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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3632, 17 August 1880, Page 2

Late European news tells us that France desires to withdraw from the European concert to arrange the Eastern question and more especially the dispute between

the Ottoman and Hellenic kingdoms.

Her reason mny be that the question is ofdO importance to her, but it is far more probable that she has a sinister object in desiring to let the Eastern nations work out their own destiny. Part and parcel of the European conclave France might be forced into an alliance with hated Germany; while holding an independent position, would give her a golden opportunity which she might grasp to make war on her erstwhile conqueror, and obtain what erery good Frenchman so eagerly prays for— Revanche.

If he puts his arms around her like a bear and stops her breath when be kisses her, they are not married, but are likely to be. If he puts his hands on her shoulders, leans forward a little, snatches the prize and falls back,, they have been married two weeks. If he comes up with his hands in his pockets, looks out of the window, says, " Well; good-bye,' gives her a tasteless smack, and rashes off, tlioy have been married two years, and life is a desert.

A Hosts paper gives the following descriptidn of the ancieih custom of well-dressing, which wns obaorved at the village of Rush'on, in Staffordshire, on the 20th of iTay :—" The well, which is dedicated to St. Daniel, was very tastefully deooratcd with flowers and evergreens. At the beck of the well was a ddsigu representing a swau, a fish, and an ornamental device. Tin* di^igu was entirely formed of the heads of floweva, chiefly wild flowers. The ground-work of the design was formed of the common hrge meadow butter* cups, or as they are called in country places 11 Mary-bud." The swan was of the flowers of the hawthorn, with bluebells for its beak. It was represented at sitting on its negt on the bank of a stream, moss and rushes forming the bank. The devife at Hie baok was cooipoiecl of different coloured flowere, among which we noticed some gardeu and g-eenhouse ones. The two tide walls were repie'Anifil by most ituok on boards, the joints of the stones being made with bluebells, lv front of the well was a design in moss, bearing the inscription, "St. Daniel's Well, X 880," worked in flower?.