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“You dBn’t mean to say that you have navel-ed the money?” "Oh ! noâ€"not at all.” “Found a clue, ch ‘3 ” “Well, n-o-o, not exactly. The fact is {kg money was taken out cf my trousers pockets at night, and~and~this morning my wife had sent home a new sealskin flack.” A London correspondent says: The illness of the Emperor W'illiam and Prince Bis- marck is the current topic. There are grave reasons for believing much is kept back from the public on the subject. The anxiety which the Kaiser has displayed to have cordial relations with the Powers, his transmission of a friendly letter. and the Imperial promise to orler the modifications of the May laws, are thought to point tothe fact that Germany is beginning to feel the need of greater neutrality on the continent. Two convicts. one supposed to be W'alah, the Ulerkenwell Fenian, has been examined at; the Treasury. It is stated that most im- portant evidence was obtained. “Well, Iâ€"ahemâ€"LI have decided not to parsue the matter. You needn’t take any Miler stqps.‘ In factâ€"â€"” Extra. precautions have been taken to en- sure the safety of the Ministers. Two Irish fietectives fol'owed Earl Spencer as an es- cort to Lord Granville’a resiuence. In the Folketheng, the left moved the appointment of a committee to ascertain the position .of Danish subjects abroad, espe- cially those in Schleswig. The Ameer of Afghanistan has reached Jel'lalabad. He will vmit India. during March in refgrence to the difficulty With the fiadahak 0t Kumar. 30,000 tons of new shipping has been ordered on the Clyde in the put fortnight, incinding two steamers for the North Ger- man Lloyda Co. A schooner has been wrecked near Port- afea'ry, Ireland, and five sailors drowned. Another is wrecked near the Shetland Islands, and the whole crew drowned. A note to the Powers announces the rup- ture of the relations between Montenegro and Turkey, because the latter failed to agree to the accessicns of territory on the frontier. A solemn looking citizen appeared at Palice Headquarters yesterday. and beckon- ingihe chief intq u private rgqm said: “You know that $800 robbery at my house that I reported yesterday morning ? ” “Certainly, and I have put two cf our but men on the case, andâ€"â€"” Three thousand pounds, balance of the Duchess of Mulborough‘s relief fund, will be devoted to assisting Irmh emigration. Sir Stafi‘ord Northcote has left Nice for London, The Prince of Wales, the Marquis of Salisbury and Mr. Gladstone, left a day or two later. The Grand Jury has returnéd a. true bill for: seditious libel a ainst O’Brien, editor of Um Ireland; a. so, a true bill against Dowling for the murder of policeman Cox. M. St. Hilaire denounces the expulsion mm as useless, unjust and dangerous. Everything sought to be accomplished by it was unfair. Prussia's not'on in the Buudesrath for an increase of the duties on timber is constant- ly opposed. It is thought it will only be adopted after having been greatly modified. The bill for fortifying the harbours has been dropped for this session. The Pope hm; replied to the letter from the Emperor William. \Vhatever the vote in the Senate on the expulsion bill, M. Thibaudin, Minister of War, will request M. Grevy to sigma decree placing the Orleans princes on the retired list of the army. There have been serious riots among the students at Warsaw in consequence of the professor lecturing on Polish literature in theRussian language There is no chance of M Falliseres being present in the Senate during the debate on the expulsion bill. Snbscri tions have been opened in the COnn’sy icklow to present Mr. Parnell with a testimonial for the purpose of clear- ing off the mortgage on his estate. The WhiteStar Line Steamship Company have subscribed to the Cork Exhibition,and offer to carry free a. hundred tons of Ameri- can exhibits. The Socialists at; Xeres, Spam, have con- demned and murdered a peasant. Four- teen persons accused of complicity in the crime have been arrested. Ashton W’entm rth Dilke, Liberal, has accepted the stewardship of Her Majesty’s Cniltern Hundreds, that making vacant his seat in the House of Commons for New- castle-upon Tyne. The Emperor of China has telegraphed his congratulations to the Crown. Prince 0t Germany on the occasion of his silver wedding. This is the first telegram ever sent by a Chinese sovereign to a European Prince. Sarah Bernhardt‘s jewels have been sold. Those in attendance at the sale were princi- pally dealers and representatlvea of the (lendâ€"mondeu Her necklace of rare diamonds sold for 24,000 francs. and two bracelets fetched 8,000 francs each. Prince Kmpotkiue is suffering from con- gestion of the brain. Prince Jerome denies that he aspires to the French dynasty by divine right. Count Bylan It Rheydt has rec vered and resumed his duties as Anetrum Minister of A number of armed explorers, under Au- trian officers, have left Belgium to join Stanley in the Congo expedition. The German Reichatag Committee has re- solved to rosecute Deputies Geyser and Frobine, . ocialists, for the improper use of railway passes. “All.” . “And so you see I have about concluded to let the matter dropâ€"let the matter drop,” and with a deep sigh the bereaved husband (11"ift6'.d(11t.