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 '*. â-  i I- li i i ' i A TASTE OF HONEY. Bt Mast E. WiLxnra. The IcaK, low, nd painted cottage niaed above the lerilof the afreet on vi embenkBMBt aepanted into two terrMea. Steep atone etepe led np the tarracaa. They were ooTaied with men alimy mow, and little fenia end waeda aprang oot of every onck. Awalkof flat alata atmea led fnnn them to the front door, which waa pnmted green, aaffged on ita hmgaa, and had a braaa Snooker m it. » i. The whole yard and tiie dooble banka were covered with a taU waving camp of rod timothy and harda-gran and red and white clover. It waa in the hei|^t of haying- time. A craaay wheel track *lay nnud the aide nf the booae to the bam daahed with atreaka of red paint. Off to the left atretohed acme waving paatnre-Iand, a garden patch marked by bean bolea and glandnx com blades, and a long row of bee-taivea showing in the midat i A maty open buggy and a lop-eared white horee stood in the drive opposite the side door of the house. An elderly woman with a green cotton umbrella over her head sat in the buggy placidly waiting. She had a flattish blaek straw bonnet with purple strings, and wore a dull green silk shawl sprinkled with little bright palm leaves over her broal shoul- ders. She bad a large smiling face, crlskly gray hair, and quite a thick white beard cropped close on her double chin. The side door stood open, and a young woman k ept coming out, bringing pails and round wooden boxes, which she stowed away in the baggy, in back and under the seat. She was a little round -shouldered, her face with its thick, dull-colored complex- ion was like her mother's, just as pleasant and fmiling, only with a suggestion of shrewd sense about it which the cider's wo- man's did not have. When the pails and boxes were all in the but^ey, she locked the door, got in herself, and drove carefully out oi the yard. The roiMl aloog which they proceeded lay between waving grain fields. The air was full of the rattle of mowing-machines this morning nearly every field had its broad furrows where they had passed. The old white horse jogged slowly along the two women sat behind |,him in sOence, the older one gazing about her with placid interest, the younger one apparently ab- sorbed in her own thoughts. She was cal- culating how much her butter and eggs and berries would bring in Bolton, the larjce market town towards which they were tra- vering. Every week Inez Morse and her mother drove there to sell the produce of their little farm. Her father had died three years befoie ever sioce, the daughter had carried n the farm, hiring very bttle help. There was a six hundred dollar mortgase on it, which she was trying to pay np. It was slow work, though they saved every penny they coula^and denied themselves even the fruit of their own land. Inez had a mild joke about the honey which her bees made. She and her mother scarcely tasted it it all went into the Bol- ton markets. "It* 11 you what His mother,' Inez used to say, "the day the mortgage is paid off we'll have v am biscuit dnd honey for sup- per, " dered what hewanted. and why ha did bo tell bia errand. â-  ^,. •^ice evoMBg," tald he flnal^' ••BaantifaL" â„¢^ TbMi Item waa aaoHier panve. xne y,Sr«*£^«»ood oo on. fcot-^'S* on the other; and got red in the faoa. Inez conldBOt imagine why ^^^J^ teU her what be wanted. At laat abe grew *!SS yowr BwUwr want to bay aiano egga, Willy r ahe aaked. ^v-.