next time you goes by a hos, I'd recommend you to get inside and pull up the blinds." There's nothing like a butcher's hos and boy for a trottin' match.

SHAKESPEARE.

As there has been recently a new stir respecting the renewed orthography and pronunciation of the name of the bard, we cannot resist the inclination of stating, upon the authority of Mr. Mathews, ten or twelve years ago, that, in "the council book of the corporation of Stratford, during the period that John Shakspeare, the poet's father, was a member of the municipal body," the name occurs 196 times, under fourteen different modes of orthography, viz. :

The spelling adopted by Heminge and Condell, in the first folio edition of the plays, is Shakespeare, which seems to accord best with the family crest, a hand shaking a spear: yet the bard himself, in his signature affixed to a deed of sale in 1613, wrote his name Shakespere, and in his last signature to his will he wrote Shakespeare.

COOKERY AMONGST THE ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA.

THE aborigines of Australia are often driven for subsistence to the most wretched food, as snakes and other reptiles, grubs, lizards, and the larvæ of the white ant. When they do obtain better food,

they prepare it with more care than might be expected. In cooking fish, they wrap it in soft bark and place it in hot ashes. By this process an acid from the bark is communicated to the fish, which gives it a most agreeable flavour. Mr. Ogle, in his account of the colony of Western Australia, describes the native mode of cooking a kangaroo steak:-"It is placed in a scooped-out stone, which is readily found in the streams, and pressed down with heavy stones on the top of it; the heat is applied beneath and round the first top stone; at the critical moment the stones are quickly removed, and the steak appears in its most savoury state."

THE WORDS OF MARTIN LUTHER.

"I WOULD not advise any one to place his child where the Holy Scriptures are not regarded as the rule of life. Every institution where God's word is not diligently studied, must become corrupt." "Weighty words" (says D'Aubigné), "which governments, fathers, and the learned in all ages, would do well to consider."

ADVERSITY borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience. The shortest way to be rich is not by enlarging our estate, but by contracting our desires.-Lord Kaimes.

MAXIMS.

BE wise; prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then hast thou in a wife a friend, a companion, who will bear an equal share in all thy toils and affections. -The three things most difficult are, to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and make good use of leisure.-Cheerfulness is not a proof that the mind

is at ease; for often "in the midst of laughter the heart is sad."-The richer you are the more calmly you bear the reproach of poverty; the more genius you have, the more easily you bear the imputation of mediocrity.

INDUSTRY.

IF industry is no more than habit, it is at least an excellent one. If you ask me which is the real hereditary sin of human nature, do you imagine I shall answer pride, or luxury, or ambition, or egotism? No, I shall say indolence. Who conquers indolence will conquer all the rest. Indeed all good principles must stagnate without mental activity.

WIT OUTWITTED.

A WAG went into a shop the other day and asked for a yard of pork. The shopman cut him of three (pig's) feet.

BEING AGREEABLE.

THE true art of being agreeable is to appear well pleased with the company, and rather to seem well entertained with them than to bring entertainment to them. A man thus disposed, perhaps, may have not much learning, nor any wit; but if he has common sense, and something friendly in his behaviour, it conciliates men's minds more than the brightest parts without this disposition; and when a man of such a turn comes to old age, he is sure to be treated with respect. It is true, indeed, that we should not dissemble and flatter in company; but a man may be very agreeable, strictly consistent with truth and sincerity, by a prudent silence where he cannot concur, and a pleasing assent where he can. Now and then you meet

with a person so exactly formed to please, that he will gain upon every one that hears or beholds him; this disposition is not merely the gift of nature, but frequently the effect of much knowledge of the world, and a command over the passions.

AN EASTERN OPIUM-EATER.

THE following anecdote, for which however the authority is not given, gives a curious example of the effects of immoderate habits of using opium. An English ambassador, lately sent to a Mohammedan prince, was conducted upon his arrival at the palace through several richly decorated and spacious apartments, crowded with officers arrayed in superb dresses, to a room, small in dimensions, but ornamented with the most costly and splendid furniture. The attendants withdrew. After a short interval, two persons of superior mien entered the saloon, followed by state bearers, carrying under a lofty canopy a litter covered with delicate silk and the richest Cashmere shawls, upon which lay a human form to all appearance dead, except that its head was dangling loosely from side to side as the bearers moved into the room. Two officers, holding rich filagree salvers, carried each a chalice and a vial containing a black fluid. The ambassador considered the spectacle to be connected with some court ceremony of mourning, and endeavoured to retire; but he was soon undeceived by seeing the officers holding up the head of the apparent corpse, and after gently chafing the throat and returning the tongue, which hung from a mouth relaxed and gaping, pouring some black liquor into the throat, and closing the

jaws, until it sank down the passage; after six or seven times repeating the ceremony, the figure opened its eyes, and shut its mouth voluntarily; it then swallowed a large portion of the black fluid, and within an hour an animated being sat on the couch, with blood returning into his lips, and la feeble power of articulation. In the Persian language he addressed his visitor, and inquired the particulars of his mission. Within two hours this extraordinary person became altered, and his mind capable of arduous business. The ambassador, after apologizing for the liberty, ventured to inquire into the cause of the scene he had just witnessed. "Sir," said he, "I am an inveterate opium-taker, and I have by slow degrees fallen into this melancholy excess. But of the diurnal twenty-four periods of time, I continually pass eighteen in this reverie, unable to move or speak; I am yet conscious, and the time passes away amid pleasing fancies, nor should I ever awake from the wanderings of this state had I not the most faithful and attached attendants, whose regard and religious duty impel them to watch my pulse. As soon as my heart begins to falter, and my breathing is imperceptible except on a mirror, they immediately pour a solution of opium into my throat, and restore me as you have seen. Within four hours I shall have swallowed many ounces, and much time will not pass away ere I shall relapse into my ordinary torpor."

"I'm tarnation angry with you, Rekiel, for stealing them three kisses from me t'other night," said Rebecca to her sweetheart. "Ah," says Kekey, "I have been precious unhappy in my