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THE PRIMA DOHA. *HA1'TKR X. (ConTisun.| Mi wetsfssttstt. wan nob Dan 1st Hofa-aurig >>m -." jsp4 that, all was veiled in impene- e' shadow. The message was then for I was unable to receive it, and, just of old, Ufe only leasou which my inordi- nate egotism could evolve, riding the riddle all amiss, was gathered in the conclusion, which 1 muttered with a shudder : ' Ich (iaube dlo W'ellen vcrwhluiKen Am sWilf -I. hitTVr un.l l\ tin I '.1 dan hat mil ihrem Singe n Die I -or. !.- geiithan." Breaking tfre apell with a struggle, I turned and walked rapidly hack toStTGoer, the lengeudary days of Itomulus Florence some sketch that should put in. upon the beiruig the triple thunderbolt of Jove upon palhto paint something in the morning, Isud- her Etruscan antiquities of ages before it ! denly came upon the little embroidered purse borrowed*}/ (ireweand tieinr ! Florence, will, the Arno at her feet, nauied for tin rt astrologer Aw of Ktruria | with de, holding an Asyriasl mace, SDgrav en upon id.- earliest FiesoHs.ii gem*, and tli li..n< of Hercules still the emblems of the city ; milaning her wondrous claim to foundation l.y Atlas, king of the lost Atlantis, conqueror of the antedeluvian world ! I'h.i-nix of the fading Kiesoli ' n uered by th Roman*, as a grand conquest, - three hundred ears before the N/-arne which Leonora had thrown at my fee*. 1 had never seen or tsWught of it uch was my inconsistency -eincn the day whn I | found it and laid it away there. It l.ked up t: me i eprnactsfully as I drew it from its h '' iu place. It bad been dcitcrted neglec t i lone in one corner of the studio, while 1 ..>! been just that in another corner. It was a bond of fellowship Iwlween us, and I pressed the little relic to my lips. Then going nearer to the west window, I sat down to bold it in sweet companionship of ROMANCE OF TWO BBAVES. A 8T01Y OF THB FaAJtOO-FEUSBLAN WAR. . brought the glad tidings to Calileu ; but > ; misery far beyond the Komans in all the arts of | Under the touch of this talisman peace that, though conquered in war, she was yet the victor ; for the Romans studied in her schools and sat at the feet of her wise man, aud, instead of Klruria becoming Roman, a century had scarcely passed when all of Rome that had nettled about Fiesoli hardly daring again to recall the day when all < my father aided a weary little shadow to | had become in heart and soul Ktruscau, to drag its tired and frightened self aay, and | remain Rtruscaa to this day ' yet not away from the Uorelei. i Victor still in heart and brain It wan e\ emng when I reached Boppard, bat it was easy to discover that there was no danger of being reoogm/ed, even by day- light. I met old schoolmates grown to men aad woman, aud im-ii and women growing old, but not one of them remembered me. Onfortnnately, I was nullified with thin con- dition, and utterly failed to see the very doubtful compliment in being forgotten and lost to old associations, even though they were simply the stupidly nbre old Boppard good people of I smiled contentedly to myself as I walked about the streets, all ilisna! ar and grey ; only by a sort of instinct avoiding trie narrow public or held upon the rd flag by Santa way which led past Mina'i home. I smiled Reparata has been bathed, from ss I talked with one and another of the good people, and wonderwl what they had ever th. * ik-iii, or if they had ever thought at all of the sudden disappearance of that ragged little Italian bey, who, even to himself, had aeenii'd so incongruous upon those liormaii pavements, only there by sufferance; only allowed lo be, at all, because he was under >werful protection of the angel of Hop ei rd, i psvi I. whom every one lovsd. In a moment of startled apprehension I wondered what Mina must have thought. In a vague way it had always t have thoug ways seemed to ne that somehow Mina most know. But now, when 1 found so many, everywhere, who did not know and, more than that, who evidently did not oare, I shivered a little, with chagrin, and asked myself if it were aoamhle, too, that Mina did not know, that Miua did tint. What folly! Of course my M lua cared ! I left the street, for it was growing too suggestive, and, entering the corridor of ths principal hotel of poor little Boppard, * paused fc I for a moment in a curious sentiment of awe that came creeping over me ; a rem- nant of the ragged little I'arlo who used to haunt (hat door when the grim porter was out .