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â- ( { My LitUa Bo Fnp. Mt little Bo Feuj) is faat uUop, And her hicfttl on uiy heart i» lykig, â-  cautlj rocli. aud the old h*ll clock Mrikeii a, knell of the dm; ihkt'i dying ; But what care I how the hoari gu by, Whether swiftly tbey gu or cxuepiug ? KoC ftu hour eould b« but dear to me. When luy babe ou tuy anu is sleeping. Her little bare feet, with dimples sweet, From tile folds of her gown are peeping, And each wee tue like a d&ia; in blow, I earesH as sLe lit-s a-sleeptug ; Bar golden hair falls over tne chair, lU treaiures of beanty uafi>lding, luess my lipH to her finger tips That Uiy bauds are su tightly holding. Viek, tock. lick, toek : you iua]f wait, old clock. It was ft^iisb what 1 wa« sjftyiog ; ij»t your secouds stay, your luinutes play, Aud bid your days go all a Maying. O. Time! stand stillâ€" let me drink my fill Of content while uiy babo is sleeping ; A» I uuouth her hair, my life loulu fair, And to-morrowâ€" I may be weeping. That Hateful Man. I hated Henry Carling from the first tiine he took liis seat in {root of me at table d'hote in the Sea Beach Hotel and looked at me so mach it interfered with •ny appetite. When I went out rowing and tke boat upset he waa ou hand to hsii me •at. I suppose I ought to have been grat»' fal for that, but I wasn't. I'm sore he knew my boat was cranky and followed â- w on purpose ; busiden the waves were not •mnniuj< very hijjh. He was an artist and could spend hoars looking at a sunset. Did you ever know Anything good of a man who could act in Uiat incomprehensible manner.' I was out walking about a week after I allowed the young man to save me from drowning. I walked, and walked, and walked. Pi^s- «Dtly I came to a cottage, outside of which « beautiful 'i'tie child, with long hair, was iJaying. fh. pretty little thing ran after ow laughing. I held out my hand to him. We walked ou toward a clump of wild flowers that hung over the road in a grace- ful way that 1 am too stupid to describe or draw, though Henry Carling can do both. X suppose that, though I may dislike a person, I'm able to do that person some â- ort of justice. We â€" the child and I â€" were seated toge- ther on the little rock I had chosen as a reating-place. when suddenly there came in sight an object I shall uever forget â€" no, not to my dying hour. It was a dog ; mad, it was too easy to met. It ran on, banging its head, but with wild eyes and fuauiiag at the mouth' bideuus and furious. It tlew at the little chUd. I only remomber one thing. .\s it dew •t the child I caught its threat. 1 held it trith the strength of the madness of that terror, for the little creature's sake, that had come upon me, and there I stood. I 4id not treiuble. The horrible saliva ran from the dog's tnouth. It did not touch my hands, fortunately, too. I had doeskin gloves to keep my hands from freckling and tanning. I stood so â€" and ages seemed to pass â€" when Henry Carling came up. With him were three men. How they mastered the dog I do not re- â- nember. After that I fainted. When I revived I had been carried, I looud, into the collage of the little child's aiother. She was kneeling beside me and Maying all manner of thtofp to me about *' saving her boy's life." As for Henry I'arling. he was crying. The idea of crying like a baby, a grown iiiau ! And all because a girl held a mad dog I I suppose he would have had me think of nobody but ui\svl{ and run ofi ! I hate such people': Two days afterward his sister came to see me. I had to keep my bed. I was over- come by something or other â€" fright, I sup- poue, for when it was over I could not but admit that I did feel strangely. When I tinally came down-stairs there was that provoking man, as large as life. He looked pale and had tears in his eyes, and when he tried to speak to me beseemed to choke and could not do it. Then what do you think, of all things, that he did say ' He said he lov',\i me. To-day week we are to bo married. I'apa made a little fuss at hrst, but Aimt JuUa, who had taken a mother's place to me ever â- ince my poor niainuia died, advised him not to thwart me. " What is the use of being rich, my dear Charles, " said sho. " if you cannot let your child follow her own inclinations ? Carling is a fine artist and a gentleman." There that horrid man calling now. He is in papa's librarv. He wants â€" a Kiss ! He says