... I; I $ - / 1: - s : : : .: e - :: U: e 'n Wireby: I don't see~how `oa, 5C02iomise by letting your wife have s'3icyc Tireby : I-do. She ridtsod *4uch '.sbe 'has no r time to wear her other clotliie ot.i ' - t Areall of these.youqgmenhuxioupto become surgoons ? asked the v4iter. ' ?? ?? . - t They are, repliec ae eminet le-turerupon f surgery.. , But how canu monuy, erect to. make a t ; ?? ...

... et I wonder, thought Mrs. Thompson, as she ry glanced at the ciocki on the mantelDiece, 1 y ut wonder what it is that keeps George so late. rn av Twice this week he has been detained by- what Hi as he calls business. I should think he could get ol ag home earlier if he chose. ci When at leigth. Mr. Thompson came in his yi rm wife's countenance wore an injured expreasion. re He did not ...

... | CLIPPINGS FROM THEl COmICS. I - I Piokinu3 From P1flol`.' or Interesting to Matchmarinalcig Mammnas,-Cab- 1U lie huntin.g has recominioueel. is A ITICONIM1N)AT'iN. ?? Ur Mrs. Cogie Av, that's the new Doctor, meum sfi aI- Irm sure it wad be an awifui' Mindniess it ye Ili ad pied him it bit trial. He had a heap o' patients an LU when lie cam' first, but nou they'ir ait' did. Di ?? Lor.L AXI) ...

... NFAA.FS NUGGETS. clever. 'Smn. ou Satuirdayv the 311ti entei'ed Czptviicornus, arid wiater ?? po':i,'i ?? 1~vaE ii']brat edt oul S;Under, find t'.tr it Lonidca Lnjiasto':s pilia ched ?? When ?? I al ii 4 Itt - itv ws~f~ Imuitlij iiid olle pnloe b u t Iitt t1V-ar, lie had becu in jjinaI li' :11! Fril'' j''4 joc'kv'y Club ?? I en'o f. i, ~ io' ,i I c'ie, dit)ite ti le cton. olf thle 'I I o~ ...

... ITHE RON a HEARTED CITY BY E. PHI LL I PS OPP EN HE I M (AUTHOR OF THE MIAN AND HIS KINGDOM, &X.) CRATTER T IL m I II Douglas- returned his greeting cordially His vis-a-vis drew-the menu towards him and studied it with interest. Setting it down, he screwed'a single eye-glass into his eyerandi;eamedover at Douglas. -Ib-the-daily grind O.K.? he inquired suavely. Douglas was-disconcerted at ...

... THE SNAKESP WELL of AN AWFUL CHINESE TORTURE. tir Death by the thousand cuts, while perhaps the br most painful, is not the most fiendishly ingenious Pu of Chinese modes of execution. It (toes not appeal to the imagination with half the horror of ex the snakes' well. hiI The Snakes' well is a dark pit tenanted with serpents and all venomous things that creep and die crawl. The victim is ...

... OF VICTORV, OSTISH GAIN FOUR BATTLES. EAVY LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES. RTI5H AND BOER GENERALS SLAIN. RIECORDS OF BRILLIANT DARING. MAFEKING BOMBARDED BY THE ENEMY. * n I .V * t. 4t ¶.\ 0 PASS MI D |ATTLE OF GLENCOE A THRILLING ACCOUNT. HOW THE BOERS BLUNDERED AND WERE BEAT-EN. HEROISM OF OUR TROOPS. THEIR ATTACK UNDER MAXIM FIRE. The Central Newt correspondent at Glencoe Cenap, telegraphing on ...

... Y~ OU want your portmanteaux, bags, &c., to Utrtpaired go to `W~bb's Old-E~stablished Mlann. ,acoy 5, Queen-strtet, Portsee, aend 48, ,)%*b2rne-road, Southsee. Ove of' the Largest -Stock ?? Requisiteo to select frori. Til V'asiAy being, tVic: anniversary of the death of Al G~eneral (,ordon, the hero of Khartoum, the C.. Porternouth Gordon Boys' Brigade attended A ju service it, the evening at ...

... VIGOROUS I INK- SLINGING. it o Aenities of urican Journalism. (FROM TREU EVENING STANDARD.) Those people who have read Pickwick adn Papers Iwill probably bear in mind the way that nd- the editors of the Eatanswill Itepeae'et ande Di-Gazette abused each other in their respective ma anY sheets. The rival editors did not, it will be ret remembered, confine themselves to personal wo abuse of ...

... THE INDIAN FA-M;EINE. 1,1,i'i enve AID FROM PORfTSMA,0OUTH- , The Mayor Of Portsmuouth's Fund forthe relief of the fiullshedl ns'tiies 6o- Id'I aftnaltted lasc ?? to £tit tts. 1Ll., of whieit £3.,0 have beoe remitted tio thi MansiDn Hloause uUtti. -1 4 .N blIP t .blAl, kT SI IISl2A,..I ?? ppitroume I'mO ecatertaill-i on, \XS fv;orn, ?? t C ~ ct rin lait l tla'l, S~oat'i~et,*e Ott ...

... GQETNA &REE N MARRI A GES. tc cc art Celeblities Who Went Through Them. Among the notable persons married at Gretna may be mentioned Lord liurghersh, afterwards Earl of Westinorcland. with t.h onuly daughter of a wealthy London banker in 1782. The rinuaway pair were overtaken bv the enraged father on the road between Carlisle and (4retr a, but Lord Burghersh shot down one of his horses, aud ...

... THE WTEATHER. o IS LECTURE AT LANDPO1fT. i and. At a ieetic g of the Portsmouth Literary and and Scientific Society, hold in the Grand Jury Room, ?? Hall, on ThulrsdaLy eveuting, Dr. T. xin- F'rederick I'earse ?? .alecture Ion Thc the VW eather. Mr. C. Foran, President of the sl t Society, occupied the chair. Oi th After explaining the principles of modern T meteorology, Dr. P.AiLsE ...