>f night, to revel in glimpses of ths gor- geous corridor beyond. How dingy and gloomy and mean that corridor was, after all . like life, so rich and bright when we compare it with something poorer and darker ; so dark when set against that which is brighter. ITpon the guest list I wrote, in a large and authoritative hand, "Anthony Win- tfarop." Then I laughed in the face of the snUwrvient proprietor, who about me in ble inn endurable, and I wuiidered if hs would remember, if I called his attention to the countless blows he had bestowed about the ran of that same being, only a few years before, when hs bad chanced to find him loitering near ths entrance of his grand hotel. proprietor, who was danciug i frantic efforts to make his hum- Only of Mina I was afraid to speak, and dnl not once pronoun.-, her name till I whispered it in ths solitude of my owu room. I even began to dread th <:ming of the morning, feeling sure that there would be some rock, at the hood in the river, that would wreck my hopes, the moment I came too near Ix'iicjith my singinp I ...i .-l.-i Ths mi|ir.-ii..n was as rnal as life, though its source v ... only that phantasmagoric spec- trum. and when the morning . m, I was hardly eyen nurprMud to find a stranger standing in M ma's door. I asked the stranger, yen, aud I asked all Koppard, then, for Mina ; but could ouly learn that, many years U-lore. no one seem ed to know how many Mint's mother hail received a large sum of uionuy from some source, to be devoted to her daughter's edu- cation, and that the two had gone away. Home said to one great city, some >anl to Florence ! with her long list of citizens whose names, for ages, have been enrolled throughout all Christen- dom ; leaders in art, science, literature, philosophy and religion ; the pride of Angelo and i.iovani, the tomb of (ialileo and the monument of Dante, the joy of Brandinili, tho treasure -house of Titian and Canova ! Florence ! named for the profusion of flowers in the beautiful valley, yet bearing such a history of jealousy and civil contention that, in the luidsl of that vast and natural conservatory, two thousand years of strife have been recorded and the lily of Florence, blazoned on the shield of the Re- >y Santa Keparata has been bathed, from January to I >ecember. in the blood of Florentines ! Florence ! The horror of horrors, the glory of glories : citadel of sin, temple of life s holiest ambitions : arena of bigotry, cradle of reformation ; blood-stained battle ground of Guelph and Ukibeline, cursed site of many a martyrdom and sacred soil where the devout canons of Santa Reparate and the proud monks of Valomhrosa held their high carnivals. Florence, forever under the watchful eye of the guardian angel San miuiato. Florence ! Beautiful, horrible Florence ! Why did I go back to her? only to live for six months an utterly use- less aud inanimate life ; only to study with my tutors, learning nothing ; only to paint in my studio, accomplishing nothing. In- deed, I should not have painted at all except that my pictures brought me money, and I had no more intention of touching my father's bank account, during his aiwence, than if he had been beside me. 4 ' Night" still stood upon the easel well, upon one side of the studo. I stubbornly refused to sell it, though I had uo compan- ion for it and little hope of producing any. In my most melancholy hours I would sit sullenly betore it, making myself more miserable, recalling my u'.ter destitution of power aad ability to produce anything when deprived of my father my guide ; of Mina my inspiration. Long before I had pre- pared the canvas for the companion pie>, but that was all. I had no design, no thought even, ss to what the " Morning" should be, for nothing more would come to me till Mina and my father came. Thus 1 grew dally more disconsolate and miser- able. At rare intervals there came a bright oasis into my desert ; a letter from try father ; written as only one with hit brilliant qualities could write; vivid word pictures of foreign lauds. Through his eyes, almost as though they were my own, I saw where, those three lost weeks of strange, unrealized de- light rushed hack upon me, itensified, no doubt, by the enchantment which distance lends the view. Leonora ' I had thought her only a model. That beautiful, wonder- ful woman, with such remarkable powers and Dualities, had yielded me nothing but the graceful outline upon the canvas. Blind I must have been to let so much more than she might be pass me unheeded. " Had I been so lonely as I am now," I said to myself, " I should better have ap- preciated her worth. " What servant of Nomesis sent that thought into my lonely heart, in the decep- tive hour of twilight, making it beat against the frail banner of an empty life, with its suggestion, .