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A large variety of new Fancy Type and Borders, for Cards, Ci rculars/ <V c. kept always on hard. Dr. JAMES LANG STAFF, llichmond Mill. December, ]858. 1-tf JOSEPH KELLER, 1)All.IFF Second and Third DIVISION ) Court. Office, Richmond llill, December, 1858. 1-tf J. B. DEEG1EK, PPOIXTED CONSTABLE at the tario and Simcoe. Residenceâ€"Corner of Wright and Yonge Streets, near A Wright, Esq’s. Richmond Hill, Dec. 1858. 65-1-tf tP. CROSBY, T\RY GOODS, GROCERIES, L/Wines, Liquors, Hardware, *.Vc. quor Richmond Hill, Dec. 1858. 1-tf T. J. WHEELER, WATCH & CLOCK MAKER, JEWELLER, &c. RICHMOND HILL, Oct. 1.1S58. 6‘J-l v THOMAS SEDMAN, FUNERAL FURNISHER, CARRIAGE, Waggon &. Slei^li Maker? Opposite tho White Swan Inn. Richmond Hill. Dec. 1858. 3-If JAMES McCLURE, TNNKEEPER. Licensed Auctioneer i for the Counties of York, Ontario and Simcoe. Corner of Yonge and Bradford streets, Holland Landing. December, 1 858. 25- 1-tf JOHN HARRINGTON, Jr., DEALER ill Dry Goods, Groceries, Willow, Liquors, Hardware,Glass, Earthenware, &c. 1CF Also, Licensed Auctioneer. Richmond Hill, Dec. 1858. 1-tf WELLINGTON HOTEL, NEAR the Railroad Station, Aurora. Careful Hostlers always in attendance. C. CASE, Proprietor. December 1858. 32-1-tf MANSION HOUSE, SHARON. Attentive Hostlers always iu attendance. J. KAVANAG1I, Proprietor. December, 1858. 32-1-tf CLYDE HOTEL, â- KING STREET EAST, TORONTO. GOOD Stabling and Attentive Hostlers JOHN MILLS, Proprietor. December, 1858. 1-tf AND RICHMOND IIILL ADVERTISER. Vol. I. KICIIMOKD HILL,, Fit ID AY, JANUARY 14, 1859. No. r. JOHN COULTER, Tailor and Clothier Yonge St., Richmond Hill, December, 185*. 1 -it GEORGE DODD, Veterinary Surgeon Lot 26, 4th Con., VnUghan. • HORSE & FARRIER” INN. g 15* 1-tf J. VERNE Y, 15ooi and Shoe Maker. HI AC BETH, Jar., CARRIAGE, SIGN, â€"anaâ€" Ornamental Painter. Richmond Hill, P'eb. 17, 1858. 137-ly j â- â-  ____________________ _L J OPPOSITE A mend Hill. Ladies’ and Gentlemens made after tho latest styles. December 1858- LAW’S, Yonge stroet, Rich- Boots and Shoes, 1 -8in YONGE STREET HOTEL, AURORA. Wines and Liquors Excellent Accommo- Fariners, and others Good supply of always on hand, dation for Travellers, Cigars of all brands. D. MCLEOD, Proprietor. Aurora, July 6, 1858. 57-6m P J. N. KEID, /I Y SI Cl AN & SURGEON Corner of Yonge and Centre Streets, Thornhill. December 1858. 10-1-tf ROACH’S HOTEL, 1-0LINER of Front and George s rects, J oue block east of tbe Market, \J oue Toronto. December, 1858. JOHN ROACH, Proprietor. 39-1- BLACK HORSE HOTEL [FORMERLY KEPT BY WM. ROLPH,] f CORNER of Palace and George streets, east of tho Market Square, Toronto. Board $1 per day. Good Stabling and attentive Hostlers always in attendance. An omnibus to and from the Railroad Station. THOMAS PALMER. Proprietor. Toronto. Fob 2G, 1858. t38-ly ANGLO-AMERICAN HOUSE ! MARKHAM VILLAGE. OOD Accommodations. Wines, Liquors G' and Cigars of the choicest brands. R. MARR, Proprietor. Markham, Dec, 1858. 57-ly NEW n__a Ji STORE, Richmond Mill? /10RNER of Wright & Yonge streets. Cheap Groceries and Provisions. Crockery and Glassware cheap for Cash. No Credit. Dee. 3. 185S. D. HOPKINS. 1-tf THORNHILL HOTEL. ROBERT SIVER, Boot and Shoe 3Iakcr> V DJOINING the Wesleyan Methodist jQ_ Chapel, Yonge Street, Richmond Hill. A choice seloction of Gentlemens’, Ladies’ and Childrens’ Roots and Shoes constantly on hand, and made to order on the Shortest No- tice. 1CF All kinds Shoemakers Finding for sale. Richmond Hill, Dec. 1858. 1-tf GLOUCESTER HOTEL, THREE rPHE 1 co THREE MILKS NORTH OK TORONTO, ON VONGE-ST. HE Subscriber begs to inform the Public that he has leased ihe above premises, and fitted them up in a neat and comfortable style. Hoarders and transient visitors accomodations in every way agreeable. The best of Liquors and Cigars carefull selected. Good stabling and attentive hostler HENRY LEMON, Thornhill, } Prop: ietor. Jan 20, 1358.