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 -,' r,;;AtV,.^.- '?V^5P^^^'^^^^' â- pmH THE STORY OF A WOMAN-HATER i â- :f; c:i I Poor Miu Onnt looked aghast not that •ibe im^ined the ohlld wunld come to any liarxn, but the idea of hia going to Colonel Cfaalmen and bothering him vaa a dreadful «ne. So, depoiidog her puodi, the roahed off them and tiMre to the **enaluaited oaetle," M the ohfldren called' tt. The Colonel looked ntdter alarmed aa he â- av a frah vidtor approaching, flad liiaa. Sophia or IOm Janet bean at home, he voold probaUy have nuhed indoora for them mt, oaf ortnnately ttey were both oat oalUng, and aa he ootdda'c leave a lady standing in the middle of hia path withont •ddreanig her, he advaaced ooorteooaly, hat in hand, towards har, hardly reaamred by ^VonnaD'a iHiiapafing. '*It^a only 2£in Grant she'a oeme for me." "I bei; your pardon, I'm rare," exohJmed hia Tiaifeor, almost as much disooncerted at the aif^t of the renowned Ogre as he was at the sight of her. "I have been ont and when I oame home the children told me Norman had come here. I am so sorry he shoald have troaibled yon ' and she looked reproaohfoUy at the oakrit, who looked np penitently. ** Did I bother yon " he inquired. " Not at allâ€" not at all," retomed the Colonel, pattin.it the dark bead reawnringly. â€" " I assure yan, madam," he continued, turning to Miss Grant, "I have enjoyed having him immensely. He is quite a com- panion." "It is very kind of you to say so," ans- wered the girL "I was afraid he had been in yonr way. â€" No I won'o come in, thank yon," in reply to the Colonel's polite invit- ation to come in and rest. " It is time tor tea, and I must be quick.â€" Come, Notman." Die Colonel bent down. " Wtiil, fiood- bye, little nuui," he said kindly. •'Come and see me again soon, eh I Perhaps mother will let yon come to tea with me to-morrow and bring Master Jack too. â€" May they, d'yon think?" This to Mies Grant, who was waiting very much astonished at the sight of the Ogre allowing Norman to kiss him, an)) not only sllowins, but evidently enj eying the process. " Oh, csrtainly," she answered, " if you care to have them." The Oiipre walked to the gate with them, and as he bade them good-by, he said suddenly: "I hope my sisters will call on you soon." Then, lifting his hat, he retreated into his garden, saying to himself as he walked slowly np the path: "Nice girl that, veryâ€" a sensible nice girl." His sisters on their return were electri- fied by his announcement casually that he had invited some boys to tea tbe next; day. "And you'Jl have to get some cake or jam or something," he added; "for I believe that is what children eat." Idiss Sophia paused in the midst of pouring ont the tea and gaaed in astonish- ment at her brother. 'Do you feel quite well, Frederick, my dear ' inquired the elder lady, while her sister looked acziontly at his eyes, to see if they were rolling insanely. It was the Colonel's turn to look amsi;,8d. "Qaite well T" he echoed. "Of course I feel quite well. Why shouldn't I !â€" Sop- hia, I should like m tea, if you please. handsome youth seated on the drawlng*room sofa. She was rather susprised, and began retreating towards tiba door. "I ttionght Mist Sophia was hew," sh« said hastily. But 4he young soldier sprang np, saying " Pray, dmi'fe go. Allow ma to oali Ceosin Sophia for yon." Then, as the light from the Ump fell on the girl's face and figure, be exoUimed jayfnlly " Why, it's Mary's friend. Miss Grant, isn't it ' " Mr Markham i" exclaimed Lislie. ** This is indeed a surprise. How did yon oome here V " By the train," he replied g»lv. "The fact is, Mary is away in Sjouand, audi so, having no one to go to, I volunteered a visit to my cousins â€" at least my mother's cou- sins they are really â€" I'm awfully glad I came, though," he continued. " Ob," said