WIT AND HI NOR.

aTrue Humof generally looks serious, wiilD eymy
body laughs about him False HnInor Is Always lapS
ing, whilst every body about him looks ssrions.
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DANplEs. There are some fools in the
world, who, after long incubation, will
hatch out from hot bed Of pride sickly
brood of fuzzy ideas, and then 60 strutting
along the path of prosperity with all the
self Importance Of q speckled hen with a
black chicken! ] have an antipathy to
such people. They are mere walking sticks
for female fiirts--ornamented with brass
heads, did ! say' No; their caputs are
only half ripe muskmelons, with only thick
rinds, and all hollow inside, containing the
seeds Of foolishness, swimming about with
a vast quantity Of sap. Tinkered up with
broad cloth, finger rings, safety chains, soft
solder, vanity and impudence, they are no
more men than plated tea spoon is solid
silver detest dandy as cat does a
wet floor. Dow JR.
I uNoT ANYTHING ELSE, &c."-We ven
ture to assert that hundreds have, in turn,
used and condemned this saying as vul-
garism, which in fact it has become by too
common use and application, and few in
deed are acquainted with the following an
ecdote, which is its authentic origin:
h Coleridge, the poet, was habitually prosy,
very prosy in conversation. He would des-
cant for hours on mere trifes, much to the
annoyance Of his intimate friends. One
day, in conversation with Charles Lamb, he
addressed the latter with g Charley, did you
ever hear me preach -


II ssIneper heardyou do anything else, was
the witty and immediate reply, and the
origin Of the popular, or if you like, vulgar
saying at the head Of this paragraph


When Cromwell made his public entry
into London, his companions remarked toI
him the concourse of people who came
from all parts to see him. "There would
be1just as many" said he g if ! was going
to the scafold."


AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE MODERN


WAY OF SAYING "YES."


John, wilt thou have this woman for thy wife,
And love her well and truly, all thy life
Said John, with nod intended for bow,


/" Iwon't have any body else, VOW"


And fora husband wilt thou have this youth,
And love him with fidelity and truth?


His Reverence said unto the lovely she,


Who blushipg answered ".Yes sir ee"