â€"S(Hl Frunm‘sro Post. LATE NEWS NOTES. Letting $800 Drop: Wishing not to appear eccentric, but to follow the fashion, I resolved to live up to a Teapot. Therefore, my own little tin-plated one, price Sixpence, having sprung a leak, I bought me another, a blue-mdehite Jap- anese Teapot at a grocer‘s shop in the Strand â€"â€"cost, five shillings. I had previously lived on a scale of living up to a sixpenny Teapot onlyâ€"on oatmeal porridge for breakfast principally, and sometimes bread and but- ter. A legacy from a lamented distant re- lation enabled me to live up to a superior Teapotâ€"a crown Teapot. So I not only be- gan to breakfast on eggs, but added bloators likewise to my mcrning meal, kipgered her- ring also, and smoked salmon. salt haddock, sardines, ham and tongue, brawn, potted meats, and rashers of bacon ; besidesa con- siderablevvariely of other little tiny kick- shaws and toys. I did. I flattered myself, live up to my Teapot in some measure. But very soon the Teapot I had been living up toas well as ever I was able by the gratifi- cation of my appetite with all manner of end things, came to grief in the kitchen. y maid chill-work broke oil the tip of its spout. The jagged edges of the fracture caused the tee. to dribble on to my table- cloth and then that Teapot was to be lived up to no more. Never trust a Teapot to which you intend livin up, to the care of servants. She towhom 1 ad unwisely confided my Teapot supplied me, pending doubt as to procuring another, with a temporary substi- tute in her own. This was a moderately- sized, globular. glazed black Tea-pot of earthenware. There was no painting upon it at all, but the Teapot, itself, I discmer- ed, drew admirably. When I say “drew,” I mean that it extracted the soluble con. stituents of mv tea so effectually as to make my tea twrce as strong again as it used to he made in the Teapot I had chosen to live up to. I will not, therefore, now purchase a new expensive Teapot for my servant to break, but shall stick to the old oneâ€"~cost, eighteen penceâ€"a. Teapot Which she will probably take ood care of, and which in future will be ecidedly the Teapot to live up to for my moue y.r-â€"I’1mch,’s Almanac-k. A Fair flakes- of the Product who is Late to:- This Season but Early for Next. “A Poetess” has been adrertising to write valentine try to order. “She is behind time," sai one of the principal mann- facturers of valentines, “ for this season, and a little early‘ for next. There are not many valentine writers, and I don’t think if you hunted them over you would find one distinguished name among them, or even one that you had ever heard of be- fore. Most of myori ins] ones are written by alsdy in Bengcrfitie. She writes also for another house S=me of her relatives were in the business, and she possessed natural talents for it; and so in that WJY she got into it, and, once in, keeps right along.- The late A. J. Fisher, who was s leading publisher of valentines, used to write his own mostly. I don’t know cxuctly what his best hold was, whether it was the purely comic, the vengefully satirical or the gushingly sentimental. The lady in Bangor is best in the last line. It doesn’t require a. really very powerful poetic gsnius to grind out valentine poetry. \Vlluu you can get an idea fit for a verse you can sort of model it over a few times. 1‘ ’r instance: As on the gold the diamond bright doth shine. So {hon upon my heart doth glow, my Valen- ne. “And then again, by a slight twist of the wrist, you get: As.in the gold the ruhv's gleam doth shine. So in my heart thy image sits. my Valentine. fig”? â€"â€"â€"â€"‘004‘.’PN>â€"‘_‘ ‘ A Scbtch ferrier, belonging to PM lips: Iate housekeeper at the Legislature build- ing, Toronto, has died of grief at his death. The Lord Mayor of London, receiving a. deputation asking him to open a fund for the relief of the distress in Western Ireland, said the speeches of O‘Donnell anal others at the meeting from which the deputation cm- anated Were certain to frustrate the success of any fund traceable to suchan agency. He was, however, willing to remive contri- butions, ani if the amount justified it, event- ually to open a fund. ' he Press generally approve of the reply of the Lord Mayor to the Irish deputations. “Or. by