le. Fancy the husband of a second wife
keeping his eldest daughter by a former marriage, herself a married
woman, in the same house with his wife, with orders to keep that wife
constantly in view, to watch her when she receives company, dog her when
she goes out, and dole out to her the necessaries for the family from
closets, chests and cupboards of which she [the daughter] keeps the
keys! Fancy these things, and the wife submitting to them, perforce! And
then understand, what is the humiliating truth, that the lady subjected
to these practices is a most beautiful and accomplished favorite,
delighting thousands by her public appearances, envied by all, and
supposed to be rolling in wealth and revelling in comfort!

Not long ago there was a story going the rounds of the press, of some
spicy sporting operations in England, in which one trainer and jockey
threw one of his creatures, in the disguise of a stable-boy, into the
stables of another, to watch the appearance and action of his horses, to
overhear what he could of the conversation of the trainer, to discover
for what cups and matches they were about to be entered, and to make
weekly reports to him, through letters pretendedly addressed to the
boy's "mother," so that he could take advantage of the knowledge so
unfairly attained, in making up his betting-book. By a mere accident the
trainer discovered what kind of an emissary of the enemy was quartered
in his stables, and instead of kicking him out he merely _gave him
plenty to report_. He managed to have the boy overhear all sorts of
manufactured conversations, rode his horses unfairly on the
training-course, stuffed him with false reports of the matches for which
they were entered, and, in short, gave him such budgets to send home to
his master, that the latter grew completely mystified, bet on the losing
chances instead of the winning ones, and lost about twenty thousand
pounds, which went into the pocket of the intended victim. The story is
a good one, and for the honor of humanity ought to be true.

Not many years ago a jealous old husband in this city, who had fallen
into the misfortune of a young and handsome wife, grew jealous of her
without the least cause, and descended to the execrable meanness of
putting one of the chamber-maids under pay to play the detective and
report to him what letters her mistress received and all the "goings on"
in the house. Biddy was not quite keen enough for her new position, an