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 ,cci(iLLY FOR LADIES. t£r«' w„. paraxraphs F«a-" tbe Fair togmu Female iliw»^ â-  • w'flo heUl that the human race •â- â-  '^•'i"'^nto tliree speciesâ€" men, women '"" .^^'bt says tke Whitehall Be- priests, w'n ' "haver -o- eifctl to derive from hia the '""^lirpNolanation of the mutua P'"'S reciprocal affinity which has la nun of the mutual lity whicl f sul^arster^betv^eea the last two Female devotees have m all aees merous class; at the present are everywhere to be encountered. "" ' bv which women are rendered '" euiceptibla to the infloence of of religion, and which make 1 die* ic particular so ardent in the ti cuiatea, are periiaps too manifold Jex to ba satisfactorily discussed '""Livow linnt.a io which we are con- t,jt it may yet be possible, and not ae-uiiproStable, to glance at one or joM whish would aecm to be specially ^t Of the existence of the pheno- 't^'s-e c^iaba no sort of doubt. The *.,vr embroiJerin^ slippers for "inter- â- 'youD;i carates has allbrded a congen- ,jne tolnaumerable^ satirists, and the H UU ItlO^ ia„ while tolerably harmless in itself, oa tho whole, be productive of more Nation thau embarrassment to the for- recipieuts. Women, it will be ad- ,J are usually far more religious than ' The clergy are religious by profes- iiany young ladies probably li iiiit the "SXt be.jt thiug to being the i "to li'-ii ia itbCjmpany. There is an • oi'*au-i'ty about the curate which may irhipJ, iiupi" ^^^^ aroma to his wife. (,"blv the bebt chance of leading a virtu- ' i to Sicuro as a husband one whose IrW li guaraciteeJ by his cloth. The ex- uhich such hopes exert an influence i.h CApoc-aLion-s are in the result ful- Lj.ue are) o[ course, unable to sunuisa ' ;i: 15 certainly the case tlia: i; tircclergy, ' Other classes, have their matrimonial i-ukies, tiicy generally succsed in con- tl.u;u better than the rest of the IJ^aua aiiuoit iihvays manage to avoid I oncu sjaatUls a3 to them would be ;iv luiiious. At the same time, if IjiJtlfc's sug:,";jtioQ that the priestly class louiil cOLaist of superannuated generals, or- ici, anJ otr.tesmeii, when no longer able ;cliai'g' their- other duties with effioi- v.ereevcr carr.ed into effect, it is [;u:;li1 whether the profession would con- to h^' eiiually popular with the fair TLcoiogy ra the one science for which tci'.ea, who shudder at the bare mention of lipruJciicc, rueJicine. or political econo- ,i;;;i.;i;.e tlat tliey have a talent and a ^^lyr^^^a^i-irs'iss; ^g^^timii Tiro ^lilaaess Beauty. lAv.ritcr in the London Spectator ^a.ys 1 it help bcLug inflammable, especially ueighbor'uocd of Milan, which is sure- [leiponsible for the prettiest women in Icworld. With their wavy fingers, nut- lonneyfcs, lUiii-ble- veined complexions, and Lla-k uieoses, they would move an an- |:on;jbi.jlogi^t (whatever he means in Eng- ,j k-t i.ioue a poet. So it was that I fell liave, iu and fjr ten minutes, under Mrs. ilbci' cyco, lit an open-air breakfast on the Kila Beilj. -and that my passion was retum- \Ve u'jver spoke, but we loved. She iobviouily engaged to the gentleman who |ai with her, but til t did not matter. She i!u pleased with my frank, but I trust, Jiptctful adoration from the next tablp, that l-jLnaijgeJ ha' seat, and put herself, with •riei beyond the reach of art, in the light aleulated for me to study her. Wnen y. iett, she made a Parthian turn, and gave ejibtouebow and smile, in which the tsur.iptuous of men could have de- Ictu' aj'.hiu:;- wr'-ag-- which were a privil- I iU3hL;J to tlic strangers' book, and liti rnjr u:.i!ie was Antonietta C of tlia. Suiiiaiues are, as Charles Surface ly-, ton foraial to be registered in love's le .tijL Besides, the gentlemaa looked r' aiiu iiii^ht see this. And Italians fight ffij, and 1 do not. But the surname was 'til more beautiful than the Christian. And Autumetta C it ever you should Jin this, remember a poet who forthatone ijj^e would ;o to the world's end ior you f iiid iijt s J many other things to do, and Mrs. Buljusdid uot say: "Tom, you fesiirply foolish " Tiie KiiediTS'a Wife. jri;ew,;eoi the khedive is a remarkable lomaa, loth by descent and for her person- "',3»litits. Her mother was the