a slight wrench to the crank: Like a sparkling glow in majulce of the vine. Are thy eyes in my heart, my sweet Valentino. “Same idea, you see; reels off just as easy as yarn 06‘ a ball. Lots of our valentine poetry we sort of pick up. Newspapers sometimes have poetical fancies in them that; we happen ‘to drop on, and occasion- ally we can chop out a good chunk of heart throb and burning love where you’d hardly notice it, and where the oet who original] wrote it would himself a sort of surprise at the discovery. Of course we might d'octor it up a littleâ€"make it trump in a little better for our uses, you know but we would keep the original idea fairly, never- thelees. Another dealer in the most expensive sort of imported and hand-made valentines said: “There is hardly any novelt in the imported lace-paper valentines. ' he same things that were good enough for us when we were young and spooney, if made over fresh, are good enough for those that are young and spooney now, and will for their grandchildren when they begin to get soft about the heart fifty ears from now. But for a few years past 1: ere has been a. grow- ing fancy lor hand-painted valentines, some of which are very expensive, and for them there is ome demand for original poetry. That is probably the trade that ‘the tess’ is striking fcr. Acrostics are popu er in them. They are poorly paid for as a rule, for they are not much in demand â€"the verses, 1 mean. The hand-painted valentines are well paid for, you may be sure, and their manufacture is conducted in quiteaprivste way. But the people who order them, as agenerel thing, grind out their own lovesick (loggerel, and no matter how bad it is the girl who gets it will think it divine ifs, diamond ring is out of the valentine, as it sometimes is. 'J.hat poetess won’t go to Europe next summer on the profits of her valentine writing, I'll betâ€"â€" New York-Sun. LIVING UP TO A TEAPOT. VALER'TINE POETRY. Arm ox a Lonely Life A r young girl in Mexico is iven the coligoshake by her lovu‘ and wandefis by the murmuring sea, with intentions of drown- ing herself. An oyster washes up, she carelessly picks it up, and lo! a pearl worth $55,000 slips into her palm. That's the way Mexican papers palm it off on their readers. When an American war vessels reaches \Vashington from apoint a few hundred miles distant the fact is telegraphed all over the country. That a government war vessel should reach Washington safely, after a voyage of a few hundred miles seems to be regarded as a remarkable achieve- ment. Claremonnt, N. 11., h s a cooking club composed of young lady graduates of the high school. After passing four years in eating pickled limes and writing notes to the boys, with a few incidental recitations. they are settling down to something prnc~ tical. The. one g1 eat fault of this life in thexeadi- ness with which man accepts the cirsuu bill for the show inside the canvas. A Brooklyn grocer put 6,250 beans in a. glass jar, and the guessing ranged all the way from 550 to 25,000. It is one thing to EN)? beans and another to estimate num- rs. â€"â€"â€"-<« m.» oohâ€"~â€" The Hand of Death on a Baby‘s Face. A correspondent tells of an event happen- ing many years ago in the country near Hegel-shown, Md. Ababy born with a fire mark on her face was taken to where an old colored woman was lying dead, and her ice- cold hand was rubbed repeatedly over the mark, it being as“ erstition that by so do- ing the mark woul disappear. The mother of the girl declares that from that moment the mark faded away and in a few months was entirely gone. The girl is now 19 years old, with a. complexion of rare purity.â€" Louisrii/c Courier Journal. There are people malicious enough to say that the net which Jay Gould wants is the rest of the railroads. An Indianapolis ,man broke two ribs while making a hose blow on a lung-tester the other day. What a blessing for Indiana that he never took to oratory. The Oswego Palladium was sued for $5,000, and the verdict left only the single figure 5. It looks sort 0’ mean for an editor to beat a man out of $4,895 and then crow over it. The latest addition to the British Museum is Nebuchadnezzar’s door-step, careful ex- amination of which shows certain ma] ks of wear which indicate that Neb.’s daughter had a young man. Human nature doesn't change much, though years roll on. A French writer says the an of giving a dmger is a lost art. Then why not adver- tise and find it again? There must be a. conspiracy of six differ- ent persons in orders to beat the govern- ment on the whiskey tax,a.nd yet if It need- ed a round dozen it would be no_ trouble to forms ring. The Buffalo Empress has its opinion ofa clergyman who insists upon kissing the bride after the groom has taken him aside and