*-wâ€" • iLo," hefanltawd. koUng »2!L?S aback. "I don't-ahe doeaâ€" fcaatwaya abe didn't aay anything abont it. "Waa it butter, then?" "Noâ€" IgueMnot. I rather think aha a ^i^ffited a* him in growing inaaament â€"what did he want Ha waa a fairly oomplextoned yoang man. and he looked aa if toe blood waa farly bursting through hia oe. „ ' Goodnight, Inez," aaid hefinaUy. "Good-^ht, Willy," abe loaponded. Then he walked off. Inez went into the kitchen.entirely mya- tified. She told her mother about it. • •What do voa anppoa) he wanted " asked she. Mrs. Morse waa an obtuse woman, nut Inez's father had oome courting her m by- gone daya. ' She caught the clew to the mystery quicker than her daughter. â-  "Why, I gneaa he cornea to aee yon Inez, most likely. ^, "Come to see me 1 Why, what for V "Why, 'cause he wanted to. Why does any feller so to see a girl " It was Inez turn to color then. 1 •» If abe waa in the l»at one of their klni ?hf SvJhad the thinga thoy bad. « d^ S. 55uy aha looked at t^J^tCi 5SoonSgto«ig«»t-r".*'*^«^„ « ^l?Sywo»k»do S«iday aa wdl aa Whenever her mother looked vristf nlly at the delicacies which they could not keep for their own erjoyment, Inez would tell her to never mind â€" by-and-by they would eat their own honey. Tbe remark grew into a sort of household proverb for them. The mother felt the privations much more keenly than the daughter. She vai one of those women fcr whom these simple animal pleasures form a great part of life. She had not much resource in her mind. The payment of the mortgape did not afford her tbe keen delight in anticipation that it did Inez she was hardly capable of it, though she would be pleased eoough when the time came. Now she though more about eating the honey. However, she had never grumbled at any of her daughter's management. In her opiaion,Inez always did abibut right. When they raacbed Bolton, Inez drove about the village from house to house, sell- ing her wares at the doors, while her mo- ther sat in the buggy and held the horse. She had a good many regular costomers her goods were always excellent, and gave satisfaction, though she had the name, of being a trifle exacting in her bargains, and asking as much ss she possibly could. To day one of her customers in making change did not give her enough by a cent. Inez, when she discovered it, drove back a quarter of a mile to have the error reiti- tied. The woman looked amused and a trifle contemptuous when she asked her for the missing penny. Inez saw it. "Yon think it ii queer that I came back for one cent," with slow dignity, "but cents are my dol- lars." "Yes, 1 suppose so," assented the wo- man, hastily changing her expression. Inez driving through Bolton streets, looks at tbe girls ot her own age whom she met in their pretty street suits in grave feminine admiration. She iiad never had anything but the very barest necessaries in the way of clothes herself. Lately a vain desire had crept into her heart for a bright ribbon bow to wear at the throat, as some of those girls did. She never dreamed of gratifying the desire, but it remained. She thought of it so much that, before she knew, she men- tioned' it to her mother on her way home. "Mother," said she, "a red ribbon bow with long ends like those giria wore would lie pretty for me wouldn't it T" Her mother stared at her in amazement. It did not sound like Inez. "Beal pretty, chOd," she said. "TA hev one ef I waa yon yoh're young, an' yon want each things. I bed 'em when I waa a girL" "Oh no, mother," cried Inez, haatQy. "Of course I never thOnght of aooh a thing real- ly. I i»ly spoke of it. We've got to wait till tiie mo^age is paid to eat our hm- ey. you know." That evening after the mother and daugh- ter had eaten their supper, and woe sitting in the kitchm in the twilight, there came a knock at tiie door. Inez answered it. Willy linfield stood there. •*How do yon do, Willy f aaid aha. "Pretty well, tiianky, Ines." Then there eras a pause. Inez stood look' ing gravely at the yoong man. She wetJc-daya. henatofeed. There wen oowa to wSSk and Bat abe changed her dreaa never thought of such a thing as that," said she. "I don't believe it, mother." "He did, sure's