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Tltt DESTRUCTIVE MANIA AT THE BOTTOM OF CRIMES AND STRANGE PASTIMES. *ll la . H*Vrl*|M>d lB HuBlieM v ta-.l ,-* . Ir *Jaa*a-re I*. 111 i>-l <! Port irlbtir *<! ill.m r VlrterleM* rmlr Tkr * <>u .Ir r Ha: h rrlr, n[ tltf t Ir. , HaxISBa*. "The North African moor monkeys, or monassos," My* a modem traveler, " are frequently *e*a chained to the poet of an Andalusian tavern, a chain and a pet of that tort oeing ae necessary concomitant* in civilized region* ae a King and a consti- tution. A rupture of the concatenation create* an alarm ae if the chained beaut of the Apocalypee had broken loo**, and if an nnctiained monaeeo gets a five minutee' chance at a kitchen or a parlor be can b* relied upon to commit all the havoc a crea- ture of hi* strength could poeeibly execute in five time* 60 Hoonde; an initmct border ing on inipiraliOD seem* to tall him at the first glance where and how to perpetrate the greatest amount of actual damage in the ahortett possible time. la a harbor hotel of Cartagena I law a specimen who** fandango talent* had mad* him a more than local celebrity. He could walu on hi* hind leg* for minutee together, and wa* eme- tine* released at the reqneitof hi* admirer*, who pitieil hi* cooitant collision* with the lock of hie drag-chain; but on each occasion* the landlady me 1 to charge a real extra, for even her presence did not prevent the mono from indulging hi* ruling passion. Uniier pretext of returning the oar**ses of his visitors, he managed to abejiract their button*, upeet a ilower pot or tw, or in- terrupt hie performance* to make a grab at a litter of poodle pnppiee on the veranda. Hi* ai-ar-covere i ikuil proved that the lot of ta* tranagre**or u hard, but tn* depil- ated condition of hi* neck wae owing to a peculiar trick of hi* a* the poaadera ex plain- ed it. He would hug a poet near hi* couch under the veranda, and, stretching hi* head back and hi* torgue out, would twi*t hi* n*ck to and fro a* if in the AGO* 1X3 or KT&ANOCLAT1O*. During the temporary abeenoe of their mother he one* (uooeeded in deceiving the children by the** symptom* of dutre** > They loosened hi* chain strap an inch or two, but happily took the precaution to snu' the house door and the cellar gat*. Hut they had forgotten the poultry house, and when the lady returned in the even- ing her 16 hen* had been converted into |/latonic homnncnli ' biped* without feather* and without the power of volita- tion. ' On another occasion he came near selling the house on tire by drenching the) eat with the content* of a large coal oil lamp." Some speoiee of Ian dogs have become so gentle that they refuae to kill *v*n mice, though they still retain the carnivorous appetite* of their fox-like forefathers. Moo key*, on the other hand, though gen- erally aver** to flesh fuod of any kind, often kill their smaller fellow captives fcr sheer love of deviltry, and an Bnglish missionary who passed several year- in Northern Ceylon vouches for the fact that a troeti of monkey* caiued the death of a child by teasing and bitiag it until it lost it* wit* altogether and ran into the thuk of the wood*, where it* tormentor* had it completely at their mercy. A strikingly analogous story came* a few week* ago from Cap* Town, where the son oi King Lobeuguta had been intrusted to the oar* oft Dutch clergyman. The out- cry rai*0d about the untoward fate of the boy,'* father, had caused hi* guardians to treat him with a great deal oi indulgence. so much so, indeed, that the youngster came to consider hinweif a privileged per- eooage, and one day, in the abeeuoe of the pedagogue, commenced in amuae himself with shooting arrows at th* hat of hi* younger playmate, and finally tried to im- prov* the fun by aiming a tew inch** lower. The first shot grazed the onil.i'e (boulder, but the aecond scored a nit, and the young marksman fairly danced with delight *heu he law hi* arrow (tick in the HICK or THE 1.IMMJ TABOR. " Why, you crazy kid, what are yon bawling about ?" he laughed, when hie vic- tim ran or) shrieking. " Don't you knew that w< ail have to die some day or other:'' And just to "a*e them drop" Charles IX. of France joined in the fueillade of in* Huguenot subjects on the evening of August -, ' 1372, though personally the crowned iniuihuuter wai uot half as mucn f a fanatic as hie pious mother. To " see them drop," a hundred at *a:h volley, Abba* Cuba got hi* trooper* to ohaas th* rebel* of Chios and drive them en maw. toward a hill, where he had planted a kal- terv of canister gun*, and th* predecessor of Li Hung Chang arranged a similar circle hunt in a stronghold of TH* TAKTIXU ISSCRasNTS. Kl Cld, th* Joshua of Spain. depopulate *d whole district* *f the Moorish border, conducting the campaigns on the principle ot letting no man escape, and taking it for granted that .every unbeliever wa* guilty of the unpardoo<ble sin. In private life be appears to have been quite an easy- going fellow, and probably did not rind it necessary to us* theological argument* in order to stimulate the manslaughter in- stinct of his Midlers. Mow teatiily that instinct will r*-4**ert it*elf, even in oiviliz- d nation*. t>as Ixwn abundantly proved by the military history of th* last Jim years, from the eoeoe* at Malplsquct to f>e slaughter of .South California Indian* by th* first Anglo-American settler*. Every unprejudiced traveler agree* that the Russian mujik is not at heart a savage creature, but apt to hide a good deal oi good-nature and maudlin sentimentality un.ler his shaggy coat. His attachment to hi* oree-t ft perhap* more sincere that that of I >y other rustic- Devotee of modern Europe, yet after the c tplure of Ismael an army of thee sanctified, bear* reged with all the pibile** ferocity of their Scythian an e.trr* till th* mil* adnlu of a city of 48,000 inhabitant* had actually p*n*h*d, besides S,7<>0 women and lO.IXH) children December 23. 17V). (ieneral SuwarolTs first account ol hi* eonqueat quietly ignor- ed these horiois, but ou the fact leaking out he pleaded his inability to restrain th.- troops that had forced their wv through the breach ahead of 'h* stall officer*, and ail. U.I. that, after th* massacre had once been initiated he might just a* well have triad to moderate the destructive fury of a pack of hound* _ TCARJNd A CHlPl'LfD WOLF. Th* conqueror ot Port Arthur might probably plead a similar excuse, since even Napoleon, alter the battle of Fnedland, found it difficult to prevent hi* soldiers from finishing their day'* work by a gener- al massacre of the retreating Rn**ian*. who** sovereign th* victor (till hoped to conciliate. Jean Jacqurn Rousseau in hi* comment* upon the childish loveot gratuitous mischief, remark* that "destruction i* so much earier than construction, and children, like animals, naturally prefer the least difficult mode of exerting ineir prow***, a method which, besides, leads to quicker and mor* striking re*ult* " "I cannot do what THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR. BRITAIN'S IMPREGNABLE FORTRESS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. Japhet do**," argues our black brother, "but I can do mor* : I can undo it" "th* whit* man f uroishss the brain* and the red man knock* them out," as that Seminole Chieftain ex pruned it. That passion for havoc ha* left it* marks all along the shores of the Mediterranean and from Troy to the valley of the Indus. Pompey the Great alone demoluhed 300 cities, Alaric the Goth about 100 and King A tula, if we may believe hi* biographers, at least 3.0CO. Khal*d. th* "Sword of Allah," bca*t*d of having left no anraioeH church in the track of his victorious nxped- tions, and the Vandal* were unfortunately not the only savage* who took a special de- light in destroying works of art. Nearly all th* statue* in the museums of Southern Europe were recurrecled from rnbbish heaps. Clemen* Alexandrinu* mentions, without comment, the