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twenty years ago. She is the mother of three daugh-
ters, whose father is that sallow ex-officer coming up
frompayingthe washerwoman. If he only knew the coup
he will make in the next few hours !—Aspen Court.
MISS FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.-Mr. Llewellynn
Jewitt, F.S.A., formerly librarian of the Plymouth
Public Library, has issued a pamphlet entitled " A
Stroll to Lea Hurst, Derbyshire, the home of Flo-
rence Nightingale." We quote from its pages the
subjoined particulars relating to Miss Nightingale's
parentage, education, and character : " Florence
Nightingale is the 3roungest daughter and one of the
co-heiresses of William Edward Nightingale, Esq.,
son of William Shore, Esq. of Tapton, one of the
descendants of the ancient and famous Derbyshire
family of Shore (of whom Lord Teignmouth is repre-
sentative of another branch), and who assumed the
name of Nightingale by the Prince Regent's sign
manual, in 1815, in accordance with the will of his
maternal uncle, Peter Nightingale, whose niece and
sole heiress his father had married. Mr. Nightingale,
who, beside his ample possessions at Lea Hurst, owns
the valuable estate of Embley House, Hampshire,
married in 1818, Frances, daughter of William Smith,
Esq., M.P. for Norwich, and has two daughters, his
co-heiresses. Miss Nightingale, whose name now
lives in history, was born in 1820, in the beautiful
city of Florence, from whence she takes her charming
name. From her earliest years she has had a yearn-
ing sympathy with the poor, the distressed, and the
desolate ; and her best energies, aided by her ample
fortune, have been entirely devoted to the alleviation
of the sufferings and pains of her fellow-creatures, and
to rendering her valuable assistance to the schools,
and to the poor families around her home. Added to
the highest accomplishments, the perfect acquaintance
with most of the ancient and modern languages, the
knowledge of the various sciences, and the most
refined taste in all matters relating to literature and
fine arts, Miss Nightingale possesses a matured judg-
ment and skill but seldom equalled. It is not our
province, in describing our quiet stroll, to attempt to
trace out the biography of this truly estimable woman,
nor would we wish to do so, for we well know, that to
such a warmly sensitive heart as hers, and to such a
constituted mind as she happily possesses, any thing
which would sound like praise would be einbarrassing,
and perhaps painful, but we cannot help just glancing
back at some of the features of her course of usefulness
which arise in our minds like bright and cheering spots
standing out from the dull and selfish mass of the
great bulk of human actions, and forming such glorious
links between earth with its pains, sufferings, and
sorrows, and heaven with its peace and joy and love.
From the kindly solicitude which she manifested for
the poor, the afflicted, and the needy round her early
home, Miss Nightingale visited the schools, reforma-
tory institutions, and hospitals in London and various
parts of this kingdom and on the continent, and four
years ago spent some months in one of the large Ger-
man hospitals, ministering to the wants and comforts
of the poor, infirm and lost inmates ; she has travelled
through most of the countries of Europe, visiting the
hospitals and lazar houses, dispensing good throughout
her course, and adding essentially to that store of
knowledge which she was garnering up for the use
and benefit of mankind : and ably has she given the
world the result of some of her experience and observa-
tions in a well-written work of which she is the au-
thoress. Returning home, and taking an active
interest in the Ragged Training Schools and other
similar institutions in London, she was mainly instru-
mental in raising that admirable Metropolitan Institu-
tion for sick and destitute ladies, of which she took
the active and entire management, devoting her for-
tune and her energies to its Christian-like objects.
Having succeeded in placing the institution on a firm
basis, Miss Nightingale removed the scene of her
labours to Scutari, where she generously and heroically
undertook the arduous and dangerous task of superin-
tending the immense hospitals for the sick and
wounded of our brave troops in the East; and where
for the last several months she has been daily and
nightly in attendance upon them, tending with the
efficient band of nurses which her experience and
judgment has organised, the bedsides of the sick, the
wounded, and the dying, and the convalescent, adminis-
tering to their wants and necessities, comforting and
consoling them in their trials and suffering, and
raising their drooping spirits by her tender solicitudes,
and by her spiritual consolations."

VARIETIES.

THE wise fortify themselves by reason, and fools by
despair.
PERMANENT rest is not to be expected on the road,
but at the end of the journey.
GOOD thoughts are as useless as good dreams, if
they are suffered to remain thoughts.
A CERTAIN degree of self-respect is one of the best
securities against moral degradation.—Dr. Davy.
NOT to feel misfortunes is not the part of a mortal ;
but not to bear them is unbecoming a man.—Cicero.
THE meshes of intolerance catch more fish than
butterflies ; but the snare of envy attracts equally the
mite and mammoth.

