Gambling.
Not half the gamblers in this world
ever play cards. There sre 50 juany
other modes of risking money that
cards seem superfluous. This, too, is
without considering the commonplace
methods of betting upon what ere
known as sperilng even's. An) body
can bet on the result of a horse-race or
© prize-fight or a wal king-mateh, but
there are delicate and wsthetic ways
of risking money that, compared with
these every day methods, are as chuloe
pleces of Sevres china compared with
the ti! ek coffee-cup of the cheap ree-
gsurent. Fly loo i perhaps one of
the most exciting of these modern in-
ventions. Fly loo is now #0 old a
game that its novelly is gone, but
there 1s still peculiar pleasure in hear
ing the captalus of some of the big
oxean steamers describe nerve racking
games of fly loo with saloon passen-
gers,
A dozen or fifteen pirsons seat
themselves about & table and each
lays in front of hima lump of sugar
and a dime, or a quarter dollar, or
whatever the stakes are, The party
remain as quiet as possible till a fly
alights upon one of the lumpe of
sugar. The proud ow er of this lump
is the winner of the stakes, A newer
sport, equally exciting, is called
“{rickelily.”” Two gentlemen, deter
mined to risk their money on some
thing, watched a window pane on a
rainy day and bet upon (he compara
tive speed of two drops of rain eoursing
down the glass, each gentleman choos-
Ing a favorite drop. It has remained
for the French, however, to invent a
sport that is said to outstrip both of
these favorites in interest and excite
ment. This new delight, which has
gerved to enliven French watering
places through the season, is crab
racing.
The interesting animals are firs
weighed and haodicapped, and then
put in line. Each * sportsman " lays
his finger on the back of the (rab
which carries his colors The starter
waves his bandkerchief, the backers
lift their fingers and the crabs are off.
Their Instinct takes them invariably
tows rd the sea, and the crab races are
always on the beach. The sport has
become 80 developed on the coast of
Nermandy that the length of the
course has been definitely fixed at
twenty metres. There seems no doubt
that this diversion is even more ex.
citing than the once popular sport of
betting whether a distinguished pas
senger on & steamer would step ashore
first with his right foot or his left.
et fp
Clips.
——
An Indian woman is a squaw;
therefore an Indian baby is a squaw-
ling.
A German speaks of Washingtlon
show ciety, snd he isn’t yery wrong.
Jones believes in policemen, and
thinks they are all square men, “At
any rate,” he says, ‘they are never
round.”
A Vermont debating society will
tackle the question, ‘‘Whieh ls the
most fun—to see & man try to thread
a needle, orto see a woman try to
drive a nail ?”
An old Dutchman froze his nose.
While thawing the frost out be sald ;
“I haf carry dat nose forty year, unt
he never freeze hisselfl before, I no
understan’ this ting.”
“Mary, go into the sitting-room,
please, and tell me how the thermom-
eter stands,” Mary (after investiga
tion) : “it stands on the first mantel.
piece, just again’ the wall, mua.”
Whoever denies that the newspaper
has a mission should enter a car and
see how useful they are to the men
when a fat woman with a big basket
is looking around for a seat,
An Irish lad complained the other
day of the harsh tréatment he had re
ceived from his father. ‘‘He trates
me,” said he mournfully, '‘as ir I
was his son by another father and
mother.”
He was just from the West, snd
very talkative until he tarmed to a
cold looking msn on the train snd
said : “'1 left heaps of snow out on the
plains.” “I am very glad of It,” sol
emnly replied the cold man, “for
we've had enough snow here this
winter.”
“Yes,” he said, "one of the very
nicest, best girls In the world is in love
with me, and folks know ft, and it
just breaks my heart. Whyshould it?
Why, don't you know that nice fellows
always get some cheap creature fora
wile, and the nice girls always marry
worthless fellows ? Folks know she isa
thoroughly good girl and they'll set me
down ss a regular tough, My charao-
ter is ruined. Sf
Milk contains all the elements of
food necessary for our support. The
cream is rich in earbon, both in the
fat, while buttermilk contains casein,
Skim milk has ossein, potash, sods,
lime, magnexis, iron, phosphoric acid,
sulphuric acid, silielo acid and chlo-
rine. It is really superior to the cream
liar flavor of butter is imparted by
batyrin, sad it is also affected by
other substances not familiarly known
such as caprin arachin, ete,
Er —
AN UNPUBLISHED POEM, BY ALIOE OA RY.
