... THE SCHOOLBOrs STORY. [From Dickens's ` Round of Stories by the -Christmas Fire, being the'Extra Christmas Number o'Househotd Words.' BEihro rather young at present-I etc. getting on in-years,13butI still I am rather young-I have no particular, adventures ...

... ROMANTIC, STORY. Ls The Paris 1'iqauao publishes another version of the f. story that the Prince Imperial lef t a son behind him, i. which son is either the offspring of a secret marriage ld or of a princely liaison with an English young lady. It It ...

... THE MISER'S STORY. Byv the graco of God, I amr what I am l-l was born In England. I r' member nothing but poverty-stalking crime and ab~olifte want. Thu honeies where I lived were all in various steges of filth and decay. Whether the old blear-eyed ...

... THE DOCTOR'S STORY. AN AUSTI1AI.AN TAL. BIT friend Sylvester cmie ouit to South Australia in Its early days, sad he was one of those who prospered from the beginning and continued to prosper. That is to say, be prospered in ad Miontey matters. I camne ...

... SINGULAtR STORY. The Droit furnishes us` with.the following singular story iIn l1S2P, M.S., a Frenchman;arrived in tondon from Para- t guay, where he had passed fifteen years in the service of the I arbitrary and eccentric Dr. Francis. Soon after his ...

... STORY 0i SFEMANOn. (Frres' disc Rscsf act ions of a Port ra~f Painter, in tke Dubltri Ulvecrsity iMagrazine.) One of the standing annoyances to which at portrait painter isl subjerted, is that of' being perpetually called upsir~to portray, the features ...

... -THE STORY OF AN ALMNAO., TOLD BV ITBSyM M' tha How much will it be? i Qlip sipe'nc, I is- -. Thank you. Gi Tbue we I bought and sold. 2 But I didn't regret $tone whit; bless you I no, I f Zll In love with her gtraight o6 thenil thera. i , a Z Do aou ...

... lhss fleeih osod svibuo dthts tiring mansto: I~ eeihthought it was a queer business ;A'ut he~had 'beard; a great niany queer stories, and naturally supposed that the-tinie hadl arrived when be Should figure ats the hero of sousewonder- ful adventure ; but ...

... THE OLD STORY. I ivial ire had a DeW carpet, sai MmBr. Arnold, eomewbhat| petulantly to her husband. Mr. Areold looked up from his newspaper, glanced at the carpet, nnd said, if you really thlnk we want one, my dear, you may go and buy it to-mnorrow; ...

... MABEL'S STORY. WE lived fsar7 wy in th, country In artldirct yfather 'wsps-mse Ilthe l ate i, an etafwgoeries for ,sale, Butlihe had ouh todo to ma:lutain, his famil'y scantily an lothe the. decently. I was Rixteoo. and housekeeper: my motherinvasideagd ...

... A N EXCURSIONIST'S STORY. I WAS standing osie summer evening on the bridge at Geneva, watching the steamer ellecharging its British cargo, when a mehincholy gentleman, with a knip?aclc on bis back, accosted me in French. The mistake was a likely one enough ...

... A^ HORIBLE STORY: Mtr. Sydney Hodges, secretary of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. sends from Falmouth the following story, which appeared in Thursday's Tinzes:- A circunietance so horrible that, but for the evidence of pny own eyesight, I should ...