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CHARGES OF ARSON AND CONSPIRACY. Extraordinary Evidence. The heurng of the charge against Thomas George Trew, 40, alias Taylor; George Cullmer, 36, alivs Franklin, alias Colemim Wurren Ingram, 38, George Loveday, 40, and a widow named Helen Wheeler, 70 je irs of age, of conspiracy and arson was concluded at Southward Police-court on Friday before Mr. Slide. The examination of Whitehead, a former associate of the prisoners, w"s resumed. He stated that the prisoners told him how easy it was to make money out of five insurance companies, and how advantageous it would be for him to have it. few fires. They explained that all that was necessary was n gallon or so of paramo a few wicker baskets, and some sheeting. To set the place on fire they fixed a tape, saturated with paraffin, to a candle, and in a short time the tipe would catch alight. and the place would be on fire. They also bioke a lamp and let the frag- ments remain on the fl.ior, so ns to throw the assessors of the fire insurance companies off the scent. The witness then de cribed in detail how he took rooms, insured the furniture, and, af erlhe place had been set alight by the prisoner Cullmer, made a claim upon the Westminster Fire Insurance Company for £ 119,which was settled for £ 63. Witness gave £ 21 to .Cullmer for his trouble a>sd for ''teaching" liiin. Witness and Cullmer had three fires, and in enclt case tho place was designedly sot on fire by Cultinei-Ntr. Sfa lo com- mitted the prisoners for tual at the Centrl Criminal Ct'Urt.

LAST LETTER OF THE BOLTON MURDERER. Thon.as Macdora'd, the murderer of Miss n 'it, the Belmont sctiooltiiist reap, who was execut ed at Kirkdale, Li verjiool, on Tuesday, wrote on Monday a last letter to his aunt, Honor ti.inn, at Asttey Bridge, Bolton. He says :—" The hand that holds this pen will be cold and stiff when you hear this read, and I shall have appeared before the awful presence of Almighty God, and have rendered an account of all I have done or said in this world. You can't iinagiue what a pir- son must feel who is going to appear before the awful judgment sett of our Almighty King. Lit us hope he may forgive me the sins I havecctnmit ed. This time to-morrow I nhall know the great secret. Whenever you are tempted to get, into a passion, think of my sad end, and you will hardly sin at all. To-morrow I slmll meet the poor girl who passed out of this woild on the 10 h of November. I hope she may be happy. God rest. her soul! I pity her poor mother, who is Lift desol-ite." He concludes by greetings to his relation?.

A SECRET WORTH FINDING OUT. The report of the physician in charge of the Ningpo Missionary Hospital for the past. year comains some interesting observations on tooth- drawing in China. Dr. Daly remarks that Chinese teeth are much more (asilv extracted than those of Europeans. The native dentists are said to possess a. wonderful powder, which is rubbed on the gum over the affected tooth; after an interval of about five minuses the patient is told to snot Z", whereupon the tooth falls out. Dr. Daly has offered arewird of 100 dollars to anyone performing the operation in this way in his pretence, on condition that he is allowed to choose the tooth and eximine the morth before and afterwaids. So for no ono will consent to perform the operation on those conditions.

Humanity in Berkshire. Mr. T. C. Garth, of Huines-hiM, Twyford, Berks, master of foxhounds, has adopted a plan during the severe wellther which deserves notice. He sends his men out with a load of barloy, with direc- tions to scatter the grain freely over tho snow- covered ground on hia estate as food for the birds, which, inctuding pheasants, partridges, rooks, and also many kinds ot smaller birds, have flocked there in great numbers.

— A School for Thieves. The police have discovered a training school for thieves in Puris which reminds one Homewhat of OlivtjpTwist." In this case the two principals are.: women, and they had under the'r c»r9 six boy*, alf'about eleven ye.irs of t'ge. It was the duty of the two elders to a'tend to the feeding of their scholars, and ti arrange all th* plans for robberieM, to keep wfltch, and to train .TOW hands to the business. This sm'ili technip-il kcJi->ol has commenced a vacation which Win pvobaHy list f r some mUllt to..

