o hear it, sir, and from such _good_ authority."

DCCXCI.--LUXURIOUS SMOKING.

"THE most luxurious smoker I ever knew," says Mr. Paget, "was a young
Transylvanian, who told me that his servant always inserted a lighted
pipe into his mouth the first thing in the morning, and that he smoked
it out before he awoke. 'It is so pleasant,' he observed, 'to have the
proper _taste_ restored to one's mouth before one is sensible even of
its wants.'"

DCCXCII.--NO JUDGE.

A CERTAIN Judge having somewhat hastily delivered judgment in a
particular case, a King's Counsel observed, in a tone loud enough to
reach the bench, "Good heavens! every judgment of this court is a mere
_toss-up_." "But _heads_ seldom win," observed a learned barrister,
sitting behind him.

DCCXCIII.--RELATIONS OF MANKIND.

BY what curious links, and fantastical relations, are mankind connected
together! At the distance of half the globe, a Hindoo gains his support
by groping at the bottom of the sea for the morbid concretion of a
shell-fish, to decorate the throat of a London alderman's wife.--S.S.

DCCXCIV.--VERY TRUE.

SERJEANT MAYNARD, a famous lawyer in the days of the Stuarts, called law
an "_ars bablativa_."

DCCXCV.--EPIGRAM.

(Accounting for the apostacy of ministers.)

THE Whigs, because they rat and change
To Toryism, all must spurn;
Yet in the fact there's nothing strange,
That Wigs should twist, or curl, or turn.

DCCXCVI.--DRINKING ALONE.

THE author of the "Parson's Daughter," when surprised one evening in his
arm-chair, two or three hours after dinner, is reported to have
apologized, by saying, "When one is alone, the bottle _does_ come round
_so_ often." On a similar occasion, Sir Hercules Langreish, on being
asked, "Have you finished all that port (three bottles) without
assistance?" answered, "No--not quite that--I had the _assistance_ of a
bottle of Madeira."

DCCXCVII.--A MUSICAL BLOW-UP.

THE Rev. Mr. B----, when residing at Canterbury some years ago, was
reckoned a good violoncello-player. His sight being dim obliged him very
often to snuff the candles, and in lieu of snuffers he generally
employed his fingers in that office, thrusting the _spoils_ into the
_sound-holes_ of his violoncello. A waggish friend of his popped a
quantity of gunpowder into B----'s instrument. The tea equipage being
removed, music became the order of the