it is three weeks since he bad one. Dees he siippoB(< for a moment that I am Koiug to him to give him one? I am in the â- itting-rooui wniiii!,: all this. I presume that it ho must ha.e such an indulgence be m big enough, and old enough, aud ugly auoogh to come for it himself. THINGS GOOD TO EAT, And How to Get Them Up with Isatisrac- torj Flavor. Chocolate Cookies. â€" One cup of batter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, four eggs, one cup of grated chocolate, one-hall teaspoonful of cream of tartar. Koll thin and bake in a quick oven. Lemon Jelly. â€" The yolks of two eggs, one cup of sugar, one cup of water, one table- spoonful of com -starch and the juice and grated rind of one lemon ; cook till thick. This is nice for layer cake. Yankee Mufiins. â€" To one quart of milk add one gill of yeast, one teaspoonful of salt, with four or five eggs beaten ; add dour sufficient to make a thick batter : bake in muffin rings. Serve with butter. Lemon Soda Cake. â€" One cup of sugar, one tablespooniul of batter, two eggs, one- half cup of sweet milk, one tea8po<:>n of soda, two teaspoons of cream tartar, one pint of tiour, measured after sifting. Puff Pudding. â€" One pint of boiliny milk and nine tablespoonf als of tlour ; mix first with a little cold milk. When cold add a little salt and flour, three well-beater, eggs, and bake in a battered dish. Serve a: once. Excellent Cake. â€" Take one cupful of sugar, three cnpfuls of floor, one and a half capfnls of milk, half a cupf oi of batter and eggs ; mix thoroughly, aiding two tea- spoonfuls of baking powder. Bake in a hot oven. Eggless Cake.â€" Two-thirds of a cup of sugar, two-thirds of a cup of sweet milk, one-third of a cup of butter, two cups of flour and two teaspoonfula of bakiut: pow- der. Flavor to taste, and before puttmg in the ov»n grate sugar over it. Tea Cakes.â€" Rub together four teaspoon- fuls of butter and one cup of sugar, add one well-beaten egg, one tablespooi.ful of cream and two cups of flour, into which has been sifted two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Bake in small pans and sat while fresh. Beef Fritters. â€" Chop pieces of steak or cold roast beef very tine ; make a batter of milk, flour and an egg : mix the meat with is. Put a lump of butter in a saucepan, let it melt, then drop the batter into it from :i large spoon. Fry until brown, seasoi: with pepper and salt and a little parsley. Cream Cake. â€" One half-cup hatter or one cup sweet cream, one and a half cops sugar, foureggs (one beaten separately), one half- cup sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls cream of tartar and one teaspoonful soda. Bake in a long pan. When doue, cut open and spread between one pint whipped cream and one cup sugar. Flavor with lemon. Bread Griddle Cakes. â€" Soak a small bowl of brefui over night in milk. In the morning mL\ a half a cupful of dour, into which is put one and a half teaspooiiiuls of baking-powder, with one quart of milk, three well-beaten eggs and a little salt. Beat up the bread with this batter .uitil it is very light and fry a delicate brown. The batter should be thick. Ice Cream. â€" Three quarts of milk, nine eggs, four tablespoonf ills of arrowro<.t aad three cups of white sugar. Set the dish containing the milk in a kettle of water, and when hot add the arrowroot, previously wet in milk, the sugar aud the eggs. Cook a few minutes and flavor when cold. This Will till a gallon freezer. Less eggs maybe used, but yoar cream will not be si< nice. Water Pound Cake.â€" One pound of but- ter, one pound of powdered sugar, four eggs, one cupful of boiling water, one poand oFprepared flour, flavor with lemon. Beat batter, sugar and the yoiks of the eggs to a cream, then add the boiling water and stir gently till cold, then the pouud of flour with the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth, the lemon last ; bake one hour. This cake cannot be told from real pouud cake, and it will keep two weeks. In making beef pot pie, cut in small pieces two pounds lean beef aud one half- pound fat salt pork. Place in kettle, with one flne-choppeil onion, one carrot, one- half turnip and water to cover well. Stew until tender, then add salt and liepper tc season and place over stew the following crust : Two teacupfitls tlour, in which have been thoroughly mixed two teasiKwufuls baking powder ; rab well through tiour