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I The Old Man's Spirits. The following is a chapter from "The Red J:lUor," a novel written by Lady Betty Lytton, which is at present appearing in Temple Bar. Lady Betty Lytton, who is daughter of Earl Lytton and granddaughter of the famous novelist, is a youug lady not yet out of her teens The drive was long, and they went but slowly ,1 Demount- of tha heavy snow, At last, however, .i,:nn descended from the box, opened two it, /auv,and drove through them. Leoline had .illea asleep in her husband's arms. It was a e;?nr, frosty night. The snow lay deep upon the earth, and the moon shone bright. They were driving: down an avenue of yew-trees, the sombre branches of which were covered with snow. At the end of the avenue the house rose clear and dark in the moonlight. No cheerful light was visible in any of the windows, and the whole building looked black and erim. The carriage stopped and as the coachman rang the bell an owl hooted from a neighbouring tree. Leoline woke with a start. She felt a vague sensation of fear, and instinctively she clung to her husband. After a few minutes, the door (a low one inside a. porch) swung back with a:crepk- ing sound, and an old woman appeared with a lantern in her hand. Her face was wrinkled, her nose was aquiline and crooked and two ugly yellow teeth projected from her thin, colourless lips. She wore a black cap, with long black ribbons dangling from it, and a few grey hairat appeared from underneath it. From her waist hung a large bunch of keys, which rattled whenaver she moved. "Are you the housekeeper?" said Maurice, springing out of the carriage. Yes, sir." mumbled the old woman, looking at him with an ugly leer. I've prepared everything for you, as comfortable as possible. Come in, my lady, out of the cold air. Ah I see the lady is tired she wants to get to a warm fire. Come along, come along." Leoline and Maurice were standing in a large square hall. It was surrounded with figures in armour, and a broad oak staircase led from it to the rooms above. The floor was stone. Through two large windows on each side of the staircase the moonhght streamed into the otherwise dark hall. The old woman led the way upstairs, and Lord Maurice and his wife followed. On the first landing was a small latticed window in the wall, and as they passed it the window was violently tapped. Ob, Maurice!" cried Leoline, "what can that be?" The old woman turued round and said- Don't ye be frightened, ma'am. That's an old owl, as always comes and beats agin that window. It's a tiresome old bird, but ye'll soon get accus- tomed to it." 11 Well, go on," said Lord Maurice, sharply; we don't want to stand here any longer in the cold." 4 Softly, softly. I'll go as quick as my old bones will carry me. This way, gen'elman." The old woman now turned into a long, narrow passage, and,opening a door richly carved, showed them into a large, low room, hung with tapestry so old and worn that it seemed only held to the wall by one or two threads. There was a four- post bed in this room, a heavy oak table, a few hard, high-backed chairs, a moth-eaten sofa, a washstand, and a chest of drawers-the two last- mentioned articles having evidently been recently put there. Opposite the table was a large chimney- piece, reaching to the ceiling, and a warm tire was blazing up the chimney. There was a window facing the bed, and the curtains of it were drawn. "You have not selected the most cheerful room for us," said Lord Maurice. Oh indeed, sir, this is far the warmest room in the house; others haven't been used for ever so long, and we hadn't time to do 'em up for ye. I am sure ye'll be at your ease here, and I can answer for the bed being well aired, for I and my husband have slept here for the last three nights." The other two did not seem to relish this re- assuring information, but the old woman con- tinued- "This is the bedroom, and the sitting-room leads out of it." Here she opened a door opposite the fireplace, and ushered Lord Maurice and his wife into a smaller room of the same character. It had but one window, opposite to which was a bookcase, filled with old books, all in a torn and tattered condition and facing the fireplace was a large picture, reaching nearly from the ceiling to the floor. It was the life-size portrait of a man, dressed in a loose dressing-gown, and seated in a chair. Long grey hair hung down over his shoulders, and his countenance, a strange but noble one, wore an expression of the deepest melancholy. Leoline could not repress an ex- clamation as the picture caught her eye. Who is that ?" she said. "That picture, ma'am?" answered the old woman. That was the grandfather of my late master. He was a wonderful man. I was with him three years before he died. These are the rooms he always lived in. Will you have your supper downstairs or would you like it up here, ma'am ?" Leoline said she would prefer having it in the sitting-room. My man will bring up your lugguage. And, now, is there anything more I can do for you ?" They replied that they required nothing but rest and quiet, and the old woman withdrew. When she was gone, Leoline dropped into a chair and sighed. "Leoline," cried Maurice, "does the place seem very lonely? Ah! I ought uot to have brought you here before everything was made fit to receive you more comfortably." No, no, Maurice. I am enchanted with the place, and it will look cheerful enough when we have been here a short time. Indeed, 1 am only a little tired." The caress which answered her was interrupted by a knock at the door. It opened, and an old man looked in. He was short, and his back was bent with age. His face had a malicious expression, and a large wart at the end of his nose did not improve his appear- ance. After (watching the lovers for some seconds in silence, he pulled his forelock, and in an indistinct, stuttering voice Good-od evening, 1-1-lady and gentleman. I'm Will Crotchet, the husband of the worthy dame who has just left you. I've brought up your box, and, if you wish it, I'll now bring up your supper." The old man withdrew, and shortly reappeared with the dinner cooked by his wife to the best of her abilities, which were not great. When they bad finished their meal and were alone again, Maurice and Leoline examined the room more carefully. He opened the bookcase, and attempted to take out one of the books, but as soon as he let go the glass frame he had just opened it shut with a snap, and he narrowly escaped pinching his finger. All his efforts to reopen the bookcase were in vain. How very strange," he said. "It opened so easily before." It is probably a spring door," said Leoline. Maurice sat down musingly. I cannot under- stand this place at all," he said, after a pause, and taking Leoline's