-aught from the re- surrected purse. It came in its subtle de lusion like the whisper of the palm groves in the sleep of the exile from Ceylon, pillowed on his iron pick in the great diamond fields of South America ; like the silver moonlight breaking through the clouds and garnishing with shadow's life's ungainly outlines ; like a ravishing perfume insidiously filling all the air ; like a touch of color transforming an oppressive scene was the first random thought, suggested by the wonder of that lonely moment, if Leonora might not come back again. She could illumine that night as ths stars of the heavens. She could bewitch its melancholy as the subtle moon- light bewitches the ungainly thing, it shines upon. The night might still be present, but it would not be intensified by solitude and loneliness. The solitary watcher by the west window went out into the twilight thst was fast passing through the Roman tiatwt and turn- ing up tlio hill. Leonora had told me so plain!) where she lived that though I had never been there, I felt sure that I could fin. I the house. It was in the most aristo- cratic auberio of Florence, but many a home still clung to the hillside among ths villas of the wealthy. Unconsciously holding the little purse still in my hand, with no foreboding or un certainty this time, 1 hurried on through the deepening shadows, searching them on either sida for something that should meet the picture of Leonora's home as I had drawn it in my mind. The evening was perfectly calm, and as I Approached a picturesque villa, ciiw iinon the highway I listened to the lo*. sweet voice of some one, sitting the natural^ riWvels ^of America alone npo^i thu Ijalcony, singing that quaint- THE KETUBM OF THE BODS. Tke Robin the Pint to Briag Us Spring Oher. T r4rr m Which fce Wr .1. r> COSSC Hark In I - The season has returned when (he migra- lory birds will soon be with us again. Who can tell the first bird that revuiU Ontario ftr tlie stomy winter is fairly frrnrh Holdler Hmr III- twee r..i IHtbnn..r n.l Bolb nrr kill . ,1 i. ibr Morrllrw IT,...l.nv At the time of the declaration of the Franco c.errnan war Alphonxe Delortne was living quietly with hu ouly ion, A:i<lr, upon their little farm, situated between M. Genevieve and Kleiiry. The youth was but nineteen yean of ag, and, his mother hav- , _ ing died in hi* infancy, the whols of the I an-e early in February, when the ground is poor old man's affection was centered in tli ! it ill m.intled in snow and ice, and when, it boy. When the dread war cloud burst over I would teem, he could rind nothing to eat. broken ? The first bird to return U the robin. Th robin a known as wanderer on toe face of the earth. He usually makes ku appear France young Oelorme, who was a youth of ardent, adventurous spirit, determined to defend his country against the Prussian!. The old man had naturally many misgivings, but was too patriotic a Frenchman to in- terfere with Uie wishes of his son, who forthwith enlisted as a private in a foot regiment early in the month of August. These were stirring times, and the oorpi young Andre joined was ordered to the front, and the lad went away to the frontier after bidding an affectionate adieu to father. his Andre had a .weeth- t , a beautiful young girl of 17 who lived soms three miles from the house of his father, and he was allowed The robin visits every part of the Dominion. He makes his mud-spattered nest on an ap- ple bough in the orchard. The eggs are usually of a blue green color, and from four to six in nnmber. The second bird to return is the bluebird. Familiar to all must be this cheery bird, one of spring's earliest visitors, and one of the most welcome ones withal. All of us who recall have ever been in the country oan finding the bluebird's nest, usually in some hollow stump or other artificial retreat. A dainty nest it is, too, 1'ned with honehat* and the depositor, perhaps, half a dozen pala blue eggs. Then comes back again, next in order, the meadow lark. This bird is clumsy in form, though of rich yet subdued plumage. Its by special permission of his colonel to go and general aspect is" brown, with streaks of ash bid her farewell e'l l ' : ' * " ' "~" " " " "' " e'er his regiment marched for the theatre of war. The parting between the young lovers was a most affecting one, and Andre's fiance with her OWD hands placed