POUR GONDOLIER. But there was one exquisite little looking the sunlit waters, and finally Our Telephone Girl. long hours, I was the fairest. I blueeyad, FOE DEAR LIFE. palace which had attracted our notice into his own snuggery, wherein he bade golden-haired Ella Bieorn, was tfei. ill. She was mad. Shehad been scolded from the very first, and about which us rest, and ordered ices to be served the acknoweldged belle and queen Winter again, and the land is once and complained about, conjured, harrassed Although at Rome and other European Beppo was always silent. Indeed, up. of the party, and Eric, my lover, more wrapped in the same spotless and threatened, until she was capitals, for one's personal con. after half a dozen trips we found that We could not help noticing with the most stalwart youth of the intoxicated with a desire for revenge, mantle, locked in the same icy fetters, he never looked at it, and, in spite of what extreme simplicity this little venience and comfort, it is advisable country-side. But all things, even the and if her bosom friend had called up our drawing his attention to it and room was fitted up, but this was not as it was that memorable winter so pleasantest, must come to an end. So to do as Rome and the other capitals the central station at suGh a moment, asking him about it, resolutely turned striking as was a picture which when the shades of evening began to long ago when Eric and I had that do, one is not bound to it by any necessity his head toward the opposite side of and by mixing conversations, the telephone hung over the grotesquely, carveds fall heavily, merging earth, sky and fierce, wild struggle "for dear life." At of circumstances and surroundings. the canal. girl could have broken her mantelpiece. It represented the Bep-* watdr into one gray leaden cloud, we this season otthe raar the never quite At length we became so importunate But at Venice it is otherwise. po we had known* so many years before heart, the heart would have to break. began our journey homeward. Tired dormant recollection revives, and I that he answered us: standing in his gondola. It was a dangerous time for a bridegroom out with my exertions, as soon as we One must do as Venice does or simply feel all the horror of that midnight "That palace, gentleman, is held by prospective to call, but one did Our host perceived the surprise n started I nestled down among the soft -exist without moving, seeing or learningby the greatest prig among all the Austrian scene rise and come back upon me like both our faces and smiled. furs in the sleigh, and, rocked by its so to his sorrow. which we mean that it is absolutely prigs, the colonel of the army of "Ah!" he said, "That represents me easy motion, soon fell fast asleep. "Hello' Who is it?" she snapped. a ehostfrom the confines of the past. necessary for every one who occupation. No,, gentlemen, do not as I was fifteen years ago, when the How long I slept I know not but when "Amaranthus Blake," he softly replied. It chills me with its dread presence, think of landing there, I pray you wishes to get about the city to use accursed Austrians were here. I was I awoke it was snowing fast, and the until, shivering in nerve and limb, I there is nothing to be seen in it. Nothingnothing Beppo, the gondolier, but 1 was also darkness so intense we could not see a "The dude that is to be married tomorrow *he gondola. rise and draw nearer to the blazing at all." Giacomo Morani" hand's breadth before us. 1 called to evening to Hattie Blanchard?" Of course one may walk if he choosY*esthat And, before we could insist, a few hearth, heap on some more pine logs, "We remember you perfectly well," Eric, who was driving, and asked if is to say, if he prefers the rapid strokes had carried us away, I said. all was well. To which the answer and strive in the region of light and "I am no dude, thank you," he replied. and Beppo was explaining something 5rowd and the heat, and the noise of Morani started and looked at us. came back, half deadened by the thick warmth to bid it defiance. "But 1 am to be married to else with more volubillity than usual. "Why," he said at length, "you cannot atmosphere. "All well, but for God's fche narrow lanes, called by courtesy Miss Blanchard to-morrow evening." In vain. Through the whir of my One of us sketched the little palace, be the two gentlemen who hired sake try to keep awake." "Well, what are you standing there ''streets, to the swift, easy motion of spinning wheel comes the long drawn with its quaint arabesque arches and me for a week, and were always both mumbling about? Who do you moan of the wind, whilst without the So I aroused myself and sat up, 4"the gondola but after one or two deep balconies, its escutcheons and its ering me to