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life CHAPTER XI. OUTSIDE A FISHMONGER’S WINDOW. •In I.on-’on, If fol! - ill-tor ther are put, A bun- . :*y N* dropt. or a quiz may be rut, W» riianKc without < n,l; an I if lazy, or ill, Al: wants arc at Land, and all wislies at will.* A few days aft r this, as Bellenden was strolling u > Bond street at an early hour for he was an earlier man now than be had been wont to be he saw coming toward him Geraldine and Miss Corunna on the same side of the pavement. Who the latter inioht be he knew not: but he took off his hat. and half paused. ns hour g that something more than a in, re low might beforthi oming from the light figure nearest to him. Nothing was. The ladies passed on: and their appearance, or rather Geraldine's. having awakened afresh a train of tbougnt becoming rap dly familiar to liis > reast, he stood still for a moment, absent y ga ing into a favorite shop window, without, on this occasion, seeing what it contained. The shop was Grove's, well known to all lovers o r .<ng’iiig. and it was never passed by Bellenden without a thorough survey o its cool, fre- h. shining, tempting contents. Hisfootsteps eased according,y ot themselves, nndhewas to all up earanees completely engrosser. when, just as he was turning to proceed. Miss Campbell came trip- , ping back, and alone. She had dropped her companion at the Grosvenor Gallery, and was hurrying home in time to make ready for her ride. Bellenden could hardly have a.oided the meeting ha . he wished to do so, and as it was, he looked her full in the face, an t the look was such as could not ho ignored, For there whs something sad. atronted, alm .st piteous in it; and merciless and wholehearted as the young girl felt, she could not pass on without impropriety. It was the first time she had ever seen any man look at her like that. O t the tsunda ,• Bellenden had been cheerful anil soeiabie. and she had no idea that he bad not feit as brisk as he hud looked <n the Monday she had not seen him at all. , x ept in thodistance The eager mo ernes, forward hud not indeed be n 1, st upon her; and it had been delightful so coolly to frustrate it: but .-he had not suppo- ed she had been übio to cause anything beyond a faint twinge ot mortmeation. How soulatisfying it would be if it should now prove that she La l really the capacity to do more “I was thinking of yo i just now.’’ said he, look.ng down upon her. Ho could still look down upon her, tail as she had grown. “Well. yes. I passed a minute ago,” replied Geraldine, promptly. “1 suppose you arestudyingthis fishmonger s window? Everyone docs. I think. I can never pass it by myse.f if I have a moment to spare which I have not today.” she was about to add, when he interrupted her. ••They remind me.’ he said, ‘'of the whiting Lank at luchmarew.” "Which? The cod? Or the turbot? ' Orthe lobsters.” cried Geraldine, merrily. "Surely you forget. We had done of these at Inchmare w. We have only common things there: but, of course, vo i Have forgotten - "I have forgotten nothing.” ‘•No. reallyßat 1 must run, orthey will think I have forgotten what o'clock it is lam to ride with my cousin, and I only just took a moment to see my old governessoff on a picture hunt ” "Was that your old governess?” said Bellenden, with still the same dangerously retrospective tone. "1 I should have looked at her with much greater interest had I known.” Whereat Geraldine-all credit to her stared at him? Stared, as blankly and magnificently as t hough she had been born and bred in Belgravia. What on earth di 1 he mean? the stare demanded. What was he thinking ol? The man must have gone era y. “Good-bye," she said the next moment. no further comment seeming to be needed. ‘ Good bye,” and away she stepped as light as a feather, looking prettier and triskier than ever in her dainty summer roe. with her little white sunshadebobb'ng overhead. As long as she was within sight, even though her back was towards him, she kept up the smile and a truce of the s,arc b t once within doors, and within her own room, the s ene cnanged. “You would, you hypocrite?'’ blazed forth the little vixei.'r -addon fury, “you w-iuld Ami you think to make me now b >icv • you dare almost openly to in-Innate that you have kept, up your interest in in me through all these year-? These years during which you have never vouchsafed one of us a word or thought? I'ou would like to begin it all over again, would you not? iou wou’dgetme alone, and whisj er you soft leasant tLings, and 1 ring me gilts and tell me to remember you by them, and draw me on to bo so foolish and so hateful, that I cannot think of it now. now, without a cringe, within myself. No. sir not again. Not a second time, Sir Frederick Beliendeb. I think lam a match for you now. Wt at is m re. yo i shall have to own it. I'll not avoid him: oh. dear, no. I'll speak to him dance with him: ride with him: almost all but flirt with him. I'll just not flirt with him, because granny would not like it. Bit if he eve, tries again to be sentimental, or to make allusions and give hints, as he did just now, let him beware: He does not yet know little Jerry of Inchmarew.” The next thing was Jerry's first ball, and a fame s ball she had of it. Os course she could have had almost any partners she chose: fog the fame of her ha 1 begun to be wht pered, and the fashionable world was on the alert about the preity heiress. Every one was asking his neighbor about her

comings and goings, the genuineness of her charm-, and the extent of her i rent roll. Old and young alike thought ! that an introduction, even it it went no further, could oo no harm. i.ady Haymond somewhat sourly warned her mother of the necessity of being eareful - "People are so outrageous." she deI Glared. “Really one is ashamed of one’s fellows nowadays. Direct y a girl with money appears upon the scene, the men swarm after her like a hive of bees. And a fine, unencumbered estate like In -hmarew is no* in the market every day. pray be particular as to whose acquaintance you permit.” It uid ju<t occur to Mrs. Campbell that her daughter might have been i some attraction for the bees save in I the tine, unencumbered estate, and i that she spoke with some acerbity when ■ she described Geraldine as ' a girl with money.” It made her bridle un, and cut Charlotte somewhat short in her next remark, so that Eady Haymond feared afterwards that she had not on the whole done quite so well as she had expected. She had meant to suggest that application as to the I character and tenets held by the bees lin question should lie made by her mother to her son. and that Cecil alone i should furnish the pa-sword to granny 's I good graces; but she was obliged to be satisfied with vaguely hinting at what she had intended putting into good round terms. As for Cecil nim-elf, he was perfectly satisfied with tne situation as it stood, lu the double character of his grandmother's aide-de-camp, and Geraldine's instructor and companion, he went about with the ladies everywhere: and on the occasion of the ball in quest’on. had the honor ot presenting Lis cousin with her bo • net. of facing her in the carriage and of following her up the broad, red- arpeted steps into the festive halls. The scene that hero met her eyes was as new as all the rest had been to , the little Highlander: but, true to herself. she now walked demurely through tne batiks of Hower and shrub, and between the long lines of silvery lames, I looking neither to right no to left lest , Cecil should see aught amiss in her deportment. They were rather late, and dancing had begun. Truth com els us to state that Geraldine was not ago d dan er. All the running and climbing in the world wul not teach the swing of the waltz without some pains b ing taken in its accomplish ent: and, accordingly, altho gh partners were rife, as we have said, they speedily discovered that the pretty heiress did not care to be long • upon the floor, ami that they might joyfully exchange the fatiguing exercise fur a ■ uret stroll thro gh the galleries. or, b.-i'er s ill, a lounge under the awning of the balcony. The latter was the most affected by the laky. She ha 1 never done anything of the kind and neve.-seen anything of the kind before. To Le sitting or standing oatside a London ball room, amidst a crowd ol ball-goer-, in her brilliant ball-bress, on a warm, sweet-scented summer ' night, while the music went tinkling on within the vast saloons, and the dancers went circling round, and soft voices and laughter and light pattering feet filled the air on every side it ; was like fairyland. She wondered if all : the girls there were having as good a time as she. Some o. them looked at her rather hard, she thought: and so, for that matter, did the mon. What was it they saw? With all her shrewdness and her inborn share ot native self-importance.it did not occur to her that they were saying. ‘That is Miss Campbell. That is the great S otch heiress.’ and that, thereupon, some fell amusing, anl some to picking her to pieces. “My dear, you must positively stick a little closer to your grandmother, or to me ’her Auntcharlotte admonished her somewhat sharply at last. “Do as your cousins do. Ethel and Alicia are ; always coming 1 aekwards and forwards to us, they show they are under our charge by staying with us when they are not dancing.” "But I Lave been engaged for every dance.” "Where then have you been? You have not been in the ball-room.” “Outside. Oil the; balcony ” began Geraldine, but could proceed no further. "That does not do, my dear; it does —not- do. ’ frowned he r aunt, with a terrific whisper. “I though you would have known better. Ethel and Alicia never go out on the balconies never. I ought to have told you. Cecil ought to have told you ” ‘•Why, I have just been there with Cecil.’ said Jerry, opening her eyes. "Oh- ’and Lady Raymond wished she had held her tongue. “Oh?—Oh? Oh?—" she said, not knowing what else to say. “Well, of course, my dear, of course, that - ahem!—makes a difference, to bo sure,” in an entirely slaved tone, "to bo sure that -ahem!— completely alters the case. It is only my anxiety that you should be the same as one of my own daughters, you know. Geraldine: and, no doubt. Cecil —Cecil, ro doubt "floundering on, ”1 dare say he took care as to whom you were with,” concluded tamely. “He introduced nearly all of them.” The next moment, however, brought! a new introduction. • Geraldine, my I love.” said her grandmothers voice,! "General Dacre wishes to know vou. He was a friend of your poor father’s,” added she, lower, "he asked of himself to be presented:” and there stood a fine, soldierly-looking man, with crisp, gray hair, a thick, gray moustu’ lie, an a .uiiine nose, and a magnificent star of diamonds on his breast. Jerry had never felt prouder in her life. A general with a star, at whom, for all her eighteen summers, she would only have ventured to gaze in humble admiration, had he not himself solicited a nearer acquaintance! She did indeed feel honored, as she took his arm. and moved about here and there, fancying all aiound must gaze at the pair with wonder and wi h envy. This fine oi l warrior, whoso notice bad keen felt to confer such distinction, and for whom she had been racking her brain- to find topics not too frivolous and foolish, proved to be neither more nor less than a flighty old 1001, anxious still to play his part |

among the candies of the day, and In consequence, to be seen in attendance on any pretty girl who was the mode. That the reigning bell of the evening chaiie ■ to l e the daughter of an old friend dead and gone, w.s a piece of luck not to be thrown awav: but having made ; stepping-stone of the fact, he had not had her < ar many minute* ere he had thrown it aside. He had no notion of bein longer looked upon in the light in whi- h he bad first presented himself, and, indeed, soon began to twaddle so foolishly and so flippantly, that the poor child, disgusted and ashamed, begged to tie tak- n a k tohercha eron. with a peremptoriness whi h admitted ol no denial. she wigs very short and reserved with her next partner, an elegant youth, who forthwith I egan the esuar prattle about Ascot Sandown, llurlingham, and the like, to which she was now e- oming accustomed. She would make uuiek work of him, Jerry thought: and with the tipof her pretty nose in the air, she all at once volunteered a piece of information which she had not hitherto been eager to impart. “I know nothing of these places,” she said. "1 am just come up. My home is in the Highlands of Scotland.” Wonder of wonders, the effect was precisely contrary to that expected. The Highlands ot Scotland? The Scottish Highlands were his Paradise, his Elysium. His whole face lighted upat the mere mention of their name. He was a lorn llighian er himself, born and bred within thewildsof Lochaber. Os course he bad known that Miss Campbell must be Scotch, probably from Argyllshire with a smile -but he did not know, he did