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 -rr^rrmr-^ m-. BORN TO GOOD LUCK. BY CHAJILHS BEADE. I. Patrick O'Rafferty was a small farmer in the Couuty Leinrter. He and his father be- fore him bad been yearly tenants to Squire Ormaby for fifty years on very easy terms. Patrickâ€" more uneasy than his sire â€" now and then pestered this Squire for a lease. Then the S'quire used to say, "Well, if you make a point of it, I will have the land valued and a lease drawn accordingly." But this iniquitous proposal always shut O'Raf- ferty's mouth for a time. He was called in the village Paddy Luck; and certainly he had the luck to get into a jjood many fights and other scrapes, and to get out of them wonderluUy. It was he set the name rolling his neighbors did but accept it. He professed certain powers akm to divination, and they were not generally ridiculed, for he was right one time in five, and that was enough, for credulity always forgets the usual and remembers the eccentric. This worthy had a cow to sell, and drove her into the nearest fair. He put twelve pounds on her, and was laughed at. She was dry, and she was ugly. " Twelve pounds! Go along wid ye." "Nevermind her," was Pat's reply. " I'm Paddy Luck, and it's meself that will sell the baste for twelve pounds, and divil a ha'-penny less." This was his proclamation all the morning. In the afternoon he condescended to ten pounds, just to oblige the community. At sunset be managed to get eight pounds, and a by-stanJer told him he was a lucky fellow. "That is no news, thin," said he. It was dark, and he was tired bis home was twelve Irish miles off he resolved to sleep in the town. In the meantime he went to a tavern and regaled his purchaser, drank, danced, daffed, showed his money, got drunk, and was robbed by one of the light-fingered gentry who prowl about a fair. The consequence was that the next time he ordered liquor on a liberal scale â€"for he was one who treated semicircularly in his cups â€" he could not find a shilling to pay, and the landlord put him out into the street. He cool^ himself at a neighboring pump, and went in search of gratuitous lodgings. The hard-hearted town did not provide these, so he walked out of it into sweeter air. He was not aick nor sorry. Quite the reverse. He congratulated himself on his good luck. " Sure, now," said he, " if I had sold her for twelve pounds, it's four pounds I'd be losing by that same bar- gain." Some little distance outside the town he found a deserted hovel there was no door, window, nor floor but the roof was free from holes in one or two places, and there was a dry comer, and a heap of straw in it. Paddy thanked the stars for provid- ing him with so complete and gratuitous a shelter, and immediately burrowed into the straw, and was about to drop asleep when the glimmer of a lantern shot in through the doorway, and voices muttered outride. Patrick nestled deeper in the straw he was a trespasser, and it seemed too late and yet too early for the virtues, charity includ- ed, to be afoot. Two men came in with a sack, a spade, and a lantern one of them lifted the lan- tern up and took a cursory glance round the pt'emises. Patrick, whom the spade had set a-shivering, held his breath. Then the man put the lantern down, and his companion went to work and dug, not a grave, as panting Pat expected, but a big round hole. This done, they emptied the sack out rolled and tinkled silver salvers of all sizes, coffee-pots, tea-pots, fork^, spoons, brooches, necklaces, rings, â€" a mine of wealth that glowed aud glittered in the light of the lan- tern. Patrick began to perspire as well as trem- ble. The men filled in the hole, stamped the earth firmly down, and then li£;hted their pipes and held a consultation. The question was how to dispose of these valu- ables. After some differences of opinion they agreed that one Barney was the fence they would invite to the spot, and if he would not give one hundred pounds for the spoil they would take it to Dublin. It tran- spired that Barney lived at some distance, but not too far to come to-morrow evening ane inspect the booty. Then, if he would spring to their price, they would go home with him and receive the coin. " My luck " thought Patrick. "What need had they to light their pipes and chat- ter like two old women about such a trifle, without searching the straw first, the omid- hauns " The