ono cf Hie Mdlors lniinmcd t!io wort;?: Whcu the Ifi i vi-g lo tarn Ar.ri tli-.i: timmor (in b iircHOllo; Who- tlij rob in o t acr.i. ! .i And Uiesnaliowehiinio.Tarci odiiic. Tlio dancers whirleil around and por spireii for lon minutes more before another hrtlh w.'i.a railed,

"Mr Hoi ton will Icavo tho floor," s-iid Mr Patterson. Helton, a stalwflrt'young man, who wuro a whifo ro'o in his pea jackot, poomed somowhat unwilling to com ply and mado a loud remark reflecting on the origin of nno of tho judges. Tho judgo roferro j to jaxp^d oT tho pli form and wanted to know if Holton meant it. llol ton said bo did, nnd hostilities scemod im minont, until tho Chief Patterson took a hand in and skilfully restored order.

" Iloltou," ho sail, "sit down, or I'll throw you out. There's no choice hore Wo haven't showed no partiality an.l wo won't. T appeal to {he ladio.-i and gen'le men if we aro not doing this thing sqnaro You all saw ma ordor off my own brother, t.o show there was no partialily nor no choiceo. If I was going; tob-3 partial, would I walk my own Hath and blood off of tlio lloor ?" [Appladse.]

Thon tho couples ivore reduced t~> three — tho Conloy couple, tte Fitzg ia'd couple, and the Egan couple—and the dancing began again. Tho Judges watched the movements of (he throo coup'os with tho utmost anxiety. Then (hero was more whispering among the ju.igos and tbon a final halt vraa callod, Popular favour sceraod to bo with the Fitzgerald couple, a fact which in itsolf was sufficiont to make Chiof Patterson insist thufc tho prize should go to scma other couple, in order that. hia. record f.>v impartiality should be kepb untarnished. " Wo'ro not to b3 bullied 'by nobody," he paid. Tho Egan couple wore told to lnavo tho floor, and it.' became evident that tho jadgos differed a3 to which of tha last two couples ehonid got the pitcher and mug, the^a ar ticles, of course, being a set, of two piece 3 intended for a sinclo prize. It wa? at thin crisis that Chief Patterson again exhibited his great, head. "Tj9t'a aivo tho pitcher to ono and the mug to the other," he aaid. "It's a go," paid tho other judges. ' "Mr Corfloy nnd lndy, como forward," said Mr Pattcrsun, tnkinu tho pitcher In ono hand and tho mug In tho other. " This is your prize," hrindir.rr over the pitcher ;_' '.tho jndge thinks yovi won it fair '' " If anjbody thinks different, I'm willing to dance over again for it," said Mr Conley, glancing at Fitzgerald. "You got tho mug," paid PatteKOti to Fi!zj,<crald, handing over tho article. " Well, I won it," said Eitzgerald, " aad if anybody wants to danco over again for this or any other prize I'm his meat—see." The prize-winners were congratulated by their hosts of friends,, and then the floor vas cleared for the Virginia reel, "Our Chief." Tho festivities wero kept up until daybreak; The ball was pronounced an unqualified eucceeß.

LIFE IN TONQUIN.

Small Psoffresa Made, and no Safety for Enroiisians.

Evkry 'European arriving down here from stations up the country, has pitiful tales to tell about the present stato of affaire, and it appears to be tho general opinion that there are far more pirates in tha ojuntry now than there wera in 18834, or at all evonts pinco the retreat of tho French from Langson, in April, ISSS. Ono thing Is cer tain, ?'<'., that tho no-called Blank Flags have gatliered courage, and have no more fear for tho puady zon&vo than for the or dinary Anamito soldier. Knowing there aro b.jrcly 5,000 Eutopean troops to gua-d tho wholo of Tonquin and Anam, arid scarcely half that number in a fit stato f r campaigning, they do not hesitate to take advantage of tho situation, and aro con tinually at'ae'ung trading junks, so that at Iho present tirno it is impossible to move with safety on any of tho rivers of Tonquin. In addition, rnida aro unceasingly baing made on defenceless villagfs and the oc cupants massacred; and, judging from latest advices from Anam, that country is in even a worse condition.

It U ofton rumoured that ro-onforcomeiits are coming, but they never arrive, and it is pretty certain that uulo?] troops aro eont without further dolay tho French Govern mont will have the ta-k boforo them of again reconquering tho whole of Tonquin. Ono hoars aKt of talk about 1119 moan "Tira'llcnrs and Anainito," which simp'y mO'iiiH Iho miserable. laUutli from tlio rice Molds A rillo is given them, immediately tln-y uro put through a few hasty diilU, and llion thoy aro minJlotl nil' fcj an up country onlr0"'- '' "lA nr'' Burpriuing thou that inimbori" of Ihoin d. sort to j .in (ho Black Vlnfff. giving thorn the benefit oft heir instruction. Noithor is it a raro occurrence for thuFroi.c'i soldiorg to deport, especially th Lotion men. Tho writer has been in Uniphona over two yens and with tho exception of a lino row of brink houses built by A. K. Marry and two iron houses oroited by thu Eastern Extension Telegraph Company for their I'liiplojo.w, is anablo to rjport anyi mproro mont. Tho snmo ditty cafi'- j, with a few addittional now ones, remain as in ISS-t. As yet. tlioro is not 0110 good road completed. Plenty of work ha" baun commenced. A canal is to bo mndo to run around the town with grand boulevards, ami sovora! rosda have boon begun, but, alas,! the dol'ara ar« wanting, and tho improvements must wait until tlio customs, taxee, gambling farm, dc, and other imposts aro suf ficiently remunerative to bear iho ex, penfo. Meanwhile, a few days ago a tolegrnph clerk waa nsaaisinatod fit the " Bamboos," a station on tho Kud river between Iliiphrmg nnti Hanoi, where »t.eun lanncho.i aro continually pacing. About tho Bamo date a junk, reluming from Tuyon Qunn «ith two Onslom-hoaeo agent* on board, was attacked at tho Elephant Mountain, about litloon miles from Haiphong, and bnl. for tho timaly arrival of n steam launch, belonging lo U. I'ila * Cu., which rendered assistance and then took the junk in tow, thor.o is very little ilouljt that tho two mon would have met with tha mmo fata as numerous oMior unforlunrito Frenchmen.

