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Aliz‘msb the last official act of Lord Mayor Savory, of London, was the laying of the cornerstone of 1:. French Protesmnt church. As the Lord Mayor is descended from a Huguenot the act; was spoken of as especial- ly befitting Riva. Mr. Patrick Mc Uermott, the McCarthyite candidate, has been elected without opposi- tion to the seat inNorfh Kilkenny rendered vacant by the deal-h of Sir John Pope Hennessy. Owing to continued resistance in North- amptonshire to compulsory vaccination it is said that the authorities there have decided to drop all prosecutions against any who may refuse to obey. Rev. Samuel Cotton, a rector at, Carnogh, County Kildure, is accused of treating the children of an orphanage of which he had charge with great neglect and cruelty. The directors of one of the principal rail. way companies in Great Britain are cousid~ ering the proposal for the entire removal of the class system. The British poacher is now being followed by the electric search light. A light several milcs away rccentlyfietected and identified a. couple of them. Alex. Chisholm, the Winnipeg merchant convicted of debauching girls under fourteen years of age, was on Tuesday sentenced by Chief Justice Taylor to seven years in the penitentiary and twenty-five lashes. GREAT BRITAI 5'. Right Hon. A. J. Balfour has been elected chancellor of Edinburgh University. Some ladies of Cork have sent to Mrs. Parnell, in America, a wreath made of laurel, ivy, Shamrocks, and violets, from her son’s grave in Glaanevin cemetery. Mr. McDermott, nephew of the late Mr. Parnell, horsewhipped Mr. Timothy Healy in Dublin yesterday because of some insult- ing remarks made by Mr. Healy regarding Mr. Parnell’s widow and sister. Another mutinous nutbreaLk on the part of the 3rd Battalion of Grenadier Guards in London is reported. They complained of the quality of the food served to them, and their complaint not meeting with attention they threw their food out of the Windows of the barracks on the public streets. Mr. Nichqu Flood Davin, M. P., is very jubilant at having obtained Sir Adolphe Caron’s signa.ture to an order for the issue of scrip to the North West home guard who served during the recent Riel outbreak. Sandringham Hall, Sufi‘olk residence of the Prince of Wales, was damaged by fire on Monday to the extent of £15,000. Sixteen thousand ship mechanics in the north of England have gone on strike on ac- count of a. dispute about, overtime. The Prince of \Vales will celebrate his fiftieth birthday on November 9 at the Marl- borough house. Quite an interesting family party will gather at that time. \. A petition praying for executive clemency for Pattenden, found guilty of having mur- déred Annie Rodney Dear Winnipeg, has been presented to Sir John Thompson. Mr. B. B. Osler and Mr. Christopher Robmson have been retained by the Domin- ion Government, to prosecute the members of the firm of Larkin, Connolly& Co. on the charge of defrauding the Department. of Public Works. .The 60 clerks of the Department of the Interior who received extra pay in violation of the Civil Service Act have been fined a momh’s pay, which will be deducted in two instalments. At the meeting of the Grand Trunk Rail- way Company, held on Monday in London, there was a. general feeling expressed in favour of making some arrangement, with the Canadian Pacific Railwav company by which rates can be maintained. Col. Engledine, of England, is favourably impressed with British Columbia, for the Scotch croftcrs, whom the Imperial Govern- ment will assist to emigrate. The Canadian Pacific railway returns for September show the gross earnings to have been $1,835,658, and the net. profits $725,284 In September, 1890, the net profits were $712,002. In a judgment delivered by Chief Justice Sir Francis Johnson at Montreal the prin- ciple is laid down that a liquor licensee must have knowledge he is selling to a minor before he can be convicted under the statute. James Markle, While deer hunting with two other young men near Riverview on Friday, accidentally shot himself (lead. Up to date 98 cases of smallpox have been reported to the Quebec Provincial Board of Health. Of these cases ten are repert- ed recovered and nineteen dead. The sealers of Victoria, B. C., t paring a. claim for