——
“ahall { be Prophet, Human Heart ?
Shall | tell thea Sorrow stands
Ready, with guid and cruel hands,
Ihee frem thy ohiefest ‘@ved to part?”
My soul was chilled with sullen pain §
Yet thus I made reply ©
“My chlefest loved can neverdiel
And even Earth's friends sia'l iive again.”
Old Mime smiled stoculy ; “Tocu art young
And hopeful, Waust if sickness paie
Makes nerve to bend snd heart to all,
Wi toh now with buoyant life are strong?’
¢ My strength les not in hops or yout ;
The clldhood of immortal years
C nnottesiiuk with mortal teare |
Even Death but rens the vell of ruth,’
“ Death, thou presumptuous one, perchancs
Witain whose doors of gloom
He walta, dread shadow, till thou come;
Watchesthy heedless steps advanos,
Even to the open tomb I"!
“I will pot tremble ! I wil] trust |
My days are thine, O Savior dear !
hou seest all this coming year,
Thou lovest me, and thou art just ;
hy poor child will not fear.”
fime tone: ed ; the massy gates swang wide;
I paused—a Volee not all nnknown
S;o%e to my hear! in sweetest tore :
“Onild, [ will be thy guide
Fear not to travel on,”
al ee——
Marriage by Capture.
——— ’
When an Eskimo youth has killed
a polar bear unaided, and so proved
himself eapable of providing for the
wants of a family, he is sent forth al
night to obtilain a wife by seizing the
first girl he can surprise Guawares,
Bhe sereams, of course, bringing out
the whole population, and an appre
ciative sudience secured, sets upon her
captor with tooth snd nail, releases
herself from his clutches, and darts
among the erowd. He follows, push-
ing aside the old women who attempt
to. bar his progress, heedless of the
seal-skin scourges they lay about his
shoulders. Should he cateh the flying
lass, more scratching and biting en-
sues, and perchance, a second escape.
The chase is then renewed #s before,
only the wife-hunter is inspirited by
knowing that, a third capture effected,
there will be no more maldenly strug-
gles; the girl accepting her fat, and
allowing him to lead ber away amid
the applauding shouts of the excited
spectators, The aboriginal Australian
adopts & more sSUIMIATY process when
tired of single blessedness, He looks
about for a likely helpmale, and find-
ing one, waits bis opportunity, knocks
her down, and carries her home.
Marriage by capture, in this simple
form, is now unknown out of Bivage-
dom, having elsewhere resolved itself
into bride-chases and sham bridal
battles; mere mockeries cr mimiories
of the grim realities of those ancient
days when men literally took wives
unto themselves in practical assertion
that ** none but the brave deserve the
fair.”
In Bingspore the winning «f a
bride depends upon the matrimoniaa
aspirant’s flestuess of foot or skill in
paddling his own canoe. In the first
case, a circular course is marked out,
half of which is traversed by the
maiden — encumbered only with
waistband-—ere the word is given for
the would-be possessor to go in pur
suit, in the hope of oveitaking her be.
fore she has thrice compassed the cir
cle; that achieved, she has no choice
but to take the vietor for her lord, In
the water chase, the damsel takes her
place in a eanoe, and plies ita double
bladed paddle until she has obtained
a reasonable start, when her admirer
sets off after her. The contest is usu-
ally but of short endurance, the pair
having come te a proper understand-
ing beforehand ; but should the girl
have no faney for thesuitor, and pos
sess sufficient determination and
strength of arm to gain the goal Amt,
she is at liberty to laugh atthe dis
consolate loser of the match, and re-
serve herself for a claimant more to
her liking.
Bride chasing 1s generally & (rial oj
horsemanship. In this shape it is prac.
ticed by most of the nomadie tribes of
Central Asia. Captain Burnaby tells
us that when it is to be decided how a
Turcoman belle is to be settled in life
“the whole tribe turns out, and the
young lady, being allowed the choice
of horses, gallops away from her
suitors. They follow her. Bhe avoids
those she dislikes, and seeks to throw
herself in the way of her affections.
The moment she is caught she be.
comes the wife of the gaptor. Further
ceremonies are dispensed with, and
he takes her to his tent.” In some
tribes the girl is burdened with the
carcass of a goat or lamb, which must
be snatched from her lap.