preachin'" "1 never thought of asking him to come in. I guess you are mistaken, mother. No- body ever came to see me so," Inez kept thinking about it uneasily. It was a new uneasiness for her. The next day she met Willy Linfield in the village store. She stepped up to him at once. "Willy," Faid she, "I didn't ask you to come in last night, and I thought p'rhapi, afterward, I'd ought to. I never thought of your wanting to come in. I supposed you'd come on an errand." The young fellow had looked stiff and offended when she first approached him. but it was impossible to doubt her honest apology, "Well, I kinder thought of making a little c^l on yon, Inez," he owned, color- ing. "I'm very sorry, then but no young man ever came to see me before, and I never thought of snch a thing." She looked into his face pleasantly. He gained courage. "Say, Inez," said he, "the bell-ringers are going to perform ia the hall to-morrow night. Would you bke to go with me " "Yes, I'd like to. Thank you. Willy." Inez was not easily perturbed, but she went home now in a flutter. Such a thing as this had never happened to her before. Young men had never much partiality for her. Now she was exceedingly pleased. She had never realized that she cared, be- cause she had not had the experience of other girls but now her girlish instincts awoke. She really had a good deal of her mother's simplicity about her, though it was redeemed by native shrewdness. Now she began to revolve in her mind again the project of the red ribbon. She did want it so much, but she felt as if it waa such a dreadful extravagance. At last she decided to get it. She actually looked pale and scared when she stood at the. counter in the littie millinery shop bn}ring it. She went home with it feeling a guilty de- light, and showed it to her mother, and told her of Willy lindfield's invitation. She had not before. This was the afternoon of the concert day. "My " said her mother, elated, "you've got a bean, Inez, as sure as preachin an' the red ribbon's bMutiful." Inez could cot rid herself of the guilty feeling, however. She gave her mother a piece of fconey^comb for her supper. "It ain't fair for me ti be buying ribbCn out ef the mortgage money, and mother have no- thing.' said she to herself. "So she must have the honey, and that makes two things out." But when Inez, with the crisp red bow at her throat, followed her escort awkardly through the lighted hall, and sat by bis side l-st^iing to the crystal notea of the bell- ringers, the worry abont the ribbon and the weight of the mortgage aeemed to alip for a moment from her youFg, bowed ahouldera. She hardly though of tnem, only to look at some other girls with ribbona, and to be glad abe had one too. She was making a graap for a few roinutea at the girl-hood abe had never had. Tbe concert waa Wedneaday. Saturday she and her mother drove to Bo'ton to sell their butter and eggs again. When they got home, Inez opened the pvlor, ' which was never used, and sWept and dusted it. It was a grand apartment to her and her mother. It iiad never been opened since her father's fnneraL When uie first un- closed the door to-day she seemed to see the long coffin in the middle of the floor, where it had rested then. She shuddered a little. "Folks that have had troubles do see coffins afterward, even when they're happy, I suppose," muttered she to herself. Then she went to work. There was a large mahogany bureau in one comer of the room some flat-bottomed ohaira atood stiffl- ly around there was an old-fashioned card- table, with Mrs. Hemans'a poems and tbe best lamp in a bead lamp mat on it, be- tween the two front windows. A narrow gilt-fra:ned looking-glass hung over it. Mrs. Morse heard Inez at work, and came in. " What air yon doing on, Inez 7" abe aaked, in wonder. "I jnat thought I'd alick