damages from the (1.1 Government on account. of the prohibiuur. The four-year-old daughter of David Gillespie was trampled to death by cattle on her father’s farm in the Township of Fitzroy on Saturday. Joseph Hmrkness has been found dead near Carberry, Mam, under suspicious circum‘ stances. Henry Vantnven, a veteran of Lundy 5 Lane, died on Tuesday at Buttersea, near Kingston, aged 97 years. The Manitoba School Act has been dis- allowed by the Supreme Court. This decision Will be appealed to the privy Council. A cable despatch says one Canadian ship- per of eggs to England has made £1,000 profit on a. single shipment. .f‘ CANADA- ;Xoh find of gold is reported from Beaver harbor, N. S. Ottawa’s population is placed by the city assessors at 43,229. Within a. few months Halifax has lost $4,000,000 by fire. From 150 to 200 cars of grain daily are passing through Winnipeg. The apple crop in West Middlesex this year is the largest ever known. There are 793 students attending McGill University, Montreal this term. Two Cliinamen were fined in Hamilton on Monday for desecrating the Sabbath. A cargo of ooppei recently carried out of Lake Superior was valued at $610,000. Gillette, a forger, sentenced for 10 years, has escaped from Stony Mountain peniten- tiny. THE WEEK’S NEWS are pre- ) ) Imperi- sealing An old women asked a. sailor where her cow had gone. The sailor repliedâ€"“ Gone to the devil, for what I know.” “ Well, as you are Going that. way,” said the 01d wo- man, “ fjusc wish you would let; down the bars.” Man’s love tor hxs sweetheart is often nearly tW0~thirds jealousy of some other fellow. For the purpose of gaining advertisement for these preparations it has been suggested that the inventor may have conceived the plan of distributing real eggs in the guise of artificial ones. This is certainly not the ‘ case, however, because there are certain points which render these artificial eggs dis~ tinguishahle as such. For instance, the lining is evidently made of some sort of silk like tissue, and one can see that ibis woven. The shell is said to be cast, in halves out of a lime composition, the lining being put in and filled and the two halves thereupon join- ed together, The eggs are made of various shapes and tints. One will be able to buy, as soon an they are placed on the market, counterfeit pullets’ eggs or eggs laid by elderly hens, likewise select white eggs or dark-colored eggs, according to choice. Most surprising of all they will be sold for only 100 a. dozen and they never get, rotten. To confectioners and others who use large quantities of eggs the yelks and whites will be sold separately, put up in jars and hermetically sealed. ln this shape they will also be Convenient for holisehold employment. > There has been quite a. sensation in Wash~ ington. D.C., during tlielast few days on the subject of artificisleggs. A person whoclaims to have invented a. process for making them â€"â€"pa,tent newly applied forâ€"has been exhibiting samples and giving them away about town. Some dozens have been served in the clubs, boiled, fried, poached and scrambled. and the genersl verdict is that it would beimpossible for anybody wdistiuâ€" guish them from real ones. Externally they 100k exactly like the sort laid by hens. Brealr the shell of a raw specimen and the contents flop into a glass in as natural a. manner as possible, the yelk and white unmingled. It has been claimed that no imitation eggs could ever be made to “ beat up” for cake, but these do perfectly. A letter from Starcdoub, Russia, asserts that during the recent. anti-Semitic riots there five young unmarried Jewesses were so barbaronsly outraged and maltreated that they have since died.’ rl‘he inventor says thathis eggs are, cl emâ€" ically speaking, a precise reproduction of nature. Corn meal is the basis of their ma- terial. The white is pure albumen, of course, while the yell: is amore complicated mixture of albumen and several other elements. In- side the shell is a. lining of what looks some what like the delicate, filmy membrane formed by the hen, while the shell itself is stated to be made in two halves, stuck to- gether so artfully that no eye can discover the joining. The very germ of the chicken, with unnecessary iai:hfulness of imitation, as one might think, is counterfeited. Advices