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G. F." (Cowbridge).-Take the following:- Citrate of iron and ammonia two drachms, tincture of nux-vomica one drachm and a half, glycerine three drachms, water to six ounces; dose, one tablespoonful three times a day. (2) Not so often. (3) Very common at this time of Year. T. U." (Abernant).-Apply a piece of old calico soaked in hazeline to the part before going to bed. K"ep the bowels regular by attending to your diet.. Eat brown bread, vegetables, and fruit. Havo porridge for supper. C. T. E." (Pembroke Dock).—It is-a tonic, and can be obtained at any chemist's. (2) Not suitable for all constitutions. S. c. M," (Lianelly) .-(I) You should squeeze out as many as you can at night, then steam over boiling water, dry quickly with a rough towel; afterwards rub in a little sulphur oint- Inent. (2) Not generally. (3) Avoid eggs and 841t meat. "AVONDALE (Penartit).-Take ten drops of tincture of steol in a little water twice a day, and drink no beer nor spirits at present. WPINB" (Carmarthen).—Keep your hair cut short, shampoo overy three weeks, and brush regularly three times a day. Continue for three months, and then write us. "ALLTWEN" (Pont-irdtwe).-A young man of your age ought to think about something else; don't, worry so much about yourself. Take Fellow's Syrup of Hypophosphites—one teaspoonful twice a day. "J. E. R." (Swansea).—Follow advice given to Pine" (Carinai,ttieii). "STANLEY" (Begelly),-Tliey arise from various causes. You should have the child examinud by a physician. II J. M." (A beryalwit li).-F,)) low advice given to S. C. M (1) (Llanelly). "ANXIOUS" (Ctrii ff).-Out door exercisa is good for you sparring is not. GLANTAW." (Lianelly).-At your age you should be mnrried. Give up your bad habits, and follow advice given to "Avondaltj" (Penarth). How to Go to Sleep. A physician recommends a cup of hot bouillon or hot milk, sipped slowly, but while still hot, before going to bed, as a better sleep inducer than all the opiates in the pharma- OOPmia-ar, better even than a clear con- science, which isn't very good ethics, you know, but which may be very good medical doctrine notwithstanding. At any rate, his explanation, therefore, is a solid one. The hot floid taken into the stomach brings about an increased activity of the blood vessels of the OtOMach--a slight temporary congestion, which relieves the over-charged blood vessels in the brain, and so induce a natural and refreshing sleep. To give this remedy its utmost potency, however, no food should be taken with it, not even a tiny wafer, and the liquid should be sipped as hot as it can be borne. For Sea Sickne s; A naval surgeon publishes this plan for curing seasickness The successful treat- ment of sea sickness, which surgeons afloat have so much to do with, and which generally they are unable effectively to alleviate, must prove my excuse for bringing before the profession the curative effect of kola. In the few cases which I have lately had to deal with I have found the internal administration of the seed of the kola a most successful remedy. Half to one drachm of the seed chewed slowly was fol- lowed, in about forty minutes, by complete cessation of the various symptoms of mal de Wier; the depression, vomiting, and giddiness disappeared; the heart's action was regulated and strengthened, and a confidence was felt in heavy weather that my cases never before experienced during the many years that they served iu the Koval Navy, and had tried the usual remedies prescribed by their advisers. At present no means of preventing sea sickness in those susceptible to it is known and I venture to believe that in the kola, or its alkaloid, we have one, and that a larger trial of this drug will tend to support my opinion. From its well-known sustaining and in- vigorating properties during fatigue, for which it is daily used by the natives on the West Coast of Africa and the Soudan, its action in sen sickness seotns to be the giving tone to the nervous system, proving a stimu- lant—acting generally and iocally. The Air of Bedr oms.. The conviction that night air is unwhole- some and should be rigidly excluded, once so prevalent, probably now only survives amongst the most unlettered and ignorant. At the present day it cannot be too strongly asserted that for those who enjoy reasonably good health night air is as wholesome as that of the day, and may even be said to be purer, as it is more free from dust and spores raised from the ground by winds, human traffic, and evaporation. In towns many people sleep with the windows shut to deaden the noipe of the streets, which in busy cities like London are rarely without traffic of some sort except in the early morning hours, rather than to avoid inhaling night air. That the practice is ex- ceedingly common amongst the working classes is shown by an observer at Leeds, who on several occasions in July and August has counted the number of open and shut bedroom windows in a workman's quarter in that town, and found only about 33 per cent. of the windows to be partially open, the remaining 67 per cent. being tightly closed. In winter the percentage of closed windows is probably much higher. The occupation of bed- rooms with closed doors and windows creates an atmosphere often sufficiently vitiated to cause weariness and drowsiness in the early morning instead of that feeling of renewed life and vigour that should be experienced, and much of the headache and neuralgia so constantly met with may be reasonably credited