Leslie demurely; and at that moment the door opened and Miss Sophia came in. "I hope, my dear Geoffrey," she began but catohing sight of L?alie, she stopped. ' ' Has my cousin been introducing bimielif she inquired pleasantly. " Oh no," answered the young man "we are old friends. â€" Aren't we. Miss Grant?" "Very," returned Leslie, smiling and then seeing the look of surprise on Mies Sophia's face she cxpiained that she and Mary Markham had always been ^eat friends, and thus she had be- come acquainted with Mary'd brothisr, Gsoffrey. Then having delivered her mes- sage from Mrs. Tracy, she went off home, to ponder over the strange chance which had brought her old friend and playfellow into her neighborhood. Of course, after this tbe intercourse be- tween the two houses became greater than ever. The Colonel was a great gardener, and he used to go out long rambling walks with his cousin in search of rare ferns or plants, and very often Miss Grant and her charges were of the paity. Needless to say the children stuck by the friend the Colonel, and thus their governess was forced to accept the companionship of Gecffrey. The Belminster ladies said Mrs. Tracy was very wrong in letting her children tcrment " that poor Colonel Chalmers " while they strongly disapproved of the " fast conduct of that Miss Grant" in going out so often with two gentlemen; and they sincerely pitied "those poor dear Miss Chalmerses for having Euch an eccentric brother â€" " such a peculiar man, my dear I Used to hate women, now positively Wor- ships them." Had the Belminster ladies seen the adoring glances which Geoffrey cast at Leslie when no one was looking, not even herself â€" had they seeo the girl's happy smUe as she sat at night by ber bedroom window and recalled the hundred little tokens of a certain person's admiratioo, they would probably have been etill more horrified. 3?he fact of the matter was than Geoffrey was growing more and more in love every day. He had always secretly admired hia sister^ friend but by the time his furlough was drawing to an end, he knew that he loved her honestly and sincerely, and he could not bear the idea of going away with- tite girl bar brotker had loved. lb was ihe who, at h«r owa request, arrayed the girl in her glisteidng bridal dreas when about a year later Geotfrey led her, a happy and oontant- ad bride, to tha altar of St. MngMraf a, Bal- minster; and it waa sha who, whan tha caremony was over, gathered np a few of she flowers which had carpeted the Iiride's path and plaoad tiiam aacratly upon a qi^et grave in tha ohnrohyard hard by, two or tiiree tears trickling dawn upon their snewy patala aa slia thought loringly of ' Brother Fradarlok." [thx rao A Hint for Tonng Giils- When your sweetheart oomes to see you, don tbe foolish eioigh to confine your Bweetaess to him altn). Have him in where ail the rest of tha household ^fa. Let the talk and the chatter and the music an'l the playing of games be in tbe home circle. Then the few minutes that ha gets with you by yourself will seem all the more dellghtiful, and he will think yon the most loving little creature in the world. Men are much more said, observant than they are credited with being, and the man worth having aa a husband is the cne who will appreciate your love for those of yonr own people and will see that as yon m%ke a small part in one home, you are becoming adapted for the j oattla home and tied np to the diaselbeam of central figure in another. Never say that I tha wagons for the night then, by lighting you den't expect a man to marry your whole I a oonple of fires and leaving tne dogs looie, family. Its's vulgar. Yon do. That is, if yon are good daughter and a loving sister. You want him to be one with you in aym- pa:hy and in affection, and as you take his name, so you assume responsibilities as far