The North Wales Express

WELSH NEWS. The whole of the North Wales colliers struck work on Saturday against a reduction cf 5 per cent. in their wages. The Rhondda Valley colliers have started a fund to assist some of their number to emigrate. The Whitchurch Volunteers attended Divine service at the parish church on Sunday last -when the Halleluiah Chorus was played by the band accompanied by the organ. A memorial window to the men of the 24th Regiment who fell at Isandula and Rorke's Drift was last week delicated in the Priory Church, Brecon. The Bishop of St. David's, who performed the ceremony, said the offerings on the occasion would be devoted towards the erection of a church near the scene of the action at isandula. Salmon fishing in the Dee has begun with a very substantial assurance that the present season will be a most successful one. Anglers will be gratified to learn that the town council and the board of conservators are about to take further measures to clear the river from pullution. The election of ten members ior the Rhyl Commissioners took place last week, when six Liberals and four Conservatives were returned, consisting of the followingJames Taylor, 1215 Jos. Griiffths, 1139 William Morris, 1081; Jos. Williams, 1074; John Roberts, 909; John Forrister, 813; William Williams, 734; R. D. Roberts, 705 E. W. Keatings, 652 and A. J. Spiuks, 626. Sheep dog trials will take place under the direction of the Collie Club, at Alexandra Park, on June 15th and 16th next. One hundred Welsh mountain sheep will be speoially selected for the trials, and valuable prizes will be offered for com- petition among shepherds and collie owners generally. Some of the best dogs from Wales are expected to compete. Alice Jones, licensed brewer, Brymbo, near Wrexham, was summoned by the Inland Revenue, on Monday, for two breaches of the new Beer Act,by putting sugar into beer without mak- ing an entry in the books provided for the purpose, and concealing wort and beer. Defendant had rendered herself liable to a fine of JE200, but taking a lenient view of the matter, this being the first case in the district, the magistrates only fined her j610 and costs. Last week, Dr Owen, medical officer of Beaumaris and secretary of the Anglesey Hunt, was presented with a silver plate by Miss Massey (Coruhelyn) for his services as hon. secretary of the hunt during the past ten years. Miss Massey made the presentation in the presence of the members of the hunt. The following was the in. scription on the plate Presev.ted to Dr R. E. Owen for his services as hon. secretary of the Anglesey Hunt. Nov. 11th, 1881." The Cardiff Board of Guardians on Satur- day deliberated for some time in private regarding statement* made as to the paternity of a child by a young woman now in the Cardiff Workhouae. She alleged that a Nonconformist minister in the neighbourhood of Cardiff is the father. After con- sideration, the guardians resolved to place the matter in the hands of a Cardiff solicitor for in. vestigation. The marriage of the Duke of West- minster and the Hon. Catherine Cavendish, youngest daughter of Lord and Lady Ohesham, will be solemnized at the end of the season. The ceremony will take place in the village church of Latimer, near ljord Chesham's seat in Buckinghamshire, where tw6 of his daughters, the Countess of Leicester and Lady Lyttleton, were married. The death is announced of Mr Peter Walker, a Wrexham brewer, and a large public- house owner in Liverpool. Mr Walker was brother to Alderman Sir A. B. Walker, an ex. mayor of Liverpool and founder of the Walker Art Gallery. The deceased gentleman occupied a prominent position in Wrexham, and was on more than one occasion unanimously elected to the mayoralty of the town. He was also an aspirant to parliamentary honours, and had agreed on the next vacancy to contest the representation of Denbighshire in the Conservative interest. As the first morning passenger train, on the Taff Vale Branch Railway, between Cowbridge and Pont-y-pridd, was proceeding to Pont-y- pridd, it was suddenly and violently thrown off the rails. The passengers sustained a severe shock and general fright. Investigation showed that stones had been deliberately placed on the rails, with the daring purpose of upsetting the train and causing a catastrophe. It is fortunate that the train escaped so well, and that a number of lives were not sacrificed, as it carries generally a considerable complement of passengers. It Was some time before the journey could be pursued, Thepolice are investigating the matter. The Premier left Ha warden Vicarage on Monday morning, where he had been staying during the recess, with Mrs Gladstone and Mr Herbert Gladstone, for London. A saloon carriage was in waiting at Broughton Hall station, and in this the party were taken by ordinary train on to Chester. At Chester station the saloon carriage was coupled to the 11.35 special express from Birkenhead to Euston. The Premier was accompanied to Broughton station by Mr Alpin, from the office of the chief constable vi Flintshire, and was met at Chester station by Detective Sergeant Murphy, of the Chester police. The right hon. gentleman fp- peared to be in excellent health. The North Wales papers are circulating an amusing story from Lleyn. A preacher arrives at a railway station, and finds theie a vehicle to take him to the houee wherehe is to sleep for the night. He drives off and presently addresses the diiver—" Is there a pretty good place there?"