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Nes a,eigners, from time to time, placed their lan-
etha, °Ur disposal; and we chose rather to borrow
el'ertsle:listri. let, and consequently made but few
Boole „„runie and unite several terms together, as
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uulner of the Germanic tribes. Anglo-Saxon
it ig haroj'y'Vrl,, very simple and original form, and
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ior scientific purposes. For example,
word o`"' better for us to go to the Greek for the
S4otlel4', than to try to make a term out of
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strattieershsi". we Could construct; but then, who would
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tit'„ or the epithet sauerste, literally " sour
of ex/%41,1' matter ;" but we have an impression
its 1104 in is a better name. The Saxon portion
si' a dialect of German in a good deal of
of thher ,Felicityl ; but being a tongue formed in
such e People tot fully understood by a large part
1411' blaby 0,110 use it. It is an importation, and as_
littl ce, he terms are unsuitable to our land
cokee through of our countrymen has travelled a
he 8 110/4 "enilally, Sweden, or Norway, he
l_ set e,a better Englishman than he was when
111(411'4' because are er ton he has been to the birth-place of
weraet ne• Such words as berg, burgh, dtc.,
e fori4tieard but seen in the scenery where they
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of the uPDer trlcthE.—The most celebrated part
whie,e seeder Mississippi, as well for the beauty
is attach to as for the romantic Indian legends
rir "4'4 p c). InanY of the most striking objects in
el', epin
firer), is properly an expansion of thed
Per-I'4e ioleging four or five miles in width, an
teeePtible, rgth• The current however is barely
foriVlate 1„„ 1104 the right, lofty calcareous cliffs
ab The La Pe They are generally pyramidal in
ofth,°•lit 350 feet •r•aag, e cliff at the entrance of the lake
pro-ls, the Maidlll. height • and a remarkable instance
Jectim, •
risni fro Intolan Rock " is a lofty promontory
80 cane in it to upon the north-east side, and.
fl'oma e(' beeatiße elevation of about 400 feet. It is
Virr„ Lae topof • Indian damsel precipitated herself
4etra---for ti,, It, like any civilised young lady.
txlBt sentiment Was her name—was incited to this
aft if, ja the form which it has been supposed only
ei),-,1,. Re -11', of a temporary insanity in refined
the-r4ble bry 8,'.::!r5" is
•considered, therefore, very
whitr4latitio inclians, • who have handed down
es. 8h ale ; but it is common enough among
inter
°lll lltet:, was in love with rather a fast young
theyhunter to obtainth no means of his own, and no
Btiftre, anything, and of whom the parents
reify lithelitucl not approve as a match, more partieu-
ioe4 th:ll,utexceptionable " partie " offered him-
estai,,,tae, lodge"ape of a warrior with a very good
very
nlett well garnishedwith scalps, and an
tiohn t feet_ generally which no young lvoman_oif.
for',1101„"g* would have dreamt of refusing. W
go :he pe,esvie,r, seems to have been badly brought up,
him far sled in her obstinacy. She certainly did
hiTatittoreaositt: flirt a little with the warrior, and chose
Lot la than was quite correct, if she did not
lkee his sh "'lig, as her partner at scalp-dances ;
!liePeitg,
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'fliv.r. be a„'. ,a,PPearances in society : her heart could
(' w,:kner's, &C.,
whole
r'.claite absurd of Winona to put the
&c. At last her mamma said
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to ,'S frok-nnvenience, and prevent hehrer
ti,s,"eing settled in life through 3cl)aupnrgiceer,
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e bes't`l_th trouble
I:tm.,ll?d a society on herw account ; so she read her
abje Curtain-lecture to that effect, and that
bloe 7410,4,1flividual took the opportunity of inform-
h-;elar One day, when they went to get some
oar b, kat4sed as a pigment, upon the shores of Lake
rlor she must marry forthwith the obnoxious
evia .
