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* â- t 3 AM lElSH MAID OF SAMQ0S8A, Mid looideou in the Qiaftl Struggia ' Against Landlordism. A LONDON JOUBNALIBI'S SIBOOVmiUB. In walking ovtr the battlefield of Bodyke the other (Ik\ , uiui seeing its reenlts every where in the furm of broacbea newly re BLINDKD IIY A COWUIUINO. A College Oruduate I'abllcly Whipped l>y H iiirl Whom h« Truilured. A Seneca Falls, N. T., despatch saya i For over a month the yoaiix people of Lodi have prepared for a ^raud (JhriBtmas cele- bration in the publiu hall. Marvin l^billips, a yoan({ school teacher in the place, a recent Harvard graduate and the son of Kev. W. 1'. I'hillipB, of Poughkeepsie, was built, roois p.oppi-d up and f ra^;IuentB of ' chosen to conduct the exercistK. On Satur- broken tpn.nurt, I enteredonehoaBewhichid»y tlieyouD^ ladica of Loiii chose Miaa Jennie Baxter, a prominent HOciety young lady and daughter of the oldest physician ia the place, to asBist at the exurciBcs. Phillips declined her asBiatuncv, and told several people hIio did not have a correct moral character. Miss liaxter heard of his wordB, but kept Bilent. At the Christ- mas tree exercises last night Phillips was the solo conductor. The hall was crowded and the scene was a merry one. I'hillipH arose near tho close of the exer- cises to address the Sunday School child- ren, when Miss Uaxter. who sat quietly a few feet away, sudilenly rushed forward and, drawing a rawhido whip from beneath her cloak, beat I'luUips unmercifully about the head and shouldere. Unc of the first blows was across his nose and eyes, and ho stumbled forward blinded. Miss liaxter hit more severely then. Two men held her back and her cousin. Miss I^ulu Voung, hdt water over the 1""*''^''^^ '''® *'''l' '""""^ ^^" '"""^ only to bhure, sir I ne\er P**' Phillips the more. Phillips was led at all it' was the I '"'*J by his friends. 'J here was great e.\- Thc priest suggested that, citcment in the hall. Women and children • ^ - screamed and everybody stood up. The Christmas tree was nearly overturned in the excitement. Phillips, who could not see because of the injury to hiseyi'-, was led out to his room, where a physician applied liniment to tho cuts and lacera- tions about his face and neck. Misses Baxter and Voung were surroanded by tho young women and left lliu hall in their company. mm known ah " the Castle," from the deaperale itefeuce it had made against the invading eniiuy. To my surprise I found among us iuiautes a stout young woman, with a coMii ly, gdod-humored face,who was dressed in h m w gown of plain blue cloth. 1 inquiri (I how she got it, and was told that ahe was the girl who had animated the f{arriboii in ihe defence of her father's Isoase, ami vs heu it-was breached and taken by assault had only sucrumbed after a hand-to-liui.'i afru^gle with tliree crowbar men. Hlu hid undergone a nionth's im- Srisonmeiit m jail, and on her liberation ad receu> a n donation of i'.'i and a silver metlal, vslncli she produced with as much pride as 11 II liad been the Victoria Cross. i'or, Btruii.e lo say', these hardened offend- ers are not m the least penitent, and any •llusion to ii<>! Wrtter invariably produces a broad grip. 1 Htktd this girl if it was true that she lui't tlirown bailiffs. Sli I'l pUeil, ' throw a iilii<i|i ut water boilingui.nl •8 she was iioiiiul over to keep the peaccfor twelve uii'i Ills, It was a line cbauce for aome yuu g u-lluw to marry her, at he would be ^ lie ij( a (uiet life for the first nine mon. h^. She lilushed up to the roots of her liiiir aud disclaimed any matri- iqanial tliouglits. lint the blush changed ihto a siiiile 'hut lightened uji )ier whole face when 1 su;.'gested that, as she was a redoubtiihlt' Aurrior, it would only be a prudent |irtuuutiou for any young man to take. Tliert wera, perlmpa, half a dozen Other girlf, uith llieir new gowns and medals, ami wliit iiuprisoed nie was the otter iinhecility of supposing thattho popu- lation of t^v) iliirds of Ireland could be oonverteij i.: cD.