... [ UHE CHILJDREN'$,HOIJR,; 1 - Ui li r CONDUCITED BY I I A little girl who was paying uts a visit begged Aunt MIary to tell her a story. About when you Were in Australia, said our young friend, regardless of the' laws of grammar. Aunt Mary is too kind to ever refuse a request of this nature, so she began: Well, my dear, you know that it is about fifteen years since I wads in Australia. I ...

... I , THE ,ChIDREN'S HOI*Av.I CONDUCTED BY Tho old toffee.maker,: whose tiny Window I told you about some weeks ago, and who was so. unkindly treated by Rumblegrumble, has been helped a. kind friend to have his window replaced by a,much larger one. 'He is now able to make quite a hand somhe show with hi business wares. Theold: inLS gre'ntly'delighted,; .and.r appears to Eand-life wuc, ...

... FPL1UIT EXHIDIIT'ION TIT MANCHEUSTER I As an illustration of vwhat can be done in th . country in fruit growing, the Fruit Show in i the Town Hall is admirable in many ways. ! No doubt our English growers have climatic die- advantages, but the specimens they have sent to the present show prove beyond question that 1 they can grow tha very finest fruit. To tske anI ! instance, Messrs. ...

... THE XIrANCHEhTER DOG SHOW. The promoters of the Manchoster dog show have every reason to be satisfiled with the success which her attended their efforts. Certainly the fifth annual exhibition which was opened on 'l'neslav at St. James's i Hall, Mancelster, is one of exoentioral interest auld ov- cellence. Not tli;t thes ntries are more numorous:, as a matter of fact they are fewer by some 100 ...

... I AN ARTIST'S EXPERIENCES IN i LAN CASHIRE. PI. Newchurch boasts of old-fashioned imns-old- fashioned, at least, in narme-besides the two I have referred to ( The Blue Bell and The Clocaers' Arms). There are The Boar's Head and The Black Dog. Whilst I was making a drawing of the latter, a man distributing bills, who evidently recog- nised me, hlurried along, remarking in passing I ...

... CHILDREN'S HOUR. BY UNCTLE, OLDMTAN. It is not aiwa.e eary to decidr- wht i3 the be.st vward to say to the boys and girls when I sit down for our weekly chat, This morning I Rat down in mny eisy Chair, and was enc(age ( ini trnling several subjects over in my minid whlen I heard the tiny door in the window, pane open and shut again. Before T could look arounit Laughaway had pereloed herself ...

... THE CHILDREN'S HOUR I BY UNCLE OLDIMAY. Do not follow the example of the great unless they Are also good. This was the sound advice given a few days ago by a magistrate to a number of lads who were brought before him on a charge of playing pitch- | and-toss. The advice is particularly sound in respect of gambling. Young folks whose eyes and ears are 'open cannot be ignorant of the fact that ...

... | THE CHIL.DREN'S HOUR.I COXDUCTED BY | lO1VORiAY; MEMBERS OF THE GUAD; OF GENTLENESS. Tfzt BISHOP OF MANCHESTER. Tam BISHOP OF WAKEFIELD. THi BISHOP og SODOR A:N MAN. ALDERMAN A. MARSHA=L (Lord Mayor of Man Chester). ALDERMAN PETER KEEVNEY (Mayor of Salford). RIGHT HON. SIT JAMES FERGUSSON, M.P. Sia WILLIAM H. lOULDSWORTH, M.P. OOL. THz HON. FRANCIS BRIDGEMAN, M.P. JACOB BRIGHT, EsQ., M.P. ...

... VILLA, ALLOTMENT, AND COTTA AGE. GARDENS. PRACTICAL HINTS [BY OUR SPECIAL GARDENING CORRESPONDENT.] THER TNDOOh GARDEN. Fogs. frost, and dull, cold. short days with little sun and a poor light, teach us how near we are to the clone of the year, During the next three mouths there will be but very little in the open garden to cheer the lover of flowers, and he must therefore look within doors ...

... I :1 CONDUCTED BY HONORARY MEMBERS OF THE GUILD OF GENTLENESS. TnE BISHOP or MANCEESTER. THE BISHOP ow WAKEXFIELD. Tm BISHOP OF SODOR AND MAN, ALDERMAN A. MARSHALL (Lord, Mayor of Man chester). ALDEBnrAN PETER KEEVNEY BMiyor of Salfofrd), RIGrHT HoN. SrR JAMES FERGUSSON, MDP. Sip WILLIAM H. IOULDSWORTHi, M.P. COL.7 THE HON. FRANCIS BRIDGEMAN, M.P. JACOB BRIGHT, Esq., M.P, JOHN WILLIAM ...

... e A S P RIXN G R A.XB LE T.N.; D A RLE Y ?? . D:- D:A: B BY OUR SPECIAL COMMISSIONER. S : E T a H E S BY O U R OWN ARTIST. That must have been a aynical and dyspeptic Frenchman who discontentedly declared that our 'Elnglish spring -was but a shabby excuse for pro. g longing the dreariness of winter for another ' three months, for though in these northern c climes it may not unfrequently be ...

... I THE STAG:E. . hvr,. D'Oyly Carte's Mnqa)sy are devwting the second. weekt of their Visit to Maneester to The yinar- r of Bray, the comic apera by Messrs. Gmrndy and Solomon. The piece 'iR one of the best of its class, being clover, amusing, and piquane; and it is admirably played by the ladies aad gentloanen now at. the '±'heatre ?? Mr, Courtice t Polndo, Miss Margueribe Broydel, Aliss ...