The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1881-01-29 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

MONK. —Matrina Ivanovna, a Russian peasant girl of two-and-twenty, has recently acquired considerable notoriety in her native land, through the fact that, under the monastic designation of "Father Michael," she succeeded in passing several months in the cloister of Staraj a Ladoga, without incurring the least suspicion on the part of her fellow monks that she was other than she seemed to be. Forced by her father to marry a person whim she detested, she disappeared from her home on the day succeeding her wedding, and, upon search being made, her clothes, and two long plaits of her black hair, were found near the Virolchoff river, as well as a letter in her hand writing, stating that, rather than live with her -husband, she had resolved to drown herself. Her relatives, believing that she had really committed suicide, forebore any further inquiry, and mourned for her as one dead. She, however, dressed in man's clothing, applied last March for admission to the above monastery, and was duly received into the confraternity on probation, taking the minor vows, and officiating as coachman to the Prior. There is no knowing to what ecclesiastical dignities she might not in time have risen, had not unkind fortune decreed that a native of her own village should have been sent to Staraja Ladoga, by his master for correction at the bands of the brethren, his crime being inveterate drunkenness. Promptly recognised and denounced by this indiscreet toper as .:I!atrina Ivanovna, a friend of his youth, Father Idichael was handed over to the police authorities by the indignant monks, and is now awaiting trial for a religious imposture—a crime likely to be visited with severe punishment in so priest-ridden a country as Russia.  He who can conceal his joy is greater than he who can conceal his griefs. Falsehood always endeavours to copy the mien and altitude of truth.  A man's virtues shou'Al be measured, not by his occasional exertions, but by the doings of his ordin try life.  • Perseverance is not deserving of blame or of praise, in most instances, since it is mostly the continuance of taste and feelings which we can neither crc:ate nor destroy.  Son t Opt ENUtitian:alain. beds fe a Male- 'LONDON" COPTIFMONIWYC7_I. • , ..0.3_ .. ...J... , ...-.I• !r; but he hite not lived so long-iv-MOUT bai'll'ig at least contemplated mairiage. The story of his en- An amendment of the law seems to be needed in gagement to an heiress in Western France, and its London. Our water supply at this season is at the sudden breaking off, gives us a fresh glimpse of his hest precarious, but we could keep things right were character. From the time of his leaving his humble we only permuted to let the water dribble from the home at Cahors, till his rise to the highest rank of pipe which supplies. our cisterns. 'To do this i 6 to public personages, Gambetta lived with a faithful, SnbiCCt OTIOSeIt to a fine for wasting good water. loving, devoted aunt, who had followed him to l'• 'lris, Few householders, perhaps, care two pins for the and who made, everywhere he went, a pieasant houie law. It would, however, be better, for the sake of for him. She was at once his maid-01-ail-work, and the timid, that no such law existed. his congenial companion; and he was as deeply at* tached to her as she to him. His engagement to a It was said that a mean Admiralty had docked tl?' handsome and accomplished girl, \VILA a fortune of pay of the naval cadets to add a few pounds tits two millions, was a snook to the good amv ; but she economical exchequer. Audi alteram par am. The yielded gracefully- to the inevilabio. Whi;ii the ar- naval cadets already get for £7O an education which, rangements for the mariiage were being discussed, I with board and lo lging, could be got nowhere else however, the young lady took -it into her litlet to : for less than £lOO. Most of them can afford to pay make it a condition of the !anon that the aunt should ' it, but there are those who cannot afford to pay, and b7l excluded from the new establishment. She was it is part of Mr. Trovelyan's scheme to send ten boys scarcely elegant enough to adorn gilded salons, each year to school for a charge of ;C4O a year. lie Giunbetta explained how much his aunt bad been to gives charity where it is due. him; the rich beauty was only the more obdurate. * * Ciambetta took up his hat, and with a profound bow, Acting on a suggestion *thrown out by Professor "Adieu," said he ; "cc were not made to under- Fleeming Jenkin, at the Social Science Congress, to stand each other." And the marriage was put off the effect that actors, like lawyers, medical men, for over, engineers, and many others, might find advaetage