to the same oause. If anyone will take the trouble to return to his shut-up bedroom after spend- ing ten minutes in the fresh morning air outside he will be surprised to find how close and disagreeable is the atmosphere in which he has spent the last eight or nine hours. We (British Medical Journal) would, tnen, recom- mend to all who are in health the adoption of open bedroom windows at night, The effect of the purer air will soon be ascer- tained in increased health and spirits and a larger capacity for bearing the toils and troubles of the day. Choosing an Occupat on. Some occupations are, in their nature, dangerous to health. Persons employed in the manufacture of white lead, for instance, show in their pallid faces the poisonous effects of the vapour of lead gases inhaled, and few are able to continue the work for more than ten or twelve years. It should be said, however, that good authorities assert that a continuous milk diet will effeot an elimina- tion of the poison. So, also, those whose daily work involves the inhalation of mnoh dust, especially that of iron, oopper, blaoklead, and coal, can hardly escape harm, unless they wear nasal protectors and train themselves to keep the mouth shut. Many of the more modern employments have in them harmful tendencies. The writing clerk is in danger of writer's cramp—often a serious infirmity. In many oases the mental ) tension of railroad engineers and telegraph operators results in distressing nervous ail- ments. The pastor is exposed to nervous exhaustion from the incessant intellectual demand made on him within and beyond his parish, the draughts on his moral and sympa- thetic susceptibilities by his care of souls, and his visits to sick rooms and the homes of death. The physioian suffers from irregular, interrupted, and often insufficient sleep, from long rides in every sort of weather, as well as from secret anxieties over many of his patients. Merchants suffer from the pressure of competition, from the com plica-I tions and harassing contingencies of business, and from the financial crises that so often prostrate in irretrievable ruin the strongest and most conservative bouses. The farmer has his peculiar anxieties, and, at certain seasons, a very severe pressure of work. Still, most of his work favours health, while seasons of pressure are followed by seasons of relaxation and rest. Besides, the introduc- tion of machinery has greatly shortened the seasons of pressure and lessened his force. Parents in choosing an employment for their ohildren, or giving them advice upon the subject, should study their temperaments and inherited tendencies. Children of consump- tive parents should seldom engage in seden- tary occupations. Those who have inherited weak hearts should not engage in work in- volving much severe strain. A person of un- stable nerves should not go into business that makes large and constant draughts on the nervous system. Obesity. Obesity is not peculiar to any particular period of life. Are, however, does un- doubtedly exercise a considerable influence on the production of fat-for example, children are usually relatively fatter than adults, and, again, after the middle period of life fat often accumulates in large quantities. Females are more predisposed to the occur- rence of obesity than are men, and women who have never borne children seem to be more frequently affected than those who have had several pregnancies—or rather, perhaps, we should say, than those who have had the cares and anxieties of bringing up a large family. It is said that hereditary tendency exercises a marked influence in the produc- tion of corpulence, and this statement is in conformity with our every-day experience. Race, again, is an important element in the question; the Americans are re- markable for their thinness, and the Arabs are almost destitute of fat; whilst on the other hand Europeans, and more especially the English and Dutch, are proverbial for the fulness of their figures. In Hottentot women, fat accumulates largely in the neighbourhood of the posterior region, so as to form a con- siderable prominence; and it is said, we know not with what tru h, that if they fall down on the side of a hill they experience considerable difficulty in getting up again. Individual peculiarity or idiosyncrasy comes in as an important factor in the production of obesity. Some people are naturally fat, others lean some become corpulent on a moderate diet, otliers remain thin when reared in the midst of plenty and in the lap of luxury. Over-feeding will in the majority of people induce fat, ar.d so will the habit of taking a great deal to drink, though it be only water. Fat people are not always great eaters, but they have invariably a great capacity for im- bibing fluids. l'arinaoeous and vegetable foods are fattening, and sugar in all forms is an especially powerful agent in the produc- tion of fat. In sugar-growing countries the negroes and cattle employed on the planta- tions grow remarkably stout while the cane is being gathered and the sugar extracted. During the harvest the. saccharine juices are freely consumed, but when the season'is over, the superabundant fat is gradually lost. Ease of mind and repose of body are conditions highly favourable to the formation and accu- mulation of fat, and so are insufficient exeroise and indulgence in much sleep. Anxiety, fret- fulness, and that condition to which we refer when we say say a person is I fidpety,' have a directly opposite effect." The Jbamily Thysh dan.