show you this palace' want?" snow falls heavily as ever, adding desolation knowing that sleep in that bitter night *%walks the visitor gets a surfeit of Venetian gaudily painted mooring posts, but But, yes! You have grown beards "Give me No. 312, please." to the already drear and sombre air might mean death. Of any other under Beppo's guidance we could get but I remember you. And you per land progression, unless he con^fines "All right, here it is." landscape. Eric has gone to the fear I had no thought, for my no farther. haps remember I disappeared th himself to the immediate neighborhood "Hello! is this Mr. Sapper, the fold-yard, as beseems a thrifty husbandman, driver was skillful, while Thor One evening our gondola came alongside night ot" florist?" to see after the well-being of of St. Mark's, and gladly and Odin, our two sturdy little with another man in it. Beppo "The murder of the Austrian Col- ourkine. Would that he were back to "Yes." mountain ponies, knew their ^enough hails the friendly craft with was ill and had sent a substitute in onel," said my friend. laugh off my fears and exercise the "Well, how about the orange blos- way home almost unguided. Suddenly, his stead. ^"fche steel-barbed prow. Morani laughed. phantoms which rise thus unbidden soms'" and as I listened vainly for the It was a beautiful eveningone of "Murder you may call it, but there As a rule it is the best plan to en5S\gage from the days that are now no more' "Well, I can have them for you by echo of our companions' heels, I heard those evenings tvpically known as is not a Venetian living now who re His hearty presence and ]oyous voice noon to-morrow, if you need them." another sound come up with the wind Venetianstill, dark, calm, a deep a members it but speaks of it as an act so much a dayfive ma nota are in themselves as potent against distraught a long drawn, hollow moan. Twice "Need them? Of course I need them! 'y francs is out of the wayand is blue sky above absolutely bright with of the purest patriotism. I was born fancies as the "sprig of rowan" or thrice it came at intervals, this Why not?" stars, a moon shining so clearly that ^'entirely at the hirer's disposition at in this palace, as were my ancestors which the faithful wear as a, safeguard weird noise, each time nearer and more Here the girl switched on a manager one seemed able to see far behind it. for 500 years back. Every inch of it any time. The Venetian gondoliers against witchcraft and the evil eye. distinct. The third time the ponies who,was talking to one of his actors the still blackness of the water alone was sacred to me, and was it to be expected .are, generally, a civil, honest and intelligent Meanwhile, as I sit waiting with che also heard it, for they sprang forward about a rehearsal. In the company broken by the deep reflection of the that I could view its occupation supper ready and all things bright and with an impetus that almost shook race, and in choosing among was a woman known as Hattie and lights on shore. by a brutal enemy of my country tidy, I must e'en yield to the spell of me out of the carriage. Freightened, another as Elsie, and the manager them one is not running such a risk Ordinarily the water would have without longing to drivehimout of it? the place and hour and listen to the I said to Eric, "What, oh, what is was just saying- been alive with gliding gondolas and But what could I do? I had spent all as if one were to hire a London cabby tale suggested by the wandering fancies that?" And the answer came back, "It will be impossible for Hattie to the air h= ht with laughter and distant my money in the service of the city, as on the same principle. of old. short and stern- "The Salten hounds'" appear to-morrow evening. Elsie music, but not even the beauty did a hundred other nobles. I was New Year's eve some thirty years Then we began that terrible chase who slept with her last night, says of the night could tempt those abroad ruined. I was driven to get my own Well, nearly twenty years ago we agoand we were keeping it right "for dear life" which, though weshould she is not likely to be able to play the who were kept in by the presence of living, and I turned gondolier. But, -found ourselves in Venice for the first merrily at the old manor-house of both live for twice our allotted span, bride. She has not yet sufficiently recovered the hated invader. although I became simple Beppo, I itime. Stor Aswan, the home of my childhood, we never could forget. Swiftly we from her late confinement to never forgot who I was, and I only "Down the Grand Canal," we said as as it had been that of my forefathers sped along, our steeds impelled by terror attempt so arduous a role, and has The city was then under the Austri. waited for