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• e A GRAND OLD WOMAN. THE DAUGHTER OF \OLD IRON - SIDE\ AT EIGHTY. rho 14 *no. t., LI:e 'Neatt tato \Heaven- Dor. Canner.\ , the Stars and stripes -- 111e Mother of a Celebrated Fatnily— Iter Cloning Tears. . ee e ELIA T. S. PAR - nett, the celebrated and venerable wo- man who was struck down by the hand of a ruthless assassin some months ago, and who for some weeks past has oc- cupied a private room in Trinity Hospital, New York, should be regarded as one of the most truly great women of onr time as well as one of the most versatile and highly accomplished. Della T. S. Parnell just escaped being born in Independence Hall, Philadel- phia, in 1815. She was the daughter of Admiral Stewart, familiarly known as \Old Ironsides.\ Her mother was a tudor of Boston, so that the subject of our sketch is descended flans a \royal line\ through both parents. Through her father's love for the sea and fondness for change, she traveled extensively. Her mother was her con - stela companion and her only instructor in early childhood. The ablest teach- ers were secured to develop her num- AIRS. FANNIE STEWART PARN aLls erous talents, and mother and daughter resided for a term of years in foreign lands to facilitate the studies. Especi- ally in Greek and Latin she excelled, speaking French. Spanish, Italian and German very fluently at an early age, writing in all four prose and poetry. She studied the dinces of different nations under the famous Mme. Vettris, and became a charming danseuse, while at the same time she mastered harmony and composition in music. A, rare so - Deane voice, flexible and sympathetic, led tier to sing the songs of all nations. Her general knowledge is not to be. wondered at when it is known that from her infancy the chili was a pro- found student with wonderful applica- tion. At the age oi 17 Delia T. S. Parnell made her debt in Washington. A fair girl, with eyes of deep sea blue, a tall supple gare. full, but classic in proportion, and eniversally pronounced \beautiful.\ Charming in manner ard corversaton. generous, bright and joyous and amiable -\a daughterof tee enorning,•• said the astrologists, \ant who would soon become the reigning belle of Washington.\ She was the leader in all innocen't owns. entertainments and charitable enterprises. At this time air. John Parnell came from Ireland to visit America. and proceeded to Washington, where, by his tine presence, elegant beating and charm of manner -to say zothing of his \blarney\ --he wooed and won the Incomparable Delia Tudor aterraet. losing no time in transporting las fair and gifted bride to his grand sad romantic home at Avondale, County Wicklow. Ireland. One year after tee maternal duties of Delia T. S. Parnen begaa. and contin- red for aver twenty seam. in which Maw she bore Ceeer. -.hdiret --John Hawaii Parnell now a member of Par- liament. being the eldass : Charles Ste w aet Parnell. who lise: cac year too letag; Emile. Henry. Fanny, Anna. • Theodeala. ared others_ Mrs. Delia 1'. S. Pares!! hal a heum in Dublin. where she resiled du. mg the Dublin season. when the Irish capital was known as \Delightfta. Dublin. - :the ThIn had a 'salon\ ;a Paris, atal If s MRS. PAits I LI, IN 1866. was often an hoe, ai guest of Napo- leon III. and Empress Eugenie. The night she held her \salon\ it was erowded by tha celebrities of Europe. This remarkable woman was a magnet that attracted to her side the great and powerful, and was considered one of the few brilliant women, even in Paris, who shone par -excellence as a hostess. Attar the death of her husband the feerinating widow had many suitors, among whom was the earl of Carlisle, I hen lord -lieutenant of Ireland. \Your attached Carlisle.\ he always signed himself when be wrote to the beautiful widow. But the self-sacrificing mother feared a seated marriage might not be con- ducive to the happiness of her children. This was the only reason why she did not encourage the suit of the earl of Carlisle, and in eater years had 'reason to regret her foolish stand. But the disappointed earl was somewhat con- soled when he became convinced that of her many suitors the fair widow gave him the preference, and the cele- brated pair became life-long friends. The earl sought her council and advice in affairs of state, which he often com- municated to Lord Palmerston, then prime minister of England. At the time of the Mexican war she advised the withdrawal of the English troops from Mexico. She became so skilled in the affairs of state that she acquired the sobriquet of \The Fair Ambassadress.\ About twenty years ago Delia T. S. Parnell advised her son, Charles Stew- art Parnell, to enter Irish politics. The undeveloped statesman . did so, and was elected to parliament. How he be- came the idolized leader of the Irish people -the \Uncrowned King\ -is still fresh in our memories, although sr may forget that it was through the power and patriotism of his mother and sisters that influenced public opin- ion lu his favor in this country. The late Irish leader had frequently re- marked: \That the women of his fam- ily possessed all the genius.