The Hasarchs mark out & ocolrse
some twelve miles long and three
wide, As soon ss the maiden has got
far enough from the crowd to be able
to guide her steed with perfect free
her hands to the waiting horsemen,
sud her father gives them the signal to
goin pursuit, The chase is sometimes
s long-lasting one. A traveler records
one in which, after two hours’ gallop
ing, the field of nine had dwindled to
four, neck and neck together
the : gained on the
come, miy Peri! I am your lover!”
One of the horses suddenly faltered in
that the aan of her heart was out of
the hunt, Making a quick turn, she
darted right across the path of the
exultant three and made at full sped
for her lover. The bs fled suitors
choeked thelr hendlong eo: rer with
one ae rd, but comiog Into collision,
two of them rolled ever on the plain,
and, eluding the remaining detil
mental’s grasp with a triumphaut
jsugh, the maiden reached her lover's
side, In a moment his arm was
around lier walst, and she was his
own,
Amorg the Kilmucks the bride
race {8 reduced to a match, and Dr,
Clarke avers that the girls are such
good horsewomen that for one ‘to be
caught againet her will was a thing
unknown. Kalmucks of high degree,
however, do not run their brides
down ; they bargain for them, and the
bargain concluded the bridegroom
and the chief men of his horde ride to
the camp of the bride's people, who
feign opposition to the mateh, and
only surrender the lady after a mock
confliet. Hometimes, the conflict is
real enough. Jf a Kalmuck swaln
cannot find the wherewithal to satisfy
the demandsof his lady love's parents,
or is for any other reason obnoxious to
them, he enlists the aid of his Kins
men, who at the earliest chance swoop
down on the adverse camp, and, pro-
viding they do not get the worst of the
fight, carry the prize of their valor to
the expectant lover's arms,
In Circassia, the carrying off of the
bride is a pearranged affalr, the bride.
groom and his followers rushing into
the | ride’'s house while the wedding
revelries are at their height there, and
bearing the unreluctant damsel ofl
with them. Againstsuch an irruption
the Indian Mussulman provides by
closing the entrances to the lady's
abode, and setting a guard before it to
receive the expected assaijsuts, * Who
are you who dare to obstruct the king's
cavalcade 7? demands the leader of
the wife-seeking band. **There are
thieves asroad at night; possibly we
behold them,” is the reply. A long
interchange of uncomplimentary badi-
nage ensues, terminating in an st
tempt to break through the ranks of
the bride's defenders. Falling in this,
the bridegroom pays down a certain
sum of money and the gates are flung
open. There is a second contfest of
strength within the gates, ending as a
makter of course, inthe giving up of
the maiden and her departure with
the victorious party.
The Khoids have turned marriage
by eaptare from comedy into farce
Riding one night among the bills an
Euglish « ficer heard loud eries, see.
ingly proceeding from a village hard
by. Making for the spot, he saw s
man carrying upon his neck some-
thing enveloped in scarlet cloth, He
was surrounded by twenty or thirty
young fellows, who had all their
work to do to pretect lm from the
desperate assaulls of anumber of girls.
The man had just been married, and
was conveying his blooming bride
home; snd not antil he was within
the boundaries of his own collage did
his fair pursuers cease hurling stones
st him, as he aud they ran their
hardest,
The mock-battle forms jart of the
marrisge ceremonies of the Kookirs
dwelling on the northeast frontiers of
Indias; but with them the bride's party
has the best of the bout. After the
purchsse-money agreed upon has been
paid down the friends of the bride-
buyer essay to feteh his bargain, and
get well thrashed for their pains ; but
the hurly-burly over the woman is
brought out, conducted to the cottage-
gate and then given up without any
more ado, Among the Garrows o
Bengal tue respective positions of the
parties to the marriage are reversed.
It is the gentleman's part to affect un-
willingness 16 enter the bonds of mat-
rimony ; it is for the lady to do the
coutting. When the has brought her
wooing to its hoped-for end she fixos
the day and bids her friends come and
make merry with her. The [feast
finished, the guests bear the hostess lo
the ri ver and give her & bath. Then
a move is made for the happy man.