revenge. When the piga usual. And the man bent to his oar, for many generations. The as great as our own, until they appeared concluded to terminate the engage- an dominion, so that we saw it under were sent out and the city reunited to past the Doge's palace, with its sentinel pleasantest spot in all the world, I almost to fly. Breathlessly, ment." somewhat peculiar circumstances. A Italy, the state placed me here again columns of St. Theodore and St. thought, and still think, that quaint we hearkened, hoping even yet to leave "Do you know she has procured a .physically degenerate people imbued in the home of my fathers as a reward Mark past the hotels, silent and deserted, Norwegian homestead, with its buff the enemy behind. But no they travelled substitute?" asked the actor, whom 'with a great deal of their ancient for my poor services. When although it was midsummer walls and birch-bark roof, which succeeding with us, gained upon us, nearer the girl had also switched on to you are ready, gentlemen, I will show pride and patriotism, goaded to silent past the palaces, for the most part utilized summers had rendered verdant and yet nearertheir cry growing perceptibly Blake's 'phone. you something else." 'fury by the continual presence and as barracks, and displaying more with an ever green thatch of from an uncertain vague voice "No'" The intended groom solemnly -swagger of an invader, who showed than their usual signs of animation, He led the way down stairs, took a moss and lichens. Just now, however, of the darkness into the unmistakably replied. himself as aggressive and insulting an until we came to what we termed "our lantern from a servant, and bade us this was not visible, for snow lay wolf-like note. We knew from the "Well, she has. Miss Wonderlich occupier as he had been a brutal and palace." The upper windows were follow him. Opening the door hidden thickly upon it, as it had lain 'or direction from whence it came that will appear for her, and by keeping ^callous enemy while uniforms and lighted up, but below all was darkness behind the tapestry, he stood on the weeks past, not onl there, but upon they were tracking us by scent now her heavily veiled, we can probably 'blue legs everywhere the harsh gutturals save where the moon shone on the bayonet top of a steep flight of steps, up which all the country round. We were in our last poor chance lay in the darkness decieve every body into the belief that of the Teuton bursting in at of the Austrian sentinel. there came a damp, cold, air. the midst of a white sea, whose billows of the night and our nearness to Hattie is on deck, including the chief *eyery moment, like sullen thunder, "Be careful," he said, "the stairs were the partially submerged We drifted on, stopping here and Stor Aswan. Eric still held the reins, actors. Miss Wonderlich is very versatile, amid the soft liquid patter of the native are steep and slippery. When I had hedges, that daily grew less noticeable there to feast our eyes on the strange, and I cowered down at the bottom of you know." Italian. Here the victorgay, him on my sholders we went from top as the snow drifted in and piled above weird, moonlit scene, and did not turn the sleigh and prayed more earnestly "Yes, but she don't catch me," .jubilant, supreme there the vanquishedmorose, to bottom together, but as my good them. The fir-trees alone stood forth the head of our gondola until nearly than I had ever yet done in my life roared Blake, and the next day it was depressed, sullen and knife had done its work, it did not bravely, as if defying this insidious midnight. "for an increase of the snow-drift, or discovered that he had bought a scrowiing and the gayety which long hurt him as much as me." foe, yet even their stately branches aught, only a miracle, if it might only As we approached our palace on the through ticket to California and left survived the setting of the sun of Morani said this with a low laugh trailed earthwards, and their strong save us." return journey we were aware of an unusual in the night,and yet the wicked telephone Venice had fled under the iron rule of which made me shudder. arms creaked and strained under the scene. Acrowd of gondolas were girl feels no remorse. On and on, for a time that seems interminable the double-headed eagle. The military ever-increasing load. about the steps, and up the little rio F. L. HUDDLE. yet might in truth have 'band played on soft summer nights in which ran by the side of the building, It was the hardest winter that has been but a few moments. Then the the square of St. Marks, but no native A N ew View of Matternick. filled with men in white uniforms bearing been for fifty yearsso the old folks A Curious Custom of the New storm ceased, and we saw half a mile