as his people are conceinsd. Yon, two, are the most to each otherâ€" your love for each other should be the greatest, but yon cannot isolate yourselves and inaiat that you have no dutiea ontaide your home. If you do this you become narrow and selfish, and you are quite too nice a girl for that. So re- member when he comep, this bridegroom of yonrs, that hia heart la bound the tighter to you if the ribbon need to hold it has written upon it in golden lettera, "Lave and coniid- eration for those at home." A Btisiige Allianoe* The foUoviDg tna atnry might ainoat be ranked witbaoma of JEmp'a fables, under Iha naow ai *1lM Man, tiM lion* and tka Baboons.' It Is relatad Iqr a orediUa witneas, Mr. Obarles fioUand LiUIa, who wma travel ing in south Afrioi^ The f aot tliat lions have been observed, on other oooasions, to be in- timidated by baboons is mentioned in stand aird works of natnral history. Mr. LUlie writes "We were oatepanned by the aprirg of Mooifontoin (Bsantif nl Water) in Bschnana- land, onr business being that of traders in wool, featiiers and ivory. We had oome 30 miles through the veldb â€" a long nali for oxen â€" and we, tlierefore, detonnlned to rest the -entire day at this grateful little pateh of verdure and water. Oar camp and equip ment consisted of two large hooded buok° wagonsr with about 30 draught oxen, 13 KvfSrs, andenr two selves â€" thatis, Nleland. the Dutch trader, and myself. 'It wanted rsther more than an hour to snndown, when Nieland turned to me, and 'I am going to walk as far as that kopje (hillock) and see if ttie cattle are on the other side; the "boya" ought to b brin4ingthemin bynow' and away he went. It was our practice, as it is the general cna* tom of traders and travelers, to have tbe and his here. being wanred,~oVr deliverance J After the reciwi' 6«-.?J^ Whether tbe babo^nJSS^S â- .il tha linn .1 "â-  "W* i-./^jI â€"Why shonldn't I feel well " he continued. cut knowing his fate, Ss one day at'dinner " Of course there's no reason why you j he announced casually that he would run should not," replied Mias Janet "only, it's, in next door to take Norman seme soldiers very odd, yju know " and the two sisters looked deapairingly at each other. Their brother atared. " Well," he aaid at length, a grim smile playing over his fea- tures, " it is odd, I suppose. Bat you see I didn't know before how nice beys were. ' Whatever their feelings were upon the nice- neas of boys in general, his sistars did net express them and greeted the boys very kindly when they appeared tbe next evening washed and brushed into a state of Sunday tidiness and certainly the little fellows, when the first shyness wore off, were very amusing. They told their hosts that "mother " had gone away for a fortnight, and they were afraid Miss Gi-ant fonad it very dull at home. " We don't know many people, you aee," Jack explained, " and of course she must get tired of talking to ua eometimea." When Mias Janet had taken the boys into the dining-room to get some cake before going home, the Colonel turned to Misa Sophia " You had better ask that girl in sometimes," he said quietly " It would do her good." " But 1 thought you objscted to girls " exclaimed his sister. " Not to girls like that. I don't like old women. Bssidea, I can go to my study when Hike." The result of this was that Laslie Grant, as she was called, became a frequent visitor at the enchanted castle and very soon shared the boy's opinion that the Colonel was "an old buck," and his sisters "two of the j oili- est old girls in the world." Indeed, when Mrs. Tracy came home, she was very much astonished at the degree of intimacy wbioh had sprung up between her family and the neighbors. So great, indeed, had this in- timacy become, that when Colonel Chalmers was tied to the fireside with a bad cold, the ohildren were always running