hand in his own the cold- ness of it startled him, and he then noticed that she was trembling. Leoline, dearest, what is it ?" I don't know," shssaid. "But I thought I heard a low moan, as if some one were in pain I close beside me." They both listened, and after a time the moan I was repeated. There must be someone outside," said Maurice, and be sprang up, opened the window, and called out, Who's thereA gust of cold blew into the room. It must have been the wind, after all, he said. "Shut the window, dear Maurice, and come and talk to me. Everything is so still, and that "Shut the window, dear Maurice, and come and talk to me. Everything is so still, and that picture opposite haunts me, and that moan—for I am sure it was a moaii-niate me so frightened." Maurice drew his fair young wife to him. She nestled herself upon his knee; and they began to talk of what is always the most interesting thing t,) young lovers—themselves and in the pleasant discussion of that congenial subject they soon forgot every other. The night was far advanced, and the houses as still as death. Maurice and Leoline had fallen ¡ asleep in each other's arms. Suddenly a shrill scream echoed through the house. The sleepers were awaked by it. The scream was repeated. Maurice tried to speak, tried to move, but some invisible power held him back, and he could not utter a sound. His wife clung to him, her eyes wild with terror. The fire had died down upon hearth. The window bad been blown open, and the candle blown out. The moonlight streamed into the room. The scream ceased. The attention of both Maurice and Leoline was now involuntarily attracted by the large portrait opposite them. Tte head of the portrait slowly moved; the mournful eyes turned with a look of supplication towards them. The whole portrait moved the hands were lifted from the arms, of the chair, on which they had been resting in the picture; the figure of the old man rose, straightened itself, stepped out of the frame, and disappeared. The picture frame was empty. The blank wall behind it was distinctly visible in the moonlight.. At this blank wall the terrified owners of the Red Manor were still staring mechanically, when they became conscious of a dusky space in the centre of it, which appeared to be a wooden panel. The panel, as they watched it, slid noisely into the wall. The aperture it revealed was impenetrably dark; but out of the darkness of it a horrible image now emerged. This imagaUad the abearance of an old hag, in a loose, black garment, the hood of which was drawn over her head, completely concealing all her features except the mouth. The expres- sion of that one feature, however, was ghastly in the extreme. The lips seemed shrivelled away from the igumles, aud projecting teeth, which glittered in the moonlight, tightly clenched as if in a contortion of pain or passion. The apparition in its place, and the human beings in theirs, thus stood confronting each other all three for a while silent and im- moveable. Presently, however, a long black sleeve was lifted and stretched through the empty picture-frame a bunch of bony fingers, long nnr?. sharp as the claws of a bird of prey, protruded fro the black sleeve, and slowly opened and shut, as if clutching at some invisible prey. A low chuckling sound was audible underjthe black hood, and the apparition was no longer in the picture- frame. It was now in the room itself. The hag ap- proached the lovers. Again the silence was broken by a shrill scream. This time, however, it was a I human scretm-tlit scream of Leoline for the hag was stooping over her. She seemed, to whisper something (something which to Maurice was inaudible) into the ear of the senseless form he now held in his arms. Then the hooded face turned towards him. He saw the glittering teeth a sensation of intense cold seized him, and I he too lost consciousness. How lone: Lord Maurice Chistlewood remained insensible he knew not. It was still dark when he recovered from the swoon into which he had fallen. The moon was setting. The dawn had not yet broken, and only a dim grey light came from the uncurtained window. He awoke with a sensation of numbness, as one who had been stunned by a heavy blow or a severe fall. His wife was lying beside him on the floor. She was still insensible. He spokL-Ito her she made no answer, but she was breathing heavily. Not dead, thank God!" he exclaimed, as he lifted her gently in his arms, and, with his precious burden groped his way to the door of the bedroom. The door was shut. but a dull light was shining through the chinks of it, and as he opened it Maurice per- ceived, to his surprise, that the bedroom fire was burning brightly. It lit up the whole room with a cheerful ruddy glow, and the flickering gleam of it played warmly among the crimson folds of the heavy bed-curtains, which were closely drawn. Maurice felt his strength and spirits rapidly reviving in the warm atmosphere and comfortable aspect of the room. He bent over the face cf his beautiful wife, who still lay insensible'in his arms. Her eyes were closed, and the look of pain and terror upon her countenance vividly recalled to him the ghastly experiences of the room he had just left. He shut the door behind him, but was unable to lock it. The lar;} brass box-lock attached to the door, could it have been used, would have been stout enough to withstand the heaviest pressure, but there was no key in it, and the old-fashioned door-bolt, which seemed to have been added as an extra precaution, had been removed from the brass sockets. Maurice hastened to the bed, and, still support- ing Leoline on one arm,with tha otirer drew aside the heavy curtain. As he drew it the warm fire- light fell brightly over the coverlet, and, to his amazement and horror, he beheld the old man sitting up in the bed, wide awake, and looking steadily at him. At this sight his indignation and anger was even greater than his horror. Miserable and impudent impostor he exclaimed—but again, as before, his utterance was stifled by a sudden and mysterious paralysis of power. All the nerves of sensation remained acutely, and, indeed, preternatuially active, but the nerve of motion seemed to have suddenly lost their function, and no longer responded to the will. The old man's face was the same as that of the portrait in the sitting-room. His eyes had an expression of intense and painful expecta- tion, as if he were watching for some- thing, and the full blaze of the fire illuminated his face, which was deeply wrinkled and very hairy. Maurice could not avert his own eyes from this singular figure. The two men (if two men they were) gazed steadily and silently at each other but the old man seemed to be gazing not so much at Maurice as through him, and at something behind, or behond him. The