Alone will live the Highlander's proud name. *It is worthy of record that a Scotch nobleman, whose large estate is, by dint of wholesale evictions and purposed neglect, being turned into deer-forests-called forests, seemingly, because they do not contain a single tree-has been able, by the exercise of his lordly will, to prevent the postoffice telegraph-wires passing over a part of his property, where, for the convenience of hundreds of isolated people, it would have been especially useful. His lordship's most urgent argument against the wires was that they would frighten his grouse! The wires have accordingly made a détour, and his lordship's unfortunate tenants are left practically cut off from the world, to get ill, and get well again, as best they can, and to die without being able to make a sign. Meanwhile, the grouse are not frightened-which is, of course, a great blessing. CITYARTICLE |