SINGULAR THEATRICAL REGU- LATIONS. BY FLANEUR." J Now that the question of employing children at theatres has been raised, it may not be out of season to state that in 1769 the Parish of St. Eustach*, in Paris, would give no relief to parents whose ohildren were em- ployed by actors or actresses. Nay, more, the parish excluded'from eleemosynary aid those operatives who worked for the opera, the drama, or kindred spectacles. Similarly ex- cluded were tailors and the hirer out of fancy dresses and masks. On the approaoh of a fete day no assistance was doled out, in order to aeoure sobriety on the part of the vagrants.

CHEESE FOR EVERMORE. In the Ormonts, Gessenay, and le Valais of France-all cheese-making centres—when an old inhabitant is interred, the "funeral meats" consist of a cheese made in their honour on the day of their birth, of their baptism, and of their marriage.

■ —w—— THE MATRIMONIAL NEWS" CASE. Sensational Discovery of Money. Further disclosures were made on Tuesday in the case of Mr. Duncan, of the Matrimonial J*™ aouinst whom Miss Knowles obtained a *erd»ct for £ 10 000 for breach of promise. It may be remem- bered that in the course of the amounting to «. «M>00. a Miss Gordon and another lady who had claims I* Stewart, tl » £ led, nrnocfidinfs to be issued, winch resulted in a criminal prosecution. on Niondayl however, Mr. Duncan disclosed the fact that a sum of £.OOO was in the National Safe Deposit, Queen Victor ia-s I reet, and there, under the authority of a warrant from the bankruptcy court, in a box mark y Gordon," was found £ 4,000 in notes and £ 2,000 in gold and jewellery.

Crime Through Jealousy, At Hanworth, near Twickenham, on Monday a labourer named Hedges, aged 50 years, who, in consequence of illness, has been unable to folio his calling for some time past, is alleged to have attacked his wife with a hammer, inflicting three severe wounds on her head and afterward-i com- mitted suicide. The woman £ crawl to the house of a neighbour, wnere she received every attention, and UP°" being medically examined it was found that her skull was fractured. The police were informed of tho affair, and on proceeding to the! the traeedv was enacted they found the body ot Hedges ?n a'bedroom with his throat; eni from ear to ear. The woman, who is a 8ob.0.r»,1"„ f)^11 person, and has a family of ten c:i » j:tjon lying at the neighbour's house, and her coition stated to be precarious^ Jealousy la as* g the motive for the tragedy.

