A Horrible Story

A Kussian peasaiit was travolmg m a sleigh along the banks of the Pruth, not longago, and his wiíe and four children were with him. Suddenly they were pursued by a pack of wolves. The peasant whipped his horses, but soon perceived that the wolves were gaining upon him. When the hungry beasts were on each side of the sleigh the worthy peasnnt seized his youngost child and threw it in the midst of his pursuers, and while they were struggling ovor their prey helasliod his horses and gaiued ground. Four timos the wolves carne np with the fugitivos, and each time a child was thrown to them. At last the peasant and his wife arrived at the nearest village, leaving behind them the bones of their four children. The motilar went before a Judge and made a complaint against her husband for abandoiiiug his children to the wolvea, but the peasaut was acquitted on the ground that he was striving to save his wife's life. The oíd lady inay have had misgivings that if the village had been a inile further on he wotild have pitched her into the snow after thc children in order to protect himself, and henee her gratitude was lukewa-rm. The famous prqperi of Mahnaison, purábaeed liy (l.-n. Boiuinít6ÍnrJÍ8foi the sum oí 180,000 franca, and afterwnrd the residence of th Empresa Josopliino, has Leensofd át'auetion by the Frencli aovoramout for $120,000,