not tnink, he thought girls eared for nothing but I London, and and but did she really care for the heat jig r. and the sea. and the tartan, and the pipes' He was learning the pipes him elf. He belonged to a Highland regiment, and he was learning from his own pipe-ma or, the finest | ipe-ma or in the service. The pipe-major had himself composed a ” ,ui kstop” und a “Hornpipe,” and was to play one or other of them, he was not sure which, at the Northern Meeting t at autumn. Did MissCamuj bell ever go to the Northern Meeting? No? Well, he could not say he cared for it very mu h himself, it was getting so awfully big and cockney tied. Still, he should go. as their pine-major was to compete ana so on. ana so on. Never had he a more appreciative listener. There was a true ring in the lad's school-boy enthusiasm which dei ii. hted and extiiliarati dGeraldine.and I which came like a breath of fresh air a Vr the false, artificial vapors which before had been supposed to be her proper atmosphere. It was not, moreover, lost upon her that she had been twice misled within one short half-hour: so granny was not wrong in thinking experience was gained, to which, we may here add, , every succeeding evening brought its quota. Bellenden was never at the balls. He was not a dancing man, and never had been: so that having persistently declined invitations hitherto, he could not now ha .e turned round and accepted them, even had he wished for none were sent him. Neither did he so wish: he only disliked to bear young Haymond incessantly reverting to things that had happened the night 1 efore. or the i night before that, whenever it hapI pered and it happened pretty often — that he was in company with the two cousins. He me t them on most mornings in the Row, pretty often in the I afternoons, too, at on.- place o ■ another perhai s he noted where they were ! going and now and then in Mo nt street. Not by themselves, of course; but what was grandmother, or ex-gov-erness or cousin? Only some one standing by for propriety’s sake, some one. too, sure to be engrossed with the pictures, or the music or the art treasures, or whatever it was that Geraldine had, by the way. gone to see, but which Bellenden very much doubted whether she ever did see. She never looked at them after he was there, at any rate, she did not look at him much, neither. Her eyes, her ears, her questions and answers were forCecil or so it seemed to Cecil's rival. Still Bellenden waited. There were times solitary moments - when he did not feel quite so sure about this as he might have been. He had sometimes been himself shot a glance, a flash of the eye, a furtive, swiftly-withdrawn, searching home thrusting look, which puzzled him. [TO BE CONTINUED.]

The End of a Duchess. Mme. d’Abrantes did not seek her hero Napoleon on his brief return from exile. Such a meeting would have been trying even to her “rare mental flexibility.” She was in Rome during the Hundred Days, “surrounded,” according to the Nouvelle Biographie Generale, “by artistic and literary friends." I’ew and meagre are the particulars which can now be gleaned of her later years; there are hardly any materials for bridging the gulf between the Parisian Queen of society and the broken-down w reck of Chorley’s lurid sketch. The revolution of 1830 found her at the Abbaye aux-Bois, whither the total loss of her fortune compelled her to retire. She says that on the reappearance of the tri-eolor she was “saisie d’une de ces joies sans mesure qui reyelent le ciel,” but it in no way alleviated her melancholy fate. From 1831 to 1835hei memoirs were in course of publication. She wrote some other books and many stories and papers, some of which appeared in The Revue de Paris. Mme. d’Abrantes, reduced to utter destitution, died at Chaillot on June 7, 1839; two days after being admitted to a small hospital, having been refused shelter in one of more pretensions without payment in advance. “Abandoned by all whom she loved,” (which would seem to imply that her children had forsaken her,) “but receiving the last consolations of religion from the hands of the Archbishop of Paris.”—Temple Bar. Mudie’s .Library. Mudie’s circulating library in Lot? don has 3,5000,000 books constantly in circulation and employs 178 people. Forty years ago its circulation reached 100, which caused a sensation.

TALKS TO FARMERS ON TOPICS CONNECTED WITH AGRICULTURE. How Larue, Rmind Logs Are Quickly Knocked Into Firewood — Wooden Unnip Protectors The tVilder PearSheep Should Have Shelter. The Wilder Pear. The origiual tree of this delicious pear was found on the shores of Lake I rie. It came up wild iu a thicket of sprouts ami rubbish and / V \ was grafted f I \ to Buffum, a / I \ f ew branches / A \ being left for I r\ \ natural fruit. I Jr |k\ j The latter I fl'lßl /was found to \ v'x /besogood y the Buffum branch es the wilder PEAR. were removed. Since then the tree has borne profusely each year. The illustration shows the fruit of half the average s'ze. It resembles Bartlett in shape with smooth skin, pale-yellow with a deep shading of brownish carmine The basin is shallow and regular, the The basin Is shallow, and regular, the eye nearly closed, sepals long and reflexed, apex rather abrupt with slight cavity, stem short, core closed and small. Seeds small, flesh pale whitish yellow, fine grained and tender. Its quality L very good, resembling the Bartlett, but the flavor is more sprightly ami free from all muskiness.—Farm and Home. Varieties of Corn. There have been as great changes in the type of corn as in any kind of cultivated plant. In New England and most of the Northern States flint corn is almost exclusively grown as a field crop. For the garden, and to some extent for general purposes, sweet corn and popcorn are grown. We have known farmers to have popcorn ground for meal, and they said that when cooked it was sweeter and better than that from flint corn. The popcorn grain is so small that it is seldom injured in curing. Sweet corn is, to some extent, grown as food for milk cows. The stalks, if cut early, are sweeter than those of ordinary corn. They are, therefore, more palatable and more nutritious. The Dent corn Is mostly grown in the West and South. Its stalks are coarser and less palatable for stock. Western people think the Dent corn makes better corn bread than does the Eastern flint corn, but our idea is that the flint corn is the best for all purposes. The weight of stalks of flint corn is less per acre, but the yield by weight of the grain is larger than the average of that grown at the West. Still, when an Eastern farmer wants to grow tile largest possible yield of corn, he is apt to select some of the early Dent varieties to make a trial with. That shows his belief that it is the greater care which flint corn usually gets that explains its greater average prolificacy.—Philadelphia I’ress. Losing Use of Land. Small fruit growers ought to fertilize their laud thoroughly, and when this is done they should keep it always producing something. If the strawberry patch is running out, either the red or black cap raspberry can be planted between the rows. In this way the year after the strawberry plantation is cultivated under the raspberry canes will be in full bearing. It is the same with the larger fruits. A young apple or pear orchard will grow strawberries, raspberries and blackberries nearly as well as if the orchard were not planted until it gets fully into bearing. Wood Chopper. The latest improvement in the machine wood chopper is shown herewith. It is of English invention. The round logs having been cut to the required length are placed one after another in the center of the machine, as shown, in this position the base of ——- xOOT ■u ■ Sb" MACHINE WOOD CHOPPER. the log rests on the upright edges of the fixed knives, through which it is afterwards forced. The heavy weight indicated above the same is raised bybelt power between guides. When released the weight strikes the log, driving it downward on the knives and spliting it in four pieces. The machine illustrated is designed to deal with logs five to twenty inches in diameter and about twenty-four inches in length. Quantity of Seed Required Per Acre. Wheat, D/i to 1‘ 2 bushels, drilled. Wheat, 2 bushels, broadcast. Oats, 2 bushels. Buckwheat, % bushel. Corn, in hills, G to 8 quarts. Corn, for fodder, 2to 3 bushels. Peas, in drills, 2to

