... I; I $ - / 1: - s : : : .: e - :: U: e 'n Wireby: I don't see~how `oa, 5C02iomise by letting your wife have s'3icyc Tireby : I-do. She ridtsod *4uch '.sbe 'has no r time to wear her other clotliie ot.i ' - t Areall of these.youqgmenhuxioupto become surgoons ? asked the v4iter. ' ?? ?? . - t They are, repliec ae eminet le-turerupon f surgery.. , But how canu monuy, erect to. make a t ; ?? ...

... et I wonder, thought Mrs. Thompson, as she ry glanced at the ciocki on the mantelDiece, 1 y ut wonder what it is that keeps George so late. rn av Twice this week he has been detained by- what Hi as he calls business. I should think he could get ol ag home earlier if he chose. ci When at leigth. Mr. Thompson came in his yi rm wife's countenance wore an injured expreasion. re He did not ...

... | CLIPPINGS FROM THEl COmICS. I - I Piokinu3 From P1flol`.' or Interesting to Matchmarinalcig Mammnas,-Cab- 1U lie huntin.g has recominioueel. is A ITICONIM1N)AT'iN. ?? Ur Mrs. Cogie Av, that's the new Doctor, meum sfi aI- Irm sure it wad be an awifui' Mindniess it ye Ili ad pied him it bit trial. He had a heap o' patients an LU when lie cam' first, but nou they'ir ait' did. Di ?? Lor.L AXI) ...

... OF VICTORV, OSTISH GAIN FOUR BATTLES. EAVY LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES. RTI5H AND BOER GENERALS SLAIN. RIECORDS OF BRILLIANT DARING. MAFEKING BOMBARDED BY THE ENEMY. * n I .V * t. 4t ¶.\ 0 PASS MI D |ATTLE OF GLENCOE A THRILLING ACCOUNT. HOW THE BOERS BLUNDERED AND WERE BEAT-EN. HEROISM OF OUR TROOPS. THEIR ATTACK UNDER MAXIM FIRE. The Central Newt correspondent at Glencoe Cenap, telegraphing on ...

... Y~ OU want your portmanteaux, bags, &c., to Utrtpaired go to `W~bb's Old-E~stablished Mlann. ,acoy 5, Queen-strtet, Portsee, aend 48, ,)%*b2rne-road, Southsee. Ove of' the Largest -Stock ?? Requisiteo to select frori. Til V'asiAy being, tVic: anniversary of the death of Al G~eneral (,ordon, the hero of Khartoum, the C.. Porternouth Gordon Boys' Brigade attended A ju service it, the evening at ...

... VIGOROUS I INK- SLINGING. it o Aenities of urican Journalism. (FROM TREU EVENING STANDARD.) Those people who have read Pickwick adn Papers Iwill probably bear in mind the way that nd- the editors of the Eatanswill Itepeae'et ande Di-Gazette abused each other in their respective ma anY sheets. The rival editors did not, it will be ret remembered, confine themselves to personal wo abuse of ...

... THE INDIAN FA-M;EINE. 1,1,i'i enve AID FROM PORfTSMA,0OUTH- , The Mayor Of Portsmuouth's Fund forthe relief of the fiullshedl ns'tiies 6o- Id'I aftnaltted lasc ?? to £tit tts. 1Ll., of whieit £3.,0 have beoe remitted tio thi MansiDn Hloause uUtti. -1 4 .N blIP t .blAl, kT SI IISl2A,..I ?? ppitroume I'mO ecatertaill-i on, \XS fv;orn, ?? t C ~ ct rin lait l tla'l, S~oat'i~et,*e Ott ...

... GQETNA &REE N MARRI A GES. tc cc art Celeblities Who Went Through Them. Among the notable persons married at Gretna may be mentioned Lord liurghersh, afterwards Earl of Westinorcland. with t.h onuly daughter of a wealthy London banker in 1782. The rinuaway pair were overtaken bv the enraged father on the road between Carlisle and (4retr a, but Lord Burghersh shot down one of his horses, aud ...

... THE WTEATHER. o IS LECTURE AT LANDPO1fT. i and. At a ieetic g of the Portsmouth Literary and and Scientific Society, hold in the Grand Jury Room, ?? Hall, on ThulrsdaLy eveuting, Dr. T. xin- F'rederick I'earse ?? .alecture Ion Thc the VW eather. Mr. C. Foran, President of the sl t Society, occupied the chair. Oi th After explaining the principles of modern T meteorology, Dr. P.AiLsE ...

... AN ANGEL 1UNAWAIRE3S. He was an old man, bald, save for the scent 1i grey locks which mnade a ragged friage round his ti head; his eyes were dull and sunu!en, beneath co .heavy brows. 'The face was lined and wrinkled b with years and trouble, and the thin, closely-set lips bad a downward ecurve. As he sat in his E armchair, with the larmip-light falling UDpo himi, hie seemed the emrbodimienE ...

... : NAVAL APPOINTMENT. * ATURDAY. '.IN AV.&L 'ArrU1I 'TSiSN'f S ATURDAY. Commander-H. W. Steele to the Racer Lieutenants-H. B. Heygate to the &ge to date May 28th; F. Pierce, S. P. Armi and H. H. 'Smyth all to the Nelson, to data a 18th; C.. chadwick to the Alexandra, to to May 19th. the Sub-Lieutenants-J. D. Allen. to the N-esOa. , P. Crabtree to the Centurion; C.'Rmu .a1 Pearee to the Banshee; ...

... ISERIES OF. TRE GREAAT. Cowper was ?? his days overshadowed by the glootm of iluanity. Julius Cmsar had . a weak digestiou, and vwi subject to epileptic fits. his Cervantes vrq always poor, and constantl1 r, anuoyei by hisicreditorE. rass c wee Charleznaagne-hi4'at ultcer iil his leg that gaw hall him much anno(TaicP for maaty .years. wred. sIf-; Dante pnssedp k gof, hbis life as an enile iron ...