BABOONS have an antipathy to men.

JUDGE JENKINS,1 a Welshman, expected to be hung by the Parliament for his zeal in Charles's cause. He had a great desire for this political martyrdom, and had resolved to go to the gallows with Bracton on his left shoulder, the statutes at large on his right, and the Bible round his neck, that these books, as having been his counsellors, should hang with him. "And first," said he, "I will eat much liquorice and gingerbread, thereby to strengthen my lungs, that I may be heard far and near.'

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* THE changes on seven bells are 5040; on twelve, 479,001,600, which it would take 91 years to ring at the rate of two strokes in a second. The changes on fourteen bells could not be rung through at the same rate in less than 16,575 years; and upon fourand-twenty, they would require more than 117,000 billions of years.

TALFORD knew a cat and dog who, when the family removed house, travelled back in company to the old habitation, thirty miles distant, the cat under convoy.

Cattle.

*THE most important point for feeders is, that they should die well. This is Lord Somerville's phrase.

Some bulls of the middle-horned breed are reproached with being throaty, the skin too profuse and pendulous. The neck perhaps thick and goary in the estimation of strangers, but with this property the oxen are not to be reproached, or they would not labour as they do.

The flesh must be mellow in handling. The coarse square Dutch beefy breed is the basis of the short-horned breed.

The common Lincolnshire are coarse in head and horn, large boned, and high upon the leg. Those that never fatten are called lyery.

Never was a more fortunate cross than between the Alderney and the Northern short horns. They are unrivalled for great milking, and famous for carrying a vast depth of natural flesh, and tallowing within in the first degree. But in fineness of flesh they can never compete with certain other breeds without the entire overthrow of their Dutch basis by a repeated use of some other

cross.

The Holderness are too often the worstshaped cattle in the island, and perhaps the

least profitable,-long, gaunt, deep carcasses, without adequate substance, placed upon high stilts of the coarsest timber, slow feeders, never fat, and the flesh excessively

coarse.

Some of the Glamorganshire cattle cloddy.

The Pembroke ox is too leggy, but he becomes early ripe, and will make fat at four years old, and stands his drift, that is to say, his journey, better than any from Wales.

In the Agricultural Report of Middlesex the London dealers in milk are said to keep 8590 cows. They have been driven farther from town by the scarcity of grass land, and therefore carry the milk there in light carts, wherein it is slung in tin jars. One dealer had nearly 1000, worth £23 each, affording annually a return of £38 each, and a net profit of £6000 per year.

Each cow affords about nine quarts per day, 3285 per year.

The retailer by adulteration and cream clears £26.13s. 4d. a year by every cow. They divide among themselves an annual sum of £308,833, and London pays annually for milk £626,233.

The water adulteration is carried on openly. One keeper calls his pump from its colour the famous black cow. By this name it is known, and is said to yield more than all the rest of his cows together. Look for the trial upon this subject.

CONUS princeps. One variety of this shell called the King of the South. Three specimens were known in France before the Revolution, the finest of which was in the possession of Comte de la Tour d'Auvergne : this came from the Isle of France, and was

known by the appellation of Le Cedo-nulli aux Isles. Of the Queen of the Isles, it is contested whether there be one or two specimens, Lyonet's Cedo-nulli being affirmed by some, and contested by others, to be the celebrated Cedo-nulli of La Faille's cabinet; but this last is said to have been purchased at the Hague, about the year 1728, for the

King of Portugal's cabinet. The fate of Lyonet's is not known; but it is believed at present "to enrich one of the Parisian

museums."

THE ducking stool was a legal punishment. Roguish brewers and bakers also were liable to it, and they were to be ducked in stercore, the town ditch. Cathedra stercoris it is called in Domesday Book.

DAGENHAM breach.' The injustice of Parliament to Captain Perry, leaving him, after five years of exertion, anxiety, and care, £500 poorer than when he began.

ERGOT, a disease in corn, and especially in rye, which produces in those who eat it dry gangrene and death!

ARTIFICIAL asses milk! The receipt is in the Cyclopædia under the word Eryngo.

A. D. 1809. A BARGE was going along the new cut from Paddington with casks of spirits and barrels of gunpowder. It is supposed that one of the crew bored a hole in a powder barrel by mistake, meaning to steal spirits, the gimblet set fire to the powder, and eleven other barrels were driven to the distance of 150 yards; but only the single barrel exploded.