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THE LADIES. TPONOUGHLY SUBDUED. Her charms subdued him ere they wed, But now her tongue does it instead. FOLLOWING THE MEN EVEN YET. The use of tobacco by ladies is evidently on the increase in Paris. In London cigarettes are not unknown; it is, in fact, common enough nowadays for a lady to produce her silver or enamelled cigarette case; but in France the cigarette is said to be giving place to the cigar, and one popular lady writer says the practice is growing, and if not checked will be found to be well-nigh uncon- trollable. now TO PRESERVE BEAUTY. Do you want some sound suggestions on the promotion and preservation of beauty ? Well, eat fruits three times a day; prefer vegetables, eggs, and soup to meat and bread drink water in wholesale quantities, but not one drop of iced water spend an hour at each meal, and if possible take a nap after dinner; make a medicine of water for internal and external application and use laughter as a laxative. In olden times tea and toast were presoribed for sick headache and bilious attacks; now wise women drink hot water for a day at intervals of two hours. Sleep eight hours at night and as many hours during the day as you can steal. When you want to look your very best for a oompany or enter- tainment take a hot bath and go to bed and sleep for an hour. Pretty clothes are wonder- fully refining, too. REQUISITES OF BEAUTY. A pretty woman must first of all have clearly cut regular features. She must have full, clear eyes. She must have a skin that is above re- proaoh, untouched by rouge or powder. She must have glossy hair that has never known the touch of bleaoh or dye. She must have a good figure, plump enough, yet slender enough, though never suggestive 10 of an angle. She must have a white, expressive hand, preferably a small one, but not of necessity, if it is well k 'pt and white. She must have small ears and a throat that is like a marble column for her head. She must know how to put on her clothes. or she loses half her beauty. She must fully understand what suits her best in the way of hair dressing, and cling closely to that. A woman may have all these attractions, and unless her own personality is charming, unless she has taot, it dawns upon you, after you have seen her once or twice, that she is not a pretty woman but a pretty doli. A MODEL BFLL14. The daughter sits in the parlour, Reclined in her easy chair She's clad in her silks and 9Fticigg And jewels are in her hair. Her father goes clad in russet, And ragged and seedy at that His coats are out at the elbows- He wears a shocking bad hat. She lies abed in the morning, Till neirly the hour of noon, Then coines down snapping and snarling, Becatise she was called too soon. Her colour is made of cosmetics, Though this she never did ownj Her figuro is mado of cotton, Her heart is made of stone. She falls in love with a fellow Who swells with a foreign air; Bp marries her for her money, She marries him for his hair. One of tho very best matches— 13 ith are well mated for life; Slie's got a fool for a Im.band, And he's got a fool for a wife. THE KITTENISH GIRL. This sort of young lady, it goes without saying, is small in stature and generally in feature. She may or may not be pretty, but she must be passably plump, soft and caress- ing. Blue, blaolc, or brown will do for her eyes—grey is most fascinating this year- but they are better round than long, for that helps to the childlike, appealing gaze, so large a part of the kittenish girl's capital, especially when they open wide under a little curly fringe. This type of girl, too, has tears continually on tap; a bit of sarcasm, a burned finger, or the sorrows of a rich, young man, turns the tap promptly, though for general effectiveness there is nothing better than a wounded bird or a lame kitten. Either admits of twenty pretty poses and tearful little sobs that show the tender heart of the sweet young thing. The kittenish girl is most cruel to the juvenile young man. lie, with heart untried and faith in woman, falls an easy prey. When the embryo tabby sees him approaoh, she sharpens well her little claws and strokes smoothly over them the velvet fur; all the mouser instinct is alive within her now. Softly she purrs her soothing song into young Thomas's ear, and playfully she gambols about him until he has lost all doubt; then, tired of her prey and longing for another victim, she sharply puts out her dainty paw and scratahes Jeep and hard into an honest heart. THE EVOLUTION OF THE GIRL. ') he girl of the period has won the day. She has asserted as a right what began as a privlege—namely, the power of enjoying herself. She has even gone further, and declared that she can do it better without man than with him. The girl of the future is a law unto herself. So far from regarding man as her benefaotor and protector, she looks upon him as her hereditary enemy, and declares-with shrieks—that she will never submit to the degredation of marriage nor place herself upon an equality with so low an animal. This opinion frequently modifies with increasing years and the extinction of the race is not seriously, contemplated at the present moment. Girl says she will have things all her own way in the future, and claims the privilege of working at what are called the professions." She seems in- clined to carry the day, and her boast of being man's intellectual superior may be true enough but are the positions to be reversed ? From the earliest days of her emancipation from the position of the beast of burden (and before then, for all we know), woman has had the upper hand of man. for she has had com- plete control of the fiercest passion of human nature. One thing is extremely unlikely— namely, that a race which has reached the! proportions and possesses the vitality of the human race is going to stop because of the over-development of one section of it. Its marvellous adaptability to changed conditions will conquer even the girl problem, CYCLING- FOR LADIES. The prejudice against cycling as an unsuit- able performance for ladies has happily died out, as completely as the notion that a lady violinist must be a mannish and altogether unfeminine creature. But it may be worth while to call attention to the exceptional merits of tricycle (not bicycle) exercise for women. Many women suffer from want of proper exercise-niany cannot play lawn tennis, they may not have the obanoe-or ride, they may not have the money-or dance, they may not have sufficient money or inolination -or rink, or row. for the same reasons-and. lastly, many cannot even walk, Yes, many women, especially after a oertain time of life, cannot walk to any purpose, simply beoause it fatigues them to carry their own weight; but most women, though musoularly weak elsewhere or inactive for a variety of reasons, are naturally strong in the hips, and their ankles and knees, once relieved of the body's weight, which is entirely borne for them by the friendly tricycle, are found fully equal to driving that admirable maohine for an indefinite time without fatigue. We cannot legislate for exoeptional cases or for exoessive and violent use. Yon may over-do tricyoling as you may over-do rinking, rowing, walking, and everything else; but it is an un- doubted fact that numbers of men and women who have thought themselves, from age or infirmity, for ever cut off from every form of pleasurable and health-giving exeroise, have suddenly taken to tricycling, and, putting back the hands of the clock some ten years, seem to themselves to have broken into a new world of restored health and juvenility.— The Queen,

