... boy, when are you off?' 'Next week.' 'going to take your wife with you?' ' No; it is a voyage of pleasure.' 'Who are you named after, my boy ? a bright little fellow of seven years was asked. 'My father, sir only I have not his last name.'-' How is that ...

... other arrangements.. The' oratorio is based on incidents in the life of Elisha, and would more app~opriately have been named 'after that prophet, instead of' the Assyrian captain, who occupies but a subordinate'platein the scheme. Those who-have heard-it ...

... Uranus, we find; When out of sigbt, thou art not out of mind. To Adams and Le Verrier thankful be, Neptune to have an Orb named after thee. WHERE THEY OUGHT TO GO. Our Fireman-to Berno. Our Brushmnaker-to Como. Our Sausageman-to Cateaton-street. Our House-dog-to ...

... those who attenided (he military concerts a few ?? ago so. mulch. admired. A pretty waltz by Mr. lones, the conductor, named after the 'eow popular game The. Bezique, so took the fancy of the audience that it was loudly oncored; and but for the late ...

... the British terri. toq-which borders ou the Agror district. The princpal town on our side of the frontier is Abbottabud named after General Abbott, who had charge of the .aaaras shortly after the couptry was taken over, and who was a great favourite with ...

... many years ago in the reredos, and which has been restored and preserved. The chapel on the south side of the chancel is named after St. Joseph; and to the end of the north aisle is a transcept. A Norman font of great antiquity and many other features in ...

... dard c heads the list of famous winners of the Northumber. land Plate with 'Hetman Platoff.' Of course this animal wvas named after a celebrated Cossack chief, whose horse, c' noted racer, repeatedly carried thre ' ...

... of the logarithms,c *t and the admiral is not a little proud of it: his seat, small g but comfortable, in Hampshire, is named after Lord %v Napier. Your readers may depend that a finer, a . younger, a stouter and stronger, aye, or a more loyal set t of ...

... from the City of London Branch; £1,000 from Mr. Isaae Boyle to provide a new life-boat for ! the Lancashire coast, to be named after hsis late -wife, a M~ary Hmar Boyle; £50 from T.W.R. e (additional); £50 -from MIrs. Alexander Black e(additional); ...

... To-day (Wednes4y) is opened the fourth and last of the Exhibitions illustrating the Royal Houses of England and the epochs named after them. The Jubilee year would have been a more appropriate season, perhaps, but at that time these pleasant Exhibitions -were ...

... days led to the establishment in Massachusetts-when Charles I. sat on the English throne-of Harvard University. It *as named after a scholarly young niinister, the Rev. John Harvard, who came to New England in 1637, and died within a year, at the; age ...

... years of Arthur's life ; the only inci- i dents that created any intensity of excitement, was l the birth of a daughter named after its aint, Fanny, I and an event as painful as the former was pleasure- I able-the death of Mary's mother.. This last was ...