— Wellj yes, as good as you can expect in these Lleyn farms."—"Any family?"—"Oh, yes."— Any d aughters ? "—"Yes two."—"Oh, indeed; what may be their age?"—"Well, the eldett is about twenty-four."—"Fond of courting?"— Well, retilly, I cannot tell you Any money there, do you think?"—"Yes, I believe so."— "You don't know how much?"—"No, I don't indeed."—" And you think neither of the daughters has a follower ?" Really, I can't say." Soon after this they alighted, and the preacher was rather surprised to see a servant mau come up and take hold of the horse's head, while the driver ushered the reverend visitor into the house. What, are you Mr ——— ? I took you for the seiv-snt man."—" Yes, 1 am Mr Tableau Preacher takes a hurried cup of tea, feels too unwell to stay, and rushes back to the station. In a letter acknowledging a resolution of the Normal College of Bangor, complaining of the delay which has taken place in giving effect to the lecommendations of the Departmental Commiss- ion on Welsh education, Mr Osborne Morgan says: It cannot be too often repeated or too widely known that with a House of Commons constituted like the present house, and governed by rules which seem designed to extract the minimum cf re-ult from the maximum of labour, legislation of any kind has become all but im- po-sible. Certain it is that by a skilful and un- tcurpulous use of those rules a handful of men can with impunity defeat, or at any rate spoil, the most beneficial measures. Strongly impressed by the existence of an evil which amounts to a national calamity, the Government are doing their best to improve the procedure of the House of Commons. In that effort they are encounter- ing the persistent opposition of the most extra- ordinary combination of parties which has ever sought to paralyze the action of a Government. Bear in mind that upon their success or failure hangs the fate of many useful and much needed reforms—among the rest, of a measure which I make bold to say is as ardently desired by your re- presentatives as by yourself.

HOME NEWS. Mr W. G. Grace on Easter Monday, playing for Hombury Cricket Club, scored a grand innings of 144. Mr Bradlaugh, speaking at a Radical meeting in Hull, said he should agitate the country on the affirmation question. If there was to be no legislation he should take his seat, and, if expelled, he would seek re-election. Lord Randolph Churchill, M .P., has now considerably recovered from his recent illness, and intends, accompanied by his wife, to leave England on Saturday next for a voyage to America, re- turning to London in about a month. The Queen landed at Portsmouth on Friday at four o'clock, having been a little delayed on the voyage by the weather. Her Majesty, who seemed to have derived much benefit from her soj ourn in France, was most enthustically received, and immediately started by train en route to Windsor. A runaway engine ran into a passenger train at Cockermouth Station on Tuesday,causing considerable damage. The timely receipt of a telegram gave warning of the approach of the eugine, and the passengers had time to alight be- fore the collision occurred. The convict Lamson has been further respited to the 28th inst. At the same time the prisoner has been informed that no evidence which has hitherto been submitted to the Secretary of State, either from England or America, affords any justification for advising any interference with the sentence of the law. The report that a portion of Sir Wilfrid Lawson's estate had been re-let to a tenant upon a ten years' lease at an increased rental of £ 80 per annum; and that on Sir Wilfrid learning of the improvements upon the farm that had been made by the tenant he forwarded him a cheque for improvements upon the farm that bad been made by the tenant he forwarded him a cheque for £800, is now said to be an entire invention. If rumours that have lately been wafted over from Germany are correct, we may hear before long of a marriage between the Grand Duke of Hesse and the Princess Henry of the Netherlands, who is a sister of the Duchess of Con- naught, and a great friend