YORK, FfsBDAg MoRNEae, DECEmsER 6. 1879.
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a TOUCHING IScruENT.-Mr. George Sold
ing, noted bird fancier, who is well known in
Siaie-street. having been over twenty wears mes
seneeE OF the New-Engand Marine Insurance
Ofice, was much afflicted last summer by the
sudden deelh. of his wife Fo. many wears he
has aiso suffered severely froIn the effects oil
rheumatism, SO much so es frEouznt.y 70 be con-
fined for months % his CT amber. But amid all
his afdlctlons be seemed 10 derive great pleasure
from rearing large family OF cana.ie=. Fre-
quensly, whsn he has been so racked with pains
as to be unable to stand upright, he hez scren-
bled out Of bed on his hands and knees, seated
himself By the cages, and whistied and talked to
his little ministries" as ne calls them, for houra;
and they in their turn piping their shrless notss,
OF sporting from perch to perch, or eating out of
bis hand. Every bird had It's name, and so per-
fectly were thay trained, that nearly all of them
knew when he called them; and their names,
too, had each its meaning or association, some
thing in the Oriental style


Last Tuesday Mr. Goiding thought that the
chamber was too cold for his ieatkercd family,
and in q luckless hour he placed CHARCOAL iur-
mace Ii the room for the purpose of warming 1t.
Half an hour alterwerd he visited tie room, hut
VINO can describe the old mans agony, when he
beheld the greater part OF the darlicgs In which
all his affections seemed TO centre, lying dead on
the bottoms of their cages! "Oh, my God"
he exclaimed, "all, all my little ones gone
what have done to deserve this 2" and he sank
on the foor burylng his face in his hands. His
daughter came Immediately 10 his assistance,
removed the furnace, threw the windows open,
and succeeded By these means in preserving
twenty birds. He had fifty in al, and los. thirty
Of them.


Nearly an hour elapsed before the old man
could muster courage to attend to the wants of
the living members Of his family and remove the
dead ones. Slowly and sorrowfully he opened
the doors OF the cages-the tears, the while
streaming down his aged cheeks-and sad and
plaintve were the words he uttered as be sepa.
rated the dead from the living. Bost Trans.


A BooTLEss ExcITEMENT.-A queer scene
came off at one of the crack" hotels Yesterday
morning. Toward breakfast time there YVES
terrible ringing OF bells all ovef the house, an
opening and a shutting Of chamber doors, &c.
which, when with all due anxiety inquired INTO,
was found to be occssioned by every mortal pair
OF boots that had been placed outside tae night
before for cleaning. Tretc vas 70 mistake in
the malter-the boots were gone, totaig-soles
and uppers, bottoms and tops-and pretty con
fusion was the consequence. In the midst of
the row, up came one gentleman in light pumps,
whose wrath was excessive; the stage -as to
start in few minutes from the door-he was
bound to be off; and worse than all, he must go
without his Enthusiastically pump It ali the
way TO some1heres. The clerk at the desk was
bothered, and spoke to tho landlord, who asked
the guest what he expected, WIN instantly re-
piled that he wished 10 pay his BID, but that he,
In return, expected the host to pay for lie boots
whcfeupon the clerk was told 10 deduct $S5, oe
ing three less than cost" TIE traveller receIy-
ed his receipt; his two trunks were strapped on;
he got inside; off went tho stage, and short
time afterward, the servants having compared
circumstances and correctly multiplied ttis by
that, i. was maihematica.ly and every otdefi''ae
demonstrated that :: ,hem Two trucks contained
the boots, and that the gentleman in tie pumps
was the gentleman that had '' walked off" with
them


But" said we to our informant, who is
light, elegant figure OF fellow, just from way
ofT," "you appear to be all right In the leather
way; how did you save your boots 7"


WAY" said ne, somehow, by one OF those
strange incidents which VIII, sometimes, over
take one on a visit TO stranee places, | hap
oened to have gone to bed in Msm!'


TSt. Louis Revielle.