received in Berlin state that 350,000 German colonists in Russia. are suf- fering from famine. One of the largest hospitals in she world, containing accommodation for from 1,000 to 1,500 patients, has been opened at; Constan- tinople, Turkey. Cable despatches state that England is experiencing sharp frosts, and that snow has fallen in Hamburg. where the temperature is 7 ° lbelow the freezing point. A despatch from Yokohama. says that, according to an official estimate, 4,000 per- sons were killed by the recent earthquake, 5,000 were injured, and 50,000 houses were destroved. Paris publishes 1,998 papers, of which 105 are illustrated journals and twenty-one are devoted to the theatres. The population of Greece is increasing at a. greater ratio than that of any other Euro- pean country. The crops in Italy are all above the aver- age yield. Italy has not been in such a prosperous condition for many years. A beauty show in Melbourne, Australia, was wrecked by a mob because the style of beantv did not meet expectations. The epidemic of influenza. continues in Australia. At Lapeer, Mich, Mrs. Emma Miner be- came jealous of her sister. The other day she asked her husband. in the presence of the sister, to chose which woman he would ]i e with. Miller chose the sister, where- upon his wife shot. herself fatally. The Astor family have a. million sterling invested in English securities. The founder of the family, John JaCOb Astor, left the iniunction in his will that the family should always continue the investments in the Eng- lish funds and in English securities that he had himself commenced. The sons and grandsons have always respected this com- mand. UNITED STATES. Snow fell all day Monday in South Dakota. ” Terrible destruction is being caused in Indiana. by forest fires. The Minneapolis mills last week turned out 205,720 barrels of flour, beating all previous records. Eggs are being smuggled from Canada. across the St. Lawrence in large numbers_ TWO hundred cases of Spanish fever have developed among the cattle in the Cincin- nati stock yards. The University of Chicago has purchased by cable from S. Simon, of Berlin, a. library 830280300 volumes, paying therefore $450,- The miners of Tennessee are liberating the convicts who are employed in the mines. There are now at; least 5H0 convicts at, large in the neighbourhood of Knoxville. Sitting Bull’s cabin has been bought for $1.000, a 2-year-old steer and two sill: dress patterns, and is to be exhibited at. the \Vorld’s Fair in Chicago. G. W, Dunn, the California. naturalist, has collected Over 70,000 insects belonging to the horn-winged family. 5,000 of the cricket tribe and nbout4.000 butterflies, and numbcrless rare plants and animals. Aha. Farmer’s Alliance mass meeting at. Bucksport, Ark, on Wednesday evening, the discussion became so heated that the speakers and their friends resorted to fire- arms, and five men were killed and several wounded. A Product of [he M:'Klnley lllll. IN GENERAL Thvere was a. point of likeness between him and a. very different, personage, Lord Hartington. Both of them wore the same armor; neither cared one straw for the shafts which the Irish brigade launched against them. It used to be matter of com- plaint against Mr. Balfour that he showed (200 plainly his contempt for the calumnies and insults which the Irish showered upon him as they had upon every previous Irish Secretary, and will upon his successor, and, I suppose, upon all Irish Secretaries no the end of time. The lrish are deficient in imag- ination, and slow to perceive that their But what I wish to point out is that Mr. Balfour‘s power of not reading newspapers may he a. key, or one key, toa very original 'and interesting character. The conception of public life without newspapers is indi- vidual ; entirely peculiar to him, I imagine. I know of nobody else in England who holds it or practises it. The reading of newspapers may be likened to the use of intoxicatingliq- uors, of which so he people take more and someless; hardly anybody abstains altogeth- er. 1 mean hardly anybody in public life in thiscountry; a. few fanatics excepted who are hardly in public life.