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AUJ SO KO.MANHC AFTER Aim. Do you notux* how attentively tint gentleman has been watching me for tin last halt hour ?" said one young lady u, inother at an evening party. "Do you mean that man by the piano?' " Yes.” "Well, now that you speak of it he doer seem somewhat interested in yon ’ "He certainly does. Ido decla.ro," continued the young lady, gaily, " I believe hj has fallen in love with me. Isn't it ileiigh; fully romantic ?" A few minuter, after she was t. llb t; v.i her hostess, when, as an opportunity t;.. sented itself, she carelessly remarked "My dear Mrs. 8., pray lei! mew.m !’. quiet hut very dittiiuiur looking ger.tlcm; is near the piano. Ido not remember m.•. seeing him before." "Probably not," replied the lady : " 1 ,: he is quite well known. He is a detccliv SURVIVED HIS OWN EXECUTE).' A man who lias at tend od ids own c\e< " lion and still surviv<v„ iO relate the del.;;! is surely worthy a short paragraph. 'Hie man i r piestion, although at pi-scr serving in t..e humble caput ily ohwait*. r ■ one of the Paris cafes, was, twenty-on; years ago, one of the historic characters e the world His name is Colonel Marleras, and in !krp, was on the point of being proclaimed President of Uruguay, when ho was am- fed '■harmed with treason, and sentenced to In snot. On Monday, fune 30th of that year, hj was taken by a platoon of soldiers out of tin capital to a chared spot in the heart of ;; forest and bound .'o a chair. At the wo Id "Eire I" a nervous shock caused Marteras to fall to the ground. Me did not hear the volley, but a labourer working near ’O3 did. The workman went to ascertain Ihe cause, saw tiic Pliers marching away, and Marteras badly wounded, but net dead by any means lying on the ground. The labourer took the wonld-bo Presmcnt home and cure.! Ins wounds, and lie and Maileras both now often tell of the sup-K sod execution of the •'French Pretender.” MY BAB I: S IN THE WOOD I know a story, fairer, dimmer, sadder, Than anv story painted in your books You arc so glad ? 1 will not make you gladder' Yet listen, with your pretty restless looks "Isit a fairy story ?" Well, half fairyAt least it dates' far hack as fairies do, And seems to me as beautiful and airy ; Yet half, perhaps the fairy half, is irue. You iind a baby sister and'a brother, Two very dainty people, rosy win:?, Sweeter than all Ihingsclseexcept each other: Older yet younger—gone from human stglul And I, who loved them, and shall love llu.n ever, And think with yearning tears how each light hand Crept toward bright bloom and berries—l shall never Knowhow Host them. Do you understand/ Poor slightly golden heads ! I think I missed them first in some dreamy, piteous, doubtful way; Cut when and where with lingering lips 1 kissed them, My gradual parting, 1 can never say. Sometimes I fancy that they may have perished In shadowy quiet of wet rocks and moss, Rear paths whoso very pebbles 1 h;ne cherished, For their small sakes, since my most bitter loss. ’ fancy, 100, that they were softly covered By robins, out of appie /lowers they knew, Whose nursing wings in far home sunshine hovered, Before the timid world had dropped the dsw. I heir names were—what yours ars. At thb you wonder, Their pictures are—your own, as you haw; seen ; And mv bird-buried darlings, hidden unuv.r Lost leaves—why, it is yenr dead selves I mean!

back from the grave. Hi-; was a young sergeant in the Hussars, and in uric of the numerous night attar';-, on [h, ; Russian fortifications in the Crimea, he had the misfortune to receive a dangerous millet wound in the region of the heart, while bravely exhorting his men to action. Me was immediately stricken to the ground with insensibility, and a period of perhaps two hours elapsed before the ambulance could be procured. During this time, owing to the piercing east winds that only a Russian can stand with equanimity, the sergeant became perfectly pale and cold Notwithstanding all precautions, and a fair share of nursing and attention—for in the Crimea this department was very badly managed—he was pronounced the next afternoon by three medical men to have mot with instantaneous death. His body was accordingly handed over to the burial corps of his regiment, There were numerous burials to take place the same afternoon, so the bodies of the sergeant and three privates were handed -<jver to a big brawny Irishman for burial. This man, having dug the trenches, placed the four bodies ia a line and proceeded to cover them, ’ He had covered three of them, when a frightful thunderstorm came on, and he was obliged to discontinue his operations for the nh’ht, leaving the remains of the sergeant exposed to the weather, wolves, and other evils. Night came on, and the men all tuned into their beds, such as they were, and soon were fast asleep, At three o’clock, the shrill cry of the sentry challenging a man might have been heard on the still night air, and to the usual query came the answer, “ Friend." Making his way past the sentry, the man iiad t® walk three hundred yards to reach the encampment of his 11 squad.” Calling with a feeble voice outside the tent of 'the sergeant-major, he asked for quarters for the night. Aghast with terror, the tyembjing officer led the man—who was no other than the dead and buried sergeant —to the colonel’s quarters, and having awakened the colonel, he narrated his Strange story, Next day the fortunate " non-com." was reinstated as sergeant to his troop once more, and great was the merry-making when |he company heard the good news. ' Jt appears that about 2 a.rn., the Russians discharged some shells near the British encampment, and one of the shells dropping nSte close to the burial lines awoke the sergeant from his trance. Cold, sore, and Stiff but feeling little the worse for his cerHous adventure, he rose and made his way as quickly as possible to the tents, t examination of the wound elicited the fee* ‘hat the bullet entered the chest just below the second rib, curved off the edge 0! the third, and was found by one of the -clever' Trio" who pronounced me man 4ead, imbedded about half an inch below face of the skin. incident was related by the ij§i'goaDi to 3 gsnp sur t' this W«IS U