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pieces, and the simple, plaintive Tyrolean airs of old ;
still all went merry as a marriage bell. In seventeen
sixty-eight there appeared in the most fashionable cir-
cles of London a man, young, handsome, distinguished,
accomplished in manners, brilliant in conversation, the
bearer of a noble name, and the possessor of a princely
fortune. He dressed splendidly, played freely, lost
good humouredly, took to racing, cock-fighting,
masquerade-giving, and other fashionable amusements
of the time, with much kindess and spirit. He
speedily became the fashion himself, but did not oust
Angelica from her throne ; he reigned with her a twin-
planet. This was the Count Frederic de Horn, the
representative of a noble Swedish family, who had
been for some time expected in England. Whether
my poor, poor little Angelica really loved him ;
whether she was dazzled by his embroidery, his
diamond star, his glittering buckles, his green riband,
his title, his handsome face and specious tongue, will
never be known ; but she became speedily his bride.
For my part I think she was seized by one of those
short madnesses of frivolty to which all beautiful
women are subject. You know not why, they know
not why themselves, but they melt the pearl of their
happiness in vinegar, as the Egyptian queen did—she
in the wantonness of wealth ; they in the wasteful
extravagance of youth, the consciousness of beauty,
the impatience of control, and the momentary hatred
of wise counsel. Angelica Kauffmann was married
in January, seventeen hundred and sixty-eight, with
great state and splendour, to the Man of her choice.
Half London witnessed their union : rich were the
presents showered upon the bride, multifarious the
good wishes for the health and prosperity of the young
couple. And all went merry as a marriage bell—till
the bell rang out, first in vague rumours, then in more
accredited reports, at last in incontrovertible, miserable
truth. that another Count de Horn had arrived in
England to expose and punish an impostor and swindler
who had robbed him of his property and his name—
till it was discovered that Angelica Kauffman had
married the man so sought—a low-born cut-purse,
the footman of the Count ! Poor Angelica, indeed !
This bell tolled the knell of her happiness on earth.
The fraudulent marriage was annulled as fast as possi-
ble, by a deed of separation, dated the 10th day of
February, seventeen hundred and sixty-eight ; a small
annuity was secured to the wretched impostor, on con-
dition that he should quit England and not return
thereto. He took his money and went abroad. Even-
tually he died in obscurity.—Dickens's Household
Words.
TREATMENT OF THE DEAD IN NEW ZEALAND.---
When death occurs, general lamentations take place
amongst the nearest relations, who make deep incisions
in their own bodies with broken pieces of shells. The
mourners either stand in an upright posture, throwing
their arms backwards, and keeping them in a trem-
bling motion, or they squat down, enveloping their
heads in the mats. These violent expressions of affec-
tion, the streaming tears, and the unbounded show of
grief at the decease of the renowned warrior, or of a
friend or relation, have something poetical and strik-
ing in their primitive simplicity. The old bedaub
themselves with red pigment, and cover their heads
with wreaths of green leaves. The house in which the
death took place becomes saered until the period of
the cleaning and ultimate burial of the bones, which
is not at any fixed time, but generally takes place dur-
ing the first year, when the flesh is sufficiently decom-
posed. All the clothes and utensils of the deceased
are either left in the house which he inhabited, or are
buried with him. The body is placed in a sort of a
canoe-shaped coffin, among the foliage of a tree iu a
grove, where it remains for several months. It is then
taken down ; the bones are washed and cleaned, and
finally deposited in a small covered box, which is some-
times carved, and resembles a canoe ; it is elevated
above ground, on a column standing in the village, in
the neighbourhood of the houses of the surviving re-
lations. Sometimes the bones are placed in a hollow
tree, in some secret spot of the wood, or in a limestone
cavern, of which there are many in the island, or in
some chasm of the rocks difficult of access. If the
man was of great consequence, such us an hereditary
chief, a mausoleum of exquisite carved work is erected
in the centre of the village, into which the body is
brought in a sitting posture, dressed in the best mats
of the deceased, and ornamented with feathers. The
human figures on the monument are generally meant
to represent him in whose memory it is erected, hii