next moment Maurice was again conscious of a sudden sensation of cold, similar to what he had ex- perienced in the adjoining room at the approach of the old hag. The light between the fire-place and the bed was slowly darkened by a faint, form- less, indefinite shadow.iThe old man's eyes were fixed upon it with a dilating glare of intense animosity, mingled with extreme fear like the look in the eyes of u savage animal at the approach of a savage master. The shadow strengthened, I as it were, in substance, but not in form that is to say, it grew darker and denser, and at last completely > paque but all its outlines seemed blurred and fluctuating, as if from the quickness of some strong inside motion, confined within a narrow space like the spokes of a wheel when it turns swiftly, or the figures on a banner violently agitated by the wind. Then the old man stretched out, towards the approaching shadow, a long hairy arm, as if to repel it. Again that low chuckling sound, which Maurice recalled with a shudder; and in the central darkness of the shadow there was a momementary sinister gleam of white teeth, and a quick clutching movement as of dusky prongs or fingers convul- sively opening and shutting. The shadow was now close to the bed. The old man sank back upon the pillow. The shadow was upon him, and then between the palpable, human form, and the impalpable, inhuman formlessness, there seemed to be a terrible struggle, all the more terrible because it was absolutely noiseless. No description of a nightmare, however vividly the details of it may be recalled by the awakened dreamer, can convey to others, or even to his own waking senses, any adequate idea of the abject and impotent horror of its sensation during sleep; nor can any description of this noiseless struggle represent the sensations with which it was watched by Maurice Chistlewood; till at last the increasing: terror of it become intolerable, and he fairly screamed aloud at the pitch of his voice. The sound of his own scream at once dis- solved the spell which had been upon him, Panting and gasping, as if he himself had been in conflict with some impalpable but tremendous power, ho passed, with a desperate effort of the will, and a confused but deliciously, thankful sense of escape, from an unnatural in a natural condition of consciousness. The apparitions that had haunted him were no more and, if the fire- light were the element in which they lived, it, too, had gone out. The dawn, grey and cold, but clear, was in the wintry sky. He looked around him, the bed was empty, the bed clothes undisturbed. He placed Leoline upon it, drew her hands in his, sank down by the bedside, laid his head upon the hand he clasped, and exclaimed, Thank God!" Deeply seated in the human nature is the instinct of prayer and thanksgiving, and, whatever his race, his creed, or his language, man's first impulse in the moment of escape from some awful peril, or some awful fear, is to exclaim —" Thank God Maurice was still in this posture when he heard steps in the passage, and some one opening, not the door he had closed, but the one leading to the staircase. Maurice's nerves were still so upset that he shrank from ascertaining the cause of these sounds, and did not lift his head, though he heard two people enter the room and|approach;the bed. A hand was laid upon him, and he felt it stroking him all over, with a doubtful, inquisitive touch. "Jim," said the voico 'of Mrs Crotchet in a tone of grim satisfaction, he's dead; she's dead: they're both dead-dead as two stones. Hi' hi! hi!" Maurice sprang to his feet. "You wretched old people," he exclaimed, "what are you doing here ?" The old woman screamed, but her hus- band said, with a malicious grin, "Bless, yer, sir, we only thought ye was both dead." "Dead? And why should you think so, vil- lain, eh?" Only, sir, because people who come to visit this house Sometimes do die; can't tell why, to be sure but I've seen strange things here myself." "You wretch," cried Maurice, attempting to seize him, but the old man evaded his grasp. "You wretch? what infamous tricks have you and that villainous old hag presumed to play upon mp and my wife this night 7" Will Crochet laughed. "So you've been frightened by the old man's spirit, have ye ?" n

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r" YANKEE YARNS. -7.- I ONE MORE HONEST MAN. When the conductor had passed through the front part of! the smoker to the Denver train as it pulled out of Crete yesterday afternoon, he was called back by a tired looking man with a faded terra-cotta moustache. Do you see any check in my hat-band ?" he asked. The conductor looked and confessed he did not. Do you re- member collecting any fare from me?" "No, I guess I skipped you; gimme your ticket." "Now, I suppose." said the tired man, "that most men would have let you go when you didn't notice them." "Yes, but can't you find your ticket ?" But I don't believe in letting a man suffer for a mistake even if it is his own." "Want to pay in I cash? How far are you going?" asked the con- ductor, filling out a drawback. "There are a great many people." continued the terra-cotta moustache; "who think it is all right to beat a railroad corporation, but I'm not one of them. I My'conscience wouldn't have let me rest a minute if I had let you go by." Fare to Lincoln's fifty cents," said the conductor with a sign of impa- tience in his face. No, I couldn't go to sleep at night if I had something that belonged to j another." He dropped a tear, and reaching down into his vest pocket, drew forth a worn and soiled annual pass. He was an editor, but the conduc- tor was a. new man, and had never seen I him before. He made some remarks that left a blue streak behind them as they ran along over the heads of the passengers, and returning the docu- ment, passed on through the car.-Lincolit Slate Journal. I OU-T OF THE "PLAIN HIGHWAT OF TALK." It i3 of no use in "the States" for an Eastern, man to try to tell a big story when there is a Wes- tern man about. "When I was a young man,' said*,Colonel B., an Eastern, "we lived in Illi- nois. The farm had been well wooded, and the stumps were pretty thick. But we put the corn in among them, and managed to raise a fair crop. The next season I did my share of the ploughing. We had a sulky' plough, and I sat in the seat and managed the horses, four as handsome bays as ever a man drew rein over One day I found a stump right in my way. 1 hated to back out, so I just said a word to the team, and, if you will believe it, they just walked that plough right through that stump as though it had been cream- cheese." Not a soul expressed surprise. But Major S., a Western man, who had been a quiet listener, remarked quietly, "It's curious, but I had a similar experience myself once. My mother always made our clothes in those days, as well as the cloth they were made of. The old lady was awful proud of her homespun—said it was the strongest cloth in the State. One day, I bad just ploughed through a white oak stump in the way you speak of Colonel, but it was a little too quick for me. It came together before I was out of the way, and nipped my trousers. It felt mean, I can tell you, but I put the string on the ponies, and, if you'll Relieve it, they just snaked that stump out, roots and all. Something had to give, you know." I STO TRANSIT. I As the train rolled into Fremont, Ohio. the fat passenger remarked, If we had time I'd stop and take dinner with old Hayes." With whom ?' asked the sad pasenger severely. 