ierre ceased to exist.

W.G.C.

_Who are "the uneducated?"_--What is meant by _uneducated_, in a time
when books have come into the world; come to be household furniture in
every habitation of the civilized world. In the poorest cottage are
books; is one book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of
man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to
whatever is deepest in him; wherein still, to this day, for the eye that
will look well, the Mystery of Existence reflects itself, if not
resolved, yet revealed, and prophetically emblemed; if not to the
satisfying of the outward sense, yet to the opening of the inward sense,
which is the far grander result. "In books lie the creative Phoenix'
ashes of the whole Past." All that men have devised, discovered, done,
felt, or imagined, lies recorded in books; wherein whoso has learned the
mystery of spelling printed letters, may find it, and appropriate
it.--_Edinburgh Review._

A veteran dramatist now alive, distinguished for the oddness of his
humour, being required to state his grounds of exemption from serving in
the militia, actually wrote on the official paper, "Old, lame, and a
coward!"

T. GILL.

_Cogent Reasons._--Dr. Arbuthnot first began his practice at Dorchester,
a situation where the air is salubrious, and the environs beautiful; but
he staid no length of time there. A neighbour met him galloping to
London, and asked him why he went thither? "To leave your confounded
place, where I can neither live nor die."

T. GILL.

_The Foot._--Man is the only animal, in which the whole surface of the
foot rests on the ground; and this circumstance arises from the erect
stature which belongs exclusively to him.

_The Brain._--The cavity containing the brain of a crocodile measuring
thirteen or fourteen feet, will hardly admit the thumb; and the brain of
the chamelion is not, according to the description of the Paris
dissectors, larger than a pea.

_The Tongue_ does not appear to be an indispensable organ of taste.
Blumenbach saw an adult, and, in other respects, a well-formed man, who
was born without a tongue. He could distinguish, nevertheless, very
easily the tastes of solutions of salt, sugar, and aloes, rubbed on his
palate, and would express the taste of each in writing.

_Vulgar Error._--In Mr. Crabb's Dictionary of General Knowledge,
article, _Pelican_, we find it stated that the bird "has a peculiar
tenderness for its young