one tablespoouful salt, and wet with cold water or sweet milk and mix to a stiff' dough : roll into a sheet to cover stew ; make two or three perforations in crust. Keep kettle closely covered, and stew twenty minutes to half an hour after adding crust. When no deugh adheres to straw when thrust into the miadle, the pot pie is done. A KOMAMTIC CAJBEEB. A Touug Man Steals t;SO,0O0 and Skips to a South Pacific Ltlaad. Where He Beeomaa a King, That wickedness sometimes prospers is evidenced, says the New York d'orW, by the rather romantic career within the last few months of Charles W. Banks, formerly of Albany, this Sute, later of San Francisco, Cal., and now elevated by the power of love to the throne of King of Cook's Isla.nd, in the South Pacific Ocean. A history of Mr. Bank's life in Albany would add so little interest to his later Ufe that it is tinneces- sary to refer to it now, except to state that in that rolling town he married a very ii.teresting young lady, for whom, accord- ing to his latest letter to his friends in this city, he still entertains the most touching affection. It is also hardly necessary to say that the lady in question, Mrs. Fanny A. Banks, who is now in this city, places so little faith in these assurances of onboonded love that she has begun a divorce suit, and charges his kingship with desertion and infideUty. Soon after the marriage of the couple they jouimeyed to San Francisco, where Mr. Banks, being intelligent and bright, as well as a handsome young man, obtained employment in the express office cf Wells, Fargo Jt Co. There he prospered, pros- pered too well for his personal good ; for having obtained a position of trust, an<i gained the entire confidence of his em ployers, he suddenly disappeared six months ago, carrying with him over $50,000 belonging to the company. His many friends at the Golden gate mourned bis departure, for be was a good fellow, reckless with his money, an interesting talker, and a good story-teller, while his little suppers at home and at his club were the talk of society for days after each event. Mrs. Banks, too, mourned bis loss. but her reasons were widely different, and she came to this city after gathering enough evidence m San Francisco to prove to her that her husband bad cot been all that she had expected. Consulting the law firm of Messrs Johues, Beniier oc Will- ooi here, the papers for a divorce weic pro- perty drawn up, but pending information as to the whereabouts of her recreant hus- band, she withheld proceedings. Meanwhile Wells, Fargo A* Co. had sent detectives after the defaulter, who tracked him to Tahiti, Sandwich Islands, but the wily yotmg man fled in a schooner a few hours before the sleuth-hoimds of the law reached there. From thi» point the gay defaulter's movements much resemble those of Bill^ Kid. the illustrious hero whom Boeini Yokes sings about in her clever song, "His '.\.rt was true to Poll." Like Billy Kid, Mr. Banks Laudod on a strau,;e shuru and locked out fcr an iaa. Wbeu a noble WTsge loiIy, of a color rather shady. Came along and accosted him. " Oh : sUy with me and the king you'll be, .Vnd in a palace loU. Or I'll eat you like a filet , ' to he gave bis hand, did Billy. Bui ilia art was true to Poll. i» Watch the Inxecta. Injurious insects demand attention throughout tho suninier months. Look for the borers near the base of young fruit trees; if saw- dust is seen from a hole in the bark, or if a iii>rtion of the bark is seen to be depresstitl, cut out the borer. If the leaves of currant aud gooseber/ies are eaten by " the worm, " apply white hellebore at once. Stir a toa3[K>oiiful of the powder in a pailful of water, iiiid apply with a syringe. Kepeat this after a few days. If later broixis appear, continue the remedy, which is a very certain one. The greenish sling slug, which apixars upon the leaves of cherry, pear and other trt-es, may be de- stroyed by applying air-slacked lime or wood ashes, i'his may be dusted upon the leaves by means of a bag of coarse fabric, attached to a pole. The insects attacking the grape vines this month are mainly largo caterpillars, whicli are most readily picked by hand, and the so-called " thrips," which is properly the "graiH.'vine leaf hopper," and not related to the true thrips. It is a little whitish insect which often rises in clouds wbeu the vines ate disturbeti. The best treatment is to go among