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 LA SEVERINA. The Tra i Seqael to an Abduction. It was on the eve of the battle of Solfer- ino. The French regiments, which had ar- rived from Milan ru iog the day, by Icng and dusty roads, uader a broiling tun, ex- hausted by fatigue, were enciruped on an immense plain, bhut in by a chain of bills, on which towered the white houses of the town. Ligbtniag, placing anong the lead- en-colored clouds, illumined at intervals with lurid light the battle field of the mar- row. Nothing else lit up the camp. No fires were allowed, as a measure of pru- dence. All were not asleep, however. Bt sides the outposts and pickets, many in camp were wide awake. Hera and there groups of men, lying on the grass around their tents, conversed in a low tone and discussed the probable issue of the coming battle. In the middle of a small group of officers, who talked over the chances of the m rrow, was Col. Eugene de Valmont, who com- ininded a regiment of ii^ht draeoons. He had the wall earned reputation of b iag cneot the most spier did officers in his own branch of the service. Although a strict discipliaaiian, he was beloved in the rejfl- raent by officers and men alike, and deserve d- ly so. Col. de V^almcnt appeared to pay but little attention to what was said. He seemed in a profound reverie, as he bit rather than smok- ed a half consumed cigar. Turning suddenly to his surgeon-major, a veteran with a well- IjroEzed face, he said: " Briaac, do you balieve in presenti- ments?" "It depends, Colonel. One may have them, no dcubt Lut to admit that they are ever realized is another matter." "Ycu look upon them as valueless, devoid cl any prophetic importance?" "Quite so." "Ah! It is true, as is said, that all you doctors are more or less traterialists." Af- ter a pause, he added: "Ycu trs right, perhaps, and so much the better. There we seme thoughts which should be banish- ed on the eve of a day like that to-morrow promises tote." Sosajinghe got up, and sddel " I shall turn ia acd get some rest and advise vou all to do the same. In a few hcurs we shall need all the strength we can com- mand." One by ore the £;roup broke off, and pre- sently the e were lett ooly three officers â€" the Maj r, a captain atd a sub-Jieuten- ant. "What did the Colonel mean by pre- aer.timentp " asked the ycuager of them. "We know he has no fear about to-morrow yet his manner and his last woias, to say the least, are not reassuiing." "Had you been longer in the regiment, youn? fellow," replied the Majir, "you would know that the Colonel periodically gets the 'blues,' but we take no notice of ihem, They soon pass, and he becomes himself atjaiu." 'Bit what is the cause of his recurring depieseion?" "The cause?" sail the Captain, "Why, all the regiment know the csu^e." '"Except myself. I only joined three months ago." "Well, here is Bji sac back from his rounds. He can tell the story best." The Surgeon-Mi j jr b« iog appealed to, lay down upon the grass, jii a tigar, and sa'.d: "In lSo4 De Va mont, appointed lieut- enant ia the Chaseeura d' Afiique, which hud just been raised, lam ei ia Algiers, where 1 was atsistant surgeon attached to the milit- aiy hosfi'al. Though I was older than he, we soon struck up an acquaintance that )ipened into friendship, which time has not impain d. Eugene was yiuog, gocd look- ing and a manot fascinatiog minuers. He came of a distinguished lamily, and his triends kept his purse well tilled in short he could ^et money aa fast as he wi heJ to sjecd ic. "We served thiea years together, when De Valmont gut lea^e to exchange and re turn to France. His mother was the cause of this, for she had in view for him a mar- riage with a lich heiress. Leaving Algiers would have hean all plain sai iug except for bidding 'farewell' to a certain laiy call- ed La Severina, a danteu^e atthe theatre. In appearance she was decidedly handsome, of an olive-colored complexion, and with raven black hair. In her large, expressive eyes and in her giimly cut mcuth there was a significant iadicaticn of determination which suggest el that the young lady would he imre de^i^able as a Iriend than an enemy. She tad she was an Italian, having been born at Rome, but her parents were Bo- hemians, who travelled through all countries â€"rope dancers by profession. "La fc'evei loa had conceived for Eugene a