... .n The Clergyman in His Home. (Sampson Low, 188, a Fleet-street.) 3r This pamphlet was addressed some years ago to candidates for Ioly Orders by the present Bishop of o Exeter, then Vicar of Christ Church, liampstead. e It gives words of brotherly counsel about the private life of a clergyman as distinguished from his public ministratious, and is divided into three parts (the old ;l firesly. ...

... THE HOUSEHOLD COLUMNf, TIPPLING AT DANCES. t Mrs. Aster, the wife of the New York millionaire, t has beon setting her face against the tippling of the dancinc men at dances. She gave a ball at which there were no refreshments, solid, liquid, or smoke, to be had in the dressing-room. ln the dining. hall were as many tiny Japano-e tables as there were ladies .'Ths tops barely held aplate arid a ...

... JO0Y !S LINKED WITH G'tYY . The fairest flowers that bloom on earth, They soonest fade and die- And joys that fill our hearts with mirth, With wings inconstant fly. The more we love a treasure dear We deeper feel its loss, For ever' ioy that blossoms here Is saddened by some cross. The mother loves her first-born With all a soul's delight But soon to grave her babe is borne, And sleeps in ...

... w; THE STORY OF AN IRISH COUNTRY ev TOWN. T. P. O'CONNOR, MP. M to CHAPTER VL to THE JOY OF BALLYnAY. m EALLYBAY was in a state of intense excite- th nent. The ro-emcans's Jour-nal had announced to the serious illness of Sir Patrick O'Halloran. ON Sir Patrick belonged to the days when, to use e the words of Air Chaplin, there were only gentle- pi men in the House of Commons. He was the son tl ...

... I mate BY' MRS. JTEROME MERCIER, oohet Aeutfor of Hele itc4misJlflLLA, ONITia A GJISL'8 LUZ~, di. I BOOK I. noth Le CHAPTERI X-VI. Mirt '1 A. ?? Its in one sense a deanh t~'.jng but. she too oftet fit moves about. galvanised by self-w~ill. ' sod puahsiv~ the living out of their setats.' el 'Goto lmw? Go to the devil! Confoumd hit Iiha rascality I 'Doesn't 1know wrha he's talkihng about ...

... -SHAJPSHIRE TEL EGRAPHI LlTEII'AlY COMPPETITION.I ?? ALTERATION IN THE TERMES. The Proprietors of the fHAMPSRIRB I1LEGRAPH and EVENING NEWS b6b to announce that after the present week the Prizes awarded to Contiributors will .be on the following scale:- kt Pize, 15s.; 2nd, lOs,; 3rd, 75s. 6d.; 4th, 5s,; p5th, 2s. od. The first two prizes will, as a rule, be awarded to :original contributions, ...

... Alca, WORY OF RUSSIAN INTRIGUE. gre ant BY Saf M. FORTUNTE PU BOISGOBEY, we AUT-HOR Or a OTHE OLD AGE OF LECoQ, THE MATAPAN Api-me,'THEr WineaAx WITH TSSE SCAR, ?? GeiMPr or THE (JsiEMA liocer, ftC., &C. lie ?? ?? ?? ?? ___lany CHAPTER I.bu TILE AERMED S.AlFl.M The toulevard do la Madeleirne is not ain pleasant place on a Niovemiber nigllt when ari heavy gase is driving tile fallen leaves ...

... The following items are taken from orange .TJleseems: Flowers will noe be worn much in bonnets this season, except when the entire bonnet is moado of a flowers. 'Then, of oourse, they will be very much worn. Bonnets are made on wire, or on a founda- r tion of tinsel and are thus light as well as pretty. The Louise bonnet, with a fulled orown of Tuscan. lace over gold tinsel, trimmed with loops ...

... TI-lid DAIS ;7. Reas come where be'll havo to scratch for his grub, And reach out fr everythini he gets He'll ?? when they first douso him into the tub, And he'll get shakens em whon lie frets. c key'll thin k he's smart wh;ell lie first Icarns to crawl, And they'll guinto fits wshen lie talks - ad hell bavo the maost fun when be's very, very, For he'll have to go it alone whell he walks. THE ...