10 JANUARY 1880, page 12

Confidants.

P EOPLE now-a-days often deplore the extinction of the old type of servants. There are no such servants now as there used to be, we are told ; wages increase, but fidelity de-......

Windfalls.

A LDIOST any one who has ever lived on an English country- side, or has become well acquainted with the less intelli- gent classes of a country town, finds one mental......