the vines with torches, gently Iwating thorn to disturb the insects, whicli will at once riy towards the light. The first aupearanco of grayish spots on the undersides of the vine indicates mildew, and flowers of sulnhur should be applied with a bellows made for the pur- pose. Dom Pedro, F.mperor, of Brazil, sailed from Kio do Janeiro yesterday for Europe «n the steamar Qironde. He '>Von Her bjr the Book. An exchange relates that a young gentle- man happening to sit at churcb4n a pew a<ljoining one in which sat a young lady, for whom he conceived a suddep and violent passion, was desirous of entering into a courtship ou the spot, but the place not suiting a formal declaration, the e.\igency of the case suggested the following plan : He politely handed his fair neighbor a Bible (open) with a pin stuck in the follow- ing te.xt, II. St. John, 5 ; •' And now I be- seech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new oommandineut unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love another." She returned it, pointing to Ruth ii. 10 : " Then she tell ou her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him. Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldst take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?" He returned the book, pointing to HI. John, 13: " I had many things to write. I will not with pen and ink write unto thee, but I trust I shall shortly see thee, and wo shall speak face to face." From the above interview a mar- riage took place the ensuing week. Awalttnc the Rmnlt. The popular Major Priest, of the New York Central road, very much resembles l>r. Burton, of Fulton ville. The other day a lady entered a car in which the Major sat, and, stepping up to him, said : " Doctor, my husband is not so well today." The Major understood the situation at once, and inquiretl : " What seems to be the diffi- ciilty '? " " Well," said the lady, " he seems to bo more nervous than he was." "Oh," said the Major. " that's all right ; give him three more pills." " I will," said the lady, and with that the Major departed. What the result of this prescription wUl be remains to be seen. â€" Albany Joiiriuil. Mr. Banks was certainly in luck. He had sailed away from Tahiti for a point any- where out of the grasp of the law, and favonnj; gales had directed his craft to the shores of Karelonga, Cook's Island, in the South Pacific, where the beautiful but dusky Queen I'lakea (Vlakea in EngU:sh, but something else ia her »wn pictureiKXue language) reigned quietly and aindly over her loving tribe. She is a widow, but ceased abruptly to grieve for her departed lord when the handsome face and aia;;'.y bearing and figure of Mr. Banksl oouied up before her in her quiet, loxorious home. He was a wanderer, weary and forlor:.. &L:d she a widow, sad and lonely, but witii :.its of this world's goods and a large heart, which she unhesitatmgly threw at his feet. Her kindness won him. coupled with his o.v:i Yankee ingenuity.whichti.'id him that iieh.id struck it rich, to use an Americanism, and he availed himself of the fortunate op!>or- tuuity e<|ually as unhesitatingly as it I<ad been opened to him. There at Raretoni;a, safe from the law's strong grasp, where the climate is glorious and warm all the year round. Banks is now liviii;^, duly domesti- cated and acknowledged as king, and re- ceiving the homage of the people, who luore him because their beloved (jueeu has set them the example. The detectives who found him there say he expresses no desire to return to his native country, but seems satisfied to continue hish:'s of idleness and powor. Mrs. Banks has heard of her hus- band's fortune and has decided to begin divorce proceedings at once. Her counsel, Kdward K. Jones, appeared before Judge Lawrence in the Supreme Court chambers recently and obtained an order for the publication of a summons in the suit, a copy of whieh will be mailed to King Banks I. at his palace at Hare- tonga. Although Mrs. Banks has suffi- cient evidence to secure * divorce without reference to her husband -^ present position, the detectives who have iraced Mr. Banks and discovered his new mode of life will make affidavits which u dl be used in the suit in order to show the man's utter un- worthiness. Wells, Far^o Jt Co. have not given up hope of bringing Banks to justice, or of obtaining from huu the money he embez/Jed. Banks' flight at the time of the