would be seen listening to it half lanterns the entrance was filled From the Youth's Companion. saidand they foretold its continuance in our rear a daik line coming swiftly Britain Islanders. ^jhe curio shops in the Piazetta were with a noisy, gesticulating crowd lights for some weeks longer. Other and steadily down upon us. In the It is commonly thought that states -shut up people moved secretly and Washington Letter. United States flitted to and fro in the upper windowsevidently signs were not wanting which more middle of a white plain, with no nook men are little troubled by conscience moved silently Austrian officers monopolized Consul Griffin, of Sidney, brother of something extraordinary plainly than aught else, denoted the or corner visible wherein we could take the little tables in front of Mary Anderson's step-father, has and are governed simply by expedien had happened. unusual severity of the season. The refuge, and still nearly a league from their Fiorina, the Aurora and the made some exhaustive studies of the We directed our gondolier to steer in cy or ambition. Metternick, who had flocks of wild fowl, usually so shy and home,our case looked hopeless enongh. 1 'Quadri Austrian soldiers hung out inhabitants of New Britain, an island and ask the matter. He did so, and difficult of approach, came down from So our pursuers seemed to think as the reputation of a model statesman the linen over curiously carved bal-conies in the South Pacific Ocean, and gives hailing a comrade who was sitting in the upper meres, their accustomed they now caught sight of us for of this order, helped to rearrange th which could speak of many a the State Depaitment the benefit of his boat smoking a cigar, received for haunts, and strove with the tame the first time, and lifting their black 'Scene of romance and chivalry, and map of Europe after the overthrow his researches. Among other things an answer: denizens of our own farm yard for a muzzles from the ground gave' vent tsmoked their long pipes in gilded saloonshung Napoleon, and was the leader of Aus he says that the inhabitants have the "The pig of a Colonel has been killed, share in their midday meal. Hares to a howl of savage ejaculation. I with the portraits of the thanks to the saints." custom of confining their girls in cages and rabbits, impelled by hunger, torgot could have screamed too. when I trian politics, till the popular revolution greatest and noblest names in Venetian And so it proved to be, for on the their nature and stole up to our until they are old enough to marry. heard it, for fright was driving me of 1848. He seemed to be gov history. One did not live in a dying landing at the square a few minutes very doors, begging with their large, This custom he says is peculiar to half wild it was so unutterably horrible erned by ambitious aims, and tc city, as is usually the impression later, we found the cafes and arcades dark eyes in a pitious dumb fashion to perish thus. But a glance at that island and without a parallel produced by Venice, but in a city that have no regard for justice or the rights filled with white coats, who were eagerly for relief. Herds of raindeer also came Etic, so calm and steadfast, gave me among the inhabitants of the South was dead. and angrily discussing the news. south from Lapland, seeking more of the people. new courage. I felt that, come what Seas. These girl cages are made of genial pastures and it was rumored Another extraordinary thing was might, we should at least die together. twigs of the palm tree and the But, if his journals may be trusted, Still we resolved to make the most that less pleasant visitors had recently that we had Beppo no more as gondolier girls are put into them when only Faster and faster we flew like hunted he thought himself loyal to conscience of the few days at our disposal, and been seen and heard The black during our visit. two or three years of age. These animals, death behind us coming on -our first duty was to secure a good and governed always by a desireto do pine forests of Saltern had again set Fifteen years elapsed. I had stumbled cages are built inside the houses and apace. A few yards more and he gondolier for the period of our stay. forth the grim bloodthirsty pack of on my old traveling companion, right. He says of himself, would claim us for his own. Already the girls are never allowed to leave legionaries who for ages had dwelt unmolested Beppo was presented to us, and we and we resolved to visit our love of I could hear the rapid breathing of the house under any circumstances, "After thirty-six years of public life, Ttook him chiefly, I verily believe, for in its dark fastnesses and other days. The long span of years our foes, see their fierce eyes and white and are