... CHILDiREN'S HOUR. f C n . tn7- - ?? . . 1, .. .. I - - - - - r v JL A.%. ( Cosductced fbly /'nndb Grim.) I Goody Two Shoes pave a birthday party thoe ' other aiternoon. It Nse llot hev own birthday, but the p;;rty Was in holloul of her favourite d.oill, a beautifull wax one that she had had for just twvo years. Gootly Iwo ShOCS lits to (1o everything l properly, so she sent cards of incvit ...

... HdOMESPUN HUMOUR. | d (From Punch.) o PARSON (to candidate for Sunday School): :e Have you been christened, my boy? -Boy: 's Yeah, shir, Got marks in three plahes on my 9S left arm I i Th1TINGS ONE WOULD RATHER HAVE LErT n UNSAID.-Mas8 Bugge: Oh, but mine is such a 3. horrid name !--Youg. Brown: Ah-a-um- I'm afraid it's too late to alter it nowl? :f MUSICAL NOTE.-A more-or-less Biblical ...

... At ?? ?? At the Portsmouth Police-court, on MLonday, W; )t before Captain MvIcCoy and WV. Edmuonds, Esq., H IWilliam Stone Pearson, 36, described as a carpenter, H ,rof the Raglan Arms, Raglan-street, was charged on to *o remand with having, bet' en one p.m. on Decem. ai ber 29th and 11.30 aim. on Decemrber 31st, broken Ye open and entered the unoccupied house, No. 31, hc - Clarendon-road, ...

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... ?? T -o . . LIUTENZANT H. FP. MACKAY, Royal Marijn - Artillery, has been appointed Assistant Instrnctor al of Gunuery, at Eastney, vice Brittan, period of ea serv ce expired, dated 4th April, 1889. Dr. LIEUTENANT W. P. FREAN, Royal Marini ie Light Infantry, has been placed on half-pay 4d under the provisions of Hcr Majesty's Order iu et Council of 30th November, 1882, dated 29th Dr April, 1889 ...

... PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY, MAY 4. - EVENTS OF THE WEEK i ABROAD. 01 ON Tuesday the United States of America tl celebrated the hundredth centenary of the Re. Oj pubiic. On that day, one hundred years before, T George Washington, one of the most unselfish st , and incorruptible heroes in history, became in - President of the United States, and took the It oath of loyalty to the Constitution on the ...

... LIEUTENANT COLONEL D. BOND has been selected for the command of the 2nd Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. 3 THE COMbTAND)R.IN-CHIEF has appointed Col. a . G. Woodthorpe, R. E., to be Daputy Quarter- to master.General of the Intelligence Department in t e India. fW 1 IT having been decided that the appointment ti i of Inspector-General of Artillery at the War m X Office shall be ...

... ter ., . -. FOnESTERS' HOSPITAL SERVICE. -On Sandso) Eor morning, in accordance with a pleasing annual St, custom, the members and honorary mnembers ol for Court ' Astrea (Ryde), of the Order of Foresters. snm attended St. Thomas's Church. They assembled his at their hall in Anglesea-street, and headed by nd the Town Band. marched some 250 strong to the M. church, which stands in the centre ...

... TIH E EMIGRANTS, :s IS RELIEF POSSIBLE? ftjo SIm,-In the columnns of your widely circulated ret le paper the public haive read accounts of tbe cx- offi II perience of our fellow-townsmen, who have had tile j :s misfortune to be led away from their country with the y rash promises, whiich have not been, nor will ever d be, fulfilled. Few letters have y'et been received rea o from the emigrants, ...

... | 1 1-7 1717 - trztri, - - I Aondr h t was Whot Wag it.t Whe yo n er lyn Mr. Ernest Birch, the young baritone, is about to publish a collection of the numerous songs he has written during the six years he has been a public singer. The book is to be dedicated to tne Princessoft WVales, and ainong other pieces it will contain Toil and Rest,' which, written especially for .Miss Hope Glenn, has ...

... r, --ga Pf - aper on the Banmble Bee. Y The bumble bee is a small, rapid-fiying bird, Ml with no visible feathers.' He is liable to turn up £S anywhere, at the most unexpected moment, and th, make it warm for anyone who he considers an l, infringes upon his rights. The bumble bee does Co Y not occupy much room bodily, but he wants con. MI e siderable to get around in, and generally gets it. ...

... SOCIETY SMALL-TALK'. By Upper-Crust Gossipers. w he (Frone Irlai.) ho The Queen has resolved to proceed to Balmora th. as soon as Princess Beatrice is in a fair way to li* recovery from her accouchement, which is now its expected daily, and she will probably leave by Windsor, accompanied by Princess Louise, on Sb, the evening of Wednesday, the 22nd.shi The first lady who was presented at the ...