-rced by such proceedings. Why. lli( 1. IS hardly a girl in Ireland who is not eiiVKii^ iif the fame of those heroines of lloilvk' . iii.d who would not be only too l^d to imitate their example. Uuly last month 1 !•<â-  I the n port of a case in which two little I..H n and a re8|)ectable young girl of 14 Were ii I il btfore a resident magis- trate for II. I eriine of intimidating a man who twon that tie was not a bit intimi- dated, liii' iiiui;iHtrat<-, who was evidently m kindly intn, buttijuHted that she should be 4iachar;;eii uu i;iviiig security not to repeat the ofTeiii I . so as to aviiiil what he called the etigniK ol linving t>een sent to jail. But the little ^iil tired up, and said sho would give no proiiine not to "boo' at au iitiier. gency tnaii. and would go to jail rather ; and to jail she iKcordiiigly went as a com- Btou criniii.iil for n fortnight. This illns- tratCB not 111,1^ the strength of tho popular feeling, l>Nt mIhii niiother thing which has greatly iiii|r. - ^ d me t)ie utter want of touch aii'i swiipalliy of the justioes and magistrati s. V Inch makes them bliml to the iiio"! "Ini'iis faita going on before their eyes, lii-rt- was evidently a kindly man in the st-.it of justice, aud yet he Actually ijeiie^Ld thai being sent to priaou in such H I iui»e would aflix a stlnma on the little girl fur life, wlierean it was (M-rfectly obvious til iii.> oQisider that tliedangerwas »11 the oilier wa>â€" that the girl's head â- siclit be tiiriii^d by being placed on a podestal of fiiuie by her udniiring neigh bora. 1 niay recall an anecdote which made a griAt iMi|iressioii on mo as illiis traling th. wimt o( sympathy between tho governing cIhski h and the |>eople, which ia one of the wona i vils in the administration of law ill Ireland. I was talking to a resi dent iiiai;istrnte who had lieen an olhcer in tho army, nml was a perfect gentleman and rather |i<ipii|.tr than otherwise in his dis- trict, aud 1 linppi'iied to let fall some ex- prcssioiiH vvlii' Il implied that I took him for an Irisliiiinii. lie lired up at once, and Raid, " Sni<-i\ Mill don't take inn for Irish ?" I replied, â- â-  Why, I thought you were one of an olil Irish family." "No, sir," ho said ; " I am I'.iiglish. My ancestors came overwitht'ioinwell." I could not help think- ing how S. .)i.-hineii would feel if their THE J1KKNIIAKI>T W1£I>UIN<;. AU l^uris PrcHent to 8«e tlie Dlviiii* Surik'ii S'ju Marry the J*rluc«r^s. A Paris cable says : Mnie. liernhardt constantly contrives to be the centre of a sensation, and to-day the alender, graceful lady, elegatitly dressed, attra. ted more attention in the Church uf St. Ilonorc thau a crownea head would have done. The occasion was the marriage of her son Maurice to Princess Jablonowski. From an early hour crowds surrounded the church, and when Mine, liernhardt appeared she was given a grand ovation. '1 hu small church was tilled to the do<irs, and had it been as large as tl e Place de la Concorite, the space would have been insuflicient, as all Paris desired to l>o present. The wedding cards were delicately en graved on parclinu-nt. On one Her Iligli ness Princess Louise Jablonowski informs her friends of the marriage of her daughter Princess Zerka Jablonowski with M. Maurice Hernhardt, and Ix-ga them to assist at the marringo ceremony in the Church of Ht. Ilonoru d'Eylau on the •-"<th Uccenibcr. Tins reading is surinouiited by a lineal coronet. ( )n the other card are the arms of Mme. Sara Bi'rnhardt, the well- known mark of death croHS* il by a dagger and a jester's bauble, the initials '• S. It. ' and the fiinioii" motto '* O'laiid memo" and the sitni" invitation. The envelope was of the aamo bis parehment, and it waa sealed with Mine. Iteruhardl's creat in red wax. Mr. CUT IN TWO. iiBil Aim. Grass N«rtirf « a HeTrraiice I.rsn Tliaii Three Hours' Tiiiir. A (Miicago despatch sajs: When Detroit boasted of a divorce case where .1. II. Jloyk I'and his wife Alice were made two within ''.