THE LADIES. "I resolve to have something which may be of enter- tainment to the fair sex."—Siv Hichurd Steele. Oa! to Flirtation," says Dr. De Witt Talmage, is damnation." SHE FEELS HELPLESS. A woman never so fully realises her depen- dence upon man as when she undertakes to sharpen a lead pencil. ONE VIEW AND ANOTHER. Gallant: God made the. sex to play a part And man to be her tool." Cynic: "She learns her role with perfect art, Then calls her lord a feol." TIME CHANGES. In days of old, so the chroniclers say, Maids he!ped their mothers in a household way. Now times have changed; the maid for cul- ture wishes. And reads her book wilile mother cleans the dishes, YES. I think (says a lady writer) that a poor girl who understands how to get breakfast on the family range deserves more credit than a rich girl who can piay on the piano, paint a picture, and compose an ode to spring, but can't cook. Nay, more. She is more accom- plished, and, all the vicissitudes of life considered, will make a better wife. Am 1 right ? MARRY A MAN WITH BRAINS. It's all very fine having a ready-made rich man, but mayhap he'll be a ready-made fool, and it's no use filling your pocket full of money if you've got a hole in the corner. It'll do you no good to sit in a spring cart of your own, if you have got a soft to drive you; he'll soon turn you over into the ditch. I allays said I'd never marry a man as had got no brains; for where's the use of a woman having brains of her own if she's tackled to a geck as eberybody's tf-laughing at ? She might as well dress hej&$f fine to sit back'ards on a donkey. Georqe Zliot. ADVICE RI$ £ T MIGHT BE FOLLOWED EVERYWHERE. When an Arab damsel gets married her mother gives &gr the following advice for securing her future happiness: "You are leaving your nest to live with a man with whose ways and habits you are unfamiliar. I advise you to be his siave if you wish to be- come the absolute mistress of your husband. Be satisfied with little, endeavour to feed him well and watch over bis sleep, for hunger begets anger, and sleeplessness makes a man cross-grained. Be dumb as to his secrets, do not appear gloomy when he is merry, nor merry when he is sad, and Allah shall bless you." WHY OUR GIRLS DON'T MARRY. She may be-silly Pussy-a little too particular, Her carriage, ton, it may bo a bit too perpendicu- lar, So, nev, r a proposal camp, in writing or auricular. She mavba—pretty puesy-a. little too insatiale; On costlv garb, and house in town, I rot-liv can't expatiate. And so she finds it difficult the young man to in- gratiate. Then her accomplishments may be less menial than mechanical, Or she may boast a toother who's decidedly tyran- nical So Cupid's gyves her pretty wrists will surely never manacle She may for modest suitors sliow-wclf, far too much au(lacity, May laugh too loud, too slangy be—'tis m< rety her vivacity! So why she iaffj is obvious to everyone's capacity But if a girl's acquirements don't cease with dress and dance you know, And if she has the gift. that must man's happiness enhance, you know, Why, then, I thillk fbe's sure to get the much- desired cha-ice, you know. Vanity Fair. WILY WOMAN. The oldest kissing story is probably that of the Hindoo herdsman, who was walking along the road with an iron kettle on his back, a live goose in one band, and in the other a cane and a rope, by which he was leading a goat. Presently a woman joined him, and they walked along together until they reached a dark ravine, when she shrank back, declaring she was afraid he might kiss her by force there in the dark. The man explained by reason of his burdens be could not possibly do so. Yes," said the woman but what is to hinder you from sticking the cane in the ground and tying the goat to it, and then laying the goose on the ground and covering it with the kettle ? And then how could 1 help myself if you wickedly persisted in kiss- ing me P Many thanks," said the man. I never should have thought of that. May your in- genuity always succeed." So they went on until they reached the darkest part of the ravine. Then he stuck the cane in the ground and tied the goat to it, and put the goose under the kettle by the cane, and then he wickedly kissed the woman in spite of her resistance. WISE THOUGHTS FOR WISE WOMEN. Discomfort destroys grace. Dress changes the manners. Taste is the fact of the mind. Vanity ruins more women than love. Woman is loveliest in womanly attire. Men make laws women make manners. There is something of woman in every- thing that pleases. The surest way to please is to forget one's stilf and to think only of others. One cannot imagine how much cleverness is necessary not to be ridiculous. Beauty is the first gift Nature gives to woman and the first she takes from her. Enjoy and give enjoyment without injury to thyself or others. This is morality. A woman would be in despair if Nature had formed her as fashion makes her appear. There are three things that women throw away-their time, their money, and their health. The change of fashion is the tax that the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rioh. One sneers at curls when one has no more hair; one slanders apples when one has no more teeth. The