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sown and planted by the Romans for chirurgical uses.— -R. B. Adm. Curios.

masters, corrupt the women. An emulation | fully there, and are very effectual, being of folly and extravagance is excited. The provisions are carried to the great towns, and thus rendered scarce and dear on the spot.

The Catholics' defence of relics, of ceremonious worship, of regulated convents, of purgatory, of a cheerful Sunday. Prayers for the dead, do they not produce a good effect upon the living?

Protestant absolution.

The English have no business to abuse Spanish oppressions and cruelty. The East Indies. The West. The scalping in America. Ireland. Never let them abuse Alva. Besides, English atrocities have been always perpetrated by petty rascals; there has been nothing to counterbalance it in

their character, as in Cortes-even in Pizarro. Wyoming. Glencoe.

The remarkable instance of honour in the Spanish prisoner, in Richard II.'s reign. Fox-hunting.

GONDOMAR bade a Spanish post who was returning to his own country remember him to the sun, for it was a long time since he had seen him here, and he would be sure to find him in Spain.—R. B.

FANATICS at Newbury.- Adm. Curios., p. 12.

GARSTANG.-Cyclopædia.

"REGNUM Diabolorum," was a phrase applied to England, and common in unconsidering foreigners' mouths. — Preface to MOLESWORTH's Account of Denmark.

LONDON Consumes butcher's-meat to the amount of seven millions sterling annually.

A CALF fed for the London market is said to consume as much milk as would make a

Stone the plumbs. If this were a dead language, said a Frenchman to me, what hundred weight of cheese. would an antiquarian make of that phrase?

"WHAT is thy disease-a consumption? indeed a certain messenger of death; but know, that of all the bayliffs sent to arrest us for the debt of nature, none useth his prisoners with more civility and courtesie." -FULLER. Sermon-Life out of Death.

MEMORANDUM.-Dr. Fothergill intended to leave "a pretty large collection of Quaker Tracts to the Meeting to which he then belonged, in Peter's Court, Westminster."NICHOLS'S Anecdotes.

ESPRIELLA.1

SOME empiric chirurgians in Scotland take a journey to the Picts Wall the beginning of every summer; to gather vulnerary plants, which they say grow plenti

It is not necessary to note what is worked up in the Letters referred to.-J. W. W.

THERE is a Committee of Art or of Taste

who decide upon the designs sent in for public monuments. The best artists will not enter into such a competition, very properly not chusing to trust their reputation to the opinion of men whom they may not deem competent judges. An inferior one will send in several designs, speculating upon the doctrine of chances, and the speculation answers. There is a monument to Captain in St. Paul's, of which the history is this. Ross sent in several designs. The Committee pitched upon one, which was not the best; fixed upon one figure, also not the best of the design which they had chosen; and then desired him to put just such another figure on the other side, so then they are like an admiral's two supporters!

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MRS. WILSON remembers the time when

2 The kind friend of the children before mentioned.-J. W. W.

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the people of this place did not know what an almanack was. She knew the parties. Two men at work were accosted by an acquaintance, who told them he was going to Kendal on purpose to see an almanack, which was to tell every thing about the weather. They desired him to let them know when he came back what sort of thing it was; and his account on his return was :Why, why, I know not;-it mafles and talks: howsoever I'se been considering that Collop-Monday will be on a Tuesday next year."

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Ir a man be found at work in the Christmas week in Kendal, his fellow-tradesmen lay violent hands on him, and carry him on a pole to the alehouse, where he is to treat them.

CROKER told me that some of his countrymen brought a man before the magi strate for murder, because one with whom he had quarrelled and fought, died in the course of the same evening. It appeared upon enquiry that the deceased had complained of a pain in his bowels, and that they to relieve him had determined upon spreading the gripe. The way this was effected was by laying the patient on his back, and then putting a plank on his belly upon which all the company stood and jumped.

PALM Soap, which Patey, Butts and Co. recently removed from Ball-Alley, Lombard Street, to No. 12, Three Kings Court, in the same street, think it an indispensable part of "their duty to inform their friends and the public that they have brought this preparation to the utmost zenith of excellence. It is manufactured wholly from Palm Oil,-which is so vinous and nutritious that the natives of Asia take it internally from choice."

WILLIAM HUTCHINSON, when he was in Rome, skaited on the Tyber, to the great astonishment of the Romans.

TURNER knew a Londoner who had kept a retail spirit-shop, and retired into the adjoining county when he had made a fortune, to enjoy himself. This man used to amuse himself by having one puncheon filled with water, and measuring it off by pints into another.

He knew another retired cit who used every day to angle in his round wash-handbasin sized fish-pond for gold-fish. One fish he knew, because it had once lost its eye in being caught,—and he used to say, “Curse that fellow, this is the fifth, sixth, &c. time that I have caught him this season." It used to provoke him.