requested him not to as a, special favor. The groom should not make such a. request unless she has a cold-sore on her lip. Yes. man in» creature of habit. Once let him contract the habit of hanging his tobmu 0 and he’ll never buy another ounce. The Washington monument will stop this season at 342 feet. And this is x differ- ence between it and the average ington politician for he stops at 0. Dr. Wild, of Toronto, announces that Adam was seven feet high. This would seem to indicate that the garden of Eden was located somewhere in Kentucky. A pension agent in Natehez secured a negro widow a pension of $1,000 and promptly handed over' $150, taking the remaining $850 as his fee. It is a leasure to hear of a. man now and then who elieves in the good old adage: “Live and let live.” New England contributes nothing to the hxstory of horrible accident: this year. But there’s no use taking this to the spinster lady whose cat was run over by an ice cart. Three hundred and fifty tons of ice will be stored for coolmz Auburn Prison next sum- mer, says a State paper. Ah ! Now we know why a jail is called “the cooler.” The Lancet says that women often wear a weight of clothing such as few men would care to carry. lhis is sheer nonsense. There are many men who would carry the clothes, with the women inside of them. The French Wau- Oflice has restored the drum to all infantry regiments, and each company is again on its taps. A man at Lawrence, Muss” didn’t know how he was to spend February and March in Florida, but some one reported a fair; he was madeTreawrer, an‘fthe $450 enabled him to skip. An exchange says that dogs under favor- able circumstances, live to be 30 years old; and Puck snfigests that “favorable circum- stances" pro ably means afamily without boys or neighbors. ' Human bqnes have been found in the debris of the old (fostoflice in New York. They are suppose to be the remains of people who were reckless enough to bother the stamp clerk while he was reading the last novel. ~ An Iowa grocer who refused to trusta. woman for a. pound of Iogwood was nearly killed by a blow from an axe-halve. When a woman wants to dye an old shawl she is prepared to surmount all obstacles. One of the fire escapes in a. New York hotel leads to the cellar, dark as pitch and having only one door and anarrow stairway to reach the street. But it’s a fire escape, and guests snooze away as coute nted as salamandera. Apeasant in Sweden never passes a fel- low-peasant without a. polite lining of his hat. This eifila’ins why ‘30 many Swedes come to this country. They come to avoid catching cold in the head. bleeds. Amen in Summerville, Ga" sneezed so vigorously that he yanked his spinal column out of place. If he had swallowed the sneeze instead of letting it fly he would have burst into more than a mlllion fragâ€" menu. A Washington girl can blush till her nose CURRENCY. A Lunatics Life in Prison. The following‘very pathetic story was telegraphed from Uniontown, Pm, a day or two ago. VVillism Stafford known through- out Fayette county as “Crazy Billy,” died this'morning in the county jail, where he had been a. prisoner over fifty-one conse- cutive years. In 1831 Billy drove Alexander Brow and his wife out of their house in Spring Hill township. The neighbors came to Brow's rescue, and by strategem over- owered Billy, who waslarmed With Crow’s utcher’s knife, and. axe. Billy was sent to Uniontown for tria.‘. Soon afterward William Updegralf was locked up for drunk- ness, and during the night Billy asked a stick of wood .whether he should kill Upde- grafl‘. The billet said “Yes,” and Billy crushed in the diunkard’s skull. The fol- lowing June Billy was tried and'acqnitted on account of insanity. For eighteen years he was chained by the leg to the floor of his cell. Since 1848 he has been allowed much liberty, being harmless. Eighteen sheriflh have gone in and out of office while Billy was a prisoner. Four ex-sherrifl's will serve as pullobearers at his funeral, and the entire bar will attend. Billy was about 80 years old, and was born in England, but beyond this nothing is known of his early history. v Just before he died he called for his mother, saying “Dear mother.” This was the only time he was ever known to refer in any way to anyone connected with his childhood. Dowling, a coloured porter on the. sleeper. “Monroe,” when leaving Essex Centre, was in the act of putting coal in the stove when he fell over bleedmg profusely from the mouth, and died immediately. At St. Louis, Henry Dress killed his wife and then himself by cutting his throat. The treasurer of the Garfield monument fair reports the net proceeds about $7,000. Ex-Gov. Davis, Texas, is dead, of pneu- monia, after a short illness. At the close of the present session the Marquis