... 1st. Nothing is more fatal to good table manners than haste; therefore be deliberate. Do not eat fast. 2nd. Soup should be taken from the side of the spoon with noiseless inhalation, the spoon being slightly tipped. 3rd. Keep the plate that is handed you b y carver lor servant; it confuses one who presides to have it passed from one to another. 4th. Cnt your bread into pieces and let them rest ...

... EXPERIMENT WITh A RAT. a I--. - atiA keen-eyed and grey-beard rat in a Rock -ille Iphl, wsoollen mill had for a long time evaded every dle- ella 'vice to entrap him, but an expert took the case in the hand, and succeeded in beguiling himn into the ~ere trap. When the spring announced that the ';old Pro General was caught, the boys crowvded around ilisa and peered curiously in at the bright ...

... PAINFUL B4THING ACCIDENT.? Ss . A most distressing case of drowcning took place on thi e- Saturday. Two young laies, aged respectiv'elv 16 ma Uk and 18, daughters of Mr iI1'Coll, wine- merchant; lat ofGlasgow, were bathing in the Gareloch betwveen, s0l W. Sheyond and Garelochhead. The younger went !be er l zyn her depth, and, being unable to swim the two ! oln w sere perfectly helpless and ...

... - e^TV;E VOLUNTELERSec. - BON-ACCOnRD Rirqx CLUB.-Thle weeldy competi- tion of the above club took place yesterday at the - Links range. -Dist~auces 200 and 600 yards, seven I shots at each distance. Co1.-Sergt. G. Divorty won .the first-class meta with a score of 51 points The second-class medal wad gained by Private Marshall with 47 points. i5THi BANEF. (lS !tF.1E.-This compatny was ia- - ...

... fl2flhi? ()o resixrndent. J from or owe corsodn .). LoNDOlN, Thursday nighxt. ti goaod old Radical friend, the Daily News, 0 ide itself.1 It canot brig about a dis- is i lhongh it yearns for- an appeal to the- 901 Ijt canno openly and avowedly praise as the rlicv of the Home ulluers and Obstructionists, ~ti8° loes thOel well. And now, as a last fling am t10ialty it .has taken up the cudgels ...

... NIow A- JLI)Y CAUGH AT.- HUSBAND. '-Not many daysH have elapsed since the demise,' in| 'Yorkeshire,. of a lady,' thne widowr of an old English gentleman who, as an upright and. enthusiastic patron olh of the Turf, might have challenged comparison with tre any of the predecessors or successors whose colours be have ever been borne to victory upon an English race- st2 course. At .the close of ...

... THE ZLTLT WAR.1 d 'REPORTED 0:FAtLL OF | -SURRENDER OF 700 ZULUS.:.. IT.HE BR'ITISHE MOVEMIENTS.| 1a OFFICIAL D~ESPATCH. a| We have received a copy of the following 1 telegram fromt Major-Genleral the Hon. H. e Ciffr the threto Secfghnetaryona.va tVnet ; ~PIETER3IARITZBUBG, r | -July 3rd, morning. , General left here on 1st July at seven a.mi. tfor Port Duruford, via Durban, at which place C ...

... !OUR- LAD-I^ES' ,ACO:LUMN. 7bar5' ;BYF ONE O)F THEMSELVES. sty How Is it that good' people who interest thiemnselves ins t1e-worthy ohjecta, and feel it their dutyteisuppiort them, So, wildo s0 inl a sorti if Uderhand way, intstoad of straights. li frarl proeducing their coin and expect no return butt ,y . the reward of a good co0nscience ? So many of us prefer toy be wheedled or cheated oat ...

... ROYAL ASSOCATION FOR -PROMOTION OF THE FAINE ARTS. ~~~~~~~~I----DV-. --ai - ThI'e annual meeting and distribution, of pieb~rea lamong the members of the Rtoyal Association for the1 -Promotion of the Fine Arts in-Scotland Was heild in; M Queen. Street HEall, Edinburgh, on Saturaay after- it lion-Lord Provost Boyd in thee chair. The annlualz report, which was read by Mr H. XV. Cornillon, HE S.S ...

... OUR FRIEND W~E EXCEPT ANT. -jIn a recentlyr published book by a Frenlchman f Monsieur Louis Jacolliot, called ;'A Journey to v the Land of Elephants, is one chapter devoted a' entirely to these intelligent animals. Some of the -things Monsieur Jacolliot relates seem almost too awonderful to be true; but he has the reputation of rbeing a truthful writer. One evening as Major Skinner, an ...

... A FRENCH ACTESS. j |.Audic is perhaps the mosd beautiful woman Oi s the French stage. Her large dark orbs, clear olve * complexion, and hair of a lustrous though nlot a hshining black, all gifts of her Spanish nrcestr e make her a perfect type. Her straight nose and e the pure oval of her face forma a fitting complement j to the catalogue of charms. She is Juno or a s .sobt~te at will, having ...

... ow bent I IF it were worth while, it would be easy The ye are m lenough- to demonstrate the- absurdity of the for nlation, accusation brought against Government of for ewsayo-hvn taken a Dew departure in proposing to whi se when teHouse of Co'mmons the pecuniaryr aid to Chi forces f University education in Ireland provision for pro ow esta- [which was not embodied in the Irish U~niversity7 ...