in with little gifto and words of consolation while the two sister's found Leslie's help invaluable in the matter of. cheu playing, reading aloud, and otherwise amusing the invalid, who gradually oame to look for her coming and to feel that she was as necessary to hia com- fort as his sisters. He never owned this feeling even to himself, for he would have oonaidered it disloyal to those good sisters Who were so devoted to him. The winter drew to an end. The Colon- el's oold had departed, but his sff;;ction for the ohildren did not vanish with the snow. They were so constantly rnnning in there, that Mrs. Traoy grew quite uneasy lest they should worry the Chalmeraea, and Misa Sophia could liardly persuade her that they er joyed having them. "Dear Frederick" Waa so much brighter ainoe he had known thesl^ she assured her and indeed no one would have belived that tha courteous, ^asant man who s»t chatting with ihc four ladies almost every evening was the same man ts tha Frederick Chalmars of a year One morning, as he sat reading his paio* and letters at the breakfast table, he looked n, aaying "Here, Sophia: I've got a note fzoas GeoxBrey. Ha is eoaaing here for hia fariooirb. if .we oan have him. ShaU I write aadtallhmtooomal" "Of oeiuaa,j^r dear Frederick," replied Uasistar. " I see no reaboa why he shesld â- ot oome. We are quite prepaied to have he had promised him and to borrow a song from Mrs. Traoy. " I shan't be very long, I don't suppose," he added as he donned his hat and tha next moment he was gone. About an hour after this. Colonel Chal- mers suddenly bethought himself that he ought; to cive Mrs. Tracy a bock he had premised her and not caring to truKt the work, a valunble one, to the servants, he strolled across himself. " Mrs. Tracy in 1" he ir quired. â€" " Yes in tbe drawing room, air, ' replied the maid.â€" "Oh, well I'll just take this np mycelf " Cnd he ascended tbe Eoftly-sarpeted staur to the first floor. The dravtring room door was slightly open, and lifiicg the heavy crimson portiere, he g1FC3d in to see if Mrs. Tracy were indeed thoie. liub tbe sight which met his eyes drove all thoughts of Mrs. Traoy and her book frcm hia mind for there, standing with their backs to the door, and thus un- able to see the intruder, were Geoffrey and Leslie. The head of the young man was bent over the fair gfarllsh one which leant trnstfoUy against his qhoulder, and a voice whispered, "My darling, do you really and truly love me?" tmote on the ear of the astcniahed Colonel. He did not wait for the answer â€" that was legible enough in the con- fiding attitude of the bent golden head, and in the movement of a little white hand into the strong brown one near it. Softly he let fall the curtain and turned towards the stairs with a half-stonned feeling, for that short glimpse had shown him that foi him at least the world only contained one wom%n, and she was the affiuiced of another. "Fool, dolt that I have been)" he mur- rilured as he turned down the garden patli. "Why did I let her think me nothing but a crusty old btehelor I Why, oh, why didn't I find out how dear she was before Geoffrey oame between usl" By the time he reached home, after a wild and appearently aimless walk, he had come to view the matter from a more ra- tional point and although Ids heart ached as much as ever, he yet managed to nm- men up a smile and a gruff, "Wish yon joy, Mrs, Gladstone* Mrs. Catherine Gladstone, wife of the Grand. Old Man, was a Mias Giynne half a centary ago. At her marriage she brought- her huaband Hawarden castle, overwhicit she has reigned a firm but quiet queen. She ia the mother, aa her illnatridna hiu- band pute it, of a quartette of sons and a quartette of daughters, and is described as a woman of great moral and mental strenstb whom a atranrer would worahip, but never preaume to