KIDD'S JOUENAL. 



"Of course they will," said Polly; "but 

 still I can't help thinking if Miss Winton 

 had really loved him, she never could have 

 thought about what they cost — at least she 

 couldn't have took them to a jeweller's to 

 find it out." 



" Lor, bless you ! she's done the same 

 with all the presents he's made her," said 

 Miss Winton's servant. 



" There, she's come home," she continued, 

 as a loud ring interrupted their tete-a tete. 

 Now, do you keep alive, and I'll give you 

 notice when he's going, so that you may get 

 a good look at him." 



She ran into the house. Mr. Lut worth 

 walked deliberately across the garden, left 

 his card upon the table as he passed through 

 the drawing-room, and without any unneces- 

 sary noise, though with no actual attempt 

 at secrecy, let himself out at the front door 

 and went his way. As he traversed the 

 passage, he heard the voices of Miss Winton 

 and her maid up stairs, where the former 

 was divesting herself of her bonnet and 

 shawl, and arranging her hair, previous to 

 descending to the drawing-room. Love 

 would have thrown the bonnet on a chair, 

 and trusted to its counterpart to forgive the 

 displacement of a ringlet or the falling of a 

 bandeau. Perhaps he felt this, and if he 

 did not, the few words that he must have 

 heard in passing were enough to make him 

 feel it. 



" Cross was he ? " said Miss Winton's 

 voice, with a laugh. " Well, I hope it will 

 do him good. It's just what I wanted." 



When she entered the room where she 

 expected to find him, and not seeing him 

 there, she searched the garden ; then return- 

 ing to the house, found his card — her chagrin 

 was very great. She stormed with passion, 

 and vented her fury chiefly upon the poor 

 servant, as if she could have foreseen or pre- 

 vented Mr. Lutworth's departure. The rage 

 terminated in violent hysterics, which kept 

 the whole house astir for the greater part of 

 the night. The next morning, however, as 

 she hoped that her truant lover would return, 

 she arose as usual, retaining nothing of her 

 illness but an interesting langor ; around 

 which, about the time when she expected he 

 would arrive, she arranged the graceful folds 

 of an Indian shawl upon a couch in the 

 drawing-room. The Venetian blinds were 

 let down, that the subdued and greenish 

 light might impart a more delicate pallor to 

 her cheek ; and thus, with a vase of flowers 

 on a little table by her side, and a volume of 

 Shakspeare in her hand, she awaited his 

 coming. * * * Hour after hour 

 passed away. She was becoming cross and 

 tired, but the tableau was so very effective 

 that she did not like to spoil it, when at 

 every moment he might come. This I heard 



from her conversation with the servant, who 

 was kept in pretty constant attendance to 

 enliven the young lady's ennui, as she found 

 Romeo and Juliet not sufficiently interesting. 



A postman's knock, and a letter for Miss 

 Winton, promised a little diversion to the 

 settled monotony of this state of things. 



" That's right ! " she exclaimed, glancing at 



the direction ; " it's from him ! " 



* * k & * 



We will not encroach further upon what 

 everybody ought to read for themselves. 

 Suffice it to say, the letter was from him, 

 and that my lady's punishment was a well- 

 merited one. 



Again do we say, let us attend to the early 

 education of our children. They always 

 practise through life, what we have taught 

 them by our own precepts and example 

 when they were young. 



Nice Distinctions and Small Differences. 



Somebody, — do not let the Editor of our 

 " Own Journal" take the responsibility of 

 the calculation on himself (for he has not 

 the organ of " Number " half largely-enough 

 developed for the task) — has commented as 

 follows : — What a noisy creature would a man 

 be were his voice in proportion to his weight, or 

 as loud as that of a locust! A locust can be 

 heard at the distance of 1-1 6th of a mile. The 

 golden wren is said to weigh but half an ounce, 

 so that a middling sized man would weigh down 

 not short of 4 5 000 of them ; and it must be strange 

 if a golden wren would not outweigh four of our 

 locusts. Supposing, therefore, that a common 

 man weighs as much as 16,000 of our locusts, 

 and that the note of a locust can be heard 1-1 6th 

 of a mile, a man of common dimensions, pretty 

 sound in wind and limb, ought to be able to 

 make himself heard at a distance of 1,600 miles; 

 and when he sneezed " his house ought to fall 

 about his ears." Supposing a flea to weigh one 

 grain, which is more than its actual weight, and 

 to jump one and a half yards, a common man 

 of 150 pounds, with jumping powers in propor- 

 tion, could jump 12.800 miles, or about the 

 distance from New York to Cochin China. 

 Aristophanes represents Socrates and his dis- 

 ciples as deeply engaged in calculations of this 

 kind, around a table on which they are waxing 

 a flea's legs to see what weight it will carry in 

 proportion to its size, hut he does not announce 

 the result of their experiments. We are, there- 

 fore, happy in being able to supply, in some de- 

 gree, so serious an omission. Surely the man 

 who "calculated" the above, must be an Ame- 

 rican ! There is so very much of the " go- 

 ahead " about it. 



Novel Importation.— Amongst the cargo 

 brought by the Bentinck steamer, which recently 

 arrived in the Southampton Docks, were 

 twenty-four cases, containing 3,000 quails, con- 

 signed to London from Alexandria. The value 

 of the birds is about £400. 