discovery of the theft created a sensa- tion. The pablication of his subsequent movements will probably prove a i;reater surprise to the many society people of both San Francisco and this city who know him aud his wife. * HeChaugmt His Mtiid. A well-known New York homceopathic physician savs that ho was once rung up in the middle of the iiiKht, and rei|ue8teil by a man to call imirediately upon his wife. " Very well," said the doctor. " How much will it ooet '?" asked tha caller. •' Ten dollarsâ€" to go t'.iat distance." " How much will it bo if you call in the morning ?" " Two dollars.'' " WeU, oaU in husband. There are more than (JJ.OOO widows in Massachusetts, about half of them being less than 40 years of age. HAS THX GUT OF HXAUKG. Aa Old Ublo Farmer who Banishes Faia by a ^Kere Touch. " Do you see that white-haired, coimtri- fied-looking chap sitting in front of the B^d Lion Hotel .'" asked a business man of a friend whom he met on the opposite dide of the street. "Well, what of him?" answered the other. ' He is one of the most peculiar old chaps I ever met," said the first speaker. •â-  He claims to be poeaesfed of the ° healing power,' and his touch is something won..ler- ful. It makes yoar nerves fairly tingle. For my part I doc t onderstand it-' This conversation waa what led a Ini- patch reporter to lock up the man with the healing in his haaas. He was found sitting outside the door smoking a regulation tobie and quietly watching the passing throng. His hair and beard are snowy white and worn short after the country style, while his dress is more substantial and comfort, able than rich and fashionable. Taking a seal beside him, the reporter asked : • Are you the doctor /' "No, sir,' he answered rather inno- cently. •• Ain't you the faith care doctor that is stopping here ?'' â- â€¢ No, sir ; I ain't ao faith cire doctor, but I can knock i pain oat of you in a jiffy if I set my hands on you," he replied with a good deal of ani::iation. "The interviewer was at a loss to know how to take the Al gentleman's answer â€" whether he meant that be would knock the life oat of him for his impertinence, or that he would kindly relieve his physical soffer- ings. As he did r.jt take a threatening hold on the big dogwood cane that he carries, the interviewer proceeded to explain : " I was told that you were a faith cure or powwow doctor. •• I'm nothing of the kind. My name is Josiah Stonebraker, and I Uve down ::i Belmont county. O., near Demos post- office, and I don t nave to pow-«ow lor » living. I am a farmer, and I do most of the ondertakmg bosinees in that section. I used to make my own coffins, but I don t do it any more. You fellows up here malie em cheaper than I can. No, I'm not up here after coffins ; I just came up to see some old friends and lock around. 1 was here about twelve years jgo, but it doesn't lock like the same place. Then it was so smoky and dork that I thcighl I would have to get a lantern to see uiy way * the streets. " Yes, there 'p.,is been a great chan.^e But 1 would hketo kno'v something abo ;l this pain core." " Well, young man, all that I know is that when a person comes to me and says : ' Si, I've a pain, io and so,' and I put my hands ou the place, the pain goes away, or if I rub a wart or corn they go away, and I've known cancers to disappear after I've rubbed them that way. You needn't laugh, young feller, " says he solemnly as he laid his band on the doubting Thomas thigh. It may have been imagination, but his hand seemed as hot as tire and sent thrills to the ends of the toes. •• No, never la.igh at such things, for you don't know what '.night happen. I have saved life, and while I do not travel on it. stUl I feel that whenever I can relieve suffering I ought to do it. As I said before, I don't have to, and am up here just to look aroond. Do I believe in faith cures .' Of coarse I do. Kvery Christian must beUe\'e in them. In the ear'y days of the Church all cures were e!t-.cted by means of the lay ing ou of hands, anoiting with oil and offer- ing up prayer. Why may it not be just as good now " 1 don t know anything about magnetism, galvanism nor none of yotir isms. I only know that if you have a rheumatic pain there in your knee, a tight - Dess IS yoar chast, or a pain in your head, I can drive it out. Now, you can call it whatever ism yoti please." " Do you believe the power is from God, or is it your