{ t38 LINES WRITTEN ON THE “YORK COMMONWEALTH,” Hail ! to thee, our new made friend , In thee wisdom with iruo riches blend ; In thee greater treasure we can find fhau rests in Peru, or Potose’s mine. We need not search the world around For news at home in thee is foand,â€" And in thee learning does with wit combine To please the fancy, or to store the mind ; ’ l is thine to tell the nations we are great. Though not in monarch, or in regal state,â€" For like tlie giant, Wilberforce, of olden time, We measure not by stature,â€"but by mind. ’ i'is thine ts aid and lend a helping hand 1 o spread Great Britain’s freedom through the land. Then onward press, for ’tis a noble aim, To spread our country’s and our nation’s fame. Let freedom bo thy watchword, and onward let it ro 1.â€" Till freedom’s shout ifa heard to roach from pole to pole. January 1, 1859. Z. not over forty-one, a widow, and (so said Rumor) had laid up not less than nine hundred dollars in the savings-bank, with the ‘good will’ of a popular boarding-house. These facts forced themselves upon mv tho door, I added, sub voce, If I thought I could make any woman happy, J would try and find some one among the sex to make me happy ! But this marryingâ€"it is a lottery ! A man might as safelv ! mind, and I looked now at my host-] draw from a wheel into which all jess to see if site was trying to lay a ; the pretty and virtuous women’s snare for me. It is true she had on ! names in New York, written on a shade smarter cap than usual, and ! slips of paper, had been poured, as looked unusually attractive; but draw from them met by chance at when I reflected that she had re- a party, at church, or in the street 1 garded me always more with a mo- If it is my destiny to be married, thciiy feeling than a * young wid- the right pair of pretty feet will by- I the it mis. THE BRONZE GiUTERS ALUS WELL OR, THAT ENDS WELL,” (From Harper’s Magazine.) THE PLOUGH INN. HW, l’ECK begs respectfully to inform # the Inhabitants of RICH MON D HILL nd surrounding country, lhat he has opened above Hotel is fitted up i i neat and ‘ ?'e Hotel formerly known as the White Swan, om ort-tblo stvle. Transient visitors and j . .I,e Bar will be replete with all kinds of others will find the accommodations to bo that I L.1(luors °‘ lho best 1,»al!t.v- Go"d tabling, of the first class, while the charges will be ex- | tromelv low. QL/’ Good Stabling and an attentive Hostler. THOMAS COATES, Proprietor. Yonge Street, Doc, 1^58. G2-1 y DR. J. W. GRIFFITH, MARKHAM VILLAGE, C.W. Dec. 2, 1858. 52-ly CHRISTIAN WURSTEIl, SADDLE & HARNESS MAKER, 'YTT’OULD inform the inhabitants of Maplk VV Vii.I-.age, and surrounding country, that he has opened a Shop in the above line, where ho will, by strict attention to all orders, endeavor to merit a share of their support. Repairing neatly and nxpediciously attended to. 0= All Work Warranted. Maple Village, Au<r 2Q. 1858. 63-Gm Hay and Oats at all Hostler always on call, .November 5, 1858. times. An attentive 74 4 m EDWARD CROWN, AS always on hand a large and well assorted stock of DRAPERY* GRO- CERIES, BOOTS and SHOES, &c. &e. which will be sold at prices that will defy com- petition. Thornhill, July 30, 1858. 6i)-ly JAMES HALL, HAS always on hand a largo assortment of BOOTS and SHOES, which will bo sold at prices to meet the times. Richmond Hill, Doc. 1858. 54-l-l v HALF-WAY HOUSE, RICHMOND HILL. "HE Subscriber begs to inform liU numerous Patrons and the public, that he has removed from tlie White Swan Hotel to the above Premises, where there will be found excellent ac- commodation for Travellers, and good Stabling. (£/" Horses and Buggies (or Hire. JOSEPH GABY, Proprietor. Richmond Hill, Oct. 22, 1858. 72 7m W. HODGE & Co. YT, IIOLESALE and Retail Copper, Tin VV and iron Plate Worke/s, and Furnishing Ironmongers, Parties giving this house a call '•’ill find their orders punctually attended to, and the lowest prices charged. Richmond Hill, Dec. 1858. 54-1-lv EDMUND GRAINGER, BU T C H E R, THORNHILL. Fresh and Pickled Meats, Poultry, &c., always on hand. Families supplied on the shortest notice. Thornhill, Dec. 1858. 