An ovport left hero a short timn ago wilh tho intention of exploring the silver nod othor minos on tho cii-trict of Th;ii-ngunn. However, ho was several times niolestod by piia'cfl on tho road and was eventually onlifod (o withdraw. Ho declares that in ono plnoa nlcno ho discovered 1 ,r,C)O Annmiles mid Ohincsa working to;;fcthcr at tho mine.-; but was obliged to make a bni-ty rotio.it, as tho pirates &w well armed «ith lir.^t elase iilj-j, and .=o ho wa ■ compelled to abandon altogether tho ontorpruo. Tl^o same Btorics nrrivo froai all --i'lea. It is Btatod on good authority thut In tlio Unions b:.y, wl:cw tho so mnchtulked-nf coal minoa aro sujipn.-ei ti ho, thero aro, at the proseut time, at leant 5,000 w.l> armed ChintfO narly to attack any intrudorH, Nearly every night r.-iirU 'iro iriiido on Quan y«n. a town sitnatfd in tho fame direction. ' lla-.K.r, the cipi'al of Tonq'iin nnl roA- I'cnco of tho Oavornnr CJanond, i.-i receiving

,'!1 tho plums i numerous line romla have been made and 'argo euina expunried on Hi vornmont, building- and a public e.-inien ha? nleO bcon started. It is rumoured hero tli'nt tho head ofTlcialo of thit place r.ro »L':iin considerinir the a-iviaability of chaiij; i.r<- the port of Tonquin and abandoning Flniphunf;. but it ia to bo hoped they will not bo fo foolish nn to commit aucli a blundfr, aaa blunder It certainly would bo. 'I'lio Chinese, who qommnnd tho laigcct share of Tonquln trnde, having once settled at HaiphonJ, aro mi'; likely to bo enticed away to unotl.-or part, whatovcr tho tempta tion may ha A journal, the "Courier d'Haiphong, was .-turfed a'.c.ut two months ago with much ctremony and pomp. Tho capital, 7,ooololF.,wasrnieed by pnVd-!subscription, nno hoii^o a'ouo taking slmro< fo tho ex t< tit g! l.OCOdota. Tho paper should appo.ir twice weekly—TlmwdayH and Sundays— but h at least twonty-four hours liohind I imo.

A DESERT SETTLED.

How tlio Arid Zone of Kansas Hail

Bcou Harrowed.

Tiik mid x-iiic, tlio land that has so long rtfi'tcd tlie encroachmont of Bottlers, and whoco only crop for many yenra was bank rupts, is now boing rapidly mottled. During the Di*t. vc:r nhnoafc 200,000 people nettlei on that portion of it which lies in Km.™ Tho rain belt has mnvod wostward fur beyond the nno-hundrodth mori linn—or, to ba more aeeur.tfo, a now rain bolt haa Vio^n created. For thtrtcon year?, from IS7O to lSs:5, men ontored tho arid zono, built house?, ploughed the prairie nod, sowed grain and attempted to fjrm. Thoy 10.-t their money, thoir timo, and in rra-iy eases their courago. Many of tho?o men rctumod east to livo on thoir wifo's rela tives. Olhor men took tho abandoned houses and arid farms, and in timo these too bunnmo bankrupt and returned to tho East or pushed westward to tho highland!l. Ail mon of intelligence know that tho arid zmo was unlit for agricultural pur poses. Thoy know that tho physical enri figuration c'f tho lv.nl lying wo«t of the

nrid bolt, and which controls tho climate, oovtld rot bo changed. The settlor?, caver fir loud and homes, continued to pour into the dry region. At last Ihoy have boon rewarded. Thoy havo er-curoij tUrca crop of wheat ia in aiclit. So much rain now- falls in tho eastern portion of what «-a»onca thpari.i Wit (hat it is no loncor fit for a winter r;mE»o for cattle. If PitlTi pient rain fu!l» to wnnh the nutriment nut of l!;o";raw, tlicn there is sufliciont rainfall to grow wheat to perfect maturity. Daring the threo years last past the winter wheat producing belt ha 3 been pu-hod westward almost .100 mile. At loa't 25,000.01-0 acres have beon added ti tho nrei of tho American winter whoit, growing fiold. Tlio land U virgin. I' produce* No 2 soft winter wheat. It, now looks aq though tho arid zone wan to bo tho gro.t wintor who-it-producing region What has wiouglit tho change |n tho oltmate of Eastern Colorado and Wo»tern Kansi-i? Tint question cinuot bo ac curately nnsworod, Tho wieds blow from tho ssmo direction they formerly did, but (hoy nro not, sirocco like. Tlio rain storm come from fio west generally, find in tho past the we?" wind wit dry wind. Tn ray opinion the eh an go is duo to tho oxkneiv? irrigation of tlio land ljing along the. eastern b-ipo of tho Rocky mountain-. Great rivers which head in tho perpetual enow banks of tiioai mighty jangea havo been turnod into irrigation ditches, and