Mai of converted Magistrate* who made it a point of honor casionai to clean their citie* from every i.i I l*Bn<alea *r li. t ham. Kriii.h roree mm taw stork ll a Mil* UHM >o.l it It* Michr.i rolsjl a Llnle vver a. Ik..u.ad rear Mire* Feel Mi There i* notnetiiing pathetic in a spec- tacle of a great city held permanently by a foreigner, a* Gibraltar i* by the British and Algiers by the French, write* a corres- pondent. I wonder how the Spanish t'eel when they *ee the red crow of St. George flying over the ramparts of the rock. And ts there spirit enough left in the lazy Algermes, do yon suppose, to resent the Frenchifying of their ancient itrongholci ? Probably it is better for the world that the key of th* Mediterranean should be in the hand* of the English than those of the Spaaiih. And there u no doubt that Al- VIST* it or rAOAH ART, and encouraged mobs of xpnrgaton who went from house to bouse, smashing idols, burning picture* and whitewashing freeooes, The monk* of th* early centuries of the L*;io Church celsbraud autos-da-fe of pajan book* wbioh could now b* sold for their weight* in tan-dollar banknotes, and geria i* a thousand- fold better oii under French rule than it ever was under the domination of th* sea robber*, who not only preyed on the commerce of th* word, but upon each other. The Rock lie* very near north aad south, it* east face overlooking the Mediterranean, and th* so-called ntutral ground which lie* between it aad th* Spanish mainland . The Rock i* about a mile long, and i* a little over 1,400 feet high at it* lofueet eminence a knife-like ridge, where the edge look* a* if it had been crumbled away by the ac- tion of tne element*. Of course, everybody has heard all about the rocky galleries that have been burrowed in th* rock, with oc- OFININU*. roa CANNON. aad thoa* cannon can be trained upon any* thing on sea or '.ami, at every point of the compaa** in th* va*t circle commanded by this mightiest I or t res* in the world. One can creep out of an embrasure owe and there, and gaze fearfully down upon th* wrinkled aad mining sea, and tbe ragged city below, which looks like a bnddl* of , the preservation of a lew cla**i* is due less children* toy housee; and far otf to the to the tolerance of subsequent generations northward on* soee the solitarv Spanish than to th* growing scarcity ol writing P on wh.ch the Queen Chair loom* Ilk* paper. Rather than go to the trouble of manufacturing parchment of their own. th* convent scribe* holystoned the manuscript* of heathen author, and witn a view to further supplies of that sort kept a stock of un*cr*ped literature, which tbe subee- about the loo** (tones, which may drop on un*u*p*cting passsnger* b*iow. "An Ham- rioaa lady wa* just mi***d. Sir," *ai.i our Tommy Atkina, "by one of them I laratt-d stone*, aad it weighed at least fourteen pound, Sir." The population of Gibraltar is quit* a* unique in it* way a* the rocky fortification*. There one get* hi* tint glimpse of th Ori- ental mt.ii Moors, Arab*. Turks, Barbori, .Viihians, Jew*, Spanish, Maltese, and Kng- li*h, each clad in hi* own proper garb, crowd the narrow thoroughfares and make Dicturesque panorama nf life. Th* swartny Moon stalk fiercely through the orowd. They are th* haughty and unconquemd one*. Up on tbe ragged height is a tall, stellated tower, mellow wi-.n th* lint* of time, built by the Moor* in th* day* of their occupation. CLKVBN CBMTfUI Even in its degradation a* a common jail it has an inil**orib*ul* grao* and dignity. It i* the Moor a. ill, and the uueasy population that fret* a-ound it* immovable baa* may well look up and admire th* art and (kill that have conquerel lima. North of the Rock is the Neutral Ground a bit of level, marshy land. *omething like an isthmus, a hall mil* square, which con- nect* the vast fortress and it* town with the mainland. On the British end of the Neutral Ground i* a moat, crossed by a olid roadway. Rut that broad and peaceful- looking road i* undermined, and