past inn as violent as it was hopeless. When she heard of his propo^ei departure she was wild; when si e learned the motive of it she turned a denoa. Fai'ing in a determined attempt to baulk bis plans by stabbing him with a s'.iiltto, she assured him with her last words that she would be revenged. De Valmont laughed at the thieit. I, however, determiLod to keep my eye on the actions of the young lady. In this resolve, how- ever, I was foiled. She left Algiers about a month sJter, and I never knew what became of her, "Veirly four years had passed vince Eu- gene's return. We kept np a constant cor- ie3ponden( e, and I 'earned of his marriage and the birth of cne sen, whom he called Luciea, He continually pressed me to ex- change and go back to Fiance. "At length I got appointed to a cavalry regioieat quartered in Paris, ard left Algiers to take en my new duties. Landing at Marseilles, I put up at the hotel Casteliane, â-  where the first names I lead in the list of ar- rivals â- Reie those of the Cuunt and Countess de Valmont. Eugene introduced me to his wife â€" a lady as lovely as she was charming â€" and showed me with pride his son â€" a fine chubby chi'd, with curly hi»ir, %nd the splendid blueeyes of its mother. He sim- ply worshipped this boy â€" pocr fellow! â€" and his life and sonlteeoced wrapped np in i s being and existence. And now to the sad stqcel of my la'e. "De Valmont was on leave, and at his wife's desire they were about to visit Italy. Not to fatigue the child their route was mapped cut m short stages. They were rest;- ing two days at Marseilles before going to Genoa by La Comicbe, so I decidect to stay nd see them off. "In the afternoon of my arrival, as the weather was glorious, little Lucien waa sent with his norse down to the tei, on that magnificent beach where the splendid palsice of Prado stii ds. Two hnursafte- tie narce leiurael alone, looking like a m*d wcmin. The ee3 wt-re starting out of her he id, and sobbmg and cr^iag, she threw her elf ar: the Ccuatess's feet, aad taid she had lost tt e I hild. She and her cl arge were playing on the heach, whe e tlef were attra^sted by the p rfjrroance of some acrob* s A bmall crowd had astembled, atd the boy was not out of her sight for half a minute. Oa look- ing round h» waa got e; and she sought him in V813. Heseea-.ed to havo been spiritel away. She called bis name at the top of her voi' e and ran up and down the beach until exhausted. BystAsders who heard hei cries helped hfr ia the search; but they found â€" nothing, ' "Was Lucien drowned?" asked the sub- Ueutenant. ' This was the question started, but it seemed well nigh impossible. The child ccu'd only toddle and the sea was too far from the place indicated by the nurse, So this hypotheiis was given up. The police c^nsideied it a case of kidnapping, and went to work, hut failed to find a clue, They Eearchei for weeks throug'n all the slums of the city â€" the low quarters where the dregs of the population congregate, the scum of the Meoiterranean â€" Lut with no success. A description of the child was sent to e^ery consul, with orders to make full inqniry. De Valmont himself obtained spesjiil lea\e of absence from the war office and spent a year in trying to solve the mystery. He returned more dead than alive to bury his wife, whom grief had killed. "As to the Colonel, at first he had serious intention of joining the Trappists and retir- ing from the world. But hope sustains bim still. He believes, if his boy was not drowned, that Providence will take pity on him. Vain delusion! Bat we humor him in his hope. He has since devoted his whole life and soul to his regiment; but the wound at his heart was never healed, and when it breaks out afresh he becomes sad and sor- rowful and talks about presentiment. "La Severina, I believe has kept her word, and wreaked a terrible revenge!" Brisac finished his story and wished all good-night. "We have six hours for sliep, my boys, and then â€" " Oa the morrow, at the early hour of six o'clock, a double line of smoke extended for a distance of two miles on each side of the plain. The French had brought almost all their gans into action. Tha Austrian bat- teries posted on the opposite hills replied with a well directed fire. In this artillery duel, which lasted for some hours, the ad- vantage remained with the French. The superiority of the