np here a little. Willy Linfield aaid â€" he mightâ€" ^brop in a while Sunday night." Inei did not look at her mother. Somehow ahe felt more aahamed before her than ahe would have be- fore a amarter woman. "My aakea, Inez, you dont aay ao I Yon have got a bean aa sure as preaohin' Your father kept riofat onr^flar, after we onoe aat np a Sunday night. Yon'll have to pat a new wick in tliat lamp, Inez." "ni see to it mother,^' replied Inez, abort, ly. She waa delighted heraslf but aee felt angry with her mother for ahowing ae much elMion it aeemed to cheapen her hap^- ZtS!immaeT and put on the new red rib- bSbSrShTJiSHia littie »o-W ?^ Kiamon roaea Mt in tiie froat yard (Awe W^Tafaw of theee littie dwarf rosea haM JSld SThe taU gr«a th«ej. «* •«»«5^ SJmin an old ^•â- 8lr^.,i*"r«- ^toL When ahe heard WiUy-afarton toTalate walk and hia knock onib»Jra^ d0or. her heart beat aa » n*^.,**^.*??! ••There-a yoar bean, Inez 1" cried her mother 'he'a oome J" Ine. v^aa terribly aifraid Willy would hear what her mOttier said *»»• '^^.JT*" aU open. She went to the door tremblmg, and adied him into the garnished parlor^ Mra.Moraeataldoutintiiekichenj, Tto twilight deepened. She oonld hear tbe arft hum^f voioea in the parlor. „"I««2 *s in tiierecourtin'".aid she. "Her father «a me used tooourt, but it's all over. There a something queer about everything. Willy L'nfield came many Sunday night after that It got to be said all around that WUly Linfield was "going' with Inez Morse. Folks wondered why he fancied her. He vras a pretty, rather dand- ified young fellow, and Inez waa so plain m her ways. He looks ten years older than she. though she waa about the same age. One Monday afternoon she told her moth- er that Willy the night before had asked her to marry him. The two women aat at the kitchen windows resting- They had been washing and were just through. The kitchen floor was freshly scoured every- thing locked damp and clean. ... "You don't say so, Inez I" cried her mother, admiringly. "What did you teU him Of course you'll have him he s a real nice feller an' I don't believe you'll get anybody else." "I told bim I'd have him if he'd wait three years for me to pay off the mortgage," replied Inez, quietly. "Did he say he would " "Yes." "It's a long time for a feller to wait," said her mother, shaking her head dubious- ly. "I'm afraid you'll lose him Inez." "Then 111 lose him," said Inez. "I'm going to pay off the mortgage before I murry any man. Mother, look here." she went on, with a passion which was totally fo reign to her, and showed how deeply she felt about the matter. "You know a little how I feel abont that mortgage. You know how father felt about it." "Yes, I know, Inez," said her mother, with a sob. "Many's the time," Inez went on, "that father has talked about it to me over in the field there. He'd been trying all his life to get this place clear he'd worked like a dog we all worked and went without. But to save his life he couldn't p»y it up withm six hundred dollars. When the doc- tor told him he couldn't live many months longer, he fretted and fretted over it to me, I guess he always talked anre abont his troubles to m% mother, than he did to you." "I guess he did, Inez." "Finally I told him one dayâ€" it was when he was able to be about, just before he gave up I was out in the garden pick tbe kkwyer'a oflBoa that h^ !»*« ^to go J«»-,^ b'SS* jafhSay" feative aopper of warn W*WLÂ¥"»J~~»: fohiehovoe Aram the old Sha waa than h» tha aittiag room aai Thflf bodiaiMrfe- looK- aen won- 1 her Sunday, Ines went with bar mother to chnrdiiathamondngaad aftenoon. She went to Sabhath-aohool after tiie morning aarvice too. She waa in a daaa of girls of ing peaa, and he was there snth hia can*. *Ioez,' said he, 'I've got to die an' leave that mortgage nnpud, an' I've been workin' ever since I was a yoong man to do it.' •Father,' says I, 'don'tyon worry. 