God! I want for nothing; but if I did, good lord! I might

take a lease of all Paternosterrow. Ah! I've oftimes thought it a sin and a shame that Apollo and the Muses never got a footing within the walls; for your cits, with all their tare, tret and cloff, are mighty kind to the poor. Jack Luguerre,* who is a clever, merry fellow, and a physiognomist, says, The lines of benevolence are strongly marked in many of their moon-faced worships."

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Ha, ha, ha, what! Jack is a freind of yours, too, aye? I know master Laguerre; his fame is rung on the other side of St. George's channel. How is the spark?"

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"Thank your reverence, he may answer for himself, if it be your pleasure, for he is over head. No, no, replied the dean; you are upon honour; it must not be known that I have crossed your threshold; so fare you well master crispin; silence is the word, (placing his finger upon his lip,) and perchance we may meet again.

"Nature is but a name for an effect

Whose cause is God.”—Cowper.

Halos, or Caronæ, are coloured circles, or rather ovals, appearing round the face of the sun and moon, also, some of the larger stars, particularly, the planet Jupiter. Halos, round the sun or moon, generally appear oval and eccentric to the luminary, having their longest diameter perpendicular to the horizon, and extending farther below the luminary than above it; this probably, is a deception of vision, arising from the apparent concave of the sky being less than a hemisphere. When the angle which the diameter of a halo, or crown, subtends at the eye is 45° or 46°, and the bottom of the halo is near the horizon, and consequently its apparent figure is most oval, the apparent vertical diameter is divided by the moon in the proportion of about 2 to 3, or 4, and is to the horizontal diameter drawn through the moon, as 4 to 3, nearly. Those about the moon are often very large, and when seen by the country people, they will commonly observe-" We shall have a change of weather soon, for there is a bur round the moon." Perhaps their observation may not be altogether void of a reasonable foundation.

Philosophers sometimes conceive halos to arise from a refraction of the rays of light in passing through the fine rare vesiculæ of a thin vapour towards the upper parts of the atmosphere. But an opinion more

generally received, is that which supposes halos to be formed by small round grains of hail, composed of two different parts, the one of which is transparent, inclosing the other which is opaque, and the reflection from these producing the appearances; this is the more probable when it is recollected that they are only seen in frosty, rhimy, or hazy weather.

There are several ways of exhibiting phenomena similar to those of halos thus, the flame of a candle, placed in the midst of a steam, in cold weather, or placed at some distance from a glass window that has been breathed upon, while the spectator is also at the distance of some feet from another part of the window, or placed behind a glass receiver, when the air is admitted into the vacuum within it to a certain density, in each of these circumstances will appear to be encompassed by a coloured halo. Also, a quantity of water being thrown up against the sun, as it breaks and disperses into drops, forms a kind of halo, or iris, exhibiting the colours of the natural rainbow. Muffchenbroek observed, that when the window of his room was encrusted over with a thin plate of ice, on the inside, the moon, seen through it, seemed surrounded with a large and various coloured halo; which, upon opening the window, he found arose entirely from that thin plate of ice, because none was seen except through this plate. Muffchenbroek concludes his account of corona with observing, that some density of vapour, or some thickness of the plates of ice, divides the light in its transmission,

and in some way employed; and remember that your meddling neighbours have their eyes upon you, and are constantly guaging you by your appearances.

8.-Re-weigh and re-measure all your stock rather than let it be supposed you have nothing to do.

9. Keep some article cheap, that you may draw customers and enlarge your intercourse

10. Keep up the exact quality or flavour of all articles which you find are approved of by your customers; and by this means you will enjoy their preference.

11. Buy for ready-money as often as you have any to spare ; and when you take credit, pay to a day, and unasked.

12.-No advantage will ever arise to you from any ostentatious display of expenditure.

13.-Beware of the odds and ends of a stock, of remnants, of spoiled goods, and of waste; for it is in such things that your profits lie.

14,-In serving your customers be firm and obliging, and never lose your temper-for nothing is got by it.

15.-Always be seen at church or chapel on Sunday; never at a gaming-table: and seldom at theatres or at places of amuse

ment.

16.-Prefer a prudent and discreet to a rich and showy wife.

17. Spend your evenings by your own fire-side, and shun a public-house or a sottish club as you would a bad debt.

18. Subscribe with your neighbours to a book club, and improve your mind, that you may be qualified to use your future affluence with credit to yourself, and advantage to the public.

19. Take stock every year, estimate your profits, and do not spend above one-fourth.

20.-Avoid the common folly of expending your precious capital upon a costly architectural front; such things operate on. the world like paint on a woman's cheek,-repelling beholders instead of attracting them.

21. Every pound wasted by a young tradesman is two pounds lost at the end of three years, and two hundred and fifty six pounds at the end of twenty-four years.