of the sister of the future Duchess of Albany, the Queen of the Netherlands. The man who on a recent occasion in- vaded a dinner party of the Premier's at Hawar- den, and since then smashed a jeweller's window and stole a ring in Birmingham, and was found in possession of a series of extraordinary letters to eminent public men, was last week sent to prison for four months at Birmingham, the prison surgeon not having found in him any trace of insanity. The Guion steamer Alaska is stated to have made the fastest outward and homeward passages on record. She recently made the voyage from New York to Queenstown in seven days six hours forty three minutes, and the next outward voyage from Queenstown to New York was accomplished in seven days four hours thirty two minutes. Great excitement was caused throughout the country on Tuesday by a rumour that Mr Pilr- nell had been assasinated while on his way from London to Kilmainham. The rumour originated in DungarvaD, but it is believed to have no foundation. Nobody seems to know precisely what has become of the leader of the Irish irrecon- cilables, who is not expected in Dublin until the end of the week. It is expected that the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Bradford will take place on Wednesday, June 21st. It is to be a grand affair, and the royal carriages are to be sent down. The technical school will be opened by their Royal Highnesses on t' e following day with great state, and before leaving for London on Friday afternoon they will visit a bazaar which is to be held in St. George's Hall for a local charity. A memorial to Lord Beaconsfield, in- cluding stained-glass windows, peal of bells, and decorations, was dedicated yesterday in Hughe_iden Church. Her Majesty sent two wreaths for the grave-one of immortelles, and the other of primroses, his favourite flower. The wearing of primroses in memory of the deceased statesman was largely practised throughout t'ae country, and to a noticeable extent in Liverpool. There is no truth whatever in the statement published on Wednesday rnorning that a man's head with one ear cut off, bps lacerated, and teeth knocked cut has been discovered near Chester. Two boys found an old skull which had been removed along with refuse from the old Welsh Church, Chester, but to say the brains dropped out when touched is to say what must have occurred at least a century :L since. A Stourbridge correspondent says that an extraordinary outbreak of madness has occurred in a flock of sheep and lambs belonging to Messrs j Smith, of Pedmore. Recently twenty-three sheep and lambs in the flock were killed or had to be slaughtered through the ravages of a strange dog. It now turns out the dog was mad, and other animals he bit have become mad. Four sheep and lambs have been killed or died in a paroxysm of madness. Further mischief is feared. Margaret Maldoon, who, although only twenty-four years of age, has .-pent a considerable period of her life in gaol for dru< kennet s aud for serious offences against the person, was sentenced by the Liverpool Recorder, on Saturday, to live years' penal servitude for stabbing a woman. Mr Aspmall said he had the authority of Mr Raffles for stating that terrific assaults Of this kind, es- pecially among women, were on the increase. Further disclosures are being made res- pecting the great next of-kin frauds, and the exposure 01 the swindle is causing great excite. ment in the Metropolis and other parts of the kingdom. The conspirators, supposed to be six incumber,have at times carried on various agencies, the most successful from their point of view bei» £ ? the International Law Agency, the victims of which number at least 200. The Manchester polica op Monday arrested a man named Mackenzie, charged with being concerned in the swindle. The proposed Royal College of Music was on Monday severely criticis* d at a meeting held in Chester to support the scheme. Mr Bridge Mus. Bac., said the musical profession had not been consulted on the subject, and that the pro. ceedings at the meeting at St. James's Pa'ace were farcical. He objected to the British public being asked to subscribe to an instiution open to people from the Continent aud to Americans. Eventually the meeting was adjourned. T