error of certain women is to imagine that to acquire distinction they must imitate the manners of men. WELL DRESSED WOMEN ARE THOSE WHO AVOID EXTREMES. It requires something more than a long purse and a fashionable milliner (says a con- temporary) to enable one alwava to be dressed as one ought to be. The best dressed woman is by no means always the one who is arrayed with the most splendour and costliness, and to know how to dress according to the occa- sion is as much an art as to know how to dress at all. In one's own home to outdres* one's guests is a rudeness and unkindness; thu house is there to speak for one the personal attire can be of the most modest. The dress that is not conspicuous nor an object of envy, and yet fine enough to show respect for one's guests, is easily arranged by the woman who knows how to dresaiat all. But, on the other hand, an attire that is too modest is equally out of place on the guest, for it seems to assume that the entertainment is inferior. It is better for the guest to be over-dressed than for the hostess—better for the guest than to be underdressed she need not feet uneomfortabie if she has come in a dress outshining that of everyone else present, since the worst that can be said of it is that she thought the occa- sion worthy of it. But, in fact, the artist in dress will avoid either of these extremes, wearing nothing too poor, too fanoiful and aesthetic, or too plain and coarse. Conspicuous dressing has been one of the disorders of the age; and if the tailor-made dress had not run into the region of costliness it would have wrought wonders for women of all grades. The perfectly dressed woman oauses no one to turn the head and glance at her, unless for her charming ensemble; but if by accident the glance is arresting and fixed on her toilet then it is seen to be faultless. Only in the private depths of one's boudoir, where none but inti- mates have access, can any eccentricities of dress be indulged, and there one can cultivate the picturesque at one's own sweet will, if it is really worth while to give the subject so much attention. The chief thing to remem- ber is that a style of dress becomes a part of one's own personality, of one's individualism, and one would always prefer that that should be pleasing. WOMEN WHO WILL NOT GROW OLD. A writer in the Queen says:— "Some modern women-aye, and for the matter of tbat, Ancient women too—women of nil times, countries, and eras-will not grow old. Like thoroughbreds, they hold on to the last gasp, and nothing will shake them off. To eyes a little dimmed and fatigued by all they have seen and ail the tt a's they have wept, they try to give the lost brightness of a long past you: h by that narrow black Jme about, the lids which stimulates the shade of lushes, or by that fatal application of tiel a lonna which enlarges the pupil and prepares the way for future blindness. They paint their lips inside and out viththat accommodating paint which neither wine n,.r tea washes off. The fur- rows which Time's cruel hand has. traced as he parsed they do their best to fill up with some abo- minable stuff that passes for fresh flesh and a new skin. But this necessitates a dark room an^ aha. ied lights, whfrc- they wither and drvop as plants de- prived of light and air. They endure secret tor- tures within the iron clasp of their tightly fitting c rsets; and when their tender feet demand ease and softness in consideration of those corns and bunions and enlarged joints which—Be^ven help us!—will come with year*, they ^caib them in high-he-led, sharp-pointed, close-jrtfag, and un- yielding shoes, and suffer an amount of pain that would do credit to a martyr. They bare their scraggy necks, as if bpauty stili lingered about the sharp bones and accentuated shadows; or they display the r fat all arms from wrist to shoulder, as if B'ignitude made loveliness. As long as gout, and lheumatism will allow, they skip and hop to dance music with the best; and lie would offend them paat forgiveness who should propose a warm chair out of the draught in lieu of a tete-a- tete stioll in the dim cool corridor. They are like lambkins in green meadow, for the artless abandonment of themselves to innocent amuse- ments; and with a natural waist of 30 in. com- pressed into a space of 23 in., and lungs so tightly bandaged as to be almost incapable of acting, they think they have managed to stow away their superfluity of aiiposa tissue art cleverly that no one even suspects its existence." Nuggets. The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men. Though a woman can keep a secret if she likes to, she oan't keep seoret the faot that she has a secret to keep. Isn't a woman absurdly illogioal if she tells her husband he is an idiot, and then asks him why he hasn't more sense ? Whenever you find a man who is s failure, you will also find a patient little woman who makes hia excuses in the world. It is a sign her husband is making money when a woman begins to get the look on her faoe of looking at you without seeing you. Who will venture to say woman is not in- finitely the superior of man when it comes to that which, in the vernaoular, is familiarly termed "packing a trunk''?