NUGGETS. iDe girl who is often lost in admiration easily finds herself in love. There is nothing about a woman that takes a man's eye so quickly as her umbrella, Man was made to mourn, but he has fixed things so that his wife has taken the job off his hands. Our idea of a real nice girl is one who can be with poorer people and resist talking of the nioe things she has. No woman would ever answer a call by telephone without smoothing down her hair, working up a smile, and trying to make a good impression on the transmitter. Within a hammock snug they sat; But how the two behaved One could not tell, it was so dark, Had it not boon for the remark, Oh, George, you must get shaved A mother always feels complimented when you tell her how much she looks like her daughter; but the man who thinks to please the daughter. by telling her how much she looks like her mother is a fool.

FASHION FANCIES. Curly Astrakan fur is in great demand this year. One of the newest combinations of the mantle maker is Astrakan and sealskin, an Astrakan jacket and sealskin sleeves, and vice versa, being apparently the height of the fashion. M The newest kind of coat is made of a large plaid fitted quite tight to the figure, and with enormous velvet sleeves, larger than we have ever had them, with the velvet laid in folds the length of the arm, and wide gauntlet cuffs. • Ladies who wish to be in the fashion must discourage wavy and ourly hair and go in for that more artificial style we associate with the miniature period, when smooth looks and little ourls plastered primly on the forehead were so general. Hair is now, it is said, to be worn arranged in a series of loops down the back, whilst the diminutive fringe left on the fore- head is to be as flat as a postage stamp and as closely stuck down. # The harlequin shoes are the most fashion- ablo just now, both for evening and day wear. They are braided with very narrow ribbon, all I stitohed on by hand, so as to form fine stripes. These are to wear with the dresses made of finely striped material, and the oolourings of the dress and of the shoes have to be matched exactly. The effect is extremely good, the costume having a very completed appearance when the shoes are in perfeot keeping with it, both in style and colour.

THE FRENCH WERE RELIGIOUS ONCE. (By "FLANEUR."] Historic proof that too Wftre re- ligious—in 1709: France was then in such desperate straits that the nation devoted forty hours to continued prayer for suocess at the Battle of Malplaquet. That, and their loss ef 27,000 men, failed to win.