\ Fanny Parnell, the poetess, died dur- ing the height of the agitation -some time after . the Ladies' Land League had been organized, in which the \silent women\ of Ireland became enrolled from _Maine to California, They de- manded from their English foes home rule for Ireland, and for the first time patriotism and self-sacrifice of the working women of Ireland became gen- ertilly manifest. Bands were organized and led by Delia T. S. Parnell, and her two daughters, who shbwed they were werthy of so great a mother. From the time of the Land League movement Delia T. S. Parnell worked with an en- ergy that was s`uperhuman to place Ire- land \among the nations\ -when the \epitaph\ of Robert Emmet would be written and the tomb of the \sublimest patriot\ no longer remain \unin- seri bed.\ When Charles S. Parnell was arrested and thaown into prisori,' his patriotic bat then aged mother temporarily lost her equilibrium by the shock. She speculated in Wall street with her own. capital, where she had hitherto been successful in her ventures,•determined, iMpossible„ to supply her family with funds for the \agitation\ and to help aflevelop \Irish industries,\ and, above all, to make her son financially inde- pendent, that he might carry on his gigantic work with freeaom and liberal- ity. But his imprisonment rendered her temporarily unfit for business. She lost $20,000 in Wall street! All the ready capital she possesaed! After which she mortgaged every acre of ground she owned -and lost again! Then came the death of the gentle poetess, Fanny Parnell, the, \Parnell FANNY ISABEL RNI\ - IJ, IN 1871.t. commission,\ the \Parnell -O'Shea scandal,\ the death of the \Irish leader\ and the disaster of. the hand League movement, and the hopes of the Irish people hopelessly blasted, it seemed, for all time. The Parnell family were now In com- parative poverty, ruin and ignominy, and the aged mother in sorrow and woe. During the admini (ration of General Harrison the vene In woman was eetcel a pension of 50 every three months, with e hich she has endeavored to pay off some of her creditors, econo- mizing greatly to do so. I She prides herself upon her talent for cooking, and can make forty, different . Kinds of soaps. She also excels in nee- dlework. dressmaking and tapestry. This great woman claims that she rendered very valuable services in help- ing to ;lest Grover Cleveland to his first term, when the scales barely turned in his favor, for she is an orator of rare perfert delivery, elegant in ex- pression. and she knew how to use it for Cleveland. The daughter of \Old Ironeidesa Is now in her Real year. She Can sew and read without glasses, and Is still deeply intereftted in the world's polities. Her daughters and sons wish her to joie them in either England or !ratan a but 'her heart is in America, and she I wishes to die under the Stars and Stripes. At present she ecintemplates a visit to England and Ireland, but from the Trinity Hospital she will join friends in Trenton, - Sponged Their Whisky. Two tramps In a neighboring town hit upon a novel plan to get some whis- ky. They went into a saloon with a melon jug and had it Meet with lamer and offered a dollar in payment. . Of courseethe bartender refused to ae- rept the money and emptied the ilquor back into the barrel and the tramps took the jug and departed. Later they aere seen to break the earthern vessel over a atone and squeeze out over a pint of liquor from the sponges which had been placed on the Inside. DARK DAYS FOR BURNS. Ma Hatred for Farming—An tInforta nate Choice. up new prospects to my poetic ambi- tion.\ Ills fame was, in fact, spreading rap- idly. Farm laborers and servant girls expended, their hardly earned wages on the purchase of his poems, and the name of \The Ayrshire Plowman\ be- gan to be noised among members of wealthier and more cultivated circles. The first person to extend him the right hand of fellowship was Dugaid Stew- art; the second was Mrs. Dunlop. Their friendship came with all the charms of a novelty, which is yet not strange, but supplies a long -felt though indefinable need, while, in the letter ease, Burns' Proud and independent soul was grati- fied by the knowledge that the obliga- tion was not all on his side, but that Mrs. Dunlop and her friends had reason to be indebted to the poet's spells. After two winters spent in Edin- burgh, which seem to have giaen the poet more disappointment and disgust than gratification, Burns married \his Jean,\ and settled at Ellisland,\an up- land farm on the Dalswinton estate, six miles from Dumfries. To this Ellisland period, I. e., from 1788 to 1791, most of the unpublished letters to Mrs. Dunlop belong. They are chiefly