in oas* of war, an explosion umiergound would blow up the thoroughfare, and make th* moat a LONDON TRAMWAYS. Tke Bvvrv Wnr..p.,ll, "i <liy i" Its Me learl/ an* ' The progressive* appear to think that b*o*n** Hudiiersli'-iil, Glasgow, aad Leede ( w know of no other ossss in Great Britain) work their owu trams, Wierefor* London should do tbe same ; but th* mag- nitude of London make* it* exception ai. M ireover, *o long |a* companies >*>d responsible individual* are forthcoming, willing to lease th* line*, that course i* certain in the end to b* th* most prutitVile to the ratepayer. The Edinburgh Corpora- tion, for example, ha* lately acquired it* tramway* and leaaed them to a company at a rant equivalent to 7 per cent, on th* arbitration price paid for the undertaking, thus securing a clear profit at 4 per cent. There are about 136 milei of tramway in London, while th* actual capital expended in construction, plant, and hones, h* be**, according to the return* made u> tne Board of Trad*, 3,818,038 . Notwithstanding these seemingly laiga figure*, London i* benind nearly every great city in it* mean* ot locomotion. It ha* b**>n calculated that in Paris, for example, there is a mil*) of tramway for every 16.000 parson*, wnile in London there i* only on* for every 31,000, and the time i* at hand when not only must complete line. Red coated sentinels pace tne linee be doubled in extent, but electric th* border at on* side of tn* Neutral > motor power must b* substituted for nor Ground. Scarcely a iton*'s throw away, to power. Th* suburbs of London Bust also, th* northward, i* a line of stone and adobe like thoae of Paris, be connected with the entry-box** with <iomed tops, stretching | metropolis by a proper tram system, if out of signt to th* wnb These mark th* daily beat of the Spanish sentinels. Thir uniforms ar* 'lark green, and the officers wear a queer black hat, with a wide rim in front and a dap folded ov*r th* top from behind. Thee* two line* of soldiers have been watching each other for nearly two hundred year*. When you have aio*ud the Neutral Ground and have breu driven into the shabby old Spaniah town at it* upper snd, yon realize that you are in a land that i* 2'HJ yean behind the age. This ix Spain. Her* i* a hoar and unrepaired antiquity, a land of beggar*, loungers, bull ring*, s*mi-barbaric urudeiira* of color.and a shabbmes* beyond description. Tnis is what on* would *ee ID Gibraltar it' the flag over it were that of Spain. BURNS 1 HIGHLAND MARY- A Malae i* a> Brerleel la Her the riria mf l>lr a crag against th* skv. On that lonely tower, it i* aaid. the Queen of Spain will it and so. th* British Hag com. down from tb. Rock. W.ll, she will wait a good whil* ior that sight. There u no Queen of Spain __ ___ _ now, and nobody knaws what will happen quent dawn' Jfr'at'iooaYism savW from da*- afterth. boy King icall hav* b**n gathered t ruction. Gibbon* deni** the cremation of to hi* father*. th* Alexandrine Library in the baths of the r here is no denying tbe fact tnat the Moslem fanatics, but the outrage is by no *tr*ag*r'i vi*w of Gibraltar is impressive. mean* inlrin.i.-ally improbable. Llk* their I Every where gun*; everywhere fort*, cur- tnnitanan rivals, tne Mohammedan bigot* tains, bastion, and orillon*. everywhere of tb* seventh century were proud of their rod-coat* and "th* meteor dag of England." choaea. a* it i* not far distant from th. ignorance and glorified in a chaao* to Shops, house* and hotels ar* built in and f, m hous* of Aucnanvire, where Mary knock out th* brain product* of infidel among ; th* mo*t , irem.ndou* fortification*, y^^n WM bom, & w ,n afford . OOB1 - To crown all other crowns of honor aad praise* which hi* countrymen have never tired of outing at the f*et of Robert Burn*. thei* i* to b* a ctatu* of Highland Mary erected on the firth of Clyde, on th* rock* a front of th* ruins of th* ancient strong- hold known a* Dunoon Castle. The place i* tbe most appropriate that