Austrian position was more than counterbalanced by the deadly effect of the rified guns of the French, which were first employed in warfare at the mem- orable hattle of Solferino. The carnage was frightful and the result disastrous to the Austrians, who were obliged to re- treat. At 3 o'clock on that dayâ€" 23rd June, 1859 â€" the French were formed up to advance un- der a withering musketry fire to assault the Tower of Solferino, the key of the enemy's position. Marshal Benedek then called on his cavalary to make a supreme effort which had it been successful, would have changed the fortunes of the day. The Austrian cav- alry were massed behind a fringe of wood wh ich effectually concealed their move- meats from the French. Suddenly they were seen to emerge from their shelter and to prepare for a determined charge, to take in flank those battalions which had already reached the slopes of the hills. Gen. Niel saw the danger, and immediately hurled against them the Marguerite division of cav- alry, in which Da Valmott's Light Dragoons charged in the first line. The shock was terrific I The elements contributed to swell the frightful stoi m of war. Peals of thunder bellowed forth and vivid lightning played over the ghastly sight beneath. It waa after the delivery of the charge "home" that Col. de Valmont suddenly saw rise before him about a dozen hussars, in white, of the Archduke Albrecht's regiment. Led by a young lieutenant with fair hair and a budding moustache, they sabered the French dragoons with maniacal fury, mak- ing their way through them like a caimon ball. With one bound of his horse the lieutenant was by the Colonel. De Val- mont saw his sabre flash as he raised it to cut him down. He bad only time to pull the trigger of his pistol, and the Austaian fell, killed by a bullet in the forehead. At the end of the engagement Col. de Val- mont, returning to camp, parsed over the scene of the conflict. The body of the lieutenant still lay there on its back. A thin trickle of blood marked the spot of the wound. The face of the young officer was as calm and placid as a child asleep, De Val- mont gazjd at him with profound emotioa. A fow yards off some dit mounted men were guarding Austrian prisoneis, among whom was an officer of Albrecht's hussars. Point- ing to the dead body, the Colonel asked "Sir, can you tell me the name of that brave fellow?" "Karl Gottfried," was the answer. One month after the peace of Vdlafrancs, Eugene De Valmont returned to Paris with the Army of Italy, where he found the fol, lowing letter awaiting his arrival: i'lLiN, 6ih August, 1859. My Deak Old Friend: You know I am st.U at the m litary Hospital h;re, where I shall remain until all our wounded are ramov ed. They broughtintheotherday,severalmir- auders caught by our men rifling the dead, and on some of them who tried to escape, they tired. Among them was an old woman disguised as a man. A bed was found for her, as she was on the point of death. I offered my services t,o dress her wound, and judge of my amazement when I heard her say: 'You don't remember me, Da B;iaac. I am La Severina." Under the withered features of fte woman I recognized your form er acquaintance in Algiers. .- By what series of misfortunes she cams to be a dig- poiler of the dead, I shall not attempt to ex- plain. Enough to know that before dying she allowed the priest to communicate a part of her confession, and, as I have for long thought, she it was who stole Liclen at Marseilles 1 After a boat of adventures, which I shal 1 tell you later on, poverty compelled her to abandon the child at Vienna. She left it to the Charity of the landlord where ihe lodged â€" No. 20 Rosenstrasse â€" and never beard of the boy after. This address will give yen some trace. Apply at once to the Austrian Embassy. TotU a lot. Bbisac. Mad with joy, the Colonel ran to the em- bassy and explained the object of his mis- sion. For a fortnight after, which seemed to h'm a lifetime, he lived in a fever of saa- pense, and was guing to beft r,ne night, when hu valet brought him an official letter vrith, a large red s^al bearing the Austro. Hanfearian arms. He read as toUows Mo»si£ua Le Comte: I am instructed by the "Minister ot Foreign Atftirs to inform you^: fc' answer to your inquiries, that the chiywtandoned in Vienna, at the address •givefation the20fchof September, 1846, was adot^d by benevolent a gentleman.- He was eduSilite(} at the Military School ot Olmutz, wbibk hjB left last year with the rank of stb- lieajb^Buit. Posted to S. A, T„ the Arch- duk|ii|Llbrecht's regiment of hussars, he was kilted at the battle of Solferino. He bore the BMne of his adopted father, Earl Gott- frif^^A Qna hour afterwards the valet entered the Co^aeL'a room, and found him sitting in his chairjl His face was deadly white. His eyes dilated and immovable, were fixed up on tb^ fatal letter. Th^ servant touched him lightly on the shoulder, and his master dropped motionless on tbft floor, H«'was dead. BOUND FOR ARCTIC LANDS. Oscar Wilde's Mother. Clever man as Oscar Wilde certainly is, he has had the art to get himself laughed at to an extent that would scartle, if not subdue, a man less bold. It has not greatly troul)Jled him, and he tells his innocent little tal«B iiabout himself, and puts himself at the mefcy of contemporary wits, with as placid and self-approving a tmile as ever. But there is one side of bim which the public does not know, and that is the kindly, dutiful, domestic side for a better son and brother than Oscar Wilde it would be hard to find. His mother, Lidy Wilde, is a woman of strong mind and a warm heart but she is far more eccentric than Oscar himself. She is full of enthusism, ^nd her mind is so fresh, she forgets that her life's spriny is over, and wears at sixty the colors and the fashions of sixteen. She looks, sometimes, very much as if one of Madame Tussaud's wax -works, suddenly endowed with a voice and a sn^le ani a touch of Irish blarney, had gone forth to hiake a visit. I She wears the spotted white muslin of the ^debutante, with pink feathers or roses, and a white lace veil, and she amuses with her aspect as much as she entertains with hsr tongue. And beside her, on these occasions, you will see Oscar, unconscious, apparently, that there is anything about her other than her wit to provoke a smile, and devoting r himself to her with the most respectful and assiduous tenderness. An American friend who had iust formed Lady Wilde's aoqnain- tance, made some comment to O^car on his mother's kindness of heart. "You'may well say that," was the answer. '"No one knows her so well aa I do, and I give^yon my word that from my earliest re- collection I have never heard her say an unkind thing of any human creature. She is incapable of harshness or injustice. No one ia ever condemned in her presence but she finds something to offer in his defence â€" no one assailed without her coming' to the rescue. In all my life, I have never heard from her one harsh judgment, one uncharit- able word and its not everyone who couli say that of a witty and clever mother," "Happy the son who can," was the answer and must it not also be true that the son of such a mother has something in him that wfU survive his follies, and outlive his absurdities Teach the Boys to Use Tools. Last year a friend of mine, who has three boys, selected a Chest of Tools as a premium for collecting clubs for an agricul- tural paper, and surprised and delighted the lads with it. They went to work and fitted themselves up a workshop in the loft over the waggon -shed, and there they contrive to spend many an hour pleasantly and profit- ably. My friend laid to me, " I am sur- prised to see how proficient the boys are be- coming in the use of their tools. Why, they have made us many little articles for use about the house and barn, to more than pay for the cost of the tools, tf I had bought them for cash, and if they keep on thus, a carpenter will be unneccessarv here." This experience can be repeated in any family Where there are boys, to the satisfaction and benefit of all concerned. Give the boys a chance to show what they can do. A set of tools will keep them busy on rainy days and odd spells, and out of mischief. Every success will encourage them in larger under- takings, and quite unconsciously they will develop a knowledge of mechanics which will be practical and useful to themselves and others all their lives, and almost every day, the year round, on the farm, about the house, anyway, and everywhere. The cost of a set of too's good enough for them to experiment with, ia small, and cannot be invested to better account. If yoa can not spare the money, encourage them to get up a club for a paper giving premium chests