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Show bone in the inn a who wslk ns if not quiet sure where be is poing to, who drops hi letters. m:d never Cites to straighten tiU shoulders. Follow him. and nole how hii hat points backward; aud you know from the uuirles to which be has sot his hat anil his whiskers that, aeen front face, his aspect is uot wise, rilill he is a jjooj uatured fellow, and by (omo iu ninct we reud on his back that be has an amhition to be amusiug. Oua is perfectly certain that the man with tucli a bark sings comic sougs and equally certain that ha never know military teachers bis zeal nud strict fidelity to duty, lu appearance lie re-sembles re-sembles his mother, aud like her ho lias the peculiarity of being shovt-legjed. which makes him look when sealed taller thau he really is. Since his luto journey to various European, and east-em east-em courts lie has develojicd more independence inde-pendence and has alio como more to the front. There is every reason to hope and think that ho will prove no tiuworthy scion of that most ancient and honnrablo house of Savoy from which ho has spinng.aiid that when his time arrives ho, too.will do his duty as Italy's king. CHARACTERS IN BACKS. As Intrtlnc In Kluilmii or llmnsn Nature Na-ture as the Krouts of Iintiviriuata, The back of an iudividii'il is an easy study the whole of bim, bis li ijurej and walk, his shoulders moulded by thu habits of his life, the carriage of the bead, tha wearing of the clothing. Face to face we see the man as be desires to be seen; but behiud bis back re take him Dy surprise.and catch sight of his character. charac-ter. Follow the thoughtful man as he wanders through the streets.Bceing noth-ins- While he wnlks his bead and boulders bend; one knows that his eyes seek the ground, just as one sees his feet liuijcr on it. In this nvmner it must have been that MacauUy walked in his famous night wanderings, when bo traversed the London streets and ssw nothing, a contrast to the night walks of Charles Dickens, who trod the sstuo streets and saw everything, with head characteristically heid back ans! slightly to one side un unergelio observer rather than a deep thinker. Very different from what we may call the rellned aud intellectual back is the back of the broad and vulgar figure who THE BKVKItR BACK. when people cease to laugh nt the song and begin to laugh at himself. Hut there is such a thing as bavins; too much backbone, and that is rathci worse than having loo little. When a man has too much backbone his heart ia not as people say. "in the right p!a e." Sometimes there is no room iu him lor a heart at all. Now, there are some nice in whom force of character is carried into in-to the extreme, aud becomes hardness and habitual severity. A severe back is a pleananler sight to see than a severe face. It is not what we would call tha just and righteously indignant back, which is straight and noble, a fine thing and a venerable. It is the bulldog-shouldered bulldog-shouldered back that denotes the domestic domes-tic ogre. His bald head shines. One knows that in the front the veins are bursting. His moustache has been twisted lo sharpness by angry fingers. His hands are clenched or pushing mightily against bis hnrdsct knee. lie could strike, but he has too much pride, and his orders are harder thau blows, lie has a habit of getting bis arm-crookedly arm-crookedly bent to his knee in self restrained re-strained wrath. There are, indeed, many backs that are moregladly seen thau the corresponding correspond-ing faces. The back of the bore is a goodly sight, while, on the other hand, when good-by is grievous, bow much precious regard is wasted on the dear characteristic, well-known back, that uever knows what loving looks went after it. Toronto Truth. TUB TIIOL'UH TFUI. H. a, struts past us as if be owned ttie street. His glory is uot in his mind or heart, but in bis pockets. He has a habit of sticking stick-ing up for his rights. Even bis collar sticks up, and his hair, to correspond with his inner self, is bristling. Hi thinks he can buy anything, from a picture, pic-ture, of which he knows nothing, te an elector, who knows nothing of him. Tbe purse-proud man will never band money out of that pocket for charity, unless be is pretty sure that his mtmo II iu a printed list of subscribers. Not so the wealthy man who has a heart above gold. Look at him, a back view, as he stands at a public meeting called at some time of calamity or need He is sure to be there. If the hall ia overcrowded you can sej him standing, never complaining of tho lack of seatsi he Is there for the comfort of others; hi forgets his own. He is a large-hcarte.J man, and everything about him is large. The big hands are only waiting behiml him to give freely, the broad back can bear a goodly share of others' burdens. As for the back of the rogue, it ia oi THE rUltSIt PKOUD BACK. Infinite variety. If there wero only one sort, we might all make what soldiers would call a reconnoissance to the rear, and detect and outwit bim. There is tbe sharp dealer of the business world, who is remarkably spruce at the back and the adventurer of society, who can bow like the first gentleman in Europe aud ten thousand more varieties, from tha welcher on the turf up to the gentleman gentle-man who ought to be a baronet, and who has lived for tho last thirty yean on that statement, and on charitably collecting col-lecting for the savages of BorriobooU He could straighten bis body if be liked, but his mind is fixed in curves of cui- THE HKNEVOLBKT BACK. nlng. He and his principles are m crooked as wriggling eelB. lie can prets others to his will too, as he presses be cane to a curve like himself. His spare form is not the thin, bent back of the student. The back of t bookworm is another kind of bend curve to be respected. Nor is it lb it stoop of old age. The back is on indet of aire as well as of character. Tint smalt child stands a square, uprii;)t atom of bumnnity. The man grovs straight to hls full height; then hs boulders broaden; then bis shouides The rrlnce of Naples. Of the prince of Naples little is known as yet, except that he adores his parents, and especially his mother, and is adored by her iu return. SI10 has nurtured him in the best traditious of his house, and oue anecdote in especial about this has become a favorite theme for poetry and picture throughout Italy. Having cone to visit Palermo in company with her boy, it happened that on the return journey to Naples iv great storm arose, and the commander jea'red'foi- the safely of his precious freight. He consulted with the ollicers as to whether they bad not best put back. It was decided to lay tho matter mat-ter before' the queen and abide by her decision. She happened to havo iu her baud a paper. Rapidly, without hesitation, hesita-tion, she wrote on it the words, "Scmpre avaiiti Savoia," passing it on to tiio captain. Pretty stories nre told of tho prince how in his childhood he saved up his pocket money in order to buy his mother trinkets. He is a shy, retiring youth, who has developed late, but of whose heart and intelligence all who know him speak highly. Like his father, he is frank of speech, and often uarrates tales of the home-life. home-life. Here is one. The kiug, in contrast con-trast to the queen, is quite inartistic iu bis tastes, and above all, ha3 no ear for music. Of late the queen has found it needful to wear glasses in order to read. These glasses aunoy tho king, who, when ho sees them going up.says at once, "Margherita, put down those glasses." 'Mamma does not obey," avs the prince. Then papa say3, Margherita.if you don't take off those glasses, I shall sing." And mamma has such a dread of papa's false notes that he obeys at ouce to save herself from that torment. Hi tutors praise his application; bis f THE ROGUE S BACK. j Come forward aud his head goes darn. There is an old snyine to descrit, a man of weak character Hint he has ho backbone." There Is uot much b!k- |