thieves retired, and lucky Pat went quietly to sleep. He awoke in broad daylight, and strolled back into the town. He walked jauntily, for, if he had no money he possessed a secret. He was too Irish and too sly to go to a police office at once his little frame was to try and find out who had been robbed, and what reward they would give. Meantime he had to breakfast off a stale roll given him by a baker out of charity. About noon he passed through a principal street, and lo in a silversmith's shop was a notice, written very large "thirty gcikeas keward." " Whereas, these premises were broken into last night, and the following valuable property abstracted " Then followed an inventory a foot long. " The above reward will be paid to any person who will give such information as may lead to the conviction of the thieves and the recovery of the stolen goods, or any considerable part thereof." Patrick walked in and asked to see the proprietor. A little fussy man in a great state of agitation responded to that query. " Are you in amest now, sorr " asked Pat. " In earnest Of course I am." " What if a dacent poor boy like me was to find you the silver and thieves and aU?" "I'd give you the thirty guineas, and my blessing into the bargain.' ' "Maybe ye wouldn't like to give me my dinner an' all, by raison I'm just famishing with hunger 7" This proposal raised suspicion, and the proprietor asked his name. "Patrick O'EaflFerty. Squire Onusby." " I know Mm. Well, Patrick, I ronpose you can give me some information. I'll risk the dinner anyway." " Ah, well, Botr," said Patrick, "th«y say 'fling a sprat to catch a whale.' A lump- steak and a quart of ale is a favorite repast of mine when I have had 'em I'll am em, by the holy poker." " Step into my back pirlor, Mr. O'Raffer- ty," said the silversmith. He then sent for the rump-steak veiy bud, and for a policeman in a whisper. The steak came first, and wa» mo^t wel- come. When he had eaten it the modest O'Rafferty asked for a pipe and pot. Whilst he smoked and sipped calmly the disguised policeman arrived, and was asked to«xamine him through a little win- dow. "Does he look like crime " whispered the silversmith. "No," said the policeman. "Calf-like m- nocence and impudence galore." The jeweller asked O'Rafferty to step out. "Now, sir," said he, " you have had your dinner, and I don't prudge it yon but if this, is a jest let it end here, for I am in sore trou- ble, and it would be a heartless thing to play on me." " Och, hear to him ' cried Patrick, with a whine as doleful as sudden. " Did iver wi O'Rafferty make a jest of an honest man's trouble, or ate a male off his losses But what is a hungry man worth T I could not see how to do your work while I was fam- ished, but now my belly is full, and my bead fuller, glory be to God " "I don't know howit is," said the jeweller, aside to the detective, "he tells me nothing, and yet somehow he gives me confidence. But, Mr. O'Rafferty, do consider; time flies, aud I'm no nearer ray stolen goods. What is the first step we are to take " " The first step was to fill my belly the next step is to find meâ€" och, murther, it is a rarity " " Never miud," said the disgusted officer. "Find you what " "A policeman â€" that isn't a fool." I'm a tenant to II. This was a stinger, and so sudden his hearers looked rather sheepish at him. It was the policeman who answered. "If you will come to the station, I will undertake to find you that." Patrick assented, and on the way they made friends his companion revealed him- self, and forgave the stinger, and Patrick, pleased with bis good temper, let him into the plan he had matured while smoking his pipe and appearing to lose time. All Patrick stipulated was that he himself should be the person in command and as he alone knew where the booty was, and was manifestly as crafty as a badger, this was cheerfully ac- ceeded to. So, an hour before dusk, four fellows that looked like countrymen drove a cart full of straw up to the hovel, and made a big heap by adding it to what was there already. Then two drove the cart back to the edge of the town, and put the horse up, and re- rejoined their companions in ambush, all but one, and he hid in a dry ditch opposite. They were all armed, and the outside watch- er had a novel weapon â€" a pow erf ul blue-light in the shape of a fat squib. It is a dreary business waiting at night for criminals who