THE Bretons buy from Norway the offal and entrails of the large fish caught in the North seas, which of late years has become a considerable article of trade. These they cut in pieces and strew along the coast, when the wind is not off shore, and this bait brings the pilchards in shoals.

MACKEREL Come to feed on the narrow

leaved, purple, palmated sea-wrack,—herrings on an insect called the sea caterpillar.

This irruption of the Thames took place in 1707. The land was recovered by Captain Perry at an expense of £40,000.

This is now used medicinally, as is well known; but it has a poisonous effect, and requires the utmost caution.-J. W. W.

NINON LENCLOS said, "If such a life as I had spent had been proposed to me as my lot, I would have hanged myself rather than have passed through it."

THE arch of a bit called "Liberty of the Tongue." If a certain person were to be saddled and bridled like an ass, his bit must have no void space.

THE Pope shuts the mouth of a new Cardinal; - how glad would the Opposition sometimes be if they had a like power with their members!

JULY 13. Read two pamphlets by William Hale upon the London Female Penitentiary. His argument that such institutions do more harm than good, is like some of the arguments against the Bible Society, made of right stuff, but spun too fine. But he clearly shows how exceedingly important it is that the parish offices should be served by men of respectability, activity, and principle, who would discharge them as parts of their civil and religious duty. Each parish is in itself a little commonwealth, and it is easy to conceive that before manufactures were introduced, or where they do not exist, a parish may be almost as well ordered as a family. Note this as one of the most practicable and most efficient means of reform. Good overseers would make the workhouse at once a house of asylum, of correction, of industry, and of reform.

Hale's argument, that, reform as many prostitutes as you may, their places will be filled, and the number not diminished, is, I dare say, well founded. According to him, the greater number are single women who work by day at various trades, and try their luck to boot. But these cannot be the rampant whores who render the streets dangerous at night.

JOHN MINNS, of Norwich, at the age of 78, had his coffin made, set it up, and used it as a cupboard. He lived sixteen years. The worms attacked the coffin, and when

he died, his friends were obliged to send it to the carpenter to be repaired.

CHRISTMAS, 1815. The postboy has brought this "shocking news," as Mrs. Lloyd's1 man calls it, from Kendal to Ambleside; that there was a poor man there who had eels in him, and never any poor creature was known to bide so much as he did with these eels. They made a hole in his side to see if they could get the eels, but it was found that they could not be got out without killing him; and at last he was in such pain that the doctors sleeped him to death. The interpretation of this Mr. Scambler supposes to be, that the man had an aneurism of the aorta, the visible pulsation was supposed to be the motion of the eels, and he died in the usual course of the disease soon after some dose had been given to allay the symptoms. Cupping or leeching may explain the other exaggeration.

"THE Bible," says Mr. OWEN, "as it proceeded originally from the sacred penmen, would (if it were in existence) give us in a manner the autograph of God."

MISS HUTCHINSON's great grandmother was one of a party who sat down to the first pound of tea that ever came into Penrith. It was sent as a present, and without directions how to use it. They boiled the whole at once in a kettle, and sat down to eat the leaves with butter and salt; and they wondered how any person would like such a dish.

Ar Rowland Hill's Chapel is an organ by Elliot, of great power. It is said that on the performance of one of the hymns descriptive of thunder, many of the congregation have fainted.

IN 1806, the United Lodges of Druids

The wife of Southey's friend, C. Lloyd. Mr. Scambler was the medical practitioner at Ambleside.-J. W. W.

were twenty-nine in number, some containing from 900 to 1000 members. The aspirant was blindfolded, a chain is put round his neck, when he is led to the Arch Druid who administers the oath. In some lodges this is administered by the Right Hand supporter, who holds a naked sword; in others, by the most worthy secretary, who wears a hideous mask and an enormous pair of spectacles. The aspirant kneels while he swears, and when the bandage is taken off, he is startled at seeing a ghastly hue thrown over all the persons present, by a flame which had been kindled during the ceremony. They wear beards à la Druid at their meetings.

EL mentir de las estrellas

es un seguro mentir, porque nadie puede ir

A perguntarselo a ellas.

DESCARTES used to say that though he could not promise to himself to render a man immortal, yet he was sure he might go so far as to make him as long lived as the patriarchs.

