While chatting M. de la R lighted a capital fire in the grate, and his wife, with a pillow and cushions, a hooded cloak belonging to him, and a pelisse belonging to herself, improvised opposite the fire a bed on a sofa, somewhat short, and which we lengthened by means of an arm-chair.

In the farthest corner of the room, elevated on a crimson velvet cushion, sat the Vizier, wrapped in a superb pelisse: on his head was a vast turban, in his belt a dagger, incrusted with jewels, and on the little finger of his right hand he wore a solitaire as large as the knob on the stopper of a vinegar-cruet, and which was said to have cost two thousand five hundred pounds sterling.

She wore a black velvet bonnet and Chantilly veil, a crimson silk pelisse trimmed with rich furs, a boa of Russian sable; and, over all, a loose pelisse, lined with fur.

She wore a black velvet bonnet and Chantilly veil, a crimson silk pelisse trimmed with rich furs, a boa of Russian sable; and, over all, a loose pelisse, lined with fur.

we all have our trials, rich and poor,' sighed the woman, who desired nothing better than to be allowed to unbosom her woes to the grand looking lady in the fur-bordered cloth pelisse, with beautiful dark hair piled up in clustering masses above a broad white forehead, and slender white hands on which diamonds flashed and glittered in the firelight, an unaccustomed figure by that rustic hearth.

She was simply habited in a blue pelisse and blue bonnet, and would not be distinguished in her appearance from the crowd except by her attendants in livery.

de Hautcastel to her maid, after a short silence, "that this pelisse is much too full at the bottom?

Blue was our colour in the Tentha sky-blue dolman and pelisse with a scarlet frontand it was said of us in the army that we could set a whole population running, the women towards us, and the men away.

We both carried our swords, and for my own part I slipped a pistol from my holster into the inside of my pelisse, for it seemed to me that there might be some wild work before us.

The blood was streaming from Duroc's neck and dyeing the grey fur of his pelisse.

'Well, Monsieur Gerard,' said he, at last, tapping his forefinger upon one of the brandebourgs of gold braid upon the front of my pelisse, 'I am informed that you are a very deserving young officer.

For my part, I followed the Emperor with my pelisse bursting with pride.

But even as I was torn out on to the flint stones, and realized that thirty ruffians were standing around me, I was filled with joy, for my pelisse had been pulled over my head in the struggle and was covering one of my eyes, and it was with my wounded eye that I was seeing this gang of brigands.

Why is St. Giles's clock like a pelisse, and unlike a cloak?Because it shows the figure without confining the hands.

o' the pelisse a' the way doon frae neck till feet!

How little does Mrs. Alderman Popkins dream, when she returns to her residence in Bloomsbury, that her Parisian pelisse is of Spitalfields manufacture, and that her French lace veil came originally from Honiton.

My dear, that full pelisse becomes you well.

Mrs. Griswold mounted to the back seat, after kissing Lizzy with hearty regret and tenderness,her old gray pelisse and green winter bonnet harmonizing with the useful age of her conveyance.

The BARON, a gray-headed man, eighty-five years old, tall and of a commanding mien, clad in a furred pelisse, and leaning on a staff tipped with chamois horn.

The people of the house used to say rather unfeelingly, that they expected I should be frozen to death some night; but with the protection of a pelisse lined with fur, and a dog's skin bonnet, such as was worn by the peasants, I walked daily on the ramparts, or on a sort of public ground or garden, in which was a pond.

Come here, child, and let me pull off your pelisse.

What a pretty silk pelisse, and silver buckles, too.

I think, too, that you had better get a gray cloth pelisse, with a fur trimming.

" At the sound of French I hurried to the door of our compartment, and there stood a tall Russian officer in his gray uniform and a huge fur-lined pelisse which came to his feet.

His pelisse is of a bluish gray, fits tightly to the waist, and comes to the feet.

Having arrived home, (we assume the possibility of this,) refrain, carefully, from communicating with the police on the subject of the events of the day.

That Iron "Dog." The latest bit of intelligence given by the police regarding the "dog" so much spoken of in connection with the Twenty-third street murder, is that it is not, as at first stated, the kind of instrument used by shipwrights.

In other words, the police have discovered that it is not a Water-dog, though, up to the present date, they have not been able to prove it a Bloodhound.

Any information bearing upon the case may be sent to the | | Mayor, John Jourdan, Superintendent of Police City of New | | York; or to James J. Kelso, Chief Detective Officer.

In such torrid weather as we are having, JACK ashore with nothing on, except, perhaps, a Panama hat, will be a novel and refreshing objectbut how about the police?

The only trace of the thieves that the police have been able to discover is the broken blade of a clasp-knife, which was on a flower-bed near the window.

If we tell him, he'll be bound to tell the police, to explain about those footmarks; and when it comes out that we got into the house, I should think we are pretty certain to be charged with having stolen the coins.

It's all in the paper this morning; it mentions the footmarks and the knife-blade, and says that as yet the police have not been able to discover any further traces of the robbers.

As yet the police have been unable to discover any further traces of the missing property, but it is to be hoped that befor

All the same, it would be very awkward if he sent the police that jack-knife, and told them he'd seen us climbing out of the old chap's window.

The notice of the fifty pounds reward still appeared in the windows of the police station; but the robbery itself was beginning to be looked upon as a thing of the past, and was already wellnigh forgotten.

It was more likely that Henshaw was bound upon some search with the police.

"If you have not already done so, are you prepared to repeat your story to the police?" "Most certainly I am, if necessary," was the prompt answer.

Besides the committee on laws Carleton had nominated three other active committees of his council, one on police, another on education, and a third on trade and commerce.

The police committee was of the usual kind and dealt with usual problems in the usual way.

"It's the last day you'll sell opium to white men," insisted Dave, "for, as soon as I'm through here I'm going to the police station to inform against you.

"Why, see here, this is the police station!"

The chief of police received his two callers courteously.

" "Why is it likely to reach official ears, if you fellows keep your mouths shut?" "You see," Darrin went on very quietly, "I reported the joint at the police station, and Chow Hop threatened that, if I did, he'd tell all he knew about everybody.

So you'd better be first" "You broke the game out to the police!"

Incidentally, the fact of Midshipman Darrin's report to the police was brought out.

"Will you tell me why you reported the affair to the police?" "I went to the police, sir," Dave replied, "because I was aware that many members of the new fourth class are away from home for the first time in their lives.

"Will you tell me why you reported the affair to the police?" "I went to the police, sir," Dave replied, "because I was aware that many members of the new fourth class are away from home for the first time in their lives.

Other checks turned up, too, and in the end the police went through his papers, and found letters fromwell, from her, you know.

"Oh, well," said Duveen, "I expect you heard they didn't catch Shillito, and since he got across the frontier, it's possible the Canadian police won't see him again.