daughter uTarkiah sultan her father, the son of 'bg}pliaii khedivo and a descendant of MMameJ Ali. tho founder of the present paaity. TdVTtik Fi»3ha, who married her pjwrja:^o, whan she was only 20, has r« given her aify rival ia his affection or ^tij household. They have four children, f^ j"^^ ^^' two daughters, who are edu- Fwby ilngliah governesses in Eng ishway "'princess looka more like a European than iilea ot an Egyptian lady. She has fO»tt hair, a dazzling white complexion, a pt brown eyes and a queenly carriage. rarsssesmtho btest Parisian fashion, raoes not, like most Oriental ladies, waatly smoke and eat confections. She « French fluently, and uses that lam;- ^^^wnen slie receives foreigners. Such IfJ-ors she greets with a slight inclination â- '„ "sad uud gives them her hand to kiss. jWu eeuutry women kneel before her cvl f -^ ^^^^ of her garment till she r« them a sisa to rise. She has estab- -a a mii^jj stricter etiquette than pre- le^b ^] l^^ °°"" °^ ^^"^^i^ Pasha. Her cdjf^ 'â- ^' greatest confidence in her lathe "' " '""'^^ nothing important with er approval. Her powers must have r«^severtly taxed during the lat »" any rate she never lost her courage. stiaxixg all t,liP r.c..i^. r.t 4.\. " i^areti severely taxed during the late events, Bsr "'^^' "^^^^ ^^' never lost her courage. bdr.t^!^°.^^^ the perils of the khedive belter offered hor on board lips has endeared her to the f,,m'\^ .t^e shelter offered hor on board .,,- -S'lsh snips has eri'lp.irprl hpr t r-P'-.ans. A Rival of jiirs. Langtry. Uifcd """°^°' t^e «ife of London's ... 'them "'""""'^- 'i a "blue-stockiDi Drl^P^^^°'^^ 0^1 the regular] ^â- if tiT'f • *^*^«^^- Lady Moncton ^nood looking, though she wiU r" "t'aiae as a "professional beauty: well ing" jhortly boards is never bat alj5on»M^;„/1^/ *«»««»« '•profMBoo- rSSff^ and "stage loTei^ iSl be Sir J?ay» repreaenta his own heroes ffir Ci«l«f.««ot»^od actoTbnt^'lodS nppn huaaelf as Henry Irvine tJu K«f h ,8trod the boards since Sir WJliam Don's ^n^Jus »ppeaance as an actor will poM^ a certain amount of interest, irwiin^ befoUowed by a trip to IL^Zt Patti'e BreiMa. Patti, in the ball-raem soeae in "Traviata Â¥220,(X)0 WOTth of diamoada. They were around her neck, in her hair, on her wrists m her ears, up and dowa k?r brsMt. ali over the front of her dressâ€" ia fact from every part of her they glisteaed and gleaaed so that It hurt your eyes to look at her, and made more than one person wish for a piece °^.3â„¢oked glass through which to watch the third act of the performance. At Tiffany's there is $1,000,000 worth of diamonds dis- K^li^ °^^ '^^" ^^^^' bitPatti. with her *^jU, 000 worth, makes infinitely abetter dis- play. She has them so grouped and soattere-i that theyahow for even more than they worth. 1 heard more than one lady say last night that they envied Patti her diamonds more than they did her voice. Her dresses were elegant, but somehow or another they did not seem to hang grace- fiilly and fit as well as Langtry 's or Nilssons. Upon inquiry I found that her clothes were made in Vienna instead of Paris, and that probably accounts for them not being up tj the mark by people who consider \\ orth per- fection. eosacA. Thy Face. Such a starved bank of moss Till that May mom, Blue ran the flash across Violets were born Skyâ€" what a scowl of cloud Till, near and far, Ray on ray split the shroud Splendid, a star!. Worldâ€" how it walled about Life with disgrace Till God's own smile came out That was thy face â€" Robert Erowiiina- Queen Uarsberito. Queen Margherita of Italy ia devotedly fond of literature and the fine arts. Sig. Bonghi, formerly minister of public instruc- tion, an erudite Greek scholar, and the translator of Plato, is an ?iabitue of the Quirinal as are also Sig. Minghetti, who has been over and over again president of the coimcil Sig. Massari, a deputy and journ- alist the Senator Prati, a poet and, above all, Baron de Keudiall, the German ambassador, who is himself a musical com- poser, and who has made Queen Margherita an admirer of Mendelssohn and Wagner. Among the ladies who frequent by iuvitatln the Palace is the Pi incest Triggano, an Am- erican heiress mariied to the Prince of ttiat name, whose