41-ltf WILLIAM HARRISON, Saddle and Harness Maker? Next door to G. A, Barnard’s, Richmond Hill. 1-tf GREEN BUSH HOTEL, 1C- MILKS NORTH O*' TORONTO ON THE YONGE STREET ROAD. Mrs. Bracegirdle lingered a mo- ment with her left hand upon the {door-knob, and with the thumb and will find the j forefinger of the other twis'ed and untwisted her apron-string in a lit- tle, hesitating way she had when she wished to say something. She had just come in at my summons, to receive the quarterly rent for my room. I am a young * medccin,' as the French very appropriately and significally term physicians, and being then a single man I hired a front parlor of good Mrs. Brace- girdle, the remainder of whoso very genteel house was occupied by her * bread atid meat boarders.’ as she termed her boarders who took their usual meals at her table, by way of distinguishing them from mere room occupants like myself. I had taken this parlor for mv of- fice, because it was pleasantly si- tuated and just suited me and my profession â€" being on Bleecker â-ºStreet, and on that precise portion thereof east of Broadway where physicians seem most to congregate. In New York certain streets seem to be relinquished to certain profes- sions, as tragic Bond Street to den- tal gentlemen and Bleecker (East) to medical men. Whether so many doctors have got together there be- cause ‘ misery loves company,’ or because in the 1 multitude of coun- sellors there is safety,’ 1 know not. The fact only is clear. In old times a young physician wou’d have set up bis ‘ shingle ’ in a vicimage far from any other ; but an oppo- site1 policy seems now pursued, per- haps on the principle that one in a flock of birds is more likely to be hit than one flying alone. But leaving this matter for the rpHE Proprietor b; gs public that he has to inform purchased December, 1858. JAMES JENKINS’, Grocery &, Provision Store RICHMOND IIILL NO CREDIT GIVEN. Produco taken in exchange. The above is the oldest established Grocery and Provision Store on the Hill. Dec. 2, 1858. 55-1 y RICHMOND HILL HOTEL. A STAGE runs from ihe above Hotel to Toronto every morning', starting from the Elgin Mills at 7, a.m. and returning at 7, p.m. Fare 2s. 6d. each way-. GOOD ACCOMMODATION FOR TRAVELLERS. RICHARD NICHOLLS, Prop rieior Richmond Hill, Dec. 2, 1858 55-1 F. W. IIOLLISS, MERCHANT TAILOR, has always on hand a very superior stock of CLOTHS. READY-MADE CLOTHING. &c. Gar- ments made to measure in the first style. A good fit warranted. Thornhiil, Dec, 1858. 60- 1-tf J. HACKETT, M.D. Licentiate of the Board of Upper Canada LATE RESIDENT MEDICAL OFFICER, KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL. RESIDENCE, Dec. 23, 1858. MAPLE VILLAGE. 59-l-6m the tbe above Hotel, and has recently refitted and furnished it throughout in a comfortable style. The Bar will be continually supplied with good Liquors and Cigars. Good Stables attached to tho premises, with carelul Hostlers to at- tend to travellers wants. THOMAS STEELE, Proprietor. (formerly of the Rond Lake Hotel.) Sept. 29. 1858. 69-ly ST. LAWRENCE HOTEL 142 KING STREET, TORONTO. rpHE Subscriber begs to inform his L friends and the public generally that he has opened the above Hotel, opposite the St. Lawrence Hall, Toronto. His bar will always be found replete with all kinds of Liquors of first-rate quality. His rI able will also be found rechcritc. Good Stablos are attached to tho premises. W. M. SHORT, VtTiNART Surgeon, Proprietor. Toronto Sept. 17, 1858. 67-ly discussion of others, I merely state that I had been Mrs. Bracegirdle’s! ‘Rich as Kreesus!’ lodger and tenant for a year and i Mrs. Bracegirdle. owish ’ one, 1 dismissed the unwor- thy suspicion from my thoughts and said, smilingly. ‘And where shall I get a wife, dear madam 1’ * Bless me! a handsome young man, with such white teeth (Mrs. Bracegirdle had splendid teeth !) a horse and buggy, a good practice, and some money of his own. to ask where he shall find a wife ! There’s fifty ladies would jump lo get such a chance !: ‘You flatter me, my dear friend,’ I answered, secretly rejoicing in the flattery, us all we vain bipeds do, albvit we profess not to be taken with it. • A wife is a dangerous risk ! One must change one’s ha- bits if one marries ! I should lose my independence! I can now do as 1 pleaseâ€"smoke, lounge, wear my slippers, go in and out as I wish, sit on three chairs, and a table too, if I take a notion to spread myself; and if 1 lay any