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SUPPL fifteen, she was a wonder. She increased in this extraordinary manner until she attained her twenty first year, when she remained stationary for about four years. During this period of rapid growth, it was impossible to make her clothing fit her with anything like common accuracy. She seemed to alter each day. She probably altered each week. The dress that became her one month, was, therefore, useless the next ; and thus, for nine years, it was necessary to make all her apparel with superfluous tucks and folds, in order to accommodate them to her condition. One effect of this elongating process was, of course, con stant ill health. She was excessively thin, and could not, under the circumstances, become any stouter. She was so weak as to be almost unable to stand. Her bones could not strengthen in substance suf ficiently fast for their continued expansion, and so grew painfully brittle. In attempting to walk, there fore, one day, she fell to the ground and fractured her leg seriously. Nature, however, in the celerity of her physical developments, soon remedied the evil, and thus the cause subsequently aided in the cure. Miss Hardy is now thirty years of age. She has grown about seven inches since she was twenty-one, and is nearly eight feet high at the present moment. She weighs three hundred and forty-six pounds, is mas sively proportioned, robust, matronly in appearance, symmetrical in figure, but inclined to stoop, (as most tall people are) a habit acquired in her native village, where her gigantic height subjected her to a scrutiny on the part of strangers, most annoying to her bashful nature. Her features a re l arge . Th e express i on o f her face, if not handso me , i s am i a bl e ; h er di spos i t i on is mild and gentle, to a pleasing degree, Her voice is somewhat coarse, but not unmusical. Her move ments are easy and graceful; although, having never before left her village home, she is as yet unso phisticated in fashionable ways, and moves and acts with a timidity that a little more acquaintance with public life will readily remove. She is certainly one of the most wonderful natural phenomena of the age." LITERARY EXTRACTS. AMONGST the many secondary supports which keep us from utter ruin in this world, perhaps none are more powerful, or more deeply to be lamented when lost, than taste.—Cleve Hall. POWER OF LOVELY WOMEN.—How little do lovely women know what awful beings they are in the eyes of inexperienced youth ! Young men brought up in the fashionable circles of our cities will smile at this. Accustomed to mingle incessantly in female society, and to have the romance of the heart deadened by a thousand frivolous flirtations, women are nothing but women in their eyes ; but to a susceptible youth like myself, brought up in the country, they are divinities. ---Washington Irving. THE PRAYER-8008.--I did not carry with me here the book I brought from Glasgow, and trusted my reading to such as I could find when I came, and the one I fell upon was the English Prayer-book, with 'which I was greatly edified and refreshed all yesterday. It will determine me, I think, to have a great deal more reading of the Bible introduced into my public ministration. The prayers, and, with the exception of two flaws—one in the burial and the other in the baptismal service—all the other devout compositions are very admirable, and I do regard the whole com position as an interesting monument of the piety and sound intelligent Christianity of better days.---Dr. Chalmers. - THERE are three kinds of distress founded on the passions, which, if not applauded, are at least admired in their excess, as implying a peculiar refinement of sensibility in the mind of the sufferer. Embellished by taste, and wrought by the magic of genius into innumerable forms, they turn grief into a luxury; and draw from the eyes of millions delicious tears. Nor can I reckon it among the improvements of the pre sent age, that, ,by the multiplication of works of fic tion, the attention is diverted from scenes of real to to those of imaginary distress ; from the distress which demands relief, to that which admits of embel lishment ; in consequence of which the understanding is enervated, the head is corrupted, and those feelings which were designed to stimulate active benevolence are employed in nourishing a sickly sensibility.•-- Robert Hall. CEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STAN A TRAIT OF THE TRAGIC MUSE.—" The gods do not bestow such a face as Mrs. Siddons' on the stage more than once in a century. I knew her very well, and she had the good sense to laugh heartily at my jokes ; she was an excellent person, but she was not remark able out of her profession, and never got out of tragedy even in common life. She used to stab the potatoes." —Memoirs of Sydney Smith' EVERYTHING is valuable which tends to elevate the tone of our habitual intercourse with each other ; everything is valuable which supplies a source of quiet thought, and soothes and refreshes the mind from the inevitable disquietudes and disappointments, which at one time or another, if not at most times, form so large a portion of every earthly lot. . . . There is a close affinity between refined occupation and purity of mind. The cultivation of taste goes hand-in-hand with the abhorrence of coarseness.---Early Influence. A LADY A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.—In the Har leian MSS., 980, fol. 153, is the following curious entry :—" The Countess of Richmond, mother of Henry VII., was a Justice of the Peace. Mr. Attorney said if it was so, it ought to have been by commission, for which he had made many an hower search for the record, but could never find it ; but he had seen many arbitriments that were made by her. Justice Joanes affirmed that he had often heard from his mother of the Lady Bartlet, mother to the Lord Bartlet, that she was a Justice of the Peace, and did sit usually upon the Bench with the other Justices in Gloucester shire • that she was made so by Q. Mary u p on h er complaint to her of the injuries she sustained by some of that county, and desiring for redresses thereof, that as she herself was Chief Justice of all England, so this lady might be in her own county, which ac cordingly the Queen granted. Another example was alleged of one Rowse, in Suffolk, who usually at the assizes and sessions there held set upon the Bench among the Justices gladio cincta." RUSSIA FULL OF - SLAVERY.