slason, author of the
"Danish-Icelandic Lexicon."

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The Swedish Academy has elected Professor HAGBERG, the translator of
Shakspeare, in place of the deceased Bishop Kullberg. The great prize of
the academy has this year been conferred on a poem entitled "Regnar
Lodbrok," written by Thekla Knoes, a daughter of the late Professor Knoes.

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Attention is beginning to be paid in Spain to the popular literature of
England, and it is not improbable that it may get into as high favor as
that of France. Already Dickens's "David Copperfield" and Lady Fullerton's
"Grantley Manor" have been translated, and are being published in the
_folletinos_ of two of the newspapers.

A LEAF FROM PUNCH.

[Illustration.]

France Is Tranquil.

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Signs Of The Times.

When a young lady "has a very bad cold, or else she'd be delighted," &c.,
it is rather a dangerous sign that, when once she sits down to the piano,
she will probably not leave it for the remainder of the evening.

When a gentleman loses his temper in talking, it is a tolerably correct
sign that he is getting "the worst of the argument."

When you see the servant carrying under her apron a bottle of soda-water
into a house, you may at once seize it as a sure sign that some one has
been drinking over-night.

When the children are always up in the nursery, you may construe it into a
sure sign that the mother does not care much about them.

When a young couple are seen visiting a "Cheap Furniture Mart," you may
interpret it into a pretty fair sign that the "happy day" is not far
distant.

When the boys begin to tear up their books, it is a sign the holidays are
about to commence.

[Illustration.]

The Road To Ruin.

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[Illustration: Cannon.]

The accompanying is a good sketch of the PATENT STREET-SWEEPING MACHINE
lately introduced in Paris. The sketch was taken on the spot (represented
at A). The want of firmness in the lines of the drawing would seem to
indicate some tremor in the nerves of the artist. The invention is not
entirely new, having been used in the same city by the uncle of the
present