^1 hours after tiling the hill, society was I aghast at the liasto of the ease; but a I divorce case in Chicatjo, in which even I quicker time was recorded, has been kept I secret for several msnths. Althoiii;h the I divorce was granted Rome time ago it was never given out. John C. (Jrass. who had I reached th<> bh« of 65 years, married a >;irl I of 11 two or three years a^o, but the iiuion I was inharmonious, and in a fi w ininiths i Mr. Grass was after a divorce, lie retained {ex-Judge liarniim, who tilid his bill one I roiAling, had a ipiiet hearing before .ludge resident sherilfs were taken from a claaa ' P""''P'"'' i'' ""T" "r ^f"""*"'''/!"' "'»» who, after tlieir ancestors had lived ;„' JUSt as anxious for a divorce as Mr. (.rass Bcotland for more than two centurica, I J*"' ""*"'', ''''"""°" *'"â- â€¢ '','''"", """"u* freeman, i lin actual time tnken for the I flling of the bill and getting the decree is ( said to have been between two and three ' I hours. tlioiiglit il an insult to lie taken for Scotch. To return to llie Ilonieric combat at IJodyke, It would not b(^ complete without adding that onr heroine was ilefindir.g her father's hnii..i , built with his own money, and for which he paid more than its value to the laihlliird in the form of excessive rout heyuiiil any fiiir valuation for twenty years. The only liiffi-rence 1 see bet her and tin the one wa The Prone In Hrltlah Culiiiiililii. Tho New Westminster Ilriti.'h Cilitmlmin has the following : Mr. 10. (Jreyell, one of Chilliwlmck's moat enterprising and "Msidof Saragossa" is that ! r''?"'"^ farmers, called at this oflice and n^-liting against a writ of ovio.!'*"*"P.'";H"«"?'.P''°'.""»' t^/""" ''V '"'"â-  lion served on In r native city by the King : "." "'^'â- .*"°"^'- " .'.* ?"!>' " '«** ''».>" "i'"^" OB our table. tho ('oUmbidii called tho attention of fruit- of Spain, .Inspph lliionaparte, backed by a : .,..,,â-  . . French aniiv,. Hid the other in defence of fi'""""'''"" '",'? ^ â- ""V'"â„¢ to tho fact that her fathers lioii.e auainal a writ backed by 1 P""""" <'0"1'I ''" H>"''««'S«fHlly grown aloiiK British soldiers ami policemen. If the ' """'""^V â- "",' "°* '"" """'T""'' has been poor girl .i.i,.,l wronglv, I suppose it was' •"â- '"=^'7">,,''''"'»""r'»"'''- .'''"' I"""'"^'" because she lin,ll„eii tiiiight the command- '*^"'?''" "y ,'â- â-  '"'â- '''-^''â- " '*"' "' ""' H"""'"" ment, â- â€¢ 1 li.,ii Kliiilt not steal," aa it reads : \'"''"'>',' ""'y ^ro large, well formed, fully in tho Pihle, iuul not with the additionâ€" i "'*'""' *'"' '''loal '" "ivor to any cooking ••cxi*iit in the PASO of an Irish tenant ' P''""^" °" "'" ""»r'«et. Thu tree which cAso of an »ho80 liupr.iveimMits a lanillord may eon Iboate, and it is a sin to resist him."â€" Jiondon Sdi-iiIji. (iont I»l .11(1 lieliiK Washed Away. A Hiiffaln dispatch says ; In his annual report Siipi riiiiend.-iit Welch, of the Nia- gara rescrMH inn at tlie l''ft||B, saya ; "It has been (on ,1 oy exainiiiiiig the Bhores of Ooat Isloii I I «• ilie river has worn it away for 11 dii- .nee of l.HOO feet, and as tho islaiiil is mnposed largely of gravel and 'luicksmid i plan lias been formed for saving the n si of the islam!, tion consists of ctilis tilled with Btoi'io, the oost of which, exclusive of tho stono, is eetimatcd at S.l Ifi per running foot. Tho Three Histers IsUnrls are also found to bo gradually wearing away. " . boro them is night years old, and stamls the climate fully as well as the phiin tree. A frost which occurred in the earlier part of the season damaged the plums on the neighborini; trees, but did not injure the prunes in