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• TRW WORDS ON lISIZS.

" Asa, it. W. win; la. was ; L, minas ; Fa. atia, for arms ; Aix.
611111 ; LT. PORT. IMO; IT. ark.. Qu. from GOTR. auto, ON.
oar, an ear."
Wairrsa's English Dislionary.

Ammolus had an ass that was so fond of poetry, that he pmferred
it even to food, PROVIES, Milo. 242.
Mearea first brought the eating of asses flesh into vogue, PLINY,
b. 8, c. 48.
Cardinal du Prat was also a great lover of asses flesh, bletaoser
c. 26,p, 166.
Sees fine passage in DUQALD STEWART'S Phi/00001400/ Essays,
p. 319, on the ass being an object eminently picturesque.
The Maltese asses are remarkable for strength and beauty : no less a
sum than 361. has been paid for one. See BOISCIELIN'S History

Asses about a great home, emblematical of those within. So nary
the learned Da. Prows in his Anasystitasa, p. 466.
PLUTARCH informs us (Lartaxostres traustadow, a. 6, p. 142,
ed. 1826,) that when the army of Artar.erzes, with which he had in.
vaded the Caduaii, was in citrons want of providoes, an ms's head
could hardly be bought for 60, drachms. See also 2. tiougs, e. 6,
v. 26.

LUCIAN (N. 2, p. 140 of Tooirs Tnntalafiors,) tells us, that the
roes-laurel, a species of wild laurel, is so pernicious to asses, that by
only tasting it they die on the spot.
Respecting the remarkable story told of Balsam's am, (Numbers,
e. See Bocnaae's Moron, v. 1, b. 2, c. 14, p. 160, and Ds.
Jew/lies celebrated Dissertations ; and for some curious observatiam
on Sampson's astonishing exploit with the jaw-bone of an ass, the reader
isreferred to BOCHART,II. 1. b. 2. c. 16. p. 171, and toJaconßaeatr
Observation Oft,Pangtfol Scripture.
The Para, or wild ass so beautifully described bprob, 39, v. 6,8,
is probably the onager of the ancient writers, see FsitrY, Nat. Hist.
b. 8, 689.
Appian, Plutarch, Diodoras Siculus, and Tacitus, have accused the
Jews of worshipping the ass. Josephus labours hard to prove this a ca.
lumny. Tanaquil Faber ss that this accusation proceeded from the
temple in Egypt being called onion, as if this name came from lassos,
an ass; whetru the temple onion, at Hellpolh, was named from osier,
the High Priest, who built it in the reign of Ptolemy Philomela and
Others have asserted that the Greeks, meaning to say that
6(2:Vey:yews adored homers, summon, might in abbreviation write
I amen ; from whence the enemies of the Jews concluded that they wor.
shipped elms, an ass ! Bochart sargys
thatielpiso in the Egyptian lan.
game signifies an ass, and that the ' ' continually hearing the
Jews pronounce Pi..lshowah, or Pi.Jee, ved'thst they appealed to
their god, and thence inferred that they worshipped an ass. All which
explications:are no less ingenious than unsatisfactory.
Then is a very interesting and philosophical romance, by Apu.
liens, to which this animal has given a title r from its greatpopularity
it has been called the Gorman Ass. There is a most exal., t and
spirited translation of it, enriched with copious explanatory and cvi.
Real notes by Mr. Thomas Taylor, the celebrated translator of Plato
' and Aristotle. John Price, a learned English Catholic, of the 17th
I century, wrote a commentary upon Apulieus, Bvo. 1660, the notes of
which are so long, that, whereas the text contains only 262 pages,
they take up 734 pages, and are printed in a smaller type. than that et
the text.

This romance has been most unaccountably pressed into the service
of christianity by Bishop Warburton, in his strange gallimaufry on the
Divine Legation of Mores.
Never has the eccentricity of the human mind been so clearly di..
played as in the feas4 which were formerly celebrated in honour of this
animal--the Feria itrinaria. The gross absurdities practised, under
the pretence of devotion, would surpass belief, were there not such in-
controvertible evidence to substantiate all the facts.

The Rev. Mr. Crowe wrote an ode to an ass; Mr. Coleridge has also
favored us with lines to a young ass ; and among the papers of the ts.
mous Toland, was found a psalm before sermon in praise of sanity.
The Rev. Mr. James Murray, of Newcastle, published a volume of
Serwsosss So Asses, replete with sarcastic irony and forcible resealing.
J. J. W.

Upon an equal space where one man subsists in Iceland,
three tree subsists in Norway, 14 in Sweden, 36 in Turkey, Li in Po.
land, 63 in Spain, 119 in Ireland, 114 in Switzerland, 127 in Germany.
152 in England, 153 in France, 172 in Italy, 192 in Naples, 224 In
Holland, and 1,193 inMalta!