4 Old Hay's, the fat passenger replied. Didn't'you know him ? Used to be the President of the Republic. Some months ago people were calling turn His Most Excellent Excellency Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the:; United States of America and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy.' Then he got on the cars one day in March to ride west, and, when he got as far as Altoona, people" were calling him Rutherford B. Hayes, ex-President of the United States.' When he reached Pittsburg, they called him 4 Ex-President Hayes.' When the train'got as far west as Cleve- land, the papers announced the arrival of I Hon. R. B. Hayes.' And the day after he reached Fremont an old Fremonter, lighting a spring fire with an ancient pea-brush, and blighted boots in his back-yard, said to his neighbour, with little grammar, and less reverence, 'Old Hayes is got rich.' Slf transit gloria of the United States of America! Yesterday men would chase after Hayes's carriage fifteen miles throuh mud and dust to be him for a little Missouri corner post- office worth three hundred and sixty five dollars a year and pay your own rent. To-day he ap- pears at an hotel, and the clerk says cheerfully, 6 ivantt sample-room. Mr. Hayes?' He goes to the bank, and the cashier looks at him pleasantly, but with,intense scrutiny, and says, Could you get anotiier name on this for us, please?1 Verily, my brother, all is vanity t So is the greatness of the man who hath been President." "EVERYTHING'S CHANGED'" Old Mr fhiatlepod looked very dejected as he came into the ornate sanctum of the Hawkeye and sat down in the society editor's favourite chair. "Nuthm' isn't like it used to be, said the old man- Everything's changed." Right,said the sporting editor, feeling in his other pocket first, "and there is precious little left of the change. And a look of woe came over his countenance as he wondered what he did with it. Whats the matter now?" the city editor asked the visitor. <'Well, Thistlepod replied, 44 I've been out lookin at the boys play football. Now, there ain t any science in football. Anybody knows that. I've played football' 'n' you have 'n' you know there aint no science in it. They've run all the old ball games out. Boys to-day are too delicate to play 4 sock-a-bout.' Moses in Egypt If I aint had Bill Simpson fire a red hot sold injin rubber ball at me so as't' I couldn't think for week but it'd gone plum thru me: You hit a boy a crack like that wjth a ball to-day an' he'd cry 'n' lay down 'n'——" 11 There h"-ve,,been base ball players killed by a ball from the bat," said the sporting editor, in- tent outstanding up for the boys of to-day. 4 An so they'd ought to ben!" roared the old man, in a burst of wrath. So they'd ought to ben Every last one of lem Any man that'd go rnaskerdiw around in such a game had ought to be killed. 'Taint anything like a Christian game o* ball, knockin' men to nieces like that way. Tarn t played right, nohow. Kin you cross.a man betwixt bases? No, you can't. Kin you hit him a clip with the ball when he's runnin' betwixt bases, and put him out an make him think you've bored a hole clean thru' him at the same time No, you can't. Ye got to run after him weth one foot on yer base and tech him with the ball in yer hands. Is that any way to play ball, I'd like to know? Kin a fellow knock a ball a mile and then run around the ring three times aiibrinq the whole crowd in ? Or kin he bring another feller in when he runs around oncot wethout stopping No. he can't, Do you choose sides ? No you don't! You have teams an' 44 Oh, well, Mr Thistlepod," said the sporting editor, that's old town ball; nobody plays that now." 44 That's ball I" howled the old man. "Didn't I play ball afore you was born ? Reckon nobody plays 4 one old cat' nor 4 two old cat' now, nuther. Nor 4 Andy over,'noi 'bull pen,' nor anything. Don't talk to me! "But about this game of foot-ball?" asked the city editor, anxious to get the old man back to his item. Oh! Well, they call it foot-ball, but good- ness only knows what it reely was. They hed i two teams: hope to die if they didn't. An' the more I looked an' the more I listened, the less I knowed. They hed goals and half-backs—now, what'n the name o' sense is 4 half-backs ?' An' they had 4 touch downs,' whatever they may be, an' rushers and full backs, an' quarter backs, anj there was off sides, an' safety touch downs, an drop kicks, an' dribbled kick oil's, an' punted balls, an' all that sort o' nonsense. Now what kind of a way is that to play foot-ball, I'd like to know ?" How did you used to play foot-ball, Uncle William?'' asked the society editor. c Kicked it!" shouted the old man. "Slapped it down on the ground an' kicked it. When we couldn't get to where the ball was danced around an' kicked somebody's shins Kicked an got kicked back H'isted her Didn't have no pull- backs 'n' no gaols 'n' no punts 'n' no nonsense Jest kicked Like this And the boys cheered as the old man jumped up, backed across the sanctum, and made a rush at the waste basket to show bow they "kicked it. He caught it low, and up far into the blue cerulean dome of the ceiling went that basket, out of the open window, and in graceful curve clear across the street, aud for two long hours it rained original poems, sonnets of all sorts of ^th fancy names, and two-ton political contributions and faded correspondence, and demands for tne stoppage of the paper, threats of libel suits, and a miscellaneous shower of advice, dictation, sug- gestion, approbation, abuse, cheek, news and political wisdom from Taxpayer, Constant Rea- der, Old Subscriber, Fiat Justitia, Citizen, Vox Populi, Lex, Americus, and One Who J^no^s. Howling and groaning under the table lay old Mr Thistlepod with a broken toe, while a big stone- ware Queen Anne spittoon that had been through three Presidential campaigns lay in its place by the side of the waste basket without a dent in it. Football used to be a great game when Uncle William was a boy, and they just' kicked.-—Bier-, lingtoa Hawkeye.

