Widnes Examiner. — 1885-10-10 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

LITER. Chatham, March 24. Since I wrote you ten days aga I have improved wonderfully. To day I walked to the barber's shop (torld got shaved), and back again by myself without fatigue. This is the first time I have been out alone since Last April—over eleven months. When I was discharged from the Hospital, Vet. 9. I weighed 21st. fibs., now I weigh about 9st. (my natal weight). ;William °revision. For tho CURB of Kidney and Liver C =plaints HOP Farr EllB have no equal in the world, and those • suffering from any of the above symptoms should use them at once. fife that DR. SOULE'S name is on every bottle, without which note can be genuine.  On a certain pit-heap not a hundred miles fm Cramlington, recently, while the back shift men were gathered together in the cabin previous to going down into the pit, the conversation turned on suicides, and particularly on committing suicide through love. One of the men exclaimed with warmth, " Wey, lads, aa waddent commit suicide for nivvor a woman i' the wand! No, lads, aa wad cut ma throat forst !"  In a continental sea-side watering-place there was a reading-room kept by an English lady, who, on the strength of her position, supposed herself to be connected with literature. Lord Macaulay passed through the town, went to the reading-room, and wrote ,down his name in the subscription book. His money was returned to him with the remark, "No, my Lord, we literary people must not take money from each other." Among so many, can He care? Can special love be everywhere? A myriad homes, a myriad ways, And God's eye over every place? I asked. My soul bethought of this: In just that very place of His Where He hath put and keepeth you, ' God hath no other thing to do !—Whitney. At an evening party Dumley was introduced to a young lady, and after a remark about the weather, he said, gallantly—" And have I really the pleasure of meeting the beautiful Miss Smith, whose praises are being sounded by everybody" "Oh, no, Mr. Dumley," the lady replied, "the beautiful Miss Smith to whom you refer is a cousin of mine." "Oh, that's it? Well, I thought there must be a mistake somewhere," said the gallant Dumley. A man going home from his work at a late hour in the night saw that the occupants of a house standing flush with the street had left a window up, and he decided to warn them and prevent a burglary. Putting his head into the window, he called out—" Hilloa! Good peop--." That was all he said. A whole pailful of water struck him in the face. And as he staggered back a woman shrieked out—" Didn't I tell you what you'd get if you wasn't home by nine o'clock ?" Oh l—at this hour when half the sky Is glorious with its evening light, And fair broad fields of summer lie Hung o'er with greenness in my sight; I long to know if scenes like this Are hidden from an angel's eyes; If earth's familiar loveliness  Haunts not thy heaven's serener skies.— Whittier. On one of the nights of ,the last engagement of the late W. C. Macready, when he was to play Hamlet, he was very particular at rehearsal in the disposition of characters at the fall of the curtain. He had selected the most commanding place on the stage,7well down to the lights, and declared that there he intended to die. It so-happened that as the fatal moment was approaching, just after Hamlet had stabbed the King, his Majesty took it into his head to die on the spot selected by the philosophic Dane: The poison was burning in Hamlet's veins; he was in the agonies of death; but still he found time to say, sotto toce, to his stepfather—" Back, back; I'm going to die there." The blood of outraged royalty was up, and the stabbed monarch replied—"l'm King, and I'll die where I please; pick out a place for yourself," And Hamlet was compelled to give up the ghost farther up the stage. Mustesr. NerrAemx.—ln the eleventh century Guido of Arezzo first gave to music a definiteness of outline by the invention of notation by lines and spaces. In teacging singing he used the words Do, re, me, fa, sal, la, which are derived from an old monkish hymn addressed to St. John. Previous to this introduction of the use of points placed on parallel lines and distinguished by means of letters, the Greeks and Romans used the letters of their alphabets to show the pitch. This they did, by placing them in various positions. Franco of Cologne invented characters which at once denoted both the tune and time of the sounds. He introduced the four symbols of very long notes, viz., the large, the long, the breve, and the semibreve ; while the invention of the minim, crotchet, quaver, and semiquaver is ascribed to John de Muris, a doctor of the Sorbonne, who made this important addition to notation, and also originated certain characters determining the measure in the year .1338. Still shorter notes have been since introduced. Sharps, flats, naturals, bars, and ligatures were all introduced into notation during the seventeenth century.