could b* of infidel scholars, and between cowled and tarbaa- n*d zealot* th* secular hbrar:** of th* Roma* Kmpire had only a (lander chance of escape, about tto per coot, of their one* so-called immortal contents being now lost forever. But, after all, (till mor* baneful vandal- ' i*m was th* destruction of sacred graves aad ol orchard plantations that support*! th* ritMi of Moorish Spain. In th* cam- paign of King Kerdiuand (th* conqueror of Granada) alone thousand* of squar* miles were thu* devastated and have remained in a stat* of deeolatioa ever tmoe. The south- among the most tremendous fortification*. Un* get* th* idea that this is a vast forti- fied camp law which th* aria of peace 1 mandmg position for the *tatu*. so that it were admitted for a time ou sufferance. Should war com* or danger approach all ths* would b* *wept out a* nulss* rubbish, aad t he vast work* would b* TaJP' > ir> FOR (ATTL . Thsre i* a frowning tea-wall around th* th* baa* oi th* Rock. lusids of thi* ar* water- battaria*. Beautiful gardens, rich in bloom, adorn th* residential street*. Over th* foliage and the color black muzzle* of wai-do^* lick tneir feverish lips lu th* cannot fail to be seen from the river. Th artist vao I* to execute th* wufk i* th* . ern half of th* oooe garden like'penmsula , embrawiree. Yon cannot enter the town i* now covered with deserts almost a* hop*- 1**. a* tho** of Northern Africa, and th* neat drought* threaten to DEFY Till PltATXR CTRa. It i* ea*r to fell a iree than to replaut it, and easier to burn a book than to refute it* argument* ; but th* favorite pastime of destruction maniacs remain* the demolition of a living organism, with it* miraclee of structural contrivance*. B*a*t tights, battue, and perforce hunt* t*nd to crowd tar is impregnable. out svery other form of amuae.neut where , ha* gone out among th. nations *v*r sine* th* predilection of the ma*M* get a chance the Briti.h nag wa* lioiu* i here in to assart th*m**lvos. Pliny'* account of ' Beginning of the eighteenth century. the arana-sport* during the golden age of ! body will ev.r queetion the v. Imperial Rome far exceed the marvel* of word. without a milnaiy i>a*s; and if you do not get out >1 tne gate* before evening-gun nre, the hour of which is daily annouoced.youar* a prisoner for the nighu Nevertheless, the whole show impressed me as something theatrical. There is a wonderful eiiuhit.un here of England's military greatness. Five thousand men are in garrison, and supplie* of ration* and drinking water to last aa army through years of i*ge ar* stored up in th* inner races*** of th* Rock. Gibral- That is the word .hat th* H*> of that I'radition suffice* for tn* rest. Th* antiquated . imuvriai rwino ivi rAw^\* mw .... . . w. the Arabian Nighte and fabled Whalhalla. ! guns and the ammunition are antiquated . where our forefathers hoped to get their ttll There i* not a piece of artillery or the of killing and carousing. The circus manag plaoe that i* leas than twenl, yean old. er* of Caligula treated the public to a masucre of 44)0 bear*. thoM of Nsro to a hnish tight of .101) vig*r* with bull* and elephants, and at the dedication of the Coloeseum S.OUO wild aaimaU were slain in one day. The capture of those brutee must have kept aa army of hunter* busy, for all kere and there a few showpieces One- hundred-ion guns do duty a* sample* of engine* of war ; but m the galleries are no breech -loader*, no machine* gun* nothing but or uB.toi.rri PATTKUN'. through th* second anJ third century th* ""' England i* fully up to the times in all matur* relating to offensive and defensive The word the finest modern war ships ha* its reude/. I vons here. That is enough, and may it b* I. 1 ^?