Seeing the advancing procession he
pretends to hide, but soon suffers him
self to be esught, carried to the walter
and well dipped therein, The parents,
petting up a dismal bawling, rescue
him from his captors and loudly de
clare they will not part with their be-
loved son. Thereis a scramble and
| they are overcome ; a cock and hen
‘ure sacrificed, and the pair are man
and wife,
$0 late as the seventeenth century it
was customs ry insome parts of Ireland
for the bridegroom's friends to receive
those of the bride with a shower of
his stride, and the dismayed girl saw
pretended fugitive and bear her off in
trinmph,
The Berrlcors of Frarce are the only
Euronesn people among whom the
form of upture still survives. Upon
the day of the wedding the doors of a
bride's house are closed and tarricaded,
tne windows barred and her frlend-
mustered within, Presently the bride-
groom's pariy comes, asking admis-
sion on one false pretence afler an-
other. Finding speech of no avall
they endeavor to force an enirance,
with no better fortune, Then comes a
parley ; the bhesiegers proclaim that
they brivg the lady a husband and are
admitted within doors, wo fight for the
possession of the heart, win it and the
bride with it, the couple being forth-
with united in the orthodox fashion.
eA op ——
Steamers for Chinese Trade,
a
A company has been formed by the
leading merchants in the China trade
for the purpose of acquiring and work-
ing a fleet of high class steamers to
‘rade between this country and Asia,
east of Indis, The direct tiade be
tween China and the United Btates is
also to be taken up. In fact, these
merchants intend to own their own
ships in the future, and the name of
the company is the China Shippers’
Mutual Steam Navigation Company,
Limited, The capital i= £1,000,000,000,
but only £500,000 is to be issued now,
in 25 500 £30 stares fully paid,
trade sre on the board or direcily in
terested in the company this money
should be cbtained with no difficulty,
ture about the scheme,
is pot going to
ships, and is embarrassed by no con-
tracts, Tt will begin at the beginning,
building or buying a fleet of vessels,
and, except that ships are now dear,
there is no reason why it should not
succeed granting its well managed.
The principle is the same essentially
ss that « f mutual insurances,
The company
»
A pro rata refura on freight will be
made as the earnings sallow after pay-
ing ten per cent. d. vidend on the shsre
capital,
ate circle of the shareholders will thus
participate In what gains there may
be, but primarily the company will be
a China merchant's flair, and the
gain will be their own, There must
have been sirong discontent created
against existing arrangements
sleDn.
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Exploring for Fanaticism,
There
lndicrous
js something exquisitely
in the following telegram
the centre, of Islamism. 1 sought
vainly for traces of fanaticiam ; there
ence that L. found four vears ago.
The Coptic clerk from the Ministry of
Public lnstruction who accompanied
us sald that fanaticism did not exist
in Egypt. This selties the matter,
ard thenceforth let us hear no more
about fanaticism In Egypt. Bat bow
delightful it would have been to have
seen the pair on their tour of discovery
through the famous university, snd
heard them oonducting the exhaus-
tive ir quiry which has had such con-
clusive and satisfactory resulta, The
sunual inspection of the vaults under
Parliament House would be nothing to
this wonderful exploration. Possibly
they expected to find the dreadful
commodity neatly done up in canisters
and labled like gunpowd: r, or perhaps
they hoped to detect it by the smell.
Unfortunately for our peace of mind
an suthority who has just assured us
that 80 per cent. of the natives do not
even think at all, was not ¢xsctly the
best qualified to divise the secret
thoughts of the Moslems at El Azher,
PE iin
More Petroleum.
i
The reported discovery of ex!ensive
petroleum deposits in Brazil, Venez-
uels, Buassia, Roumanis, Hue, ary
and elsewhere outside of Penosylva-
nia and the Canadian Dominions, has
excited some attention of late, The
Iatest news iu this line is that petro-
Hum abounds in paying quantities at
Siguenszs, Spain, about a hundred
miles northeast of Madrid, on the line
of railway leading to the latter city.