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FACTS AND FANCIES. •THE AGE\OF REASON.—Very,.hard to to.II. A CIRCULAR''4' SAW."—A «aying that cuts'-all A CIRCUTAlt "SAW. "-A .,eaying that Ctlts,-all round. PAT'S" HEIGHT OF MANNERS"—The top OF the mornin' to you. When is a. book like a lost dog thafc has,be6;i. found ?—When it is recovered. FASHION NOTE.—All sorts of sleeves fire adinis- sible for ladies' dresses but the coat-sl eeve ropnd the waist remains the,favourite. Why should candiastes-for a racing ijrew1 be les3 than 21 years of age?—Because mineits know best how to handle the ore. A Philadelphia coal-dealer recently re beived from a. prominent shodoyite, who had been to Europe, an order for five tons of coal delivered A la cart. Now, I understand," remarked 91dboy,i with a sigh, at a matin6eyafter vain'ly trying to get a view of the stage over the b onnet in front of him, "what they mean b3 the 'height-of fashion., It is said that under the laws c if the fathers a man could not kiss his wi "fe on Sunday. "Judgin from the pictures of some, -v,fthe pi lgrim mothers," says a wag, 4-4 bne.day,s vacation a week was none too much." ABSENT-MINDEDNESS ON'THE STOCK ExteHANch'1- —Considerable surprise and excitement were created on the London Stock Exchange the other day by a prominent operator appearing- with his hands in his own pockets. A well-known aesthete, paying a morning visit to a lady, surprised her dusting some china too precious to be entrusted to any hands' but her own. 44 Oh," said ho, 44 what unnecessary labour Dust should never be removed; it is the bloom of time. Monsieur Gomgom, who had been married only a few days, happened, in company with his wife, to pass near a beehive. The bees stung his wife, and Gomgom, instead of pitying her, said, 44How intelligent are these bees, my dear, to know that we are on our heneymoon THE INFLICTION OV.ER.-Scene-In the audi torium of a theatre. Actor, who has appeared in the first piece 44 Good evening May I take the seat next you ?" Lady: 44 Certainly. But don't you appear any more to-night Actor; No." Lady Oh, I am so glad Pray sit pown. A party of Texan wagoners, after a hard day's pull, were chatting around the camp fire while they smoked their pipes. "Sambo, me b'y," exclaimed Pat, a rollicking Irishman, to a jolly darkey, "tell us what makes yer nose so t flat." Dun'no, Mar a' Pat," answered Sam; 4 but I spec it's to keep me from pokin* into udder people's business." PETE'S DELIGHT.—A rather elderly darkey was inquiring of a policeman if he knew anything of his son Pete. The policeman replied that there was a youne darkey in the lock-up for breaking up a meeting with an axe-handle. Dat's him Dat's my chile Pete exclaimed the overjoyed parent. He told me he was gwine to 'muse himself." A Syrian convert to Christianity was urged by his employer to work on Sunday, but he declined. 44 But," said the master, 44 does not your Bible say that, if a man has an ass or an ox that falls into a pit on the Sabbath-day, he may pull him out ?" 4 Yes," answered the convert but, if the ass has a habit of falling into the same pit every Sabbath-day, then the man should either fill up the pit or sell the ass." THE GREAT ENGLISH CEMETERY.—Not long after his removal from tho House of Commons to the House of Lords, Disraeli met a brother-peer in the street, who asked him how he liked the change. Like it," exclaimed Disraeli. forget- ting himself for ihe moment, and blundering out the truth, 44 like it I feel as if I were dead, or buried alive?" Then, seeing the expression of discomfiture on the peer's face, he added hastily, with a courtly bow and an irresistible smile, And in the land of the;blessed TREADING ON THE TAIL OF HIS COAT.—A member of the House of Commons ha« discovered that it is not always safe to make jokes. Talking with a prominent Land Leaguer, that gentleman happened to mention that as soon as Parliament was up he was going to Ireland to do a little shooting. 44 What's your game," asked the facetious member-" landlords ?" The joke was obvious; but the Land Leaguer was not in a humour to take it, and there was somo talk of the of the Speak r. "Mossoo'a'' ENLIGHTENMENT. — Whi'^ on a visit t(, the recent Paris E;;hibitiou, an Amencau went into a grocer's shop ia Paris and asked for a tin of corned teef. While his purchase was being wrapped in paper, he asked the shop-keeper whether he sold much of this meat put in tins. Yes, a good deal to foreigners," said the man the French do not dare for it. You see, we can get fresh meat in this country, but in America, where this comes from "—pointing to the tins on the shelf-" all the meat is salt." A parsimonious laird was once at a party at Kelly Castle. It was customary for the guests to give a small sum of money to the servants, who were drawn up in the hall to receive their "4 vails." The gifts of those who preceeded the laird were received gravely, not calling forth smiles, or even thanks but, when he passed, the faces of the servants brightened up as if he had given them gold. 'What did you give them, Robbie?" asked his friends. 44 They looked as sour as vinegar till your turn came." Do'il a bawbea did they get frae me answered the laird. 