Has A Porter-house Steak A Bone?

1 wo playful gentlemen, líranie and FerguBon, weut to a Meinphis eating liousa to diñe. They were Etraugcra, aud S'it at diOYrcnt tables. Frame ordored a porter-housa steak It was brought and bad do bone. A talk cn.-'ued with tbe waiter, wben FerKUBon, Tlie pivrty at the uther table, re tuarked th-t a man must be a "pretiy fooi uot to knovV that a porter house steak neyer ha;l a bot: e." Frame immedi;ite.ly rose fmm bis cliair, wulked over to where Ferguson Bat., and, laylng bis hand upon his shoulder, askod him in a vcry serious nianner. "Who is payiug for tliis supper, you or I V" "Why, you, of course," answered Fergu'on. ïliis was the beginning of a x:rnversation that grndually grew li"t aud intern perate in tbö course. of which, eays ForguHrn : "I"d expect tbat you would talk as il' yu were spcakiug to a gentleman. " "I talk to you as a boy, sir," answered Framo. "VV bat ?" hutly demanded FergtiSOD. "I talk to you as a ■ ," makiug the word miich more disagreeable. This was nt-tinc ively feit by botb gidcM to ne a casus bel'.i, and the riglit bands of both sought their pintóla a; iQoe. Ferga"OD was the more fortúnate. He a- in oonditioD to deliver fire first, and lie delivcred t. Frame was ishot, purhaps (atally, ind Fergusou gavo hiui6elf up to the dheriff. The queatioD wbether a pnrter-house steak Iiüh or hai not u bone still remains undecided, so far as they are eoncerued The present Europeau war arose froni cnupe but lif.lo more important than this. 1 1 - i A singulnr fate luis liefallen tho wifc o[ mastcr carp;;t;ter id 15erlin. Id a spaco ot cight jcirs she h;is buen madtthno time a widow llirough wur. ín the yoai 18C4 Ier husbund was ki'led at he atormÍDg oí' Duppel. Ín 1865 slie ■gmia marriefl a carpenter. who was Oalleú up in 18C6, and was killed at Kfxiuiggiatz. Aliout a ycar ngo bIio atruin inarricd a carpenter, and he was killed at the baitle of Kezüiivillo on the 28tti . of August. The moft fasluoniilile marriages nowadays are the i-iiuplont. Scveral have occurred lately ia which thera woro , ueither bridesmaid r groumsmaD, cards, receptions or display. The f'ashon is one of the most sensible of moderu times.