0 gem v Inona looked submissive, but she was
Eoie 43 a determined little vixen at bottom, for she
mqati- a 37 up the cliff, from the top of which she
teProa6lehleicl, her parents and some of her relations, in
spite 41. and even disrespectful terms, and then in
ki, o,t, their appeals " to return and all would be for-
hiFn, f!he precipitated herself headlong among them.
for-
she Bald that the young gentleman for whose sake
4, thus terminated her existence appeared
,Tet, onsolate at the time ; but this doub t
futterly
,
eoL..4ough no very distinct traces of him have been dis-
Yeredi he is supposed to have found Consolation in

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the orthodox way, and to have married an heiress.—
Blackwood's Magazine.

A DELICATE DOMESTIC GRIEVANCE.--A. B. is a
married lady ; age not given. Has been married five
years. Her husband has been in the habit, during
that time, of giving dinner parties, to strengthen, as
he says, his professional connexions. Doesn't believe,
for her part, that they ever did any good, and thinks
balls much more likely. (Here the witness began to
wander, and was brought back with difficulty to the
matter of investigation.) During the whole of her
married life has been compelled to carve at table in
consequence of Mr. B.'s deplorable ignorance. Is in
delicate health, and is advised by her medical attend-
ant to breakfast in her own apartment ; but is com-
pelled to descend every morning to protect the sym-
metery' of the ham from his all-maiming hands. Mr.
B. is considered a well-informed man, but cannot
carve a fowl. Took what they call honours, she be-
lieves, at college, but don't know the difference
between a mayonnaise and a marinade. Is of opinion
that the government ought to do something in the
matter, and is certain that the evil is of wide growth.
C. D. is a young gentleman, aged twenty-four. Goes
to dinner-parties sometimes, but oftener to balls. Can
carve, of course. Has done so frequently. Don't
mean to say he •is a good carver. (This witness gave
his evidence with considerable hesitation.) Can carve
fowls at supper. Of course he can ; he's sure he can ;
has done so hundreds of times. Admits that they had
been previously cut up and tied together with white
satin ribbon. Well, then, carved them in fact by un-
tying a ribbon. Has offered at a dinner party to re-
lieve the hostess of a partridge. Hasn't done so
often. On her declining, upon the plea of not wishing
to trouble him, has not repeated the offer. Doesn't
think he was bound to have done so. Can help pota-
toes, of course, but admits doubts about asparagus.
Would use a spoon for both purposes. Thinks carving
a bore, and ought always to be done at a sideboard.
(Here the witness became so restless, that any further
examination was found impracticable.) In order to
remedy the deplorable state of social ignorance
evinced by these and other equally distressing cases,
it is proposed that a carver's college, supported by
donations and annual subscriptions, be founded in a
central situation, and select classes for the instruction
of adult pupils.—Dickens's Household Words.

TOWN AND COUNTRY BnED.—Constantly, by poets
and romance writers, do we find the " pale student"
referred to as the type of perfection ; in reality he is
an exceedingly poor creature, weak in body and diseased
in mind, and dares not venture to " swagger with a
Barbary hen." Send him to the country, and instead
of betaking himself to manly athletic exercises, he
keeps poling about ditches for weeds, which he digni-
fies with a name as long as your arm, or hunts the
pools on the sea shore, for infinitessimally minute
molucs, or knocks dqwn and impales butterflies on pins,
or is guilty of the atrocious meanness of abstracting
eggs from the nests of the singing birds during the
absence of the mothers. He writes verses too, and
never in the whole course of your existence did you see
such pitiful stuff. There is not in them, from begin-
ning to end, a single manly, brave, or spirited idea.
They consist of what he calls reflections on his moods
of mind ; and as you read you are filled with amaze-
ment that any human being can be at once so silly,
conceited, and depraved. Not so the youth whose
energies, physical and mental, have been developed by
early athletic exercises. At the university he works
like a tiger, with the more success and the greater
power of work, because the body and brain are healthy,
and he has no affections of the nerves. Down he goes,
when vacation arrives, to the hall or grange, with me-
rited honours ; and, a week after, you may see him
following the hounds in all the glory of pink, or stork-
ing the red deer up the mountain corrie, or waist deep
in the rushing river, with a twenty-pound salmon on
his line. Such are the sports which have made the
British gentleman what he is, and we should regard
their abandonment as little short of a national mis-
fortune.---Blackwood's Magazine.