441 just kittled [tickledj their palms." When the Duchess of Edinburgh was in Paris this spring, her Royal Highness went about a good, deal shopping on her own account. One evening quite late she arrived at the establish- ment of a celebrated coutariirt. Everybody was gone, and the bonne sent the Duchess away, saying that her mistress had retired for the night. Next morning the bonne reported that a 44 Madame d'Edinborg had called late, and that she had refused to admit her. Do you know who it is you have treated thus ?" asked her mis- tress. That was a daughter of a Czar of Russia, and she is the wife of a son of the Queen of Eng- land." 44 Tims," exclaimed the bonne, greatly exercised at her lost opportunity, "and I let her go without having a good look at her!" ¡ One of the driest American jokers of the day is Judge Allen A. Bradford, of the Pueblo Bar. He is a little eccentric, but withal one of the best lawyers in the far west. He was engaged upon a case a few years since before a judge to whom he took a dislike. The judge was undecided in his rulings, and would change his conclusions every time ths opposite lawyer argued a point. When Bradford came to address the jury, be took occasion to express his contempt. Said he "Gentlemen of the jury, the indecision of this Court reminds me of the fabled ass that died between two bundles of hayfor want of decision." The Court could stand this no longer. Cajling the attorney to order" the judge fined him five dollars for contempt. With all the coolness ,he is capable of, Bradford felt in his pocketor a moment, and then, producing two dollars fifty int cents, said. in his peculiar intonation of voice, Your honour, I have but half the amount. I will pay for the hay, but let the ass stand. M. Leon Gambetta has recently incurred the vehement displeasure of a Gascon poet named I Cassaignau, who, indignant fit the ex-Premier's ommission to acknowledge the receipt of a volume of lyrics in dialect forwarded to him by their author, gave vent to his wrath in a briskly vituperative letter, After rating M. Gambetta soundly for his lack of courtesy, the irate rhymster, in a burst of scathing irony, observes, You may be an intelligent man but you most certainly are a very badly-bred and ill-con- ditioned fellow, smelling unmistakeably of the grocer's shop in which you were brought up. It is this unpleasant odour, believe me, that will eventually mar your candida- ture for the Presidency of the French Republic." From this sarcastio epistle M. Gambetta will no doubt have learnt that the sen- sitive appreciation of a poet, and more particu- larly of a Gascon poet, is not to be slighted with impunity, even by so eminent a personage as him, self. He would never have fallen into M. Cas- saignau's ill-graces had he acknowledged that ex- citeable bard's book of verses in some such terms as those employed upon innumerable occasions as these employed upon innumerable occasions during the past half century by Victor Hugo, in answer to the letters addressed to him by poets who have favoured him with copies of their works. His invariable formula of acknowledg- ment ran as follows-c"INII%n of genius You are afar greater poet than I. Persevere Yo r. ■Victor Hugo embraces: Yoirwitfyqut envy PT

CARDIFF SCHOOL BOARD. I I The Opening of the Higher Grade School. 11 J A special ineetsup of this board was held at I the Town-hali on I1 riday, Mr Lewis Williams in the chair. There were also present—Mr Thomas Rees (vice-chairman), Mr J. Grain, Dr. Edwards, R-jv. J. C. Thompson, Dr. Wallace, and Rov. G. A. -Tonr- The meeting was called for the purpose of electing r.ssi.'tant masterviand mistresses to the higher grade schools. The higher grade school committee reported that they had received 29 applications for the appointments in connection with the boys' sChool, nd 11 selected several to attend the special meeting. OPENING OP THE HIGHER GRADE SCHOOL. The CHAIRMAN, prior to the commencemeus ')f the proceedings, said that it would probably be expected of him to make:1 brief statement with reference to a telegram and a letter which he had received from the Education Department. The telegram, which he received last evening, had ap- peared; in the morning papers, but ho had re- ceived .that morning the following letter Privy Council Office, 8tti J anua-ey, 1885. Sir,-Ilsciit you a telegram this afternoon incom- pliance with Mr Mundella's wishes, telling you that he had returned to-day, from Folkestone, where he opened a school-board school, suffering from a severe, cnillanda bronchinl attack. He is 111 bed, and has lost, his voice ;and tne doctor says that he will not be fit to speak in public for three weeks or a month. lIe de. sires me to express to you his great concern aad regret that ha should be obliged to postpone his visit to Cardiff, and be unable to carry out, at present, en- gagements to which he has looked forward with so much interest and pleasure.—I remain, sir, yours faithfully, H. T. BRYA.\T.—L. Williams, Esq. He (the chairman) was sure that Mr Mundella's illness had caused a general feeling of disappoint- ment in the town, the inhabitants generally | having looked forwaril to his visit with mu:n interest. He thought the only course left open to V hem was to defer the formal opening ceremony uv til Mr Mundella's health would be sufficiently r ored to enable him to visit Cardiff. This, witfi the public meeting, could be deferred, but the 2, -ual opening of the school muat take place at the.. U,ME appointed. As Mr Munciella was compelisv to postpone his visit in consequence of illness, h^Y the chairman) was of opinion that they should sent? letter to him expressing their regret at his illness, expressing a hope that in a month or six w^eKshe would be able to pay nb visit to Cardiff. The chairman also mentioned that he had recpiv,d a telegram from Lord Aber- dare, advising that a"e,r|s should. f abeyance until Mr,\M™della was able to visit Cardiff. f Some discussion follow^dj but the suggestion or the chairman was adopted, ar}d the school wih be opened by the school board vvithout ceremony, the opened by the school board vvithout ceremony, the formal openingbeing defe^jedvto be carried through by Mr Mundella. The school will be fon.yiaHy_ opened by the school board on Tuesday. L\wi.,ll be opened on Wednesday for enrolling schol&Nrs, ond ttie work of the school will commence ,on"^he Monday following. For the office of assistant mistress for, the girls' schools, Miss Ellen Jane McLeliick, of Kil- marnock, was elected, and for Mie vsecond assistant-mistress, Miss Mary Joues, b, 'Mreat Frederick-street, at present assistant-mLvtreSiv at the Grangetown School Board SchooL For the office of science master for the )oy, schools three candidates were in attendance, the choice falling on Mr Charles Joseph Gaban, 23, Montpelier-road, South Kensington, Londoxf,\ S.W. Montpelier-road, South Kensington, Londoxf,\ S.W. c, I

