Year: 1863




We extract the following interesting des-
cription of farm house scene in Iceland,
from a tour through that island by an Eng
lish traveller. The old man received us very
kindly ItYas morning, and he, with his
wife and servant, were already up, and brisk
as bees, and ready for long talk. l was
tired out and loDged for bed, but hardly lik-
ed to get in before them, yet Grimar had
just begun the Grimsey story, and that with
all his grievances, would last an hour at
least. | fairly fell asleep, with my head on the
table, and was aroused by Grimar, whorecom-
mended me to go to bed "But," said l,
"these good people are in the room" ooh,
don't mind US p said the priest F" Pray, go
to bed !" said his wife. "Do let me pull
your breeches off p volunteered the maid
1 started up at the proposal, fully reused,
and with flying leap buried myself under
the feather bed, then pulled off coat and
waistcoat; and curled myself up. "DOn't
English people undress themselves more than
that when they 60 to rest?" asked the priest,
who had been watching me gravely. He
has got his breechs on, said the wife. NTll
pull them off if he likes" chimed in the
maid with alacrity ''Never, never p I cried
in desperation. "Grimar save mew Poor
Ebenezer Henderson, the Bible Society del
egete The Icelanders still have a good
laugh over his dismay, when first the ladies
of the house insisted on dismantling of his
legs. This was according to etiquette in his
time, though now happily falling into disuse
In his book he tells the story of his wild
struggle to reserve his neither garments, but
he neglects to mention the compromise
which was effected, he coiling himself up in
the cOverlet and letting the ladies pull at the
strap buttons Henderson was very good
fellow, but he had no notion of a Joke, and
he only mentions the incident to fonnd on it
moral and pious reflections. Among them
selves it is still a common practice for the
women to peel the men after their days work.
but the Icelanders have learned that stran-
gers do not particularly relish this sort of at
tentlon, and they now seldom offer it.


THE pole attracts magnets, but our coun-
try attracts thousands of Poles.


IT is published as a curious fact that the
Boodhists have their praying done by ma
chinery But praying machines are com
mon everywhere.


As THE cat in the fable, when she was
turned to a fair maid, would play with mice,
so clown will be clown let his condition
be changed as it may. %


THERE are now in New York Bay nearly
twenty foreign vessels of war-representing
Russa, England and France They are all
fine vessels, although fashioned on a model
well nigh obsolete now.


WHAT is the difference between a mis-
chievous mouse and beautiful young lady?
One harms the cheese and the other charms
the he's. m


You can't make village or a parish or
family think alike, yet you may suppose that
you can make a world pinch its beliefs or
pad them to a single pattern.


Never own that your wife is right do it
once, and, on the very eonceit of it, she will
be always wrong the rest of her life.


A MAN in Bangor ran against post, and,
thinking that it shouldn't have been there,
sued the city and recovered S776,16.