may never come at all, or, if they do, may be desperate, and fight like madmen or wild-cats. Eight o'clock came â€" nine â€" ten â€" eleven â€" twelve; the watchers were chilled and stiff, and Pat sleepy. One of the policemen whispered to him "They won't come to-niRht. Are you sure they have not been and taken up the swag " "Xot sure but I think not." The police- man growled and muttered something about a mare's nest. " Hush " said another. "What " in an agitated whisper. " Wheels " Silence. They all remained as still as death. The faint wheels, that would have been inaudi- ble by day, rattled nearer and nearer. It was late lor a bona fide traveller to be on the road. Would the wheels pass the hovel They came up fast then they stopped suddenly. To the watchers everything was audible, and every sound magnified. When the drag stopped it was like a railway train pulling up. Men leaped out, and seemed to shake the ground. W hen three figures bust- ed into the hovel it sounded like a rush of men. Then came a thrilling question. Would the thieves examine the premises be- fore they looked for the booty The chances were they would. Well, they did not. They were in great anxiety too, but it took the form of hurry. They dug furiously, displayed the booty to Barney all in a hurry, and demanded their price. "Now, then, one hundred pounds, or take take your last look at 'em." " One hundred pounds " whined Barney. "Can't be done." " Very well there's no time to bar- gain." "I'll give eighty pounds. But I shall lose money by 'em." Blarney! They are worth a thousand. Here, Jem, put 'em up we can da better in DubUn." Barney whined and remonstrated, but ended by consenting to give the price. The words were hardly out of his mouth when the hovel glared with a lurid fire, so vivid and penetrating that every crevice of it and the very cobwebs came out dis- tinct. The thieves yelled with dismay, and one ran away from the light, slap into the dan- ger, and was dazzled again with opening bull's-eyes, and captured like a lamb. The other rushed blindfolded at the entrance, but his temple encountered a cold pistol, and a policeman immovable as a statue. He recoiled, and was at that moment of hesita- tion pinned from behind and handcuffed click As for Barney, from whom no fight was expected, he was allowed to clamber up the wails like a mouse in a trap, then turn- ble down, until the four-wheel they had come.in was brought up by Paddy O'Rafferty. Then the thieves were bundled in and sat each of them between two honest men, and the fence was attached by the wrist to a policeman, who walked him to the same destination but, like friend VirgU's bull muUa reluctarUtm,, hanging back in vain' and in vain bribing the sUent, impenetrable Paf slept at the station, and next momng the jeweller gave his tbirtf guineas with a good heart, but omitted the blesMnij. Patrick whined dismaUy at this very senons f omissi-n, andtheworthyUttlefeUowgaveit him with glistening eyes. " For," said he, "I'U own now the loss would have ruined me. I find by my books that they costme thirteen hundred pounds." So then he bleMcd him solemnly, and Pat went home rejoicing. " I'U hav6 more luck than ever now, soia he. *T11 have all sorts of luckâ€" good, bad and indifferent." ,, WKen he got home he told the story inac- curately, and like a monomanaic; that is to say, he suppressed all the fortitude and sagacity he had shown. These were quali- ties he possessed, so he thought nothing of them. -J J Luck and divination were what he pnaed himself on. His version ran thus: he had the luck not to sell his cow tin night-tall, the still better luck to be robbed of his money, and compelled to sleep in the neigh- borhood. Then, thants to his superlative luck, the Queen's jeweller had been robbed of silver salvers the size of the harvest- moon, two gallon tea-pots, pearls like hazel- nuts, and diamonds as big as broad beans and seeing no other way to recover them, and hearing that the wise man of Gannachee was in the town, had given him a good din- ner and his pipe, and begged him to use all his powers s aa seer; of all which the up- shot was that he had put the police on the right track, and recovered the booty, and caged the thieves, and marched home with the reward. In telling this romance he was careful to take out the thirty sovereigns and jingle them, and this musical appeal to the senses so overpowered