nd gets
more as even."

PROSE AND POETRY.--"Yes," she said dreamily, as she thrust her snowy
fingers between the pages of the last popular novel; "life is full of
tender regrets." "My tenderest regret is that I haven't the funds to
summer us at Newport," he replied, without taking his eye off the
butcher, who was softly oozing through the front gate with the bill in
his hand. "Ah, Newport," she lisped, with a languid society sigh; "I
often think of Newport by the sea, and water my dreams with the tender
dews of memory." She leaned back in the hammock, and he continued: "I
wish I could water the radishes and mignonette with the tender dews of
memory."--"Why?" she asked, clasping her hands together. "Why, because
it almost breaks my back handling the water-pot, and half the water goes
on my feet, and it takes about half an hour to pump that pail of water,
and it requires something like a dozen pailfuls to do the business. What
effect do you think the tender dews of memory would have on a good
drumhead cabbage?" But she had turned her head and was looking over the
daisy-dappled fields, and she placed her fingers in her ears, while the
prosaic butcher, who had just arrived, was talking about the price of
pork.

DONAHOE'S MAGAZINE.

BOSTON, JANUARY, 1886.

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Notes on Current Topics.

"IT IS FASHIONABLE TO BE IRISH, NOW."

Hon. Hugh O'Brien's Magnificent Record as Mayor of Boston.

Hon. Hugh O'Brien, Mayor of Boston, has made one of the ablest chief
executives that the city has ever possessed. Indeed, few past Mayors can
at all compare with him either in personal impressiveness or financial
acumen. No man living understands Boston's true interests better than
he, and no one has the future prosperity of the New England metropolis
more sincerely at heart. Possessing an earnest desire for the public
welfare, he has, with characteristic vigor, energy and broadmindedness,
advocated measures calculated to redound to the immense benefit of the
capital of the old Bay State. His name will live in the history of the
great city, as that of one of far-seeing judgment, great administrative
ability and unsurpassed intellectual accomplishments.

"It is fashionable to be Irish, now!" said a gentlemen at a meeting a
short time since, and in a great measure the assertion will stand the
test. When Hugh O'Brien sought the suffrages of his fellow-citizens, a
year ago, for the mayorality,