The Northern Guardian. — 1897-08-16 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

XXX VII. —Continued.  ' • What, everyone ? ' I asked, for it seemed strange that they should all have died. 'T..,' he said, he had made inquiries, and found that there were none of them living now who used to know Lien, and it a to me—though that could hardly be possible—that at he was glad of this. Bat lam very scary, as what I. the um of having a , nip, large house and everything else you could ' wish for, and no visitors? course we shall get to know other people in time, b5O. I should have much preferred to make the acquaintance of some of my father's old friends, especially if they were married and had grown-up sons and daughters. For, after baring been used to • boarding school, and to have at least sixteen particular friends, it seems a little dull sometimes—or would, if my father did not take me out so much to the theatre, and to all the flower shows and matinees. and ()Wei places of amusement. But, for all that, I have never enjoyed anything else half so much as I did those supper parties at echool, though the sausage rolls did get mixed op with jam tarts, so that you couldn't tell which was which, and the ginger boom was as ftat as a pancake. By-the-bye, I found au old newspaper to-day, with an mooting of thai dreadful railway aticident. I suppose it had been wrapped round something, for we have not moved in long, and are not nearly straight yet. Packing come keep coming and having to be unpacked, which makes • litter, and I suppose that is how I happened to come across the newspaper. I took it up to my room and read it—every word. I suppose it was very wrong; but if one did not do wrong occasionally, one would not be able to appreciate doing right. It made me shudder to read some of the details; and this must have been the reason why my father did not wish ins to know anything about it. I read the amount of the inquest, too, and it appears that there was something very mysterious about the death of one of the passengers, who is supposed to have been murdered, and not to have perished in the accident. I wish could find another paper and road the rest of it. It is so annoying not to know any more about it, or whether they have discovered the murderer; and I can't ask my father, because, if I did, I should have to own that I had been reading the newspaper, and be might be mom. When I had finished reeding the last word, 1 tore the paper up in stripe and stuffed it up the chimney. I felt delightfully wicked after I had done this; and I am afraid it will make the chimney smoke unless someone finds it out in time; but I must have something to put in my diary. The housemaid has just been up to inform me that the new men-servant has tome, and would I like to speak to him? As I had nothing to say to him I did not see the good of that, and said no. She—that is, the housemaid—mentioned that Ire seemed a very respectable young man, but one ' ought not to judge by the outside, and she hoped he was evangelical. I said I hoped so, too, if it would keep hkea from breaking things. She looked at Si she left the room, as though she doubted whether I were at all evangelical myself. I walled her beak to ask if she knew what the man's name was. She told me, and I was hall inclined to say, that so long as he could wait at table properly and did not breathe bard when he handed the vegetables, he might be as =evangelical as he pleased; but 1 was afraid that she might give me notion on the spot,and , so refrained.  Degree. cl oryimae of air ; difference rietweeo wet aLu (.ty bulbs of hydrometer. Weather: B, blue sky C, clouds detached; F, lx; hail ;I, lightuum ; M, misty ; 0, OveresiiL ; Q, equally ; ram; 8, snow; T. thunder.