love save at a diatance. Her hair is gray but abundant, and reaembles aatin in texture, ao care- fully ia it brushed over her ears and imder a snowy little cap of fine lace and black velvet loops that fall over her neck in the back. She dresses always in black, and her velvet basques are made very high ia the collar and finished with a lace ruche that reaches quito to the pointed, slightly dimpled chfaa. The only sort of trimming ahe wears is a set of lace wrist rcfiles with bands of the delicate web laid on the sleeves of the dress covering it from frill to elbow. Her face was oval in form and still full in outline, the splendid height of forehead coverfaig more tban a third of the facial measurement. She hu her own corner in the Hawarden library, where ahe is surrounded by her favorite authors, all little, handable books, Mrs. Chant ca'ls themâ€" and statuettes that crowd space and attention. The£ggaof Fish. Oae naturalist found ever 12 000 eggs in alohsterand another over 21000. An in- te;t very similar to an aht (Mutilla) haa pro- duced 80,000 egfa in a single day, and Lou- went teak seems to compute 4,000,COO as the crab's share. Many fishes produce an in- credible number of ej^gs. More than 36,- COO havu been counted in a herring, ;^8 000 in a amelfc, 1 000.000 in a sole, 1,130 000 In a roach, 3,000.000 in a aturgeoo, 342 000 in a carp, .388 OCO in a tench, 546 OOD in a mackerel, 992.000 in a perch, and 1,357.000 m a flounder. But of all the fishes ever yet discovered, the cod seems to be the most prolific. One naturalist computes that this fish produces more than 3.686 000 eggs, and another as many as 9,444,000. A rough calcuUtion has shown that were one per cent, of the eggs of the salmon to result inf ull gro TO fish,and were they and their progeny to continue to increase in the same ratio they would in about eixty years amount in bulk to many times the size of the earth. Nor is the salmon the moat prolific of species. In a yeUow perch weighing threo and a half ounces have been conntea 9 943 egga. and in a smelt, ten inchea and a half in length. 25 i„ i„3° '?*^'S!';*°S experiment waa m»de ^Z.7^^1'1^^ 1/Gl by Charles F. Lund. He obtained from fifty female breams 3 100 000 215 000 young, and from one hundred female muUeta 4 000,000 young. The Lieht of Mercy for AU. th. fl!Ji" they that whiten heaven with the flowing of their garmeate? queries a " •"»»?«'• preacher, "whose hSSS lift "• '»»»*^ harpa? whose K are crowned and wreathed Are they not Wh'„°^^* **,r '!?*^°* 8^* tribuUtion? Who first foUowed Christ along the path I !Â¥""'» "»? «Pon the cross? iK lad," when his cousin came to him with the "'hom were given the kevs ^iL» w eoodnews. '"°«.»» *• »dge of honor Wwltn^ t^ oTt^ 'F?^^ to breTk tbJ he paaa Oat a few daya » iB,-iB tha eeeaia^, Sophia riw iaaad a taU good news. Bat ha did net stay in Bdminater felt he couldn't and when, a day or so afterwards, he found Mias Sopliia suffsring from her old enemy rhsamatinn, he deolarMi that it would be a good plan for them all three to go cff to tomo German baths. So naturally did he make the proposal, that no one except Mias Jaaat anapscted anything; and she having suffered tibe same sorrow in her time, probably had sharper eyes than the rest. Very aorry were the children to bid good- bye to their old friend, whom they were aevsr to see agaia for about a month after- wards they got a letter from Miu Janat telling them that 'dear Frederiok' had passed away, the oaase of his death befaig a oold which had attacked his lungs. To the attar rarpriie of aU Belminater, and of the Misaaa Chalmers themselves, it waa found thM after ^gadea to me or two psople, and the sum of five Oionsaad poaada to each of hia siateta. ***» Ootoaal Ghalawa'a f ertnael ^*** *^"^* iMoaaiderahlo, waa bcqaaath- «WWi»^iiniBlKn£^ oa OtfyMiaJMal^ bytlnByhtof paa^ ex- â€" tUa aa. to of the Gospel Paul, the pwjudios and preach to theQentaea? WasitnS whose h«aJ^'5" PMMoator? And neas was most dense wh« th^Uirhs «f" »««y br oke through a.