Ar Bishop's Middleham a man died with the reputation of a water-drinker; and it was discovered that he had killed himself by secret drunkenness. There was a Roman Catholic hiding-place in the house, the entrance to which was from his bed-room; he converted it into a cellar; and the quantity of brandy which he had consumed was ascertained.

VALENTINE'S Day. Two hundred and fifty valentines delivered at Keswick from the post-office, 1813. The post-woman is given their produce as a gratuity, (they are one penny each), and last year she received fifty shillings. In London they are said to double the receipt of the twopenny post on that day. Long Nanny,' the postwoman, has a whole box-full, which were either directed to persons who have left Keswick, or were refused to be taken in.

Or the Arundel marbles, many were stolen while they lay at Arundel House in the Strand, or cut and worked up by masons. Theobald cut some into slabs for his house at Lambeth, and converted part of a column into a roller for his country house in Berkshire. A colossal Apollo (whose head is at Oxford) and an entire small obelisk, are said

This was the post-woman of the day, as might easily be inferred.-J. W. W.

to be buried under the houses in Arundel Street. The upper part of the Parian Chronicle, containing forty-five lines, is believed to have been worked up in repairing a chimney.

SIR HILDEBRAND JACOB had a pleasant mode of travelling in the earlier part of his life (1735). As soon as the road became tolerably good, and the fine weather began to set in, he and his man set off with a portmanteau, and without knowing whither they were going. Towards evening, when they came to a village, they inquired if the great man loved books, and had a good library: and if the answer was in the affirmative, Sir Hildebrand sent his compliments, that he was come to see him; and then he used to stay till he was disposed to move farther. In this manner he travelled through the greatest part of England, scarcely ever sleeping at an inn unless when town or village did not afford one person civilized enough to be glad to see a gentleman and a scholar."-NICHOLS'S Anecdotes.

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THE day after Mr. Robins's murderer was hanged near Stourbridge, a noted party of plunderers assembled under his gibbet, and drank his health! The first Sunday, more than 100,000 persons came to see him hanging in chains; and a kind of wake continued for some weeks for ale and gingerbread, &c. "For the information of Rosanna, who is

sadly disconcerted at remaining in ignorance of what all the country knows but herself, I have made a drawing of the scene; but I am sorry to say she would rather see the original." Rosanna is an old servant, too old to go six miles to see the sight.

AT Farlam, near Naworth Castle, was this epitaph:

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Et placidæ noctes, et sine lite dies. Heus, bone vir! siquid fecisti rectius istis, Hoc marmor tibi do quod tegat ossa libens."

THERE is in the Bodleian a tract describing "The most dangerous and memorable adventure of Richard Ferris, one of the five ordinary messengers of her Majesty's chamber, who departed from Tower Wharf on Midsummer day last past, with Andrew Hill and William Thomas, who undertook in a small wherry boat to row by sea to the city of Bristowe, and are now safely returned." Upon accomplishment of this voyage, “The mayor of Bristow, with his brethren the aldermen, came to the waterside, and welcomed us most lovingly, and the people came in great multitudes to see us, in so much as, by the consent of the magistrates, they took our boat from us, not suffering us once

Stick him it' weum, is a common expression in Cumberland. The etymology of the word is the same as that of Womb. Iceland. Vömb. Dan. Vom. See SCHILTER'S Thesaur, in v. Wamba, JUNII Gloss. in Evangel. Vers. Goth. and KILIANA in v. Wambeys.-J. W. W.

to meddle with it, in respect that we were all extreame weary, and carried our said boat to the high cross in the city; from thence it was convayed to the Town House, there locked safe all night. And on the next morning the people of the city gathered themselves together, and had prepared trumpets, drums, fyfes, and ensigns, to go before the boat, which was carried upon men's shoulders round about the city, with the waites of the said city, playing orderly in honour of our rare and dangerous attempt atchieved. Afterwards we were had to Maister Maior's, to the aldermen and sheriffs' houses, where we were feasted most royally, and spared for no cost at the time that we remained there."-British Bibliographer, vol. ii. p. 552.

WHEN the Sunderlins were on Mont Anver (?), passing the day at Blairs Tower (?) to see the Mer de Glace, up came Lord Paget, the Marquis of Worcester, and his brother, Lord C. Somerset, in dresses made for the excursion. They looked at the glacier, agreed nem. con. that it was "damn'd curious," turned on their heels, and walked down again."

THERE were in the room of an officer at an inn at Durham, twenty-four pair of boots, twelve pair of shoes, and four pair of slippers.

Ar Leyburn I saw written up over a shop, "Bride cakes and funeral biscuits."

Ar Bentham, a village on the road from Settle to Lancaster, "Leeches sold here," at the bakers and pastry cooks.