‘ So engrossing are the occupations of those who have the con’JUCt of afi'airs that many find little time to devote to newspapers. You may often hear a Minister who is questioned in the House of Commons about some story in a paper make answer that he has not seen it. He reads, as it were, by proxy. The journals of the day are read for him by one of his private secretaries, and marked, or extracts from them laid before him ; extracts which refer tohis own department of business. unlike the deliverance oi the overnige hater : a. sentence equally incisive and ill- uminative. The manner was gentle, easy, impassive as if the object he had before him in speaking were hardly worth an effort. This manner misled the House, which is jealous and tolerates nothing like neglect of its own good opinion, and demands conformity of its own standards. It changed very gradually. It; was never really flung 03 till Mr. Balfour became Irish Secretary, and even then the manner changed less than the man. English press is slight, and the Influence of the leading article, or editorial, slighter still. He is a man who finds pleasure in paradox. But if he really held the View which it sinuses him to maintain in the pre- sence of journalists, he might be asked to consider the newspaper reader of the kind just mentioned; him and his ways. If he studied him he would as soon think of say- in that his coffee and boiled eggs hurl no in uence on his physical system as that his newspaper had not influence on his mental system. Later in the day the same man pours out to his neighbor what he has gath- ered ; each of them imparts these same views to the other, and neither of them suspects that his own or his friend’s wisdom is not entirely spontaneous and original. His thinking has been done for him, and done so cleverly that he fully believes he has done it himself. There is a. story that Southey was once describing to Mme. De Stael the distribution of his time; so many hours of reading before breakfast on one subject, and so many hours writing, and then more read- ing. till the whole day was gone. “ And pray, Mr. Southey,” inquired the French- woman. “ when do you think ‘2” The same question might be put to the kind of render I have been describing. Mr. Balfour, it may be imagined, does his thinking and much else during the hours when the Philistine is having his done for him. Upon his first entry into public life his opponents derided his gifts as academic. They thoughchim a man of books, and, what they despised still more,a mere think- er, a. man to whom metaphysics were more than the machine ; another John Stuart Mill, and'a. lesser. It was long before he troubled himself to disturb this notion. He took no very active part in the business of the House or even in the conduct of those affairs which the Fourth Party of which he was a kind of honorary member, made their own. He was thought indifl'erent if not in- dolent. He was in no hurry. He seemed to care little for the reputation to be gained by debate. He spoke none too often, and rather negligently. The observer in the House, he who took note of novelties,might sometimes hear a flashing sentence which fell from Mr. Balfour’slips in a tone very If you travel up to town by rail any mom- ing you will see how the Englishman of the period reads his paper. He toils through it with a. conscientiousness which is admirable; all couscientiousness is admirable. He reads only one, but he reads that thoroughly ; editorials and all, and the beholder Wonders in what condition his mind must be when the operation has been accomplishedfind the last word reached. Does he digest this multifarious mass? But such an inquiry takes us too far. I want the newspaper reader of the railway only as acontrast, and he would be just as good a. contrast if he had been caught in a. clubor at hisown breakfast-table; best of all perhaps at the latter, where he absorbs all this printed wisdom into his sysâ€" tem, very much as he does his coffee and boiled eggs. An eminent Gladstoninn who will some day lead the remains of the Gladstonian party has a, theory that the influence of the If Mr. Balfour read the papers he might or might not he gratified by the eulogies poured out on him these last few days. But he does not read the papers. That is one of his peculiarities. and one thetmay account, in part, for the distinction of mind which he preserves amid the confusions and iguohle influences of political life. Emerson said: “ If we