of Lorne will go to England. Two Americm companies have applied forchurters to builds. ships‘ canal across Cape Cod. Mr. Andrew Broder has received the Liberal-Conservative nomination for Dun- The mail train going: south from Owen Sound stuck in asnow drift at Markdale recently, and remained there, The pas- sengers stayed in the village. The ship Bramletye lost four of her crew on the voyage to Hull. Areport has reached Cairo that the Egyp. tiuns in Soudan have yielded to the False Prophet. Archbishop McCaLe, of Ireland, is better, but is still feeble. Tbe Leishman-Beattie case has been dis- missed owing to the flight of the prose- cuttix. The alarming message from the steamer Nederland xs regarded by her owneraas a miserable joke. The missing steamer Quebec has been spoken, andisexpected to arrive at Liver- pool in a. day or two. A bar-tender named Howard is in charge of the police for attempting to commit sui- éide by throwing himself into a. hole in the ice-bridge at Quebec while laboring under delirium firemen. Prussia is agitating for an increase of the timber duties. A fire broke I out in the Grand Trunk sheds at Hemmingford and in a few moments they were destroyed. Thus far 200 Quarterly Boards of the Methodist Church of Canada have voted union to 14 against. It is reported that Mr. Smith, Deputy Seargeant-at-Arms, has also been appointed Secretary to the new Speaker. Summary of Foreign, Domenic and War [aimsâ€"Concise, mum and Pointed. The ice hag vanished from Odessa har- bout. The Dominion Conference has opened at London. The feeling of uneasiness in Paris still con- tinues and business is stagnant. The public yearn} for a strong government. Charles Leww, of Detroit,‘ took three- quarters of an ounce of laudanum, but prompt meiical attention saved his life. An attempt was made to eject an Irish famxly named Carignan from a tenement in Montreal by the authorities, when a mob gathered and attacked Mr. l’rezeau, the landlord. The Spanish Council of Ministers has de- cided to treat 40,000 slaves, whom their masters neglected to rewister in 1870, asfree men. A prominent Montreal saloon keeper is- sued placards announcing that he would bet $75 to $5 against any and all single numbers In the London Lottery. The Quebec Ultramontane journals are endeavoring 'to throw cold water upon the Froposed public banquet to Mayer Lange~ iet of Quebec, because it is to be given in Lent. Mr. George Beaudet, a son of one of Que- bec’sjeading French merchants, is about to put into practice the knowledge he acquired at the Guelph Agncultural College. The floods in the Ohio Valley, whichit was hoped had subsided, have received fresh additions, and the river is now rapidly risinv. NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. ' Postmaster Townsend,of Wheaton, Mich., is in a. critical condition, from the attack of a. rough named Saunders whom he refused to trust. The Washington \Vays and Means Com- mittee of the house of representatives have resolved to recommend that the duty on iron ore be placed at fifty cents a ton. The investigation into the loss of the Cimbria attracts much attention at Ham- burg, and acriminal prosecution against the Sultan’s captain is spoken of. The Canada Manufacturing Company, Montreal, appears to have found a deficiency of $20,000 by the act-i on of Henry Thomas, their late manager. FIVE MINUTES SELECT READING» we 4.. co â€"-â€"-â€".¢¢«o> OOH" Teaâ€"«Its Varieties, are. In reply to the questions of a. corres- pondent, the American Cultivator says that arranged in the order of their excellence, the different kinds of ten are as follows: The Green teas are Gun owder, Imperial, Hyson, Young H) son, yson, Hyson-skin and Twankay; the black teas are Pekoe, Souchong, Congou and Robert. Hyson con- sists of leaves gathered in the Spring; Young Hysou, of leaves collected in the earlyr part of the ssme season. Gunpowder is a. more carefully picked Hyson, the best rolled and rounded leaves being selected. Hyson-skin is the refuse of Hyson. Pekoo consists of the plant gathered early in the Spring, and is sometimes called "White- blossom tea,” from having mixed with it, to give it a higher per fume a few blossoms of a species of olive, a. native of China. The inferior qualities are made, as in the case of Hyson, from the second, third and fourth craps. For green teas, the leaves are heat- ed in shallow pans own a brisk wood fire almost immediately after they are gathered. They are then thrown upon a, table and rolled with the hands. Lastly, they are put again into the pan. and quickly dried, being kept in rapid motion by the hands of the workmen. Thus prepared, they are of a dullish green color, but become brighter afterwards. For black teas, the leaves are spread out in the air for some