he performed so well that the Grand Seigneur ordered his conductor to leave him, and gave him 500 piastres in payment for the musical Bruin. The accomplice decamped readily enough, and Restaurino, which was the bear's name, was left to escape as he could from the eunuchs.

He got out, and crossed the Tophane in a boat which he seized, but the exertion burst his skin, he was seized, carried back, and let off with a severe bastinado.

1799. A MAIDEN lady, aged fifty-seven, died at Horsham,-of good property. For thirty years she had been a recluse. In 1790 she built a neat and elegant house for herself, and furnished it, but never occupied

A TAME fox at the White Hart, Bridgewater, was brought up from a cub to run in the wheel as a turnspit. One day, through the neglect of his keeper, he escaped, got to Sedgemoor, and made wild work among the geese. "The writer of this was out the next morning with Mr. Portman's dogs, and going towards Borough-bridge, found the glutton under Alfred's tump. The dogs being laid on, Reynard presently passed the Parrot, and taking by North Petherton, sought the woods above Monkton; but being driven from thence, dashed through the Tone, a mile below Newton, and turning northward, passed Kingston, and was for a time lost in the thickets above Buncomb. The scent serving, Reynard was at length uncovered, mounted the Cutherstone hills, descended to Kenniton, and mounted the stone mountain in Lord Clifford's park, from whence he was presently driven by the staunch pack. Leaping the pales at Enmore, he took through Lord Egmont's grounds, and getting again into his old track, recrossed the Parrot just below Petherton, and taking slowly along the banks of the river with the pack in full cry, leaped the fence of Mrs. Francis (his mistress's) garden, and immediately entered the kitchen, darted into the spit-wheel, and began to perform his domestic office with as much unconcern as if he had been placed there for that purpose. The fat cook, with whom he was a great favourite, spread the

guous, from which there was a communication, and would often walk through the uninhabited rooms to inspect the furniture. It is said that she never saw the front of this house. She had all sorts of animals, and used to play a hand organ to them,-dogs, cats, monkeys, guinea-pigs, hares, rabbits, squirrels, peacocks, doves, parrots, &c. and she left fifteen pounds a year to a person to "feed and take care of them for and during their natural lives." By her will her body was to be kept one month, and longer unless there were symptoms of putrefaction. These however were so decided that between £30 and £40 were expended upon it in spirits of wine, to keep it in preservation for the appointed term. By her express direction it was first inclosed in a shell, then in a leaden coffin, thirdly in a coffin of oak; and lastly the whole was let down into a stone coffin of the best Portland stone: the mason according to her will being to choose either that material or black marble, whichever he believed to be most durable. Silvered breast-plate and ornaments were on the oaken coffin, and on the lid of the stone one she appointed her name, age, and the day of her death to be cut in letters each three-quarters of an inch deep.

IN 1789, when preparations were making in St. Paul's to receive the King, at the thanksgiving for his recovery, a favourite bitch followed her master there up the dark stairs of the dome, and was lost. Eight

dice, a number of horse-shoes, some shillings, and two or three guineas. Some ill-starred gamester had perhaps thrown there the instruments of his ruin.

C. NOEL, in a memoir read in the Philomatic (?) Society in Paris (about 1799), recommends naturalizing salt water fish in rivers and ponds, and particularly the herring, by constructing an artificial pond between two islands of the Seine, and depositing in it herrings full of roes, carried there in boats. The same boats might repair to the fishing banks when the herrings have spawned, and take up a lading of fecundated ova to be carried to the artificial pond. [Is it meant that the artificial pond should be salt water, and that they should be gradually used to the change, till admitted into the river?] He mentioned many instances which seemed to prove that the herring is fond of fresh water. Franklin stocked one of the rivers of New England with herrings, by depositing in the water leaves covered with ova.

Dr.

1800. Some years ago, the person who lived at the turnpike about a mile from Stratford-upon-Avon, had a dog so well trained to fetch and carry that he used to go with a note round his neck to the town, and return with any bundle of goods suited to his strength. A safer messenger could not have been chosen. One day, however, when he was bringing home tea and sugar from the grocers, he fell in with a party who were hunting water-rats. The temptation was too great. He joined the terriers, and plunged into the ditches with them.