A CAMBRIDGE dandy who found fault with Chauncy Townsend's neckloth, assured him that in Cambridge the neckcloth makes the man.

The neckcloths are sent home starched and folded, and kept in a rack made for the purpose. The aforesaid personage said that he often put on two or three before he could satisfy himself, and threw them aside to be fresh starched and folded. Another of these fellows said that when he undressed at night, it was like heaven; but that a man must suffer in order to be captivating.

A. D. 1538. THE archbishop of York attempted to save Hexham at the suppres

At this time, it is well known there was a club at Cambridge called "the Beautiful Club," in which dimples are said to have been painted But men outlive such follies!-J. W. W.

PRESTON, the M. P. who published pamphlets upon the corn laws, and the ruined condition of the landed and agricultural interests in 1816, was originally an attorney's clerk in Sussex (I believe). His master pushed him forward, finding him a

clever fellow. He won the heart of his master's daughter, and they were to be married as soon as his circumstances would allow him to settle. He went to London, succeeded in business, and came down after a while to his old master, not to fulfil his promised marriage, but to break it off. "I know what you will do," he told the father;

you will bring an action for breach of promise, but that won't do." So he desired

to see the lady in the presence of her father and her brothers. "I promised to marry you," said he; "I acknowledge the promise. I am a man of my word, and here I am ready to fulfil it. I am ready to marry you, but mark what I say, I am a man of my word, and never break it. If you become my wife, I will treat you like a servant; you shall never associate with me; you shall live in the kitchen, do the work of a servant, dress like a servant, and clean my shoes. You know I never break my word, and now I am ready to marry you, and all who are present are witnesses to this." One of the brothers, as might be expected, took this excellent scoundrel out of the room, and horsewhipped him till he was tired. But Preston liked this when the smart was over, as it gave him an opportunity of bringing an action for an assault.

AQUAKER who was the proprietor of some wire mills, related to Talford an adventure of his in a double-bedded room. The stranger in the one bed snored intolerably, so much so that the Quaker got out, took him by the shoulder, shook him, and entreated him just to suspend his nasal trumpet till he (the Quaker) could fall asleep, which would require only a few minutes, and then he might blow away as he pleased. But before the poor Quaker was well warm in his bed, Sir Naso was trumpeting again; "Our wire mills," said the Quaker, "were a fool to him. I got out again, went to him, took hold of his nose, and held it not only till he was awake, but till he was so angry that he could not easily get to sleep again; and when I saw that, it was my turn. I jumped into bed again, got to sleep before him, and then I defied him."

In a window in Oxford Street is a paper announcing that Alderney double cream is sold there.

"IN 1791 a small pool of water suddenly appeared in a natural hollow of the ground, about a mile above the ebbing and flowing

well at Giggleswick,' which has maintained its place, with little or no diminution, in the driest seasons, from that time to the present (1807). It is situated near the summit of a mountain, and surrounded on all sides with limestone rock. The ground about it is remarkably dry; and though several springs, and among them the ebbing and flowing well itself, break out at the foot of the mountain, none of them appeared to be affected by the appearance of the pool."

I do not see much difficulty in accounting for these facts. A casual fall of stones and earth might accidentally block up the course of the spring beneath the surface; by which means the water, after accumulating in this hollow, may easily be supposed to have found another channel connected with the former, and to supply the springs beneath with the same uniformity and plenty as before.

At all events it is to be considered as a providential gift, since it supplies an herd of sixty cattle with water in the driest seasons, when they court the highest exposures, and had, till this appearance, to descend with great labour for their refreshment to the springs below.

The figure of the pool is nearly an ellipsis, of which the axis major is rather more than thirty yards; the axis minor rather more than twenty-three yards, and the greatest depth, three yards three inches.-WHITAKER'S History of Craven, p. 134.

"The village of Faizer in Craven consists of ten houses, seven of which are in the parish of Clapham, one in the parish of Giggleswick, and the other two, one year in the one parish, and one in another, the inhabitants having seats in both churches, re

This pool of water is said to be now dry. DRAYTON, in his Poly-olbion, alludes to the ebbing and flowing well :

"At Giggleswick, where I a fountain can you show,

That eight times in a day is said to ebb and flow," &c. Song the Twenty-Eighth. J. W. W.