7*^ pay up that mortgage.' 'You can't, Inez,' says he. *Yes I wilv says I *I promise you father.' It seemed to cheer him np. He didn't fret so much about it to me after- wards, but he kept asking me if I shought I rwilly could. I always said •Yes.' •'Now, mother, if I marry Willy now, no- body knows what's ^ing to be to hinder my keeping my pxomiae to father. Willy 'ain't got anything laid np, and he ain't very strong. Besidea, he got hia mither and aister to do for. Hattie's jnat beginning to help heraelf a littie, bat ahe can't do much for her mother yet. Mrs, Linfield ain't able to work, and Willy'a got to look oat for her. Then I've got yon. And there might be man atiU to do for in the conrae of tiro or three yeara nobody knowa. If I marry Willy now, I ahall never pay off the movtgaga that I promiaed poor father 1 would, and I ain't going to do it. It'll take jnat three yeara to pay it every cent and then I'll marry him, if he'a willing to wait. If the mortaue waa jnat for me, I wouldn't care, though I don't think it would be very wiaeanyway. But it's for father." Mrs. Morse waa crying. "I know yon're jeat right about the mortgage, Inez," she sobbed '•but you'll loae your beau aa anre aa preachin'" Nevertheless, it aeemed for a long time as ii she would not. Willy kept faithful. He was a good sort of yonng fellow, and very fond of Inez, thoogh he hardly entered into her feelinga abont tbe mor^jage. There waa at timea a perfect agony of pi^ in her heart ovOT her father. It made no difference to her that all hia earthly troublea were over for him now. When ahe thought over how he had toiled aid worried and denied him- aelf for the aake of owning their littie farm clear, and then had to die witiiont aeeing it accomplished, it seemed as if she could not bear it. The pitiful spectacle of her pow dull father working all hia life for auch a small aim in sndi small waya in vain haunt- ed her. Daring the next three yean ahe atrained every nerva She denied heraelf even more than ahe had formerly. Sometimaa ahe need to think her olothea were hardly fit for h« to appear in beaide WiUy, healwaya looked ao nice. Bat ahe t^mght be knew why ahe dreaaadao poorly, and woald not mind. ••Itbringathe time when we can eat our hoaoy tegeaer,'-t bIm aaid^ WiUy waa faitiifal for a hag time bot the laat aizmonta of the third year he be- gan to dro5 off a littie. Onoe and a while he woald mna a Sunday night, Inez frett- ed overita little bat Ae did not really think of doabtins him, he had been con- atant to her ao umg. Beaidea, thete was only one more payment to be made on the mrtmie, and ahe waa ao julnlant over ttiat ^J^'7^ '**P^ "^^^ everything elae. 1. ^S:w\T ~* ^^ â- Â» â- llogether uS heart that ahe went to the Uwyer'a o^ mie afternoon and made the laat payment, h^9py aa ahe anticipated. be«i. jutjr her Jar three with theplaoe. In the Willy'a mother and mn '^gSSSSSEihetnedto.ped. home from the ahop am't ^^^^i"?^ the laat p»ym«i* on the mnrtigag** •»*;'• '• oometo tell him." ^^ j^ «-,«««i« The mother and ^^i^*^^.^^^^^' bat gazed at each other mailentdiateeBe. ahe hS nothing «1« *?,,-y- ""£ the parlor a minute with me, Inez, she added, after a little. Inez fdlosred her trembling. Hattie abut the ioor, and threw her arms around Inez. "Ob. Inez " ahe oned again, and began weeping ••I don't know howto teU Ton. Willy »»"^*«*^^.