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Blackwood's Magazine. London : Blackwood's.
Having received this magazine so shortly before
our publication, we have been compelled to defer an
extended notice until next week. It contains an
able article on the recent defeat of the Ministry.

Dublin University Magazine. Liverpool: Orr.
We had marked for extract several passages in
the January number, but want of space has com-
pelled us to postpone their insertion.

The Protestant Magazine. London : Wertheim.
The number for January has a variety of interest-
ing articles on " Pope.", in the Legislature," the
late " Ministerial Defeat," " Cruelty of Popery,"
" The Priest and the Druggist," &c.

The Scottish Educational and Literary Journal,
London :
.Groombridge. _ _

Among the principal contents of the January
number are, " History in Secular Schools," " My
first School," the " Dignity and Importance of the
Teacher's Office," " Mathematical Questions and
Solutions," &c.

ARIETIES

WHAT is most likely to become a woman? A little girl.
WHEN is a ship in love? When it is attached to the boys.
WHEN is a horse not a horse ? When he is turned
into a field.

WHEN do many bets become singular ? When they

are won.

HE who wears a tight boot is likely to have a narrow
understanding.

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its second letter.

a. ..r& that sometimes begins with

WHAT letter is most valuable to a deaf woman ? A,
because it makes her hear.

Wnicn have you most, fathers or grandfathers ? Two
grandfathers and forefathers.
WHY are washerwomen foolish ? Because they expect
to catch soft water when it rains hard.
POETS seldom make good astronomers. They so lore
the women, they cannot see the other heavenly bodies.

DRAWING IT MILD.—An Irishman, in speaking of a
relative who was hung, says he died during a tight rope
performance.

THERE are times when none of us would be found at
home by any friend, if it were not for the fear of being
found out.

THERE are, by courtesy, no old maids in France.
Those who don't drown themselves adopt the title of
madame, and pass for widows.
RECIPROCITY.—John's wife and John were tRe-a-lEte ;
she witty was, industrious he ; says John " I've earned
the bread we've ate ; " and I," says she, " have urned
the tea."

" INDEED, you are very handsome," said a gentleman
to his mistress, " phoo, phoo," said she, so you'd say if
you didn't think so." "And so you'd think, he answered,
if I did not say so."

THE Pekin Visitor says : " Coming home a few
mornings since, we met a man attempting to walk on
both sides of the street. By a skilful manoeuvre we
passed between him."

Goon ADVICE.—Always do as the sun does, look at
the bright side of things. For while it is just as cheap, it
is three times as good for digestion. The melancholy man
don't even relish wedlock.

SAUCE FOR YANKEE SLAVE OWNERS.—Soyer has
become so imbued with the feeling of Uncle Tom's Cabin,
that he has invented a new sauce, which, out of respect to
Mrs. Stowe, he has christened " The Tom-Martyr."
A LADY renowned for repartee, and a gentleman noted
for tenacity to his own opinion, were overheard in deep
and earnest conversation. Says Mr. M. (waxing rather
warm), " Mrs. C., facts are stubborn things." Says Mrs.
C. to Mr. M., " Then what a fait you must be."
THE LUXURY OF WOE.—Dog Seller : That 'ere
hanimal's the real stock, mum, and dog cheap at five
pounds !—Young Widow : It's a sweet pretty darling—
black and white—but in my present bereavement
you
must procure me one entirely black ; this one will do in
about six months, for half-mourning.
POPULAR SIGNS.—A writer, speaking of " Public-
House Signs," says—" There are Marlboroughs, Aber-
crombies, and Wellingtons ; Duncans, Rodneys, and
Nelsons, by dozens. I have seen an admiral painted on
horseback somewhere : but I never saw Cromwell on an
alehouse sign yet." This is a singular and a significant
fact.

LUXURIOUS SHAVING.—A writer in Tait's Magazine
declares that Italy is the only place to experience a truly
luxurious shave. The young lady's operation is so pleasant
as she manipulates your chin with her soft hand immersed
in creamy lather, and her action is so fairy-like and grace-
ful, that one regrets the performance is so soon over, and
feels almost inclined to wish that, like Gargantus in Rabe-
lais, one had ten chins. The charming maiden, too,
beguiles your attention during the whole time by her
delicious converse : and only think of having your nose
pulled by a handsome dark-eyed girl—every glance teem-
ing with spiritual fire, and darting forth heart-slaughter.
We never wished to wear our beard in Italy.

ALEPPO BUTTONS.—But space fails me to describe hal
the incidents of our stay in Aleppo. There are two thing,
peculiar to the city, however, which I must not omi-
mentioning, One is the Aleppo button, a singular ulcer,
which attacks every person born in the city, and every
stranger who spends more than • a month there. It can
neither be prevented nor cured, and always lasts for a
year. The inhabitants almost invariably have it on the
face, either on the cheek, forehead, or tip of the nose,
where it often leaves an indelible and disfiguring scar.
Strangers, on the contrary, have it on one of the joints,
either the elbow, wrist, knee, or ancle. So strictly is its
visitation confined to the city proper, that, in none of the
neighbouring villages, or even in a distant suburb, is it
known. Physicians have vainly attempted to prevent it
3,y inoculation, and are at a loss to what cause to ascribe
it.—Tourney to Antioch and Aleppo.
AN AFFAIR OF HONOUR AT THE CAPE.—The follow-
ing circumstance is mentioned in the last received Graaf-
Reint Herald :—" On Sunday last a singular duel came
off in the outskirts of the town. Two young Fingoes, it
appears, had been quarrelling for a week, and at length
worked themselves up to such a pitch that they resolved
to fight it out. The combatants stripped, and arming
themselves with a neck-strop apiece, the battle com-
menced. A powerful Pingo, with a double waggon-whip,
acted as second, or bottle-hoPer,' to both parties, and
when he perceived either of them in the least degree
flagging, a judicious application of the doubled waggon-
whip was had recourse to. The fight lasted nearly three
quarters of an hour, at the end of which time one of the
lads was quite exhausted and gave in. Both of them were
covered with blood from head to foot, and it was evideat
they had received a wholesome lesson. The bottle-holder,
in reply to a question from the only white spectator, ob-
served that they would not quarrel again, and that this
was the Pingo method of putting a speedy end to all
quarrels."

CURIOSITIES IN TER BERLIN LIBRARY.—During my
sojourn at Berlin, I spent a morning in the library, and
was !Inch gratified by the examination of its principal
curiosities. Amongst them the Bible of Charles I. which
he bore with him to the scaffold, possesses to an English-
man great interest. It is a small volume, bound in black
leather, and bears evident signs of having been much used.
It was lying open, appropriately enough, at the 7th chapter
of Job, which commences, " Is there not an appointed
time to man upon earth ? are not his days also like the
days of an hireling? By the side of this interesting
relic, which should be in our national collection, lies
Luther's original manuscript translation of the Holy
Scriptures. Turning over the leaves, it was very apparent
from the vast number of corrections and alterations in the
mysterious Book of Job, as compared to the other books
of the Old Testament, that it was to Luther, as it has
been to many other learned divines, full of difficulties.
Some of the chapters present a tangled mass of additions,
erasures, and amendments, showing clearly that Lutler
was puzzled by the original. Another interesting MS. is
i Goethe's " Faust," which is very clear and legble—so
clear, indeed, and free from alterations, that I cannot
think it is the original draft of that immortal work.
Close. to thepe. literary curiosities is preserved Otto von
n Gueck's original air-exhausting apparatus, consisting of
two hemispheres, which when placed in juxta-position,
and the air exhausted between them, could not be detached
by the strength of thirty horses.—Correspondent of the
Literary Gazette.