only taken out of the cages I have never lived to self. The part the cry of "wolf" was not longer, as hi personal appearance. Visitors seemed like a dream as we found ourselves teeth glittering and gleaming in the once a day to be washed. The houses have played has not been from choice, heretofore, an empty sound. without number have remarked how again in the presence of the old, moonlight. Prompted by Eric but imposed by a feeling of duty. Free themselves are closely fenced in with a ever new palaces and churches under much more frequently the noble type threw out the bear-skin rug which protected All this, however, did not affect any from every ambition but the desire oi sort of wicker work made of reeds. the glorious sky weremembered so well, of Italian face and figurethat is, the us from the cold. For a moment of our party, who were all Norsemen honestly fulfilling tasks which, for a Ventilation under the circumstances and once again in a gondola. But type of the grand old picturesis they paused, smelt at it, then and maidens born, used to the cold, variety of reasons, were laid upon is rendered difficult. The girls are Venice had put on another face during found among the lower classes than with fresh fury rushed after their old full of health and spirits. I, Ella from the very commencement of my said to grow up strong and healthful this time. The white coats had disappeared, among the higher. Beppo's was an prey. One by one, cushions, wraps, Bieorn, daughter of the house, was the ministry, I have never left the path in spite of their disadvantages. The there was life and gayety, ideal Italian facea face that might all went over to the hungry pack, wildest of that mad circle who had Christmas-tide as which seemed to me to be the right natives are very fond of jewelry made af/ Sto Aswa that but traces of the occupation were many have pressed the cold lips of Julie in each gaining us an instant's priceless sembled one. Unmoved by the errors of oui of shell or bone. and patent in the shape of windows jfche lonely Verona tomb the face we delay. As the last fell from my hand to do honor to my betrothal time, errors which always lead society stripped of their iron lattices, of se in those Litians and Tintorettos the foremost wolf bounded forward, to Eric Jarl, the lover of my youth, to the abyss, I have had the happiness Both men and women are entirely their carvings and their embellishments, too otten hidden behind curtains in just missing my arm, while his strong, ere long to be my husband. As soon in a time full of danger to serve the nude, except a small strip of bark or of palaces let out to cruel jaws met with a painfully as the birch trees put forth their first dusky Italian churchesdark, regular cause of peace, and the welfare of th leaves around the loins. They have glass and curiosity dealers. Venice tfeatured, oval-shaped, the face of a audible snap. green tassels in the early spring time nations, which will never be advanced thick, black curley hair, large flat was more herself than she had been /hero, not of a humble gondolier. As I was to leave my old hbme for a new by revolutions." Then Eric turned and looked at me noses, and symmetrical bodies. They under the Austrian dominion, but she -lie stood poised on the slope of the one: so now surrounded by kingsfolk a long, loving glanceand began If Metternick was sincere, he has been display a great fondness for feathers was still Venice dying. and neighbors, we were keeping this -gondola behind us, his long hair knotting the rains to the iron side of greatly misjudged. If the popular ver of gaudy colors, with which they decorate We did not expect to meet with our last anniversary of my sisterhood in -streaming in the breeze, his limbs 11 the driving seat. Instinctively divining diet is correct, he must have been their heads. Sometimes they wear old friend Beppo after a lapse of so goodly fashion. We revived many a working gracefully and harmoniously his purpose of giving his lite to ^ave strangely ignorant of his own mo a helmet or head dress, about eighteen many years, but we asked after him bygone pastime, and the vast hall at in the most poetic of motions, he mine, I sprang forward, and clinging tives. inches in h'ght, made of bark and seaweeds-, all the same. No one seemed to know Stor Aswan re echoed once again to imight have posed for a demi-god. Nor to him frantically, whispered and ornamented with shells, anything about him. the shouts that greeted the incoming were we disappointed when we became "Dearest, lemember, westandortall cat's-eyes, etc. Why Bachelors Abound in Mexico. We made a trip in the old fashion of a mighty yule log, and rang with .better acquainted with the man himtself. together'" down the Grand Canal and paused joyous