interesting as indicating Burns' real views on his el - else post and his distaste to farming. There were bad times in the eighteenth as in the nineteenth century; and In a letter of March 25, 1789, we hear Burns raising the farmers' cm:ternary com- plaint: \Madam I had two plans of life be- fore me -the excise and farming. I thought by the glimmering of my own pruaence the excise wad the most elign• ble scheme, but all my great friends, and particularly you, were decidedly, and therefore decided me, for farming. My master, Mr. Miller, oat of a real, though mistaken benevolence, sought me industriously out to set me in this farm, as he said, to give me a lease which would make me comfortable and easy. • • • I was; a stranger to the country., the farm, the soil, and so Yea - lured on a bargain that, instead Oa be- ing comfortable, is and will be a YEry hard bargain, if at all practicable. I sin sorry to tell you this, madam, but it is a damning truth.\ As it is always darkest before the dawn, the year which was the most critical in Burns' life, and which was destined to give birth to his better for- tune, opened with peculiar and unmit- igated dreariness, says the Fortnightly Review, The Kilmarnock edition of 1786 appeared while the poet was \Hicilking from covert to covert\ to avoid the jail, with which Jean Ar- mour's father threatened him; its raison d'etre was the earning of suffi- cient money to pay his passage to Ja- maica. Having \pocketed all expenses deducted, nearly 20 pounds,\ Burns asok a final farewell of his Mende. In- deed - \My chest was on my way to Green- ock when a letter -from Mr. Blacklock (of Edinburgh) to a friend of mine great jingle of sleigh bells and, the overthrew all my schemes MY opening sound of swift ruunere on the crisp snow outside, and then that musical clash at the door which announced tbe stopping of the turnentt and the arrival of the guests. Surely there wa.s notleing uncommon in this, the coaling of a party of merry people to a country house and on a magnificent moanlight night when the whole landscape was as light as day.\ Yet Instead of looltiug pleased or sur- prised the ladies of the house sank back in their chairs, and covering their faces with their bands murmured a prayer. * Clotilde, the little one, elepped her hands and asked earnestly: \Might it be, my . friends, that It is Gespard, who . has Came with a sur- pr e?\ no, Clotilde. It will not be our Gasp . Mon Diem how then shall we tell her? Child, go you not to the door! These sleighbells you hear are not of the flesh and blood -I mean the driver is not—\ But little Clotilde had run joyously to the great hall door, and though no servant stood there to open it she swung It wide on its massive hinges. A. bitter draft of cold air rushed in, with a dreary, walling sound, and no sleigh stood outside, but even as the startled girl watched a clash of musical bells and the swift sound pt the steel - shod runners filled the area of snow. She turned whiter than a lilt in the somber moonlight and flung the door to affrisehted. \Come to the are. little one; yeti have seed: then,' our skeleton in the closet?\ ' \I sa*-enta any skeleton -nothing - nothing, gat I heard the bells -oh, what doea it mean?\ \You tell her, Agatha,\ said the younger sister. \I woula greatly preter that she would hear it from your lips, Cecile,\ answered the other. at am not afraid,\ said the girl. proudly. The color was coming back to her lips and cheeks and her eyes sparkled. It could not be worse than tile legends of the Loup-Garou which her uncle had told her since she was a child -not so very long ago that - but now she was a woman and would not show fear. \You will now know why our Gas- pard has dark spells when not even his sweetheart can comfort him, why the shadow is never lifted from our lives and we cannot be quite like other peo- ple. Perhaps you will not then like to marry our brother, who is the best and dearest in the world, but, like us, un- der the ban.\ • \It is the more r would love him if I In Caracas. We found Caracas to be a Spanish- American' city of the first class, with a suggestion of the boulevards, and Venezuela a country that possessed a history of her own and an academy of wise men and artists and a Pantheon for her heroes. I suppose we .,shouldhave known that this was so before we visited Venezuela, but as we did not we felt as though we were discovering a new country for ourselves. It was in- teresting to find statues of men, of whom none of us had ever heard, and who were distinguished for something else than military successes, men who had made discoveries in science and medicine and who had written learned books; to find the latest devices for comfort of a civilized community and with them the records of a fierce mtsug- gle for independence, a long period of disorganization, where the church had . tr ranee in the habits and customs of en- , 1 1 the master hand, and then a rapid ad- ( 1 M s-aek., e \`• lightened nations. There are the most curious combinations and contrasts, showing on one side a pride of country and an eagerness to emulate the etts- A. toms of stable governments, and on the other hand evidences of the southern hot-blooded temperament and dislike of restraint.