The French Mother

í-Ymííj the Kuríi.'ightly Roviuw, Thero aro sol dom more than two ohildraa iu a menaje, thröe at tha utmost, whutevcr iho reason may bo, and those ehildven aro couiiuonly idolizcd both by fathur and mother, and tho obildren q return have au actual ctdle for " ni:i mere." Of tlie fatln-r btie hears less ; but tho tpoida " ma mere," proiiouncod vvit'u a oertaiu inturiiüio, in tha pulp?! or ou tho stage, never fan CO set haridkerchiefs in requisitiou n all direotions. I remomber au auiusiug iustance, in a melodrama by Dutnas pere, in whioh a eertain notonnus bandit was boaling oí bis high and niighty dcods, and was iüterruptod by a íriund vith the groes remark, " Alter all, yon tiro Bothing but a robber. " Slay, my frieud," ïth replied ; " I have a mother." Profound scnsatioi) in thu audionce. Every ear is pioked eagerly. The bandit resumes, " Onoe in every month, ou tho first day of the inonth, I loave my eagla eyrie ; 1 deseoud into the low'y plaiu. Orossihg itwith husty and indig-naut steps, I enter tho cuy of Vulensia. Thora I entor a L'fty taangion ïu tho dead of theuight. I mount the uiarbio staii'8, I puh a heavy oaken door - a ehumbor lies bo foreme; in that chamber a couuh ; on that couoii a woman, a venerable woman ! I approaeh that sleepinir saint. J3ut does she sleep ? I impresa a kisa upo hor saered lips, and she - eho gives me back that kiss ! Now dare to say I atr a robber !" Tremoudous explosión of applauso aud uaiversal weoping. Thero aro in Bcrlin 12,000 coHars inhabited, in 6,300 of which difl-ercut trades are oarried ou, ■ Tho thirtoonth part of tho population, 46,000 persons, iuhabit thosa dens. An English woman in Dundalk gavo birth to four children - two 4)oys and two girk. A coutribution is solicited for her beroaved husbaud. It is said that tho Empresss of thu Froneh ia about to publish a book of poema written iu öpauish.