... The love of wandering which (says the Pall Mall Gazette) is one of the motives which induce young men to take up a tramp's life is too near akin to ^v4-' « -1 i —1-i.l. 1 uw u .1 for England to make it an object of severe con- demnation. But, like other tastes which lie on the borderland between vice and virtue, it is only innocent when gratified at the possessor's own ex- pense. A tramp who ...

... At Pentre Police Court, Rhondda Valley, on Monday, several members of the Salvation Army, including Misses Mary and Louisa Lock (one of whom is only 14 or 15 years of age), were summoned by the Superintendent of Police for obstructing the highway on Sunday, the 24th ult. Mr Williams (Hollier and Williams) prosecuted, and Mr Walter ^?an defended. Evidence of the obstruction was Sergt. Noot, of ...

... (By Archibald Cameron, author of Musings in an Infirmary Ward,$r. I saw in thee a bud of hope. I pictured thee a woman grown, To be to me a stay and prop When age had marked me for its own. But, oil! how transient earthly joys There came two angels bright and fair, In search of some sweet floweret prize They plucked one from that little chair. One year hath flown but where art thou That once ...

... HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.-Sure Relief. The weak and enervated, suffer severely from nervous affections when storms or electric disturbances agitate the atmosphere. Neuralgia, gouty pangs, and flying pains, yery distressing to a delicate system, may be readily removed by rubbing this Ointment upon the affected part after it has been fomented with warm water. The Pills, taken occasionally ...

... There are many women, wives particularly, who make tobacco a source of a large amount of family unhappiness. They are everlastingly rallying against smoking, continually getting at sword's points with every male friend and relative, and gaining nothing by it but a grim defiance, which discovers the fact that in the long run a man s will is equally as strong is a woman's when he once sets out ...

... THE COAL TRADE.—The colliers are leaving in large numbers, in consequence of work being so very slack. THE TiN WORKS are still working four days a week, not from want of orders, but owing to the number of hands having increased more than one- half during the last twelve months. ...

... BY VERITAS. But Rome with forccrics and magic wand Soon raised It cloud that darkened every land, And thine was smothered in the stench and fog Of Tiber's marSles and the I'ap.tl bog: Then priests with bulls and briefs and haven crowns, And griping fists and unrelenting frowns, Legates amI delegates with power from hell, Though heavenly in pretension, fleeced thee well; And to this hour, to ...

... It is generally believed, the Rangoon correspon- dent of the Times telegraphs, that orders have been sent to the acting resident at Mandalay to leave with his party as soon as he can without betraying an un- dignified haste, or any appearance of fear. This measure will give general satisfaction, as no intercourse now exists between the residency and the court worth running :any risk for. The ...

... The Chancellor of the Exchequer in addre ssing a meeting at Topsham on Monday evening s;;i;i — He had hardly expected it would have been his lot so soon after the conclusion of the session to have to address a meeting of his countrymen upon the politi- cal question of the day. At the same time he was always pleased to meet the working men of Exet r. He remembered to have met them at the ebb ...

... SWINDLERS AT THE ANTIPODES. Several rather clever swindlers, supposed, says the Melbourne Argus, to have come from the old world in order to make something out of the forthcoming exhibitions, have been at work in Melbourne lately. An American named Henry Scbloss, who recently arrived by the ship Oneida, gave himself out to be a detective from New York, and in that capacity managed to raise a ...

... EXPLOSION OF A GASOMETER. A terrific explosion has taken place at the Congle- ton Gas Works, Macclesfield. A small gasometer, holding nearly 30,000ft. of gas, and which was almost full, exploded with so severe a shock as to shatter the windows of most of the houses in the immediate neighbourhood of the works. The gasometer was totally wrecked, as was also the purifying house adjoining. At one ...

... A railway accident happened on Monday evening on the Great Northern line close to the Nottingham station. It appears that a passenger train consisting of live carriages an engine and guard's van left Piuxton, Derbyshire, for Nottingham, in which town it was due at 6.U. On getting within a shoit distance of the destination, when the steam had been shut off and speed reduced to five miles an ...