-Harper's Magazine. Dead Ants' Ileads l'ut to Use. One curious fact about an ant is that the grip of its jaws or mandibles is retained for hours or even days after death. Knowing this fact has enabled the Indiana of Brazil to put the heads of dead ants to use in their simple sur- gery. The sides of a wound are drawn together and the necessary number of large ants are head with their heads to the ridge directly over the gash: when their jaws come together on the place where the skin has been separat- ed the insect's head is pinched off and left clinging to the severed skin, which they hold together until the wound is perfectla healed. -St. Louis Republic. - — Mena/rant Fans for Innng weemo. Seal and monogram fans are a notion of the moment among young Women still In their teens A plain white or delicately tinted fen is selected, and the gay seals are arranged upon it with what taste ma) he. Jr monograms are hoarded, it is these that decorate in- stead of the wax impreesions. A \trip\ fan means the record of a winter jour- ney, and holds on its nark.; the pretty Imprints with which all fired -class ho- tels now stamp their stationery. If a European trip hag been erefertnken. so much the better, as that Mares team - ship and oilier effertivr - - To prevent a further spread of scar- let fever all the school !Wren in Sac\ Me.. lind to eubmIt to a train of ear bottled eller the other evening eas• - t-a- eme - /s ee < PLUNGED OVER THE SIDE, might, when he has the trouble; but tell me, please, is it that some wicked souls come back because they cannot rest?\ \We know not, petite, but the story Is like this: So long ago, maybe, that not our oldest relation can remember, there was another Gaspard De Fron- tenac, a brave, good man like this one, but hot headed and fiery. And you know, the steep hills that shut us in -so high with the big ravine -the precipice on either side? And in the winter there was always snow and the people went coasting and sleighriding with swift horses down these long hills, but never could two meet, for the road was just the width for one sleigh, and the people all knew this, and they waited at the plateau on the top and emelt took his turn. \It Was my great uncle's pleasure to take his young wife and go out an these steep hills and drive her like the wind with a swift flying horse, and she loved the sport, and. wrapped in furs, with her curls floating in the wind, a fine picture the country folk thought her; and that Gaspard was much' admired, too, for so the story has COMP to its, and their pictures are In the salon, though some think us not at the right mind to keep them there. \It comes soon now, petite --the tra- gedy of those two. One night -just such it night as this -nifty went riding in gay spirits, and going up the hill for tiur sesond or third time what should I ties nen but another Metal) coming (Meet It 'ran earning fast, and my THE PHANTOM BELLS great . uncle knew It was death for one • side or the other, since pass they could u r o ier to bolt. t V Andillet. shouted to the other d \Ah it was too late! On, on came the other sleigh, fast like the wind, and my great uncle Gaspard saw that it would into him crash, and he quick- ly' drew a pistol and fired to hill the horse before It was too late. And his own horse, he got such a fright he plunged over the side, throwing him out, but • taking his bride down to death! a 'He lived, but like a man in a dream, till some one tell him the truth that on that night there was no other sleigh Hy. but his own, and what he saw was the When they first saw Clotilde she shadow of his own. In some way I know was so young and timid they made up not the exact, the moonlight making their minds to wait until Gaspard him- that effect by what you call projecting self came, but one night as they sat the shadow, and when he know that. around the great hall fire there was a I h m is ta m k i e se a r g y ai a n nd t he hi p s Isi l t o fe l : and with it end A long silence succeeded this weird tale and then Clotilde asked in a broken voice: ghost?\ \is then that the sleigh is a petite, a -what you call phan- toin.\ \I am not afraid. I accept and will pray to give the poor : ghosts peace.\ It was not like the Loup-Garou, not to the mind of Ciotilde half as dreadful, but she was not really afraid or these because her uncle had much sense, and g lne ra e p t h id ie n a o li t y. believe one of these stories, although tell them he did, and most Again on the following evening came the sound of bells, and this time Clo- tilde went not near the door, but sat moving her sweet lips in prayer. Then the door was flung violently open and a brusque, cheery voice called: \Halloo there, Victor_ Alphonse, you varlets, where are you hiding?