^ iua niif U? A _, /®^**»MAnni!«t. •mltli Stiir^!?' "*??""»• 8»U- we generally consideredourselves secure from nootumal intruders, though we heard them plainly enough, ahd often saw their stariike eyes peering as na from the gloom. "The *kor je,' as they call small hills In Africa, was probahly further away than Nie- land had imagined for he was some little time in reaoUsg it. Some of the Kiffirs were tquatting by me, where I stood by the fire cooking our supper, and watehing Nie land, as he walked slowly across the heated, shimmering plain. "Arrived at the kopje he ascended it a little, looked on either hide of him, and then mide his way roimd to the other side of the hill. He had acoomplished more than half the distasoe, and waa ont of sight of the camp, when he took another survey. As the Jcopje was broken, tmeven, and rocky, bad for walkinsr, his eyes had been bent on the ground. When he raised them for a more extended view he was horrlfitd to find that he was being watched by an immense lion â€" a great tawny brnte, with a black mane ana flashing eyes. The animal was a little below him, standing [on tbe level gronnd. "Nieland stood perfectly still, startled into absolute immobility, fascinated by the dan$rer of his position. In those few seconds, which seemed to him hours, he was bitterly blaming himself fur having left his gun behind and naturally his hand had gone to his belt, hoping to find, au least, his revolv- er, bat to hi* dismay he was armed with nothing letter than a hunting knife "The lion did not advance, but stood ao if waiting for a movement on the man's part, and the man did the most natnral ihing under the circnmitances. With his face to the foe, he cautiously began to retreat up the hillside. What he hoped for he was scarcely oonaciona of, except perhaps, that he might climb some point inaccessible to rhe four footed beast but it was almost hopeless work, owing to the nature of the ground and his constrained position. "He had not made any great progress when he heard a confused grunting and j*bbering away behind hin. Half turoing his head he glauocd quickly round, and saw a troop of baboons. Along with the man's mo-^ement the lion had advanced. Here the man Was between two fires, the Hon in front and the baboons behindâ€" formidable crea tures these, as he knew them to he, possess- ing enormous strength and having the char- aocera of morose and ungovernable temper. "The jabbering increased, intere parsed with ahrill cries of rage and preaently Meland was aware that the babooes were leaving the heighte above and dcscendicg to where he was. Up to this moment he had not stopped his slow ascent, but now he remained stationary in a orouching'attitude. and drew the knife from his belt. "The baboons oanie, leaplpg and rnnning on all-fonri, down the aides of the atony kopjs, and soon they were round Nieland in a kind of hrreguhir circle. There they stayed, in knots of three and four, and raised the most unearthly din-barking, screaming* ehonting, anl beating their breaste-snoh a tumult as the man had never heard before. "The lion had stopped he had done mere, he had even retreated a little way and then, putting his nose close to the ground, ho uttered a aharp, short, angry roar. 'Thank 5T?:v*"'"'«"^*!'*°^' "^«y will hear that at the camp, and wiU remember that I am away I tJi^}^ baboons, great, powerful hairy fellows, now redoubled their hideous noises, jampiog about their aUotted stations in the greatesi excitomeut. It really appeared as tf.withbriatlfag eyebrows aud^ry dis tending mouths, thsy were makiii tha Kre'S!' '"""""• *° "" '^« »^^-" neSexii" U.