FOREIGN NEWS. The Central Post Office in Paris was broken into on Sunday night, and 180 registered letters, containing a million francs' worth of money or] valuables, were stolen. No arrests have yet been made. The United States House of Representa- tives has passed the bill suspending the Chinese im- migration for ten. years, and in the Senate a bill has been introduced proposing to repay to this country the undistributed balance of the Geneva award. Still the Czar's life seems to be the aim of the Nihilists. According to news from Mos- cow, a mine has been discovered under the TJspanski Cathedral, which is to be the scene of the Emperor's coronation. Eighty workmen have been arrested. There exists in Berlin a strong feeling, according to the German press, thr.t the leave of absence for an indefinite period granted to Field- Marshal Count vou Moltke is the preliminary step to a complete retirement. The theatre at Schwerin was completely gutted by fire on Sunday night. During the per- form?nce of Robert Bertram flames broke out in the costume-room, and soon gutted the entire building. Fortunately there was no accident or loss of life. Russia continues to push Turkey on the question of the war indemnity, besides the claims for the cost of maintaining prisoners of war, the claims of certain Russian subjects, and the Czar's claims for the erection of mortuary chapels to the memory of Russian soldiers at several places, including Jerusalem. The Turkish Ambassador is to make conciliatory responses. The Russian police are displaying unusual activity against the Nihilists, and a "great razzia" of the dangeroHS class throughout the country is announced. The object of this movement is to avoid, as far as possible, any distuib tnce on the coronation-day. The perfect of police in St. Peteisburg has been presented with a basket of eggs, several of which were charged with dynamite, and on the Nicolai Railway a cleverly. concealed mine has been discovered. After many struggles the bill legalizing marriage with a deceased wife's sister has passed both Chambers of the Dominion Legislature, but the opponents of the measure have not yet sur- rended all hope of defeating it. They intend now, it is understood, to ask the Lieutenant-Governor to veto the bill, and should he not do so they will petition the Queen to dissallow it. should this course be followed out to the end it may raise a constitutional question of vastly more importance than the question raised in the bill. Anti-Jewish riots have again broken out in the Kherson and other districts of Russia, and in one instance a Jew died from the illtreatment he received. The rioters wrecked public and private houses, and to check the work of destruc- tion reinforcements of troops have been sent to the disturbed districts. A massacre of Jews is re- ported to have taken place at Balta. All the persons arrested in Belgium, except Norris, alias Vanderstein, for the Hatton Garden jewel robbery, have been handed over to the French authorities, who have charges to prefer against them for frauds in Paris. Vanderstem, who committed an assault upon a Belgium police I officer during the arrest of the gang, will be sub- jected to a term of imprisonment for that offonce ) before orders for his extradition are given. A telegram from Tripoli states that an Italian traveller has been arrested and maltreated by the Turkish police near Derna and that other Europeans have be on subjected to insult and outrage. The general in command of the place having refused to grant any redress, the British and foreign consuls have been obliged to charter a vessel to bring the European inhabitants to Becgbaoi for safety.. -p, During some excavations m the Jb oro Ro- mano at Rome, an important archaeological dis- covery has been made by the bringing to light of a hitherto unknown branch of the Via Sacra, which may do much to modify the theories respecting the topography of ancient Rome. A specially in. teresting discovery is a fragment of an ancient marble plan of Rome in the time of Septimus Severus, which fits over to another fragment that is preserved in the Capitoline Museum. How many people are there who know that the Pope is a farmer ? Such is the fact, however, and there is reason to believe that his Holiness makes a very good thing out of it. I Leo XIII. goes in," however, neither for the growing of cereals nor the raising of stock, but for the breeding of fish. The lagoons of Comacchio are thus turned to profitable account. Eels are the staple food, aud several tons of cooked eels are sent from the lagoons every Lent. The fish come up in immense shoals from the Adriatic, and are fed in the lagoons on other fish provided for them, rntil they are nicely fattened, when they are killed and cooked in a vast kitchen. The labourers on these water-farms dwell in barracks built on an island. This is yet another instance of the strange use to which land may be put.—Land. Although spring has advanced but little, and the weather lately has been suggestive of any- thing rather than Alpine climbing, a number of. ardent Vienesse tourists have been setting out within the last few days for rambles in the moun- tains and there is reason to fear that in one in- stance, possibly in more, a lamentable losfl (/f has occurred. A party of four left "V 'enn?1 Sunday with the design of ascending the Kax p» on the Styrian frontier, some 6u00 feet u'g • weather at the time was the severe snow storm was raging. Nevertheless, me climbers persisted. The newly-falle" 8' Q the track, and the travellers ^gaining the shelter one seems to have succeeded inj? tafn> and the built on the summit of QVer a precipice, other*, it is fear*i,Jcan be found. Two n° ° men, and were brothers, n tvfp1 Darty was a bride of oue of ttl TMl. I- »" ag°OJr °f