the understandings of his neighbors thatthey swallowed the wondrous tale like spring water. After this few were bold enough to resist his pretensions to luck and divination. He wai often consulted, especially about missing property, and as he now and then guessed right, and sometimes had taken the precau- tion to hide the property himself, which materially 'increased his chances of finding it, he passed for a seer. One fine day Squire Ormsby learned to his dismay that his pantry had been broken into and a mass of valuable plate taken. Mr. Ormsby was much distressed, not only on account of the value, but the length of time certain pieces had been in the family. He distrusted the police and publicity in these cases, and his wife prevailed on him to send for Patrick O'Rafferty. That worthy came and heard the story. He looked at the lady and gentleman, and his self-deception begab to ooze out of him. To humbug his humble neighbors, was not diflScult nor dangerous, but to deceive and then undeceive and disappoint his landlord was quite another matter. He put on humility, and said this was a matter beyond him entirely. Then the Squire was angry, and said,- bitterly. " No doubt be would rather oblige his neighbors, or a shopkeeper who was a stranger to him, than the man whose land had fed him and his for fifty years." He was proceeding in the same strain when poor Pat, with that dismal whine the merry soul was subject to occasionally, implored him not to murder him entirely with hard words he would do his best. "No man can do more," said Mr. Ormsby. "Now how will you proceed Can we render you any assistance " Patrick said, humbly, and in a downcast way, he would like to see the place where the thieves got in. He was taken to the pantry window, and examined it inside and out, and all the ser' vants peeped at him. " What next " asked the Squire. Then Patrick inwardly resolved to get a good dinner out of this business, however humiliating the end of it might be. "Sorr," said he, " ye'll have to give me a room all to myself, and a rump-ste5c and onions and after that your servants must bring me three pipes and three pints of home-brewed ale. Brewers' ale hasn't the same spiritual effect on a seer s mind." The order was given, and set the kitchen on fire with curiosity. Some disbelieved his powers, but more believed them, and cited the jeweller's business and other ex- amples. When the first pipe and pint were to go to him a discussion took place between the magnates of the kitchen who should take it up. At last the butler and the housekeeper insisted on the footman taking it. Accord- ingly he did so. Meantime Patrick sat in state digesting the good food. He began to feel a physi- cal complacency, and to defp the future • he only regretted that he had confined his demand to one dinner and three pots. To him in this frame of mind entered the f wtman with pipe and pint of ale as clear as Madeira. Says Patrick, looking at the pipe. " This is the first of 'em." The footman put the things down rather hurriedly and vanished. "Humph," said Pat ta himself, "you don't seem to care for my company." He sipped and smoked, 'and his mind worked. The footman went to the butler with a scared face, and said, "I won't go near him again he said I was one." •'Nonsense " said the butler " I'll take up the next." He did so. Patrick gazed in his face took the pipe, and said, sotte voce, f .v^^A*^ *^® second " then, very regret- fully, "Only one more to come." H t*lH'**il®"i?^*"' *^*^ ^^^^ discomposed. "Anyway, and told the housekeeper. "I can't believe it," saic I'll know the worst" wore em. up the third propitiatory said Patrick, said she, know the worst." So in due course she took pipe and pint, and smiles. " This U the last of .„, „,„ solemnly, and looked at the glass ter '^A^^r^' ^«°' down all in a flut- ter. We are found out, we are ruined " ^wte-'Sr "• """'"^^ *° "' now butâ€" Yes there is we must buv him the'SLt.""""" on him before L\tl Patrick was half dosing over his last pipe when he heard a rustle and a c^: motion, and lo 1 three culprits on SS 'tl*°x.-^'°- "^^ *»a* iuBtinotive 2^ gacity which was his one realgiS) h^ ^derrated it-he «iid. with a^SuJj •• Och. tiiin. you'v coma ta make a «laae haythen graces that ye are. Ye may save yS4lvM the throuble. Sure I know all '*^"we**i^youda IJ'are wiser than Solo- mon," ^r^e housekee^r. 