... garments. Twice every year a huge hamper arrives from Glas- gow, stuffed with all the little luxuries of house keep- ing-tea, sugar, coffee, andthe like. At more freeuent intervals comes a ten-gallon cask from Greenock, whose contents can cunningly draw the ...

... SCRAP-BOOK COLUMN. BrnDAL BATH AMONG THE SYRIAN HIAUT TON, A bridal bath is announced a fortnight iseforeharwi, as a ball is in Europe. A lady who is invited to one of these entertainments has revealed as many of the secret rites attending it as I suppose ...

... reptiles, which they scrupulously avoid in- juring, under an apprehension of experiencing retalia- tion, either from that identical reptile or from some other of its species, at a future time. The only ser- pent which I saw was a small one, between three and ...

... breed from. They would be laughedl at at Woodbridge fair. I could not help wonderi,, why the paternal government, if it must intsrfer@ does not take the trouble of obtaining the beeb horses. A few Suffolk chesnuts, such as might 1be bought for from three ...

... tr i bishop of Valentia, and Archbishop of 3!Ye'3 From his humble cell, from his ascetic bsard frie his girdle of rope and woollen frock rsnewel Vuri., and baked occasionally to destroy the vermin seedia its holy filth, this poverty-vowed mendicant became ...

... de Monsigny, commandant of artillery at the Basnile, lodged near it. Mademoiselle de Monsigny learned from the dit- charge of the cannon, and from rumours in the street, that her father's life was in danger. She ran out, her hair loose, her dress in ...

... art, ingenuity in enjoyment. What is the main lesson which, as far as we seek any in our classical reading, we gather from our youth from ancient history P Surely this-that simplicity of life, of language, and of manners, give strength to a nation; and that ...

... against the box, audito thou astonishment a stifled voice from the box exelaimell -Have we arrived?' As may he supposed, the boxes were broken open in a moment, and there were the poor men so stiff from the cramped position they had been in for the last four ...

... printing-press; he does not knoo- that he is a part of the chain through which the galvanic spark of thought flies from man to man-from London to the poles. He sets up Humboldt's Cosmos without knowing a word that is in it, and when the nimble fegers ...

... They are probably the only people it the world who do not use Staffordshire ware, asd have not the willaw-pattern plate among therm.- Th'iesgh le oresy soith a Ieopsack. SYr5AN HonSEiEN.-Our escort, fresh from, the night's rest, broke out into a series ...

... the ?? gone to sleep! The cream gone to sleep ! What in the world could that mean? Such a propensity we had never discovered in cream before; we could gain no solution of the mystery from Tom; all he said was, that we must go on churning till it waked ...

... TiE SCRAP-BOOK COLUTfN. RED Txrs-SCm Evrr.vp-t- Fau5.-The Tpares- ji of putting one man in a post of trust, and another as a check on him, is, afte all onl. Or r, tape system in a less disguised forum, The ( -os sn of Simoda has a duplicate in Yedo who ...