The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1883-11-03 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

BILNATIID AND LOST FOR ATKA.  A curious work, entitled " Briefe Aus der Wills" originally written in Danish and just translated into Gerisan, which has had a remarkable circulation, is supposed to be a chronicle of the experiences of a lost one, who has resided for same time in the place reserved for "the devil and his angels." One great sin the writer confesses to have committed while on earth. He seduced a poor vilhge Kin, and very cruelly forsaking her—in accordance with his mether's advice, who deemed her too fa, beneath him in station ever to become his wife—had driven tier to a life of Aherne, and eventually to suicide. And in hell the expectation possessed him that he must meet her. Accordingly an acquaintance one day aaked him if he knew UW.ine. "On in, answering no, he continued, There she is.' My eyes turned in the direction to which he pointed,and I saw a youthful, stately, female form in very slight clothing and with dishevelled hair. Her clothes clung to her limbs, they seemed to be wet through. She was bus), wringing out first her drew, and thee her black hair. She now looked up. I shivered with horror; it was Anna! Yes, it was else. The same regular and beautiful features, the same elegant form; and yet she was completely changed. Oh ! how frightfully changed ! Ccirtianly the same features, but how relaxed and brutal! Passion, vice, despair, had branded her with their iron mark. She appeared many years older, and yet, perhaps, only a few yearn had elapsed between her fall and her death. And her death—of this there could be no doubt—was the death of despair in the waters-1 trembled likes malefactor at the sudden sight of thescaffold. This was my doing; this debased, lost, but once beautiful and noble form! There she sat, wringing her clothes and her long hair, and then she wrung her bands, and sigh followed sigh. Oh, what subs. The full bosom heaved and sunk, as if it would b int. At first I thought I must flee away. It seemed as if one word from her mouth would kill me. But I knew not what power seized me, I suddenly ;ebbed towards her. Did I wish to cast myself at k r .eet? She now for the first time became con,eious of my presence. She rose, gazed on me with a 1... k of horror and disgust, and fled. It was impossible f riris to ap • her. By the power of thought :done she always kept herself at the same distance from me. At last she vanished from my sight amid a troop of new corners, who were makinc their sad entry into helL Then I turned, as if scourged by furies."  A judge and counsellor being upon indifferent terms, a client of the counsel's making his appearance at the bar with his jaw terribly swelled, the judge remarked, " Mr. —, this client of yours would make an excellent coansellor, he's all jaw," which set the court in a roar .4 laughter against the counselor. On silence loing restored, the counsel theft remarked, "My Lord, I think he would make a better judge, for his jaw is all on one side.' The retort turned the laugh alainst the judge, and from that day they were on the best terms of friendship. "In the sentence. 'John strikes William,'" remarked a school teacher, "what is the object of strikes?" 'Higher wages and leas work," promptly rephed the intelligent youth. Three cockneys being out one evening in a dense big, came upon a building that they thus described. The first said, "There's a nouse." "No." said the second, "it's* nut." The third said: "You're both wrong; it's a Dill." An outgoing tenant illustrates the absurdity of •iome of the covenants in leases drawn in the ancient form by advertising in a daily paper for 500 rats, and About ten times that number of black beetles, in order al fulfil his covenant to leave the premises in precisely ihe same condition as that in which he found them. 'The rata, he added, must be able-bodied, and no ...ripples will be received.