'B-*";j^ wouldn't abuTO your wisdom to ruin three Door bodies like us 7" "'tTtV cried Patrick '}-%^^Jl call yourselves 7 Ye ate and dnnk Uke fight- Sgc^Kjks; y'are clothed in "l.*^ -{?fP£»^ ^d broadcloth, and your w-ws is all pocket- money and pin-money. Yet ye must rob the man that feeds and clothes ye. " It is true it is true " cned the butler. "He spakeslike a priest," said the wo- man. "Oh. alanna don't be hard on us it is all the devil's doings he timpted us. Oh oh oh " „ .J " Whist, now. and spake sinse, said Patrick, roughly. "Is it melted " "It is not." " Can yon lay your hands on it 7 •• We can, every stiver of it. We intended to put it back." /. u *. •' That's a lie," said Patrick firmly, but not in the least reproachfully. "Now look at me, the whole clan of ye, male and faymale. Which would you rather do â€"help me find the gimcracks, every article of 'em, or be lagged and scragged and stretched on a gibbet and such like iligant divarsionsl" l i i « Tney snatched eagerly at the plank ot safety held out to them, and from that minute acted under Mr. O'Rafferty's or- ders. "Fetch me another pint, "»was the farst bequest. " Ay, a dozen, if ye*ll do us the honor to drink it." " To the devil wid vour blarney Now tell the master I'm at his service." " Oh, murder what will become of us Would you tell him, after all 7" " Ye omadhauns, can't ye listen at the dure ani hear what I tell him " With this understanding Squire Ormsby was ushered in, all expectation. " Yer honor," said Patrick, "I think the power is laving me. I am only able to see the half of it. Now, if you plaze, would you like to catch the thieves and lose the silver, or to find the silver and not find the thieves " " Why, the silver, to be sure." " Then you and my lady must go to mass to-morrow pioming, and when you come back we will look for the silver, and maybe, if we find it, your honor will give me that little- bit of a lease." " One thing at a time, Pat you haven't found the silver yet." At nine o'clock next morning Mr. and Mrs. Ormsby returned, from mass, and found O'Rafferty waiting for them at their door. He had a long walking-stick with a shining kuob, and informed them, very solemnly, that the priest had sprinkled it for him with holy wat r. Thus armed, he commenced the search. He penetrated into the out-houses and ap- plied his stick to chimneys and fagots and cold ovenv, aud all possible places. No luck. Then he proceeded to the stable-yard, and searched every corner then into the shrub- bery then into the tool- house. No luck. Then on the lawn. By this time there were about thirty at his heels. Disgusted at this fruitless search, Patrick apostrophized his stick " Bad cess to you, y are only good to burn. Ye keep turning away from every place but ye don't turn to anything whatever. Stop a bit Oh, holy Moses what is this 7" As he spoke, the stick seemed to rise and point like a gun. Patrick marched in the direction indicated, and after a while seemed to be forced by the stick into a run. He began to shout excitedly and they all ran after him. He ran full tilt against a dis- mounted water-barrel, and the end of the stick struck it with such impetus that it knocked the barrel over, then flew out of Patrick's hand to the right, who himself made a spring the other way.and stooa glar- ing with all the rest at the glittering ob- jects that strewed the lawn, neither more nor less than the missing plate. Shouts and screams of delight. Every- body shaking hands with Patrick, who, be- ing a consummate actor, seemed dazzled and mystified, as one who had succeeded far be- yond his expectations. To make a long story short, they all set- tled It m their minds that the thieves had been alarmei and hidden the plate for a time, intending to return and fetch it away. Mr. Ormsby took the seer into his study and gave him a piece of paper stating that for a great service rendered to him by Patrick O'Rafferty he had, in the name of him and his, promised him undisturbed possession of the farm so long as he or his should farm it themselves, and pay the pres- ent rent. Pat's modesty vanUhed at the Squire's gate he bragged up and down the village, and henceforth nobody disputed his seershi^ in those part% But one day the Sassenach came down with hu cold mcredulity. A neighbor's estate, mortgaged up to the eyes, was sold under the hammer, ^d Sir Henry Steele bought it, and laid some of it down in grass. He was a breeder of stock. He marked out a park wall, and did not in- clude a certain little orchard and a triangu- S?!