^"°tiT^l mean' We've aU talked to bun, but it didn't do any good. Oh, Inez, I »» J«" youl He'a-gone over to W«t D«e* thia aftwnoon- to gtt mamed f Oh, ln« i ••Who ia he going f o marry Â¥ "Her name's Towerâ€" Minnie Tower, un, Inez, we're so awful sorry 1 He haant known her long. We never dreamed ot such a thing." ' .._^ ,. •*Never mind," said Inez, qmetly. "Dm t take on so, Hattie. Perhaps its aU for the best." ••Why, don't you care, Inez T „ There was a pitiful calm on Inez s duU face. "There's no use fretting over what ijao't be helped," said she. "I don't think Willy baa acted bad, I made him wait a longtime." "That was the trouble, Inez." "I couldn't help it, I should do it over again." • Inez took it so calmly that the other girl brightened. She had felt frightened and distressed over thu, but she had not a very deep nature. "Inez," said she, hesitatingly, when abe made a motion to go, ••they've got a room fixed upstairs, you know would you like to see it 7 It looks real pretty. " Inez shuddered. This fine stab served to pierce the deepest, though she knew the girl meant all right. "No, thank yon, Hattie, I won't stop." Inez was thiuokful when she got out in the air. She felt a little faint. She had to walk a mile before she reached home. Once she stopped and rested, sitting on a stone beside the road. She looked weaiily around at the familiar landscape. "The mortgage is paid," said she, •'but I'll never eat my honey." Her mother was watching at the kitchen window for her when she entered the yard. "It it paid, Inez?" asked she, eagerly, ^hen the door opened. "Every cent, mother," replied the daugh- ter, kissing her â€" something she seldom did abe was not given to caresses. "Where's your bean 7" was the next ques- tion. "I thought yon waa going to bring him home." •'Ha ain't ceiling, mother. He'a gone over to Weat Dorset to get married," "Inez Morae, yon don't mean to aay ao I You don't mean you've really loat your baaa7 Wa'al I told yoa you would." Mrs, Morae aat down and beean to cry. Inez had t %ken her thinga offj and now ahe was getting oat the moulding-board and aome flour. "Wat air yon doin' on, Inez 7" •'I'm making the warm biscuits for sapper, mother, to eat vrith the honey." "Yon ain't goin' to make warm biscuit when you've loat your beaa7" ••I don't aee how that need to cheat na oat of our aupper we've talked about all these years." •'I do deoUr' I don't believe yoa mind it a bit," said the poor simple mother, her sor- row for her daughter lighting up a littie, ••I don't care ao much bat wliat I've got enough comfort left to live on, mother." ••Wa'al, I'm glad yon can look at it ao, Inez, but yoa air a queer girl " The biaouit were as light aa paflli. Inez'a face waa aa oheerf nl aa naaal, when ahe and her mother aat down at the little table, with the biacuit and golden hon^-oomb hi a clear glaaa diah between them. The mother look- plaoidly happy. She .waa delighted thai Inez ooald nake it ao." But when ahe aaw her help heraelf to the biaoait and honey, she aaid again "Yon air a ^ueer sirl, Inez, I know the mortgage is paid, an^I only wiah your poor father koew, an' here we ait eatin' the warm biacmit and honey. Bat I should think loain' yoar beaa would take all the aweetneaa oat of the honey." Toe pleaaant patience in Inez'a face waa more pathetic than tears. ••! gueaa there'a a good many folks find it the aame way with their honey in thia world," aaya she. •'To- morrow, if it'a pleaaant, well drive to Boa- ton, and get yon a new dreaa, mother." tions. On aome of the Western territoriea there' i2*Ul 300,000 aheep. Shearbg bS»**:-»»*.r her, and October ia a C^sft Bight of from 300 to 400 u,^ 2t!i^s clipping a aheep in a dexteroni^ HI very animated. ^^1 It is reported from Berlii, «. Sohweinfnrtii, the AfriouTh^ ^k\ been charged by the AoadSiv 2S U that oity witii a mission to CsntiT*5 and will shortly set out at tie ^*S 1 expedition. G«man nolon-zitSr " I ara donbtleas connected with IV a*fi«k fartii'a plans. â„¢ "'• 8c!i^| The number of vessels totally w near the coasts of Groat Britain jT- "• • I five years, 1877 82. was, «SS^ft. report of the Committee on Hi^ ' or an aynage of 497 per annum whk ^*i of life equiTto nearly 739 per.Cl ' return takes no account of missing J- ' Mias Mary Anderson's pictore ".i. 1 ing her claaaio oval face to perfectm. »? ' an enormona sale in Eagland, oji^ "i fortune of the photographers 'um^*» baa given sittings. Oae of the Lon.t«.? *• given sittings. Oae of the LondiUTI! " I that the three raoTpJJ papers says Lingtry. Herr Binder, the Austrian the estate of Baron Hirsch at B^^Jjl was carried off to the hilla by brigaWto! time since, is reported stiil to be alive i!! iU from fright. The robbers ]mii^^ letter in The Greek, which Herr compellid t j sign, to Biron Hineh's refill sentitive, demanding £4000 as his ntZ\ Negotiations have been opened withal brigands on this basis. f The disease known as "Eaglish choW which had brosen out viralently ia^ parts of Lancashire, has been ascribed toZ use of impure water. The unwonted weather had caused a scarcity of the BupphBeesl' tiiey thri and the people, in their extremity, fatd^BfaV^'^^tes^th course to impure springs. In NorthamBt* where there were numbers of personiifficj ed, the sewers also had given off ooxiDats, halations for want of fiushinK. Ilel e»V frianAly| 'S»i»»!««J ,Bloa.*»* apatsoa i ]ilJesnali _{thaJe^,l •han there IB '^eleaar '*yheoityof] ,Volg^ ""â-  1 provinces. (twenty Je^ ^lialf v^ " ithelav .Di.pawnah| Sit all the. kowo- Tb«r«^ ChPBtiana ^body fesredl llraningwhentl .0 home, a mv â- *â-  eighteen la large guod the cryi] ithat the ^^^8 to the s j flion arose in They wa onted. That! ird rushed _^' began to fitones dashe dropped ot ifh a bleeding J light of the crowd. Wi The Rev. Gaarles E. B, Rjed, SeaeUnl of the British and Forei£;a Bible Sjcietr! recently met his death by falling oretlj precipice at Pontreuna, at which plan J was spending hia summer vacation, T^l deceased was born in 1846, and was a gnig,! ate of Trinity ColleKe, Cambridge. Hi I services to the Bible Society were greitiil valued. He was an expert rower and nl always fond of athletic exercises, and it n I while engaged in mountiUa climbing ttitl he lost bis life. The Eaglish governmental gua facttsisl fiave finished about four hundred new lU guns tor the re-armament of the Bmillerilii|i I of the royal navy. More than cue hundnj and fifty of the new guns are of the sixiid class of breech-loadetd, and seveneiijhthiii the whole are especially adapted to mat' I vice. Larger guns for the heavier iron cU are also in course of construction, the nnl ordinance being of the type which combiu| all that ia perfect in the best systemi, ' ia believed that within a year or two ill o I iating deficiencies in the armament of tti| Britiah navy will be repaired. Recent lectnrea on lace making, delimnl| by Mr. Allan Cole in various towns in I»l Land at the request of the Schools of irt hi Cork and Limerick, are said to have alrdjl borne fruit. Q leen Victor a has given pW I tographa of fine specimens of ancient lu from her collections for use in the conreA and aohoola, showing the variety ofpttten adopted and the mode of production dnihl the beet period of the art. Typical ipM' mens from the South K^nsmgton Mnieal have alao been taken, and photognphi m niahed at low prices, afid a plan for fartu improving the atandard of design for Ita laoe-making is under consideration. Mr. Labonohere, who has a very ^1 tongae and sometimes dips lus pen ii^ 9?l did not score his usual victory recently b| an incident which occurred in the Howsl Oommons, He gravely asked the Uwl Secretary for the Home Dapartmwt u l were true that Mr, W. H. Smith, H. had loat hia watch at a Cmservative ing and whether ateps would be takaij prevent each on occurence at sunilar gtvl ings. The inuendo conveyed by the qnai tion was 80 patent that "amidst roan n langhter" the member for Westm inter » Elied the watch waa not loat at the meebtti at oatdde the doors, among the fneadi«l the