SHOOTING TAME BIRDS. A Captain Summoned for Alleged Cruelty to Swans. At Pembroke Petty Session-, held on Monday (the myor, Dr. Morrison, in the chair), Captain Henry Do Haig was summoned "for that he, on the 26th of August last, unlawfully and cruelly ill-treated and tortured, or caused to be tortured, certain anitnalg,, to wit swans." There was a further charge against the defendant for using a gun without a licence. Mr. D. Hughes Brown, Pembroke Dock, prosecuted on behalf of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, while the defendant was represented by Mr. Simons, solicitor, Dorsetshire. —Mr. Turner, supervisor, informed the bench at the outset that he had received information from the Inland Revenue authorities requesting him to withdraw the charge against Captain Haigh of using a gun without a licence.—The Bench said they had no alternative but to acquiesce. The Inland Revenue, it appeared, had power to withdraw the summons if they wished.—Mr. Simons asked to be allowed to make a few remarks before the charge was withdrawn, but the bench declined to hear him.—The charge of cruelty was then proceeded with.—From the evidence of several witnesses it was proved that two old swnns made their appearance in Pembroke about eighteen months ago, and made the Mill Pond, a sheet of water a little below the town, their home. Hero they laid three egg?, and subsequently brought out two cygnets, which continued with the old birds to occupy the pond where they were hatched. They were described by all the witnesses as being remarbably tame,and in one instance it was said they had been known to feed from a person's hand. About a fortnight before the alleged offence was committed the mill pond was emptied and the swans then stopped lower down the river' It was while here that the defendant killed the two old birds and one cygnet, the other young swan escaping by fly ing away. A ferryman employed ut Bentlas Ferry said that he saw the defendant, with others, follow one of the old swans for a period of nearly three quarters of an hour. during which time some half dozen shots were fired at the swan, which was ultimately picked up dead.—The killing of the swans was admitted by the counsel for the defence, who, however, contended that no cruelty had been resorted to, neither had the birds been proved to be domestic animals. He asked the bench to consider whether he had any case to answer, or it would be necessary for him to call witnesses.—The Bench retired, and, after a short absence, returned into court, when the Mayor said the bench were of opinion that the charge of cruelty bad not been sustained. With regard to the cygnets, the mayor said he and his brother magistrates were of opinion that they were domesticated birds, and that the killing of them was a cruel and most unjustifiable act.

A lecture dealing with the above subject was delivered by Mr. A. P. Laurie at the Temperance- hall, Merthyr, on Tuesday evening, the lecture being given in connection with the Gilchrist Educational Trust. Mr. T. F. Harvey, president of the Merthyr Library, presided; The interest of the lecture was considerably enhanced by illustra- tions with experiments and magic lantern elides, and Mr. Laurie received a very hearty vote I thaniril.

MORE ABOUT "CARMEN SYLVA." The Queen of Roumania, whose story now running in the Weekly Mail is exoitmg muoh interest, was enohanted with her reoent visit to Her Britannio Majesty at Balmoral, and on her return to London she spoke with .the utmost enthusiasm of the Queen's motherly kindness to her. As soon as Queen Eliza- beth gets settled at home she proposes to write a poem about her Majesty. *J Her Majesty has written a poetio drama founded on an old Roumanian legend of an architeot who built a ohuroh and immured his lady-love in the foundation. He believed that this would bring him good fortune, and as his affairs bad been gloomy for some time, the lady proved her devotion to him by allowing herself to be entombed. Then he prospered, but he had ghostly visits from the dead woman after the manner of Astarte iq Manfred." • Carmen Sylva," though she is olose upon fifty years of age, is still a beautiful lady, She is tall, with an extremely good figure, and, but for the silvery lines which have dimmed the brightness of her golden hair, still retains most of the beauty of her youth, Her eyes are quite bewitching, being larg« and blue, with a delicious dreamy look; she has a really classical mouth, exquisitely white, regular teeth, a finely-out nose, and smali well-shaped hands and feet.

Poems by Her Majesty. [FROM THE NEW REVIEW."] L Gypsy Song. There, where the path to the plain goes by, Where deep ia the thicket my but doth lie, Where corn stands green in the garden ploU The brook ripples by so freshly there, The way is so open, so white, so fair— My heart's beat beloved, he treads it not, There, where I spin at my door without, And morning winds, whisp'ring round about With scent of roses infold the spot; Where I sit at even and sing my lay Quite low, to the wand'rer who goes his way- My heart's best beloved, be hears it not. There, where on Sundays I go alone To the old, old well with the milk-wtnte stone, Where, by the fence, in a nook forgot. There rises a spring in the daisied graM That makes who drinks of it love,-alas I My heart's best belovii, he drioks it not. There, by my window, where day by day, When sunbeams first brighten the morning's graj I lean and dream of my weary lot, And wait his coming, and softly cry For love's great longing, that makes us die- My heart's best beloviJ, he dieth now w •

