... THE BEST THING OUT.-An aching tooth. FOOD FOR THE IMAGINATION.-Faucy bread. CAUTION TO SISTERS -Harriet: I say, Charley, I've been stealing some of your scent; but it isn't very nice-something odd about it-smell. Chiarley: Not wiped your lips with it, I hope? It's the new stufffor my moustaches-brings 'em out an inch every night ! FAAIILY PRIDE,-First Boy: My father's a orficer. ...

... YORIKSHIRE SHOW OF FAT STOCK, POULTRY, AND ROOTS. I Tho eleventh annual show of the Yorkshire f Society for the Christmas E xhibitioni of stock, poultry, and r roots %was opened yesterday in the wool sheds adjoinling thle a cattle market, at York, and both for entries and their a quality was the bestaincee tie establishment of tse society. I This is no, doubt a result of the liberality of the ...

... TIHE FASTI I)ON'S. ( f;CI >0w I/o l',rqlolii/eij,'S ?? 5i.' .eifegn:re' ?? Joan rray.) Paris we:rs sn altosetlb4 r diflererst aspect onl the npproach of New Year's lsay to what it does at any other time. Parisians care little ate ut ('hristmraes, but the popu- 1lis ftW is tr [,vicr (le 1'a7. Th'W cUstoiII of exclhan girng gifts on that d6v is so general that most shopkoepers reckon upon it to ...

... THE BUDNING OF HER MAJESTY'S TlHlRAIRlE. It was not intil Saturday morning, when the calamitous lire of the preceding nright had spent itsclf, thflt the full efects of the disaster could ba ruitlisedi, or any inquiries couldi be instituted as to its origin. Of the theatre itself, one of the finest in the world, nothing renmins but the hare, roofless walls, and immeseo masses of charred ...

... CHIlSTMlAS FESTIVI'TIES AND AMUSE. CIIRIST v MENTS. Christmas this year will, we fear, with many be far from a merry one. But while it is painful. to think of the large and unusual amount of distress ftlhat prevails at the present we may yet find considerable relief and pleasure in the fact tliat not all the poor are forgotten, that sonite aro able to rejoice at this festive season, and to enj ...

... LEEDS FAT CATILB SHOW. The annual exhibition of the Leeds Smithfield Club, which opens to-day, is in reality, what last :year it was only in name, a fat cattle show, Following the E example set in other large towns, the committee resolved T last Christmas, in face of the difficulties attending the re- moval of cattle, to limit their exhibition to one of pigs, poultry, and rabbits; and despite ...

... IBAWRON CHRISTMAS FAT STOCK SHOW. 0 On Monday the above show, which has not been held since the year 1864, owing to the prevalence of n the cattle plague, took place under very favourable y auspices. A large number of farmers and agricul. e5 turists residing in the north of Lincolnbhire were Y attracted to the show, and amongst the exhibitors Y were several gentlemen who came from somewhat f ...

... The weath(r on Saturday was iby no meaus favourable for the show, and the attendance in tire morning was not so large as could have been desired on the opening day. Still tho fabling oef in the visiters was limitedto the carlypart of the day, andwhonwith the after- noon and evening came tho reduction in the entrance fee and the niarked increase in the number of spectators, the building ...

... SMNITHFIELD CL UB CATrTLE SHOW, .. . - I - -I. The Show of fat cattle at the Agricultural Hall, .Isliugton, was opened yesterday. The MAlarlane Exrereso of last night says:--I From a bird's-eye view the shlow would scem to be somewhat batter thaso might have been Cexpected, although certainly not more thaso an average- onel, if even that. There isl not an extraordinary beast in. the Hall, ...

... LITERATURE, TWILIGHII NIGHTc'. I. ?? nIef, hand to hand, NW e clasped halids close and faat, AF e)(1a t5s oak and ivy stand; p1lut it is past; C(olen day, come night, day comes at last. Wer loc-ed bland from hand, WVe paltted face from face; Lacth ueut bis ?? to his own laud ,At his CWn pace, Eacih welnt to fill his separato place. if n e tibould inert one day, 11 hothI should not foil get, ...

... o (f-ri SAlT AIMER, SAIT MrOURIR. ' I ?? lly (OII way !v Sspako the rose, atd Stiled; withi y omup All *1,cy te ?? fall inl ItUeIU, all (LAy Til dll iuk Illy Hswcetncnes up.' g 1 IUV' ml1 I away 'I rw t ';tiv l a all nighti ?? moorlinS pale St edl a1n01 tiid round mw), whisperingg ill their pidy AnJ Is, th` teuider ta.le I( I p0e m3y Fil away ' 'lie violot snid; thoe west witild wandeors ...

... | SMITHFIETD CXrTLE SHOW. The Smithfield Club Cattle Show for the present year opened on Tuesday morning, at the Agricul- tural-hall, as early as nine o'clock, at which heur the judges commenced their work. The general character of the show is described as being far beyond the average of excellence. Her Majesty's contributions in the Devon classes had an early opportunity of coming under the ...