quite loud, "Don't he drive cattle, that's all?" We fancied at first that Mr. Spraggs might be a drover, but abandoned the idea in favour of its being some technical term we did not understand. Here the conversation flagged, and to resuscitate it we made a remark on Mr. Faddle's coat-studs, and asked what they were made of? "Teeth," he said. "Teeth!" we could not help exclaiming; "what teeth?" "Why, foxes' teeth, to be sure," he said, turning away with an air of infinite disgust, and never spoke to us again. We watched him at supper, and found he did not wait on other people much, but took great care of himself. We heard him offer to get a spaniel of some extraordinary breed for a young lady; but he never thought of asking her if she would take anything, though he was eating all the while himself. His appetite, in fact, was rather extensive. He partook largely of the substantials, then addressed himself to the plovers' eggs and lobster salads, and finished with a deep tankard of beer, which he called "malt." Later in the evening we thought a strong odour of tobacco pervaded the hall, and going out we found the "fast man" with a "weed in his off-cheek," as he elegantly expressed it, just preparing to start. His dog-cart was at the door, he jumped in, the small tiger (quite a portable boy) climbed up behind, Mr. Faddle blew a few loud notes with his post-horn, and we saw him no more. EXPRESSIVE CHINESE PROVERBS. New milk is not got from a statue. An emperor may have the measles. A disobedient son is a mad bull tied to his father's pigtail. The man who breaks his egg in the centre is a fool. He who marries an angry woman must sleep in a bed of fireworks. One bird's-nest in the soup is worth two hundred in the bush. A wise man at court is like a mermaid in a ball-room. Carrying a peacock on your head does not make you a nobleman. Teaching a woman scandal is like teaching a kettle to boil. A comet can be caught any time by putting a little salt on its tail. Ambition is like hunting for fleas. If a golden key wont open a woman's heart, try one of brass. Shave with a file, if you like, but don't blame the razor. Looking into the future is like giving a blind man a pair of spectacles to see through a millstone. The hasty man drinks his tea with a fork. AN IMAGINARY RUN ON A TURKISH RAILWAY. [Illustration: The] FORMATION of the new railway across the Isthmus of Suez is suggestive of some curious speculation as to the mode in which business will be conducted by the Turks, whose tree of knowledge is rather green upon such matters, and may get its owners into a line from which it will not be easy to extricate themselves.