It 1s stated that wells in that locality
have been worked for about two years
by the proprietor, and that they are
capable of being greatly extended. To
this end articles of amociation of a
at Madrid, The analyses of the oll
are good. Farnaces, retorts and other
necessary have been al-
ready put down. The Manchester
Guardian says of the projet : *‘Judg-
ing from the quanlities of oil which
Pennsylvania, and the high price
ruling, the success of the company Is
probable, It
Woman's Fule in Russia,
“Who ls now the leading spirit of
the Czar's government?” 1 asked a
high «ficial, "A woman ss usual’
he anew red. "Like other monarchial
count: ies, we have always had poms
woman sat the top or bottom of our
govirnmert.” ;
During the thousard 1dgitwenty
years of Russia's existence tuere have
been eighty rulers, sll told, of whom
ooly five were women,
been ruled by a woman, Among
Russian sovereigns there are seven
canon'zad as “Baint)” several are
“Great,” one is “Apostolical ’ one
“Monomachos,” one
one ‘‘Blessed,”” one “'Boothssyer,’
oue “Dark,” one ‘Imposter,’
“Brave,” one “Pioud,” one *lerri-
“Longarmed,”
“Moneysack,’” sud one *‘'Liberator:”
but song the host of crowned heats
that have ruled Russia for the pss!
thousand years there was apparently
but one “Wise” head, and
Woman's,
the tenth century, the first Christian
sovereign of Ris:d4, is kaown in hie
tory as **The Wise,”
When the great Prince Viadimir,
being yet pagan, consulted the repre.
sentatives of his people as to what re-
ligion should be adopted, they an-
swered : “The Greek religion, for were
{ it not the
| Olga, the wisest of women, would not
| have ado, ted it,” and the worihy
| grandchild tdilowed the example of
| his grandmother. The philosophers
| of to-day, however, would call her
“The Bmart,”’ er “The Canning.”
that &
bent,
After Olga for seven centuries no
woman ascended the Russian throne,
In 1725, when Peter the Great died,
| his charming and witty wife, “The
i Russian Aspasia,” was proclaimed au-
| tocratrix under the name of Catherine
In course of time there were thre.
| othir Enprewes, Ann, the niece of
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i
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| boy Czar, Peter 1I.; Elizabeth, the
daughter of Peter the Great and mur.
| deress of the baby Czar, Ivan VI.;and
| ess of Czar Peter IIL
| of Catherine II, as
| that appellation.
As for Aun and
| Elizabeth, the classical name of Mes
| salina would be perfectly applica
{ to both,
Mme,
ble
Pobedonosizefl, the leading
to-day, is the wife of the Chief Procu-
| ponfidential
| She is young, beautiful and ambitious,
| Bhe married Mr. Pobedonostzefl but a
| few years ago.
old gentleman, is in love with her, It
js said of him that the knightly motto,
| “God snd My Lady.” be changed into
| “God and My Wife,”
| 3% devoutly s8 a knight of old. He
| arises early, prays to God, adores hi
wife, and then goes to see the Czar, oi
| the ministers, or the holy synod, and
| everywhere he tries his best to carry
out the commands of his charming
goddess. Meanwhile she herself is
| not idle. She receives hosts of fair vie
tors of high rauk, who, while offering
their homage, s«!z2 the chance of com-
mending their husbands, brothers or
cousins, Sometimes this or that Min-
ister of Biste does himself the honor
of paving his respects to her. O oa.
sionally she visits her majesty, the
Cgaritza, to cheer her soul in her
golden cage. And the Czar himself is
there always at hand. Thus it has
come about that while the Czar
keeps away from the capital of his
empire, Mme. Pobedonosizefll has
somehow found herself to be the ocen-
ter of the Russian political world.
Instead of the Czar's policy, of the
Chancellor's or the Minister's policy,
we hear of the Madam's policy, With
the modesty of an ascending star, she
does nov reveal her projecis, but it is
very doubiful whether any liberal re-
forms will ever find favor with her.
The Family Fish-Pond.
Seth Green Explains How to Make It
and How to Stock It.
There are many artesian wells seat-
tered all over the Western country,
and most of them many miles from
any lakes or streams or fish markets,
It is my epinion that nearly all of the
flowing wells will furnish enough sar-
plus water to sapply & pond that will
supply & family with fish. A very
small stream will furnish enough
water for some kinds, I would recom-
mend carp sas being the fish that
would most likely be a success, as
they require less care than any other
fish. Ido not consider them the very
best of fish, beosuse of late years I
have been used to eating the very best
hinds our coun'ry affords, but I do
remember when my mother cooked
the suckers and shiners I caught with
a bent pln. The; were the best fish
the.e was. It would undoubtedly be
the same with a family raised on carp.
