... VA RI ET IES. AN Al iUIING I'TATIURE -A cannon's mouth. ani TnE MOsT DirFIcur'r AscENT.-Geiting up at subscription. Th Peovlke ,uietlfnes utdertake to go ahac:d, and find they can't |tut o a ?? foet. me A Gai,-, it :IsTAiCE.-Aceidentally burying a min alive. mO Wc ?? ill tihe ciadle for a long voyage; in the coffin for jut o ir h loller tle.I Pra' iris'a be is hurtful as censure. It is as well ...

... INSOLVENT FRIENDLY SOfEEIS. -Now that the true aDD equitable rateo. of contribution necessary to secure all the benefits assured by friendly societies can be obtained without the slightest difficulty, it is imperative that all honourably disposed persons should caution the unwary against the specions advertisements referred to. There ?? be little doubt that, ere long, the attention of Parlia- ...

... iI 1i WORLD'S DEBT TO TEME SAILORs.-But for the sailor, the breaking light of Christianity might have lingered for ti centuries on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean ; anti I never, perhaps, have reached the magnificent throne of SI the Czesars, till that throne had crumbled under the iron hi heel of the Vandal. And now, who but the sailor carries to the misesionary to his field of ...

... I porg, 11 AT ALL iN THE PAPER TO-DAY. N0thiag at all in the paper to-day I Only a murder somewhere or other- Airl who has put her child away, Sot being a wife as well as a mother; Or a drunken husband beating a wife, With the neighbours lying awake to listen: Scarce aware he has Laken.a life Till in at the windows the dawn-rays glisten, But that is all in the regular way- There's nothing at ...

... Farteties. i GEMS OF THlOUJGHr. We must not attempt an cagle's flight with the wings of a wren. A covetous una is a dog in a wheel, that roasteth meat for others. Nothing controls men so much as the plasid brow and un. tremublg lip. The wikecicslt liar is he who lies for an object; the greatest jar is lie who lies witht,ut one. There are nainy graceless preachers on grace-many un- obaritable ...

... a- ietiro. GEMS OF THOUGHT. Life is half spent before we know what it is. He that would enjoy the fruit must gather the flower. WNe profit more by the faults than by the successes of other, Time is a travelliag thief, ever stealing, yet no man can catch it. Discreet wives have sometimes neither eyes nor ears. Be good-natured, if you can, for there is no attraction so great, no charm so ...

... - ?? I ?? I i I I K bo *WWEtiTRIFLE,:. ?? eoolt*~41e top of Mont Blanc. Wost against a farmer's graint 1His mowing, An tiec'ay ncewrote over his door, ~All kbinds'of dyings~itufs sold h'enre. A man has amplied. for a divorce in Chiicago, on the giound that be was niarried only in fon.'' A sulhoilbov's aspiration-' u, how I wish I were at foun- fain, fi)r then I coulil always be playing! ...

... aricties. GEMS OF THOUGHT. Open evil at all eveits does this good-it keeps good on the alert. Every art is best taught by example; good deeds produce good friends. Any one tny do aA casnal act of good nature, bnt a continua- tion of such acts sbows it to be a part of the tealperasowet. Mirth should be the embroidery of conversation, not the web; and wit the ornament of the mind, not the ...

... TOodni. - = = - - - -- - , - , SOME CALL THE WORLD A DitEARY PLACE. Sonie call the world a dreary plae, And tell long tales of sin and woe As it there were no blessed trace Of sunshine to be found below. They point, when autumn winds are sighing, To -alling leaves and withered flowers; But shall we only mourn them dying, And never note their brilliant hours? They mark the rainbow's fading ...

... [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] I FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW Bly DORA RIUSSELL, Author of 1TnE BRoKEN SEAL, Ttir VICAR'S GOVPRNFSs, -LADY SErtTON'S PRIDE,` &,C. CHAPTER VI.-Dcit IHOPTON'S PRICE. Elizabeth (t',riliui was very ill after Harry TIyirell'9 S~1tid(en dleathl. Ill during the painful inquiry that follu`WedI (1.1iuijg thle Crtir inq(Uest, ?? aud re-adijourned, as fre.sh iinpe.~ tirose thlt ?? ...

... I _2 I On Wednesday the Stallmine Horse Show Society held its third annual show, which was in no way behind its two successful predecessors, but on the contrary showed a distinct improve. ment, both as regards the quantity and quality of the animals, &o., shown. The total number of entries this year was 206, as against 157 the previous year, whilst the amount of prize money had been increased ...

... ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW AT I DON-CASTER. On Saturday the fifty-second annual show of o. the Royal Agricultural Society was opened at n Doncaster, the day named being set apart solely I 5 for the display of implements and machinery, of e which there is a very extensive collection, the oa largest, with the exception of that at Windsor, h since the show at Shrewsbury in 1884. a Eighty-six ...