own .' ' " Every good and perfect gift is frcui cioii; besides, we I'ave no power of our own. In olden times the people possessed divers gifts ; some the gilt of prophecy, some the gift of heaUng and others toe giit of teaching. I reckon mine is the gift of healing. " •• I'ld you always have this power ? " â- Yes; but I ' didn't know it until a l,;iftcU healer told me so. He said that 1 had a great deal of power, and he showed me how to use it. My wife, who had been an invalid for twenty years, and had been in bed four years, and wei«;hed only about '• i pounds, now weighs IJO, and is able to do her own housework. Why, sir, the blamed doctor bills just kept me poor, and she i;ot worse right straight along untU I struck this. Then she quit taking medicme, and hasn't taken a drop since, and is now well and hearty." â€" Pittsburj/ DitiiaUh. BYGOE BO!(>'£XS RKTIVEO. Cufbe-Culorvd Bloiule Lace â€" UraiHi-Gr««n and Bo««-Plnkâ€" Notes. A correspondent writes: "One of the chief features of the new fashions seems to be a revival of the colors and forms of the past. I saw a bonnet the other day, fresh from Paris, that recalled the ' Jane Clark " of bygone times. It was of pale coffee- colored blonde lace, and on one side ' the cap,' as it used to be called, was a wreath of bloiih roses. On the top of this head- gear was a knot of grass-green rib'oon and the strings were of the same hue. Grass-green and rose-pink ! V,"aat would the aesthetics ha»e said to it ? Bat â- '. waa a very pretty bonnet, all the same. Another â€" still prettierâ€" waa composed entirelv of unripe corn (green), over which was drawn a veil of green tulle. The front was formed by a wreath of pop- pies, and on the left side was aa aigrette of poppies â€" three, placed one above the other, to mount it up high â€" with the stalks show- ing, and the top poppy the smallest of the three. The sleevfs of a different material or color to the dress show another return to an old and a very pretty fashion ; but great care iiiast be -.aken, or the toilette will look patchy. Dun color and dark brown, stone- color and pale bine, grey (pora anil simple and violet, or dark gre«n, go weU together; but thesleeves should always be of the more telling color and the richer material. The present has one great advan- tage over the past. The inexpensive stuffs of to-day are prettier than any seen of yore, more especially the striped ones. I have just seen a material composed of alternate stripes of white poplin and white Valen- ciennes lace, which wotild make a lovely wedding dress for a bride ia her teens. Another material was composed of ^ter- nate stripes of tussore siik and lace of tho same shade. A frock of that stuff might be wcrn with almost any color, and at the smartest day festivities, and would outlast two or three of the white cambrics trimmed with broidcrie .\Dglaise, that threaten to become the rage, and need to be 90 very fres'n and :le»n.â€"I«}:iJon Lady. the morning," said the A man at Geneseo, HI-, took sick the other night and sent his nephew out for some pills. The vonug man, finding tho drug stores all closed and one solitary grocerv open, entered and procureil a hand- ful of "small white beans. When he ^ot homo he filled a pill bo.\ in his room with beans and took them to his uncle. The beans wore taken and proved quite effica- cious, as the man recovered tho following day. He Waui't Uaalltiea. " Did you hire that young man who applied for your school?" was asked of a DaJtota school district officer. " Well, I should rather say we didn't."' •' Why not .' "His edication didn't come up to th» jcratch." -What in" 'Cramer.' ' How .lid you And it out ?" ' W y, he got in my wagon to ride from the fielS to the houae an', says I. ' Did y» ever drive much '.' • Of late years,' says he, •Iha^e driven very little.' Drove very little, ye mean, aay* 1. ' I beg yoar par Jon,' says he, but I mean -Iriven.' • Drov» is right.' lays I. • No, sir,' says he, * driven is the most gramaticalist.' ' Oh, well, mebby ye know,' says I sorter sar- castic. ' I reckon I io. says be. • I'm jea' comin' out here to learn you folks some- thing. • Do â-  ou see that road.'' says I. ' I does,' says be. ' Well,' says 1. it goe« to town, on' yu want to git right jut an' humpeu yerse.f down it mighty fasten, 'cause I'm goii; to begtn to kicken ye in ab\.ut a mmute by the clock'.' He saw I knowed more bout grain'er