~The Wood Orchid.~ A butterfly, wing-weary, came to find A sweet seclusion from the amorous wind, Deep in the pine woods, where the dusky trees Shut in the forest's sounding silences With close-twined boughs from which the breeze has blown The fragrance-breathing fragments of the cone.

And thus he said to me: "What country, say, of this round earth, What shore of what salt sea, Be this, my son, I wander in, And looks so strange to me?" Says I, "O foreign sailorman, In England now you be, This is her wood, and there her sky, And that her roaring sea.

"'And that there wood is English wood, And this here cruel sea, The selfsame old blue ocean Years gone remembers me.

"'And that there wood is English wood, And this here cruel sea, The selfsame old blue ocean Years gone remembers me.

Ghosts in the world, malignant, grim, Vex many a wood and glen, And house and poolthe unquiet ghosts, Of dead and restless men.

And straightway through the forest Follows the wood-doves three.

Their beds they were made of the holly-wood, Their combs of the tortoise's shell, Three basins of silver in corners there stood, And three little ewers as well.

Wood and valleyall are still, Hushed the shepherd's call.

HAUNTED From out the wood I watched them shine, The windows of the haunted house, Now ruddy as enchanted wine, Now dark as flittermouse.

Wood Printing Works.

Above them, the white curlews swooped and curved and opened their pine wood beaks to squawk a prayer for dead fish.

It was built in the form of a T, of hewn logs, and the whole structure, both inside and out, was a combination of those soft grays and browns with which nature colors wood, and in its close setting of primeval forest, made a harmonious picture.

We came to a wood just north of the village, where the wind roared and shook the trees so that I was quite awe-stricken; but he held my hand and assured me there was no danger, until he suddenly drew me back, exclaiming: "Oh see!"

There was no church there at that time, but a thickly peopled graveyard, which adjoined that of the First Presbyterian Church, on the corner of Sixth and Wood.

When the congregation concluded to abandon the "Round Church," which stood on the triangle between Liberty, Wood and Sixth streets, and began to dig for a foundation for Trinity, where it now stands, there was great desecration of graves.

I had gone an errand to cousin Alexander's, on Fifth street, stayed late, and coming home, found Wood street deserted.

Henry Clay was being burned, in effigy, on the corner of Sixth and Wood streets, to show somebody's disapproval of his course in the election of John Quincy Adams.

We knew we were in a wood, by the rush of the wind amid the dried white oak leavesknew that the road grew rougher at every stepthat our driver became more nervous as he applied the brake, and we went down, down.

The king examined the piece of wood resting on the cushion and said: "By Saint Andrew, My Lord Cardinal, you have committed an error.

And I shall carry mighty loads of wood.

like that which Athens had, By th'oracle's advice, of wood; Had theirs been such as Charles has made, That mighty state till now had stood.

So angry bulls the combat do forbear, When from the wood a lion does appear.

Thus the wise nightingale that leaves her home, Her native wood, when storms and winter come, Pursuing constantly the cheerful spring, To foreign groves does her old music bring.

5 Contented in that nest of snow He lies, as he his bliss did know, And to the wood no more would go.

" I still held my brier-wood pipe in my hand, and I felt inclined to hurl it at the dapper head of the consequential little gentleman, but with such a girl standing by it would have been impossible to treat him with any disrespect, and as I looked at him I felt sure that his apparent superciliousness was probably the result of too much money and too little breeding.

If I may be allowed to speak of the motives which have actuated Her Majesty's Government in the matter, I would say that while we have recognized the interest of England, we have never looked upon it as the sole motive, or even as the greatest of those considerations which have urged us forward.

Gentlemen, it is said, and said truly, that truth beats fiction; that what happens in fact from time to time is of a character so daring, so strange, that if the novelist were to imagine it and to put it upon his pages, the whole world would reject it from its improbability.

Gentlemen, I would not have been the man, under circumstances like those, to deny for one moment that virtually and practically the whole responsibility of the treaty rested upon our shoulders; and so I say now the responsibility for handing back free Bessarabia to despotic Russia rests upon the Cabinet that is now in power, and on the majority that is now soliciting your suffrages for re-election.

Then they would probably have met in secret conclave and have decided the arrangement of the internal government of an independent kingdom.

The noble lord said he did not think there would be a federal execution, and that if there were we might be perfectly easy in our minds, for it would not lead to any disturbance in Europe.

And certainly if you wish to tell a great Power in Europe what may be eventually the consequences if it should adopt a different line from that which you desire, you would not abruptly declare that if it declined to accede to your wish you would declare war.

Now, that is the state of affairs after the King of Denmark's death; after he had been perfectly acquainted with the policy of France; after he had been frankly told that the French Emperor had explicitly informed Denmark that if she got involved in war with Germany, France would not come to her assistance.

But what was to be said at a time when all the statesmen of Europe were attempting to concentrate and condense the resources of the Porte with the view of strengthening themwhat would have been the position of the Porte if it had to commence its new careera career, it is to be hoped, of amelioration and tranquillityby dispatching a large army to Bosnia to deal with those elements of difficulty and danger?

My Lords, I do not think that, so far as European Turkey is concerned, this country has any right to complain of the decisions of the Congress, or, I would hope, of the labours of the Plenipotentiaries.

There are times when one feels that if these circumstances actually did arise, it would be a feeling which would spread with irresistible force throughout the land.

It now appears from the news I have received to-daywhich has come quite recently, and I am not yet quite sure how far it has reached me in an accurate formthat an ultimatum has been given to Belgium by Germany, the object of which was to offer Belgium friendly relations with Germany on condition that she would facilitate the passage of German troops through Belgium.

If the peace of Europe can be preserved and the present crisis safely passed, my own endeavour will be to promote some arrangement to which Germany could be a party, by which she could be assured that no aggressive or hostile policy would be pursued against her or her allies by France, Russia, and ourselves, jointly or separately.

It has been said that "Ravenshoe" is "alivethe expression of a man who worked both with heart and brain," and few would care to dispute that opinion.

It was but the afternoon before that she had spoken in a high angry tone to her eldest sister, Mary, and parted in displeasure from her brother Edward, because he would not leave his studies to go into the garden with her.

He opened not his mouth, nor would he suffer another to resent any of the insults offered to him.

Her trials at her day-school were very great, for her school-fellows did not know how she was endeavoring to correct her great fault; and they would often avoid her company in their walks and amusements, knowing how she formerly made them unhappy by her caprices.

If you did my father would punish you.

" "They wouldn't know," said the man with a chuckle.

If you was to try to run away I should send it spinning after you, and it would break your legs and knock you down, and I could send the tigs after you, and they'd soon bring you back.

My father would be so glad to see him.

"Ah, would yer?" snarled the young swineherd; "take that then.

If space and time were empirical representations the knowledge obtained from them would lack necessity, which, as a matter of fact, it possesses in a marked degree.

"This done, we should soon discover a change for the betterpeace and good order would prevail, and the ends of justice be effectually and speedily attained, and then the people of this wealthy state would be in a condition to bid defiance to the disgraceful reproaches which are now daily heaped upon them by the religious and moral of other states.

" The following presentment of a Tennessee Grand Jury, sufficiently explains and comments on itself: The Grand Jurors empanelled to inquire for the county of Shelby, would separate without having discharged their duties, if they were to omit to notice public evils which they have found their powers inadequate to put in train for punishment.

I think if they would reject one of that nature, as improper, they ought also to reject this.