questioner, who objected to Mr. Saus»| going into the building. and four Je^ 'o children â€" v i^ed to the t Jble to stop it "Let us go for barefoot mil orkmen are ca The Jewish leir inmates mo ._ Moscow luu one of those b _„ to pave SOI Novgorod. On th 1,000 roubles to the hands of t tve them all t and even ity. It was lydead, and Sue Jews were 1 nded. There Christian bona Gov. Baranoff en the Cossacl ewiah quarter pr """ street was itia, shouting, iog^umitur '•msh books and onoe dispersed and the riOt re arrested. I Id which was i lying with Jew faimd, and thi le house occupii child in crdei dress the woui kaow or did i Aa to the baief rather dangei la. It is the The lam not eufi efore, man; who are un and go eli The larg Ivtry are liv 'OBf They nee lea, One ia y Work for I m are daily ei How they j oollective a barefoot, work toget ^gioga, and si â- tifol existence, g them may ownage. She had never felt, aomeway, J ohuroh. She waa not Willy, had weekiBow. not ShBhadiiMaMBhltbc^tete **l8 TUslIHot Enongh For Ton r* In 1303 and 1304, accordmg to a French periodical, the Rhine, Loire and Seine ran dry. In 1615 the heat thronghont Europe became excessive. Scotland suffered par- ticularly in 1625 men and beaats died in scores. The heat in aeveral departments dnrui|[ the summer of 1705 waa equal to that m a glaaa furnace. Meat could be oooked by merely exposing it to the ann. Not a aonl dare venture oat between noon and 4 p. m. In 1718 many ahopa had to close; the theatres never opened their doora f»rwv«ral montiis. Not a drop of water fell danng six montha. Ia 1773 the tiiennometerroaetollSdegreeo. Inl779tiM heat at^Boloona waa ao great that » onat number of peoi^ were atifled. There waa not aalfioientair for fhab breath, and peo. JS[^"93. «»e hert booame lirtSmUa. VegetaUea were bamednpand fraitdried upon the tnea. The f omitate and wood, work m dweUug-honaea oraoked and aplit ttS^ ?* eeyeral pro^daa daring 1811 expedienta had to be deviaed for iS grind- ing of com. Ia 1822 a piroteaoted h«rt wia •ooompanied by itanna Mkt earthaaakea • 18«l the ttiometer maiKed iS^S^ m toe anna ' "•" Oriental Jugglers* A aet of gifted Oriental Jugglers W* treas the Londonen to the most astoimoi of theaerieaof the "twenty-eight mfflW" orodnced before lohanguire, Bmpworj Hindoatan, aa atteated by that monarcD^ witneaaed by Ibn Batnla, the Moh«^» Maroo Polo." They vrill cut a ort»eii • pieces and make him whole again; '"f^,! ental mystic ia alao {wepared to pat »" pot on the stage the aeed of «itf P|*^Ul lected by a committee of tiie behoM»l Dnrlnr the time it ^11 take to repeM "ji timea a prayer to the Prophet the swa ^i ahoot into atom, branch, and bud, aaa I barat into leaf and fruit. They •«» "â-  noonoe "the grand myatery." Tn« »»*,, sriU take a chain fifty cubits long t^i\ throw one end towarda the sky, w^ Women Three years a ompaay began t 'ireasonsof eo ta this there a 14 years old 'hia voice will indietinct; Thefenu â- â€¢ a clear t of the chief 1 I Woman are admitted at 1 rL*»*pwa« r*iap)ioiie Comn i* and 22. L whom the Haentoov( datiea to t s see is will remain aa if faatened m the 11% dog will be led to the foot of tiie o^aj»2| tiia animtl wOl at onoe run up and o^rrji at the other Mid. Ahog, arat,ag»^l a yodng cow wiUbe then aent iiP.*"^^.'^! at the other Mid. A hog, a rat, a gfl^ [be then sent nP •»J,"V| PMT in~the aame way, after which Hw^il ' â-  1 1 *u- «hiii and PL.i rator wiU draw down the chain /rr'gtH in a bag. It ia to be hoped tiiat t^Jj^l tic Orientals will not return to t«J.?^l retirement without giving os a tost*" â-  quality and ooUeoting a lot of doUa» WdntWanttBM*. •1 haven't had a bite for two day*. ed a tramp. .^- "la it possible f "mmrered »« with sympatiiy. "Ill aee what 1 »• yoa. Heie, Tigeâ€" Tigeâ€" ^^j-jif The tramp broke a 2 gate gettm ,•;'â-  *â-  «;;: