" I wish she'd got him!" was the quick reply, and th'en a dead silence fell upon the two, and won ders in crochet- work were accomplished in the next harbour. \. No /ooJ^Jever succeeded in extracting honey .feom ,a spelling bee. Didn't, eh ? A young inaAlwho attended^ spelling bee in this town three' jfears ago took therefrom a young lady who"m-'sie- recently married, and he calls her " hone^y" for short, and thinks she is ten times eweeter .than that saccharine product of the bee. What he^willcall her a few weeks hence is a queßtion\we handover 'to. our puzzle solvers. t • The Signs.— She is, not in love with that man whom she freely praises, -,and of whom she ofteaest speaks'- \ but if 'there is one whom 'she never names, if/she/' stdrfcs and blushes when others name him,. if she can find no voice to an swer the most cbmm" on-place question he ad dresses her, if she^avoids him and, will have none of him, 'if she pettishly finds rault with him when he is commended to her notice by others -^•look sharp, for that is the man ! " It's bad enough," saW the eldest Miss Crab apple to her seven sitters; " it's < bad enough for ".pa'tid. talk 'about marrying again at his time of • life ; ,but when he excuses himself by saying that that pert made up tbing will help us girls out by attracting men to the house it's a little too outrageous to stand, so it is." And they passed' a resolution to enter a nunnery in a body. - r "' We regret to inform a fair correspondent - Mrs. .O'Htjoligan, of Brannan street—that there is no provision /whatever in the new Constitution making it,A penitentiary offence for Mrs. O'Cuff .ybbse back yard io to windward of Mrs. O'H.'s, •'fc> »ife asbßfl'wjaile the O'Hooligan linen jb spread -otft to dr^K'is precisely these inexcusable omis 'eions tO'protect^the most sacred rights of our ■citizen's that has 'rendered certain the defeat of the above nefarious instrument.— San Francisco News Letter. , To night we sit by the cheering fire m our HptnS • Corner. The blinds are cloted^ The house is very quiet and still. 