' 3 bushels. Broom corn, drills, 10 . pounds. Beets and mangles. 4 pounds. I Rutabagas, in drills. 1 pound. Clover, ; red. 10 pounds. Clover, white, 6 to 8 pounds. Timothy, 1 peck. Red top. 2 bushels. Orchard grass, 2 bushels. Ltwn grass. 2to 3 bushels. Kentucky I blue grass, 2 bushels. Barley, broadcast. 2U bushels. Barley, drilled, 1% bushels. Rye, I*4 bushels. Potatoes, drills, 10 bushels. Carrots, 3 pounds. Turnips. 1 pound. Potatoes, in hills, 4 bushels. Oats, drilled, 2 bushels; broadcast, 3 bushels. To Make Good Coffee. Remember in making coffee: That the same flavor will not suit every taste. That everyone can be suited to a nicety by properly blending two or .more kinds. That equal parts of Mocha, Java and Rio will be relished by a good many people. That a mild coffee can be made dangerously strong and still retain the mildness of flavor. That the flavor is improved if the liquid is turned from the dregs as soon as the proper strength has been obtained. That where the percolation method is used the coffee should be ground very line or the strength will not be extracted. That if the ground coffee is put into the water and boiled it should be rather coarse, otherwise it will invariably be muddy. That a good coffee will always command a fair price; but that all highpriced coffees are not necessarily of high quality. That in serving, the cups and cream should be warm; the cream should be put in the cup before the coffee is put in. but it is immaterial when sugar is added. That a level teaspoonful of the ground coffee to each cup is the standing allowance, from which deviation can be made iii either direction, according to the strength desired.—The Housekeeper. Cover for Pumps. In the North, pumps in cold, bleak situations are liable to freeze up, causing a vast amount of trouble. The accompanying sketch, from the Orange Judd Farmer, shows a simple method of protecting one of the common piston pumps. An outer jacket of wood envelops the pump. It should be large enough to allow a three-inch space all 1 UJT i T PIHF PROTECTOR. around the sides. This space should be filled with chaff', finely cut hay or straw, pressed firmly in position. Additional protection is given by the piece of board, a, which has a hole in it that fits closely over the pump handle, •aid during the coldest weather, when tne pump is not in use. this board is placed as shown in the illustration, pressed against the side of the pump, r.nd hung t?pon the nail at b. If in a windy location, the spout should be stopped up with cloth, leaving enough projecting to readily remove it by. Any one who has had to water cattle in the inerning and has found the pump from which he proposes to get water frozen solidly, will appreciate this simple arrangement for preventing such a state of affairs. A SIO,OOO Poultry House. Probably the most expensive poultry house in the country is now being built by Mrs. Robert Garrett, of Baltimore, wife of the ex-president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at a cost of SIO,OOO. The house includes rooms for the keeper, a fine reception room for visitors and a well-stocked library of poultry literature. Chickens, ducks, turkeys, and pigeons up to the number of thousands can be accommodated in the house. Connected with it ars a number of incubators of from 200 to 500 eggs capacity. Feed and Breed. The farmers who beliuve that the feed, and not the breed, gives the results can easily determine fffr themselves what the facts may be. Take two animals, one pure bred or a grade, and the other a scrub. Give both the same care and attention, allowing them as much food as they will consume. The well bred animal will give double the prolit derived from the scrub, and the expense will also be proportionately less. Truck Farming, A truck farm may pay SIOO per acre, or as much as .85'io, according to the crop grown upon it. It may cost more for labor and fertilizers compared with regular farming, but the area cultivated will be much less and the soil will be left in better condition. Improved implements for hand cultivation, with effective horse hoes, make the lafftvr much less difficult than when the hoe, spade Afld rake were relied upon entirely. Value of Skim Milk. The Wisconsin station found by feeding pigs that twenty-five pounds of corn meal equaled one hundred pounds of skim milk. That is, when corn meal is worth a dollar per hundred pounds skim milk is worth 25 cents per hundred pounds, which should be credited to the cow as so much profit given by her in addition to the butter produced. There is an additional profit to be expected from the pork also.

