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Star (Christchurch), Issue 681, 29 July 1870, Page 3

" Dear Julius,— You say your love will surmount all obstacles. "Meet me, then, adored one, on the summit of Mont Blanc, on the first of April;— Celestina/' - x • -- • The Peco Gr^-ry, whp Vina jnat ha<>n nonunated Director of the French Academy, is renowned, for his absence .of jmind.;i One» day when he was going to the Sorbonne, where he lectured on theology; h.e imagined that he had forgotten his watch, and took it out of his pocket to see if he had' time t'p gq home and fetch it. - ~ •'■ - ''■ • - A chapter in a Western novel has the following hopeful beginning :—" All of a sudden the fair girl continued to sit on the flfmd-, gazing upon the briny deep, on whose heaving bosom the tall ships went merrily , by, freighted— ab, who can tell with how-much of joy and sorrow, - and pine lumber and emigrants, aud hopes .ftnd.Balt.flßh t 'J L#t^ jiv!>i-ii^