A DOG at Congreve went regularly every Sunday to Penkridge church, during a whole year that the church was under repair, and if he could get in, past the proper time in the family pew.

along, and knocked him down. The other got up and coolly said, "Who the devil sent you to London without a martingale?”

£100 was sent to a Mr. Averell in Ireland, anonymously, to be laid out according to his judgment among the poorest missionaries who instructed the people in Irish. It came from a Quaker, by the language. Averell, who had been pestered with anonymous letters, not knowing the hand, refused to take it in. It was returned to the Dead Letter Office, and being in due time opened there, was again returned to him.

NONE but the wearer can tell where the shoe pinches, says the proverb. In like manner, none else can tell where it fits.

THE age of puberty is the dangerous age in colonies as well as in individuals.

It is a good anecdote of histrionic feeling that Booth hated Cato the most of all the Romans.-AARON HILL, vol. ii. p. 364.

GEORGE SMITH GREEN, a watchmaker at Oxford, published, somewhere about 175060, a specimen of a new version of Paradise Lost, into blank verse (?), "by which that amazing work is brought somewhat nearer the summit of perfection."

LOCUSTS, why so numerous? Other creatures lay as many eggs, and yet do not multiply to the annoyance of mankind. Is the link destroyed that should have checked them?

THE blood of the Jews, like that of the Goths, is a strong blood. For wherever there is a cross of it, the cast of the Mosaic features predominates.

JOHNSON Once heard a fisherman who was skinning an eel, curse it because it would not lie still. He noticed it as a striking instance of human insensibility and inconsi

A MAN who held his head remarkably high, walked against one who was hurrying | deration.

JOHNSON tells a story of a man who was standing in an inn kitchen with his back to the fire, and thus accosted the person next him "Do you know, Sir, who I am?""No, Sir," said the other, "I have not that advantage."-" Sir," said he, "I am the great Twalmley, who invented the new floodgate iron,"—that is, the box-iron with the sliding door, or ironing box, flat heaters alone having till then been used, or possibly the box-iron with the door and bolt.

THE cross by the wayside a memento, which, often as it is passed with indifference, must often excite a salutary thought; and he who condemns it as a superstitious memorial, would do well to examine whether there is not in his own frame of mind more of sectarianism than of Christianity.

"THE heathens," says SOUTH, "attributed a kind of divinity or godhead to springs, because of that continual inexhaustible emanation from them, resembling a kind of infinity."-Vol. ii. p. 539.

OUR Common laurel was first brought into the Low Countries, 1576, (together with the horse-chesnut) from Constantinople, as a present from David Unguad, the Imperial ambassador in Turkey, to Clusius the botanist. It was sent to him by the name of Trabison-Curmasi, i. e. the Date of Trebisond, but he named it Lauro-Cerasus.-MA- | SON, Note to the English Garden.

JOSIAH CONDER knew a man who began to doubt the Scripture in general, because he did not think it possible that Nebuchadnezzar could have lived seven years upon grass. And to ascertain this point, he set about grazing himself, and persevered in it, by his own account, a whole week,-which was six days longer than Edward Williams, -but then the bard's was only a politicoeconomical experiment. How it agreed

All the Anecdotes I have marked with an asterisk have been used up either in Espriella's Letters, or The Doctor, &c.-J. W. W.

with his digestion, I did not learn, but his doubts were satisfied, and he became from that time a zealous professor.

Josiah Conder once heard Huntington the S.S. in the pulpit examine St. Paul and St. James concerning their imputed difference of doctrine. "My dear Paul," he said, "and my dear James," and so carried on the imaginary dialogue in a colloquial and familiar style, suited to his congregation, but never bordering upon vulgarity. At last the examiner brought St. James to a point which gave him occasion to exclaim, Why you are of the same opinion as Paul after all!"-"To be sure I am," replied James; "the only difference is, that we were speaking to different persons, under different circumstances."

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IN 1815 I saw written on the walls in London, "God save Napoleon! No imposing kings by a foreign army!"—" No commissioners of hackney coaches!" in another place.

Among the odd things in the streets at that time, was an eagle at the corner of Pall Mall and St. James's Street,—a beggar walking with a ship on his head,—and another mendicant without legs or thighs, drawn in a low cart by two dogs abreast,and a monkey playing upon a tambourine.

1815. Waterloo gown pieces,-in which the word made the pattern, or the pattern (rather) the word.

* Wellington door-knocker, designed by Bray, ironmonger, of Cranbourn Street, Leicester Square, claims the attention of the nobility and gentry, as well deserving notice, by bearing a public tribute of respect to the hero of Waterloo.

I HEAR of a goose feeder, who has made a large fortune.

AMONG the carriages which are going out to Hayti, according to order, is one for some duke who has chosen two hyenas for his supporters.

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