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... assiduously by a chosen fow. These *instructions,” as they ara called, are preached by the reverend pére precheur, and, after the short exhortation, a Litany ix recited, 1o which all the company respond, kneeliag. It is curious to behold the manwuvres of the ...
... small wcoden paling, there stands a stone cross on a flat slab, on two cours:s of masonry, the inseription on which tells its story :— “In memory of the women and children of Her Majesty's 32nd Regiment, who were slaughtered near this spot on the 16th of ...
... proprietor of a large dairy had retircd to rest at an early bour, acd was soon in the srms of Morpheus. But his slumber »as a short ono for he w.s speedily distarbed by a Joud kuocking at tie door. After listening to the repeated tlows for some minutes, it ...
... not make any approaches.” CeepuLity.—Our readers will be amused by a curieus instance of the credulity of the Arab mind. A story bas lately been invented by the members of the Gred k Church at Nebk, a village near Damascus, to the effect that the Hindoos ...
... I am, Sir, yours, &c , A LOOKER-ON. THE ENGLISH IN INDIA. The followirg story, remirkably illustrative of the mutual misunderstanding which is porsible beiween two races influsnc-d by antagonistic motives of action, has appeared in the Times, quoted as ...
... b of the slizhtest service to a woman, since it cannot be made *‘to turn up” under any provocation, New VERrsioN oF AN OLp Story.—Madame D. had » magnificent ea’. M. de C.amused himself one day by killing it, for want of something clee to shoot. Madame ...
... friends. Poor Campbell, Colonel of sthe 9ith, than whom wno braver or more skilful so'dier rerved in Incia, and who tal in the short term of his service here evinced the same qualities of courage, and resolution, and jndgment by which he was rising rapidly ...
... English, and that by endeavouring 1o recover it they will e*hm their treasure and their soldicrs in an impraticable fask. A Story of A Bear.—A young Italian ]ad‘{, named Besozzi, hasrecoverad 507, damsges at the Bristol assizes for inj iries received under ...
... THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1858. SEDITION IN A “BILLY-COCK.” Stories innumerable might be collected of ludicrous encounters between travellers and the continental rdiot, especially tha® of Austris. The broad brims of wideawates have repeatedly afforded a epicious ...
... ” | €lt is » story,” said Ike, who saw through the mistake she bad m+de. Don’t be impenitent, Isaac,” raid she; “pever say anybody tells » story, because it's just as bad as saying they tell a lie. Itisn’t good manpers.” “ It is & story Fook that is just ...
... by the fo!low‘;nx piece of ““guile.” On one Sabbath afternoon he his people that he should take a short journey the next day, and be ahsent for a short time ; but he should take ‘ care that some person should come from Boston snd supply his cesk the next ...
... THE STORY OF A FAN.—A ROMANTIC COURTSHIP. We extract the following from a communication of the suecial correspondent in Paris of the Court Journal : —%“The marriage of the English nobleman’s diu.hter [why doesn’t the plaguy editor give names?] to tbe ...