tho least. Mr. Oroyell is making arrangements to plant five acres of prunes next spring. Ab Irish paper mentions tho general dimensionsof the uninentionahles that were â- muggled to William O'llrisn to show that a auapooted friend of U'Urien's couldn't have been tlie man who wore thoni in, as he couldn't possibly inhabit them. llusbantlâ€" My dear, ilo you think that I •m conceited about my (lersonal appear- ance ? Wife -Well, yes, John, a little. Moat homely men are, you know. An Amateur French .Sriiolar, Two lads who wero standing a few days ago before a store window, in which the sign " Ici on parlo Francaise " was dia- : played, were overheard trying to decipher This protec j tho legend. Pinally the younger of tho jboys, with an aoceHt that would make 'ordinary hotel menu French seem classic, read the line over aloud and said, in a superior conclusivo way : " I tell you, Billy, it's a kinaor French skatiii' parlor they keep in there." Billy seemed entirely satisfied. lioya to I atiu Up To. Angust Shields, of Uunt connty, Te.xaa, is seven feet ten inches tall and is still growing as we go to press. He comes from a high bred famitv, having six brothers, two of whom are taller than August. There I »20 a month and free board and I'odJintf are about a mile of tho boys, conaidered i„Hu« to ninlm^nlcAt vuu^ from a linear point of view.-F,.rj;o^r7i/s- '--•"-'?.*--- Pr,P^''»'«»rW»''> "« yo"-- ihemdtr. LATKST 8COTTIBU NKW8. ProfeMor lilackle and " The Dell Itan Awa' V/V the Kxclseiuan "â€"Extra- ordinary Dolnca In Greenockâ€" Death o u I>atiKht«r of l>r. Cbttlmers. Lord Shand, one of the Judges of the Court of BessioD, has been seriously ill at his home in Kdiuburgh. The Farl of Galloway, it is said, will probably receive the K. T. vacant by Lord Dalhousie'a death. lie is married to Lord' Salisbury's sister. Mr. H. K. Crnm Kwiug, late Lord- Lieutenant of the county of Dumbarton, has left personal estate amounting to up- wards of iUO.OOO. The new railway station at Gilmour street, Paisley, lienfrewsbire, was opened for trallic ou tlie .5th instant. The coat ia oaiiniated at ilOO.OOO. There died at 75 Leamington ten ace, Edin- burgh, on tho "indinst., Helen, aged 01 years, youngest daughter of the late Kev. Thomas Chalnura, V.l)., D.C.L. Three still sur- vive. The directors of the Clydesdale Bank in Bcotland have appointed Mr. David Wilaon general manager of the bank. Mr. Wilson has been assistant manager for the last seven years. The accounts in connection with last year's International Exhibition at Edin- burgh show that there remains on hand a surplus of t;o,5G4 over the expenditure, which amounted to £104,803. At Dunbar, Uaddingtonshire,the captain of a Lowestoft vessel has been Be;4tenced to thirty days' imprisonment for hoisting a boy to tlie mix/en masthead and leaving him liang there for an hour. Private Mulligan, of the Iloyal Scots Fusiliers, who shot two of his comrades at liangoon recently â€" one of them being a son of the late Mr. James Chriatie, Saltcoats has been sentenced to death. A meeting of the subscribers to the memorial proposed to be erected to the memory of tho late John Elder, of Fairfield shipyard, Glasgow, was held at Govan on the .'lib inst., when it was agreed that the memorial should take the form of a statue by Boehm to be placed in Elder Park. A newly placed country minister entered a biithy where a number of ploughmen were busily engaged at dinner, which con- sisted of brose. " What do you generally take for breakfast '!" ho in<iuireil. " Brose," was the ready reply. •' .