t tic water wMoh formerly ran wastefully to tho 0u*f df Mexico lias boon turned on to the arid plains. Tlioro it soal;s into thi soil. Tho wind sweeping over .the land euckn up a largo portion of it. There is Inoi3tr.ro in llio air, and it is prccipitatod as rain on tho plains of Ksetern Colorado and Western Kansas. So extensively is irrigation practised in Colorada that almost nil tho water was taken out of the South PlaUo rivor lost year. Fifty miles east ward from Donvcr tho stream was a tiny fill. Aa it is with tho South Platte, so it ia with leas important streams, and so it coon will bo with streams of larger volume. Tho day when tho Arkansas river will bo turnoi on to tho plains, ovory inch of it, is plainly in sight. •The system of intention which hn= boon applind to the land lying fklor.g tho. oaetorn ba=o of tho Rooky mountains is now being p.i:>!it.d to tho western Blof.o, and to the an.-! basin lying between tho Rocky mountains and the Siena Nevada range. 'In vh" years the water which no.v Howe wastefnlly Übo tho Colorado and tho Oiinm'nii will be taken from tho branches of t,'ne:-o largo stream"1 end used to irrigate arid land. "It if hitr-ly probable that the climate of tho wimln Rocky mountain region will be changed in tho near future, and , changed by ths irrigation of the land lying west of it; More rain will fall in the high lands during tho pummer. The stioarns which drain tho eastern slopes will remain full longer. More water will bo expended on the plain, and more rain will fall in Colorado nml Eastern Kancap, The arid 7.0119 will practically disappear.

FIVE HEROES.

They Die In an Attempt to Save Imperilled Sailors.

Thr steamship Knickerbocket.of tha Crom well line, running between New York and New Orleans, has arrived hera and reports that her first officer and four men were lost in a gallant attempt to rescue a distressed voseol oft' tho Fivo fathom bank.

Tha Knickerbocker had stormy weather throughout her trip, and as eho ran up tho eaast the violence of tho wind and waves increatod. On Sunday it wns blowing a gale froai the northeast and a heavy sea was running. The galo continuod until Tnosday. The morning of Tuesday broke gloomily over a tempost-tcsseii sea, and tho ship struggled northward through groat waves that broke ovor her and a chil ing air that turned tho spray to too on her rigging. At 8 a.m. a sehoonor was sighted showing fignala of distress. It was tho schooner Mary D. Cranmer, bound for Philadelphia. Sho waa vainly strangling to tnako an offing and every minuto was being blown nearer tho shoro. It wa? certain death for evory one on board vi tlio inclement woathor if tha schoonor over etruelc tha beach.

Wlion tliO Knickerbocker ca.no up with tlio schoonor the latter signalled that she was wanted to bo towed into port, as she was unablo to boat off shore. The steamer lny to and B. .T Honry tho First, OHicar, iiurl four Hnilnw vol tinte-jroil to make an attempt (•> got a lino from tha wslinonor In tha steamer. It \va« an oxtremoly porilojri rindoi'tuhirig, for tlio wind had rnw hauled to tlio nortU ward and v tcrrib'6 cross sea provailc-d. Tlio Knickerbocker's lifo-boat was lowered away and First OHieer Henry witli Ilia four volunteors, John Johnson, (loorgo Harris, Frederick Johnson and William Mitpaten, started for tho distressed schooner The email lifobo.it waa tojsod about like a cork by the threat waves and tho Fpray that How over the sailors frczD on them in sheets of

ico. Thoy pulled at the oars aa only sailors cm whon life and death aro in the effort, and Mr Henry stoorod the boat toward tho schooner with tlio skill ljjrn of a life of c.v perience. Evory minuto tho vioVenco of tho cross sea increased.

At lost they roanhod the distressed vessel and tho sailors on board throw thorn a hawser. Talcing the end of the hawsor in tho boat, they ptartod on their hazardous roturn trip to the steamer. It was a terrible battlo with wind and waves, but two thirds of the dlstanoo had been accomplished when thoso who watcheii tho horoic struggle from the dick of the Knickerbocker saw a grout wavo seize tho lifeboat in Hh gnup and whirl it ovor as if it were a cork or a bit of driftvond

Then fi'om out tho thunder of the wale™, the Hying spray and the seoth ing foam, tho sailors emerged in tha hollow of two great waves, still clinging to tho boat and try nig to right her. A grtftt inasa of greon water swopt ovor them, hiding them from sight. Again (hey woro .=ot>n, riding on a huge wave, but with tho ho'it righted. The sailors wero at the oars again, toiling for lifo Tho boat wis full of water, and (lio icy anil angry teas broke over tho nion again and again. Tho hawser of tho schooner hai been torn from (he boat and tho sailors uoro numbed with cold and exhausted by their fevero work. Still thoy struggled on toward tho >iteam:r. where thu'r shipmates, powerlms to aid, were watching vvlnt had nuw become a light fjr lifu. "

Tha wind had shifted to I he nnrihwestf, and the schooner w»s borne nil' shore. S'ie at loast waa r.'i'o. The men in tho lifeboat struggled on toward tho steamar. They had accomplished half tho remaining <liA (ance whim a wavo with a great foaming crest curled nvenhom end they WOIO buii.'d from sight,. Oice moro thoy appeared, cling ing to the bout Ii was a woi kof sumo tims toiiuhthur ro», but Mr flor.ry kept hia head through all tho terrible experience and directed and tucouraged tho (.Hurts of his moil.

After long and painful eflfjrt thobo^t wai righti-d ngiiia, mid again tho people on tha Knickerbocker's deck saw the gallant crew ttru>:gling toward (hem. The sailors woro coated with ice, I heir limb! were numbed with cjld, and (bo an^ry peas contested with (horn every inch of advance they mado toward Iho s'omior. Tcy had almost reached her iriion a groat billow lifted the boat and held it and its occupants suspended over a foaming abyss of water. A line was thrown from (li 9 steamer, but their hand) woro frozon and their limb? co numbed with cold that they could not gras-p it, and then Iho lifeboat and its crew wero caniod down and swallowed-up in the wavis.