a rose as a tribute of her love inside bis kepi as hs gave her a final embrace be- fore he starteaoff on a starry midnight to rejoin his regiment, which was under orders to march at daybreak. It would be making the tale too long to follow the fortunes of young Andre during the war, but suffice it to say that he behaved with conspicuous bravery in several engage- ments. Victory, however, rested with the arms of the German troops, and young Andre mortally wounded in a ierce engage- ment near ('noisy while saving the life of a wounded officer of his regiment who had He knew that his condition was hopel the regimental surgeon told him so and he determined to make his way to the house of his fiance, and to bid her farewell before he died. The undertaking was a dangerous fading into night It was a beautiful starry bee n nu^ed by half a dozen lie. mans, night ; casting a halo about the random - prompting of ths moment which he was following and making him wonder that he had never thought of it before, but so long been torturfug himself in seclusion without one friend in his retreat to whisper : " Soli- tude is sweet. " No wonder that his life had been gloomy, without a responsive voice but that of a servant, a tutor, a groveling critic, an erratic purchaser. W hat joy to find some one to turn to whose words would not be garnished with subserviency. Already it seemed but a moment -I was in universal independence, unrt strained through all ages, by the curse of man'n dominance, Nasnre fashioned every- thing according to the wayward freaks of some wanton fancy which man can never fully understand, in the assertion of her giand and exclusive prerogative to be in- variably beautiful ; forming thero the wonder peroration in the creator's address to Mi. creatures. Then he led me ouward across the hroud Pacific, forever telling me where hr had been, but never so much a* intimating where he was going. He did not give a single opportunity to write to him, and had he I am sure that my letter would have conveyed but a burden of loneliness and misery, and equally sure that it would have been sent to him by a liearor anil that beantr would have been myself. lieyond that one incentive 1 was not con- dous of a single prompting to anything, throughout the sii months, and the shadow another, lint they all agreed that somehow, of the western hills came creeping toward MIIIS had already become a niy studio, in all the languor of a spring twi gr.-at and celebrated lady ; aud that she was now the pride and the Idol, just as she had on < l.'.-n (he little angel, of iioppard, and that .some day she would .urely come baok t.. ->ec tii. 'oi. when the slumberous old town mild uwnke, with a great jubilee, to wel- . ..!.,. her. Oh, what .1 .lufereiKiu in the image which w two luul left behind us there. I'.-.r, distorted little (Jailo bail not even commit ted a crime in lioppai . I by which hs could be remembered. He was too much absorli light, only to tni'l me as evsi alone, making the most of my misery. What to me were ih friends 1 held among the high-blood youths of Florence, whose only vocation wan to awake the wanton echoes of the old days of the Ml) of the hills ? What to me WHS the ulub, the cafe, ths drive, tin- Imll T They were all repulsive whun I no longer found my father's footsteps leading there Often had 1 aucom (mule J him, and often met him by accident where brilliant circles of eager devotees knell to the gods of revelry ; for he ed just now, however, over the lossof Mina, , never sought either to shin, or restrain me. to .levote even a random thought to a self He hail endeavored to have me soe him an abnegating philosophy. Ha felt that Miua owedto him what it had never occurred to him thai he owed to her in return, and that in hiding lieraelf away from him she was cruelly diverting him. It was anger alone, however, that diluil>c.l him, for hs knew that It would not lie. former ; of course she would .ome book l> him; bill what right had she to go asy at all, when ahe knew that to linppnrd he would come to seek her ? He was wounded much an he li.t.l been the day when shu told him th.it lie. couhl do bettor Angrily he looked upon the gray walls of Itoppard What w;i.s that dull town to him, if Mina uru not there? What was life and all the world to him, if he cool. I not turn lo Mina the moment when he stood m need of her ? It wa juM is it had lam when the .:linid lud first c,,ine be- tween tin in. He felt thai he was left in darkness. Night! Suddenly I rvalue.! that tlio night, for me, was not finiihed, after all , and, gripp- ing lor the only straw that gave me hope, I repeated my father's words, trying lo make tb. n. more a prophecy than an mji.n, i. .,, " Out of the night, then T" < HAITKRXI Al.l I ASK H . I returned to Florence ; beautiful Flor enoe ! with her pleasures and palaces which stirred even the ste^n heart of H,ini.