should give to the great writers, to Milton, or Bacon or Wordsworth, the time we give to the papersâ€"hut who dare speak of such a thing C'” I know not whether Mr. Balfour is a. reader of Emerson, nor whether he ever spoke in public of such a. thing as his omission to read those sources oi intel~ ligenceâ€"and of other thingsâ€"which we call newspapers. But his view and Emerson‘s are in eil‘ect the same, and I imagine no public man of his time has known so little of the contents of the press from day to day as Mr. Balfour, Of coure he loses something by this abstention. It is conceivable that he may also gain something. In most mst- ters there is a. balance of loss and gain, and Mr. Balfour long since satisfied himself that for him there was more to be gained in other quarters than in the daily press of England. Had his lot been cast in America his view mighthave been different. That is a matter of speculation into which we need not now enter. All I-Iilimmc or the new Leader of the (Tonlmonn. BRITAIN'S GREAT MES]. ‘0. \V. SMALLE Mr. Balfour had only to he himself. He is tall and slim, with long le s and his long legs were for awhile an Iris grievance. The Parnellitesflall the Irish were then Parnell- itesâ€"acuused their owner of “ sprawling” on the Treasury Bench. The awnt accusation has again been heard since the late Secretary has become First Lord of the Treasury, Dr. Holmes said that the American was the only person who knew what to do with the small of his back, and he sits on it. I am afraid Mr. Balfour did as much, and when this feat had been accomplished, his legs seemed to become their own masters ; they wound themselves into knots and unwound them- selves, and assumed various angles to the rest of his body, and each attitude was to the angry Irishman on the watch for evil meanings an attitude of offence. The worst of it was that these contortions occurred while the attack on him from the Irish bench- es was hottest, and while every nerve and sinew in his body, legs included, ought to have been strained and tense to meet the storm. What business had an IrishSecretary’s lower limit-s to be amusing themselves while Snuth Airich Holland . . . . . . Denmark . Germany. Belgium . . . . . . Scum Amerit St. Helena...“ Finland . . . . . Italy . . . . . . Saxon foe may really despise accusations which he and they know to be the offspring of political animosity. Presently, however, they discovered that they had met their match in debate and more than their match. If the new Secretary had ever been indolent he had woke up. Serious duties had fallen upon him, and in the presence of serious duties the dilettante element in his charac- ‘ter tarnished. The intellectual energyand the courage which he had heretofore applied to theproblemsofthc closet were now seen to be equally capable for the market-place and the forum. Mr. Balfour became the most formidable debater whom the Irish had had to confront in that office. They had set themselves to exasperate him, and they end- ed by being themselves exasperated. They could not make him angry and they were angry because they could not. The power of polite repartee was a. greater power than the mere abuse and vulgar iuvective which it was employed to meet. A storm of in- sulting personalities raged about him. The Irish had met nothing quite so disconcerting before as this nonchalance of bearing, united with the capacity of easy retort upon those who beset him. Mr. Forster, Sir George Troelyan, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, each in his own way, had proved not perhaps un- equal to the contest, but sensitive. It was possible to inflict pain on all of them, and possible for none of them wholly to conceal the pain he endured ; heroically but visibly. Mr. Campbell Bennerman puzzled them by his stoicismâ€"the stoicism of a. tough nature on which more taunts fell harmlessly~but his attitude was purely defensive, and he had no talent for making his foes sufl‘er otherwise than from the failure of their attacks. Tasmania“ . . Queensland . New Zealand. . . Indiaund Ceylon Great Britain ‘ . . . . . . ‘ ‘ . . . France and Switzerland Sweden . . . ‘ . . . . . . . ‘ . . . . . . Norway ‘ . . . . . ‘ . . . . United State ‘ . . . . . . . Cafiada and New Found Following is the special report of the field state of the Salvation Army on Septem- ber 12 last, just issued by Commissioner Rees: land . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . Ausu‘alasiaâ€" Victoria. . . . . . . . . South Australia... New South \Valcs No man who knows himself is proud. Any work is hard work to a lazy man. Every good man builds his own monu- menls. Beware of people who do not. lova children and flowers. There is nothing sadder on earth than an unhappy child. The devil loves to hear the man who won’t pay his debts talk in chmch. The praying doesn’t mean much when the pocketbook won‘t say amen. The less religion people have the more they insist upon others having. P'eople who expect to praise God in heaven ought to begin to do it. here on earth. If you want, to bring down the sinners outside of the church shoot at those in it. The man who professes to be a. Christian ought to work continually at the business. There are women who sometimes think Sunday that they have religion, but, when the clothes line breaks dowu Monday they find out that they haven’t. the Irish patriot was firming the Irish gecretai‘y to he a. monster of cruelty and iniquity? No doubt it was provoking. It was more provoking still when the same legs Were called on to 311 port the weightâ€"no very great weightâ€"o their rightful master ; when he was in House of Commons phrase, on them and meeting the hurricanes and Whirl- winds of Parnellite rhetoric with a calmness and a. polished serenity of department, which did more than anything else to convince the patriotic and anguished Irish soul that the hurricanes and whirlwinds had been got up in vain. If I may be forgiven for saying so, there was in the treatment whieh both Mr. Balfourand Mr. Parnellaccorded to the re- presentatives of Ireland something equally hateful to these representatives. M r. Pa! nel] was their superior. and there is. on the whole, nothing which the inferior soul so much resents as superiority. The devil don’t care how much religion people get if they wait until they get away {rgm home coApx-actise it. Babes in Christ sometimes die because they are fed with watered milk: Seine people, when th'ey pray in public, push every window in heaven shut to begin with. The mam who is a. man never quits work and goes to whittling because someboriy tells him the sun has spots on it. The man who doesn’t. love his brother on the other side of the earth doesn’t love his brother on the other Side of the street. There are people that claim that they are willing to do anything for the Lord who never think of going to church on a. rainy Sunday. Tot. Till} SALV A'I‘ION AfiflY. sentences of Wisdom. (‘ox'ps 1.381 273 308 .,. 41 Out- 1’95?“ 5: Cl c. 440 488 201 1,303 1,051 1,10 243 487 , 181 181 There are, however, two versions of the song. Lady John Scott is credited with the composition of the air, now so popular in two worldsâ€"certainly M popular here in America. as in the country of its birth-sung by the Scottish brigade in the trenches be- fore Sebastopol, sung, too, by our brave boys in blue as they cheerfully marched south- wards to preserve the nation’s unity, and to purify it_s flag jn their best blood. Bernhardt drinks stout. but, she doesn’t look it. The married man is making fairly good progress when he is able m Enid bin 0\V&~ - may John Scott has touched up and very much improved the whale song, which, in its better knowu modern form, first ap- peared about 60 years ago, and rushed at once into popularity that has endured to tlxg prqgenp day. > A few years ago, in the Glaagow Weekly Mail, the following extract from the family register of Sir Robert Laurie, in his own handwriting, was given by & conespon- dent : “ A: the pleasure of Almighty God, my daughter Annie Laurie, was born on the 16111 day of December, 1682, about 60’clock in the morning, and was baptized by Mr. Geogge Hunter, minister of Glencairnfi’ About, seven miles from Thornhill, in Dumfriesshire, Scot“, are “ Maxwelton Braes" and house, famed in song asthe home of “bonnie Annie Laurie.” (Black’s Pic- tuesque Tourist; of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1880. Page 158.) Near to the Brae: is Glencaim, on the Cairn water. Peter Cunningham, in his ” Songs of Scot- land” (London, 1835), quotes C. K. Sharpe in giving the genealogy of Annie as daugh- ter of Sir Robert Laurie of Maxweltom This may be considered as decisive of the spurious claims of J. C. McGavin‘s friend, \Val- lace. All this was pure invention. There are two versions of the songâ€"an old one and a. modern one. Robert Chambers wrote in 1829 that, the song was written by a Mr. Douglas of Fing- land, that, Annie was one of four daughters of Sir Ruhert Laurie, first; baronet of Max- wellton, that Sir Robert got his title in 1685, that the song was written, in its early form, about the end of the 17th century, thaw Douglas lost; Annie, and that she became the wife of Ferguson of Craigdarroch. In the “ Lyric Gems of Scotland.