Not strange, perhaps, for Mr. MCLAUGHLIN, whose very youth in New York, where he was an active politician, found him a frequent nightly familiar of the Tombs; but strange for the organist, who, although often grave in his manner, sepulchral in his tones, and occasionally addicted to coughin', must be curiously eccentric to wish to pass into concert that evening with the dead heads.

Sometimes, through a capricious fit of piety, all this is studiously dispensed with, and the body appears clad in the habit of some religious order, to which the deceased was especially addicted during life.

Hubert had always been his mother's favourite, and the scorn of his elder brothers, two rough boys, addicted in early youth to robbing orchards, and later on to gambling and drinking.

Had it been disclosed to her that Wilbur Cowan, under the chaperonage of EdwardSpikeBrennon, 133 lbs., ringside, had become an addict of these affairs, a determined and efficient exponent of the weird new steps"a good thing for y'r footwork," Spike had saidshe would have considered he had plumbed the profoundest depths of social ignominy.

The situation, calmly reviewed, was one probably never paralleled in the history of adventuremore like the dream of a hashish-smoking addict than cold reality.