of tools. If they do not quite succeed, help by contributing a little cash for the differ- ence. The investment will come back be- fore you know it. Most farmers having more expensive tools, do not like to have boys use them for fear of possible damage, and they grow up almost entirely ignorant of saw, and plane, and chisel Let them have tools of tneir own, and show them how to take proper care of them. Teach them all you know about them, and set them at little easy jobs. When they do these well, let them know their work is appreciated, and they will become ambitious to do still better work, and take pride in it so will you, when you come to see that they are able to do what you have herotofore depend- ed on outside labor tor. One of the most ponvenient things about the house or far ji, is a man who can use tools. Not Left Oat. There were three of 'em on the corner. One said that his wife was cleaning house and had every room upset. The second observed that he had just left six painters at work on his house. The third said he was tearing out parti- tions and building on a wing. The fourth amiled sadly and aided that he was going to have four ceilings white- washed, three rooms repapered, a chimney torn oat and his hall widened, "Gentleman," said the fifth man as he drew a long breath, "I don't want to be looked upon as one w ho ia trying to crowd out of his fair share of the world's misery and I therefore take this opportunity of in- forming you that, in order to buy new car- pets and a parlor suite, I have been obliff- ed to mortsiage my house and shall probably The Stannoli Shlpi toat will Steam North to bncoor Ore«ly. ' I've been ma^'-e of a OMroh^^^ ship, a big ship too, and I never had better quar- ters at sea than these men will have, while as for grub " No combination of letters will represent the smack of his lips which end«d the words of the old sailor on the Thetis, recently at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, who was talking of the Greelv relief party. In Jdly, 1881, the steam whaler, Proteus wasflcoarterea by the Government to take Lieut, Greely, his assistants, Lieuts Klings- burg and L ockwood, five officers of the S g- nal Corps, and fifteen enlisted men to Lady Frtnklin Bay. These twenty-three men went north to man one of the eleven polar stations which the leading Governments of the world had agreed to maintain within the Arctic zone to make simultaneous scien- tific observations. It was one of the best equipped parties that ever went north. The outfit included a comfortable house. Dr, Rae of London, an authority on Arctic matters, wrote that its equipment of dogs and si edges, was su- pe rior to that of any previous party, The hope was expressed that, in addition to its scientific duties, the party would be able to take up the work of Sir George Nares, where he left it, and add many miles of ex- plored coast line to the maps of Green- land. The food supplies were ample to last over two years, but the hunters were expected to supplement these supplies. While the Proteus remained with the party .twenty musk oxen were brought in. A large part of the meat was packed in snow for winter use. This was considered only a beginning of the operations. Belief expeditions were to be sent anual- ly from the United States, but so far none has succeeded in reaching Lieut. Greely, The expedition of last yeat under L^'eut, Garlington resulted in the loss of the Pro- teus and a demonstration of the incapacity of Gen, Hazen to direct such matters. The expedition of this year will consist of three steamers â€" the Thetis, the Bear, and the Alert. The Thetis is the flagship. She was a whaler, and was bought in Dundee, Scotland, She is now at the Brooklyn Navy Yard with as many men at work on her as can staod on the different decks with- out jostling each other, Tne Bear was a St, .Tohns sealer. 