A bnat wa? lowered from the stoanior and n crew of volunteers manned it. They pnlloi to where tho lifeboat ?,v.s being whirled about by tho wive, but the angry sees swept beyond thoir grasp tho Btilfencd bodies of tho four Bailors and buried them fo; ever in Iho sea. Tho b.idy o! Mr Henry, frozen stiff, wns found entangled in tho iife !ino of tho napped boat. Thou r> wavo caught both bo;>ta and liui'led them toward tho ?ido of tho tteamtr, Tho men in tho pocond boat mLin/ii.'od by groat exertion t> kojp their bc'iit oil", hut tho great seas with a fino! roar of triumph dashed Iho lifeboat ag.iinst tho &'oainoi'« iioti tiles, breaking it into kindling wood Afier coniiderable difliculty tho secmd boit waa got üboard with i's crow in safoly. The ~te'irrierbronght Ihe body at Mr Henry to thi; port. —" Kew York Tribune."

AMERICAN TRAITS.

Natural Independence) of Character Sliown in Various Wayo.

Is-tho United States, tlio übsonca of that segregation of the vaiious grades of society which exist in Europe* h evinced by tho habits and manners of tho masses in that country. If tho national independence) of character be occasionally pushed tco far, and degouerata into offensive self assertion, at least it prevents any approach to servility. No inequality of position or circumstance will induce a native of any of tho Northern Stati-H or ppoken to in tho to'io which, in England, tho man in broadcloth there frequently adopt*, aa a muitor of course, to^arcla tho man in fusii/m. Tho late Sydney Godolphiti Osborno used lo relate how, onc^, a respect able artisan snid to him : " I like you, my lord: thorn iJ nothing of tho gentleman about you." Tho meaniafj of the speaker was undoubtedly that Lord Osborne did not treat him in tho patronising manner that rnombore of tlio higher class usually employ to those whom they regard rts their social infeiiors. Now, no one pnrhapn has n koonor approciution of tho advantages of wealth nna education than the American: but that- tlio posse&for of them ehoidd feel himself justified in using toward tho man whri lacks theseadventitiom gifts the language of a Buperior to an inferior is what he cannot understand, and which ho will not for one moment put up with.

An anecdote Thcckony usod to relate of ,~.n experience of his when in tho United States' wall illustrates this trait of tl'O people, While in New York he expressed to a friend a desire to see fiotr,o of. tl'-P " Bowery HhoyV who, ho l>.»d heard, wero a olus;* of the community peculiar to (hat. t-ity. So ono ovonias? ho was takon to tho Bowery and ho was shown a " bhoy." Tho vonng man, Ihe business of the day being over, had changed hid attire. Ho wore a dress cost, black trousers and a satin waist ecat ; whilst a. tall hat rested on tho back of hia head, which waa adorned with lone woll-greased hair—known as " soap locks" —a stylo which the rowdies of that day affscted. Tho youth was loaning against a lamp-post, smoking an enormous cigar ; and 1113 wholo aspect was one of ineffable pelf fatipfaction. The eminent novelist, after contemplating him fo>" a few momonts with silent admiration, eaid to the gentleman by whom he was accompanied : " This ia n great and corgcoua nroaturo I" adding : 11 Can I speali to him without hia taking offence?"

Receiving an answer in tho affirmative, Thackeray went up to tho fellow, on the pretext of rir-k;-:g his w.»y, and pjiid : " My good man, I want to go to Broome-strcet.'1 But, I he unlucky phr.ife, " My good man," ronwd tho gall of the individual 'spoken to. Instead, therefore, of affording the informa tion fought, the "Bhoy"—n diminutive specimen ot humanity, scarcely over five foe!, in height — eyeing tho tall form of his interlocutor askance, answered the query in tho sonee that his permis sion had been asked for the speaker to visit tho locality in question, and ho said, patronisingly : " Well, sonny, yer kin go thar." When Thackeray subsequently related the incident, ho laughingly declared that he was co disconcerted by the unexpected responß9 that ha had not tho courage to continue the dialogue.

A PRODIGALS RETURN.

Au OKI Wan itobbed by a Clever Swindler.

DBIPZTOWK is made up of about a dozen farmhouses, and is named after the first settler in the place, Josiah Deitz, who was known to bo well fixed financially. The Deitz family is composed of Josiab, his wife and son, who was inclined to lead an erratic life. Josiah, Jr., or young Jobs, as he waa known on tho farm, had an antipa thy for farm life, and repeatedly threatened to run away from home. No attention was paid io his threats, but Jots left suddenly abont seventeen years ago. No one koew whither ha had gone Nothing was heard of him for nearly five years, when a letter dated Now York was received, giving a brief account of bis wanderings and itating that ho was oif for the West. The tone of tho letter throughout was dif ferent, and while tlio boy's absence bore heavily on his mother, his father being very resolute, was inclined to let him see the rosult of his folly rather that: urge his return homo. Nothing was further heard from him, and all hope of his return had been given up. He was believed to ba dead until last Sunday, at an oaily hour, a stranger came to Deitetown and inquirod for thoDeitz family. Tho young man had a neat uppearanco, was woll drosi-ed, and gave evidence of a colle giate education, Jle eooa reached the Deitz. rasidonco and introduced himself aa their missing son. The farmer received the boy fondly and tho old inothof was ovur eorno with emotion. Tho long-lost boy was for ROVeral days kopfc bupy giving a dotail.'-.d account of bis wanderings, and then sur prised tho old couplo by Kiying ho had ro contly boon married in Chicago and that his wife, who (stopped ofV I) day ti fee a friend, would soon arrive. Meanwhile the unsus pecting farmer kept nothing from his way ward eon. Ho was very prosperous and owned several farms, could lay his hand on a large sum of money in five minutes, and gonorously offored tho hospitalty of the housa to Joss and bis bride for any length of time. Joss, however, w;-.s reticent about his old farm friends ai;d neighbours, and felt more disposed to remain indoors than subject himself to critical inspection. Tho second day he started away to moot his bride, and after a short absence returned with tho wife. Another happy meeting took place. As night approached the bride 'eigned fatigue after he; trip, and both retired early, followed shortly afterward by the old couple. By this time Joss dis covered the v hereabouts of the money, and their early retirement was not for rest, but for the purpose of giving them more time to consummate thoir plana for robbery and escape. Tho morning dawned, but Ju.=H, his female accomplice, and ii,oooiolis in cash were nemo. Tho old man did not go to tho son's room until 1) o'clock, whon he found the room door open and the pair gone. So was hia money. The old man found on tho table a note saying :