IF 'tis happiness to be nobly descended, 'tis no less
so to have so much merit that nobody inquires whe-
ther you are so or not.—La Bruyere.
PASSIONLESS characters are worthless in good or in
evil ; their gentleness is inability to feel anger, their
virtue inability to do wrong.
ALMOST every man wastes part of his life in attempts
to display qualities which he does not possess, and to
gain applause which he cannot keep.
FORGET not in thy youth to be mindful of thy end ;
for though the old man cannot live long, yet the young
man may die quickly.—Lord Burleigh.
A GREAT mind may change its objects, but it cannot
relinquish them ; it must have something to pursue ;
variety is its relaxation, and amusement its repose.
IT was a saying of a great divine, that he had found
more good in "bad" people, and more bad in " good"
people, than he ever expected.
A BLOW from a frying-pan, though it may not hurt,
sullies. A calumny, though known to be such,
generally leaves a stain on the reputation.
A SUNNY SMlLE.—Sydney Smith said of Lady
Murray's mother, who had a most benevolent counte-
nance, that her smile was so very radiant that it would
force a gooseberry-bush into flower.
A COOK, famed for her frequent failures in attempt-
ing hard words, being about to purchase a saucepan,
asked for one lined with " emanuel," as " she pre-
ferred it for cooking."
HE who troubles himself more than he needs,
grieves also more'than is necessary ; for the same weak-
ness which makes him anticipate his misery, makes
him enlarge it too.
A PERSON who had got some little smattering of
zoological lore, said one day to a novice, that crocodiles
were often seen in tears. " Oh, that's nothing,"
replied the novice ; " I've often myself seen whales'
blubber."
WHY THE CHINESE LOVE PORK.—The Chinese are
very fond of pork, or anything that causes oiliness in
man. A lean man forfeits something in their estima-
tion ; for they say "he must have foolishness : why
has he wanted wisdom to eat more ?"

" Why do you not thank God," said Mauser to an
Arab, " that since I have been your ruler, you have
never been afflicted with the plague ?" " God is too
just to send two scourges at once," was the reply ;
but it cost the speaker his life.
SHERIDA-N was persecuted by an elderly twaddler of
the fair sex. He escaped her by maintaining that the
weather was too bad to go out, and when she caught
him returning from a walk, and accused him of incon-
sistency, " It cleared up," he said, " enough for one,
but not for two."

LAWYERS are very critical, as I once heard a young
lawyer inquire, upon being informed of an attachment
between a young lady and gentleman, whether the
gentleman was the lover or the lovee. So an attorney
in Dublin wrote a challenge to a gentleman to meet
him " in the four acres, be the same more or less."
" So, there has been another rupture of Mounl
Vociferous !" said Mrs. Partington, as she put down
the paper and put on her specs. " The paper tells us
all about the burning lather running down the moun-
tain, but don't tell us how it was set fire to. There
are many people full wicked enough to do it ; and per-
haps it was caused by children playing with matches."
HIGH WORDS.—A fashionable lady in Buffalo once
said to a friend :—" My new house, now directing,' is
to be sublimated ' and splendiferous.' There is to
be a Porto Rico' in front, and Pizaro' in the rear—
a lemonade' all round it. The water is to come in at
the side of the house in an anecdote,' the lawn is to
be degraded,' and some large trees are to be' sup-
planted 'in the critic' in the rear.' " This is the
same lady who told Governor Clinton how remark-

ably stormy it is apt to be W'
the " Penobscot."
PROVERBS AT ROME.--If
your own, step aside instal
cardinal virtues exist because
dinals. Never get in the dal
after dark ; and if you must
in the middle of the road.
before you purchase it ; fla
virtue, are only discovered
Never look at those who wisi
a pretty woman never vita
cannot see through.
SMITH, the author of th'
was laid up with gout at the
A friend proposed a stroll in
exclaimed Smith, " look at I
replied his friend, " I wish I
but our host is out of the wa:,
does that make ?" inquired Si
to say," rejoined the friend,
the gout ! I thought you had
to escape being shown the buy
HOUSE IN THE MOON.—"'
the Calton-hill Observatory
moon, after having got a gl:
head to wipe his eyes, and
the telescope noiselessly fell
pointing to the heavens to
The rustic's surprise was u'
looked through, and beheld A
at a short distance, with the
" Edinburgh ale," &c. He
claimed, " Edinburgh ale in
us, that beats a' !"

THE LOVES OF THE SI'M
watch the terrible coquetry of
say terrible, for it is a peril(
gentlemen ; if he misinterpret
if his vanity, or the thong)
duces him to imagine that -
deeper than coquetry, she does
draw up her head and coo/
some mistake," but pounces
and slays him on the spot ! -
bility, it is wonderful to see h'
the gallant gay Lothario paYs
NAUTICAL SERMON.--Wh‘
fore the seamen of York, het
apostrophe in his sermon
a clear sky, and are makift
smooth sea, before a light
lose sight of land. But
lowering of the heavens, an'
from beneath the western
those flashes of lightning
ing ! Every seaman to 109
rise and dash against the ‘,.5t5
The tempest rages ! Our 0,7
is on her beam ends ! W 1102.;,
the unsuspecting tars, row'
the deep, as if struck by t'
and with united minds and
to the
MA long
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year 1848, I was staying w•101'
who, knowing I was fond °' e,
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