... t an 'a ty ever ore in !,i fw.ly hit til itli Ur toil. N% I VI :. IIf,vi I SUrp1s~itol fair Mi, v: the te, CVlia we ?? whera All its won.jdrtiu. beauties ar,'e lYet, perbaug (in aniiserinl g), ytou Say 'ts ill the ihliiaitt tlut, Ii its de'icat Pe fume, I the power t ch.-e tihe g;oorn FroL, a sick ...

... YNEWCASTLE SPRING I'LOJT.E SO1. The soring show of the Darbam, Northumberland, ani Nercastle Botanical and Horticultural Society was openled on Wednesday in the Town Hall and Corn Exchange, Ne-iV castle, under favourable auspiceL. The amount offered. for prizes was £141 17s, and the ?? James Douglas, Barkieg Side, Ilford, Essex; MIr T. Baises, Fern Cottage, Palmers' Green, London; and Mr James ...

... ALL BIGSTS RESiEVED. tgh1,DB A LkDY. Not long since a certain ladies' journal announced that ted Mrs Wheeler, ex-professional beauty, and contemporary me with Mrs Langtry and Mrs Cornwallis West, had set up rc dressmaking as a profession. The statement has now met on- with an unqualified denial. to Cotton gowns are being glorified in by the manufac- ave turers to such an extent that many ...

... I ?? front -- gm Tooho. h SLIGHrLY DiFFERENT.-When sbe was sixteen the vicar met her one afternoon in Higbgate Cemetery poring over a book. After the usual salutations, Clericus asked, What is your book, Miss Burrows ? Ilealising the situation, Annio replied, almost inaudibly, Rousseau's Confessions, of which the last word only caught the parson's ear. St. Augustine's Confessions, ah l ...

... &3? I`41 rt Aud X-ituaturs. - 0o The able address delivered before the Edinburgh Philo- i eepisicsl Institution at the opening of its Session, Novem- ber, 1866, by BIr E. J. Phelps, has been published in pamphlet form, under the title of The Law of the Land, by Ur David Douglas, Castle Street, Edinburgh. DMr Lester Arnold is collecting the materials for a little book that should interest ...

... MEASU'IJIN-G, ' lIJE BABY. 'We measured the riot Nil'ly Ageaicnt the Cc tdtoe all P. A l% grrerw at te t LX, c1'l'J, AnD; the huy t~ajciu A. t . A regal tigeh, 11, AnotIwt, 4TtuiW cC 1 I he fra2 a Without the tlnebirds witi;tled r-gh up iD the old roof tree,, Anti CI, .jcIi [fO at Ell' ill l., lie rel ree r eted her ?? And tb rice' pink tr.: tic' ?? tereltcrCT IU : Spa; ffin at dilie anft ...

... A meeting of the Parks Committee of Newcastle Corpo- ration was held on Monday afternoon, ands arrangements were made for bringing to Newcastle the remainder of thec- Lough models and marble statues wbicb Mrs Laugh has presented to the city. It was resolved to offer the Executive Council of the Jubilee Exhibition these statues and models for use in the ornamentation of the Exhibition, prior to ...

... f. xtvatts from gtw godo. A PAILxESS BIrTm-The curious feature in the bat's bite is that it is hardly ever felt, even when the person attacked is awake. I myself bad a remarkable illustration of this, and stood with a roan who was remarking that he could not understand how people always got so unaccountably bitten, though while be was actually making this remark, in the dusk, a bat was sucking ...

... JE SUIS PitET.' The milnight air cnvey; a seicns unto my facey's ear Aund vichts I ee. imatlinaicrv, tli-it c in'e vie dibt al'd f-ar ['cei low ami :. cebl ?? it c.sniee a , s-:ie Sf- cit hri- -i Ai d E3uTIIe thro,ugh Lft'v e-li to ii i i I, I, C r it tfing- TIle lhty ?? i iU tl:eie 'acitis : cr ai-eg for the tight, Acess the 1,ais the fitfl gluten, 4: Mitslititeiltheiriijght; Sbrewil ATu ...

... SuMIE OTEER TIME. tf eve r it ihould rio althrst 'li ! :,,r i:lnl S eitll! fiiu/ 'iitt: \ *f t Iotir tew I ei c .t i Lie sti., il ct mu ms.-I art' at ysour lii:- iii ef v's: -iujr tlL f eniie 'It tel: ?? story ?? YI)eptd. .A loot ;Le doingl. wT avg amil rash, (If N1' ItBarnk arid Mrs Dwshb- Why, It re' a Ihi G.1f hoimely rhyme \WMl conu el Slage! auli true;- .-oue Cir timue, s i e utler timne- ...

... NRWCASTLB ROYAL JUBILEE BXHIBITIO-Y. The influence of the Easter holidays made Itself felt on Monday, even in the Exhibition, where, as may be imagined, every moment i3 of the most precious vilue, seeing thst His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will perform the opening ceremony in abou ' a month's time. Good Friday, as already stated, was a lost day entirely, the entire range of buildings ...

... BY G. R. HEDLEY. 1. Al ake ve children, born of every clime, Aid at your Sovereign's feet some triliutelay; For fifty years we've felt her Reign sublime, Then let our hearts exalted be to-day. And now, while Ceres opes her fruitful bowers, And all the birds their notes of pleasance sing, WNe'll sport with Flora 'mong the trees and fluwes, And bail, with rapture, this es pecial Spring. * o ...