THE STRANGE FIND AT SWANSEA. Identification of the Remains. The Inquest. Mr Coroner Strick, on Friday afternoon, hold an inquest, at the Centre Hotel, on the portions of a human body which, as we have previously announced, were picked up in the scoops of the large dredger while it was working, on Tuesday last, off the Swansea Extension Pier. In opening the proceedings, the Coroner explained that con- sidering the small portion of a body picked up, he should not have thought it necessary to hold an inquest but for the fact that the po- lice had ascertained that people were in a position to identify the face. He then called Martha. Howard, the wife of John Howard, WHO said she had seen the remains which, amongst other thing, comprised the sca Ip of a man, show- ing the ears and beard, and she was of opinion that they resembled very much Robert Wood, who was employed as a we'ghman at the Manure Works at the iIafod,,and had lodged with her for eleven months. He was about 53 years old. During the time lie was with her he had Ind severai drinking bouts. Ho had to leave her house in consequence of his intemperance, ne having for a lllOuth., previously been drinking whiskey continually. He was a widower, and a hoy and girl lived with him. On one day be had fallen three times into the canal. She had heard from Wood's daughter thai, hi hi(i been mi^sin? toree weeks before the skull Wi,S picked 11: Wood, while sober, was of a saving disposi • .on, out when .rn'ciig bms "¡,I- d era.he tV k v, ;s g-eat- that Ua had once en.;e*.vou ed to pawn ills htile giri's boats in order to obtain money.—Jam is C och- rane,, captain of the No. I dredger, e poke to the discovery of the remains.—Catherine Devine said that wv*en she lat saw Wood he was getting over his drinking bout, and his fellow-workmen had made no a subscription to enable him to go to Glasgow. Toree weeks beforo then he had been dismissed from. the works.—James Williams, the second mate of the dredger, corroborated the evi- dence of Capt. Cochrane. The Coroner, in summing up, said though the law said an inquesWnust be held on a body found under circumstances'\similar to those in ouestiou, it did not say it must ^e a whole body or a very considerable portion of it In this case it seemed that there were sufficient of the tea- tures to be identified, and he suggested that perhaps the case would be met by the jury saying that from the evidence, they firmly believed the remains to belong to Robert Wood.— The jury expressed themselves hardly satisfied that it had been conclusively proved the remains were those of Wood, though they believed them to be, and therefore found That the said Robt. Wood, who was much giyen to drink, was miss- ing on Tuesday, the 16th Dec. last, and the jury are under the impression- that the remains which they viewed, and which- were dredged out of the entrance to the harbour on January 6th formed part of the body of the' said Robert Wood, but how they got there thereJs no evidence before the jury to show,"

-=- ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. TIPPERABT.—The nominatiorfVfor 90U^Y Tt^e perary to fill the v-acancy c^° Rn]er) t()()k resignation of Mr P. J^Smyth-(Hon; 0>Connor place at lipperary on Friday. v! ri,,f (Nationalist) was the only candidate pv ai and was declared duly elected.

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THE COAL TRAFFIC BY RAILWAY -i to London from South Wales, 1884 It appears thai the quantity of coal sent over various lines of the railways in 1884 fall con- siderably off what was forwarded in 1833. Tha falling eft princijx-tlly affected t.III1 Midland ami the-London and North Western litiel;, i-Iiiist the Great Western a'so shows a decline oti the year o: fuliy 90,000 tons, the. greater part of which fell upon the colliery owners of South Wales, whik Derbyshire and other parts, of the Midland field shared the deficit on tho other two lines named. It cannot be said that the, depression in tra<« generally was the cuiss of this; 0i' the contrary, there is no doubt tliar the comparatively mild weather which Prevailed throughout the greater part of the year, r,nd more particular the many economical a-p- ■p-ppliatices that have been introduced for the pur- p°se3_ of economy in the consumption cf house- nc.id fuel during the last 10 or 12 years have had lllO,, to do with the decreased quantity d coal sent f to London during the past year. Indeed, the ex- cept onailv high prices of coal in 1372 and 1873 have greatly injured the trade, and nave done more than anything else to lessen the consumpdon of houfw coal, and oave also set aside all calculations previously made as to the future increase. The Iloyal Commission on Coal, which sat in 1873. re ported that the c >n-u—ption of coal in i,OQ ported that the c >n-u—ption of coal in Loo don and throughout the, country might be be expected to increase pari pa»m with the increase of the population, But this has eer- tainly not been the case, so tar, at least, aa London is concerned. The has greatly increased, whilst many new streets ,1 road., have been opened, requiring an increased nmount or gas, yet with all this less coal was required last year. It may be said that comparatively iir.tle steam coai is sent to the metropolis hy rail- way, nearly all being used for hou-e and gas purposes, and there has been no fal;iug off as regards tho latter, but just the reverse. t>nriny last year several attempts were made to induce the directors ot the leading1 lines t > reduce their rates, ana this they mig.it well have done, and, at the same time, obtain good profit. The mineral traffic is the mris t important of all, for of the 250,000,000 tons ,1, of xfoods that are carried annually by our rail- ivaW", 181,500,000 tons arc minerals, leaving only [ 0 tons of general goods. III carrying minerals the railway companies have the great advantage of full trucks, which they have not; in other good,^ This was clearly shown by Mr Pindley, the.vTnaii £ lPer °t" the London and North- Western liaim aY> who, in his evidence before a select committee^ said as a result of a night's work at the Lona. oo ffoods station 26 trains were despatched carrying 1,447 tons in 376 wagons, the avcage weight ia each wagon 33cwt. > Whilst a wagon w*. 