March 26, 1800. Died at Brompton, aged ninety-six, Rowland Nicholson, formerly a shoemaker, and freeman of Carlisle. His party feeling was so strong, that according to his own desire, often and earnestly expressed, he was attended to the grave by four pall-bearers, with blue ribands in their hats, and buried in a blue coffin.

SOME old writer is said to have said that when princes began to use cannon, the authority of the canons of the church was soon destroyed. It was first mitrum that governed the world, and then nitrum; first Saint Peter, and then Salt Petre.

1682. A HORSE between eighteen and nineteen hands high, which formerly belonged to Lord Rochester, and had killed several other horses, and several people, was baited to death at the Hope, on the Bank Side, being his Majesty's Bear-Garden. "It is intended for the divertisement of his Excellency the Ambassador from the Emperor of Fez and Morocco; many of the nobility and gentry that knew the horse, and several mischiefs done by him, designing to be present."

The horse seems to have been one of Diomede's breed, by the character given of him in the advertisement: "For his prodigious qualities in killing and destroying several horses and other cattle, he was transmitted to the Marquis of Dorchester: where, doing the like mischiefs, and likewise hurting his keeper, he was sold to a brewer, but is now grown so headstrong they dare not work him; for he hath bitten and wounded so many persons (some having died of their wounds), that there is hardly any can pass the streets for him, though he be fast tied, for he breaks his halter to run after them (though loaden with eight barrels of beer), either biting or treading them down, monstrously tearing their flesh, and eating it, the like whereof hath hardly been seen; and 'tis certain the horse will answer the expectation of all spectators."

The sequel of the story is in MALCOLM'S Anecdotes. Several dogs were set at the horse, and he killed or drove them from the area, and the owners then led him away, thinking to make more sport and more profit by future exhibitions. But the spectators insisted that he should be baited to death, according to the promise in the bill. They began to demolish the building; and the horse was therefore recalled to satisfy them, before he had reached London Bridge.

1800. THE present mail-man between Shaston and Sarum has travelled, since his employ in the post-office, on that and the Sherborne road, upwards of 326,200 miles, more than twelve times the circumference of the earth.

1800. Aug. 1. Died at Goodleigh, near Barnstaple, in his eightieth year, Mr. Henry Stribling, farmer. He was one of the greatest fox-hunters in Devonshire, and had collected such a number of foxes' pads, all of which he had himself cut off when in at the death, that they entirely covered his stable door and door-posts. At his own particular request, a pad was placed in each of his hands in his coffin, and he was attended to the grave by the huntsmen and whippers in of the packs with which he had hunted.

AT Belvoir Castle, the Duke of Rutland's, there is a silver cistern, sixteen feet in circumference, and holding sixty gallons. It was filled with cordial when the father of the present duke was born, and with punch at the christening of the Marquis of Granby, when the Prince Regent stood sponsor, January 1814.

MR. MALCOLM, in his Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London, from the Roman Conquest to 1700, gravely says,— "Infidelity in the marriage state was known in the reign of Henry IV."

DOMESTIC Intelligence, 1681. "Whereas the yearly meeting of the name of Adam hath of late, through the deficiency of the last stewards, been neglected; these are to give notice to all gentlemen and others, that are of that name, that at William Adam's, commonly called the Northern Alehouse, in St. Paul's Alley, in St. Paul's Churchyard, there will be a weekly meeting every Monday night, of our name-sakes, between the hours of six and eight of the clock in the

IN the Gazette,. of August 7, 1762, Dr. Pierce, Dean of Sarum, offered £40 reward for the discovery of the person who sent a dead female infant (apparently about a fortnight old), to the King's Arms, Holborn Bridge, directed to him, in a fir box. Upon opening it, he discovered a leaden coffin wrapped in a silk rug; the body was embalmed, and rolled in leather. This letter was found:-" Normanday, May 12. Good Mr. Dean, Think me not confident in giving you this trouble, without which I am incapable of performing the will of the dead, whose last request it was to have this infant (if it should do otherwise than well), to be laid in the parish church you now live in, and you being his very good friend in his life, makes me hope you will see this charitable act performed for him; and having no friend left me in the world I can beg the favour of, and I being left so low that I am not able to perform his desire no other way but this; but if ever I am in a capacity, I will repay you, with a million of thanks. In the mean time, I hope God will reward you; and I shall continually pray for you and your good lady and son, so long as ever I shall live, who is your poor, miserable, and unfortunate servant, Ro. Normanveilder."