Show ifer her uncles strategy tile the following true story might perhaps furnish matter for A 1 little comedy it is generally the case that the more beautiful and the richer the girl is themore the more difficult a are re both her parents and herself 1 in n the choice of a husband and the more offers they refuse the one is too tall the other too short this not dot wealthy that n not ot respectable e enough notley 0 ll on one spring aprin 0 passes a after f te r another and year after year arrias away leaf after leaf 0 of f the bloo bloom in of hoathi and opportunity after opportunity tUt litY miss hiss harriet selwood was the richest heiress in her native e tow town of shire england land but she bad alreid already completed tier her year vear and hiell beheld eld almost all her young friends united to men who whom she had biad at one time or discarded harriet began to be set d down 01 r n for a an n 0 old ill maid iler her parents became really uneasy idys anil and she herself lamented in private a position which is not a natural one and to which those to whom nature and fortune haye been ni niggardly 00 adly of their gifts are arc obliged to submit but harriet as ai we IIA e said was both bell handsome and v very cry rich such were tic state stale of bilings 0 when her divele a ives wealthy itlie merchant mercha nt iu in tile alio of ang england band came on a visit to her parents ile he was a jovial lively straightforward straight a forward man I 1 accustomed to attack all difficulties boldly and coolly you see vo said her father to him one day I harriet larriet continues single the n girl is handsome what that she is to hiro hare for her fortune you know even in this scandal loving town not a creature can breathe the slightest imputation against her fill and yet she is getting gettin a to be an old ayd maid true replied the uncle dibut but look you brother the grand point i in n every affair in ili this world is to seize e tile the right moment this you have not done it is a misfortune but let the girl go along with me and before the end of three months I 1 will return her to you is as tj the le wife fe of a man as ag lez Z YOU young and ull ftc althy tit its as herself away went ment the niece with tile the uncle on tile hie way tiny home lie thus addressed her mind find what I 1 am going m to say you yot are arc no longer bliss but sirs mrs lumley Lii roley my nieta a oung wealthy widow you h had id the hie misfortune to jos lose 3 your husband col onel blumle lumley y after a happy union nuion of a quarter quart er of a year by a fall from a 2 dorsc while hunting buty but un etc cle let me manin manage 1 e it if you volt please sir mr lumley your father ills has invested we me ich aith cull aill powers here look you is the wedding rl ring 9 given I 1 you by your late laic tilt husband 1 I jen levels eh and whatever else you need your aunt will supply you with I 1 9 slid and you must accustom yourself to cast down your acs the keen witted willed auricle introduced its hii delce everywhere I 1 and tile young r widow c xa it ot I 1 it a 0 great sensation the a gentlemen C about her and she ile soon had her choice out of twenty ti venti suitors iler her uncle advised her to take the one who was is deepest in ill love with wilt her and a i iare rare chance decreed that his should be pre precisely chely tile the most amiable an and opulent the match was soon concluded and one day the uncle desired to say a 1 few words to liis his future attire nephew in in private ay my iy dear sir sir he be began in he b have ave told you vou an etli 11 ilow how so are arc mrs irs Lum Luni leys affections nothing of tile the kind my illy niece jet c is sincerely attached to you mr I 1 then her fortune 1 I suppose is dot equal to what you told me DIC on larger firger well n flat ti 19 tile alic matter then lien A joke ain it innocent junoel lt joke abid w hill cattle came into adly licad one day then 1 I was in ill 1 good 0 oil louidor we ile could not well viel I 1 beit it afterward sly NY niece is ii not ilot a widow what I 1 la 19 sir lumley alief alivn p ga no no S alic ile is ft 1 I spinster nor tile the lover protested that lie was a happier appier Ii fellow thin lie he lid conceived himself and lid tile old maid was forthwith met meta 1 I into a young wife some soine interesting 0 particulars are 0 given by 31 escalle escal le director of ili the important works at 11 t ta tamaris n naris in regard to tile employment of blocks of compressed coal in lieu of coke for blast furnaces with the ores of tile the country which are argilo sili dotis cious and small tile alic quantity of COW coni pressed fuel employed is 20 per cent but bul with those of flotka or i it t readies reaches re til arly 30 per cent it lias has been found that by tile use of these blocks a much bier higher T b temperature it ture of hot bl blast is obtained and that the proportion of combustible consumed coke and compressed coat coal included per ton tell of pig iron iron produced is ii less lef than ilian with coke alone 31 escalle lc this result 0 to o the quantity of water 14 1 1 por per I 1 tent contained in the compressed coal blocks used by liim him as well as to tile the nature of the volatile watters mailers I 1 the he vol volume u me of gas obtained per p C r ton to I 1 0 of f tile ali compressed fuel at these works ns as some feet |