The celebrated Ninon de l'Enclos is stated to have had, at
the age of 70, lovers who adored her: at that age she captivated the
heart of a Swedish Baron, and 80 made a cooquest of the Abbe Gedvyw,
a young Jesuit.
The following story, which Burton quotes from &lien, is
obviously the origin of one of our most popular nursery tales:—" Ro-
dophe was the fairest lady, in her days, in all Egypt ; she went to wash
her, and by chance (her maids*, mean while, looking but carelessly to
her clothes) an eagle stole away one of her shoes, and laid it in
tueticus, the King of Egypt's lap, at Memphis: he wondered at the ea.
ceiling of the shoe and pretty foot, but more motile foams, at the
manner of the bringing of it ; and caused, forthwith proclamation to be
made that she that owned that shoe should come prate* to his Court ;
the virgin came, and was forthwith married to the may
qf Melancholy, voL Li. p. 404.
The following is a history of the Statue of Queen Eliza-
beth, which was sold at St. Dunstan's Church for 161. 10s.--Geoffroy
of Monmouth, a monkish historian, tells us Led was a British King,
brother of Caseivelaua, whom Julius Cow conquered. Be repaired
the walls of Trinoventum, and changed the name of the city to Caer
Led, or Led's-town, which was in presses of time corruptaly called
London. The same fabulous author says.—" Bing Lud, about the
year of Canvas 6686,, built the western gate of the city, and called it
laud's-put. or Ludgate." This, however, (says Smith,) was, in the
year 1686, in so ruinous a state, that a new one was erected with the
statue of Queen Elizabeth on the west front, and Led, with his two
sons, oa the east. When the gates of the city were taken down, the
late Sir Francis Gosling obtained these statues from the city, with an
intention to set them up at the cast end Of St. Dunstan's Unuels, in
Fleet-street, where the said statue of Queen Elizabeth now stands; but
there being no place at that end of the church, where the ether three
figures could be conveniently placed, the Xing and his some were
deposited in the lane-house.

The Muscat wine of Montefias-cone is called Est Est,
from the following circumstance:—John Deloateris, a German, was so
fond of good wine, that when he travelled he always sent his valet
forward a post in advance, with these instructions :—" That he should
taste the wine at every place where he stopped, and write under the
bush the word ' Est,' if it was tolerable, and 4 iit, Est,' if it was eery
good; but where he found it indifferent, he should leave the bush in
statu quo." The bush is a bunch of evergreens,which is huag upover
the entrance to a vineyard, or a house, to show that wine is there sold.
and gave rise to the martian " Good wine needs no bush," as it was
supposed judges would soon find where it was to be had good, afterence
tasting, without a bush to remind them. Defoucria's valet arrived at
blonteilaucone' and approved so much of the wine that he wrote up, as
agreed, " Est, Est." His master soon followed, and gut dead drunk.
to his entire satisfaction; but, repeating the experiment too often, be
drunk himself dead: and his valet, a bit of a wag, wrote for him the
following epitaph :..
Prover nitnium " Eat Est,"
Dominus mews mortuus est.
Such is the turbid state of the waters of the Ganes in
the rainy season that there is calculated to paw down into the Bay of
Bengal at that time, In every two days, a mwof earth equal in siseand
wed tto the great pyramid of Egypt.
UNISHMENT OF THEFT.--I remember an officer who
died on shore from plague had with him a hundred rubles in • bag;
this hls servant stole; but he, too, caught the infection, and followed
his master; and after him seven men in succession, who purloined the
hundred rubles from one another, all fell victims to the disease ; and as
it was thought that some fatality attended the treasure, it was at last
thrown into the sea I—Aferander's Travels to the Fart.
In a book called " Levamen Infirmi," written in 1700,
the usual fees to physicians and surgeons at that time arc thus stated:
—" Toe graduate In physic, his due is about 101. though he commonly
expects or demands 20s. Those that are only licensed physicians, thei-
doe is no more than 6s. Bd. though they commonly demand 10s. rk
surgeon's fee is ltd. a mile, be his journey far or near; ten groats L.,
set a bone broke nr out of joint; and for letting of blood, Is.; the cu•-
ting-off or amputation of any limb is 51. but here is no settled price t:'
the cure."

BIRTHS.
The 12th Lust. the lady of S. B. Worms, Esq. at Habover.termee,
Regent's- park, of a son—The bth inst. at Portsmouth, the lady of
Capt. F. Wbinvates, of the Royal Rngineert., of a daughter.

MARRIED.
The 12th inst. at Henlow, Bedfordshire, W. J. Goodeve, of Clifton,
Esq. to Lady Frances Jetnima Erskine, eldest daughter of the late, and
sister to the present Earl of Mar. —At Chichester. on the 12th inst. the
Rev. C. Greene, vicar of Hampnett, to Elisa, eldest daughter of W.
Weiselin, Esq. of Northgate, Hants, in that city.
DIED.
The 9th inst. at Rateliffe.aors, Helen, youngest ter of Mr. le
C. &Boon' turn, in the 21st year of her age. y, at Harshen'.
Suffolk, in the •allt year of his age, U. 0. evreilksig. Req. dam lii of
the late Rev. H. aeckfts, rector of that parish..-21be 7th In at Adt-
km, Meier Okdoloneo, of the Illth Light lataatry..—Tb• bar. ld
Ma at at MarylaaAlaki, &ratted, N. Laby. lea 74"""
Tate 1101. at Cheohollt, &MN WM of Mr. A. IR*,
it stew. aged 14 Sib bet. at Ilovilliftilt*.
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