The Northern Guardian. — 1893-08-16 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

HONOER.—No French statesman has yet been able to get along without having this chivalric lever at hand. Tradesmen, in an especial degree, struggle to obtain it, on the ground that, since no bankrupt can wear it, the ownership of the ribbon is zi,N facto a proof of the wearer's good standing. But the fact must not be paraded in advertisements: the only approach to this being the addition of a microscopic engraving of the cross of honour before the (hearer name in the mercantile directory. I French trader would suffer almost any privation, or submit to any eacriflce, rather than face the degradation of losing the cross, which he must do if he goes through the Bankruptcy Court. On the stage the wearing of the red ribbon is forbidden, though this rule does not apply to other Orders, since any star, from the Garter or the Golden Fleece to the Rose of Honduras or the Cross of S. Maurice and Lezare, could be paraded there. Hence, when enactor has to portray the agony !offered by a "city knight" suffering degradation, he has to keep the insigni of the Legion out of sight. This wise provision of the Chancery acts most beneficially in preventing loose commercial dealings, for if a dignitary of the Legion who is unfortunate manages to clear off his debts he can be restored, and the writer has at this moment, in his mind's eye, the ' name of a well-known Frenchman who, shortly before his death, wiped out some old bankruptcy scores in the hope that if he did so his friends at the Elvsee would obtain for him a distinction he had so long coveted in vain. The Legion is thee, as it were, the link which unites all the different classes of which French society is formed, for it is limited to none: the highest grade, like the lowest, being, theoretically at least, within the reach of any individual considered worthy of the honour. —Peeples of the World. drisconsY ne Docs.—No one who has had' pets can leng have missed tokens of this passion in which, in so many ways, the "lower brethren" resemble men and women. How one dog will come and nose about and try to push aside another, and move himself nearer to his master to get all his attention and patting Only the sense of discipline keeps the one dog from flying at the other in such circumstances, awl sometimes, indeed, discipline does not suffice. Miss F. P. Cobbs, gives a good illustrative instance in an article, "Dogs which I Have Met," in the Corohill Magazine for December, 1872, to this effect: A hardy mastiff had for long occupied sole place in the affections of the family, when a little toy terrier was introduced, on which, of course, caresses were lavished. What was the surprise of the members when the little toy terrier disappeared, and at the same time they noticed something suspicious in the look of the mastiff. Search was made for the terrier without result, but on the third day a servant, going near to the coal-hole, heard a faint whine and moan of anguish. Looking in, there was the toy terrier imprisoned, lying helpless under a heavy weight of coal and dust, and utterly unable to extricate himself or even to move his limbs. None conla tell whether Leo, the mastiff, had actually enticed the terrier into the cellar and scratched coals over him, or whether thie had chanced by accident; but Leo had, at all events, carefullg abstained; from giving any assistance to his tiny companion, and Mine Gribbe adds that, under the old Egyptian law, which punished as murderers in the second degree men who witnessed a murder and did nothing to prevent it,Leo would have been severely .chastised. He had yielded to jealousy and acted, leafier the feeling, as men and women are apt to do in determining to rid themselves of rivals iii the affections of those they love.—Casseirs Maga:rnin  Zile?, 4Frvg intents, Vs vespergargfer. Whilst las eildow most vilely Me seinery defeated. " What r_ she cried, "must I offer beelines the  curet, knave Without leaving a will is laid snug in the graver " That's no svindnr," said one; 'for 'tis very well  known, FOCA hip wrsr own?'  ' hn'd no will of tiA