... TIPS. The word tip, as employed nowadays, belongs to that increasing vocabulary of mystic slang which is the bane of philologists, and the despair of dialectic purists. It is darkly associated with the turf; it is used as the vehicle of a wily wink ; in connection with the adjec- tive straight it assumes the aspect of a terrifying threat; and, lastly, it is to waiters, domestic ...

... Astrict Idus. MEASHIAM. c DEATH FROM DuRNINo-On the 21st inst. a child, four a years old, namod Joseph Evans, son of Joseph and Matilda t Evans, High-street, was burnt to doath during the few I minutes the mother bad gone from iome. An inquest was v held at the Queen'd heSd, Meashaim, before Mr. Sale, s eorroner, when a verfilit of 6 Aeuideutal burning' was given. The jury collected 'is. (d. ...

... Forat Be*%. ere 'Lord and Lady Verno n and the Hlo. Mtisses Vernon have hat of arrived at Sedbitry Hall from Bournemouth. a e atre WehearthatJ. L. Ffrvtche, Esq., of Risley, tin this uounty, tia thand Thorpe Hall, LIncuolhire, has promised a statue of St.rs Chad, the patron saint, for the west froft of Liolhfisld atl .Cathedral, now'in proabas of restoration. At the monthly council of the ...

... ITHE HALF-HOLIDAY. MOVEMENT *. DERBY. I . . ?? A meeting of male assistants and ,ppkentices In! ?? sbhops and other partiosfavourable to a weekly half-holiday was held in the Guild Hall on Thursday evening, called by a0veral gen tlemer desrolg~to shortea ihoursof labour whon unduly prolonged. 'There was a large attendance of at- istahnte and apprentioes. Rhis Worship the Mayor presided, ...

... NEWv A'EnicAN ArPLt.-The Northern Spy is one of the best late-kospiug apples. The fruit is delicious, 8 inches in length by 3i inches in width, rich crimsou with yellow streaks, and a great bearer. IL has been introdaced from Now York. WO have two coloured illustrations in the Garden this week; arlicles on 'i Transplanting Trees, by Mr. James McNab; ?? Oranges as Dessert Fniit' by Mr. T. F. ...

... The telegrams of the past week point to a change di of tactics which may ultimately end in peace with the Zulus. The great kraals near TJlundi having been burnt by the advancing coluNns, CETEWAYO ti sent in a great elephant tusk, as a sign of submission, to and some cattle asked for, and promised the two a, guns taken at Isandlana. Ie was willing to make hi peace, but expected to see the ...

... PUNCH'S PROGVNITOR. (By the 4 Peripatetic of the Globe.) lo It was in the neigbbourhood of the Tottenbam-court- St road that the little theatre was pitched. Those who In are acquainted with the drama of which Mr. Punch is to the hero will remember the thrilling part of the play el when, having murderously disposed of his wife, of the T parish beadle, of the undertaker, and of the ghost of ...

... , (tarropoOma. . ST. CHAD'S CHURCH. TO THE EDITOUt OP THE DEBUY XROCURT. Sir-I was not a little surprised to learn from a letter, signed i Henry Wright, which appeared in' your leans of May 22nd, that the work of Church extension in the parishes of Christ, Churob, Normanton, and St. James', bad been appropriated to themselves by the trusteescf Chlrist Church and Normanton. If I am not ...

... I The com'nitteo elected to promoto the second annual ovt d&mousilatti-i in aid of the Railway Sorvants' Orphanage bei n oet on Wodt'eday night at the Green Dragon, St. Poter's- ne: treeot, Mr. WVilliale Page being called upon to preside, in the Fe absence of Mr. Hewett, the chairman. The Chairman'said pat the object (if the meeting wa9 to push on and complete the to I arratigements for ...

... A CHURCFH STRUCK BY LIGHTNIN'G. of Atchann Churclh, near Shrowebury, waostiruck by Ilightinig oiB Sunday afternoon dhiring divise Service. Five mnhenioS I. of t he ?? were seriously injured. [Choir in'ms are Runesia Coin#, Jar's Goodl, Elizt Clhalloner, Chailes Morris, anid 5; Willinin P ugh. Domna Cain anA (Chailoner are, the most nullos Crises, [is besides stiffeiing front general ?? they it ...

... ELECTORAL FACTS. Mr. Henry J. Church writs to the Standard:- Sir-Figures manipulsted in various vraysi, have been nlaced before the public, with a view to show on the one hand that the `Ministerialista, notwithstanding the atrocity rage, hold their own since tie elections of 1874; ou the other, tbat the Liberal or Opposition party are steadily ?? in public esteem; in other words, that ...

... Nufal Expics. ?? ?? Tims RECENT ELECTION FOR PIUARGATE WARD (if at E that may be called an election in which the electors P' r had no voice) has aroused what the Yankees style a w good deal of latent feeling; and uncomplimentary a! remarks upon the age and experience of the new AC Councillor have been dsropped into the letier-boxes of as some of our contemporAries. As for the youth of g1 ...