^!; V^J^' obeerved, and applied for them. Sir Henry, who did hU own tusi- ntss, received the appUcation. noted it down, sfuirrofmsSr " " "'"'^°" ^^ «*^^ '•(^"i"SgV*^"'"'" ""^^ ^«-y' He knew Ormsby in London, and when he became his neighbor the Irish gentirmS h^SoTSK." One day SirHenry told ;K h?m " " "PP^°**io°. and Isked •'KTlit"""""'^**"'""-^-" "Our wise man, our diviner of secrets • wf^r '^«?'*«rf«lthings he has done" He then related the lo£ of his plate; and Its supernatural recovery. ""'**'•« ^^ The Sassenach listeniid with a cold in- exi^pU ^^^ 8" ^°^'^^ accumulated h Ji!^*^*f Â¥"*^^' "' «»o obetinacy of w «ne W8t. iie bad mcked out of the vari. °?!°*â„¢tjy« that fin ««r ie. vSj fSi of a good dinner, and pretended it te^ed to enlighten his mind- gnv oordingiy. ' **^ *»« Uid |^ At his ri quest Patricks Sj next Tuesday at one o'ei^'Xiho submit to a fair t^toft^^J?* the parcel of land he hLi *S '«* ^F" o'l easy terW^ "M*' Patrick assented ianl^, secret soul he felt ulZ**" B* • counter this Sassenach S*' HI" was the fortunate po^gl^*'"*^ ^^ pleased to call "anaSS' of SU over ths. eye P"ardlft?.! «^oolas he hftH J '^•tet* drawt' orbs. ^i dC However, he oameuptoR a man. After all. he h»H ' *»»«« thU time, and he vowedT. 'i"'"^? that was not preceded bv „ "l*'^*! «as ushered into Sir HenrvT^i and there he-found that Zn "' Ormsby One comfort S^'^J laid, and certain silver di.k " and in the fender. ""«on *i "Well, Mr. O'Raffenv -...,. believe you likea goc' 'â- ' "' tl» his W*! •'Th^eforyou?;o«" ^^ "Well, then, iT""!^^^^ with pleasure; you shall ha?'" ner." » goo â- 'Long life to your honor'" I ^^,ei" for you myself" "God bless your honor f„r cension." '" yowc "You are to eat the dinner fi just tell me what the meat is,^lf^^ of land IS yours on easy terms " Patrick's confidence rose '" is a fair barga-n," said he. ' "' ' The dishes were uncovered Tk vegetables cooked most deliciri, ' meat was a chef-d'^uvre t£nTr out done to a turn, and so fr?^ri very odor mado the mouth waW^^' Patrick seated himself, heWn v j and took a mouthful that mSfTI double effect. He r;ali=SroS same moment that this wasamoJi, *â-  compound .than he had ever exi)ecL7» 'I upon earth, and that he could mS'*! should divine what bird or t?H eating. He looked for the C.^ were none. He yielded himself M^ enjoyment. When be had nearly cleSI plate he said that even the beJcS J was none the worst for a quart of gJ^J wash it down. "'g(W;ji,| Sir Henry Steele rang a bell and ordetejj quart of ale. "•"' Patrick enjoyed this too, and did not*,| ^;hefeltu was his last dinnerij Jl house, as well as his first. f 'The gentlemen watched him and «â- ,.«. time. But at last Ormsby said, " WeDpJ rick â€" " Now Patrick, whilst he sipped, hi Ui asking himself what line he had betterJ and he had come to a conclusion creoiSi' to that sagacity and knowledge of kmi nature he really possessed and undetMi accordingly. He would compliment tiie J tlemen on thsir superior wisdom, aajfl,' he could not throw dust in such iTaa theirs then he would beg them not to' J his humble neighbors as wise as they wea; but let him still pass for a wise num ittii, parish, whilst they laughod in their sspa»l sleeves. To carry out this he impregiaj bis brazen features with a world o! com humility. "And," said he, in cajoling accents, 'iL your honors, the old fox made many a tin, but the dogs were too many for hiii t^ last." What more of self -depreciation and caji ery he would have added is not knows fi. Sir Henry Steele broke in loudly, "God heavens Well, he k an extraordiia; man. It waa an old dog-fox I cooked ii him." " Didn't I tell you " cried Ormaby, » lighted at the success of his countryman. "Well, sir," said Sir Henry, whose e* tions seldom lasted long, "a bargain's a !