They would be the same to them aa
the shiners were to me,
My opinion has often been asked
rly
how a carp pond could be constructed
| for family use. The pond can be
| made in any she pe to sult the locality,
| but I would prefer egg shape if the
| Ieation was ju. t as well adapted for
{ it. The pond would breed flies of a
| reat many kinds ; one of them would
be mo quitoes, The larva of all flies
{ is the bet food for young fish, I have
{ bred them by the bushel, but some of
| the moequitres would be apt to take
: wing before the pond got well-swocked
with young fish, and to protect the
| family in a messure I would advise
building the pond to the leeward of
the houie of the prevailing winds of
their locality. If, for one instance,
i the prevailing wind was (rom ths
went, the pond should be Luilt on the
east, northeast or southeast, because if
{ the pond were placed directly east of
| the house it would make a lee for
{ them under which they could essily
| reach the house.
They can beat any sailing craft be
fore the wind, but on the wind they
{ tre nowhere in the race as they have
| no keel. The whole human family
| ghould be thankfal to the Creator for
not putting a kel on them, and if
| their bowsprit had not been quite so
| sharp they might not receive so many
| handkerchief selutes from the verac-~
| das of the Long Island hotels, but
| would be just ss useful and orna
{ mental, The pond can be built with
| plow and scraper. It should have a
| deep place iu the centre and very shal-
| low on the edges. If you have iquare
| sides the young fish would have no
| protection from the old ones. When
| scraping is commenced, carry the earth
! a8 far back a8 you intend making the
| | wer outside of your embankment.
| Keep scraping until the pond is four
| to #ix feet in the ceatre, If the local-
| ty is such that the ice freezes very
{ thick the pond should be made deeper,
| and boles kept open through the ioe
{ during the winter to keep the fish
| from su locating. 1f the embankment
{ was raised three feet and pounded
down and sodded or sown to grass the
waler could be raised #0 that but three
| feet in the centre would have to be ex-
| cavated in order to have a pond six
feet deep.
The pond should be rown with some
kind of grass or water plant, with the
exception of about fifty or seventy-five
| feet square in the cenire, The grass
and water plants make the spawning
i ground, breed food snd protect the
| young. The ponds should not have
| any other kinds of fish In them, and
| if the grass gets too thick it can be
| raked out.
|
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ss si tt AGIs
Alluding to the | rominent personal
| part thst Lord Spencer has taken of
| late in Irish sflairs, a leading English
| weekly observes that “almost ali the
{ most prosperous periods of Irish his-
{ tory have been connected with the
| presence in Irelar d of Viceroys of de-
| cided personal character.” Unfortu-
| nately they have been few aud far
| between. The most notable was Lord
| Che teorfield (the letters lord), whose
| Irish administration was a bright epi-
| sode in his csreer, and who unques-
tionably teok a conscientious interest
in his great « fice, and was deeply
anxious to do good service to the peo-
ple. He “had rather,” he said, “be
known ss the Irish Lord Lieutenant
than as the Lord Lieutenant of Ire-
land.” When some bigoted block-
head told him, with a long face, that
he had a Roman Catholic coachman
in his service, his Excellency said :
“Indeed! is that so? Well at all
events, I'll take good care that he
never drives me to mass.” The diffi-
culty in the case of Trish Viceroys of
this complexion of mind has been
that, as notably in the case of Lord
Fitzwilliam, their sympathy with the
ruled was a ground of cffense to the
small but dominant Anglc-Irish fao-
tion in Ireland. Lord Spencer, how-
ever, labors under no such diswdvan-
tree, and he is undoubtedly honestly
and earnestly siriving that he may
leave the couniry in a very different
temper and condition to that in which
he found it on the blood stained day,
six months ago, on which he entered
Dublin in state to assume the govern-
ment. As the only Viceroy who has,
we believe, been a Cabinet Minister,
Lord Bpencer’s position is unique
among Irish rulers.
AAI sii,
An Unfortunate Client.
Nobody was more bitterly witty
than Lord Ellenborough. A young law-
yer, trembling with fear, ross to make
his first speech, and begsn: ‘My
Lord, my unfortunate clieni—my
olient—my Lord-—" “Go on, sir, go
on,” said Lord Ellenborough ; “‘as tai
ss you have proceeded hitherto, the
court is entirely with you."
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than most other kinds, [tis not ben-
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can be top dressed with ashes or any-
thing containing potash, almost with
out stint. All stone fruits, especially
those that are acid, need liberal doses
of potash,
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