... TALL STORIES. - Adjourncd the Conrt. An Arkansas nian, who was summoned to serve on a jury, beizan to make excuses, when the judge, interrupting him, said: Never mind ail that. You should know, sir, J that your duty is to serve your country. The j taut ...

... Boulevards, the rumour of further cessions to v Great Britain in Asia Mlinor turns out to be a com- I plete myth. Though this story of a right of garrison h being transferred to England in Alecandretta, and it perhaps Mersina, has not apparently affected ...

... ap- pears OU tie s--nseh but not as the hero. The I latter is a Ca''t'itu flph PeCy, wtho te1ls -the story' in llie fist aparsosn. WA.hat that story is it -would be un-fir to reveal. Suffico it to say theat it brinns before the rctide- a series of 1 higlhXl` ...

... THE STORIES TOR PEOPLE. RO B ES PIERRE. C'iAPTER. IV. 'TlE I'L5IT'ICAL AYCE.iTIcY O ROBTESPIERRE. i ist('rv halS beell colnn inla written by the frieuds, or ly ineiniaers of the! leisured or privileged classes. Thlier lions have the timc to devote to ...

... NEW STORIES. A meadow * a miracle of fructificatioll is one of the first things we tread over in Mrs Foot's novel of Good in Everyfthing(10). This is a novel full of sentiment contain- ing a heroine with a * polluted finger, blood-red with crime, whose ...

... AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY. | The followving extracord~inary facts werc recently dis- r closed on the occasion of the trial of a muan, a native of f Belgium, at the Seine Court of ASssizes: T ]he prisoner was chlarged with desertion from the Frenclh .arumy ...

... THE BARTENDER'S STORY, till When I knowed himn at first there was Euthin', pri Ak sort of a gemsil alr, wa That was every particular pleasin'; stC And wbhat you ?? call-debonair. Col 1im aware that exprr~siun is JIrenlchy, fee And highfalutin, pl':-ilps ...

... SCARLET STORIES. - by ut A Lenicnt Sent'ence. th( Dw Frederick the Great wae once encamped in tht nd Silesia with his troops, near a small mountain die I I village in which was a chapel dedicated to the Co No. Virgin Mary. val * Several of the ornaments ...

... QUEEr1 STORY. 5'aWlltoJd: A Modlel. it ?? very strango, dear. ot exactly S-igb Seymour expccted to see precisely the e teit the ilace oF her niecc as did follow n} o:imion. L-ena Seymotr's grealt brown eyes ?? ier pretty lips curled wals scorn, and ...

... 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 ...

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... IBLOODHOUND STORIES. | 1 7r1 . _ - . By an Old Tracker. At Tucson, in Arizona, a murder and robbery b cd took place of a peculiarly bad kind. The citizens at oil met, and publicly resolved that no one should be ha allowed to leave Tucson till a bloodhound ...