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THE STATE OF IREL VND. Intelligence has reashed Cionmel that the Government hut intended for the use of the extra police around Suir Castle was blown up on Monday night. out-office belonging to a farmer named ^ai near Kanturk, has been burned down and a number of ploughs smashed. A DUBLIN MYSTERY". Amannamed Failelc, in the employment of the Dublm Corporation, w,,L, f';und 011 Saturday in a dying condition at the loot ot a staircase in Orniond Ma;ket. lie was taken to the Richmond Hobpital, but life whs found to be exiiact. He had sustained a fracture of the skull, and the wound was rudely coveied with sticking plaster, blood having appai6ntiy b^eu wiped off the ''ace. ■\NOTUER LADY SHOT AT. A Limcr^k c;. respondent of the Prpfs Aeeoei- ation writes that a report haibten received stat- ing thac Miss Koyie, of Ualiirjoverick, near i aiiaskenvy, county Limerick, w ns driving to church on Sun lay when she wh6 fired at by three men, who escaped. The coachman is paid to have been shot. THE MURDER OF MRS SMYTHS. The Press Association's Muilsngar correspondent telegraphs that a most important afreet has bee* connecticn with the murder of Mrs ocnythe, the prisoner being a tramp, named Boran, who, it is reported, admits that he was in Bar ba- villa wood at the time. AMERICA AND IRELAND. A Washington telegram ofSaturda. says:-The committee appointed by the Irish International Land League Convention have waited upon Pre8i- dent Arthur and presented the resolutions adopted by that bod) relating to the imprisonment of American citizens in Ireland, and asking for the recall of Mr Lowell The President, in reply, said he would give the matter his early attention. MURDER OF A-A EMERGENCY MAN. The Central News Litoerick correspondent writes:—A most brutal murder was on Tuesday committed at Kiltaei), in the Bruff constabulary district. Richard Roche, an old man of sixty, employed by the Emergency Committee to watch a farm, was found dead in a field with a bullet w»; nd through the heart. The police aie scouring the district, bat no arrests have been made. The Press Association Limerick correspondent says that an Emergeucy man, namea Richard me. not hoche, as reported, was found dead on 1 ts- day morning in a boreen between Dromkeen and Kilteely, having been shot through the heart* Rice was present with two other Emergency men in a public-house at Dromkeen, and ieft before them to return to the farm of which he had charge, and from which the tenant had recently been evicted. The two men afterwards followed, but not seeing him became alarmed, and informed the police, who after a search found his body as stated. The police are investigating the matter. C,

WREXHAM. IitroHTANT Cases under the EDUCATION AcT.- At Wrexham, on Montfay, a large number of per- sons were summoned for neglecting to send their children to school. In thren of the cases the de- fence set up was that the children were already attending school.—Mr John Jones, solicitor, who prosecuted, contended that the school in questiont not being examined by a Uovernment inspector, was not.an efficient school, and that the children were not receiving such efficient instruction US- would comply with the provisions of the act* Being asked how lie intended to prove this, Mr Jouesjreplied, By having the children examined iu open court."—Mr Swetenham, Q.C. (one of the magistIates on the bench), snid it was never in- tended by the law that magistrates should turn themselves into school exau.iners. It was the duty of the persons bringing these cases to prO. duce evidence to satisfy the justices that there waf neglect on the part of the parents, and unless that was forthcoming the magistrates could not con- vict.—Mr Jones: Would you suggest how the evidence is to be produced ?-The Chairman of the bench: Show that the teaching at the school wher* the children attend is not efficient. After tt lengthy discussion, the Chairman said: We are thoroughly unanimous upon this matter, Mt Jones, and we are going to dismiss these cases Mf not proved. It the school board summon persons for non-attendance at school or non-compliance with the a-t, they are forced. to bring proof in sup- port of those cases, and they must prove that there is a want of proper education at the schools te whicn children are sent.