laughter at the tiicks and antics i^- ^w He was very quietsadly quiet, A sudden thought, justified by our A Fiarhtingf Editor. opposite our palace. It, too, had of morris-dancers and mummers. "tve thought, for he never smiled during When a Mexican lady is widowed dire extremity, flashed through my changed with the times. There were The Atlanta Constitution says the our ten days' acquaintance with him. So in dancing, feasting and merrymaking brainit was at best a forlorn hope. says a correspondent of the Kansas gay awnings over the balconies, delicate 3He was respectful without beeing in the week sped until a few champion fighting editor of the country Quickly I bent over Eric, snatched the City Journal, a family council is im curtains in the windows, the the smallest degree servile and, what hours more would see us scattered in hunting knife from his belt and cut lives at Albuquervue, N. M. As mediately called, her male relatives stone wall looked much brighter and various directions, to meet again we was valuable to us, he spoke a little loose the nearest pony. With an almost the story goes eleven citizens of the and those of her husband charging cleaner, the mooring posts had been knew not when nor where. For the English, and apparently had the history human cry of pain the poor animal variety known as "toughs" came to themselves with the education of hei repainted, and at the steps floated a last day, therefore, we had reserved and romance of Venice by heart galloped off, with the ravenous the conclusion, a short time ago, that sons, and the care of hersslf and gondola manned by men in picturesque the chief pleasure, the crowning point not by heart in the orthodox licensed pack after it. A few strides only and daughters quite as a matter of course. it was their duty, in the interest of law livery. of all our enjoymenta sleighing and guide style, but thoroughly, as a man it was surrounded.overpowered.down, Though the widow and her grown-uj and order, and the purity of the ballot-box, We had been told that a man in skating party to Stor Aswan, a mountain who loves his subject. Sometimes, as and the last sounds we heard ere the daughters may be accomplished as to take the editor out and Italy by no means looks upon his encircled lake some ten miles welcome lights of Stor Aswan came in "he alluded to some glorious bit of old well as poor, nobody dreams of th hang him. house in the light of a castle. On the further north, the same from which 3ight were our baffled enemies growling Venetian history, such as the war of possibility of their doing anything to contrary, he takes as a compliment our homestead derived its quaint Runic Now, our Albuquerque journalist and fighting over the remains of my Chioggia or the deeds of Vittorio Pisani ward supporting themselves, and th what we should regard as unwarrantable name. This was to be our vail of lived alone in a log cabin consisting ol gallant little steed. It was a cruel and Carlo Zeno, his eyes would intrusion, and more especially proffered aid is calmly accepted as greeting to the New Yearour welcome a single room with a cellar underneath. sacrifice, but necessity knows no laws, flash, his bared chest heave he would in the case of a foreigneer. So we resolved an hereditary right. Even if the wid to the incoming guest. His only Companion, a pet grizzly bear, and by it we were saved. .raise one hand from the oar and that after being so long shut owed mother is wealthy, she can by occupied the cellar. On the night when Brightly dawned the evenful morn* shake the fist with fierce energy af In years after, as we sat around the out we would try and see the little the editor had good reasons to expect no means be independent. Custom ing, clear and fair as heart could desire. ,the distant white uniforms, suddenly fire at "New Year's Eve," with the palace which had so charmed us. Accordingly a visit from the reformers, he retired Blue was the sky as a sapphire, which here rules with iron hand, prescribes to drop it and to shake his head sadly storm beating wildly, as now, against we steered to the steps the to the cellar and left the upper room while the freshly fallen snow sparkled that the entire superintendence the casement, and the wintry twilight and despondently. This was no men in the gondola rose and saluted to the grizzly. and shone as though strewn with living of herpoperty and the education closing in, our children would ask to well-concerted piece of acting on his as we pulled up alongside, and in answer gems. All nature seemed rejoicing At the hour of midnight eleven stalwart hear "once more" the oft told tale of part he was too consistant inhis manner her children shall be delegated to hei to the inquiry if we might view the like ourselves at the