... CASTLE EDEN. The annual fat stook sale, established over twenty years sloce at Castle Eden (near Hartlepool), and which, for eight year; past, has been successfully conducted by Mr Geoige Hardy, took place on Monday in the presence of a very numerous com- pany. The £5 Ss prize, for the best fat bullock, a wonderfully level good roan, was awarded to Mr B. M5. Stafford, Elwick, wa&s sold to Mr ...

... 04vat'odS from Pav osaki - 7- PUNCTUALITY IN NURSTNG. An unpunctual nurse has lost her patient before nov by neglecting to administer the prescribed medicine or itinu- lants at the r&ght fiu. It seems almost ridiculous that I should remind you that when food, medicine, applications, ac., Pre ordered at any particular time it means that the patient is to have them at that hour, not ?? you arc ...

... th*j; Wiith 9g~nob BY PHYLLIS BRO WNE, Author of A YEAa's CoOKEr. and TaE Giai's OwN CoOKORY BOOK. A good many fortunate individuals, usually dwellers in towns, are just now in the country, experiencing those pleasures of country life about which poets have raved from time immemorial. Natare's sequestered haunts,' Sylvan scenes, and all that kind of thing, are all very well for those ...

... thato with 940thaptro. Br PHYLLIS BROWNE, Author of Ai YAR's CoOKERY, and Tsa GIRLS OWN UOOKacxy BOOL Wbhat an astonishing thing it is that English house- keepers will not give, themselves the trouble to make coffee properly. It is really a question of trouble and nothing else, for it is as easy as possible to make good coffee if only two or three little details are attended to; bhit ...

... ALL BIGHTS BESVdd.] A LITTLE DRUMMER BOY: A NOR.TH COUNTRY SKETCH. By MRS HIBBERT WARE, Author of LIFE's' SEVEN AGES, THE WATER TowEA, 'BIS DEAREST WISH, &C., SC. CHAPTER L Towards the close of the summer of the year 1798, start- ling and disturbing news began to arrive in England from India. Ever since the peace of Seringapatam, concluded by Lord Cornwallis with lippoo Sultaun, by which ...

... I? %_ ?_h a a 4 -- i a c ?? - f~~SRCONC ilBe.NT); Si Hri-per's 11onts171h M'aflahiue Corntainq a grnoo i ree ew of the life and roign of Kaiser Wil'elm, With an artmirable portratit of the veteran 1in, a Ni- peror. Kaiser WVilhelm is no PlDitiCRl fi no6 o- m heal, bat a living power in the State. ?? in policyi hais been hig ovwn and that of his ?? G on Minister, Bisrearli, pli'sued often in ...

... FEMMBE FASHIONS AND I FANCIES. The great button question is still discmssed in the new- papers, Why do ladies button their riding habis from left to right. la the Pall Mall .-uetc an old maid say.- '-Formerly men required to thrust the right band tbrogb the space between the buttons to reach small weapon, readily. The fashion continues because in most coatst her, is a pocket for papers, a ...

... ALL BIORTS RESTBYED. DE NOVA VsLLA I; OB, TiS mHOUSE OF xxVLL mI SUN3SHINE AND sene. Br Tan REV IL J. SWALLOW. F.S.A. (EDnI.), FELLOw OP Ts:e ROYAL SocmEn oF LirsATuasu; MEMBRa OF TSHE ARCa0OLOOICAL 11411TU0T OF GasEa BRITAIN, &C., Sc. PART IL-CHAPTER V.-Tag HOUSE OF ThIts Idare boldlywsribe,- - Nomasa could better love, btter fsht Who I= not. heard ?? Guy7-!1!6ir. Guy, . of Warwryke, ...

... Rose Jaune, writing in the World from Ostend about the costumes there, nays:- Sunday is the day to see the beat costumes, especially (for those who like to attend it) at the dance in the evening. Cream and white are ex- tremely prevalent, and the boast of the young people here is that they buy some light material that costs about six. pence a yard, and that they tarn themselves out as ...

... ?Pvvt Alto gittraturr. Captain A. B. Ellis is wziting a book about his ex- periences in the islands of Western Africa. Lady Pollock is preparinz for the press some reminis- cences of Macready. The contents of the book will be mopra or less a personal chronicle, and will be described as Macready as I Knew Him. Lady Florence Dixie's new book, Waifs and Strays; or tce Pilgrimage of a Bohemian ...

... I . - , I . 11 I - ., I : - I I I If. WAVAdo ? f V#m gtw Lpmouplb- QUIET AND Nazex PIOPLra-Why are rich people quiet and podrer ones noisy. Ifecause the refinements of wealthy life, its peace and tranquillity, its facilities for separation in different rooms, produce delicacy of nerve with the percep- t;on that noise is disagreeable; and out of this delicacy, when it is general among a'wbole ...

... THIE BEWVICK CLUB SONG. Great Britain has its National Anthem, RepublicaRn Fiance has its Marseillaise, and the Newcastle Bewick Club-has its song ! This production is printed from a n anuscript which was found on the Life School Stairs, and bsginsnthusly:- I've got a story off by heart I'd like to sing before we part, Of rny apprenticeship in art, If you will kindly listen, sirs. Lone ...