\ Certainly this was no ghost, and the three women who clung about his neck gave frantic evidence of joy at his coming. Clotilde was not one of the three. A big old man in a Mt skin coat had taken her in his arms, and was talking to her in gentle burr; the old uncle who told her the dreadful stories, and then -she slipped one small hand into her lover's and looked at him with shy, happy eyes. \ft was so good Of you to collie in- stead of the ghosts,\ she said, when later they sat cooing in a corner, while the uncle, who was a great favorite with the young Gaspard, was making himself agreeable to the ladies. \Then you know, dear little one?\ said the young man. \And you are not afraid to make your home in the Cha- teau Frontenac?\ \Not with my Gaspard,\ came the soft answer. \but I like it better If the ghosts came not, and your sisters, they are sorry, too.. But afraid -no!\ \What of thig iSto much being afraid?\ asked a gruff voice, and the old uncle of Clotilde hobbled over to the corner where snatches of their conversation located the two lovers. Then he was told the story of the ghastly sleigh. and looked wise and thoughtful for the rest of the evening. The shrewd French-Canadian was filled with marvelous stories of ghosts which he loved to relate, but not one of which he believed, not even his stock fright - story, the legendary Loup-Garou. The net morning Uncle Pierre was missing from the chateau, but no one was disturbed. Ile had taken his gun and would return when he pleased, which was at nightfall, and simultan- eously with las coming rang out the jangling, invisible bells. • He found the family shivering around the great lire, as if it were stricken with deadly cold. Even Gaspard looked troubled and the little Clotilde was try- ing to assure him she was uot-\Oh no. not the least afraid!\ \Fine Is the, night,\ he said in salu- tation, \and the air is clear, so you hear -r -r, oh, so far! Heard you not, my Clotilde, the sleigh bells tut came with me?\ \Oh no,\ cried the ladies of the cha- teau in a faint chorus, \the bells do make our hearts to shake,\ and they s e A said an audible prayer. \What you make afraid? Not the bells of echo, that the wind do bring to your door for the too sweet music? Pith! Ghost it is, not at all, but the r -r -ravine, and the hills they do make the bells of the sleighing companie the echo which for the mintat-e stop at your door; 'tis echo always this so many years that you think it the ghosts.\ Uncle Pierre was compelled to es- cape from the room when the family had accepted his scientific explanation, which he further elaborated in their native tongue, he was RO overwhelmed with thanks and praises. So the shadow was lifted forever from the house of Frontenac, and the story which had so sad an ending and was accountable for the ghost Is no longer related as the cause of such a dreary effect, and it is now the pleas- ure of the ladies of the chateau, as it once was the abhorrence, to ask visitors to listen to the \PO strange echo,\ and out of the materials of a tragedy they have really evolved a commit HE ladies of the Chateau Froutenac had invited theit brother's fiance to make them a visit in order to ex - elan) to her the strange shadow which hung over their house for nearly a hundred years, and to whose baneful influences ehe must become habituated when a member of the tam - Tea In Tin yaeltag•v. A new use line ered for Welsh tinplates which wily hare an Im- portant bearing on that languishing in- dustry. A consignment of Indian tea packed In tin-plate chests has been re- ceived. The result is pronounced a great Improvement on the old method, the aromald the tea being Mater preserved. It is thotieht that the new packing same will be generally adopted by In- dian tea packers. Monk* as. Handing. A week ago seven bandits forced an entrance into a Franciscan convent sit- uated In a Idhely spot near Bagnorea, Italy. The silent brethren. rudely waked by the noise, forthwith armed themselves with guns, and after a short battle won a complete victory. THE EDERA_L_FONSTITUTION. Ex-Creanient Harrison Explains. Dow go IS ALS Made. Ex -President Harrison's paper ip tbe a Ladies' Home Journal of \This Coun try of Ours\ series, treats coraerehen- gayety of the Constitution, and its ap- plication and operation, defining the Instrument, its scope and Ittritatione, clearly. \The word 'Constitution,' \ he writes, \as used among us implies a written instrument; but in England it is used to describe a governmental sys- tem or organization made up of char- ters -as the Magna Charta-the general Acts of Parliament, and a body of long- established legal usages or customs. These are not compiled in any single instrument as with us, but are to be sought in many places. \The common American usage, in