The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-07 00:00:00

A FEW GOOD THINGS.

" You look," said an Irishman to a pale, haggard
smoker, " as if you had got out of your grave to light
your cigar, and couldn't find your way back again."
Mr. Barnum, in a recent temperance address, said
that he would give more for a drunkard who succeeded
in business, as a public curiosity, than for anything he
ever exhibited.

The less wit a man has, the less be knows he wants it.

Said one gentleman cf honour to another, "If you
don't accept my challenge, I shall post you in the papers."
" Go a head," said the other, " I had rather fill a dozen
papers than one coffin. "
Philosophers say that shutting the eyes makes the
sense cf hearing more acute. A wag suggests that this
accounts for the many closed eyes that are seen in our
churches every Sunday.
A man who married Mi3s Take, after having courted
Miss Lloyd, was told by a friend that it was reported
he was married to Miss Lloyd. "It was a Miss Take,
I assure you," he replied.
A young gentleman being pressed very hard in com-
pany to sing, even after he had solemnly assured them
ho could not, observed they intended to make a butt of
him. " No, my good sir," said Colman, "we only want
to get astave out of you."

The IVeto York Herald says it don't believe in the
water-cure, and gives as a reason: " There is Mr.
(naming a noted political editor), he has been lying in
his damp sheet for twenty years, and he's worse now
than ever."
A friend in South America writes that he is now
spending a month with a farmer who owns a thousand
miles of pasture, and a patch of corn larger than Scot-
land, while he has got so many cattle, that he has to
boil the fodder for them in a volcano.

The Romans placed the hearth next in sacredness to
the altar. They were always ready to do battle pro orris
et focis; "but imagine yourself, says Dr. 0. W. Holmes,
" rushing to battle for a hot air furnace, or making a
desperate stand with your back against a stove piper
There have been various definitions of" a gentleman,"
but the prettiest and most poetic is that given recently by
a fair American. " A gentleman," says she, " is a human
being, combining a woman's tenderness with a man's
courage."
A gentleman, it is said, had a board put up on a part
of his land, on which was written, " I will give this field
to any one who is really contented ;" and when an ap-
plicant came, he always said—" Are you contented ?"
the gentleman, " what do you want with my field?"
The general reply was, " I am." " Then," rejoined

HEALTHOF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.
(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
In the week that ended last Saturday the number of
deaths registered in London was 1,026, which is
nearly the same as in the previous week. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years 1842-51 tho average
was 903, which, if raised in proportion to increase of
population, becomes 993. Compared with the calcu-
lated amount, the mortality of last week exhibits an
excess of 33; and hence it appears that though, as was
shown in last return, the public health has improved
since March, it is not yet in so favourable a state as
might be expected at this period of the year.
In comparing the results of the last two weeks it will
be seen that there is again a slight increase in the deaths
referred to the principal pulmonary complaints, except
consumption, those caused by bronchitis having risen
from 71 to 86, those by pneumonia from 61 to 67, and
the total of this class from 172 to 187, while the corrected
average of the ten weeks corresponding to last is 145.
The zymetic class has also increased in the two weeks
from 204.
deaths to 232 (while the corrected average is
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last week 45 cases, and prevails considerably at present;
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STATE OF THE WEATHER DURING THE PAST WEEK.
SUNDAY.—The sky was generally one-half covered with
cloud till near noon, and clear during the remainder of the
day ; eumulostratus and cirrostratus.
MONDAY.—The sky was
clear throughout the day.
TUESDAY.—The sky was overcast throughout the day.
WEDNESDAY.—The sky was
the day; cinotratue.. begs to fall at 1;1. r.m.
covered with cloud throughout