DUELLING AMONG FEMALES.---As the -Helen of
Homer was the chief cause of the Trojan war, and of
consequenceresponsible for the duels between itsheroes ;
as the Roman maids and matrons went in throngs to
witness the fights of the gladiators ; as the women of
Greece were competitors for the prize in the Olympic
games; as the Turkish ladies crowded upon the ram-

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parts of Regal to witness the combats between Smith
and their own champions; as the wives and daughters of
Denmark were once compelled by custom personally to
revenge their wrongs, and fight, according to prescribed
rules, those of the other sex who assailed their honour;
as the high-born dames and maidens of all Europe, in
the ages of chivalry, instigated and honoured the
tournament and the joust, so have the women of France,
and England, and America given countenance to the
modern duel. In. the time of Henry the Fourth of
France, relates Lord Herbert, the English ambassador,
the ladies of the French court,- at a mask under the
auspices of the Queen, invited the attentions of a
duellist who had slain eight or nine adversaries, and
each one of them, anxious to enjoy his society, would
not allow any lady to engross more than a certain
share of his time— And in the reign of another Bour-
bon, we are told of countesses contending with pistols
for the possession of a courtier whose amours and
affairs of honour were so numerous as to excite our
astonishment. In England, Elizabeth created Mary,
the high-toned wife of Sir Hugh Cholmondely, a knight,
and she was known throughout the realm as the "Bold
Lady of Cheshire." The queen herself possessed a
most chivalrous spirit. When the negociations for a
matrimonial alliance between her and the Archduke
Charles were finally broken off by his marriage to a
princess of Austria, the imperial daughter of Henry is
said to have exclaimed that, "So great an insult had
been offered to her, that, if she was a man instead of a
woman, she would have defied him to single combat!"
—Sabine's Notes on Duels and Dielling.

A MAN-EATING HORSE.—I was driving in a buggy
one morning through one of the finest streets of
Lucknow. A friend accompanied me ; and we were
proceeding from the vicinity of the Goomty to one of
the king's palaces. The deserted condition of the
streets as we advanced surprised us. There was no
inhabitant to be seen for a considerable distance, and
where one was visible, he or she was hurriedly de-
parting from the broad line of road on which I drove.
" Some execution," we whispered to each other ;
" some fresh example, nothing more." At length, in
the middle of the road, we came upon a trampled
bloody mass, bearing still some resemblance to a
human figure. We stopped the buggy to inspect it.
It was the corpse of a poor native female, but terribly
disfigured. The body was bruised and lacerated in all
directions, and the scanty drapery torn from the form.
Apparently she was quite dead, but we did not delay.
On we went ; still no sign of inhabitants ; the houses
everywhere closed ; breathless terror reigning on all
sides. It was not long before we came upon the
figure of a youth,. similarly mangled and destroyed,
lying also in the road—more towards the side, how-
ever. On the top of an adjoining house we saw one
of the King's trooper's standing, looking intently up
the road along which we were advancing. " What is
the matter ?" I asked. " The man-eater is loose,"
was the reply ; " wallah ! but he has turned again.
Look out for your safety, sahibs ; he is wild to-day."
I had heard of a savage horse belonging to one of the
King's troopers that went by this name, " Admee
kana wallah," the man-eater, because he had been the
destruction of many men. " He's coming," shouted
the trooper from the house-top ; " take care ! take
care !" Far along the road in front of us we could
see the wild brute—a large bay white horse he was, as
we afterwards found—shaking a child whom he had
seized, as he held it in his mouth; shaking it savagely,
but evidently coming towards us. In another mo-
ment he had seen the vehicle, threw the child upon
the road, dead, no doubt, and rushed forward with
savage fury to attack us. There was still a consider-
able space to be passed by him; but not a moment was
lost. We turned rapidly round, our horse, almost un-
manageable from terror, flying over the ground ; and
away we went in a mad gallop down towards an en-
closure with iron gates that we had passed a short
time before. The man-eater pursued with hearty
good will. We could hear his iron hoofs clattering
over the road as he advanced. We gained the en-
closure—turned into it—my companion leaped from
the buggy and shut the gate. The whole was the
action of a moment. It fortunately shut with a heavy
bolt into a socket, and just as the fall of the bolt se-
cured our safety, the man-eater came tramping up.
