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166 SUPP in all their pride the very noblest of beasts, the 'grim monarch' of the plain. Imperfect and hurried as this account is, I trust it may afford you some amusement. With Cumming ; I confess myself better able to handle the rifle than wield the pen.' " VARIETIES. As daylight can be seen through small holes, so do little things show a person's character.—Drew. A WOMAN may always judge of the estimation it which she is held by the conversation which is ad. dressed to her. THE WORLD is a hospital—be kind, humble, and patient •itis a masquerade—be prude n t ;iti s a b attle field—be bold. THE MEDIUM TRUE.---Neither he who incessan hunts after the new, nor who fondly doats on the ow, is just.---Lavater. WHY is a man who keeps his eyes shut like an illiterate school-master ?---Because he keeps his pupils in darkness. THE ARMY.—Though a soldier, in time of peace, is like a chimney in summer, yet what wise man would pluck down his chimney, because his almanack tells him 'tis the middle of June. THEY that deny a God destroy man's nobility ; for certainly man is not of kin to the beast by his body ; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creeture.—Bacon. WHO are the saints of humanity ? Those whom perpetual habits of goodness and of grandeur have made nearly unconscious that what they do is good or grand,—heroes with infantine simplicity.—Lavater. MODESTY is a thin transparent veil which shows with superior lustre the graces it would seem to cover, as the new blown rose is more beautiful when its leaves are a little folded than when its glories are fully developed. " I was not aware that you knew him," said Tom Smith to an Irish friend the other day. " Knew him !" exclaimed he, in a tone that comprehended the know ledge of more than one lifetime, " I knew him when his father was a boy!" IT seems to me a great truth that human things cannot stand on selfishness, mechanical utilities, econo mics, and law courts ; that if there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable, and doomed to ruin.—Carlyle. FlCHTE.—Fichte's popularity was (at one time) so great, or the interest in metaphysical speculations so intense, that the booksellers paid him six Louis d'ors a sheet, while Goethe received only five, at the same time, for his most admired works.—Life of _Richter. CRA3IP.—Those who may be subject in the night time to that excruciating pain called cramp, will be doubtless glad to learn that by tying, any kind of bandage very tight round the leg, immediately above the knee, this unpleasant sensation will be instanta neously removed. AGREEABLE TRANSFORMATION.—On the abdication of Bonaparte, in 1814, it was stated in a fashionable party at Paris, that everything was to be restored to the same state as in 1788, " Oh, lam delighted to hear that," exclaimed a lady who had passed the bloom of youth ; " for then I shall be only eighteen years of age." REST upon God's truth and faithfulness for the making good of all those gracious promises that He hath made in His Word concerning thy temporal pro vision and preservation for the future. There is no want of power in Him that He should not be as big as His word : there is no want of love in Him, that He should not be as good as His word.—Bishop Sanderson. RADICALISM.—In one of Hogarth's pictures, there is a man sitting astride a projecting sign of the Crown, sawing away at it, and seemingly quite unconscious that when he succeeded in sawing it down, he would infallibly come down himself. The great moral painter intended to symbolise here, those egregious fools who have not wit enough to - see the danger to themselves of their own political acts. JOY.—Laugh on, never mind the censure of cynics. Joy is one of the greatest panaceas of life. It braces the nerves, makes the heart dance to pleasant music, ,EMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. L and the very soul ring again to harmonious sounds. It is the delight of the good, makes sunshine where there would be shadow and gloom, promotes domestic happiness, drives away sorrow, and prepares the mind for the exigencies of the future ; so laugh on, but laugh discreetly and in due season. COMFORT FOR MARRIED MEN.