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ANECDoTE OF A DoCToR.-A young lady
consulted physician of eminence OH account
of some rheumatic pains, and troublesome
cough, which she had labored under ever
since the commencement of the cold wealth.
er. The prescription was sent by the foot
man to the apothecarys as usual He read
it with smile, and recommended the mes
senger to take it to dry goods man on the
opposite side of the street, as apothecaries
did not keep the articles proscribed upon
which the footman inquired what the doctor
had ordered, when he was informed by rs
culapius that the prescription ran thus:-
"Take a good warm double Scotch shawl.
and apply it immediately around the sh.ul-
ders and chest; and also, secundum artem, a
stout Welsh Pettcoat
You've L,RY.--A man swearing the peace
against three of his sons, thus concluded the
affidavit-" And this deponent further saith,
that the only one of his children who showed
him any real fiIial affection, was his young
est son Lazy, for he never struck him when
he was down"


Two Jews were distinguished, one for his
skill in boxing, and the other for his tondness
for women gentleman being asked to
what tribe they belonged, answered "l ra-
ther think one is an AmorIte, and the other
is Hittte."


The London Athena um gives the follow
ing morcednT as specimens of the contents of
a collection of poems, just published:


Lines ertempore, w'inen IN the Album Of


Miss S. Il. I.


Lovely girl! enchanting crcature


Beautiful in every icature


Head and body, legs and all,


Signing for a1overs call!
Lines 'c'itien tr'empore on the she'll of an egg.


BY nature was surely meant


To be Il cock or hen;


But to the pot, alas! I'm sent,


TO feed poor hungry men,