â- Vnd for dinner '/" " Brose, of course." " And for supper ?'' " Brose." •' And do you never tire of brose '.' " he asked, kindly. " Goverdick, hear the man." exclaimed one of the ploughmen. " Does he think we tiro o' oor meat ?" The strained relations that have existed between the Greenock School Board and aome of their teachers culminated on the otli inst. ill a display of popular feeling against the majority of the Board, ou the occasion of the formal opening of the new Highlanders' Academy. Mr. Wilson, the head teacher, who lias been superseded, marched to the school at the head of his scholars headed by three Highland pipers and a kcttle-dnimmer, and followed by an imiiiense crowd (about H.OOO) of the public. All attempt to keep the processionists from entering the school building was frustrated, and the crowd literally took possession, the majority o{ the Hutiool Board and the new- head teacher they had appointed locking themselves into a aide room, which waa further guarded by a body of fxjlice. Sub- Bec|uently an indignation meeting was held in the playground, when resolutions wero passed protesting against the action of the School Board in wantonly disregarding tho popular wish in regard to the tranaferenuu of tlie teachers. Some Banffshire folk having recently objected to Bums' song of " The Deil liaii Awa' wi' the Exciseman," the matter was brought under the notice of Professor Blackie, who then wrote to a gentleman there as follows: " 1 am sorry you should have i«ople in your neighborhood so desti- tute uf tho Scotch virtuu of humor as to call Burns' comic song about the Excise- man ' blasphemous.' Such language teuds to make religion ridiculous and Scotsmen contemptible. As for persona in ' fashion- ahle society.' who despiae their native Scottish aoiigs, and prefer to Boak their stomachs with the sentimental syllabubs of the most recent London market, one can only pity them, and pray for their conver- sion to a better mind. It is a sad fact that the upper classes, whom the crowd are fond to imitate, arc often the most do naturalized and denationized part of the commimitN ; but men of sense should know that the real value of Scottish national song, acknowledged by all the greatest poets and iiiiisicians of Eurspe, cannot Ix) permanently affected by the squeamish i-onceits of a few provincial worshippers of the gilded idol called fashion." Thti Latest l*rliieeHH, The Muiiii;il llcraUl furnishes a poem in honor of the recently arrived memlxfr of a royal family, tho Princess of Battenberg. The last stanza ia especially pathetic and realistic : Slie lias a dinii'le en eaeli cheek, Aliil one lieluw the eliiii. At tiuliny eve stie f;o. R tti tied ; The nurse then tucks her In. Her little niiBi) issoiue tiiiicH pink, (li'i'K'.innaUy i»lne , And i\hi> shiill jialnt lior tnotsiciima .' till, l>h'HH Ihii hahy new ! A Hoary Old Time Server. " Ma," Briid Bobby, after a thoughtful silence, "do you know that I don't believe Santa Olaus ia really as good as he ia cracked up to be'.'" " Why, Bobby, what makoA you think that'/" " Beoansn he gives his nicest presents to little boys and girls that have rich pas." Ttir Itelort r'oiirteoiis. Managing mamma to eligible bachelor â€" " Your jiarlors aro Ixiautiful, Mr. Balsaam, but your doniostio melange, your â€" your my dear, sir, who darns your stockings ?" Old bachelor (emphatically)- " I do." â€" llotlon Olohe. uf the Hundreds who Spend Their Niielits in JLuudou's Streets. TVhen they told me at the rallwayata tion the last train to tho suburb where I liyed had gone, I determined, mindful of the pleasures of night wandering in Paris, to seek shelter in no hotel, but to see what sights the streets of the sleeping city might aSord. It lay in the gutter of that narrow street there, where any passing cab or yon- der fruit-ladon dray might, without blame to the driver, have crushed its life out. It was a little child, so light in my hand as I picked it up that for a moment I wondered whether indeed it was a living thing. Had it learned at bo early an age to sulfer and be BtUl'/ It seemed so, for it made no cry. Not an abandoned babe, moreover; for there, coiled up asleep in a duorway, lay its