«â-  gain. I let you the orchard and field ior- let me see â€" you must bring me astoa^i weasel, and a polecat every year. I men to get up the game." Mr. O'Rafferty first stared stupidly, tia winked cunningly, then blandly absorW laudation and land then retired inTokinj solemn blessings then, being outside, eif- cuted a fandango, and went home on wiiiji; from that hour the village could not iioli him. His speech was of accumulating iaim at peppercorn rents, till a slice of the Mat try should be his. To hear him, he conii hear, he could see through a deal boara, M luck was his monopoly. He began tol« envied, and was on the way to be tata, when, confiding In his star, he mams Norah Blake, a beautiful girl, but a u*! notorious vixen. Then the unlucky ones forgaTe_ him ' great deal for sure wouldn't Nora venge them? Alas the traitress fe-a love with her husband after marriage, i» let him mould her into a sort of Mp duck. This was the climax. So Paddy Licti now numbered amongst the lasting iMff tions of ould Ireland (if any). May he live till the skirts of ms t» knock his brains out, and him dancisf!" Irish fling to " the wind that shakes tK barley 1" â€" Harper's Magazine. They asked Mme. X. how old sie «» "Thirty-two." "Why, last year yoa »^ 33 " "Yes, but I am now like^ " which finds it difficult to hold its T'" ' so I retreat." The coronation dress of the E^pJ Marie Feodrovna was of drap d ^P'^\^ cost $5,000. Her crown, however, « was originally made for Catherine 'J valued at one and a quarter miiu j|^ pounds, In the Emperor's sceptre « famousOrloff diamond. Its historyisst^ It and the Koh-i-noor once foâ„¢"'" tin of a Hindoo idol. It then^ passed^""' 1 ferule for candying wi( The same process wou fruits. Candle. 1 taSl it has cooled in 1 li«i be taken out, wash( ^d dried in the mout: ,bard;thesurnpisth and boiled until it rea AJ^call the "blow " t bydippin«a 8«^'"°',e' ' ^d blowing tbrough t ijjig bubbles aro formei tmia then put into it a: S reaches the "blow " T^ taken from the fire 1 against the side o 'wins to •* grain "â€"th L.^e fruit is then dipp sugar, taken out wit i on a wire grating ov. [ies quickly, and is the ^jrvation by packing in 4 of paper. K%v WAf TO Make Ct currants are to be picke m1 in the usual way, t id in a stone or earthen |in a cool place in the eel Ly.four hours a considen [will cover the surface, Intation, and this must fa Ihole again strained thr then an equal weight I sugar added this is st il entirely dissolved, an B, tied up tightly and tl end of another twent; fctly transparent jelly of r character will be form I long as if it had been pjiANT Jelly. â€" Put the f jar and set them in an ot water to cover them pit while boiling after t land strain the juice fro hand of white sugar t II bat first put the sugar k little water, and let ij Isymp then add the jui 1 boil very rapidly, and or twenty minutes. ... Juices. â€" The juices its are so extremely delii K be preserved by the o i heating, so as to retain I especially the case wit lawberries. To meet advised to take perfec Tapberries, and to mas J jar, with a wooden j 1 a homogeneous mass. I per cent, of grape or a led, and the whole thi I being stirred occas Uc fermentation will be [in the course of whic leparate completely, lea I clear juice, which wil jail the peculiar arorrr [preparing strawberrie: pies are to be selected, a pries, and placed in a ' I without mashing, so as I half to two thirds U t of finely pulverized si land the whole shaken lordinary temperature, The sugar will extract pe berries, and form a ling all their flavor ani separated by straining Sep perfectly by the ac its bulk of alcohol. Barberries. â€" Boi I of a few bunches in sal â- nd put a pill of the liqi J*r, with an ounce of Jonnd of loaf sugar, a q If pounded ginger, and |di»h boil and strain i fver the barberries, the l^been previously selects when cold, cover el They may also be Ktong brine of salt and lem. When any scum is I surface, pour off the 1 po Salad with Wat pial parts of peeled sli er cress, and dress eac V ^^^ «alt, white pepp II oil, and vinegar. L |h thoroughly all of th peach bowl has stood Pthem well together ftion stand for a few mi ine tomatoes being r; ' sharp, each suppli o«- If pains are tak pus. ot a Hindoo idol. It tnen !»«»"" T possession of the Great Mogul, »"°Jy,tl« many vicissitudes, eventually came ^^^ hands of an astute Armenian, wno to CJount Alexis Orloff, who, disposed of it to the Emperor to CJount Alexis Orloff, who, 'Ti.f«| disposed of it to the Emperor i"" ^f £90,000 in cash, an annuity of f*'^;Z^ patent of nobility. The Orloll '^jtrl weighs 193 carats the Koor-i-noo^ pj, present state, only 153. Thef»m» diammd, terward know as "^^^0f France, was sold by Gov. ?»"' ^^^ of the Earl of Chatham, to the B^ d'Orleana for £130,000. I* w« â- word of Napoleon, and forwed » r^ of the Prussian loot of Waterloo. â- " •iana have it stilL .4:m.i^)i:'f^;.: J^;.v,./:^â- v•wf*,:3 ja^^'-A'"^^^-'--