Djar Father: Goo'-'oyo for seventeen yea's mor.. " lon*.

Tho old folks are inclined to think it was not Jo;S at all, hut somo sleek professional who learned tho family history and played on their trusting credulity.

SUN DANCE.

How the Sioux Seek to Propitiate the

Oreat Spirit

Tin: Sioux are very suparatitioua and firm believers in dream?, and the sun dance follows a dream-is intended to cure the sick, or avoid siclineea or other misfortuno fore-told by the dream, and id a sort of punishment undergoni to propitiate the (ireat Spirit. They first form a circle of green bougha stuck into the ground, and in the centre of which a tall sapling is planted, stripped of all limbs except v bunch ncai th? top, and then two smaller ones, forming a triangle, to one of which b attached a pieco of rod cloth, to the otlnr a piece of whita cotton. After the dar.co t'.iese are burned. There id also fastened to each tree or pjle a stou,t thong, a little higher than a man's head. Tho dancer takes hia place in the centre of the triaoglo naked excepting apron and cloth, hia body painted black and hii hair dis, bevelled with iin"B of wbite rablit skin tied to. the flesh of the shoulders and body Than a portion of flesh on the Bhoulderß or breast is pierced through and tho thong pasrod through the incision (sometimes aa many as Ihre9 at a titco) A email qnill whistle ia taken between the teeth, through which (ha dancer breathe?, tho whistle soundinj at each broatb. At midnight tho dance ia begun, ti the noise of drum beating and a ioguiar bind of singers. Tho sun is then suppofcod to be brneath the feet, and the dancers' eyes are turned downward at first Tho idea is to follow tho sun in its course with the eye, and the performer must therefore keep hia gaze fixed on the orb of day till fundown, unless worn out first, of course turning tho head with the course of tha sun. The moment tbo su,n sinks below the horizon they hogin to strive, by pulling and jerking with their bodies against the thong, to tear it through tho flesh, or throwing their whole might toward the ground, they fall down, tearing the thong loose, and gene rally rendering themselves insensible. During the dance th.oy Will puil against the thongs raising tho H,e3h so a man could pass hia hr,t)d through the ga*h Tho drummers keep up a continual chant of "Tho Great Spirit keep us!" To Bee ono undergoing that torture called dancing —naked, painted, hair streaming, blood trickling from fearful ga?bo3-i9 truly droadfui.

A Romance of the Slums.

The man who, in answer to a peculiar knock and a password from Boss, opena to us the door of the front cellar and lets ua in, ie not a man of prepossessing appearance or manners. But neither is he of the bull-dog lypa. He ia simply of the lowest type that eonld bo found or imagined in the form of man, The intellectual and moral faculties seem to be absolutely wanting in his com position, which consequently appears to be mado up entirely of animal and idiot, the animal part- being not urilike that of tho gorrilla, only not so sfcronsi—the gorrlla wasted und emaciated by dieoase. Ey profession he ia a shoeblack, as R033 has already informed v? ; and his olothce and faco boar witness to his calling. So also does the room in which ho lives. The only furniture in it is a small table, two old orango boxes for seats, and a sort of bed, which 13 nothing but a heap of rags blnckonod with ditt, and pp'-ead over, a number of other orange-boxes turnod up sido-down.

Qn that bod and under thoas dirty rags lies a woman whom the s-hoeblaek calls hia wife, though Boas does not appear to have bcon awaro of her existence until now.

Tho woman has not rotirod to rest for the night;-she has only just jumped into the hesp of rags, on hearing us at- the door, to conceal from U3 her appoaran,cp, for tho shoeblack ha 3 pawned her boots »nd stockings and hor only gown for the prica of a bottle ot gin for Chr\a':r,si. Her faco only ia visible, a:vi it ia so dirty that jt oaa hardly be distinguished from the heap of raga by tlje dim li^ht of the. t.llow-cMdlo. It is nevertheless a remark able fan-, and was onca rem«k-ibly beauti ful, and as soon as I catch a glimpse of it I a 1; once recognise in it the faae of a woman whom I havo seen before And it Is quite evidfitit that tho recognition is mutual, foi' as soon as she soes me she utters a wailing cry and hides her faoo in the heap of rage. Lot m 3 tell you how I made her acquain tance and what I know of her. It is only a Ecrap of her history, bnt that scrap is onough to give us a pretty clear insight into her past career. Ono Sunday night in the middle of winter, throa years ago, I wns informed in the vestry that 0 woman—l think they said a lady—who had been present at the service was still in tho church and desired to see me.

ffor object in wishing to see me waa one with which I am very familiar ; she was'in distress and wanted mo to help her. No thing could bo tnoro commonplace. Woman in dintro^R come to us every day in tho week. But any oue eculd havo rom at a glance that tUia particular woman was uot ono of the common herd of either professional or amateur beggars. Her clothes were common enough - nothing could bo much worse. She had soaroely a shoe to her foot. But her language and manners wero those of a well-bred lady, and her face still looked a3 if it had once been eminently beautiful. Moreover,: Bhe was gentle and modest in her demeanour. She did not begin by saying that she had "seen better days " She simply suid that she'was in great distress, without food or shelter, and that it wag through hpr own fault, her own moa1; grievous fanlt—that, in short, eho bad, brought it all upon herself.