mother. Tho child had dropped from her rela.xing arms aud had rolled into the ken- nel. In the Strand now, vacant of all traffic, save of the walking lepers of the street, insolent grown since a piqued police curtails not their so repulsivo aggressions. " Our new instructions bid us leave them alone," said a constable to me ; " and very glad we are to bo relieved of the trouble of chivying them about." There is that dan- ger in applying the rebuke of Talleyrand â€" that he to whom you forbid over-2%al will sink into inaction. In every doorway of the side streets of the thoroughfare single misery has taken refuge. Misery in company is here in Trafalgar Bijuare. A curious sight, indeed, the " linest sight," as I then saw it. Ic was all dark, with acouchant mob of home- less vagabonds taking their rest on the stone. Not all in rags there, much black- ceated misery was here. Such was ho who presently tells me he waa a city clerk, aud who, to judge from his tongue and manner, may indeed have once done clerkly work. Ills pillow is a f><ii/^ TcUijraiih. This paper bedding affords a curious study. .Moat have .such furniture to their resting place, and as I walk round I take notice what papers are most in use. The Ec)io pillows most of tt^se who arc in rags. Black- coated misery takes ita bed-littings from the Conservative press. One is a starving aud homeless outcast, but one respects the iusiiiulions of one's country. Four huu- ittd sleepers, men and women promiscu- ously side by side, 1 count in the shadows of the tiuest hotels in the world. High up ou his column stands over all one who spoke once of ICiigland and her expec- tation. That lOU men and women and their children should thus be Hung on tho pavement- starving, abandoned in the very heart and centre of the luxury of the world â€" who has failed m his duty ? Far off gleams the light high up that tells us that the people of England are even now being cared for. Her Majesty's Commons are at work, and provision is being made for the commonwealth. It is a sorry bea- con, seeti from a sorry sea. Back to C'ovent Garden, where no misery ia to be seen. No sleepers here, but men standing shivering uuder archesâ€" a mother yonder munching some garbage picked from the refuse of thu street. Hunger in the centre of the plethora of London ! But TBE COHMON HKADAOBE. What Causes Them and the Only Way to Prevent Their Kecurrence. Probably one of the most common head- aches, if not the most common, ia that called nervous. The class of people who are most subject to it are certainly not your out-door workers. If ever my old friead and gardener had had a headache, it would have been one of thia description. Nor does Darby, the ploughman, nor Jarvey, the 'busman, nor Grtutfoot, the granger, suffer from nervous headache, nor any one else who leads ail outdoor life, or who takes plenty of exercise in the open air. But poor Mattie, who slaves away her days in a stuffy draper's shop, and Jeannie in her louesome attic, bending over her white seamâ€" stitch, stitch, atitoh till far into the nigtit, and thousands of others of the indoor working class, are martyrs to this form of headache. Are they alone in their misery ? No; for my Lady Bonhomme, who comes to have ber ball dress fitted on, has often a fellow-feehng with Jeannie and Mattie. ller, however, we cannot afford to pity 60 much, because Bhe has the power to change her modug rirendi whenever she chooses. What aje the symptoms of this com- plaint that makes your head ache so ? You will almost know it is coming from a dull, perhaps sleepy feeling. You have no heart and little hope, and you are restless at night. -Still more restless, though, when it comes on in full force, and then for nights, perhaps, however much you may wish to, scarcely can you sleep at all. '• How my poor head does ache I" This you will say oiteii enough ; sadly to