*^^ ^k"' "«7' '^^ "« perplexed, lashing the gronnd with his taU: h^S^^ forward. Every time he Vat hia head down the noise of the baboons iWeas^ hL Ww" "• '^^ "*^ " throwingM. S^^^J ' •* "«â- . *cir excma- "•Th? h'Sl"' "" watehf ul than 'ever, xne baboons seemed to sathar oIdba* » «?*«.•«» k«*Pl»gNle£r£"th?°Sdd?; oTthe circle they had formed around him some of the foremoat liah««... j-JL-!^!^ •jr BAliiauaHonâ€" and botiT**^! and the brutea, wUhVl^"CM other's terror. f'or3,'^5S,S tlon society agabit a oor^'^ljl seemed to be an allu. """'e«ZH| asthedangor"„'"«'^t3; olinedtobVeWfchlfiSJj pointed out that the bahZ^O' for him in their circle ,^.«lW 2 parture with the greaCtT* whatever the can!; ^J;' Mop »it«( rwiqjj ward,, when we";:;r4«^SJ| parture with the greaCt^q was naturally thankfal^l!lj^'^s3 bar.ksoftbeModderRZ'^SS -u^y of bis friends tbe babSP^S ^fter Decapitation, In the second part of h;. • ume which treats of thetS*!^^ Ed head of a any^ fact in the oft man beings, D.-_,,, la iho decapitated heado ahZ!^l la there any fact in the nf* r*" " that the head lives for toi:"'*^T ithaabceneparat3Ste5 in connection with thia be .f7' quotes a terrible story told bvvl about an Anamite who ws ^ka% sword in 1885 at Saigon tJJS'^^ execution waa-the Plamo the! L'S" sandy tract aervingas awmeteJl? mitea and the Cbineee. PonT^v^ atea, taken with their arCLte" wereto be beheaded. The chief oSi man m the prima of Ufe-energeaTr, lar, brave, without bcsstine. idfJ^ laat-had attraoteday .p7ct?,S?3 I decided to make my obaeivtt^oaT'i only. His head fell close towElt' didnotrollinthou,ualw.r^tS' wound rejtingoij ?2S! °{ ^^, fowmost baboona dea^nded wIth_redonble_d ncises, to the lownZS' '•"TSe^^Sn^t^JlJa^^^ till he " " lower groond, atill further away, hL L**!^ "T^*^. respsetable dbtenc; noS to tVt^^o^n'^?^ '^^^ r""' vS!^ to!^ ti,l» *^ °v* *â- * â- â€¢"I 'o«h » mighty â- "•"ana, who waa imprisoned so* n» ^JZ\t' "A •"^a'^y iSff dii JSLS" the baboons broke up their ntota^SZ^SZT^* 'Mgedthsmselve. £ g«"jr«h^^d«l ^-Ni.landSS^Si'r-hilWde «'**-we.i'S:stLi;T5ioi?s surface of the sand-a poaiUon by whiclTthrhTnicnk! waa accidentally reduced to a i At thu moment I wm Unmnil aeeiDg the eyes of the dooni?diiMi frankly on my eyes. Noj believe in a coceoiona mmifa I went quickly to oce side of the Is lying at my feet, acd I foncd thit tkiu followed me. Then I returned toi first pasttion still tha ayej wsiit i me for a shore distance and thenqid quite suddenly. The f»ce eiprtaijj that moment a conscious sgonyjihe i of a peraen in a state of acme upiijg The month opened TiolentIy,u if toi in a breath of air, and the htd, thmj its equilibrium by the motion, rolled • Thia contractian ot the maxiliaiy i waa the last sign cf life, binee the iml of decapitation fioih fifteen to twei^ oonda bad paased. D:. Lsye alio i the following story, taken from tJ»J chives of an Auctrian padce cffi%, ud| lating to an execution laid tohini place in Vienna in 16S0 A veil-fa bandit named Schanenbnrg was m^\ gether wit 3 four or bis associatei.i^i were all condemned to death. Ile;i already on their knees, ready to nia their fate, when Schauenbarg addi the judge, askiijg that his foor coinpi might) be racged in single '.» in ftial him at a distance of eight feet tnn i other. ♦-' If," he said, " after I a i headed, I get up and walk to the is\ my comrades, will yon pardon bin!" I judge thought ha was pretty HJehci ing with the rtqaest. "Batiflwalkrf the second, the third, and the fomtli,^ yon pardon him aico?" The jadgen tha*i he would obtaih their pardoafraijj emperor. The partisan wassstiiW" his head, received the nnottil w and his head rolled down but, t« i great turpriee of the jadge and thei] tors, the body goi np, walked »loiie,p the first, second, third and fc:r!i i^ condemned man and fell down, Ihe« rence waa told to iha emperor, who a* ing to promiie, pardoned the fonH" nals. What