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umpORM op tm mejf o* . Wales. According to a rough calculation, tiw Prince of Wales is entitled to ftear seventy different uniforms. The estimate is rather under than overstated, for he has the righ> to don seventeen military and volunteer uniforms alone, to say nothing of the special costumes associated with his position as Gr\jat Steward of Scotland, Governor of the Charter House, Lord of Isles, President of "the Society of Arts, Knight of some score of Orders, etc, . .. .-.krw AN OLD BACHELOR'S STORY IN I'm a bachelor. You will naturally aslt, " Why ?" seeing lam rather a ladies' mail. I love them all, bless 'em. I did go in for matrimony once, but such strange events transpired just at the eleventh hour, thai it never came off, and I have never had tiM courage to make a second attempt. The lady was residing ia the iame house 35 myself at the time, and a very pleasant and jolly time it was. ? ■' r "Will you oblige me with a light? ?• - smoke2. > ? • It was a boarding-house, and the lady, in question, a Mrs. Steine, was a most" charming widow, young, handsome, and accomplished, and' with as good and evenly balanced a temperament as any lady of my acquaintance. We soon struck up a friendship, our tastes similated, and a mutual desire and liking for each other's company soon ripened into affection as pleasing as it was firm and disinterested. Things had arrived at this happy stage, when another individual was added to the list of visitors at the house—a man.' £*"Will you oblige me with another light ? Thank you." , t , 'I W ;'w ' SMOKE 3. He was a very curious looking individual, always wore a skull cap and green glasses; said he'd had a sunstroke in the West Indies. Ha paid particular attention to me, and we soon became great friends, so much so that I told him of my engagement to Mrs. Steine, and asked him to be my best I man on the occasion. He laughed so long, i and in such a peculiar manner, that I began to get annoyed. :v " Excuse me," said he. " I beg your pardon, but take care what you are about: widows are queer fish to deal with, and there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip." " May I trouble you for a light ? So sorry. Thanks."jj'M 1 s•&£.. ' '• <■ i SMOKE 4I "&•'* W* We arranged to get married very quietly | the following week, and, as we both pos- | eessed a small income, we calculated that the two combined would enable us to set up I a small establishment of our own. My inI tended informed me that her husband had : been drowned at sea some three or four years since; he was then captain of a merchant vessel in the Brazil trade, but the vessel was wrecked and all hands lost. The time passed quickly and pleasantly, and at last the happy day arrived. /< '! e'^So 'sorry, but will you—another ? Thank morning! and we all set off urch together. ,My strange friend peemedto have a lit of the ague, for he kept phaking' and. making the strangest faces J imaginable.' We bad got through the ceremony, as far as "Wilt thou have this woman," when my strange friend burst out: j|," No, he won't, Polly, come home." p i looked at him, and the old man had changed in 10 a young one. Skull cap, wig, glasses—all were gone, and there stood, as I pad no difficulty in guessing, Captain Steine t-her husband/ h «.-V 4#: > What I another light iHere, take the

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