Important Decision Relative To Pensions

in reply to certain queries put to him by tlie Secrctary of tho Interior, concerning ponsion mattere, deoided that it is bis opinión that tho mother of n dcceased soldier is entitled to a ponaion, wbether elie ba married or bo a widow, provided sho was depcndent on him for support in whole or in part. jL5ÊT Whon Byron was at Cambridge, he was introduccd to Sorope Davis by their mutual friend Matthcws, who was a(terward8 drowned in the river Cam. Aftcr Matthows's death, Davia beoarne Byron's particular írieud, and was adinitted to his rooms at all hours. Upon one oocasion he found the poet in bod with liis hair en papülat upon which Soropo oriod, " Ha, ba Í Byron, I have at last cnuüht you acting the part of the Sleeping Beauty." Byron, in a rage, exelahntd, " No, Soroga ; the part of a fooi, you shoula liHve said ' " Well, then, nnythiug you pleaso ; but you have suoooeded admirably ia deceiving your j friends, for it was my conviotion that your hair curlcd naturally.'1 " Yos, naturally, evory night," returned Byro-; " but do not, niy deur Scrnpe, let the oit out of the bug, for I ara ai waio of ay t