BAGILLT. THE PREMIER'S Body Guabd.—A meeting of Flintshire ratepayers were held on Saturday at the Assembly-rooms, Bagillt, for the purpose of con- demning the action of the magistrates of the county in resolving, at the last quarter sessions, to again ask the Home Secretary to impose on the country at large, and not the county, the tax for the special protection oi the Premier when staying at llawarden. Mr Enosh Lewis, of Mostyn Quay, presided, and there was a good attendance. The chairman, in opening the proceedings, said that so great was the esteem in which Mr Uiadstone wao held by the ratepayers of the county that 80 amount of amoney expended in protecting hit valuable life would have been considered too much. The whole amount chargeable to the ratet in this respect was only between JE120 and .£160. or the one- ninth of a penny in addition to the present rate. The raising of such a cry as that for which:the magistrates were responsible would make the ratepayers appear like paupers. He hoped the magistrates would change their tactiC8 and would not disgrace the county by persisting ia protesting against the payment of this trifle. Mr Lupton proposed, That this meeting of Flintshire ratepayers entirely disowns and repudiates the resolution passed at the recent quarter sessions, in which it was affirmed that the ccst of providing police protection for the Right Hon. W. E. Glad- stone, when in the county, ought to be paid by the Treasury, and it desires that the chiefcon- stable take all proper precautions to assure the safety of the right hon. gentleman whenever he if in the county, and that the cost be charged to the rates in due course. He said that Colonel Rowley, the prime mover at tho court of quarter sessions, was not a resident in the county, and he was not aware that he had any property in it; he had not attended the court of quarter sessions tor twelve years, and he (Mr Lupton) could not help thinking ihat his action, and that of the majority of the court, was dictated by political feeling. The motion was seconded by Mr Charles Evans, and carried unanimously. Mr David Owen proposed, I "That we, ratepayers, ef Fintsbire, her3 as- sembled, desire to express our pride and pleasure at the residence the. rime Minister amongst U0, and we hope he may long be spared to confer that honouron the county." Mr John Thomas, Flint, seconded the proposition, whi^h was carried with- out dissent. On the motion of Mr G. P. Edwards, seconded by the Rev Mr Evans, it was decided to forward a copy of the former resolution to the aome ^cretary, and a copy of the latter to the Prime Minister. I'he Rev David Oliver, of Holy- well, aiso addressed the meeting.

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SCRAPS. Parapets: Twins. California is raisin' raisins. Never known to get tired Outstanding debts. Not suitable for a clothes-line: A cord of wood, Better to think and not to say, than to say aud not to think. When a bank teller is leader of a quire his paper ought to be good, as well as his notes. An Italian count is generally considered to be an equivalent to an American girl s money. The question as to who shall be Speaker of the House has to be settled after every marriage. Why didn't Adam plead insanity, asks an American paper, wher. he ate of the Baldwin pippin ? I The world is all a fleeting show, we fay, tut somehow we all wfnt to see the show a little longer. A man with rattier a fishy reputation alleges that he is descended from one of the dolphins of France. Advice to wivf s Man is very much like an egg keep him in hot water and he i3 bound to become hardened. London physicians are said to approve of late suppers, on the same principle as a glazier approves of i hailstorm. The children of poverty usually receive their Christmas ooxes ia the head, but they do not deiive much mental pleasure from them. A merchant died suddenly just atter finishing a letter; his clerk added a postscript, "Since writing the above I have died, 7th h.st. Amelia (looking at the Laocoon group): "Ah, yes, firemen. I see. But how did they become go intricately entangled in the hose f" If a two-wheeled vehicle is a bicycle, and a three.wbeeled a tricycle, it does not follow that the one-wheeled is an icicle. It is u wheel- barrow. Uncle Mose says something: "Politeness kin be carried to,fur. 'Tuther day I lifted my hat ter a 'oman and lost de handkerchief outen it." Why do Indians get drunk?" at-ked a tem- perance worker. "Because they drink more whiskey than tley are guaged for. Ask us a hhrd one." He was asked if he kaew the difference between "starboard" and "port," and with a knowing leer, replied: "H'm, well, rather, and I prefer part. In a certain trial, a man named Inch pretended that his name was Linch. I see," paid the judge; "he has bsen allowed an inch, and has taken an ell." "Very odd," said the compositor, he stood mournfully gazing on a mass of pye very odd. indeed. Stewed tripe for breakfast and stewed j type for dinner." v!Lttlrd 2Sk", <4 Are men's heads growing smaller? If the men haven't taken anything but I seltzer since they awoke, the swelling ia probably being reduced. "Doctor," said a gentleman to Dr Johnson, when we have sat together some time, you will find my brother very entertaining." I can wait, sir 1" replied the Doctor. The skaters of this country will be pleased to learn that during