His head was covered with blood ; his jaws steaming
with recent slaughter ; his cheeks horrid with coagu-
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victims. There he stood, looking savagely after us
through the iron railings, with distended nostrils
and glaring eyeballs—altogether as ferocious-looking
a monster as any wild beast. Our horse trembled
at the sound of his impatient snorting—trembled as if
shivering with cold.-114 Travels, by Capt. Chamier.
AN ORATOR.---The following is the peroration of a
grand effort made by a stump speaker desirous of
representing his fellow-citizens in Congress. It is
grand, lofty, stupendous : " Time is critical,
blood's goin' to be poured out like soap-suds
outen a wash tub, and every man that's
got a soul as big as the white of a nigger's eye
'll fite, bleed, and die for his country. Them's the
times—you want men in the councils of the nation
that you can depend on---that's me ! Elect me to
Congress, and I'll stick to you through thick and thin
like a lean stick to a nigger's,. skin ! I'm not
goin' to make a electioneerin' speech. I'd scorn the
act. You know me---I've been fotched up among ye ;
already upon the wings of toplifted imagination, I
fancy I see you marchin' up to the polls in solid pha-
lanx, and with shouts that make the ear ring, ' hurrah
for Jim Smith ' come down on my opponent like a
thousand o'brick on a rotten pumpkin."
THE BURNING OF OLD DRURY-LANE THEATRE.--•
Accounts as to the origin of the fire vary. The day,
the 24th of February, 1809, was a Friday in Lent,
when there was no performance. The fire was dis-
covered about eleven o'clock at night ; in ten minutes
it extended from the front lobby—to which one ac-
count states that it was at first confined—to the
boxes ; and in one quarter of an hour from the first
discovery, it had extended over the whole house. In
another quarter of an hour the Apollo at the top fell
into the pit, and very soon after the roof fell in. In
about four hours from the first, the whole was de-
stroyed. This extraordinary rapidity of destruction
might afford a very useful lesson—one which was
attended to in the subsequent building, more than it
has been in still later theatres. There was, we should
state, an unfortunate system of construction in the case
of Holland's theatre. Under the idea of advantage as re-
gards sound, the skeleton of the fabric was made more
essentially a matter of carpenter's work, even than was
usual at the time. The complete framework, indeed,
was' all fmished, and stood for some considerable period
before the spaces were filled with brickwork. One
story tells how, that during the time of the fire, Mr.
Sheridan was discovered in one of the taverns hard
by, calmly enjoying a pint of wine. A friend dis-
covering him, expressed surprise that he could sit
there under the circumstances. Sheridan replied,
" What ! cannot a man take his glass of wine by his
own fireside ?" This 'story, in most of the lives of
Sheridari, is denied, and on the ground that when the
news of the fire reached the House of Commons,
Sheridan was there, and was able. to observe, on the
motion for adjournment, that "whatever might be the
extent of his private calamity, he hoped it would not
be suffered to interfere with the public busineis of the
country." That it would appear quite certain that
Sheridan remained at his post, and that different
anecdotes are therefore disposed of, would, however
seem to be not the necessary inference, since other
accounts say that the House did adjourn, many of the
members going towards the theatre. The fire oc-
curred five months after that at Covent-garden.—
Builder.

SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S GENEROSITY.—His generosity
and‘charity had no bounds, and he used to remark,
that they who gave away nothing till they died never
gave at all. Though his wealth had become consider-
able by a prudent economy, yet he had always a con-
tempt for money, and he spent a considerable portion
of his income in relieving the poor, in assisting his
relations, and in encouraging ingenuity and learning.
He was scrupulously exact and regular in all matters
of business ; and though he disregarded money, allow-
ing his rents often to remain unpaid, he had a deep
sense of justice, and was very strict in demanding
from his tenants at Woolsthorpe, even in very small
matters, a rigorous performance of their obligations.
His conduct, however, was not always influenced by
this principle. When he had been imposed upon in pur-
chasing an estate at Baydon, in Wiltshire, for which
he had paid double its value, and was told that "he
might vacate the bargain in equity," he replied, " that
he would not for the sake of £2,000 go into West-
minster Hall to tell that he had been made a fool of."