this admirable institution in company with a friend who is one of the we propose giving a short account of what we saw and heard the great success of the asylum for and youth several of the scholars from which have reached considerable distinction one of them being connected with a leading daily paper in this city and others having served in the state and national was the motive which led to the foundation of this excellent charity our late distinguished dow as is well known a large portion of his fortune to this establishment � being moved as his will expressed it by the desire of n some institution for the benefit of mankind being consulted as to the rules of the institution and the selection of a he replied that all board must their of op men and things i i let them select anyhow and he should be pleased n e esq was chosen in compliance with this delicate suggestion the for the support of one hundred aged and decayed gentlemen on inquiry if there was no provision for females my friend called my attention to this remarkable fact namely there is no such thing as a female this remark struck me forcibly and on reflection i found that i never knew nor heard of one though i have once or twice heard a woman make a single detached as i have known a hen to crow on arriving at the south gate of the asylum grounds i was about to ring but my friend held my arm and begged me to rap with my stick which i did an old man with a very face presently opened the gate and put out his head so you prefer cane to a bell do you he said and began and at a great rate my friend winked at me you re here still old joe i see he said to the old man yes yes and it s very odd considering how often i ve bolted nights he then threw open the double gates for us to rid through i a best funny stories now said the old man as he pulled the gates after us you ve had a long journey why how is that old joe said my friend don t you see he answered there s the east hinges on one side of the gate and there s the west hinges on t other side � we had no sooner got into the yard than a feeble little gentleman with a remarkably bright eye came up to us looking very serious as if something had happened the town has entered a complaint against the asylum as a gambling establishment he said to my friend the what do you mean said my friend why they complain that there s a lot o on the premises he answered pointing to a field of that grain and away his shoulders shaking with laughter as he went on entering the main building we saw the rules and for the asylum posted up i made a few which may be interesting i op verbal exercises each shall be permitted to make freely from eight in the morning until ten at night except during service in the chapel and grace before meals at ten o clock the gas will be turned off and no further or other play men and things on words will be allowed to be uttered or to be uttered aloud inmates who have lost their faculties and cannot any longer make shall be permitted to repeat such as may be selected for them by the out of the work of mr joseph miller violent and who interrupt others when engaged in conversation with or attempts at the same shall be deprived of their joseph and if necessary placed in solitary confinement iii op at meals no shall make any or attempt at the same until the blessing has been asked and the company are decently seated certain having been placed on the index of the institution no shall be allowed to utter them on pain of being the perusal of punch and vanity fair and if repeated deprived of his joseph miller among these are the following allusions to salt when asked to pass the cellar remarks on the inmates being etc etc personal allusions in connection with and attempts upon the word etc etc the following are also excepting to i best funny stories such inmates as may have lost their faculties and cannot any longer make of their own � your own hair or a wig it will be long enough etc etc little of its age etc etc also playing upon the following words hospital mayor pitied bread sole etc etc etc see index printed for use of inmates the who went round with us had been a noted in his time and well known in the business world but lost his customers by making too free with their names � as in the famous story he set afloat in of to the names of a noted judge an eminent lawyer the secretary of the board of foreign and the well known landlord at one of the four he added was of gigantic magnitude the showed some of his old tendencies as he went round with us do you know he broke out all at once why they don t take in for establishing insane we both confessed ignorance because there are people to be found there he said with a dignified smile he proceeded to introduce us to different in mates the first was a middle aged man who was seated at a table with a s dictionary and a sheet of paper before him men and things well what luck to day mr said the he turned to his notes and read don t you see ers in the words and if he spell leather and feather f isn t there danger 