FEMALE SMOKERS." I have befor me (says Captain White, in his Voyage to Cochin China)one of the cigars used by the ladies of Manilla. It is of a taper form; its length 10 inches; diameter at the butt, or big end, 24 inches, and at the smaller end 1 inch. It is composed entirely of tobacco, in parallel, compact layers, and wrapped with the largest leaves of the same plant; it is ornamented with bands of floss silk, of various colours, which cross each other diagonally. The whole length of the cigar, and the intersections of the bands, are ornamented with spangles fire is applied to the smallest end of this unwieldy mass, and the large end is received by the mouth. One of these cigars, as may be supposed, will last you some eight or ten days' smoking."

BATTLE CRY.-In the battle of Inverkeithing, between the Royalists and Oliver Cromwell's troops, 500 of the followers of the Laird of Maclean were left dead on the field. In the heat of the conflict, seven brothers of the clan sacrified their lives in defence of their leader, Sir Hector Maclean, who, being hard pressed by the enemy, was supported and covered from their attacks by these brothers ; and as one fell another came up in succession to cover him, crying "Another for Hector." This phrase has continued ever since as a proverb or watch-word when a man encounters any sudden danger that requires

instant succour.

INGRATITUDE.-Sir Henry Brabant having waited upon the celebrated Lord Clarendon after his dis race,

his lordship, after telling him how kindly he took this visit, expressed himself to this effect-that there were grievous things laid against him, but he could bear up against all the rest if his Majesty would forgive him but one thing, which was, that he was the person who had advised him to prefer his enemies and neglect his friends; adding, that he took that for the cause of his own ruin, and wished it might not occasion that of many others, and at last the king's too.

SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE, the translator of Camoens and Guarini, being on a voyage once to Spain in company with his wife (perhaps when he went on an embassy thither from Charles the First), their vessel was met by a Turkish galley, upon which the following incident took place, as related by Lady Fanshawe herself:"We pursued our voyage, says she, "with prosperous winds, but a most tempestuous master, a Dutchman (which is enough to say), but truly the greatest beast I ever saw of his kind. When we had just passed the Siraits, we saw coming towards us, with full sails, a Turkish galley, well manned, and we believed we should be carried away slaves; for this man had so laden his ship with goods for Spain, that his guns were useless, though the ship carried sixty. He called for brandy, and after he had well drunken and all his men, which were near two hundred, he called for arms, and cleared the deck as well as he could, resolving to fight rather than lose his ship, which was worth 30,0001. This was sad for us passengers: but my husband bad us be sure to keep in the cabin, and not appear, which would make the Turks think we were a man of war, but if they saw women, they would take us for merchants and board us. went upon deck and took a gun, a bandelier, and a sword, expecting the arrival of the Turkish man of war. This beast captain had locked me up in the cabin. I knocked and called to no purpose until the cabin-boy came and opened the door. I, all in

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tears, desired him to be so good as to give me his thrum cap and his tarred coat, which he did, and I gave him half a crown, and put them on, and flinging away my night clothes, I crept up softly, and stood upon the deck by my husband's side, as free from sickness and fear as, I confess, of discretion, but it was the effect of that passion which I could never master By this time the two vessels were engaged in parley, and so well satisfied with speech and the sight of each other's force, that the Turk's man of war tacked about, and we continued our course. But when your father saw it was convenient to retreat, looking upon me, he blessed himself, and snatched me up in his arms, saying, 'Good God, that love can make this change!' and though he seemingly chid me, he would laugh at it as often as he remembered that voyage."

FINE WORDS-Verstigan, an old author, condemning the introduction of new words, says, "It fell out not many yeeres past, that a principal Courtier, writing from London to a personage of authority in the north parts, touching the trayning of men, and providing furniture for warre, willed him among other things to EQUIPPE his horses; the receiver of the letter, with some labour, came at last to the understanding of it all except equippe, whereof in no sort could he conceive the meaning. In the end he consulted with divers gentlemen in the country thereabouts, but none could resolve him. It was among them remembered that we use in our language the word quipping and the word whipping, the first not proper for horses, but sometimes used to men, the latter not fit for gentlemen's horses, but for carters' jades. In fine, none of them all being able to finde in all the English they had, what equippe might meane, a messenger was sent off on purpose to the Court at London to learne the meaning thereof of the writer of the letter."