thing down I know where to find it 1 Why, if it makes me nervous to see your Betsy, the chambermaid, come in my room with that duster of an old, torn silk handkerchief, lest she should do mischief, what would become of me with a wife who would put ‘every thing in order,’ not understanding that t1je>$e exists a certain systema- tic arrangement perceptible to my own eye in all this chaos? If my pipe lies on an open book, it is to mark a reference ; if my shoe is on 03<y bed, there is probably under it, for safe keeping, a specimen of a newly-discovered beetle*bug ; if a half brick is on my writing-desk, I put it there to keep the papers from being blown away. But you know my habits, Mrs. Bracegirdle 1’ ‘ Yes, Doctor, and that is the rea- son you ought to be married ; for your words show you are selfish, and there is no cure for it but a wife/ she said, with emphasis. ‘ Yes, I have no doubt a wife would quite put me out of conceit of myself,’ I answered, with a half- sneer. * But to tell you the truth. Mrs. Bracegirdle, I have a great desire to e married, but I am then most difficult person to suit. My wife must be perfection. I can’t bear ugliness, and a bad feature in a woman 1 can never forgive/ ‘ As if, poor woman, it was her fault P answered Mrs. Bracegirdle, j sighed, half resolving lhat is not the point. A wo-j man Catholic, that I man, to fix my attention, must be without fault/ I said, firmly. ‘ She must be as beautiful as Eve doubt- less was in the beginning, as intelli- gent asâ€"asâ€"let me see !â€"as Lady Jane Grey, as songful as Jenny Lind, as beautiful as Cleopatra, as pious as the three Marys, as bene- volent as Florence Nightingale, as girl of asa- months, and never three word ’ with her est manner and was in arrears, had a save m the kindli- tone. As I never and always cheer- ventured WILLIAM U. SKENE, MILLWRIGHT? ALTON A, EGS to intimate that lie is now pre- pared to erect MILLS of every description, by contract or otherwise, oil reasonable terms. He is also agent for some of the best Foundrys in Canaaa. All contract jobs warranted from three to six months. Prom thirteen years’ experience ho hopes to give general satisfaction. Altona, August 20, 1858. 63*6 B1 fully prescribed for her rheumatics without charge, 1 was a favorite. ‘ Well, Mrs. Bracegirdle, have you any thing to say V Her eyes surveyed deliberately and admiringly my handsomely- furnished room, with its handsome curtains, elegant bookcases, rich eofa and chairs, and showy carpet, before she replied, and then, with a pleasant smile and a knowing nod, she snid, ‘I do wonder, Doctor, you don’t get married! Such a nice room, and you could have the one above it for a sleeping-room, and I could, you know, if you liked, let you have your meals private like, letting your office-bov, Tim. the lazy rogue, with nothing to do but play marbles and chalk up my si lewalk. to set, and wait on, and clear ofi table ! I do wonder you are con- tent to live alone, and such a plea- sant-spoken gentleman, and so quiet and respectable, for a young doctor, in your habits, all calculated to make a wife happy ! It’s a pity such nice furniture and such a nice room should be thrown away so!’ Mrs. Bracegirdle was handsome, ‘No/ said I, laughing, ‘I don’t care a fig for money. I want beauty and goodness, loveliness of face and symmetry of figure ; but ’ â€"and here I spoke with positive- ness and decisionâ€"‘but above all, she must have a little foot.’ Mrs. Bracegirdle slyly withdrew her plump foot (No. 5’s) out of sight within the mysterious peri- phery of her black silk. ‘ A pretty foot 1’ ‘Two of them, Mrs. Bracegirdle. ‘A pair of. pretty feet! I could not love Venus herself if she had a big foot! It is impossible but that a perfectly beautiful woman will have small and pretty feet. I am willing to choose a wife by her foot, for I accept in this case the aphorism that ‘All’s well that ends well/ ’ Mrs. Bracegirdle, after taking half a minute to think upon it, was vastly pleased with this quotation used in such a relation heartily. ‘ Well, well. Doctor, you are a droll gentleman, to be pure 1 You have such a pleasant temper, you’d make any woman happy. But there’s the belli Good morning, Doctot 1’ ‘ Good-morning. Mrs. Brace- girdle/ I said *, and a« 6he closed and laughed and-by catch my eye tripping along, and challenge me !:’ Thus soliloquizing, I took my seat by my window in a huge leathern- back arm-chair, and drawing a match across the sole of my boot, I lighted a cigar, and gave myself up to reflection and inspection of the passers-by. * Mrs. Bracegirdle is right/ I eja- culated, at the end of ten minutes ; < she is, undoubtedly, quite rightâ€" I ought to take a wife. But whose wife shall I take ?