parents, of the blufl Yankee type, create no little amusement among the other ladies of honor. The princess has deservsdly attiined a high reputation for bsauty and talent at the Italim court. Tbe Trade In Troyle Weeds. The traflELc of this country in tropic timber is annually becoming more important and valuable. Fleets of freight steamers and of fast-sailing schooners and brigs from Boston New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore pry into every Bay, River and creek along the coasts of intertropical America, and exchange cargoes of western produce and b:eadatufi!tj for tropic woods of all descriptions. The dye wood trade was o-b-e-- of the most valuable branches of the vast American commsrce monopolized by Spain during the colonial regime. Annual fleets visited the porta at Campeche. TaSasco, Yucatan, Belize, Hon- duras, Costa Rica, the Isthmus of Panama, and the northern shores of Columbia and Venezuela, and, after discharging their freights of European goods, loaded with tropic products, principally dye and furniture woods. From Spain these articles were re-shipped to difl"erent European coun- Thus for more than twohundred.yearstho forests of the gulf coast cf Mexico and the Caaribbean coasts of Central and South Am- erica, together with those of Jamaica, of Cuba and of Hayti have yielded to Europe tho r rich tributes of tropic timber. But at .ength the supply, in many places, bsa bo- gun to diminiflh, but n t the quaatity of wood spontaneously produced. The rivsrs, creeks, and bays that indent the coast, or empty their waters into the gulf or Caribbean have at length be"ome almost denuded of trees. The wood-cuttera find their trade less profi tab e, for as -the remaining forests are far from the coast, transportation of 1 igs to the place of shipment has become an im- portant item of exp«n8e. For that reason the governments of the several Spanish. Am- erican republics washed by the gulf and Caribbean sea are bending their efforts to- ward bringing about rail communication be- tween their seaports and their interior cities, plantations, forests and mines. British Honduras, Gauatemala, Spanish Honduras, Costa Rica,Nicaragua, Columbia, and Vene- zuela have begun or have projected the con- struction of lailroads which will penetrate the vast forests and bring to the coast, at a minimum rate of freight, cedar, fapodilla, mahogany, zapote, fustic, logwood, and all of the various kinds of dye and furniture woods in use, besides many other classes not yetjintroduced.â€" iVew Orkans Times-Demo- crat. In the Greek Chamber of Deputies on Monday a proposal was offered to ^oceed with the discussion of the budget. The Op- position protested on the ground of infor- ^tyahS retired inabody. The Minister- ialists then adopted the la-oposaL M- l"" conpis said if t*he Opposition If "«*^ " retiJina, the Govenunttit would »^ *J« Chamfer to vote the budget without ftirtacr debate. Deretoplas a B«y^ iisher bad charm o! Hast*«a. M^bu although there is^Td^^^t ^» -tdignrtM* ant ,i*l.c f«ctiais, m»y uoMs of iirofewms, tndfesTand 2^1"^^°^* to natn^ltJrt^^trn. »«.ts and ntensOshfve been t^^n from ^i: T^^°' "" thetrsnrfer have un- dergone but httle alteration. Indeed, in the spoken knguage the people combine na- tive words with Chinese to opress even the commooeet things. The Corean has aot adopted many words from the Japanese, al- thoagh It has a few sttikias fTi^~~.,t i"al aftaitiee with that language. The Oorwui alphabetâ€" and, ceasidwiag their geogra- phical uid political relatione it is raSwr extraordinapr that they should have an al- piuae* at aU, aad that they have not initi- *^u^ ^^*"'**^^^^tten character â€" theOoreaaaliOiabet has thirteem vowels and fourteen consoaaats and, with a lin- guistic hospitality unknown to the social lue Of the country.has five other characters, which are used for the transcription of foreign words. The substantives are for the most part composed of only one or two syl- lables, and the whole language is an illus- tration of the principle of employing a mi- ls mum of inflectione. It is difficult to amveat the religion of the Corea, and among the educated classes nearly tho only system having any manuest vitality