'She has been at the Navy Yard some time, ana work has so far progressed that a visit to her gives some idea of what is needed for an Arctic, cruise When the Bear arrived she was a greasy and foul-smelling ship, with unscraped spars and rusty metal work. A gang of men went to work at her the same day. The upper spars were sent down and the rigging was stripped off. Tne hold waa cleaned out and the cabin bulkheads were knocked out. Whon the dismantling was finished there remained a hull and three lower masts, and a boiler and engine which were in good condition. Then, when she was in the dry dock, heavy cant pieces, or sticks of timber hav- ing a triangular cross section were bolted on each side of the keel and up through the garboard streaks to protect the keel from ice. Haavy straps (of iron were placed around the forefoot. The hulk formerly had a few crossbeams beeween decks, but addi- tional ones Were pac ia and a three- inch deck laid on them. New stanchions were put in from the keel to the berth deck and from the berth deck to the spbr deck. From the centre of the berth deck beams diagonal braces run to the bilge strokes on either side, to strengthen the frame in case of a nip in the ice. At the same time two water-tight bulk-heads were put ia, A new jibboom was put in and part of a new suit of rigging. The running gear is all new. The floor of the cabin is on a level with the berth deck. It was first ceiled with inch pine, at a distance of four inches from the walla of the ship and the bulkhead. Two layers of feamaught, a gray woolen felt nearly a quarter of an inch thick were tacked to the ceiling, and another pine ceil- ing was nailed oyer that. The four-inah air space waa to secure the cabin from damp- ness. Tne quarters for the men are built on deck. ±5eginnin? at the break of the top- gallant forecastle, a house 26 feet wide and 40 feet long was built on the main deck. The bulwarks were extended up, forming two -foot gang way s^on each side of the house. These were decked over and doors put in at each end, thus forming air spaces. Th*" walls of the house were made with four-inch air spaces and traps were put in along the decks so that the snow which forms in the spaces from condensed moisture can be cleared out. The house is lined like the oflajers" cabin. Inside there are twenty-six large berths, with lockers .beneath. A skj light with a scuttle for ventilation, is put in the upper dect. A small stove will keep the air dry. The house is put on deck to secure dryness, and ia this respect the men are probably better cared for than the ofBcers. ' Ji, j Tne estimated cost of the alterations' in the Bear was $29,850, This does not in- clude the rigging or engines. Five whale boats, two dories, and a thirty-foot steam whale boat will complete the outfit of boats. The men will receive, in addition to a comfortable lot of thick ordirary flannel clothing, a suit of deerskin lined with lamb's wool and a deerskin bag, which will wholly envelope the body and cover the head, except the face. These will be found very comfortable when on lookout or t av- elling on sleds. No house has been built over the wheel as is commonly done on California clippers that round the Horn. A canvas screen will partially serve instead during bad wea- "â- â€¢?* and the leadin.,? exploring ve,,„, Dundee whaler, built esp.-oiaUvf' *»i regions. S le will prjhioly stj°""iv few d^ya in adVAoce ot the Bur provided wit^i an outfiscf bjitg. and Ar-.tio clothing like theothp. " Toe A'ert, which ha* saile,! troj*/"' ani "^1 was pre-.»nted by the E igii,h to the United S-Atea. 8 le niost substantial woodea '« one „f"" B'itish navy and when fitted " ^* "' Amtij exoediiion «ti lose it.' ther. The bill of fare which excited the appro- bation of the old sailor is ver\ lone. It be- gins with 32,750 pounds of bread, and ends with assorted flavoring extracts. It in- cludes an almost unlimited quantity of cured, cooked, and canned domestic meats. r,«?^ f '^^ supplemented by generous amounts of roast chicken, roast turkey, fried oysters, turtle and ox tail soup, and other JSr'S?; F"»it- and vegetable are abun- tunt. The hst conteins 111 different arti- cles which when on board will weigh about seventy-five tons. The sledges, which ara nearly oomtroci- PhJ^fS? '?»'^« »*ter designs furnished by Chief Engineer Melville, and consist of two Stoutly-made frames shaped like a shuttie The Theais, which U to be the fligahip of 1875 ai amount of money was expendcl â-  Her hull was plaakM wirh t^u' lection against the ioe, Sbe ia r '""â- " sound condition, and her masts v^ *! chors, and boa's, which havpb^u ,!