JASMINE.-A celebrated naturalist informs us, that at one time a Duke of Tuscany was the first and the only person in Europe possessed of this pretty, shrub; and he was so tenaciously jealous and fearful lest others should enjoy what himself wished alone to possess, that he gave his gardener the most strict and positive injunctions, not to give a slip, nor so much as a single flower, to any person whatever. To this injunction the gardener no doubt would have paid the most faithful and implicit obedience, had not love wounded him by the sparkling eyes of a fair but portionless peasant, whose want of a little dowry, with his poverty, prevented their going to the hymeneal altar. According to the custom of their country, on the birth-day of his mistress her lover presented her with a nosegay, and to enhance the value of the present, in the bouquet was introduced a branch of jasmine. The Povera Figlia desiring to preserve the bloom of this precious and new flower, put the branch into fresh earth, where it remained green all the year. In the following spring it bloomed and was covered with flowers; and so much did it multiply and fructify under the fair nymph's cultivation, that she amassed a little fortune by selling slips of the precious gift affection had bestowed; and which she resigned up to the happy gardener, when, with a sprig of jasmine in her breast, she became his in the closest earthly bond. The Tuscan girls, to this day, preserve the remembrance of this adventure, by invariably wearing a nosegay of jasmine on their wedding day; and they have a proverb, which says a young girl worthy of wearing this nosegay is rich enough to make the fortune of a good husband.

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IN the Military Hospital of Bourdeaux, when the British troops occupied that town in 1814, a young soldier of the 53d was admitted a patient. His age was about nineteen; he was a Welshman, and the history of his case was this:-He enlisted, in a fit of drunkenness, but a few months before, and from the time he embarked for Spain, he was seized with the most profound melancholy. In landing at Passages, a port in the province of Biscay, he was obliged to be carried on shore; scarcely took any nourishment, and was incessantly talking of home, sighing, and lamenting his absence from his native mountains. The hills about San Sebastian so reminded him of Wales, that he almost wished he was dead before he left that country. His comrades observed that he grew worse on the march, and a little before the battle of Orthez he was taken into the Military Hospital, and from thence was forwarded to Bourdeaux by carriage.

When the medical officer, to whose charge he was consigned (Assistant Surgeon Maginn), saw him, for the first time, at the hospital, he seemed perfectly indifferent to what was going forward; would answer no question, not even open his mouth; his eyes were fixed in a vacant stare; nor could it be observed that the eyelids winked. At first the medical officer supposed that he was playing off a trick, not unusual amongst skulkers; and having ordered him a carthartic, directed the orderly of his ward to

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pay most particular attention to the patient's manner during the day and night, but not to appear to take any notice, in order that, if he really was pretending, he might thus be discovered. The orderly slept in the next bed to him, and, on the following day, declared that he scarcely could hear him breathe, and that in whatever position, he was placed, he still remained until again moved by the orderly. On the next visit, the surgeon tried by every means in his power to make him speak or open his mouth, or even to make any voluntary motion, without effect. pulse was slow, and scarcely perceptible, evidently pointing out the true nature of the disease; and having learnt from the patient's comrades that he was in that lethargic state for eight days before, it was thought necessary to treat it as a case of real disease. Hot brandy was immediately ordered, and the surgeon himself put, with difficulty, some of it into his mouth, and he swallowed it, but the pulse did not rise. A little hot chocolate was then procured, as his comrados said he always seemed to like it, and the cup was placed in the patient's hand. At this moment, which was about ten o'clock in the morning, the surgeon was called to a different part of the hospital to an ancient, and was occupied in his duties until half-past two, when, on returning, he found the poor Welshman in the very same attitude, with the cup of chocolate in his hand, and the men in the ward declared he had never moved a hair's breadth since the chocolate was placed in his grasp-four hours and a half.-Active treatment was now adopted, according to the surgeon's own idea of the case; and that was, first, to administer a drastic purgative with some aromatics, and order a good portion of hot wine to be poured down his throat. The next day he had the man stripped and brought down to the yard, where half-a-dozen men, each holding a pail of spring water, stood upon a height above where the patient was placed, and, one after the other, showered a full stream upon the top of his head.