*' 1 Ir m "" "* at c " n ^'"- , long loog dav l*fore nations sha'l again ,s,.,, ,,a ^7-a:z^^i ! -> ^*^;[ 1 -~ K. 5 often for 100 successive day*, as after Tra jan returned from the Daciao campaign. turtb.r congestion of population 1*1 central districts i* to b* avoided. I* th* London County Council of tn* future not only to work the exutiug l.'itf mile* of tram- way, but construct and wora the new .tne* referred to ? The ('lestion must be settled now, or those who have been concerned in thi* large enterprise, and who, if encouraged, will undertake the work, will be driven irom th. field ; and the Council, whether the ratepayers like it or not, may b* forced into domfc the work it*elf. The question U complicated by tbe fact that Parliament would never authorize the London County Council to construct tramways outside th* county without the consent of the suburban authorities, and if each of those authorities is to hav. t h. like power of working, muot confusion will ensue. Meanwhil* it is a aad reflection that tramway construction is at a itaodstill.and unless th. policy of the i 'ouucil is reversed, or Parliament intervene* and nwnta* in* Tramway act on linos whichwill encourage further enterprise in this direction, London may have to wait year* for tna mnoh- needed ex teuaion of t hi* means ol locomo- tion. times could mob in a one-horse bull-ring, h* would, in- .. b* tempted to indorse Leigh Hunt's in t that " pagan Rom* ate the cream I off this world and left u* the wretched clabber." but in stress of nircumstance* th* arena-instinct will makeshift to gratify it**f even with pettier expedient*, and the J just now i* th* baiting of wharf rat* in a i 15-by-'20-f**t wire cage. One or the Other Blimmsr Just Me that covered carriage down there meandering along over tbe treel. >ttih sculptor, Mr. D. W. Stev*n*on, K. ^ A., Kdinburgh, whose, design we re- produce. TIM details of the co-tume hav. been cliiaay taken from the work* ot Divui Allan, -in irtist contemporary with High- land MH.. and well known f r hi* illu.tra- tionsoi - .rush life. The itatu* is intended to be unveiled on the centenary of the dathday, July 21. rVW. There) be who do not consider Bums' verse* To v.nes. and along some of the terrace* there Mary in Hoavea among his best and even ar* little groups of wild oli/e, pnpp*r tree*, . pi RO * them far below hi* boat among tho and a berry-bearing bush, which the French |.a*t happy and memorable production* of resident* strip >f fruit for the manufacture hi* pen. But the story of Us luv* for of absinth*. Bautilul, too, are he dark- Highland Mary doe* not uow rest, on hi* green and polished leave* of the acanthus, verae* ta immortalize it a* on* ol the most whose convolution*, it i* said, gave th* pathetic episode* of hi* ill-regulated and if th* eitenor of th* j y the herbage that cov- ers much of it* surface. Although 'he wall of rock rises sheer and perpendicular in many places, there are ledges where I grow a variety of Mmi-tropical plant* and FIGHTING THE HILL TRIBES. t rirtarv ! lav jr i... m ir, lav India* til Trliwa. To b* a few minute* ura late is to incur total failure in ttie .xpedition, sine* th* wary foe*, in full dight to their own strong- ho.d, can well ouutrip their pursuers. Ar* they in time, an ambuah is formed, and a* the wild men, bloody and oiultant, dragging along tn.tr captive*, approach, they are received with the tire of rifles, followed by a rapid rush ; the kooari or curved kuife i* at work, but non* of the savage* will stand to fight. Most get away into th* dense jungle, some fall dead, and tn* captive*, mostly women and cnildren, an left trem- bling snd crouching on the riel.i. Th* sun is uow shooung bis gilded rays upon th* trees that crown the mountain summit : th. whit, mist is rising out of tb. vadevs, and the huilmis, nerd.es* of th* scene ol oarage, prune tneir feather* and chirp thkir openistg notes upon the mo**y boughs. After a re*' and a wa*h in th* nearest stream, tn* officrr and his men, with the ipoils of war, start olf to the sit* ot the pruvious night'* toul work. A long climb up i he neighbor i*% mountain, some- time* by th* tad ot some impt tuoue torrent, pamiully slipping over it* waterworn rooki and graapmc for support at the gnarled root* of hanging creepers that almost con- cealed it* Bourse, or forcing their way through bamboo thicket, the party come* upon the smoldering umbers of the bamboo hut* and stockade of the village which ha* been plundered. Pool* of blood here anil thtre redden th. ground, still fd by th* trickling vein* of hee I lee* corpses. Slaughtered bane* ev*n I'* among the s am, aad those few of tne living who managed tnsecrete themsolvee n tn* forest during tho assault ar* crouched among the burning ruin* with ;!