time after being gathered. They are then tossed about until they become soft and yielding, then they are thrown into heaps, and allowed to lie for about an hour, or a little longer, undergoing a. slight fermentation. After- ward they are rolled upon a. table, in the form of a ball, the object being to get rid of a part of the moisture, and at the same time to twist the leaves; and after being roasted in the pans, and exposed to the sun and air for a. few hours, they are dried slowly over charcoal fires. The produce of different districts varies in quantity and flavor with the climate, the $011 and the variety of the tee-plant cultivated, as well as with the period at which the leaves are gathered, and with the mode of drying them. An oxtraordiuarv security was oflcred by a. man who recently advertised in 3. Berlin newspaper for a. loan. The advertisement ran as follows :â€"“ A medical student who-c means are exhausted would like to meet with some one who would advence him tho necessary sum to complete his studies at a moderate rate of interest. If hecessary he would as a guarantee at once marry hi: creditor’s daughter, or, if he prefers it, would give an undertaking to do so on pass- ing his examination.” Experienced lumbermen my that the supply of walnut is rapidly diminishing, "and that fully three-fourths of the good stock throughout the country has been con- sumed withm the last ten years. A Few Thoughts about St. Valentine‘s Day. Hardly has the beauty of the book-store windows with their varied splendour of Christmas cards, become familiar to us be- fore good St. Nicholas is compelled to give place to one who is just as familiar to every one~good St. Valentine. While the former has the team of reindeers, the latter has no compinion but a little cherub with a bow and arrows, who has wounded more hearts and set them throbing wildly than any oth- ermythical god in ancient or modern history. The stocks of valentines have been displayed in theshop windows, and many a coy maiden has stood before them perplexed to think which might be sent to her, while at the same time her little fingers were feelin the coins in her ocket, sndinwerdlywon wing which wonl be the sweetest, the nicest and the most appropriate to send to him she loves the best. How many yaung ladies have looked forward to the 14th with im- patience. W’hat a beautifully foolish old custom this is of sending valentines, to be sure! It may tend to make Pozt-ofiice clerks and delivery men profane. but how many bright eyes are the brighter, and happy hearts the happier for it? BEHOLD THE LITTLE MAIDEN receiving it from the postman, who looks at her shyly, while she tries to appear uncon- scious that the billet in her hand is a valen- tine. Behold her hide it in her bosnm and fly at the first opportunity to the sacred in- ner temple of her own room, and if one might be permitted to follow her there he would seea sight. She would open it and admire it and if it was from the right one maybe she would kiss it. Girls will be foolish over these things; you know. and Valentine’s day, like Christmas, comes but once a. year. She feels it is a little tri- umph, a. pretty little conquest, and that valentine will be stored away in that mys- terious little receptacle which contains all that she cherishes most, and every article in which is a chapter in the beautiful story of her heart. And some day in that shad- owy future that is yet to come she will show it to her children and cry over it, just a. little. She may never have received evalentine before, she may never get one again, but that fcélish little nothing of a valentine on the road she travelled when a girl, where there were nothing but roses, and birds, and a, smiling sky. Perhaps she will Keep it on the parlor able, so that she may en- {joy the exquisite pleasure of being teased y the other girls about it. \Vho knows hdeed what she will do with it? Perhaps she will put it in a. fresh envelope and send it to one she love better. It’s hard. to say! If some young fellows who are much addicted to sending valentines only knew what became of them, they would straight-way become wiser and sadder men. The invalid sister will get one from her brother on the sly, for he knows that, it will flash her pale cheek and set her wandering into tairy land. Perhaps one boy will send one to his mother just tor" a joke, and then giggle the 'secret out be- fore night. How many girls will take a deep and awful revenge on trnant lovers by sending them those hideous caricatures that the small boy admires so much! When one looks into the shop window: he wonders where they will all go, and if he hasn’t money enough to buy one he will call the Whole thing a nuisance and pity the post men. 0L1) ST. VALENTINE. “'ILL MARK A SPOT