I gave a trifle-nothing to speak of, bat juet enough to get a little food and a lodg ing1 for the night. I also acceded to her request that she might be allowed to cell at my house on the following day, though I never expected to fee hor again. She did call, however, at the appointed hour, and I asked a lady in experiences in dealing with women to ccc her for me and to let me know what she thought of her. Tho lady was much taken with her and pleaded for her most earnestly. " I am afraid," she said, " from what she has told me that she hua not always been prudent and good, but she seems p3nitent, poor thing ! and to have suffered very much. And I believe her to be a lady, that if, I be li6vo she must have been brought up as a lady, for auoh manners as hers are not ac quired late in life. She cays she is an artist, and could get work at eomo shop if she only had decent clothes to go there. Suppose we try her and give hor a chance ? I daresay I could find a few things that would do to set her up in tho way of clothes and boots, and thero would only be her food and lodgings for a week or so. In that time we shouldbe able to see whether hor case U one we could effectually help or not, and we need not entrust her with any money." This suggestion wab carried out Board and lodgings wore provided for her, and the lady her some of her own clothes, and amongst other things a very good uletor. And in the course of two or three days she came to us, looking very cheerful and nice, and informed us that she had been success ful in finding work ami was coing to enter upon it next doy, which statement provod quite true. For some mouths she continued to do well, working f.>r the same employers, at tending church regularly, and giving groat satisfaction to those who had lelpod hor to recover herself. Then to our griof she suddenly disappeared and I failed to got, any tidings of her. When X went to see her lato employers they told me simply that she had left them and that they did not know what had become of hor, and when I asked the cause of her leaving, they only said that she was very clever and might have earned a good deal of money, but was too fond of ardent spirits. Look at hor now 1 thon look at tho fellow she calls her husbaad !-" English Illus trated' Magazine."

ALLEGED WIFE-POISONING IN SYDNEY.

Charge of Administering Poison.

Aroitt 10 o'clock on Wednesday night Con stable Harrison, on duty at- Kedfern Police Station, whilein Botany Road, in the vicinity of the Beaconsfiold Estate, and, upon pass ing a lionet) occupied by a man named Broughton and his wife, heard an altercation going on. He went to the house and tried to ao1: tbo part of a peacemaker, and, to all appearanoes, succeeded. Ho then wont on his boat again ; but later on thought that perhaps tha quarrel might have been re newed. He was ju»t returning to the house when some neighbours came run ning out to him, and stated that Broughton had been trying to poieon his wife. Upon going into the house he said that Mrs Broughton seemed very ill. She stated that her husband had made her take a tea?poonful of jam, in which a powder known as " white precipitate." He at once gave her same salt and water to drink, which at once induced • vomiting. Sbe alleged that her husband toli her that she should either take the poison or be

11 throttled," and Ehe choea the former alternative. The constable was aleo in formed that Brougton had gono for a doctor, aud he presently returned and said that he could not get one. Tho man was then arrested and taken to the Redfarn police station, nnd tho woman, by that time unconscious, to the Sydney Hospital. She also informed him that her husband caught her by the throat, and distinct marks on her throat seem confirmatory of that statement. This morning the woman told exactly the came story as she did last nigH The accused, who dees not eoom to realist) the position he is in, says that he is aa " innocent as a baby." The jam pot and the paper in which the poieon was are in the posses sion of the polteo. The charge preierred ajrainst Broughton waa that he maliciously administered to one Lottie Brougton, his wife, a certain poieon, co aB to endanger her life, and he was remanded. — "Sydney Newp," February 24th.

A MODERN HAMELIN.

Rats Overrun a Township in Missouri

From accounts of persons living in acer tain locality, on tha lino betwoen Ray and Clay counties, that section is literally over run with rats. The inhab'tants say it is no uncommon sight to see fifty and even }OfX of these little animala at once. From whence they came, or why so many should congregate in ona neighbourhood, no one knows The destruction and loss of corn and other grain by the rats is-very great. Alexander Bogard, an inhabitant of the neighbourhood, Bays that a few weehs sgo his child wa3 sick, which necessitated his being up most of the nights, and that in three nights he killed 114 rats by catching them in a small room with a trapdoor. Mr Bogard also relates an amusing incident in which a young man and a rat ffgured. The young man, accompanied by thre.o young ladien, were at Mr Bogard'a residence one night tendering their services in oaring for the sick child. In the course of the night tho young man got off in a corner, and quietly slipped off his boots, they being tight, and pinching him very severely. Bo unconsciously placed one cf his feet near a rat hole, when suddenly he gave a wild leap, frightening the ladies terribly, and broke out the door. Mr Bogard followed immediately, thinking he had certainly become insane. Out-doors the yViung man continued his wild antics, until finally Mr Bogard learned that a rat had run up his trousers leg, when V,e as sisted in removing the rat and freeing the young man from his frigh(. The young man now keopa his trousers tightly tied at the bottom, and even a sight of a rat send.3 terror to his heard.

What We Fall in Love With.