wife, children, and ancestors ; and all the figures
are designated with their names. The putting forth
the tongue to an enormous extent in these carvings is
the symbol of valour, courage, and defiance, and is
found in almost all the native sculptures.---Dieffen-
back's li-eivels in New Zealand.
ASTONISHING ACCURACY OF THE BIBLE.---An
astonishing feature of the Word of God is, that, not-
withstanding the time at which its compositions were
written, and the multitudes of the topics to which
it alludes, there is not one physical error---not one
assertion or allusion disproved by the progress of
modern science. None of those mistakes which the
science of each succeeding age discovered in the books
of the preceding ; above all, none of those absurdities
which modern astronomy indicates in such great num-
bers in the writings of the ancients ; in their sacred
codes, in their philosophy, and even in the finest pages
of the fathers of the Church---not one of these errors
is to be found in any of our sacred books. Nothing
there will ever contradict that which, after so many
ages, the investigations of the learned world have
been able to reveal to us on the state of our globe, or
on that of the heavens. Peruse with care our Scrip-
tures, from one end to the other, to find there such
spots ; and, whilst you apply yourselves to this exami-
nation, remember that it is a book which speaks of
everything, which describes nature, which recites its
creation, which tells us of the water, of the atmosphere,
of the mountains, of the animals, and of the plants.
It is a book which teaches us the first revolutions of
the world, and which also foretels its last. It recounts
them in the circumstantial language of history, it
extols them in the sublimest strains of poetry, and
it chants them in the charm of glowing song. It is a
book which is full of oriental rapture, elevation, variety,
and boldness. It is a book which speaks of the
heavenly and invisible world, whilst it also speaks of
the earth, and things visible. It is a book which
nearly fifty writers, of every degree of cultivation, of
every state, of every condition, and living through
the course of fifteen hundred years, have concurred
to make. It is a book which was written in the centre
of Asia, in the sands of Arabia and in the deserts of
Judah—in the court of the templerof the. Jews---in
the music schools of the prophets of Bethel and
Jericho---in the sumptuous palaces of Babylon, and on
the idolatrous banks of Chebar---and, finally, in the
centre of the western civilisation, in the midst of the
Jews and their ignorance, in the midst of polytheism
and its idols, as also in the bosom of pantheism and
its sad philosophy. It is a book whose first writer had
been Forty years a pupil of the, magicians of Egypt, in
whose opinion the sun, the stars, and the elements
were endowed with intelligence, re-acted on the ele-
ments, and governed the world by a perpetual allu-
vium. It is a book whose first writer preceded, by
more than nine hundred years, the most ancient philo-
sophers of ancient Greece and Asia—the Thaleses, and
the Pythagorases, the Zalucases, the Xenophons, and
the Confuciuses. It is a book which carries its nar-
rations even to the hierarchies of angels---even to the
most distant epoch of the future, and the glorious
scenes of the last day. Well, search among its 50
authors, search among its 66 books, its 1,189 chapters,
and its 31,173 verses---search for only one of those
thousand errors which the ancients and the moderns
commit when they speak of the heavens or of the earth,
of their revolutions, of the elementssearch, but you
will find none.—From the German of Gaussen.

THE HABITS AND CUSTOMS OF ROMAN LADIES.--
The habits, employments, and even amusements of the
Roman matrons, of the highest as well as the lowest
grades, had originally been of the simplest kind.
Livy describes Lucretia as sitting in the midst of her
maidens, busily engaged with her spindle, when she
was surprised at a late hour of the night by the
appearance of her husband and his friends. Juvenal
reminds the ladies of the empire that the matrons of
the olden time had hardened their delicate hands with
spinning, weaving, and carding wool. In his day, the
only spinning-women, he mournfully observes, are-the
lowest poor, who earn a scanty subsistence under the
shelter of the ramparts. Women had thrown aside
the housewife's distaff for the dumb-bells, the boxing-
gloves, and the foils. Some noble ladies, it is true,
condescended to superintend their households ; they
carefully noted the domestic expenses of the day in a
private diary, kept a vigilant watch over the steward
and the eook, and sentenced every offending servant
to thO IDA of the flagellator, At her toilet the patri-

cian dame, sitting befo:
generally provided with
which she applied over
trembling tire-women,
awry. She practised sin
lyre, while her slaves, bi
petty fault, writhing undk
tor, and their cries and
discordantly together. B.
wine, as an intoxicating
dangerous excesses, was
and in the first days of th
ite draught of the Roman
succeeded by a medium be'
was extracted from raisil
at household merry-making
Ultimately the senate er
moderate indulgence of th(
past their thirtieth year ;
the wine was partaken of
claiming that venerable
verted into abuse ; and Ro:
by the spiteful Juvenal of
Falernian. A flagon of d
small measure for one 0!
frequently a second pint •
her thirst, but to give a L
appetite, that she might
decided relish. While th(
sally tainted with effeminac
great Pompey recoiled fro:
with his finger, for fear
women delighted in in:
Fencing was an ordinary
ing fashionable ladies of t, 4ll'
sheathed in half-armour, aeu 5 Yr/ ts,
heads, and gauntlets drawn tit,;? I
hands, they received every niniielVtil 4'cieth
practical gladiator, who taught Oleo 1„lq(
lounge, and all other postures .4]
Before them stood a plastron, orol floc! 101 l 3'04 44
was the object of their hostility, reseltliid kio
their daily lesson was finished,' g„th ofere
than the body of Caesar. At lea:are/0 Olt Pi., tar
the the sword, and, weary and jaeleoed
ing forms a woollen cloak, Cojoirg;fool
retired exhausted to their b°,.ic
not always confine these athlete t/tjg,;,t,ell I Othl
practice-room. After a carer' crd rtofe. , Erg
• 09 tit`
their appearance in public, inre,
oftll ~0
tre, as competitors for, the Prioil'f014:10(1./a i av
`l,Ar, or even with
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proportion that r
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liberal with
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their water P.... qu'erall•`¢t!~~
in England is ger joie,
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finger
give
you-glass ? How is it, that 3' 44 fOr:01
and-f"ort one knife and fork to do cliwposivitOti
of joint,y dishes, consistino• of e'rerive9 tili'
cabbage. game, pastry, friiit, preset ii,,,,t
age. If this is the cleauli.netc,.. trio
systemi of domestic economy practls.e.cin i
their best hotels, where everYol Will'fi
criticism of srangers, we trembJe I 0 t otiitit
he state of cleanliness, and w" • P
awful destitutionootil'
of domestic eco ,d
them in • lt l'ii
in their own homes • ail'
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machines. This is quite characteristi ore I i
people like the American., h ttach° dife'
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to the power theili'
the European of the balance among .114
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opening erf ii,
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GERMAN DOMESTIC ECOSIr giceti,"e 1, thiLl
in the German hotels they vec' tot .ts qt
than one towel P How Is it, els, ettlit cit
liberal with their water P-• -the aette..l' '11c)),4,
proportion that in Englan thatat 144
finger-glass ? How is it, do osi!',o;
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