is the worship of their ancestitrs. Their deities thus being eminently mora] deities, the ceremonies of religion group themselves very much around funerafc, se- pulchres, and mourning. Still the mass of the people are reputed to be adherents of Budhism, which, according to the Corean tradition, was introduced into the peninsu- la in the fourth century of our era. For a considerable period it had the honor of being the official creed, but gave place in the fourteenth century to tne doctrine of Confucius, which continues to the present moment as the established religion. In its main features the Confucianism of Corea is identical with the Chinese system, but its secularism is relieved by its assimili- tion of various popular superstitions. The belief in evil spu-its, for instance, is wide- spread, and the serpent, as in some other regions of the east, is an object of super- stitious respect. Instead of killing it, the Corean feeds it; regularly as his domestic animals. Ol first importance for the hap- piness of a family ia the preservation of the ancestral fire, and every housewife has all the responsibility and anxiety of a vestal virgin. Corea is the paradise of astrologers and fortune-tellers, who swarm throughout the country. The blind have the reputa- tion of being seers and prophets, endowed with a special aptitude, and it not unnatu- rally follows that a 1 rga proportion of the persons thus afflicted make a market of the superior mental vision with which they are accredited. In the capital these blind seers are formed into a corporation, legally re- cognized, and their services are in great re- quest for the discovery of secrets, the fore- telling of the future, and tho exorcising of devils. In pe forming this latter function they rely mainly on the noise they make to frighten the spirits, whom they ultimately catch in a bottle and carry of in triumph. The bottle would thus appear to be the re- ceptacle for evil spirits all the world over. â€" London Society, Paralmony in tlie Army. Mark Twain's illustration of meanness must be familiar to a large projwrtion of English readers. One of the quari y men belonging to a mining conipany was, he tells us, blown up to a terrific height by an explosion of gunpowder, but, returning to earth comparatively uninjured, had his wages stopped for the time he was in the air. Preposterous and outre as this reads, we vent' ire to think that it has been paral- leled within the last two months by the ac- tion of the Indian military authorities at a station that shall be nameless, but which we may so far indicate as to say that it is in the province of Oude. It will be best told in a verbatim extract from a private letter from an officer stationed there, which we have been permitted to see. " A curious and rather laughable (in the sequel) thing happened," he says, " during the cholera here; a gunner was at his lazt gasp, he had no perceptible pulse, and was as black all over as one's shoes so that the head doc- tor gave orders for his coffin to be made in order that he might be buried at once, and wrote to the commanding officer of the bat- tery, and told him that the man had abr^ut an hour to live, and that he had better make arrangements for the funeral. Well, the C. 0. and bis sub were playing racquets, and after they had finished they both dress- ed in uniform, and went off to the man's funeral. But he got well after all, and I'm hanged if they didn't stick him in for the price of his coffin 1" We do not, by the way, find the prospect of being su)jected to such utterly detestable parsimony as this held out among toe " advantages " of joining the Army detailed in the placards now so conspicuously displayed at every post-office in the kingdom. The unfortu- nate guimer, whose absolutely true story Wd have narrated, is unlikely to prove in future a v«ry zealous missionary in the re- cruiting interest. That a man for whom a successful General has some object in pro- viding should get £500 for brngina home despatches announcing a victory, while the miserable pittance of a jMrivate soldier is stopped to pay for a coffin which he (hap- pily) never fi led, would seem to mdicat^that Army Reform is but very superficial