— Lord Nelson, writing to one of his colleagues on the 21st of June, 1795, on the subject of regulations for the fair sex on board men of war, observed—" They always will do as they please. ' Orders are not for them ; at least I never yet knew one who obeyed your most faithful HORATIO NELSON." If, therefore, the invincible Nel son was no match for the women, ordinary men need hardly be ashamed of being henpecked by their wives. ROYAL REPARTEE.--When the King of Prussia, lately, in his tour through the Rhenish provinces, passed through a small town near Cochein (district of Treves), the clergy presented his Majesty with a glass of fine wine, with the observation, " The sentiments of the inhabitants around here are as pure as the wine in this glass." The King thanked the clergyman, and raising up the glass to the light to admire the fine colour of the wine, added, " I must suppose that it is not of the vintage of 1848." COUNCILLOR LAMB, who was an old man (at the time the late Lord Erskine was in the height of his reputation), was a man of timid manners and nervous disposition, and usually prefaced his pleadings with an apology to that effect ; and on one occasion, when opposed to Erskine, he happened to remark that "he felt himself growing more and more timid as he grew older." "No wonder," replied the witty but relent less barrister, " every one knows the older a lamb grows the more sheepish he becomes." How often do we sigh for opportunities of doing good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things, which would frequently lead to the ac complishment of most important usefulness ? Dr. Johnson used to say, "He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do any." Good is done by degrees. However small in proportion the benefit Which follows individual attempts to do good, a great deal may be thus accomplished by perse verance, even in the midst of discouragements and disappointments. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANYBODY, SOMEBODY, AND NOBODY.—" Mamma," said Miss Juliana Selina Caroline Languish, " who are those Middletons ; are they anybody ?" Why, my dear, young Middleton joined the hunt last week, and was introduced at the last ball, and keeps a tiger ; so you know he must be somebody." "Yes, mamma, but I can't help think ing that they are only retired—very good sort of people, no doubt, and all that sort of thing ; but there is something about them that makes me think that they are nobody, after all." "My dear, they must be somebody." " No, mamma, they want to pass for somebody; but as everybody knows, there is always a something which tells you directly whether anydody is anybody; and it is not a bit of use for anybody who is nobody to pretend to be somebody." EATING AND DIIINKING.—If you wish for anything like happiness in the fifth act of life, eat and drink about one half what you could eat and drink. Did I ever tell you my calculation about eating and drink ? Having ascertained th e we i g ht o f w h at I could liv e ; upon, so as to preserve health and strength, and what I did live upon, I found that, between ten and seventy years of age, I had eaten and d run k f or ty-f our horse waggon loads of meat and drink more than would have preserved me in life and health ! The value of this mass of nourishment I considered to be worth seven thousand pounds sterling. It occurred to me that I must, by my voracity, have starved to death fully a hundred persons. This is a frightful calculation, but irresistibly true.—Letters of' Rev. Sydney Smith. GOOD COMPANY.—Endeavour, as much as you can, to keep company with people above you. There you rise as much as you sink with. people below you ; for (as I have mentioned before) you are whatever the company you keep is. Do not mistake, when I say company above you, and think that I mean with re gard to their birth ; that is the least consideration ; but I mean with regard to their merit, and the -light in which the world considers them. There are two sorts of good company ; one, which is called the beau monde, and consists of those people who have the lead in Courts, and in the gay part of life ; the other con- sists of those who are dist, merit, or who excel in sol art or science. For my myself in company as mil with Mr. Addison and Mr. all the princes in Europe.-- DESPERATE REMEDY F' —Dr. Hand was called 0 patient, who fancied she h, his entering the room th doctor ! I am so glad to sl tress---such pain ! Oh, d, mouse !" " Swallowed-- doctor, in his mild and pl, doctor," said the patient, mouse---a live mouse : he I was asleep, with my mk now, creeping about my stogy out. Oh! doctor, do press' shall die !" " Prescribe?'" will prescribe something . minute." " What is it, d, take anything you order." madam, swallow a cat ! if will." The prescription was BISHOP ATTERBURY.