- lo un. lying lo.-' ; I) ing in the green \allcy between Kiesoli and Saiiiiimiat.. r'h.n-i. . ' The soul ami throbbing heart of Italy to- day ; the Kl l>oranV> of civili/aUou before anything but what he was. A h sacrifice at the altar of "example" would have been impossible to him. With him I penetrated the famed |>alace of Florentine C" isure and dissipation, and with him I to some extent enjoyed them; but I very soon discovered that without him they had lost their only charm The fascination of escape from restriction was utterly in com prehensible to me, for freedom thus deprived me of any pleasure in lieing free. My father had read my temperament with the same keen accuracy with which he read everything, and in ten years his skillful hand had succeeded in plaiting me beyond the reach < those temptations which so often wreck the youth too suddenly turning from authority to became his own criterion aud mentor. Beyond this, it did not lie in his p.. wei to carry on the work. With subtle hand he hadiwepl and garnished the . hambei . hut it was I and I alone who could fill the room with noble ambitions worthy of such an apartment In the absorbing bigotry of one idea I utterly failed, anil t MI. I that day, if one might make a pi. .Idem of a character, wilh no temptation to be vicious and m. .cntive to tic \ iitnnns, which could piodii' . I. MI one result, anil that mm entit) The !' UK whose path ha<l been so easy lo life's . itv pinnacles, sat sullenly in his studio, always utterly miserable, always ' llu dismal coninletitnde of life, lili.-rty "Nothing! nothing! , ly pathetic song which hail recently brought lo Italy from the West Indies Hay In m. -limn purple dprlns;, 111. >.. in- all around me MKhing. Krafrrance from Hie hli. * *trn, in< /uphvi-H wtth my ring-lott playing*. Vclml vtaken in) dlmrosw; I in. tired of lonelinem." (TO UK ' M1NI'Kll.) Iwen How She Doctered Him. While six gentlemen were walling at s depot in a mall town in Arkansas, in America, a coloured woman came up over its crown. The meadow lark flies low over the fields, its wings rustling muchof the startled fashion of the quail started from cover. Its nest is a tude affair, loosely con structed of small twigs, dead wood, etc. The song sparrow follows the meadow lark. This cherry songster is with us the year around. It comes first in the early springtime. Who dose not know the song rrrow ? A modest bird, of simple, una- ned plumage, this bird is the life of our hedges and groves, whistling a soft, sub- dued note, sweet and tender in its melody. The blackbirds next return to their old haunts. There are many species of this family of birds, such as the crow black bird, the red-winged blackbird, etc. The black- bird is much in demand at the hands of the amateur hunte. or spoilsman, who finds this bird easy game. Then hack again, whistling plaintively and shrilly in its haunts in soms thick bramble or copse, is the catbird. This songster is indeed a familiar one of our bird life. The catbird is of a somber, slate gray in color, clean limbed, spry, graceful, and of aris- tocratic bearing. There is much dignity in the carriage of this bird, although it must be confessed that its walk is not the poetry of motioD. But for this shortcoming its soug more than counterbalances. Kinging forth sharp and clear, a peculiarquality of defiance is heard in its quivering note. The catbird remains with us nearly the entire year. The tohee bunting is one of upttiig's ear liest visitors. This bird U glossy black in color, with a dash of rich chestnut at its sides. One day the .wallows return again, and soon after the warblers. The first of the wocxl warblers is the San Domingo yellow- throat, of which there are no less than twenty varieties. The Maryland yellow-throat is next in line. This bird takes its name from the color of its breast and from the fact live, for the blood was again beginning to that ov<!r lU he d U we * bUck hood or How from the wound where the foeruan's bullet had pierced his breast. He could not one, for the country was overrun with < ler- who had entered Montlery and estab- lished a camp near the residence of his sweetheart, between Saint -Genevieve and Fleury. However, young Delorme knew