the present winter there will be no charge for admission to the air holes on the ice. —American Paper. A Troy poet makes "mementoes" rhyme with CI my ten toes." Such poetry should be V-toed. No matter how many "feet" a line may have, ten toef is too much. The astounding statement is made that there are only five professional dog thieves in all the great city of New York. A more marked instance of the negLsct of a great industry is not on record. A flirting belle of Akron, 0.. has caused a social excitement by having all the love letters phe has received bound handsomely in a morocco volume for her parlour table, in place of an ordinary autograph album. "Youhtve heard, my love, that Amanda is I about to marry Arthur I know it; but what I can't understand is that a woman as intelligent as she is Jan consent to marry a man stupid 3aomgh to siprry her." All- old woman came to the church to v ) married. In answer to the question, Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband ?" she said some- what indignantly. In course I will. I come here o' purpos3!" Son: Father, the lecturer at tie hall to-night said thf.t lunar rays were only concentrated luminosity of the earth's satellite. What do you think about it ?" Intelligent parent: All moon- shine, my son, all moonshine A Dissenting minister declined an addition to his salary, for the reason, among others, that the hardest part of his labours had hitherto been the collection of that assigned to him, and that it wouid kill him to try and collect any more. "Papa, is it nice to make remarks about Why, certa nly cot, darling; what do you ask that for?" "Nothing, papa, only mamma said my dress was awfully shabby, and wondered why papa hadn't noticed it long I agx" Deareac," said a eick wife fondly to her hus- band, if I should die, I wonder if you would marry again P" No, indeed," was the prompt reply. I have tried it once, and that's enough for me." She was so angry that she recovered almost immediately. 8rraR3TiTToxs about CAB.Ds.-To what lengths gngerstitions about carda may go was illustrated in a Louisville keno-room, where a negro was killed in a fight for the possession of a certain card which had won for its holder on several successive nights. I Alkali SroM.—A young frienp in California writes: C I My little brother having heard the barren spots in the fields called alkali spots,' came to mother one day, while an old bald-headed man was visiting here, and said in a loud whisper 1 Mama, that man has an alkali spot on his head.' A naval officer, for his courage in a fierce contest where he had lost a leg, had been preferred to the command of a good ship. In the heat of the next engagement a cannon ball took off his wooden de. puty, so that he fell upon the deck. A seaman, ) thinking he had been wounded again, called out for a surgeon. "No, nt> said the captain, "the earpenter will do." C1 The author of Among the Sons of Ham, says a Roman Catholic prieat at Takow, in Formosa, told her the following anecdote One day during Lent a native convert asked this gentleman whether his son, who was ill, would transgress the rules of the ChuTch if he partook of a little meat. The priest at once replied that in case of illness it was perfectly permissible^ eat meat during Thereupon the expressive countenance ot the anxious parent cleared up. "I am very glad, he exclaimed, for I have a dice plump rat for him, and I am sure that will do him a world of good." While an old-fashioned steamer with paadlo wheels was making her way along the coast she mnfoitunatly ran on a sandbank. Among the passengers on board was an old mason, Tarn John- ston. Tarn, on observing aome confusion among the rest of the passengers, went up to the captain and asked what was wrong. "Well, sir," said the captain, we have run the steamer aground but I have no doubt that we will get her off again in a short time." "I'm glad to hetrit,"paid Tam; "but when ye are intendin' to tak' an over- lan' route nezt time ye would be better to get on bigger wheels."

A.RT AND LITERATURE. The Atlantic Monthly for May will contain Mr Longfellow's last poem, ao well as the first part of Mr Hardy's new serial novel, Two on a Tower The June Atlantic will have a portrait of Mr Loug- f llow, with an elaborate article on the poet and his work. M r Freeman's American lectures are to be issued I uuder the title of "The English People in their Ttea Homes," and "The Practical Bearings of General European History." They will be pub- lished by Messrs Porter and Coates, of Philadel phi-i, under special arrangement with the author. Mr Egniont Hake's new work, Flattering Tales," which was announced to be in preparation some time ago, is in the press, and will be pub- lished in a few days by Messrs Remington and Co. as will also be Songs and Rhymes," by Mr Walter a. Pollock, aed "Poets' Walk," by Mr Mowbray Morris. The same firm will issue next mor.1 h "The Life and Letters of Berlioz," tran- slated from the French by Mr H. Mainwaring I)uEst..n, and the following novels: A Royal Amuur," by Mr R. Davey "Tempted of the E)r;Vl1 '■ by the author of A Fallen Angel;" and "The Dawn of the Twentieth Century," by Rev Augustus K. B. Granville. Messrs Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. will pnb- l'sh cn May let the first instalment of an edition of Shakespeare to be issued in twelve monthly volumes, which