«. Are ye good men and true ? Shaksptart. A word to the sharp man is of more use than a bang with a brick to a fool. A poet wishes that man could make love like a bird." He does, he does—like a goofe. • # ♦ The mule is a great kicker, but, unlike man, he does not kick in the direction where his grub is found. ¥ Keep your troubles to yourself. When you tell them you are taking up the time of the man who is waiting to tell his. • There never was a man's prayer that did not have himself in it, nor a woman's that did not refer to either a man or child. • Man is advised to act on the square, and woman to keep in her sphere. When they get married, the problem is something like squaring the circle. O d WHAT AN APPKTITR. A restaurant proprietor calculates that a man with an average appetite will consume a'/iout forty-five tons of food in a lifetime of I sixty years. AN IDEAL NEVER Gnows OLD. There's one thing lb,ut a bachelor, Of which there's proof in plenty, Although he ever older gr 'ws His ideal stays at twenty. EVERY MAN XTAS HIS OWN GOAL. Every man of brains makes some kind of life purpose for himselA He sets a goal before his eyes and goes for it." The goal may be worth striving for or it may not. The way to it may be compatible with health and happinesf) or it may not. These are points for the man himself to determine, HOW TO MARRY. When pretty pouting lips pay" no," Don't go And blow Your brains all oat to simply show How deep you're plunged in mental woo And pain; But, hid in Cupid's ambush, lie, Nor cry, Nor sigh, Nor siy all joy has passed you br, And when a chance is offered, try Again. # BUT HEED THIS. Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attraots light-headed variable men by r HL,, t its very awfulness, They have been so tried among the inconstant squalls and currents, so often sailed for islands in the air, or lain becalmed with burning heart, that they will risk all for solid ground below their feet. Desperate pilots, they run their sea sick weary hark upon the dashing rocks. It seems as I marriage were the royal road through Iii. and realised on the instant what we have all dreamed on summer Sundays when the belle ring, or at night when we cannot sleep for the desire of living. They think it will sober and change th"m. Like those who join a brotherhood, they fancy it needs but an act to be out of the cail and clamour for ever. But this is a wile of the devil's. To the end, spring winds will sow disquietude, passing faces leave a regret behind them, and the whole world keeps calling and calling in their ears. For marriage is like life' in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of rose* R, L. i<teoeyison. POPULAR FALLACIES. That the average better makes any monsy, except for the book-makers. That the father who whips his children is a good rower because he's a good stroke. l'hat a man ever got fat on boarding-hous# fare. That bad actors and bad poots can live 49 wind. That women love pet animals more tbaO they do men. That a drunken man is happy when lie becomes sober. That a dig in the ribs is the most friendSf form of salutation. That many men may be found who that virtue is better than all riches. That good-looking men spend more tiuw before mirrors than bad-looking ones. That you're glad to meet the man tbcO slaps you on the back, even if you say so. THE WINTER DRESS OF MEN. When any question is raised as to tb. wisdom or otherwise of certain modes or habits in regard to dress, it is commonly supposed that only foolish woman and helpless children require advice. There are, perhaps, at least as many men as woman who suffer from the effects of cold through injudicious neglect of the clothing suitable for wintor use, and thus contract sciatica, rheumatisaa, or pneumonia. Men acquire lumbago from the open cost and the waistcoat with a cotton b&ok. whioh ought to be lined with flannel. Not only a. men frequently neglect to use an overcoat with the commencement of the cold season, but often they will leave the undercoat uu- buttoned, so that it becomes almost useless M a means of protection in a cold wind. Tight kid gloves and tight thin boots aN frequent oauses of cold hands and chilled fee4 especially when accompanied by the persisted use of thin socks. When there is a know. tendency to catarrh, or delicacy of the lunga* the garments should be made well-fittins round the neck, the collar not too loose arm open, and the waistcoat buttoning high, whiis continuous flannel undergarments should be used uniformity over the