than he did and he got ou: o' that wagon an' scooteti town the reaa You bet we're gom' H> have a teacher that understaiiits i;ram'«r or aone at all.' â€" .'uJcot.i Hill. Orlslu «r Uaiul-Shaktng. lu the early aud barbarous times, when every savage or semi -savage was his owu law-giver, judge, soldier aud policeman, and had to watch over his own safety, in default of all other protection, when two friends or acijuaintauces, or two strangers desiring to be friends or acquaintances, when they chanced to meet, offered each to the other the right hand alike of offence and defence, the hand that wields tho sword, the dagger, the club, the tomidiawk, or other weapon of war. Kach did this to show that the hand wa,< empty, and that neither war nor treachery was intended. .\ man cannot well stab another while he is engaged in the act of shaking hands with him, unless he is a double-dyed traitor and villain, aud tries to aim a cowardly blow with the left while giving the right, and pretending to be on good terms with him. â€" liochttt, r I'ott- Exprc ff . All Colom are Welcuuietl. A European ball-room is full of surprises to an American. In tho first place, ne is astonished to find that. \n general, leaving out the very high society people, every one dances with every one else, without intro ductiou. Anijther thing in a large ball at any of the various Euroiiean resorts, you will see men of all colors, from a jet black down to a palo yellow, walt/iug with the young ladies, chatting aud flirting with them ; in fact, quite as well receiveil as any one else. â€" S'etD York Sun. «. â€"In tho charge against Wm. Lahey, of Dandas, for assaulting, striking and knock- ing down Michael Laden, an old man, the Police Magistrate Saturday found La- kev guilty and fined him 95 aud oosts^ •lJ.3o in aU. Mofte% waa ;« l.enlleiu.iti. Some amus.iig stvries are tcKi of the wit and wisdom of London school children. A class of bo> s in a 'ooarding school was being examiued orally m scripture. Ths history of Moses had for some time been a ipeciai study and one of the examiner* a»ked : " What would you say of the general character of '^I^ses .' " "He was meek," saiJ one boy. " Brave, ' said another. " Learned, added a third boy. "Please, sir. ' piped a pale face\). nektly dreaaedlad, ' ce was a gentleman " ' A gentleman ? " asked the examiner, " how do you make that out'.' The boy promptly replied in the samo thin, nervouj voice : " Please, sir. when the daughters of Jethro went "o the well to draw water the shepherds cacie and drove them away, and Moses helped the daughters of Jethro, and said to the shepherds . ' Ladies drst, please, gtntlemeu.' â€" i'tirntiiin Woria. " Se<>d 'Biu ;a Doing It.'' It is almost impossible for country people to recog>li^e the dense ignorance as to all matters agriciilttmd and rural from which the children oi the London poor suffer. A day or two ago the parson of a London parish asked one of the children who had been boarded out under the new poor law regulations how he enjoyed the change of air and scenery. " Please, sir," said the urchin. " I don t like it at all : instead of giving me milk oat of a nice dean tin they aiueexes it out of a nasty cowâ€" I seed 'em a doing it 1 "â€" I'nii Mall (jaittlc. ^ Some l£tl<ia«tt«. In calling on a ladv who is away from home leave your card. If the visit is in- tended for two or three ladies at the house leave two or three cards, but do not turn down one corner of the card, as that custom is now exploded, e.\cept in three card monte circles, aud even then it is reijarded with suspicion. â€" Bill S'le. ^ . EroaoHiy. Pater^ • Tom, Tom I â€" this U never do. Past 11 o' 'lock ! â€" and you've been in bed fifteen hours out o' the twenty-foor. " Tomâ€"" But it's cheap, Gov'nor â€" 'costs nothing. Wh'r'ss directly a fellow's np and dressed, expenses begin !"â€" Pnnc/u .\ TruiHiii. 1 don't know that I ever coined a mitxi'm worth rei^jating, but if I ever have it is this : ' I owe my success to printer's ink." â€"P. T. Barmun. The v^^ffiehe /titunii says the Porte has ordered the Germania Company, of Kiel, to despatch to Turkey a vessel with two torpedo catchers, also nine torj^ovlo boats. The vessels are required to be powerful and speedy. ShoUey â€" Life may change, but it may fly not ; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth bo veiled, but still it banieth ; Love repulsedâ€" but it retameth.