22. To avoid being robbed and ruined by apprentices and assistants, never allow them to go from home in the evening; and the restriction will prove equally useful to master and

Though Xantippe once broke the head of Socrates, and he had the temper to bear it, yet if we had the old fellow amongst us now, I believe we should try his philosophic patience on a Saturday. The rage of scowering and cleansing is not peculiar to our house, for I find all my friends complain of the universal deluge on the Saturday. In short, it is the vice of our ladies; and what they call being only clean is a general inconvenience to business and health.

The cleansing begins, like the Sabbath of the Jews, on the Friday; being ordered hastily and early to bed, that the diningroom might be scrubbed out; or else, all are crammed into a little parlour, and smothered, by way of being cleanly to accomplish this, the stairs being just scowered, we are all commanded to go up bare-footed, though at the risk of a tertian ague, or a sore throat.

Early in the morning the servants are rung up, and for the operation of the morning, dressed accordingly; and though smart enough on other occasions, yet to see them in their Saturday's garb for the mop and broom rencontre, you would imagine them to be sybils, or Norwood fortune tellers.

To get at the breakfast room I am under the necessity of wading over my shoes, and if I am not very accurate in my steerage, I am sure to tumble over a pail, or to break my shins against a mop. The weather has nothing to do with this aquatic operation; wet or dry, frost or snow, the house must be cleaned on that day and during breakfast every window and door is thrown open

to give a quick current to the air, that the rooms may be dried the sooner. By this means, unless I am wrapped up in fur, I am perished to death, and sure to take cold. Arguments avail nothing. Mistresses and servants are all combined in the watery plot, and swim or drown is the only alternative.

Sometimes I have pleaded for a room that hath not been used in the week, but in vain, the word wash is general, and all must float from the garret to the cellar. I once or twice in my life ventured to take a peep at the cook in the kitchen, but to be sure no fury could look so fierce; her hair hung about her shoulders, she was mounted on high pattens, her dressers covered with pots and pans, and her face all besmeared with soot and brickdust.

The animals too, on this day of execution, skulk into their holes and corners the dogs sneak away with their tails between their legs to the stable; and poor puss is obliged to ascend a beer barrel in the cellar, by way of sanctuary, where she purs away her time, longing for the return of the dove and olive branch as much as Noah did in the old weather-beaten ark.

But these misfortunes are not all my wife and all the maids, as if by inspiration, agreement, or devilish witchcraft, are all in the dumps; they universally put on one face, and I can assure you, for these last ten years, I have not seen a Saturday smile on their faces.

Saturday carries with it general persecution; it is not that we are harassed from room to room, washed out of the house for ease,

and starved to death with cold from the thorough airs, but our stomachs pinch for it too; for as nothing must be dirtied, so we are obliged to make up with bits and scraps for dinner. I very often, to keep off the ague, draw a cork extraordinary, for there is positively no other remedy; but, if by chance, a drop of wine sullies the Bath lacquered table, my good lady rises with the dignity of a pontiff, and with a rubber labours for twenty minutes against the unlucky spot; for I must own our tables would serve instead of looking-glasses. Now, though my wife possesses the virtues of Diana, yet the plagues of Egypt never came on the natives once a week, which I, alas! am forced to summit to in spite of every argument.

THE MEPHITIC WEASEL OF AMERICA.

The mode of defence which nature has bestowed on this animal is of a nature so extraordinary, that, were it not asserted by persons of the most unquestionable credit, it would seem entirely apocryphal. When suddenly irritated, or when pursued, and in danger of being taken, it possesses the faculty of suddenly emitting effluvia, so powerfully offensive, as to taint the air to an almost incredible distance. If the descriptions given of this odious vapour are not aggravated by the abhorrent recollection of those who have experienced its effects, every other ill smell which nature can produce is surpassed by the overpowering fetor of this extraordinary quadruped. In consequence of this horrible emanation, the dogs relinquish

their pursuit, and men are obliged to fly with precipitation, from the tainted spot; but, if, unfortunately, the least drop of the liquid, which it commonly discharges at this particular juncture, should happen to light on the clothes of the hunter, he becomes a nuisance wherever he appears, and is obliged to divest himself of his dress, and practise all the arts of ablution, in order to be restored to the society of mankind.

A HAPPY FAMILY.

Dear sir,-The reason that you have not heard from me for these last five weeks is, that the people where I have been have engrossed all my time and attention. Perhaps you will be surprised to hear, that I have lived a complete month with our old friend, the rector of South-Green, and his honest wife.

You know with what compassion we used to think of them; that a man who had mixed a good deal with the world, and who had always entertained hopes of making a figure in it, should foolishly, and at an age when people generally grow wise, throw away his affections upon a girl worth nothing and that she, one of the liveliest of women, as well as the finest, should refuse the many advantageous offers which were made her, and follow a poor parson to his living of fifty pounds a year, in a remote corner of the kingdom. But I have learned from experience, that we have been pitying the happiness of our acquaintance. I am impatient to tell you all I know of them.