your- self, and hopelessly to those near you, from whom you expect no sympathy and get none. And yet the pain is bail to bear, althongh it is generally confined toouly one part of the head. The worst of this form of headache lies in the fict that it is periodic. Well, as it arises from unnatural liabitsof life or pecu- liarities of constitution, this periodicity is no more than we might expect. Overwork indoors. Overstudy. Neglect of the ordinary rules that con- duce to hoaltb. Want of fresh air in bedrooms. Want of abundant skin-e.vciting exercise. Neglect of the bath. Over-indulgence in food, especially of a stimulatiii). character. Weakness or debility of body, however produced. This can only be remedied by proper nutriment. Nervousness, however induced. Theexcitemrtit inseparable from fashion- able life. Exciting passion, anger and jealousy in particular.â€" C'(i>..t»'(i Mtiijtmne. SIR THOMAS KS.noNUE. liU I'edrstrlun Tripsâ€" The ItHroiirt's lu- eoinr and Views. The eleventh baronet of the house of Esmonde (who spoke in Hamilton the othei day) is a great pedestrian, and when at home walks eiyht Irish mihs daily for hia one lives by contrast, and society loves the i '"?"• "'' »'"* ^\ O'Connor while in But- antithesis. '- A penny, sir, for a cup of i '*.'° "" . " . ""''"y '° '"'^â- '""'>"""« '° '^° coffee. It's terribly cold." How often do I hear those words as I pass a now open coffee house, tilled with prosperous market- men. " Can one get soup anywhere here'.'" "No, sir â€" coffee, cocoa and ginger beer. " Are there no soup kitchetia oi>en now '? " They don't have none, save in winter." II is true one is hungry in tho winter uuly ; the other nine months one is < nut, or should not be. In Paris one can always and at any hour buy for a penny a j good bowl of soup, nourishing and com- forting. Often at the Hallea, where chiefly I the soup tnerchants ply their trades, have 1 thus breakfasted. It is infinitely better i than coffee, tea or cocoa, and it is a matter of wonder that the minor industries of London do not numbur soup stalls. In Paris these pay very well, and aro greatly appreciated by the cuBtomers for whom i they cater. .\s the day dawns 1 am back in Trafalgar square, where the silent reveille of wind has wake<l the sleepers. Some are sitting Blaring at the world ; others are occupied over their Bad toilets ; a woman there with n needle and thread ; and a man here with a tooth brush and the water of tho fountain â€"it is my ex-city clerk. To what another day aro these arisin- ? As 1 stand on Westminster bridge tho thought of that lino comes to me which stieaks of tho lying still of all this mighty heart. Lie still, the warmly bedded and the well fed. .\s for the others ? Well, for them Still ttiere eliuiis Tim eld questimi : Will imt (iiul itn rit;lit ' â€"/'(iff Mull (i',izc((,\ with hackmen. Sir Thomas represents DubUu county, and formerly received as high as JL'.'iO.OOO in rcnls. This year they havo been so cut that ho does not expect liis income to exceed half that amount. Ila supports his two younger brothers, both o? whom are now in school, and nets along nicely with his people, taking such amounts of rent as he can yet, without turning the screws. He and Parnell are the only lieavv , land-owners of the Irish party, ami it was considi red a great victory wheii Sir Thomas I chose Ilia stand with the people. He says ; ho believes that men should stand and fall : with the [H'ople among whi>iii they live at any sacrifice. If ho had lived in the south he thinks he should have been ii rebel in 1861, and if in the north he would have token his musket in the ranks with the , boys in blue. His mother was the great I granddaiiKliter of Thomas G rattan, the ^^^ J tribune of the College Green Parliament. ;ol,l "•-' "**>» tl>«t the Irish party demands the return of the same Parliament, wrested from the people by force and bribery, and that if thero aro any improvements" to be made they can be considered afterwards. lUijI'iih (:<:urier. IliK llridKu. The Association of Grand Works of Panama has made a contract with a busi ness house of Haiphong for the supply of 1, 200 coolies, who will be put to work on the Panama Canal, They aro to receive Judge to .aooomplicea "Your Honor, you would ' not have mo divulge a professional secret I' Hiaterlinnd Too f'Inse, She- I cannot marry you. George, but 1 will always be a sister to you. He -.