He returned in a quarter of au hour, went into a sitting-room on the ground floor, and sent for the nurse, who had not yet gone. 1 ' Conic in and close the door, ' Mrs Jones," he said, when the venerable ma tron appeared ; " £ have a question of great importance to ;isk you. You re member when Mr Harry Jarvis became insensible, and I left the room for an hour ?" " Ye 3, sir, surely." " Did he come to himself while I was away ?"

" Not for a moment, sir." " Did you go to the bureau for any thing I" "

"Lord, sir! no. What should Ido that for ?"

" Why, it is a serious matter Mrs Jones. 1 read Mr Jar vis's will to him just before I left, and replaced it in a drawer in that bureau ; and now it has gojie. Has any one been in the room while yovi were out of it f " Not a sou!., eir> except this Mr Jar rip,"

What "Will She Do with It ? — At an English Christinas cattle-show a "silver mounted claret jug was .taken by a cow." No one will grudge the cow this or any other distinction which its merits and good conduct deserve, hut it is not easy to see what plea sure or benefit such an animal (strictly tee total in its habits) can derive from the pos» session of a claret jug. Claret is not the usual beverage of cows^ and even if it were, the jugs which hold it are so constructed that it would be impossible for those creatures to drink out of them ; and the mere contempla tion of a claret jug, silver mountings and all, must be a matter of indifference even to the most high-bred cows. Altogether, one feels that a new wooden pail, filled w}th ordinary fresh-water, would have been a far more w& ful present.
