ter
conscience! You ought to _see_ me sleep sometimes! The way I 'take it easy
is a caution to children!' "

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It may not be new, but whether new or not, it is worthy of being repeated
to our readers, the beautiful reply of a little lad to an English bishop,
who said to him, one day, "If you will tell me where GOD is, I'll give you
an orange." "If you will tell me where HE is _not_," promptly responded
the little fellow, "I will give you _two!_" Better than all earthly logic
was the simple faith of this trusting child.

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Here is an awful "fixed fact" for snuff-takers! Perhaps the "Statistics of
Snuff and Sneezing" may yet form a part of some remote census of these
United States:

"It has been very exactly calculated, that in forty years, two entire
years of the snuff-taker's life are devoted to tickling his nose, and two
more to the sonorous and agreeable processes of blowing and wiping it,
with other incidental circumstances!"

How about "Statistics of Chewing?"--the time employed in selecting,
inserting, rolling, and ejecting the quid?--the length of the yellow lines
at the corners of the mouth, in the aggregate?--the lakes of saliva,
spirted, squirted, spit, sprinkled, and drizzled? We commend the pregnant
theme to some clever American statist. Ah! well would it be if we be
stowed half the time in making ourselves agreeable, that we waste in
rendering ourselves offensive to our friends!

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The late lamented JOHN SANDERSON, the witty author of "The American in
Paris," speaking of Pere La Chaise, says: "A Frenchman, who enjoys life so
well, is, of all creatures, the least concerned at leaving it. He only
wishes to be buried in the great Parisian burying-ground; and often
selects his marble of the finest tints for his monument, and has his
coffin made, and his grave dug in advance." A lady told the author, with
great _empressement_, that she had rather _not die at all_, than to die
and be buried any where except in Pere La Chaise!

LITERARY NOTICES

Harper and Brothers have published an edition of LAYARD's _Popular Account
of Discoveries at Nineveh_, being an abridgment of his large work on the
same subject, by the author himself. In this edition, the principal
Biblical and historical illustrations are introduced into the narrative.
No