Wk do fall in love, taking us in the lump, with tho young, tho baautiful, the strong and the Wealthy. We do not fall in love, taking ua In tha lump, with the agedj the ugly, the feeble and the sickly.- T«8 prohi bition of the church ia scarcely needed to prevent a man from marrying his grand mother. Moralists have always borne a special grudge to pretty facoa, but, as Her bert Spencer admirably puts it (long before tho appearance of Darwin's selective the ory), "the saying that beauty is itself but skin deep, is itself but a skin deep saying." In reality, beauty is one of the very best guid,es we can ppsaibly h,ave to. the desira bility, so far a,3 race preservation is con* corned) of any man o.r any woman as a partner in marriage. A fjn.B form, a goad figure, a beautiful bust, a round arm, s\nd n,3C,k, <i fresh complexion, a. lovely f^se, ara all outward and visible signs t>i tho physical qualitias that conspire to make up a healthy and vigorous wife and mother; thoy imply soundness, fertility, a good circulation, a good, diges'.ian, Conversely, sallo.vnes? and paleno33 are roughly indicativo ol dys pepsia and amomia ; a flat che^i is a symp tom of deficient maternity, and what we call a bad figure is really, in ono way or another, an unhealthy departure from the ceutral and normal standard of the race. Good teeth mean good deglutition ; a clear eyo maans an. active livor ; sorubbiness and nndorsizedness moans feebl3 virility. Koraro indications of mental and moral efficiency by any means wanting a* recognised ele ments in personal beauty. A good-humoured faoe la in itself almost pretty. A ploas.au t erailo half redeems unattractive features. Low and receding foreheais will strike us unfavourably. Heavy, stolid, half idiotic countenances can never be beautiful, how ever regular their linei and contours. In telligence and goodness are almost as ne oeesary aa health and v^our in Qrder to make up our perfect ideal of a heautiful human face and figure. The Appolio Belvidere is no fool; tho murdororn in the chamber of horrors at Mine. Tussand's are for tho mppt' part no beauties. What we fall in love with individually ie, I bsliove,. our moral, mental and physical complement. Wot our like, not our counterpart) quite tho cin erary ; within healthy limits, our unlike and our opposite. That this is bo has' long. been more or loas a commonplace of ordinary conversation ; that it is scientifically true, one time with another, when we take un extended range of casoa, may, I think, be almost demonstrated by cure and cQrtotu warranty of human nature. — Qract Allen, in " Fortnightly Review,

SELECTED POETRY.

MY FATHERLAND.

Land of my fathers! How the soul drinks in The music of tby name 1 A name so lull Of melody to those Who live again The old life over in tbelr dteams of Some.

Whilst yet a boy I dreamt of other landi Where o'er each landscape hangs the spell of

beauty. Where lofty crags in all their grandeur rite, And rivers glisten in the fairest vales That ever blessed our earth. There bards of

old Immorta'ised in song eaoh classic nook, Kach falry-hauntel valley. Herojs trod Those scene* for ever dear to tho^o who prize Tha kifts of nature and of classlo lore. lift wou'd I climb those mountains, " jam those

vales. And ravel mid their treasures. Richer songs Than ever woke th.j echoes of the lel« where sang the siren minstrels, seemd to speak Of man's primeval Eden. I would roam Ami i thißS scenes of beauty, and would gaza Far out upon the ocean, where tho wavea Koll'd gently as tho setttnK aun illumed The mountains and the billows. Land and sea, l ln hoary mountain and the glistening wave. Sent back the sunbeams, and the vales Were thon as full of beauty as cf song. Yet there are scenes around my boyhood's home That seem to rival those of summer climes. How beautiful the woodland in the vale— The choral hallot nature 1 And how green The sloping hillsido with its sylvan charms.— How rich the daisied meadows, whence the lark Moun's up. with not's of triumph, to the skies! How gay the hedgerows in their spring-tide ores.*, Tluir treasures glistening with tbß inornlnß That lingers In tho lnnjs where children stray To we*ve .h-lr wlldflawer garianaß. By the The woodbine c'irgj around lha cottatre homes <>t Knslano'e noble toilere, and the songs Uo -vieinn from tho hntor from the hall, (Jouimingle with the music of ihu birds. Mothinks I hear the bolls ting' out their chimes To welcomo Christmas in. From far and ne»r— From village spirfs ana from cathedral towers — Ttiß cheerful strains are borne upon the breeze To tell the rich, sweet tale of Bethlehem. The snow may linger yet within the vales And on the trees now leaflets, yet fettooned With glistening icicles, end frosted panes May still delight the fairies of the homes That I have left behind. And in those homes JieEea'.h the mislotce aCChrlstmastide, There are as blithesome hearts and gleaming eyes ■ As those we priza bouoath the Southern Cross. E. S. Husband, Auckland,

A RUSTIC SANCTUARY.

Street are the sounds that greet my listening Faint - echoing from yon rude but ha'lowsd shrine. Of some glad hymn once heard in bygone years, When youth and love, allied' to faith, wora mine. Ere starn vicissitude and violent change 'Neath alien skies, whera. all is wild and strange, Could wrest my heart from wtat it deemed divine! And yet. this sacrad mns!c. pasßlns sweet At tuch a time to one self exiled here. Has is own ebarm and potency oompleto— To woo the spirit to its higher sphere. Nor Gothic arch nor sculptnred stono appear. Nor ritual Rracad with gracdeur and display— All is bat simple, homely aod Binnere. A. W. HTTRTIT.

Helecsville. February 2l;h. IBS 7.

HYMN TO VENUS.

"iVbn eat ded neseia noatri guae dulcem curia miscet amaritiem." Goddess o£ Beauty! Mother of love. Thine shall he man's warm devotion As long as the stars look down from above On their bright reflection in ocean. Hellas is vanished, and Rome is dead; Memnon is sllont for ever; Glorious names have like shadows fled; Goddess, thy fame dicth never! Goddess of Beauty, from theo proceed* All that makes life worth living; To seas and valleys, to hills and meads. Beauty of hue thou art giving I Goddess, who speaks in the singer's lay. In murmurs of lovers' caressing. Goddess! great goddess I Oh, grant that rraajr Always remember thy blessing 1 F<vory roobud under the sky, ' Every little bird singing. Every dark, lustrous, girlish eye, From thee responses is bringing. Silence of midnight, zephyrs of day. Whisper thy namo to each flower. Goddess! great goddess! Oh. grant that I may Always acknowledge thy power. ; O. E. Huao.

