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th. they would

./und ind would encircle
-it 608 time If we allow the
an average one cwt. (and that is, if

ilea of
dwell 608 times

Imangled, dis-
The calculation

ing when I state, that if the fore-fin-
of those 14,000,000,000 human beings
a straight line, they would reach more

Id that if a person

!oust the number, allowing 19 hours
o the week, and to number at the rate

t would employ that person 336 years;
ideration, that 3,500,000 pipes of human.

IL THE COURT OF MARIE ANTOINETTE.—
.Irtin, the celebrated marehande de modes,

_
seen, and made a total revolution in
aof the French ladies. The queen,
I very simple in her toilet, now made

t, and all the ladies of course

were led by it into great

aid ►nothr

any most disagreeable

ensions ensued in laud

;lamed for all this, as it was uni-

t a ruinous example to the ladies

Ty moment, and the

Eiji into such a pile of gauze,

that ladies could not sit up-

lean forward, or to

le others knelt on

, lest they should derange
f Our Own Times, Vo. 1,

are.—Hislory of

REGARDING SHAKSPEARE

—Th e

Society

ye just had put into

documents relating to

nily. They commence in the mid-
d come down to the death of the
:ecisively that John Shakspeare, the

his name. This point, some of our
bas been , dispiated of late years, but
iy established by several original war-
debtors, granted by John Shakspeare
and bailiff of Stratford-upon-Avon."
and witnessed to be " the mark" of

anted by the then bailiff

this last document bears
that the branch of the

at Stratford came from

e understand, fully con-

possessed some property
husband sold in 1579 to
le papers which relate to
ne dated in ]597, which
: quantity of malt in the

)rd, which shows that "
ward," had ten quarters in his
.1 on his own land and malted on

sse of the tithes of Strat-

to Lord

The quantity of land Shakspeare
ratford and Weicombe is precisely
akea hitherto bin committed on
A few of the papers are of a date
le poet, and refer to members of
sent up to London •ery rrcently
le use of the Shakspeare Society,
_ _

the I;nifstitSir F. Madden and
ken to superintend the accurate
ther documents connected with

st within the mem.

lv during the summer months,
mpletion. It was coin-
tons and linens in the
of Holland, and to
When cloth was

the autumr

round it occupied for such
table ; its exposed state
4 the means taken for its

VI LIIVIVU,
:apital punishments, led to a dangerous
is and spring-guns, and placed deadly
of unskilful and imprudent persons.
r the execution of a lad for robbing a
it is said to have been rather insufficient
rgotton. Sir William Meredith, in his
quency of capital punishment, gave a
which will not easily be forgotten, of
excited by his condemnation, of the
e a pardon. of its refusal on the ground
each-grounds had become a very coal-
s agonizing protestations of innocence
the multitudinous groan of the spec-
fulfilled its vengeance on its victim.
le a darker story, is told of the ancient
n extensive bleacher went to sea at an
[1 into distant lands, and for many
t his foot on British ground. His ship
------I ; he took his place on the coach,
in the morning,, and reached
His father's place was a few
ut he was too impatient to wait
)rning ; he set out on foot, and,
short cut to his paternal
There Dad been a robbery
lad's father was himself
zoing directly to

al his own son fell war-
cted a crowd ; the dying
,Iv ;—the veil must cover the
.pis story as we heard it, from
o said that he remembered the
a possible occurrence ; for our
a parallel catastrophe in another
C. Taylor's Hand Book of

LORD FERRERS.—He set out from the
idst crowds,—thousands. First went a
s ; then one of the sheriffs, in his chario
dressed with ribbons ; next Lord Fer-
t
dau and six, his coachman crying all the
- the other sheriff's carriage fol.
coach-and-six, a hearse, and
a, that the empty chariot was
3 was in the coach with the pri-
r, the French bookseller in the
'errers first talked on indifferent
prodigious confluence Buteple
on his side), he said,—" they
and perhaps will never see another. -
-nwn by his horse's leg entangling

a mourni
Obser

d Ferrero expressed much concern,
-e will be no death to-day but mine ;"
raillant made excuses to him on his
•ary," said the earl,
" I am much
ed the disagreeableness of the duty
your under sheriff. As you are so
urself, I am persuaded the dreadful
ucted with more expedition." The
who sat backwards, then thought it
)egan to talk on religion • but Lord
itiently. However the chaplain per-
ished to bring his lordship to some
igernent of contrition for a crime so
f God and man, and wished him to
er could be done in so short a time.
lad done every thing he proposed to
ind man ; and as to discourses on re-
" said he to the clergyman, " shall
that subject. The passage is very
r.! time to convince " me, nor Ito refute
before we arrive. The clergyman
• 1.,,ce the world would expect

th some imps-

I am going

has thought proper to
world thinks

confemlion, I will
re is a God. As to
them. I always

ish his notious

The chap

iwrould be

- decenc re-
--
evenscaffold,y and
Prayer there.

the Lot

a good prayer.

When they came to
inutes by the conflux
s opened, he stepp
ed
I: it was hungwith
,nense of his family.

Lit 11115 VA
r -invented stage, to be strucx
no kind of fear or discoropo-

at the gallows with a slight my..,"
said little, kneeled for a moment In
iave mercy upon lee, and forgive me
,iliately mounted the upper *tap.. fie
ith a black sash, and was unwilling to
• his lace covered, but was persuaded
Ire was out round his neck he turned
h!likmritenance instantly, and was but
Vine the coach to the signal Oven for