the country well, and by the exercise of great caution managed to elude his fowa. He painfully dragged himself through the woods and by paths known only to the na- tives of that part of France, and thus was able to reach the home of his beloved un perceived. The young girl, Jeanne Benuer, lived m a pretty white farm house surround- ed by vineyards, wilh a spacious yard in front. A MKI .VS. II..I.V TKt'.KIiY On the eve of a hot autumn day lh dy- ing soldier arrived al the gate with his uni- form blood -stained, torn and covered with dust and his wan features rigid with pain. Poor Andre knew he had not many hours to open the door, so he broke the glass in one | maak. These birds are among our most uprightly singer*. By the middle of May the woods are alive with returned wanderers in bird land. The of the windows, and raising it quietly, . . entered the house and made hia wav to the i B lt "o l oriole returns to nip the opaning room where he knew he would find his fin , cnerr '- This bird is the prince of murra- ince. On opening the door, what was his i J r y ontrs In plumage it is of dazzling ______________ _...._ _______ _, "''. '_ ng like a flame, with the arms opening th^ .. vv . , n ._* .. *-. - horror to find Jeanne struggling terrified in , <**>. '< "f**" Kl w ">g I'ke a Hs of a Prussian officer, whose object ' ll * ck and Wln 8 ' lo "*y W * ck or " llve it was not difficult to determine. Andre, maddened with rage, braced himself up and tired his loaded revolver at the cowardly as- sailant of the young girl, who rolled over I dead on the Hor with a bullet through his heart. The young lovers had barelv t ime are ''""tent to pass their days near her leep to embrace each other when a body of* IVus- , aWii woods and her wild haunts, beyond ", I sian soldiers, who had heard the 'reiK.rt of tlle babitations of men. ""I I.I-U _ 1 . - .1 I color. City people can know nothing of the de- light of watching the birds come back in the springtime. That pleasure is reserved for those who, simple in heart like nature, Amen, a, a coloured woman came up anil " V V asked ,f anyone was a ,locU,r. One of them ! *!""*"** ?? ."' V ' 'lid w FMSJ si inn i* it . i rur; ' >i i 1 11 m was. and she rolled her check apron ,n her ' ter ? 1 the n m W ' ien . tl 'l> "* ""' Freflch "niform and their dead officer lying on wouldn't - ' Aonr - the T wlth l "" UI v ' olc "* fussy way, and asked if In list step ober tu de cabin an' see what ailed li.-i ole man." He found that he had time and said he would go, and two or three of the others went with him AH they drew near the cabin the woman halted and said, " l'/.e bin all do doctah he's had, and I /. willin' t allow dat I might er made some mistakes. When he was first tooken I gin him turnip seed tea Was dat right, doctah?" " 1 guess so. " "Later on 1 chang ed to a poultice of wild onions. Was dat right?" "It might have been." " Den I soaked his feet in hot water wid wood ashes in it, and put a mustard poultice on de hack of his neck " Yes." " Den he allowed he felt wuss, an' so I changed de mustard to his stomach, an' soaked his head. He dun complained all de mawning,' an' now I'M got mustard on his feet, a poultice on the middle, horse radish on his neck, an' he's takin' sassafras tea to warm up de inside." "Well!" "Wall, if dere's been any mistake doau't let on to de olu man. Ju.t skip it ober." The doctor went and examined the patient aud found he had a broken rib, and told him what t do for it. As he left the cabin the woman fol l.med him out and exclaimed, " Ko the I ji.l, doctah, but what a blessin' dat you dun come along ! I was dun doctorin' de ole man fur softenin' of de brain, an' if I ths HK\i..il:l> Tiir. m IM: I.>I.I>IKK soldiers pushed her aside and a file of rifle- men were drawn up, who leveled their guns at the figure of the dyingsoldier, whose lifa ,ry to ge for olu adjacent flowers. to try to harden 'em up by nuxin' sana wid his porridge '." Bank ot England fJoffan. The Hank of Kugland i. the custodian of a large number of bones deposited by cus- tomers for safety during Iho p,ii -MO years, lhe gnml purer., and in not a few instances forgotten. Many , the 'onstnict ion o of these consignment* aic not only of rare '" th wor '' 1 lh Points for Girls. Your mother is your best friend, Have nothing to do with girls who snub their parents. from the arms of the almost fainting girl, . ., . and taking him outside, placed him roughly Jell the th">g X' ><>* against the wall for instant execution. It when " me *"- was in vain that Jeanne pleaded with Do not