-ir head* buried in their u ui.n or send- ing up a wail to the unknown ijod . There u nothing for th* police oiti r to do hul to release the captive* and eul st th* aul oi a Iriendiy tribe for rel*.i ling the village. The dead must b* foigotu-n. Vengeance must stand over until Goverunient can send a military expedition inu theae lull tract* to wttle year*' outrage*. tn. account of several idea of the Cormthiau capital Gieek artiiU Whii* we were to the old waudoring tragic lite. It i* the man, rather 'Sao th* you think. <>f st th. mention Queer Things In Surnames. A young oldn.-r in the Kreuch army.wno lately volunteered in th. eervice, rejoice. in the distinction of having what would ap- pear to be one of t h. oldest names on record. The unlucky lad is named Adolph Maxi- milian K.K.G., the** tlireo letter* of th* alp label being all he can boast of M a jur- dimmer Hum ! Th* driver must b* \ through on* of th* opening galleries of tne, nataenf Mary Campbell, and of the love, she name. The recruiting sergeant severely of t ne | tM p r ini n de<l the young volunteer for dis- either a drunken man or a sober woman, Do What a Bab/ Cat understand why you I hav* separated Friend- -I don't and your hus'ia-id so soon. Mrs. Aft*rm*th It was all owing to th* baby s temper. Mercy on us ! H >w could that be ? W* couldn't agree as M which on* of u* th* baby took after. Colonel" Are > ou one ol > he 'advanc- ed' Women. Mis. I' se'" tale* P. (hanghti- T) " Indeed 1 am not. I wa* only i a. I bir'h.Uv " rock, tho red-coated To.nmy Alkinn kindled in the mo*t*pas*ioaat., mo*t noblii who wa* our guid stopped and gazed ; heart that ever kilted a poet. curiously np the precipitous height.* In- i - quired ot concerning his solitude, he said : I wa* looming to se if thersj wa* any h'apes tn "luht. Sir." T.'iere wore NO AI'B8 IN VIKW, however, but there ar* hundred* ol them living among th. inaccessible era** and pernap* his water-pips* but**. fissur** of th* rock. They ar* usually a* larg* a* a boy of tan or tweiv* yean, and ; At tbe hairdresser'*. A barber, after Greek Met Greek W if--H.r* is au item in the paper ahout drug<|1| WBO fallet i in biuines* and can't ^y his bills. Hu.band -Hum ' Very strangs ! But re*pectfiil joking wh.u ha *ptnl*d out his abbreviated piironymio, und was only con- vinced that the appelUt un wa* hona fide when th* lad showed niiii-r>i pajiers. I' seems, however, that there are queerer names til au K. f.C-. For instance, a win* merchant living in tho suburb* ot Pans is called Monsieur 0. ''he nain.-.l.y the way, is met with in Normandy, where a family was one. known who bore the paine of d'O, with the title of marquis. A member of th* family. r'ranci*d,'O, wa. superintendent wvighaom.sov.nty pound* when full grown, applying a sticking plrsttr to a gash mad . jot tin.mcu under Henry 1 1 1. of b'ruc-. One- Their live* are insured ; H i* "bad form" to wii.i the razor, prepared, nothing 'launted, letter patronymics, however. rv not so hoot an ap*. an.l th* soldiers place f..i>.l to j*>nunue the operation. Cu-tomer " I uncommon aa might be supposed. There th. ,-raa'ures can find it. But thev only fight up to rir-t blood. The duel is at i ,re id to be five persons in Pars who** where the creature* can find it. are sometimes dangerou*. for But th>y only fight up to rii-t bloud. The duel they rail aa end ; let u* thake liauda." at i are naid to be five persons in Par's name* ar. of ihii ab)>r**iat*d tyott.