advent of another men arrived with a rope. They the "Salten hounds or our flight for to be showing what he did not feel. male kindred, and unless she is really interior of the palace, a gorgeous official year,and one already so full of promise, battered down the door and rushed dear life." Sometimes we came upon him unawares an aged woman, she must reside with at the entrance answered that the without the snow-bells tinkled and in, eager for the fray. They had no at the traghetto, or landing her relatives. So thoroughly are Mex Count Morani, the proprietor, was chimed merrily, making the frosty air light, but they rushed against their 'place, apart from his fellow-craftsmen, ican gentlemen imbued with this ides They loved One Another. out, but that he himself would show ring again as the gayly caparisoned man, as they supposed. For an editor who would be laughing and gesticulating of womanly dependence that they dc us over with the greatest pleasure. Thursday morning a young man horses pawed and shook their heads, he showed unusual pluck and and playing mora under the very not regard the care of any number We had scarcely penetrated the first and woman stood in front of the Journal impatient as their owners to be off. strength. He went for the lynchers moses of fche victors, sitting moodily bereaved families as an unjust burden floor when the majordomosaid: At length we started, Eric and I as office viewing the passing procession. with such activity that the fight was with his head in his hands, his eyes but, on the contrary, when a mai "Ah here is my lord!" hosts being the last of the party, for To protect his companion from over in'five minutes. fixed on the rippling water, and when marries he virtually contracts to be As he spoke a fine looking man, with of course he was my charioteer. I the jostling crowd the man held his In the gray of early morning three we addressed him he would start as friend all the female kindred of hit iron-gray hair and piercing black eyes, well remember my father standing at strong right arm about her waist during men turned up in Albuquerque, each from a dream. lady love, and to provide for them, i clad in an easy suit of black velvet, the door to see us go, and, as he tucked the time they stood there. It was with an eye missing. One man called We never wearied of floating gently need be. This sort ot knightly court entered. the bearskin rug more closely a source of considerable merriment to at the doctor's office with one toot .-down the Grand Canal listening to around me, bidding us "return early esy makes matrimony a serious mat "Beppo!" we said simultaneously under and three fingers chewed off. The remaining the newsboys, and one of the mischievous Beppo as he enlarged upon the various and beware of the Salten hounds." our breath. ter, and perhaps accounts for th seven reformers were loafing ones, in bright blue letters on a 'buildings we passed on our way, telling We laughed at the warning then, but Nothing could exceed the politeness number of" eligible bachelors witl around on the streets more or les$ white placard, inscribed the words, us about the Ferro Palace, popularly had awful cause to remember it afterwards. and urbanity with which the Count which Mexico abounds but, badinag mutilated. "We love each other," and in a twinkling known as Desdemona's of the Morani treated us. Lighting a cigar, apart, it is a beautiful custom, and it was fastened to theyouna man's When the alleged facts of the fracas wCasa Doro of the Giustiani of the and offering us each one, he conducted strong proof of the innate chivalry Of that day I shall not speak, we back. When the end of the procession got out the editor became the most /Palace Moceniji, where lived Byron of us through apartment after apartment, Mexican gentlemen is found in thi are all young and in wild spirits, and passed the couple started up Westminster popular man of the territory. His the Foscari, with its 365 windows, each furnished and fitted with some of us in love. Need I say more? ac fact that the estates of widows anc paper is doing a booming business, street, and as far up the street then a barrack for the Austrian the most exquisitely luxurious taste, Amid the many fair faces and little orphans are invariably administered ind he can get any office he wants their forms could be seen the placard soldiery of the magnificent Pesaro along corridors open to fairy-like gardens, forms that glided so gracefully over He still keeps the gristly \n the cellar with scrupulous honesty. with its legend loomed up with realistic and so under the Rialto Arch to where out into pleasant balconies over- the frozen mere, tireless through those ready for an emergency, effect..Providence Journal. now stands the railway station.