expect your brother to be as Andre's captors to let him die in peace ; t lie dainty as a girl. K \erriae, and never try to look as if you were in delicate health. Introduce every new acquaintance lo blood was welling fortTi over his travel- , molhw ^ ^^ .tamed uniform and dripping on the (round. I With a supreme effort the youth straighten lton < thmk ll " r > <<> * ed his back against the wall aud, defiantly facing his foes, exclaimed, " I die for my country and my fiance." While the men were making ready to fire Jeanne crept closer and closer, and when .he saw the lips of the man m charge of the firing parly about to give the fatal order she rushed in with out stretched arms as if to shield her lover, act! when the smoke cleared away there were two corpses on the ground, each pierced with several bullets. The lovers were buried tide by side in two graves in the little cemetery of Saint lien evieve de. Hoi. with a tomb-tone at the your iather to spoil you, by fairly return ing his devotion and affection. Never think you can afford to be dowdy at home. Cleanliness, hair well-dressed and a smile will make a calico look like lilksiuid latins to s father or brother. Do not miarrel with your brother ; do not preach at him, and do not coddle him. Make him your friend, and do not expect married. There in plenty of room for old maids, and they are often happier than wives. Knjoy the pleasures provided for you by your parents to the fullest extent. They will like that as a reward butter than any other. Take care of ; our teeth at any cost of time or trouble, and do without new dresses rather than neglect a needed visit to the dentists. Mont fathers are inclined lo over-iudnlgo their daughters. Make it impossiable lor hwid of eacl a sentence had len " killed h. The young girl's grave bore in French intimating that she by the enemy," and on hadn't cotehed you to-day I was don gwme ' he anniversary of the death .,f her lover the youths and maidens of the villages cover their graves with A 24 Story Building. i-onsignmenU are not only intrinsic and historical value, but of romantic interest. For instance, At I 'hi, ago capital has heen subscribed, the ground purchased and plans drawn for n of the tallest office building The site of the structure is great years ago the .servant* of the bonk discover ed in Its vaults a chest, which on Wing moved literally fell to pieces. i On examining the contents, a quantity of massive plate of the period of Charles II. was discovered, along wjih a bundle of love lettets indited during the period of the res- toration The directors of the bank caused building will be 24 storey, high, surpassing the tower of the Auditorium by six storeys and the Masonic Temple will be the chief matvi ial by five Steel search to lie made in their books, the repre- sentativ was dis< ten handed over. A Strange Reminder. Karly in January Uerniany was curiously reminded of the fact that just twenty ye T...-,, ... .~ I..* ... ...... .~.., tut- ._, | - - elapsed since the great war with France mtative of the original depositor of the box y the number of young men eligible for as discovered, and the plate aud love let <nit*ry service in the coming spring being great There are three things that beat a drum exceedingly small, owing "to the diminution in the number of l.irtha in 1871. love and nothing l\ -...me 'Itdiisivs accident, in the linger. .__ _. ng glow of that spring twilight, while rum for noise - one is a small boy and the other districUof Franconia will not oontnliuU- waging in the dark corners of the studio for two are drumsticks. I single recruit in April. It is now learned that most of the innuiituiu him to be youi servant, uor you to lw his. let him expect At a meet ing of the Aberdeen Steam Navi 5 at ion Company, an application for inter - i.-i was lodged at tho instance of several of the shareholders against the directors of the Company, to find and declare that the balance -sheet and profit and loss accounts were incorrect, and to interdict the chair- man of the meeting attesting it as a correct balance sheet. The interdict has arisen m connection with a pleasure trip which the directors and their friends took to Nor- w iv in one of the Company's steamers last summer and the expense of which the shareholders protest against being paid out of the company's funds. The meeting was adjourned for a few hours, and on assembl- ing, the objectors consented to withdraw the interdict on the understanding that any money expended in connection with the trip was made good by ths directors.