will form part of their II Parch- ment Library." There will be no notes or com- Pics.ta. The text will be based on that of Deli us. without the excessive use of commas which the German editor introduced. Wherever a variant reading has been followed it is that of some recog- nized Shakespearian critie. Mr J. M. Horsburgh has been elected to the libmrip.nship of the London Institution from a I Urge number of candidates. Mr Horsburgh is senior master of modern subjects at Radley Col. lege. Mr 8tanley Lme-Poole stood next. In consequence of changes in the French di plomatic hierarchy, M. Clermont-Ganneau is pro- moted to be Secend Ori ;utal Secretary, a position whioh places him at headquarters at Paris. Here Wf have only one Oriental translator in the. Foreign Office, Mr J. W. Rkdhouse, and no secretaries or translators attached to the office for the Chinese, Japanese, and Siamese services. Leopold von Ranke has nearly completed tho third volume of his Universal History, and it is hoped that the new volume may be published in the course of the autumn. This instalment will con stitute rather less than half his projected work. The private view of the exhibition ef the Insti- tute of Painters in Water Colours was granted on Saturday, The National Portrait Gallery has lately re- ceived considerable accessions. Among these is a cast, given by Mr Boehm, from the head of his statue of Thomas Carlyle, which is to be set up on the Chelsea Embankment. Although it shows no deep read it g of character, and is roughly execu- ted. this work has the superficial elements of a likeness. Less masculine, but more charac- teristic and complete, is a statuette of Lord Beaconafield, presented by the sculptor, Lod R. Gower. Near the above hangs a portrait, ia the manner of Riley, if not by him, of Lord Orewe, Bishop of Durham. A chalk drawing, by himself, of Sir F. Chantrey at twenty-five years of age has been given by the sculptor's friend, Mr Overend. A bust ef Thackeray, the face boiag derived from a mould of the life, at fifteen years of age, and rich in character, is another new work; the mould was taken in the country by a wan- dering Italian formatore, and is in the possession of Thackeray's daughter, .'Mrs Ritchie. A portrait of Tohu King, bishop of London, King James's "Kingof Preachers," a man well remembered at Chriet Churoh, Oxford, of which college he was I dean before he became .bishop of Worcester and of London, has found a fit place at South Kensing- ton. King was the last bishop of the southern province who burnt a man for heresy. Another and more renowned prelate appears in thelikentss of G. Berkeley, bishop of Cloyne. The picture has a landscape background, probably represanting the coast of the Bermudas, on one of which islands he proposed to found a college. It seems to be the work of Smibert, who went to the Bermudas with the bishop. The latter was renouned for his dealings with "the Trinity and tar water;" he was a strenuous advocate of both. The most im portant ad ition to the gallery is Reynold's por- trait of Edmund Burke, late the property of Mr E. Havilaud Burke. Mr Scharf was fortunate enough to secure this valuable picture for the nation. It is a half-length figure in a brown- groy coat, in his own hair, and with an eye-glass ribbon. Burke sat to Reynolds in 1767.9. This portrait was engraved by James Watson in 1770 (J. C. Smith, British Mezzotint Portraits, p. 1496). It is the earliest portrait of Burke, and was No 161 in the Royal Academy Exhibition, 1871; in 1874 it was "sold at Christie's for 1000 guineas." Many persons will be sorry to hear that Chig- wisk Church, the parish church of Hogarth and many men and woman of note, the body of which is composed of fine red brick and is partly covered with names cut there, is to be" restored." Mr Pearson will be the operator. A new chancel was af,ded some years ago, and has been utilized in the usual way from that time. The tower has been already practically rebuilt. The old church at Hammersmith, a late and somewhat clumsy build- I ing, but not without merit and convenience, is to be abolished in the most unnecessary manner, and all its historical associations cast to the winds. Mr J. P. Seddon will perform this feat. It is said that Hammersmith Church must be destroyed in order to accommodate a large congregation in a larger building. The fact is the old church is now razely more than half filled. A chancel is indis- pensable, it is said. M. Paal Bert, the most brilliant pupil of M. Claude Barnard, was, at the Stance of April 3rd, elected a member of the Academy of Sciences in the place of the late M. Bouillaud.. M. Bremond, from some experiments made upon the North of Spain Railway, concludes that coal g i* loses one litre of illuminating power to every fifty metres of altitude in consequence of the rarefaction of the atmosphere. The National Training School for Music finally closed last week. There is a balance in hand of about £ 1000, part of which will be devoted to the private instruction of the most promising pupils. and the remainder handed over to the Royal °* Music. r Caries Halle will gire a series of eight t*?U8'c conceri;a the Grosvenor Gallery Muriate evenings in May and June. Fraw Wi *nd Straus, Ries, and inolnflf'fr1'assist, and the programme will some interesting novelties.

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