“ vol. i, p. 204, the air is attributed to Lady John Scott; author of “Douglas, Tendeg and Trug.” A-collation 01' the antique form of this deathiess ditty with the modern version by LadyJohn Scott, will show how much it; has gained in beauty and in sweetness by her artistic iouches : While passing down Yonge St. a. few days ago a parsnn with grey hair so long that, it; rested on his shoulders, met a, small boy with rather more than the usual amount of real estate on his hands and face. Boyâ€"Shine. Mr? Parson (indignanciy)â€"You come near me. Go, wash your dirty face andI will give you en cents. (Hurriedly the boy crosses the street to the nearest. water tap, splashes water on his- face, wipes it with his coat. sleeves and as hast,in returns to the clergyman. Boyâ€"(with outstretched hand), Give us- the dime, old man? Parsonâ€"(handing the coin to the boy) Here it is. Boyâ€"«(handing it back) I don’t want your mone bor His story, in brief, was to the following effect: He said that; he was raised on the next farm to Annie’s father, James Laurie, that she was born in 1827, that she was 17 years old when the song was written, that one Wallace, foreman on the farm, fell in love with Annie, was discharged, went to his home in Maxwelton, took sick on the niglibnf his arrival and wrote the song on his death bed, at which Annie waited till he died. In the Chicago Herald, :few years ago, a. writer signing himself “J. C. McGavin, Racine, Wis.,” daringly endeavored ho hum- bug the world as_ bthe identity of“ Annie.” In truth, theheroine of the beautiful song, “ Annie Laurie,” was a. real flesh and blood woman, writes “ E. C.” in the Lowell Courier. Her portrait hangs in Maxwolton house alongside that of her husband Alexander Ferguson of Craigdarroch, both being the work of a. contemporary artist, “ nameless here forever-more.” She is represented as slim and graceful in figure, with delicately-cut features, dark eyes, high forehead and a. profusion of hair, combed back and intertwined with pearls. It, would‘be unfair to judge from the old canvas of the living fem: on; whose charms the world has been set, a-singipg. : nu- The Heroine of.\nnle Laurie a Young Lady 200 Years Ago. ‘an Friendâ€"~Yes, life insured? lst F.â€"For one thousand dollars. 2nd F.-â€"0, well, the loss is fuin cover y-«(lmnding it back) I don’t want your :y. Take it and get your hair cut. , Friendâ€"I’m told our poor old neigh- Iones, is dead. 1 b‘riendâ€"â€"Yes, life insured? Her brow is like the snaw-drift‘ Her throat is like the swan ; Her face it. is the fairest, ‘ That, Eat the sun shone on : That o'er the sun shone on. Annie Laurie. VERSIOX. Maxwelton banks 91' bonnie, W'here early fn’s the dew ; Where I and Annie Laurie Made up the promise true, Made up the mmise true And never orget will I, And for bonnie Annie Laurie I‘d lay down my head and die. 7 Arid for'bonnie Annié L:{\xrie I‘d lay me down and doe. Li_ke glow; 9n 3.3m gpwanAlying, She's backet like the peacock, She’s breasted like aswan. She‘s jimp about. the middle. Her waist you wvel may span Her waist you weel may span ; And she has a. rolling eye: And for bonnie Annie Laurie. I'd lay down my head. and die. Machltnn braes are bonnie, Where early (21's the dew. And its there that, Annie Laurie Gied me her promise true ; Gied me her promise true, \Vhich ne'er forgot will be ; And for bonnie Annie Laurie I’d lay me down and (Ice. Is the fu,’ 0’ her fairy feet; And like winds in summer sighing, Her voice is low and sweet ; Her voice is low and sweet. And she is a‘ the world to me; And for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me down and (100. “’IIAT Tm; nun PLANS. Just :1 Malin- ol‘ Taste. MODERN VERSION. .an ;