diately flamed with
indignation. A moment more and a smile lighted up her features. What
changes? That smile was not one of pleasure, but was sinister. It was
unperceived by the lieutenant. She made him a reply which apparently
rejoiced him very much. For the understanding properly this narrative,
we must tell the reader what was whispered and what was replied. "I mean
to kiss you when we get into the tunnel!" whispered the lieutenant. "It
will be dark; who will see it?" replied the lady. Into earth's
bowels--into the tunnel ran the train. Lady and coloured nurse quickly
change seats. Gay lieutenant threw his arms around the lady sable,
pressed her cheek to his, and fast and furious rained kisses on her lips.
In a few moments the train came out into broad daylight. White lady
looked amazed--coloured lady, bashful, blushing--gay lieutenant befogged.
"Jane," said the white lady, "what have you been doing?" "Nothing!"
responded the coloured lady. "Yes, you have," said the white lady, not
in an undertone, but in a voice that attracted the attention of all in
the carriage. "See how your collar is rumpled and your bonnet smashed."
Jane, poor coloured beauty, hung her head for a moment, the "observed of
all observers," and then, turning round to the lieutenant, replied:
"_This man kissed me in the tunnel_!" Loud and long was the laugh that
followed among the passengers. The white lady enjoyed the joke
amazingly. Lieutenant looked like a sheep-stealing dog, left the
carriage at the next station, and was seen no more.

--_Cape Argus_.

THE GRAVEDIGGER'S SUGGESTION.

The Midland Railway, on being extended to London, was the occasion of the
removal of a vast amount of house property, also it interfered to a
certain extent with the graveyard belonging to Old St. Pancras Church.
The company had purchased a new piece of ground in which to re-inter the
human remains discovered in the part they required. Amongst them was the
corpse of a high dignitary of the French Romish Church. Orders were
received for the transmission of the remains to his native land, and the
delicate work of exhuming the corpse was entrusted to some clever
gravediggers. On opening the ground they were surprised to find, not
bones of one man, but of several. Three skulls and three sets of bones
were yielded by the soil in which they had lain mouldering. The
difficulty was ho