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the judgment passed upon him at Maidstone, which was granted; and the records of the Court bear witness to his having in this miraculous manner recovered his civil rights and liberties.

A CURE FOR TEETOTALISM.

CAPTAIN MARRYAT tells an amusing story of an old Dutchman in America, who from a confirmed drunkard became a tee-totaller. The sudden change had so serious an effect upon his constitution, that his physician, finding a renewed stimulus to be necessary, prescribed for him an ounce of French brandy per diem. The old Dutchman, never having heard of such a mode of measuring spirits, eagerly inquired how much an ounce contained, and on being told that it took sixteen drams to make an ounce, lauded the doctor and his remedy to the skies.

RICHES MAKE THEMSELVES WINGS.

MORALISTS have said that no man ought to be congratulated till he is in the coffin. The Mechanics' Magazine states, in the biography of Mr. James, the projector of the railway system, that he was in 1812 worth 150,000l., and lived to lose it all.

NEZ used to say of Wise, a lawyer of Lincoln'sinn, (a very subtile and acute man in all business he undertook,) that he was like a mouse among joint-stools-one may see where he moves and runs, but no one knows where to hit him.

MARVELLOUS CURES.

IT appears that the late Lord Gardenstone took the pains to inquire after those persons who had actually attested marvellous cures, and found that

more than two-thirds of them died shortly after they had been cured. Sir Robert Walpole was killed by a lithotriptic medicine, Lord Bolinbroke by a man who pretended to cure him of a cancer in his face, and Winnington by an ignorant quack, who physicked and bled him to death for a slight rheumatism.

"JIM, how does the thermometer stand to-day?" "Ours stands on the mantelpiece, right agin the plasterin'."

INFIDELITY.

INFIDELITY gives birth to a restless and eager vanity, which never fails in political affairs to distract a kingdom, infusing into those intrusted with the legislation, a spirit of rash innovation, and a disdain of the established usages of mankind, and a foolish desire to dazzle the world with new and untried systems of policy, in which the precedents of antiquity and the experience of ages are consulted only to be trodden under foot; while in the members of the executive it gives rise to a propensity to calumny and suspicion, with a fierce contention for pre-eminence, and an incessant struggle to supplant a rival or to destroy a foe.

THE Post-office was established in the twelfth year of the reign of Charles II. It was at first an enterprise of individuals-of course under Royal sanction for private profit ; and was so conducted till the growing income induced the State to take it altogether into its own hands as a branch of revenue.

An illustrious personage lately finding fault with the grammar of one of the ladies of the Court, a conversation ensued, wherein the Hon. Miss

took the opportunity of testing the grammatical knowledge of her royal examiner, by asking, "why the noun bachelor was singular?" The Illustrious was at fault, and gave it up, asking for information. The immediate reply, made with considerable naïvelé, was, "Because it is very singular they don't get married."

THE RULING PASSION.

IN America even the thieves must be commercial in their ideas. One rogue meeting another, asked him what he had done that morning. "Not much," was the reply; "I've only realized this umbrella."

THE Chinese call the Americans " Englishmen of the second Chopstick."

THE only vice we can practise in this world without being arraigned for it, and at the same time go through the forms of religion, is covetous

ness.

THE institution of the Sabbath is the blessed antidote of worldly care as well as of mere physical labour-medicine for soul and body, to rich and poor.

A NIGHT-CAP WORTH ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS.

AN old gentleman of the name of Hyatt, who was a resident in the West Indies, when he arrived at the age of 70, being afflicted with stone in the bladder, determined to come to England to undergo an operation for its removal. Sir Astley Cooper performed the operation with consummate skill. When the patient was well enough to leave his bed, he observed to Sir Astley, "That he had fee'd his physician, but he had not rewarded his surgeon." Upon asking Sir Astley what his fee was, he re

plied, "Two hundred guineas." "Pooh, pooh!" exclaimed the old gentleman, "I shan't give you two hundred guineas-there, that is what I shall give you," tossing off his night-cap, and throwing it to Sir Astley. "Thank you, sir," said Sir A.," any thing from you is acceptable," and he put the cap into his pocket. Upon examination it was found to contain a cheque for one thousand guineas.

PEACE.

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PEACE is the chief good of every people. European nations, with all their improvements of civilization, are still too near the savage state while they terminate their contests by war. Nothing but self-defence can justify it. And if those who decree that it shall take place under any circumstances but the necessity of self-defence, were compelled to go into the field in person, it is probable that national disputes would be settled by the intervention of neutral powers, and the sword converted into the ploughshare. To avoid war, the direst calamity of human nature, should be the chief object of every humane man and wise minister.

A GENTLEMAN crossing a narrow bridge, asked a countryman whom he met if it was not dangerous, and whether people were not lost there sometimes. No," he replied, "I never knew anybody lost here in my life; several have been drowned, but they were all found again."

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DIFFICULTY OF DESCRIBING A BATTLE. HISTORIANS never doubt but a man who has been in a battle has a perfect knowledge of all the events of it; yet they ought to know that,

perhaps, this very man was in the rear guard, where he could not so much as see the enemy, and that, even if he were in the advanced guard, he could, perhaps, see only straight before him; and, at all events, that he must have uncommon coolness to see distinctly what was before his eyes, and to make a faithful report of it.

A DOG loves to turn round often; yet, after certain revolutions, he lies down to rest; but heads under the dominion of the moon are for perpetual changes, and perpetual revolutions.

A REASONABLE MOTION.

A MOTION being made in the House of Commons, that such as were chosen to serve in the parliament troops should be faithful and skilful riders, Mr. Waller's opinion was demanded, who approved the form of it as excellent; "for," says he, "it is most necessary the riders be faithful lest they runne away with their horses, and skilfull lest their horses runne away with them."

Edmund Waller the poet first sat in parliament for the borough of Agmondesham in 1640. In 1642 he was one of the commissioners appointed by the Parliament to present their propositions of peace to the king at Oxford; and in the following year was deeply engaged in a design to reduce the city of London and the Tower to the service of the king. After he had saved himself from the consequences of this plot, a full account of which is given both by Whitelock and Clarendon, he went to France, where he remained some time. On his return he attached himself to Cromwell, which did not prevent him from being very kindly treated by

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