STRAYED FROM THE FLOCK.

The wind goag sobblnß Ororlhoraoor; Far Is the fold and shut the door; Whito and etlll. beyond terror and shock, Lies th« foolieh lamb thatstrayedfromthe flock. While overhead, (com V-b frozen brooch,' With a tender pity, trna and stanch, Tim 3 sings the robin. The wind howls, heavy , With death ani sorrow, 'ro-day it is tbee, mar be I ta-metrow, Yet I'll sine one tune o'er the silent wold. For the little lamb that never grew old; Never lived long winters to see. Chanting tram empty boughs like iae, Roughs onpe so leaf y. The suowflakes carer. \ The moorland dan ; My song thrills feebly, bat I Blue on, ■ Why did God mike mo a brave Wrd-BOnl, Under warm teathern, red as a coal, To keep uo my leet ohoery and bright To the very last twinkle of wintry light. Whilst thine is all over ? I , Why waa I givoa 'Bold, strong wings To bear me away from hurtful things. While thy poor f not was so tender and weakly. And thy faint heart a&ve up so meekly,. . - Till it yielded at length to a still. Bate hand That bada thoo lie down nor try to stand ? Was it hand of heaven 7 The wind goes sobbing (Thus Bang the bird. ■ . * . . :'■■ Or else in a dream its voice teud)> Nothing I know and nothing I can ; Wisdom is not for me, bsi man. Yet some snow pure, snow soft, not snow cold, May be singing for lambs strayed from fold, . >B.asid« poor robin. »■• ■; Dinah Mulook Okaik.

PASTE DIAMONDS.

Popularity of Imitation Gems, and Bow

They Are Made.

"The number of imitation diamonds worn these days is enormous," said a fashionable * jeweller on Broadwaj to a "Mail and Ex press " reporter. " What imitations are mostly worn I" " The double diamond, a clever imitation produced by splitting a worthless or de fective Btone'aud backing it with tinfoil. Diamonds of this hind, have to be carefully '' mounted, or also detection will be easy. The business of intensifying tbe sparkle of pale, cheap diamonds is now reduced to ft science. Gems are frequently split in two, a deeper tone of colour introduced, and they are joined together again, producing a stone that has a beautiful ' firo ' and that which sells for throe or four times its original value. Tbe 'doublet' business is ex tromely profitable, but of coarse no reput able dealer can afford to sell any without injuring his trade and reputation. A lapi dary, one Zncolino, invented the ' doublet * many years ago. He used a bit of crystal as a bottom for a make up, and painted it with transparent glue. Ho then Joined together two thin stones and produced a gem that appeared floor than the real. t was not long before hi 3 method was lie* tected. The quartz"gems aro popular, and cOmo next, to the ' doublets' ia eleven counterfeit. They aro gems, of course, of thair kind, but not what they are often sold: for. Qaartz can stand the test ot the file, which glass cannot do, hence its availability. There are other stones ono} certain varieties 'of topaz wbioh are hard as diamonds, and baing colourless they aro frequently cut, polished, and passed as dia monds of the first wator. Of late solonrlesa gem material has gone up in prices, owing to the demand from, the bogus diamond manufacturers. Then these are paste diamonds', so easily, taken by &ma> teure for genuine. The composition of pa9te genva is a mixture of violin , glass a.nd borax. These manufactured stones are very hard to detect, and some times find their way into rich families, who are unwittingly imposed upon. The glit* tering gems, thai; can be seen on Broadway after tho matinees are over, Imlf the time> a»o olever imitations, either doublets. : quartz, or paste. But at the swell society balls I confess the gems worn there by the wealthy are genuine. Extremely wealthy people are not easily imposed upon ; they / always have a jeweller who examines care-. fully their gems before they are purchased!. The very moderately'well-to-do peopla am ofton deoaived, atid young men who> wanb diamond»to sparkle bsf ore their Bweothearts.. Some of them, though, go boldly and ask for the imitations and disport tbem as genuine. Mock pearls are frequently, seen, too, hut the diamond is imitated more than any/ precious atauo, The ruby is sometimes manufactured from a recipe wbioh com* prises twenty parts of antimony and glass, five hundred of strass, and a half each of purple of Cassius and gold. A venturing In also a gem glass. frequontly used in ' iraiU (ions. . The imitations, of coarse, have bctmj. effonfc upon iho sale of genuine gGias, bate not ta ttffextent that is ruinous.: I thinks iiougb, that all jewellers who sell imit»tioni* should deal exclusively in such goods and so advortiso. Tho harm comes from tjte.; at tempt to palm, cfj' counterfeit''fifeswili. stones."

THE AUCKLAND BVEMNG STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, \m?

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Mons. Joubert, proprietor of the Alox andra Theatre, Melbourne, intends bring ing out a troupe of French opera singers. The subscription list ia rapidly filling. The charge of ten guineas gives tho bearer of a coupon sixty admissions to the dress circle or orchestra stall's. The list of operas sub mitted includes "La Dame Blanche," "L'Eclair," "La Chalet," " Zampa," " Le Domino Noir," &o. It if" also intended to engage a French Ballet Company,,.



Good for Babies.—" We are pleased to Bay that t our baby, was permanently cured oS a serious protracted■ irregularity of the bowela bi the ÜBO of Hop Bitters uy its.mother, which at the saint- time restored her to perfect health and itrenstth."-THB if jatEum Bee.