... Stand by.-CAE'rAIN CUTTI.!t BY J. ASHBY-STERRY -SOME years ago I published some papers treating of the draw- backs and advantages of going to bed early and getting up early. I went into the subject thoroughly, and treated it from various points of view, and I summed up my homily on the question by saying My brethren, let there be no mistake about the matter. Early to bed and early to rise ...

... Fftt 50o-btls - DOWN THlE VILLAGE STREET DIALECT stories have been for some time in fashion otherwise we should have hesitated 'concerning the probable popularity of sketches in which the conversations are reported in this st)lc ?? 'Taint * nar' a bit o' good -to hurry t' wold ueare - heri s go her own pace, be't never so. Lawk! I Ohid ,et he wi' a besom-stake, and t'ooden be no odds; It ...

... jottiar Xotflairt Olt t~f Congo By A MEDICAL MAN E IRON,1 THE FREE STPA IL1 I MET Major Lothaire several times when I was on the Congo, but then he was only Captain in ranc. His services to the Independent State, both on the southern tributaries of the main river, at Bangalla, and elsewhere, have since earned for him the promotion that has fallen to his lot. MIy recollection of him is that he ...

... Vp2e (eutt GUESTS AT WINDSOR SINCE the Queen's return home there has been a constant stream of visitors to the Castle. Most of the members of the R1oyal Family have been down in turn, the Prince of Wales spendlic, Sunday with Her Majesty, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, andi hi son staying a couple of days at the Castle, the Duke and Duchess Connaught bringing their children on a visit, and Princess ...

... pffom.;0 the jugust AtIbifts - THE UNPOPULAR HOUSE THERE 1i no doubt about it. The Palladium, the bulwark of our liberties, the best club in London, or in other words the Ho011 of Commons, is getting unpopular. For a long time past men have been girding at it in private, but now the malcontents have found Evoice and expression in the National Review.- The House has grown a until - it has now ...

... 34 30turg 'fatotium SIR HENRY RAWLINSON was one of the last, as well as onc Of the most notable, of the great Anglo-Indians who establishe1 I i Empire upon its pre- sentfirm basis. Times have changed since the days of his and his colleagues' rule, and it is hardly likely that the Indian Civil Service will ever produce again such prominent men. The poor Anglo. Indian of our day is a slave to ...

... : LAST year: a couple of drawings were p ublished: in Tihe Graphiczi in illustration of the curious method of fishing for salmon from platforms, known locally as yairs,' that pertains in the estuary of the river :Doe, near Kirk~cndbright-that last refuge of old ' Border survivals-so that a further illustration of - an ancient and obsolete method of capturing salmon -in the upper waters of ...

... OUR Chinese illustrations are taken chiefly from sketches by Mr. J. Thomson, F. R. G. S., who has been travelling for some years in China, and who has returned to this country to publish a work entirely illustrated with his photographs, printed by a per- manent process. The sketches represent mainly the outer aspect of Chinese life as the modern traveller finds it in the city streets, on the ...

... Az?o 'C r I i i MARSTIAL BAZAINE anu1 his famnily have gone to winter in Portugal. CALCUTTA is going to erect a statue to her native poet, the late Rajah Kali Kxiishna Bahadoor. TiIE Two REIUBLICS is the name of an English news- paper recently established in Mexico. Al, CHARI.ES LECOCQ is at work on another opera bouffe, Don Yunan XIV., to be produced this winter at the Paris Folies ...

... ?? ~~ & THE Queen did not leave Windsor for the Isle of Wight last Friday as announced, but delayed her departure until this week. On Saturday Prince Leopold returned to the Castle fromn Boyton Manor, Wilts, where he had been present at the wedding of his former tutor, Mr. Collins. Next morning Her Majesty, with the Princess, attended service in the private chapel, and in the evening the Dean ...

... I~ fRE N I,, THE WAR IN THE EAST.-Active operations have at length begun on the Danul;e, which has been successfully crossed at Galatz and Ibraila by the Russians, who are now in possession of the Dobrudscha. The forward movement began on the night of the 2Ist inst., ashen a detachment of some 2,000 Russians, under General Jugoff, crossed from Galatz in boats, followed by cavalry on rafts, ...

... KqW71-59 OuAtu TIHE ISI.INGToN DAIRY S1IOW A DAIRY SHOW without cows seems at first blush very like the play of Handdlet with the ti/id nt/e omitted, lbut the inexorable fiat of the Privy Council had gone forth that no bovine cattle sent into London should be allowed to go out again, and it would scarcely have servcd the purpose of the dairy farmers to send their valuable cows to be sold for ...