body. Dress olothes being so much thinner than those worn during the day, it is well that ia winter a high-fitting waistcoat should be used under the shirt to protect the trunk. These, and many other common-sense points as to winter dress are frequently neglected until mischief has occurred, or a warning has taught wisdom. The wise man is he who changes bis clothing acoording to the weathe in suoh a variable climate as ours. MEN WHO FLIRT. The male flirt is the terror of mothers, and the detestation of the whole raoe of elderly aunts and chaperons of all kinds. All women have in turn been warned against him, all oautioned to steel their hearts to his advances, and to barricade the portals of their souls against his serpent-like depra- dations. Yet so contradiotory and so foolish is the nature of woman, that there is not one of them, young or old, who has not at some time or other of their lives fallen a willing victim to this dangerous individual. He is not often a handsome man, although he is invariably a pleasant, one, and he is not, as a rule, popular amongst his fellow-men. Fathers an i brothers eye him with suspicion, as something which they do not wholly oom- prebend; whilst husbands turn cold shoulders upon his blandishments, or at best treat him with a freezing politeness. Men, in short, look upon him askance,and one and all unite in running him down'; but perhaps that is only .1 y beoauae they are jealous of him. But amongst the women he is a king. Hejsaunters into a room with that natural air of ease and confidence which the know- ledge of his power engenders within him, and at once every feminine heart is set fluttering and hoping; his hostess weloomes him with an unusual cordiality and with two hands held out impulsively to grasp his, so that he is perforce obliged to linger a little at her side; and then he glances round with lazy delibera- tion and geleots his victim, and straightway one woman is rendered deliriously happy, whilst fifty become immediately sensible that their fondest hopes are a failure, and are filled with unspeakable misery, envy, and jealousy. When the male flirt is talking to the one favoured lady of his choice, he is able instantly to convey to her the no doubt erroneous im- pression that she is tire one and only woman on the face of the whole world with whom it is the slightest pleasure to him to converse. He never says so in words-he pays her no compliments, makes no direct observations upon her dress or looks; his flattery is of too delicate a nature for such coarse and outspoken methods; only his manner implies unmistak- able adoration, and his eyes are filled with unutterable things. He has a habit of leaving his sentences unfinished; of beginning a great deal and of breaking short into significant sen- tences of sighing frequently, and of looking sad and sentimental. Sometimes again he smiles into her eyes with a sort of rapture, and lowers his voice mysteriously with caressing whispers that have untold meanings in their almost inaudible murmurings. Yet he never commits himself—not he! He is far too clever to be caught in the net he spreads so cunningly too wary to proceed too far along that dangerous road upon which it is so keen a pleasure to him to venture.

Lord Wenlock left London on Friday to a1sum, his now duties as Governor of Madras. Mr. A. W. Kinglake, the historian, died on Friday at hili London residence. He was in his eightietb year. GREAT SCBPBTSB has been expressed by profes- sionul gentlemen in the medical world througbout the kingdom at the wonderful cures effected by Wee B. Cooper's Rheuo in cases of long-standing rheumatism, where all hopes of a cure had long before been aban- doned. The great success attending the sales of Rheuo may be accounted for by the fact that it is not offered e, cure every complaint under the nm, but rheumatism only, in old and young. Taken internally, at regular Inter- vals, it quickly subdues the pains. and gradually, but larely. restores the sufferer to a healthy state. Evans and Co.. 7, High-street, Cardiff; T. Cordey, High-street, Newport; ana the Cash Supply Company, Pontypridd, are the L eal .Agents, ami one 2s 9d bottle will cure most cases. Also in bottles Is 1W and 4s 6d. Sent pwst paid from ?99, Commercial-road. London. B. LeS&7 LIVKR COMPLAINTS.—Dr. King's Dandelion and Quinine Liver Pills, without Mercury, are a potent remedy remove all Liver an j- fttomaoh Complaint* Biliousness. Hend iche, Sickness, MhotMe-t Pains, Heart- burn, Indigestion, Constipation. Lc526