He has a large map of his own dominions; and in each town where troops are stationed he fixes a common pin, and on the head of the pin is a small bit of card, on which are written the names of the regiments, their numbers, and commanding officers, in the town.

He has a large map of his own dominions; and in each town where troops are stationed he fixes a common pin, and on the head of the pin is a small bit of card, on which are written the names of the regiments, their numbers, and commanding officers, in the town.

"Do you take me for a sentimental idiot that I should pin silly labels on my old friend, Death?"

The glow of the narrator's cigar waxed, a pin-point of light in a world of dimness and mystery.

Even that sweet green maiden-hair fern might pin down your foot so firmly that it would take a fish's sharp tooth to set you free.

Not only do we ask it for that purpose, but when you will have by a two-thirds vote submitted the proposition to the several Legislatures, you have put the pin down and it never can go back.

He knits reins very well with a spool and a pin now, and I think it's time he graduated in that art, unless the woman of the future, of whom we hear so much, is to take man's place to such an extent that the man will have to take up woman's work.

Then dropping the cup upon the ground, he put his heel into it, and, with a burning glance of love at Ching-ki-pin, strode, melancholy, away.

How the too gay Ching-ki-pin regretted those unlucky telegraphic kisses!

His voice fell like soft music on the ears of his hosts, and went straight to the innermost core of Ching-ki-pin's heart.

But the beauteous Ching-ki-pin, who had recovered her composure, answered with the sweetest air imaginable, and succeeded in winding another amorous chain around the already sufficiently-enslaved heart of her lover.

Mien-yaun sipped it with an air of high-breeding that neither Ching-ki-pin nor her respectable mother-in-law had ever seen before.

The gates of a pavilion flew open, and the beauteous Ching-ki-pin stepped forth, glowing with loveliness and hope.

The moment they crossed the threshold, Mien-yaun and Ching-ki-pin went into a simultaneous fit.

He would gladly have abdicated the throne of fashion; he cared nothing for that;but it was well that he was spared the humiliation of seeing his Ching-ki-pin's name held up to public scorn; that would have destroyed the feeble remains of intellect which yet inhabited his bewildered brain.

He found that wealth and station, though they might command the admiration of the world, could not insure him happiness; and he thought how readily he would resign all the gifts and glories which Fortune had showered on him for the joyous hope, could he dare to indulge it, of a cottage on the banks of the Grand Canal, with his darling Ching-ki-pin at his side.

Mien-yaun could not but perceive that the only obstacle to his union with Ching-ki-pin was now removed.

Pei was one thing, and pin was another.

Like an arrow, Mien-yaun flew to the arms of Ching-ki-pin.

Since Ching-ki-pin was faithful, he asked no higher bliss.

"Think of my feet," said Ching-ki-pin, reproachfully;"am

Ching-ki-pin, too, thought she might do something to acquire wealth.

"Son of Heaven," answered Mien-yaun, "grant me only the hand in marriage of my beauteous Ching-ki-pin.

But hold a common black pin before the eyes at the distance of distinct vision, and one-twentieth of its length, nearest the point, is enough to cover him so that he cannot be seen.

The head of the same pin will cover one of the Cambridge horse-cars at the same distance, and conceal the tower of Mount Auburn, as seen from Boston.