I',sactuGtion.-When Lord Timothy

 Dexter, of Newburyport. wrote his famous book, entitled "A Pikel for the Knowing Ones," there happened to be many here- sies, schisms and false doctrines abroad in the land regarding punctuation and as many diverse systems appeared, for the location ofcommas, semicolons, dashes, ,CEc. as there were works published. To obvi- ate this difficulty and to give every one an opportunity of suiting himself. his lordship Jeff out all marks of punctuation from the body of his work, and at the ending of the book. had printed 1 or 5 pages of nothing but stops and pauses. with which he said tho reader could pepper his disa as he chose. Prop. Pat.