--0: taro bill in the House of La to say that he had prophe tempted during the sessioi. _ , e0,1 he had proved a true prophet. Lord 'A l t to spoke after him, and always spoke in a Wc o - t 7 0 the house to remark, that one of the e t; ' - Ok prelates had set himself up as a 1:1 141 ,110,4°/ he did not know what prophet to likel os 7 edto that furious prophet Balaam, NO°, \ W it 11 his own ass. The Bishop, in a reN ts 'el;,.. e d,rl and calmness, exposed this rude a i t c oseie,p 4 thus—" Since the noble lord has 6 iii co: f log, manners such a similitude, I am w , e ij t, 1 1,6 1 compared to the prophet Balaain ; ' t herp 1 1 ,: tfi . am at a loss how to make out the (I „ v ecl 4. A'' A parallel ;I am sure I have been reP r " le" oil', do ... e s but his lordship."—Dr. King's .ilme e filiV) '1 Times. / r 0 0 ' „Atte tlle A THE SUBLIME AND THE RIDICV , 7 , a Ir tl ie 10 lit been stated, that from the former to ,et- iplor? j , positions but .one step intervenes ; e ' c ji III " A lowing extract from a recent sP e t iell ° l 4.,,fr greater accuracy, come under the p a ii i ,`,. tor bathos. It was made during the P er i Al i e ile was pending on the construction °, , P, ef through the section of Virginia <pa 'ile. : i is convulsed with civil discords , li aW.' l s tiol;" I tremble with internal commotion ; % i fig' ll ti if c 4 tronomers mount the wings of their to. :, „t soar through the ethereal world, Plu;stell,,l of 'Ol from planet to planet, and from s i e reNdl i fro until they have explored the vast, e , o re ll ' e 0 `,1,4 let us direct our attention to a road m a for, e ll coif t i in our own neighbourhood." Sele tail ° I flig l/ ) could no farther go" than from tu e h iglier.. ov:i'r a Virginian turnpike. It takes 3 bathos' V than the following specimen of the. , 1).!' give from memory. It is, we b elieve ' ., die' Porson : , • , ala W 3 lid' ' 1 "Since mountains sink to vales.' -l urse s •oet 4 4 And seas and rivers mourn th Welch divi ' 1 tiN When my old cassock," says a rie r a i, .0 Bra ` c ` "Is out iattyeilr—s, Lwl:n-gshbouelf.doil.3l',.g:tolls,ooovf the trees with red,—before indeed, to_' .e be, je ~ gauze frill unfolded on the brainbleo,l:l,,Dics'i.,ol • Topod tu' o t ''' yil range our blackberry parties. i etri ale bs ofh took place every day much to the . o u-_, `vas il ,. 4 0 4 studies. Very soon:the whole sch:_i ts o f ,:#s'y warm . discussion on the relative, ~ , Vo oa fore, _ : l4 , Finchley, Wanstead, blackberry .v ttO , able places of resort for ~___4 , o n _ li g Epping, all° : o . a tliev o i: 1 last September came, and the lir;LJ o . s , tho,';,:i , We took our dinners with us in o c ii,..:fit w v it hout o ? went without dinners, as they ii a ,i as S 1 0 i.,„ permission; and sometimes a whol e s. ',. juges._ for wag," and started direct for theloi' of 00 1 ,01 t t h o e s s c e h e o x o p h edi lla n n s y . canings3faii aanr d ed bo n T a n zikeeo:nel a n.ci t t : o ; s 0 betrayed how this or that boy red his 1010. his love for blackberries, thc:: .. ~ bo relP gr o suffered him to acknowledge it. - 6 ,' , - , 0 1 0 j 5 , rS alio. to .t . llei ll P is; stains for days afterwardS ; acknowledge ..., go o . 0 ) to be seen ; and the usual oscillation _ lot h t mouth to pocket and from pocket t '' JtIVE ENOVEMI3O 6) tpllwit: finguished by s oi (l e sr, ilifge, pule particular I to, e e tri own part, I 115e1,0' (4, uch above roe, ". '' 4' T ' A bet ak 4 . Pope, as if I 113;//, , I.r I —Lord ChesteViefli Itl FOE A DESPESA9II 01. on to visit a Ikirotigi ti l ti , o Lad swallowed 0 111 ,1, I ti' he lady esclai o, lo Al Ta o ( see you ---I 0,101,;11,17 tli44. loetor ! I have O l ied i 1•,4 , :-nonsense !'' rell'lY, it 1, 111 16e,asant otannery iV:„ tle:( it is not noo.i,?V! ht t, ran down lily 9401 o f Pit south open, feo y: Ivi l l- ;°lnaeb, and teiii&,,,,,l it n th tribe soniethivr3, 'r.,s, tt,4l said the cloct°''foi. l' i ' q that will etire:itf J 1.141,' doctor ? what l'" 01,1 ti i , i 4t W. eii, 001 et' lii.l-11! f that don't ellre' i th'4'll as effectual. jejf4t NI Du the disetiol.l)ll ; La iords the 13ii1910 11:(1 )esied this hill itiill, 1,44 t I, 11, and he lotriei 1'41161 - -.4 Jti \ Ir Qle! - 4 t 4 t l r bi l t tk ‘t tEl P t ~ e ll t