â€"as young Sheri- dan asked his father/ As the clouds of azure smoke curled above my head I conjured up, peeping out of each curl, the face of some dozen fair girls I had known or still knew. As their fea- tures blended with the wreaths, and passed in review before the eyes of my retrospection, I deli- berately rejected eachâ€"passing judgment upon them as they as- cended and melted into thin air be- neath the ceiling of my room.â€" One had a nose too blunt, another a nose retrousse so tar as to turn up ; a third was too tall; a fourth had too large a foot ; a fifth had bad teeth ; a sixth laughed too much ; a seventh tallied too loud ; an eighth bad big knucides ; a ninth had hair on her lip ; a tenthâ€"a sweet â€"couldn’t bear the smeli fcetida, and of course was out of tho question for a doctor’s wife; an eleventh had a bad breath ; and the twelfth wore spectaclesâ€" my abomination in a young girl! These feminine faces all ascended above my head, and disappeared slowly into the airâ€"evaporated with the smoke which hadrepreduc* cd them. Yet somehow a sweet face seemed to linger in the blue cloud that curled from the fiery end of my cigar. Her blue eyes, her pleasant smile, her graceful head and shoulders, her exquisite hands and incomparable feetâ€"all were once more visible to me as i had before seen them, and almost fallen in love with their possessor. But alas! she was my cousin, and I had been informed by Fanny’s Puritan mother that it was a mor- tal sin to marry cousins, for tin Bible said so. So I let this sweet face also melt away toward the ceiling (an ascending angel I) and to turn Ro- might get a ‘dispensation’ from the Pope ‘to marry cousins/ But her mother and the Bible, how could I go against both? So I saw the fea- tures of my fair and merry cousin fade away with sorrow. 1 Not one of these will do/ I said, shaking my head, and also shaking the ashes ofi' my cigar.â€" I then carelessly glanced out of my window, preparatory to reviewing another dozen of my marryi g ac- quaintances. At the instant a iovely girl was going by on the op- posite side of the street. I recog- nized her at once as a mysterious and graceful girl who had often passed my window. I had never seen her face, as it was concealed. Mow, then, did I know she is lovely ? you ask. Because her feet were the most captivating little members my critical eyes ever rested upon. Such fuet could be- long only to a lovely body, and a lovely body, to match in symmetry the faultless feet, must be crowned by a superb and lovely head and face. From such cogent argumen- tation there can clearly be no ap- peal. I had often pointed her out to some of my friends, and more than once said I would be willin to marry her without face. '1 he fair promenader now made use of her little feet with exquisite daintiness. Their sweet movements realized fully old Sir John Suck- ling’s admirable lines : “ Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, peeped in and out.’’ The first day. two months before that I saw them, I was at once taken captive. ‘ I at length/ said I to Harry Hamilton, my friend, 4 bohold the beau-idol of my imagi- nation. The perfect foot which I have in vain looked for in the Me- dician Venus, in. Powers’s Greek Slave, in every work of art illus- trating teminine beauty, is now found!’ It was gaitered in a closc-fittin^ golden bronze boot with neat heels like little walnuts, and as she walked I heard her nut-like ‘ tap- tap ’ upon the pave. As she now came opposite my window she slightly (the least perceptible mo- tion in the world; elevated her skirts to escape possible contact with a patch of coal-dust which Dr. Bung, my vis-a-vis friend and rival, had carelessly permitted to- remain after getting down his coal ? Such an ankle of grace and beauty was never heheld 1 They were fit mates to the twinkling feet 1 As 1 gazed enchanted, the fair promen- ader, whose form was slight, sym- metrical, and graceful as became such lovely feet, turned a corner and vanished 1 1 am not usually an impulsive* man. My uncle, who was a phy- sician, had told me that impulse jand excitability were fatal to the success of a doctor of medicine ; that I ought to cultivate calmness, imperturbbiiity, and cool self-pos- session. ‘ Gravity and dignity, slowness of gait and deliberation in opinion, are the h’ghest qualifications in. a medical man,’ he used often to say. I therefore, at my present age, eight-and-twenty, was quite a Ga- len for gravity and decorum of vis- age and manner. But I must con- fess that upon losing sight of the fair possessor of the beautiful feet I sprung from my arm-chair, toss- ed my cigar into the grate, seized my hat and stick (a gold-headed, doctor-like cane, with my name, ‘Doctor J. V. S. Dodwell, Jr., M.D./ in full length thereon), and rushed into the hall and made for the street door, resolved I would this time follow her to the world's end but that I discovered who she was ! Mrs. Bracegirdle was stand- ing in it, chaffering with a woman for fruit of some sort. As I crowd- ed past her she looked at mo with amazaement, and cried out in alarm, ‘ Who is hurt? what is it, Doc- tor 1 Is any body run over V ‘ No, I am after my wife P I an- swered ; and leaving her mysti- fied, I pursued at a rapid step the course taken by the twinkling gol- den bronzes. Upon turning the^ corner I met her full in the face, returning, as if she had taken the wrong street. I wTas so taken abackâ€"to use a sea termâ€"that I stopped perfectly still, confounded at the recontre. and she glided past me without even glancing at me, slightly deviating to pass by me as she would have done bv a barrel that stood in her path. Her face was concealed by a brown veil, worn, as ihe fashion of young girls is, double over the face, though for the life of me how they can see to walk so blindfolded is a mystery ! After she had passed me 1 recovered my self-possession which this unpre- pared-for encounter had in a mea- sure deprived me of, and turned to follow her, resolved that I would never lose sight of her until I knew where she abode, which ascertain- ing, I determined to take steps to become acquainted with her. Instead of continuing along Bleecker Street she crossed it, and seemed to be looking for some num- ber. She slowly read the signs on the doctors’ window-shutters (if read she could, through her thick barege mask), and, passing on, I saw her linger an instant to glance at the name on my window-blind, and then lightly trip up the steps' and ring the bellâ€"not Mrs. Brace- girdle’s, but mine ! I do not know whether suprise- or delight the most predominated in my emotions at this. My boy Tim, a red-headed little mulatto, opened the door, and was about to say I was out, when, catching a glimpse of me, he said, loud enough for me to hear, ‘He’s coming, ma’am ! walk ini’ (To be concluded in our next.) seeing her A Lady’s Vanity and an Em' press’s Rebuke.â€"In Russia, it would seem, the passions for dress and display is just as great as in any other country. The Journal Amus- ant relates an anecdote of the man- ner in which the Empress of Rus- sia lately rebuked an instance of it : “ The Czar, desiring to recompense a great service rendered by a pretty functionary, invited bin and his wife to pass a few days at the Pal- ace of Peterhoff. The latter, in order to appear of a rank which she docs not possess, pledged her husband’s salary for three years to raise a sum to buy rich dresses ; she was thus able to appear >n a new toilette every morning and evening. The Empress hearing what she had done resolved to give lier a lesson, and on the day of departure, said : * Do you know, Madame, that you are greatly to be pitied for having such a bad dressmaker? She can- not evidently make a dress to fit you, since you are obliged to change so often T ”