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it secnipcl that our late patient" Had long 

 boon "wanttfl" by the police on no less 

 a charge thiui that of murder. Doubtless 

 his nnwilliugness to be removed to a 

 hospital arose from his persuasion that 

 he was safer from detection in a private 

 dwelling. 



Giiilty or not guilty of the crime he 

 was accused of, it was long before Jim 

 and I ceased to speak of him. Nor, iu 

 turn, had he forgotten us. We were 

 handsomely remembered in the will he 

 had executed before the operation. But 

 we will never again undertake the care 

 of a resident patient. — Answers. 



Old English Inns. 



A feature essentially English is the 

 cheery inn that overlooks the common. 

 From that upper latticed window the 

 jolly innkeeper of yore would watcli the 

 solitaiy horseman of romance crossing 

 the heath and perhaps hint his opinion 

 of the traveler to the "gentlemen oJ 

 the road" — the Claude Duvals — whc 

 found it convenient to keep on good 

 terms with mine host. But those days 

 are gone, and now we can take our ease 

 at our inn, with its deep bay windows 

 on either side of the entrance, its 

 6wiugiug signpost, its horse trough, 

 pujnp and out door settle. Enter and yoij 

 will find that the bay window forms & 

 delightful sunny recess with a seat all 

 round. In one instance a branch of s 

 vine from the adjoining greenhouse hac 

 been trained into this recess, and rounc 

 the window bunches of grapes wert 

 hanging, some beginning to pui-ple ii 

 the wai-m Aiigust sun. The fii-eplace is 

 often a great, old fashioned one, witl 

 seats on either side of the "ingleneuk, ' 

 right under the chimney, while framed 

 over one of these fii'eplaces I found the 

 following verse from Sir Matthew Hale 



A Sabbath well spent 



Brings a week of content 

 And hi-altli for the toils of the morrow, 



But a Sabbath profaned, 



■Whate'er may be gained. 

 Is a certain forerunner of sorrow. 



— Temple Bar. 



Dr. Nansen's Pedigree. 



Dr. Fridtjof Nansen's name bein^ 

 now mentioned all over the world, hi. 

 pedigree has been the subject of recent 

 research. The result is that the earlies' 

 of the forbears of tlie Norwegian nav 

 igator of wliom there is authentic knowl 

 edge was Ewert Nansen. a merchant a' 



Flensburg, in Sleswick-Holsteiu, wlic 

 died iu 1618. So it is stated in th( 

 "Genealogia Nanseniana, " which i! 

 contained in an important collective 

 work by Christopher Giessing (Copen 

 hagen, 1781). Ewejrt Nansen's sor 

 Hans went with his uncle on a mer 

 chant ship to Russia, became aftersvai'C 

 interpreter of the Russian language at 

 the court of the king of Denmark and 

 later on a special Danish envoy to th( 

 czar. Subsequently, as chairman of tht 

 Icelandic Trade society, he made manj 

 voyages to Iceland and Russia anc 

 wrote in Danish a "Compendium Cos- 

 moraphicum Danicum, " which hac 

 many editions (163.1-46). All the othei 

 Nansens are traced from these ancestors, 

 one of the first of whom thus showed 

 alreiudy a bont for traveling and foi 

 writing on his travels. A clear case oi 

 hereditary character, going back to twc 

 centiiries and a half! Only it is to be 

 hoped that Ibsen will leave the subject 

 alone and not write a drama called 

 "The Man From the Sea. "—Pall Mai' 

 Gazctto. 



The Tale Told of a Doctor. 



Apropos of doctors' beards and mi- 

 crobes, a lady writes: "Several years 

 ago I took the steam cars to and from 

 school. For a week or more our family 

 physician took the crowded noon train, 

 always sitting very near me, and enter- 

 ing into conversation. On questioning 

 his sister-in-law about bis trips, she 

 said : 'Oh, be has a smallpox patient at 

 C. , and is afraid to take his carriage for 

 fear of communicating contagion. So 

 he takes the train. ' I always supposed 

 his professional eye looked on me as " 

 prospective smallpox patient." — Boston 

 Transcript. 



A Lieg^timate Flea. 



Smythe — Do you think Scadds will 

 bo severely punished for deserting his 

 family aud running away with and 

 marrying that young widow? 



Tompkins — No. He's rich, aud hav- 

 ing one wife he certainly didn't need 

 another, so his lawyer is quite sure he 

 can clear him by pleading kleptomania. 

 —Truth. 



The ivy leaved lettuce opens its leaves 

 aud flowers at 8 o'clock iu the morning^ 

 and generally closes again by 4. 