-Vl ways'.' Sho â€" Yes; always. Heâ€" Von are very kind, but I'm afraid it wouldn't do. The man you marry might object to il and make things disagreeable for boih of us. 1 know 1 wouldn't like to have my wife playing the role of sister to an old htian of hers. Indeed I should decid- edly object to her having any brothers of thai kind. Vou can bo a sort of second cousin lo mo or something like that, but a sister is out of the (lueslion ; it is too risky, altogether too risky.â€" /(o(ifi>;i Courier. lleivurdetl. • Why, how is thi><, Mr. Heat ? I hear you've got tho nerve in go around telling people that yon'ro doing a better business that yon ever did before ; and yet you know you haven't paid mo a cent of rent in the past six months." " Well, I think that's doing pretty well. You're tho first mon I've struck who'd let mo get into him more than three weeks. Thai's tho reason I'm making such a long stay with you,"â€" Pucfc. A Yoiithliil riiianrier. Mother (to Bobby, ivlm is slightly under tho weather)â€" Papa will be sorry to hear that his little boy iasiok, Bobby. Bobbyâ€" Do you think ho will give mo anything, maâ€" a i)enny, perhaps? Mother â€" 1 shouldn't be surprised Bobbyâ€" Thou I hojie I won't get ' til he comes home. well nn- Th« liny iind the As I was ascending the bridge steps to take a tram for New York the other after noon, I noticed just ahead of me a woman loading a little boy h\ the hand. The boy whottiqieared to be about I years old, was trjing to hold back and cr\ing bitterly. "I don't want to go on the 'bridge," he yelled, while he tugged away to get back to the street. Il was with ^reat difiiculty t*iat the woman got liim on tho train. When she eat down he climbed into her lap, and throwing his arms around her neck, moaned and cried most piteously. •• I don't want to go on the bridge," he kept reiieating all the way over. I asked the mother why the boy was afraid lo go on Uio bridge, and she replied that there was only ono way to account for it. "Tho boy." she said, " was born a few menlhs after tho great accident on tho bridge just after the opening in IS,s;{ My huBband was killed in the crush that day. I was with him but by some miracle 1 escaped. \ cry early in life my son evinced great fear of tho bridge, and always cried when crossing it. I generally use the ferry, as I hate lo make a scene, but I am in a hurry to day and bo came over this way. 1 hope ho will recover from this fear as he grows older, but 1 am beginning to think otherwise. He has no idea hew his father died, and no ono has ever spoken of •'â- " bridge accident in his hearing."â€" in lirviikli/n Kuijle. the Uamhlit MlKlit Have Done Iletter. " No, chant, " the world ; â€"Wonder if a balloon would be more effective if it were made of fly-paper ? sir," said a pompous littlo mer- I can't be triUed with. I know I've been through it." " Ves, I suppose so," said the travelling man to whom these remarks were addressed. " I'm a eelf-mado man ; entirely aelf- made. What do you think of that, sir ?" " It strikes mo that you might have done a good deal better to let out the contfiact.' • Timely Waruln)(. Persona intending to make New Year's calls will register their names at the Bureau of Police. Thia ia to secure proper attention in oaae of accident or intoxica I tioa.â€" Philadelphia Timet. ' ^ -J'.'-. I: â- *ll. â- â€¢^-4i