eve j now, after all that has been said and done. At all events, the gross case o which we have given the particulars, should it come under the n tice of Lord Hartington, may possibly induce him to institute so ne en- quiry into the spirit in which the Queen's Regulations are interpreted and administer- ed iu our Indian Empire. â€" Echo. her achohn was a'boy about 14 yeaia wkQJQptaid very Uttis about study, and si eid^fid'^Btereat apparently in anything con' nected witk the aeliocd. Dsy aftee d9f kf failed i^ Mi lessons, and detentiaa»ar aqhool ^Htoos and notes to hia indo^ miliar ti^ no effect i^day the teacher iuMlaant him to hia aeat, after a Tain effort to get from him a oorrect ansvar to qno» tioas in grammar, and, feisUng somowhat nettled, she wfctched his Kmdnct. ^viag taken hia seat, he poshed tiie book im patiaatiy aside, and, espying a fly, caught it with a daztarana aweep of tiie hand and then betook himaalf taacloaa inapectien sf the inaect. For fifteen minatea v more the boy waa thi^oceiipied. heedleas of snrroundinga, and the czpre-. aion of his face told the teacher that it waa mere than id:e eui^ oaity that pos aa ai s d hia mind. A thought atruck h .r, which ahe pat into luractice at the firat OKiwtnaity that day. "BtfM," aaid ahe, "what can you teU me aboot fliaa?" and calling amne of the brighteat by name, ahe aaked them if they CMud tell lier some- thing of a fly's constitution and habits. They had very little to say about the insect. They often caught one, but only for sport, and did not think it worth while to study so common an insect. Finally she asked the dunce, who had silently, but with kind- ling eyes, Ustened to what his schoolmates hesitatingly said. He burst out with a des- cription of the head, eyes, wings and feet of the little creature, so full and enthusiastic that the teacher was astonishei and the whole school struck with wonder. He told how it walked and how it ate, and many things which were entirely new to his teacher. So when he had finished she said "Thank you! You have given us a real lecture on natural history, and you have learned it all yourself. " After the school closed that afternoon she had a long talk with the boy, and found that he was fond of going into the woods and collecting insects and watching birds, but that his mother thought he was wasting his time. The teacher, however, wisely en- couraged him in this pursuit, and asked him to bring beetles and butteiiflies and cater- pillars to school, and tell what he knew •about them. The boy was delighted by this unexpected turn in afiairs, and iu a few days the listless dunce was the marked boy of that school. Books on natural history were procured for him and a world of won- der opened to his appreciative eyes. He read and studied and examined; he soon understood the necessity of knowing some- thing of mathematics, geography and gram- mar for the carrying on of his fav- orite study, and he made rapid progress in his classes. In short, twenty years later he was eminent as a naturalist, and owed his success, as he never hesitated to a cknow- edge, to that discerning teacher, t •uurAsvocr. The Bostm' Journal of Chemistry says that ia France manufacturers are using an imiUtion of gold made of 100 parts of cop- per, 14 of zinc, 6 of magnesia, 3.6 each ot sal ammoniac, limestone, and oream of tar tar. TfaeaDoy is represented as being fine- grained, takings high polish, and not easily oxidised. BUBBXiXS. be- Fritz named his dogNon Sequitur, cause he does not follow. A raember of the school board said " Well, children, you spell well and you reads well, but you hain't sot still." McStaggert (on his way home, having jumped over the shadows of the lamp-posts, etc., brought up by that of the kirk steeple); "E-h " (Pauses.) "Ne' mmd 'Sh no help fritl (Palls up his pants.) Shall we have to wade xhish " At one of the customary school eximi- nations an urchin was asked, " What is the chief use of bread " to which he replied, with an archness that implied What a simpleton you must be to ask such a question "To spread butter upon." "Oh yes," said the engineer, " I had a chance to become a hero by sticking to my post when the collision came, but when I