making a state constitution, is to elect, by a popular vote, delegates to a con- vention, whose duty it is to prepare a plan of government. When the dele- gates have agreed and have properly certified the Instrument it is sub- mitted to a direct vote of the people, and each voter casts a ballot 'For the Constitution' or 'Against the Constitu- tion.' If a majority vote for the' Con- stitution it then beatis a paramount : T law of the statehe egislature does not make the Constitution; the Consti- tution makes the legislature. Tho American idea is that Constitutions proceed from the people in the exercise of their natural right of self-govern- ment, and can only be amended or superseded by the people. Whatever one legislature or congress enacts the next one may repeal, but neither can repeal or infringe it Constitutional pro- vision. \The delegates to the convention that framed the Constitution of the United States were not, however, chosen by a popular vote in the states, but by the legislatures. Nor was the question of the adoption of the Constitution sub- mitted lathe states to a direct popular vote. . . There have been fifteen amendments to the Constitution adopt- ed. Ten of these were proposed to the legislatures of the states by the First Congress, and ratified. The other five amendments have, in like manner, been submitted by Congress to the state leg- islatures for ratification -conventions In the states not having been used in any case. It will he noticed, also. that the vote upon the adoption of the Con- stitution, and itpon amendments there- to, is by states --each state, without re- gard to its population, having one vote. But while these provisions make the popular control less direct than is usual in the states, and necessarily recognize the states in the process of making and amending the Constitution, the. idea that Constitutions proceed from the peOple is not lost.\ VERY POLITE SHERIFF. Hanging That Was Conducted Under Roles of Society. \The most polite man I ever knew,\ said J. D. Ewans of Mississippi to a Star writer, \was a colored man down in my country. He belonged before the war to Colonel White, one of the most cultured and polished gentlemen in the South. During reconstruction days Torn was elected sheriff, and the first year he had the office a white man was sen- tenced to be hanged. I knew the doomed prisoner, and at his tequest was with him several hours a day kir the last week of his life. \The sheriff came in the first time I was there and, addressing the prisoner, „said: ' 'Settee me. Marster Bob, I Jose come fur jean a little advice. Yo' see, we ain' neither oh us used ter cere- monious occasions oh ills kin' an' I Jess want ter know how - yo' would like ter have de gallaws--facin' tie sun or de odor way.' \The prisoner told him to have his face away from the sun. \ 'Thank yo', Mars Bob. I'll done halt it Etat way. We don' wan' to make 110 expositions ob oursefs by not doin' what Is propah on filch events.' \Upon the next occasion, the sheriff ca!II \ e Ma in: rsBob, 'smite: me one* moment. gemmen. I Jess waests ter liab yo' show me once mo' how yen done tie dat knot. Mos' curiosest knot I eber seed,' \Upon the morning of the fated day, as I went in. the sheriff had the doomed man's foot thrown over a chair and was blacking his boot, the other one hav- ing already been polished. 'Maw in', Bah,' he said to me. 'Mars liolrikCSA Main' ready. I done borrered a suit an' necktie from de capinel an' jess slickin' 'im up. Den I gits inter my own dress suit dat I had made a pupus an' Mars Bob an' me, we gwine ter be bete dressed ob anybody.' \Arrayed in full evening dress, the convicted man and the sheriff mounted the scaffold when the time came. 'All right now, Mars Bob,' said the sheriff. as he adjusted the cap. \Scuse me. ash, jests a minute.' end he touched,the fatal spring.\ Washington Star.' A Dentark•ble Came, Bessie Smith, of Aurora, Illinois, fell front a bicycle last July and was ren- dered unconscious. For several days she remained In that condition, and when she finally recovered consciousness her mind was blank. Recently, she wait foiled by her parents lying out in the snow, where she had fallen. When she recovered consclousnetur she seemed to be herself again, remembering every- thing except the events of the last eix months. Before else was taken sick she was a firre'bitien player, but for nearly six months she has not been able to piny a single strain. She now plays as well as ever. The (7.1050's Drawing - Kamm*. The namee of Indies who have never been presented at the queen's drawing - room must he sent to the lord chamber - Mine; office a certain number of dims previous to the ceremony, with that of the person undertaking to introduce them to the royal presence. e. IN Was up cit wri hat the lea wti lig 1w tw Sec re , by th I t', re• Yo In sul ter In, Pa te Su, an ftr. th a an ot th sh El no E. ev hi 10 ea P ' It is