---The air of Russia is heavy and thick with slavery. Man cannot breathe the breath of freedom there and live. And it is not mere political slavery, but religious slavery, social slavery, physical slavery ; of all these Russia is alike full. In Poland, which is a Roman Catholic country, the Virgin Mary was wont to be called " The Queen of Heaven." But this was regarded by Nicholas as an interference with the divine prerogative of the Czar; accordingly the Polish liturgy was ordered to be burnt as heretical ; and the Polish priests who refused to conform, were first'degraded and then shot ! Thus, even heaven itself is forbidden to interfere with Russian Czarism. The Catechism used by the govern ment schoolmasters and priests in Poland,. contains these awful words---" The people must submit to the decrees of his (the Czar's) justice, according to the example of Christ, who died on the Cross." M. de Lammenais observes on this, that "it has been per mitted to this man to enlarge to the farthest extent the limits of blasphemy."---Mann's Encroachments of Russia. HINTS ON LETTER.-WRITING.---In common, every day life, the cleverest people do not write the best let ters. Those whose intellectual powers and attainments seem almost below mediocrity, are often the most agreeable correspondents. Perhaps we admit gossip in this form, though we should turn from it in any other. But the subject cannot be analyzed : it is an art, " unteachable, untaught." A delicate regard to the feelings and situations of others, a lively perception of the amusing, an entire absence of affectation in sen timent and manner, an individuality apart from ego tism, and a strong determination to abide by what is true in thought and affection, may be suggestions to those who find any difficulty in letter-writing. Above all considerations, it should ever be before us, that this mode of communicating with others involves a deep responsibility, inasmuch as it is a great means of use fulness. We are often able to write that which, from difficulty of position, or feebleness of frame, from in firmity, or some other cause, we are unable to speak. When the tongue fails, the pen is often eloquent. It was said of an ancient worthy, that he never wrote a letter that had not something good and useful in it ; an example that all may remember with profit.---Front Home Thoughts. THE GREAT Boox.--Two friends, represented as conversing together on the Bible, held the following language :---" Shakspeare : Do you call him earnest ? For even now I read him with as much satisfaction as IARD. almost any author. But, while unmindful of the Scriptures ; fol very properly called not a book Book. The reasons for this yoi do. Myself, I can only say wb that the Old Testament transcel than the great dramatist does i I believe I should feel this, and a Hiridoo, or a French infidel, f " I am glad to hear you say so," mean that I am glad to have respect confirmed by the opinio character---a merchant and a theologian. It is held out to heaven---the Bible ; and so there a divine awe, as I read it. But ; on my table for me to peruse ont I should feel that it was so mud Shakspeare, as to be still the various portions of it, even form so wonderfully good. Pen and for such a transcript of the soul. think sometimes I have his lik crystal well, which he was ben& phet eyes to search. And the PSI piety; and not merely the pray` dead men. You can now even them, sobbing and mourning a clear, and at last joyous. Oh, A MINIATURE OF TALLEYRAN laboured incessantly to convince • was' agreeable, and was very angry was usually a sign for my depart:' place, he never spoke at all till he but digested his dinner, and as ti asleep, or ought to have b t e e e 7 re \ with him; it did not occur till so ( speak he was so inartiol% a word he said.'---' it f W:clinuch( Dr. Holland, 'I never - °l l • t , was him.'—` Did not you? why 1 call it talkinc , at all; for he had ni no roof to hi:mouth—no uvula—] —no epiglottis —no anything. was gurgling ; and that; by-the- 1 otheria reason why Holland underst. than I did,' turning suddenly ro) merry laugh.—` Yet nobody's wit order as Talleyrand's when it did stood the test of tinie. -- -zwem"7 EVILS OF LONG ci ..........„,, recognised' meal' It is one, is to be neglected. Long fasting 0 digestive powers ; and therefore. 1 ~ It is s Dr. Doran well Observes, FASTIN howe, is the devil's man ; and it may b. t , - , that if it has nothing to do it vau Early breakfasts and late dinners .. of people engaged in active W l ' practice of life. Many make a bar take luncheon," and forswear ev4 refection, a glass of wine and a be accounts for the many bad tour!' home every evening to dinner, and up into serenity after the first gl out into cheerfulness with the , ' results from the application of 6, stomach weakened and collapsed pleasant as the social effect may. very injurious one. We doubt ' of long fasting can be maintain' time without permanent injury to - t . We have heard an • adverse thea tl never with good success. NV` staggered by the argumentunt a' upon by a certain ex-chancellor, confute what we said about the by declaring that he had been o ll)1 life of unceasing activity in the almost habitually, from morning he, he asked, a bad specimen of a But before the conversation was al that in the vigour of his years ti surance office in London that won) ! on his life. Some men, it, is true, Napoleon said that he had twice `at Waterloo, but that those bet ~ know when they were beaten. 0 jollA f , who do not know when they, ht oileheao luncheon—it should be a very IIP; o f v to the full and salutary enjoyD2o" 81~ a ~'a e ): 11H) . t. [JULY i '' \ tu.ll Itg, dle I sa . ); of tat for b ut i e ook, iili tc)_%c, You kuoicif, rt,e what I f ee " , 0, 1 scends s •it,,,1. 0 a it , o es a mo ,, di rid sa y i o i. A O , , Y, , klk L, the 6 0 , A 0 , e )," said Ire t ,i ve my jo A , , ' 1 inion of „at 1 , to a politicov;l,, `to to me a$ clj :1 ere is a 104,4,7: s." ut yet, f t'fot).; ::,,L Dnly ae o?,'ite,.. 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