*"' "I Sheemess since October, 1S82 h^ ""l restored lo her, " Kl THE LATE PRIXCE LEOPOln An Unreported Disaster and its â-  que ncoBâ€" Life of the Prince. "' A mo-'t extraordinary presentimfnt n I part of Prince Leopold is now related I highest authority. On his vavto """l the Prince wasconvejed aboard thefi ""'I vate yacht owned by his favorite cooipTn"' Capt. Perceval. It is not gecerally t "'"'I that this yacht was wrecked with the"" i party aboard in the Gulf of Xipouij""!, when buta short rtiatance cff CiQnes. n! wreck of the criit was complete, b'jt lives were lost, as help was near at hai? But the young prince was much prostraw bykalarm, and upon his recovery insuej jf Strictest orders to keep secret the storv A the accident, because he feared the result the intelligence upon the health of thl Princess. That afternoon, when Liopolj had safely reached his private apirtmenJ in the Villa Nevada, he lay down to tU away his nervousness. When he awoke tj sent for Capt. Perceval, and talked witt him about the wreck. Laopold was uauso ally melancholy. He sat at a wiadosr over looking the beautiful bay, and castiinji sorrowful look towards the place when the accident occurred, said plaintive ly â€" " Perceval, I don't know why it is, bntll have the most gloomy forebodinws. I have such ill-luck. I would not mind it if it af. fected me only. But my evil fate seems de- termined to make my friends share my mis- fortunes, I believe I am doomed to briiB sorrow and disaster lo all those I desire u be with me as my friends. This feeling op- pressed me inexpressibly to day, and I have been unable to rid myself of the thought that I would rather die here than anywhere else I have ever been." Capt. Perceval tried to argue the Prince out of his melancholy, but failed to effect hii i prupose. Leopold died in Perceval's arms in tne very room and bafore the very win. dow where he confided to him his forebod- ings. His Royal Highness the late Leopold Gjorge Duncan Albert. Duke of Albany, was the fourth and youngest son and eightli child of fler Majesty the Queen, He was born at Buckingham Palace on the 7ch day of April, 1853. He was named for the Queen's uncle, the late King of the Belgians, In early childhood the rare qualities of his mind attracted attention, and his early ed- ucatioii was specially cared for by the Prince Consort. His: health, always delicate, was greatly impaired by an attack of meaileain 1861. when he was sen: under the care of Sir Elva d Bowater, and later of Col. Ca- vendish, to C'annes, where he resided for over a year. From 1862 to 1876 he was nn- der the tutorship of Doctor Baff assisted by various Eton masters anl then under Mr, Duckworth, His health ha 1 not improved much, though under the special care of physicians like Dr, Legg and Dr, Vivian Poore, When the Queen was attacked in 1872 by Connor in the grounds of the park, Prince LsopDld was with her, and during the trial wa^ called as a witness and gave bis evidence, we are told, "in a loud, clear voice." In November 1872 the Prinoe went to Oxford, where his studies included physical sciences, geology physiology, his- tory under five lecturers, and political econ- omy. Modern languages as well as classics were also studied, and special lectures like those on Poetry by Raskin, and Music by Max Muller he attended. The science of sanitation, a very practical coarse under Dr, Ackland, he also studied. In 1874 he was attacked by typhoid fever from which his recovery for a time appeared doubtful, but, under Sir Wm. Jenner's care, be. came through, though the effect upon his delicate constitution was great and he has rever beju strong since, Oa his attaining his majority in the same year, he was granted the usual annuity of parliament without a division. From 1874 to 1879 he travelled a great deal in Europe spending much of his time in the South on the shorea of the Mediterrauein. In 1880 he visited America, and, as the Princess Louise was then in Caaada, he vis- ited all the principal cities and fished and hunted in our streams and rivers. Unfor tunately he met with an accident by which he became quite lame. In this year he met Princess Helen of Waideck, at the wattrmg place of Baden and in 1880 his engagement to her was announced aud on the 27th of April. 