tiie Birds Seemed To Sjj. A rustic swain who loved adsuaeH* smitten with her charms, bnth»d»-* age to tell his love. At length, fi»W was becoming an object of »"^*1 other swains and that he wa« inwl lotiog her, be was mduced toinvwai walk with him to a epot where lown' fond of rambling, np a shady l»ne.a«» was full, but his lips were closed;M not bring bis courage to the fomr while she, poor thing, cast d"" "' and was perfectly mute, th«"f^'"l|i stood for what purpose he had WWH to that lonely spot. At length i wrajl to sing on Johri'a side of the row "-| lucky thought struck him. " Bessie," said he, withsgena««! of the arm, " dost hear yon bird- " I do," ahe anawered. " What does it aeem to he asked. " 1 cannot tell." said she. it seem to thee?" "Whist, Bessy," cried h«: thee*i*l "its .Mlcw**! gilenoeBBfl',, me to sing, " I love thee They walked on m """""jirf began to sing on tbe danwe" •*" ""johnny," «ld. he. "dortl"« bird?" "Indeed I do," he »^^\iMitii " Well,"fshe went on, "what"" to chee U sing " " I cannot tell," he said. •* What did thy bird ^ogJ."\a, "Why, mv bird w»g.j%*»l anolher gentle Eqaeczj: i love thee 1'" u:-i»i(!: " Well," said she. " my J""' it I Show it!'" [„fr, like medicine, 1 do nothing exoelli atare. J speak of what th( k pleases them, fomen are too imsgin Twever talkative a y Lies her silence, lirtue a word easy fe nderstand. [re can not always obi J speak obligingly. I is to a woman thai 4 it needs conaolatioi ihere are beautiful Ltless, and beautiful hvaDle. loiradays we no lonj â- e and our pleasure "' Xe need the friends kt trials of a womai yday life. JTothing proves more t olhable marriage ti don. (bare is a greater d 18 men and others, t 1 and beaste. _gh positions are li! J steep rocks eaples reach them. jjrery man has three jch he exhibits, that |t which he thinks he yithonfc the idea^ t irce of all progress, " and what woul-i socie Tomen are right to ci », since beauty is the I do not contest with t iThe "Oscau " A eigl fansive animals is cf ce an Atlantic voyage aid to appiosch near liarity about these wi i tail, which ?-- nf-n ve I, but level, l-v ^vhicl |ch the surface of the wi lity for the purpose of 1 b the strength that dea are able with ite a naelves entirely out of 1 ia their only inatrume Ith one stroke of it they kt with ite crew in air ad into a thousand pi [animal will take a pe in the water, nward and rearing ii beat the waves with I thoae occasions the sea Ice around. The perfor aaflore "lob taiUng." tat one-third of ite bodj ksoft, thick mass, whic â- â- Mered a great delicacy ght of royalty. Their gmlike a man's, and th T young. A whale has Ir sense of hearing is ii f ttin is removed a small M for the admission f* perception of all mo\ fwsterit dhoovers da â„¢.». The eyes are sm pteing ia acute. whale does not attain f â- *y five years, and is t rgreatage. They live » herds, and are of a ki M»«mct of family affect »«?Ped. Whales have I oh whalebones grow *j*ir, Bojal SignatT QaeenU signature to I «i'k""i?i " firmness i !^ her Majesty's adv •.*["'• fa» the boldly w L»^* -ke attach J to rJl,^" the royal ac R^tttan Statesmen Uvin. 7^« the question c •**«mentebythesove ^wwrableimpertancei l|!J*^*»»insncha fcJrL*"«?R of nume CHS^y^Po-iblef. Ci£«"«Wanoeeashort lphbf^*®^» '^^^ FiZg^ofaninked ttt!?*',1' however, i, ^•^d before stami Kg^ST^bjl assent iSr ?*»nn»ents iy«» him withon »» iLl!S^ 'ormnlai fcaiS??!*^ bnt firn jHf' that we Urn. fcrthadiort '-V'Wt^^t^wii" storm "Fine night," said Jon" ' eat of the olub. tJudx^L. "Yea," answered Brown«^j„#l striking the hour of 12, """iVn but I expect it wUl storm wM»* •- One of the Troubles WM**^ Siagleton (falling ^f^'J^^J'i tile Widow BjoneB-"Mi* «53f i*^ ••-will yoBâ€" oan eaaMay " tDna Widowâ€" "0, ^, Ttnrraddan, but ,_,^n ^ji magiSmT (oantianta|KrJ ^^ lawTllevey*'*^ you brisf Mr. 8I«**' iCH.,