... PRovIsIoNs FoR ACTIto SAILORS.-A few days ago a at large cask of buiscuit was opened, and a living mouse dis- RI covered therein ! it was small, but mature in years. The or cask, a strong watertight one, was packed on shore at th Aberdeen in June, 1857, and remained ever afterwards in unopened;* there witas no hole by which the mouse could in have got in or out, besides it is the only one ever ...

... ipickfu2% from, , Vc I Iipulleb.7 TnE UNPROTECTED FEM1ALES DBESBT FAEND.'- Sir O- Cresswell.: THE MOST DIFFICULT QUESTION OF: ALL.-e ho'S your Friend? THE. BEST SETTLEMENT FOR A RICHl Wirn] WHO ELOPES. -A Penal One. SIMPLE, BUT AORICULTURAL.-Q. What is the best time for sowing tares? A, When the landlord goes round and collects his rents. ADVICE TO BACHELORS.-Eat cold pudding to settle your ...

... II _ I FRIENDLY SOOIETIMS.-So far as the great majority of these societies are concerned, there is, strictly speking, nothing friendly about them at all, except a very, pro- per and natural friendliness for the cherished individusl vulgarly known as. Number One, and a strong desire to promote the welfare of himself and family. The society, as a body, stands to the individual members ...

... - LIVE BRAVELY. The world is half darkened with croakers Whose burdens are weighing them down; They croak of their stars and ill-usage, And grope in the ditch for a crown. Why talk to the wind of thy fortune, Or clutch at distinction and gold I If thou canst not reach high on the ladder, Thou canst steady its base by thy hold. For the flower thou hid in the corner Will as faultlessly finish ...

... OXFORD.-Here and there a don is doing his work like a man; the rest are either washing their hands of the dc business, and spending their time in looking after those fri who don't want looking after, and cramming those who of would be better without the cramming, or else standing q by, cap in hand, and shouting, Oh young men of large Ot fortune and great connexions ! you future dispensers of ...

... WHEN 1S A MAN's BcLOOD UP ?-Ah ! it is the pale l passions that are the fiercest-it is the violence of the chill that gives the measure of the fever ! The fighting. l boy of our school always turned white when be went out to a pitched battle with the bully of some neighbouring village; but we knew what his bloodless cheeks meant- the blood was all in his stout heart. He was a slight boy, and ...

... _~ ?? I THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN. (From AAU the Yea' Round.) Across the dull and brooding night A giant flies, with demon light And breath of wreathing smoke; Around him whirls the reeling plain, And, with a dash of grim disdain, He cleaves the sundered rock. In lonely swamps the low wind stirs The belt of blaok funereal firs, That murmur to the sky, Till, startled by his mad career, They seem to ...

... |- - Vidftung from 413untb. Fo'& PLAT.-Ohicken Hazard. P Sparkles being asked why Rromish priests were called 11 Father oonfosora, ropliud, beeuso they formed a part of the Papa-ny. THE SENTIMENT OF COLOUP.-French white is all very well as a water-colour, but we must not have the Mediter- ranean converted into a French lakc. The singing of a kettle in one respect resemrbles' the singing of ...

... j~fcf~ftr~f . r vtnjCPDO : ' CaosszS;D I ovE.-T, e HelIospoilt; every time that Leander swam over it to meet his heroine of alero. PAW AND MAw.-We lately lighted upon aa, advyrtits*, ment of Maw's Feeding Bottle. 'Notioing .the old name of the proprietor of this invention, we occasioned a young lady, whe had received a first-rate education at-a Brixton bmarding-school, to Femark, -that a nice ...

... THE MOTHER'S SONG. BY ALPFED TH1155Y8ON. What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of day ? Let me fly, says little birdie, Mother, let me fly away. Birdie, rest a little longer, Till the little wirgs are stronger. So she rests a little longer, Then she flies away. What does little baby say, In her bed at peep of day? Baby says, like little birdie. Let me rise and fly away. Baby, sleep a ...

... - ' THE CROOKED STICK. BY SAMUEL LOVER. Julia was lovely and winning- And Julia lad lovers in plenty, They outnumber'd her years More than twice, it appears- She killed fifty before she was twenty. Young Harry Had asked her to marry; But Julia could never decide, Thus early, or being a bride; With such ample choice, She would not give her voice, In wedlock so soon to be tied: And though she ...