1882, he was married, Tne palace of Claremont was given him for a residence. Daring the last few years, the Duke of Al- bany has. by lectures and address js, doje much in England for the cause of education. In a few days he would have attained his thirty- first year. His sudden death will cause much sorrow, not only for the sake of his mother, our beloved Queen, but also fcr his own, as he had won the highest es- teem and regard by his thoughtful and kind interest in ths welfare of the people of the Empire, He leaves one daughter, born Jau- nary 16;h, 1883, at Windsor Castle, Slander. God has fixed a great responsibility upon language, Oae of the greatest sins of to lipi is detractionâ€" 'ihe blasting of a gooi name. Men have toiled and died, and they must still toil and die to leave a good name. v\ hat must be the depravity, the unspeak- able smallniess aud meanness of that miser- able poltroon who robs a fellow being of his reputation When at the last day ttial un- pardonable and bell born poltroon shall be called to answer for his words, Jehorah' eyes shall trmsfix hi«i wretched soul, and Jehovah shall say, '-L^t his coronation be the summit of torment."â€" i)r. Newman. He stood Bx feet two in his stocking Md every inch a man," lays an exchange. Hem That ia 74 inches; "every inJh » man, would make 74 men. This must be the aame identical ouatomer who wa' 'boat in himaelf." I --.TWietor has been pas h J to B0lemn=ze marriag. P*^ «inol€S find themssl' F°«„rdica«nent. The po r.J)L and the delinquent ^ilfollovred up and caj t *r The punishment w fT^ies who attend royal ' rravely dissatisfied beoj deputed the Princess o I li» guests, and merely rice to gather the gossi "^f^dtell her what ^°fy.„« much of the ev con livA I ^^^ professional bea K nkked eye. Ia newspaper observer in 1 rea that every effort yet D .Uve trade has only ' rdshiP* of the victims, ai »w«l of interference, even i Ivo other measures, woul " He finds reason to t ,at recent events may give jow to the trade. Jit was formeily supposed 1 les were at least as mythicj Vends but all that seem negiam fr*"" Suakim infor ieother day that "some of Lg mounted." Thus a 1 I longer a myth, but a stca le by one vanish the mo=t nsofour early days, I Some of the claimatfs frip him the other day at t Invict prison, cne of whom I was in possession of an cl lowing that Arthur Orton natic asylum since 1871. Iclined to ent rtain any pr Jrence to bis fineniial posit |g to deliberate in the m eration, IPrince Ciiit;!, one of the cb Rome, has called the a; Jlice to the fact that r andering in the streets c fen cruelly abandoned bj- ho come from the prov.i eir children to take care pme is infested by these li ake a living by selling ma I swell the ranks of the vi( g Recent events in the "^jui ar to have excited much i le native journalists of Indi le themselves, as a genera |Bsion of the probability c ent of an Indian continge eb, and to protesting th jsucb a contingent should ainst India â€" which count has no interest in the c: A few nights ago at Vieni I named Cumberland she ty in the crown prince's a I ths spiritualist tricks, e: 1 how they were done, ertainers' thoughts, and Ijects they were thinkin pwn prince and princess, tiasr and his wife, aiKi se ^reled through the palaci The press of Switzerland i â- â-  voice in protest against lich certain notorious ai light of asylum in the B A number cf socialist re left their country â€" mos their country's gojd, hav rich; and several of tr Pers call upon the Zurich ere measures against thesi The A'ricau explorer. Ma fought a duel with Vise Portugal. The meeting mpo Grande, in the sub 'ords were the weapons 'jor inflicted five wounds 1 who, according to the c ibat, was obliged to ct ysicians in attendance de tae adversaries couli not c The Dshebel Naibo, an is -Algeria, eight hundred ft sinking into the earth. ;i«ep hollow round its foci ooua has once before v it of of the instability of tb e Lake F. zzara did not e 'fle Romans, but on the c « occupied by a town ^^ ^1 found at the bottom of .be annual return of the Teat Britain for 1SS:5 sh( number enrolled in that the highest in the histc lumber of efficients w \\\ 199.374, in 1SS2, (the largest number pr aud the percentage of â- a was 96.69, against two previous years « men present at inspec '^s also higher thau eve _^e grand general staff yhavms- now jomplet *rtaco.Germanwar,itl the same thing, on i P^fhensive as scale as i TOjofi'rederickthei Moltke has therefore i, inStr°?^i" "«!»* or 1« Pubh,hed documents, i ^^»nnj? on the subject !^*f«m the executio iSL^^i^tfoducec »«»tly complained »\;S?*»«^ii«try of ^m'^M »no and Ithei low^^^i that 5 ira. %J*t» » total oi (^"•»«Br 1881 h '•kaiwi em