coin rolled
near a wall beyond its reach. As the animal was still ordered
to get it, it paused for a moment as if for consideration, and
then, stretching forth its trunk to its greatest extent, blew
with such force on the money that it was driven against the
wall, and was brought within reach by the recoil. An officer in
the Bengal army had a very fine and favorite elephant, which
was supplied daily in his presence with a certain allowance of
food, but being compelled to absent himself on a journey, the
keeper of the beast diminished the ration of food, and the
animal became daily thinner and weaker. When its master
returned, the elephant exhibited the greatest signs of
pleasure; the feeding time came, and the keeper laid before it
the former full allowance of food, which it divided into two
parts, consuming one immediately, and leaving the other
untouched. The officer, knowing the sagacity of his favorite,
saw immediately the fraud that had been practised, and made the
man confess his crime."

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A delegation of those disgusting creatures of the feminine or neuter
gender, who hold conventions for the discussion of "Women's Rights,"
obtruded into the presence of the wife of Kossuth, just before the
Hungarian left England, with an address, which, in addition to
expressions of sympathy, contained an intimation that a statement of
opinions was desired respecting their efforts to achieve the "freedom of
their sex." The lady replied that she thanked them for their attentions,
and that, with respect to her views on the emancipation of woman, she
had in earlier years confined herself to the circle of her domestic
duties, and had never been tempted to look beyond it; that latterly the
overwhelming course of events had left her, as might be well supposed,
still less leisure for any speculations of this kind; it would, moreover
(such was the conclusion of her little speech), be forgiven in her, the
wife of Kossuth--a man whom the general voice, not more than her own
heart, pronounced distinguished--if she submitted herself entirely to
his guidance, and never thought of emancipation! Probably this admirable
answer has saved her the annoyance of receiving any such visitors in
this country.

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We find the following in the _Gazette des Tribunaux_:

"In 1814, Lo