reflected that my name would be spelled five hundred different ways in the newspapers I changed my mind and jumped." When a man is excited he is very apt to talk without thinking. An Austin land- lord called on his tenant the tenth time for his rent. "I haven't got any money," was the response. " Well, if you haven't got m mey enough to pay your rent yoa ought to build yourself a house." "Gen'lemen. I dont b'iieve in crossin' or changin' de breed of our hogs. De old- fashioned hog is plenty good. I owes the saddest time of my life to a fine hog. Ef he hadn't been a fine hog I wouldnenter paid no' tention to him. Well, I was 'rested on ac- coimt ob dat fine hog and.sent to the peniten- tiary fur a year. Don't bring no fine breed o' hogs into dis neighborhood." Bubb Doddington was very lethargic. Falling asleep one day after dinner with Sir Richard Temple and Lord Cobham, the latter reproached Doddingtonn with his drowsiness. Doddingto;i denied having been asleep, and toprove he had not offered to repeat all L^ird Cobham had been saying. Cobham challenged him to do so. Dodding- ton repeated a story, and Lord Cobham owned he had been telling it. "Well," said Doddington, "and yet I did not hear a word of it but I went to sleep because I knew that about this time of day you would tell that story." Siphtberia ia BnAsla. The Times correspondent of St Petersburg says: â€" Very great concern is manifested in St. Petersburg at the enormous increase of mortality arising from epedemic diseases, chiefly diphtheria. The police and the va- rious medical t d sanitary bodies have con- cocted a general plan of energetic action for dealing «ith the oatbre^ and disinfecting houses. The Empress came to town this morning for the purpose of opening a new female academy, established as a trial of a new system of practical education for wo- men â€" a duty hitherto entirely neglected in Russia. Tlpplera Attention! In each of nearly three dozen samples of "bitters " sold as medicines for disease, the State Assayer of Rhode Island discovered that they contained from seven to forty- three per cent, of ^cohol â€" more than most beer, almost as much as wfaiiey and heavy wines. Many peaple who consdentionsly abstain £rom drinking wine or beer, are con- sumers (rf "bittera." th^ ia a famooa hosae," said a dbOieiKiii^ iii Ea^ialuaan, ant to'Wa-oId toihble^wn building. of ll'CWDt the dukes ci Beaufort, and the eailasl Pembroke, and the earla of Gar- nacyon, a»4 (which waa intoided for a ck- ms) th6 Jonetoa of Fantglaa." Hie Saxon, a rode diarl, aaked who lived in the houaeat that moment. "I," proudly answered his informant. "Thai, my dear sir," was the reply, "Istroagly advise you .to coma out of it, too, or it will fall about your ears." But yet the Briton's instinct was probably the finer, for, after all, we do still recognize the cliima of birtii, and in heraldic honors the house of Herbert, which is also connect- ed with the noUe houses of Somerset and Jones, yields to none. Henry Howwd Moiyneux Herbert, fourth earl of Carnarvon, springs from a common ancestor with Lord Pembroke, the head of the Herberts (aa far m rank and precedence ffo), for the duke of Beaufort can claim ne more than the honor of beinc a Herbert oa the distaff side, and, as the homely Frraich proverb puts it, la truie n'anobUt pas le coch- on. Lcnrd Carnarvon's second Christian nama indicates that he has Howard bleed in his veins. Descendants by his second wife will have still more. His first wife was a Stan- hope, a sister to the charmins; young lady to whom Macaulay addressed a valentine, now historic, and who married I/ird Beauchamp. She, too,* died before hatf time. So niuch for birth. As for breeding. Lord Carnarvon is an Etonian and a house- man. What i» more, the hono^ Ust of Michaelmas term, 1852, in Literis Humanioribus contin- ed, among other names that of "Carnarvon, Honorahilissimus Comes de," and it was placed in the first class. The most notable of Lord Carnarvon's fellow "firsts" was Henry Chanier, of Pembroke. Arthur Wellesley Peel took a "second" at the sam3 time. We hase, then, a veritable noble, of an- cient lineage, and a scholar to boot. Why has he been comparatively a failure "Too