The Sphinx. [FRom 11 TREASURE TROVE."] The sphinx comes ev'ry thousand years To life but once alone. Oh hard I to be a mystery Unsolved—for aye a stone. Tha Nile flows dashing, plashing down: Unruly, too, is he, The sensuous south wind breathes abroad Its perfumes fireily. Sae now 1 she sinks upon the flood, Her form with youth new-dressed, And now the Nile may lie upon That wondrous woman's breast. The mighty, undulating waves She cleaves with arms outspread, And lies with soft-closed eyes, and sings, As rocks her wat'ry bed" She sings the magic melody All singers seek-tlte verse They long for, when, by fire consumed, They fain would praise or cutso. She sings the torments of her love, The joys her love, too knows; How from her breast the burning stream Of the world's sorrow dows, And when the weeping of her breasts All men have drunk and known, —The sinner and the hero to&- Then she must turn to She tells her friend the Ntte,^here&4 One sultry summer night; And round upon the dancing wave-. There glows and leaps a light. Then with a wise, all-knowing han His hair soft stroketh she come to iife ^or tf^.v'a'a"

DISPUTE ABOUT A PICTURE. An interesting dispute concerning the owner. ship of a portrait by Gainsborough is proceeding before Mr Justice Kay in the Chancery-court to-day, Lady Howard de Walden seeks to recover from the Marquess of Bristol a portrait at Lord Harvey, grandfather of plaintiff's husband, and brother ol defendant's grandfather. It seems that in 1845 the picture was either given, pttrclMeed, or loaned by Lord Howard de Walden to the then Marquesf of Biiitol, Plaintiff alleged it was lent.

LORD BUTE'S TRANSLATIONS. The Daily Telegraph says that the Marquess 01 Bute has contributed to the Scottish Reviexo from time to time translations which his lordship haa made of the lectures, originally delivered in French, on "Christian Greece," by Oemetrios Bikelas. These are now coHected in one volume, entitled "Seven Essays on Christian Greece" (Gardner), and in this form are well calculated to carry out the original purpose of the publication, which was to present to British readers articles derived from foreign sources likely to afford a just appreciation of historical, social, and political questions. The essays deal successively with the Byzantine Empire and its Greek subjects, Greece before 1821, the formation of the modern Greek State and the existing Greek 'problem; and they present the Hellenic side of tkoover-present Eastern question with comprehensiveness and force.

A New Tramway for Newport. The party of gentlemen at Newport who art promoting the new tramway scheme, to run from the top of Conlmercial-street, either through High- street or Skinner-street and New Dock-rtreet, to Maindee, are not without hope that th6 under- taking will soon be a fait accompli. The matter is now before the corporation for the sanction necessary before obtaining a provisional order from the Board of Trade. It is, we believe, urged against the proposal that Newport Bridge is n:)t wide enough to admit of a line of rails being laid with safety to other traffic, but a pronouncement, on that matter was made years ago in favour of the original tramway company. When tho fiist application was made the corpora- tion and Christchurch Urban Sanitary Authority raised no objection on-the score of the nal rowness of the bridge, but the county justices, in whom the strwtiture was vested, represented that it was not wide enough. A local inquiry was thereupon held by Colonel Hutchinson, R.E., who reported that their objections co'jld be met by laying the central ITOe of the tramway across the bridge and its approaches 6in. to the north of the centre line.of the bridge, so as to leave a space of 9ft. lOJin. between the southern kerb and the tramway, and 8ft. lOJin. between the northern kerb and the line. The scheme, however, originall) was stopped by reason of the narrowness of High. street. Since then, however, that thoroughfarf has been considerably widened, and, in addition, I wide relief street has been constructed bv tin making of New Dock-«treet. 3

L Press Association telegram <uy3 that it is stated that Mrs. O Shea will shortly apply to Mr; Justice Butt for the appointment^ a commission in respect of the counter allegations against her husband. Shouldafche application granted tin (rial will be iadoftBikly o