'Ul'l, carry eight tons of ordinary goods, as befox "e st^ted, it is very different with coal and other mint ,raiS».for the wagons are filled to their utmost pacKV before they are sent away from the mines, V1 -h respect to last | year's traffic, however, it v quarter ended in December w. as *?a oe.it. Ine tonnage carried during that jx.'n0" was as lows :— „ lows Tons. ^ons- i,ons- Ort- -Nov. Dec. Midland. 211% 2K407 216,174 London & NorthAVestcrn. 146,692 Great Northern 103,205 9o,:«W 100,33? Great Western g6,7DO 77,61 37,096 Great Eastern. 60,704 77,32i> > Other Lines 9.o55 8,162 i.% 622,423 607,081 P43,241 It will Do seen that there was a considerable in crease m the quantity of coal carried by the prin cipal Ihies in December as compared with the- pre yious.month, and this was more especially the case 'tvitti the Great Western, which took mora than I i.uLii,,fr,)m the pits in the Aberdare district. The Midland and the London and North-Wea- ;n.\reas0.,was principally Irom .Lancashire and Dert-»yebire- The Lorvtori and Aeuh-Vves- tern, it JlJay tso be said, took more from some of the collieries in South Wales in December than it did ia tho previous month, whilst the Mid- laud had also some coal put on to it. from Aberdare. '.Taking this year, however, it from Aberdare. '.Taking this year, however, it appears that the threat Northern had nearly 25,000 tons of coal pu t on to it iroin the Aberdare district, whilst the A'e crdare Iron Company alone put 56,000 tons on to the London and North Western. On to the sai ne, line there was also sent from Fforchauian 15,60i*l tons, liesolven 10.600 tons, and Bwllfa 17,600 to lis. The Great Western took its largest ton mure, a bout 50,000 tons, from the Aberdare Iron Company's pits, 45,000 tons from Nixon's Navigation, ,44.000 from Fforch- amaii, aud 35.0C0 tons from Iwllfa. A -.I of coal was also sent during the year from Wayne's Merthyr aad Mertbyr I and Aberdare. Nearly ,4,000 tuis of coal were forwarded during the 'year Irom Cwm- dar^, 24,000 tons from Biaina, 26,000 tons from ilesolveu, aud 52,000 tons from .Mountain Ash. [ A considerable tonnage was alsi1) sent from ths i.-rn of the Pivmou li Company, :1S Weil as from Iblw V*K Tredegar, and Aberamau. The tonnage sent over the various lines, in 1383 and 1884 was as follows tonnage sent over the various lines, in 1383 and 1884 was as follows I Tona. Tons. 1I163..1 1384. Midland 2,3.4,o W 2,570,477 London & North-Western l,t»38.7v:i l,56o,44o Ore.li. Aoi-thc X,i30,38w 1,12o,!Cii 01 r;i Oreat Western 1,08 9,66.. C.rji; Eastern 730,i)9: Other Lilies S'1,655 97-0fa' 7,083.515 6836,616-¡ .—

I. LORD BUTE OM THE R £ F0i\- MATION. I.. I,I The new collegiate bnildins of St. Aloysiuer* Glasgow, were formally opened on Thursday by of Among those present at1, the ceremony were the Archbishop of Gla-gow,. the Bishop of Dunkeld, the. Bishop of Galloway,, I the Very Rev. Monsiguor Smith, tla Very Rev. Provost Monroe, the Very Uev. Canons Masruire,. Macfarlane, Cavan, Condon, the Very llev. Prior Jerome Vaugban, the Very Rev. Prior Arsenius, O.S.F., Mr A. Campbell and Mrs Campbell of Lochnell, Mr Monteith of Carstairs, &c. The noble MAIIQUIS, in the course of his ad- dress, congratulated the fathers of the society upon the completion of a building so necessary for the success of an important and benefi- cent scheme. He also congratulated the Catholics of Scotland upon seep in the resumption ot that tra- I dition which from the earliest ages of the national history had united higher education the Catholic Churcn. To deny such a tra-ut;on with regard to that highest education would hardly possible in a country where three of the lour I LTniveraities were f Catholic institution. They were sometimes favouied with the assertion that for the school system below the universities they were indebted to Joim Kn ix. The assertion oelonged to the same class as th« statement thac Manomedans tiunk that women have no souls, tuat nobody was allowed to eat and drink after receiving extreme unction, or some fireworks of. tuat, nobody was allowed to eat and drink after receiving extreme unction, or some fireworks of fiction with which, among other things, a limited. group had just celebrated tho riftb ceatenary of tiie death of VVycliiiie. Hducation was early connected with the monasteries anci con- tinued to be so, but grammar schools were, tinued to be so, but grammar schools were also instituted in such, numbers that in 1496 an Act of Parliament could make it, and did make it, compulsory for all persons t of a certain social position to send their eldest ¡ sons to one, the object obviously being that the proprietors of the country should all be men of: eulture. It was not till 1616-40 years after John Vinox was laid in his ;-ravC-tll',At by an act of the Pa -liamentary Council an attempt was made at a morA general system. The lleformation. in some rest>eats less d<"triJctlve than in England, spared t;1P\n- £ >v"amnr scho0if!» only subjecting the masters to the aKorovnI of the new clergy; but the re- formers no more created these schools than they built St. G\ e ;'s Church in Edinburgh- They f took possession of both. On the other hand, the ta.sk created by\the extinction of monastenes was in time supplied by theerectionu s,ae new schools, such a« Glasgow Umvo^iUj, He wished the fathers of the society the ^raos. and most enduring success in walls the knowledge, not only things wlrcu are mora directly or God.. bJt 'l1*' of human learning. To droatn t'nat »ny'*nc/efe of real knowledge or true contemplation (,'f f;iets could justly mutate against the faith either themselves or ^tilers would be itself a" nmdsljey.

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