clever by half " would be the verdict of the Tory squire â€" a species by no mcaus extinct, as some persons fondly imagine. "Not quite clever enough," might be the opinion of a philosophic Liberal. For cne thing. Lord Carnarvon has not quite had his fairchancc. It may be pleasant to become one's own father at 18, especially when such emancipa- tion meana the lordship of mora than fifty Equare miles of English soil and the enjoy- ment of a rental of nearly £400,000 a year but if one happens to inherit a peerage at the same time, ambitious prospects arc apt to be marred. Lord Carnarvon never sat in the House of Commons, and it is much to his credit that, in spite of such a disadvantage he managed to push his way so soon into the front rank of politicians. Possibly the late Lord Derby counted for Eomethlng iu the matter. He took a fancy to Lu\i Car- iiarvou after hearing the latter's maiden speech in the upper house. Disraeli hardly shared his chief s opinion, but "we'll just try him," he said, at last, â€" that la, in 1858, when was formed the peccnd of iliose won- derful Conservative ministries which solved the problem of governing the country awhil 3 by means of a minority of the House of CommoEE. Lord Carnarvon, who was not quite 27, was named under secretary for the colonies. He had scarcsly any opportunity of making a blunder in 185S-9 and in 1866, the year of th3 third "miraculous" cabinet, he found himself at the head of his old department. In a very lew months the clever man managed to quarrel with his colleagues â€" the subject is one which excited a gojd many psrsons at the time, but which is now rather to b» laughed at. Disraeli, if I remember rightly, wanted to give the suf- frage to £6 householders, while Lord Car- narvon had a conscientious objection to go- ing beyond £5 lOs. lid. Then Disraeli lost patience and gave us the pretty measure of reform by which we still profit. Lord Car- narvon, iu his turn, parted with tact and temper. "I fancied I had been acting with gentlemen," he exclaimed. But ho accepted office again with these persons, who were less than his ideal of ge tlemen, a few years later. By and by he resigned a second ;,ime â€" after a terrible wiggling, administered him by the prime minister in full cabinet. A satirist of the day represented Lord Carnar- von as expressing a heartfe:t aversion lor Lord Beaconsfield, and for a notable rea- son Why. he frowns if I public'.y Stand on my head -London Truth, T3rpe Size. Originally there were but seven sizes. The first was called prima. It is now known zm two-line English. The second was secnnda, now ourdouble pica â€" in France, ereat para- gon. The third was tertia,at present our great primer. Then there was a middle size, ssill called in German mittel, bat it is now our English. After there came the three sizes on the opposite side of the scale â€" pica, long primer, and brevier: in Germany the name secunda, tertia, and mittel are still retained. Pica, in France and Germany, is called Cicero, because the works of that author were originally printed in it. English print- ers so styled it from being the type in which the Ordmal, or Service Book of the Roman Church was originally set. The Ordinal was also at first called the Pica. Bourgeoise was so named because it was introduced into the country from France, where it was originaly dedicated to the "bourgeoise " or citizen printers of that capital. Brevier obtained its name from having been first used for printing the Breviary or Roman Catholic ablareviated Church Service Book. Minion is also of French origin, and was so termed owing to having rapidly become a special favorite on its introduction in that country. La Mienone, is "the darling." Nonpariel was so oamed because at the time of its introduction, it had " no equal," being the smallest and finest type than produced. Pearl is of TSnt ^liwh origin. The French have a type of the sune size which they call "Pa- risienne.' It is a smaller tjrpe than the nonpardl, and was thought "the pearl of type." Diamond is another fancy name given towhat waa r^ijarded at the time of its origin, as the nltima thule of letter foundry aduevwnrait. « .1 '\A 'A I J l^, P. li '5 .r«* fc-; A-rr.