QUEER PROFESSORSHIPS. Professors of Mouse Catching .Shaving and "Savonology.” A short time ago as I walked through the hall leading to my boarding house bedroom, I was surprised to see the door open and a man or his knees in the corner. I inquired of the chambermaid why he was there. “Uh, he's all right,” she answered. “He’s Professor Wilkins.” "Why did you bringhim up here?” I asked. T always wish to have callers wait forme in the parlor.” “Oh,” giggled the girl, “what would he be in the parlor for? He’s Professor Wilkins, the mouse man. Some of the boarders complained there were mice in the house, and he’s looking for them!” When I interviewed Professor Wilkins, he informed me that he was a professor of rodentology. and L found that his mind really had a scientific turn. He gave me some interesting facts in connection with the mouse-catching business. One , ale was of a lady who was sued by her maid for damages because,in her terror at discovering a mouse in a sugar basin, she had flung mouse, sugar and basin at the girl’s head. Another story illustrated the influence of certain conditions on dreams. The Professor assured me that one of his customers dreamed of mice whenever she ate cheese ! On the register of a hotel in a Western town I read “Professor Pekkins and staff.” A geological survey was in progress. Probably, I reflected, Professor Pekkins was conducting it. That night, through the transom of my door, 1 heard an unusually penetrating voice instructing a class, but the subject was not geology. The stranger was giving points to his agents on setting forth the merits of a certain soap. The principal point was the purity of the Ingre—diants. The oil used was of such quality that in the soap factory, the lunch hour, the operatives left the butter provided for them, preferring to dip their bread in the sweet and delicate oil. This was no reflection on the butter, which was best creamery. I was so interested in this stranger that I inquired of the clerk, "Who has the room opposite mine?'’ "Professor Pekkins and two of his staff.” Professor Pekkins was a professor of savonology! Professor Null, tonsorial artist, lives across the border. Shortly after his marriage, walking with his dark-skinned bride, he met a customer—one of the Four Hundred of his city. "Mistah Blankins,” he exclaimed, blocking the way of the astonished man, "Mistah Blankins, nahmit me to intahduce Mrs. Pro-f'-ssah Null. Mrs. Professah Null, Mistah Blankins.” A Royal Myrtle-Bush. Near the principal entrance at Osborne there is a flower-garden in which an immense myrtle-bush is to be seen. This has been grown from a sprig which was taken -out of the wedding bouquet of the Empress Frederick in 1858. [( has been a rule at court that at every royal marriage in which either bride or bridegroom was a descendant of the Queen, some pieces of this myrtle have been placed in the bride’s wedding bouquet. The practice commenced when Princess Alice married Prince Louis of Hesse, at Osborne, in 18(52, and it has been continued until today, when their daughter is to be married to the Emperor of Russia, and she is to carry a bouquet ot white flowers, in which there will be several sprigs from the Osborne myrtle, which have been sent by the Queen to St. Petersburg expressly for this purpose. Chinese Invented Football. According to Stewart Culin, the curator of the museum of archaeology of the University of Pennsylvania, football originated with those beginners of everything, the Chinese. Mr. Culin is making an exhaustive study of games, ancient and modern, ano has a curious and ancient drawing showing a personage in i he dress of a prime minister playing football with a kuge, or noble, and two of their chamberlains. The time is somewhere in the tenth or eleventh century. but long before then the game was cultivated as an exercise suitable for the training of soldiers. About, the eighth century it was introduced into Japan, where it became very popular. From these twe countries it spread over the entire world. Private Marks on Watches. I’inc watche- aro commonly kepi in order by the dealers from whom they are bought. When such a w: tch was taken the other day to a famous jeweller to be regukfted the jeweller said: “It is very dry; you have not had it eleaned since ’91.” “How do you know that?” asked the owner “Wo put a private mark at an inconspicuous point whenever such a watch as this is cleaned,” answered the man, "and the latest date your watch shows is ’91.” Velvet waists in black, brown, bluet-blue and green in reseda and moss-green shades, will bo even more popular the coining spring than they have been this winter, for at that season they can be worn without 1 lie cumbersome wrap which crushes the huge sleeves of the bodice and mars the velvet Orange trees were known to havs existed in England in 1595 •