would voluntarily refer to these among very inti- | mate friends, but he became exceedingly uneasy when he apprehended any allusion to them in public. Once, however, he was complimented upon his rise under circumstances so extravagantly ludicrous that he joined in the general shout of laughter which the orator called forth. Sir Peter Laurie, the saddler, when Lord Mayor of London, gave a dinner at the Mansion House to the Judges, and, in proposing their health, observed, in impassioned accents, "What a country is this we live in! In other parts of the world there is no chance, except for men of high birth and aristocratic connections; but here genius and industry are sure to be rewarded. See before you the examples of myself, the Chief Magistrate of the Metropolis of this great empire, and the Chief Justice of England sitting at my right hand-both now in the highest offices in the State, and both sprung from the very dregs of the people!" Lord Tenterden is placed in a very amiable point of view by Macready, the celebrated tragedian, in a lecture which he delivered to a Mechanics' Institute after he had retired from the stage, and which he published with several others possessing great interest. The lecturer gives an account of a visit paid by him to Canterbury Cathedral, under the auspices of a verger who, by reading and observation, had acquired wonderful knowledge of architecture and medieval antiquities. Having introduced us to his guide, the ex-tragedian thus proceeds: "He directed my attention to every thing worthy of notice; pointed out with the detective eye of taste the more recondite excellence of art throughout the building; and with convincing accuracy shed light on the historical traditions associated with it. It was opposite the western front that he stood with me before what seemed the site of a small shed or stall, then unoccupied, and said, 'Upon this spot a little barber's-shop used to stand.' The last time Lord Tenterden came down here he brought his son Charles with him, and it was my duty, of course, to attend them over the Cathedral. When we came to this side of it he led his son up to this very spot, and said to him, 'Charles, you see this little shop; I have brought you here on purpose to show it to you. shop your grandfather used to shave for a penny! That is the proudest reflection of my life. While you live never forget that, my dear Charles.' And this man, the son of a poor barber, was the Lord Chief Justice of England. For the very reason, therefore, that the chances of such great success are rare, we should surely spare no pains in improving the condition of all whom accident may depress or fortune may not befriend." In that LORD ELLENBOROUGH was once about to go on the circuit, when Lady Ellenborough said that she should like to accompany him. He replied that he had no objection, provided she did not encumber the carriage with band-boxes, which were his utter abhorrence. During the first day's journey, Lord Ellenborough, happening to stretch his legs, struck his foot against something below the seat. He discovered that it was a band-box. Up went the window, and out went the band-box. The coachman stopped, and the footmen, thinking that the band-box had tumbled out of the window by some extraordinary chance, were going to pick it up, when Lord Ellenborough furiously called out, "Drive on!" The band-box, accordingly, was left by the ditch-side. Having reached the county town where he was to officiate as Judge, Lord Ellenborough proceeded to array himself for his appearance in the court-house. "Now," said he, "where's my wig-where is my wig?" "My Lord," replied his attendant, "it was thrown out of the carriage-window!" A GRAND melo-dramatic spectacle was being rehearsed in the Park Theatre a few years since, in which a magnificent car, drawn by horses, was to make its appearance on the stage, through a trapdoor. Mr. Manager S- supervised in person the rehearsal. The period arrived when the horses should appear dragging the gilded car; the stage was detained-the actors impatient-the manager wrathful, demanding in a loud voice of the man whose business it was to see all right below, in the regions of mystery and enchantment, why he delayed the car. 'Somebody has cut the traces, Sir." "Cut the traces ?" asked the manager; "why, nobody had access there to-day but yourself." "They wasn't cut with axes, Sir; they vas cut with a knife!" A PAPER Called the Comet has been started in Pennsylvania, and is to have a new tale every week. Is tramping on a man's corns one step toward cultivating his acquaintance? OLD English ballads tell us of the tastes and humors of the people long time ago. Here is one that is called THE RURAL DANCE ABOUT THE MAY-POLE And Johnny has got his Joan, Jig it up and down. "Strike up," says Wat; "Agreed," says Kate, "And, I prithee, fiddler, play ;" "Content," says Hodge, and so says Madge, "For this is a holiday." Then every man did put His hat off to his lass, And every girl did curchy, Curchy, curchy on the grass. "Begin," says Hall; "Ay, ay," says Mall, To foot it round about; Jet it, jet it, in and out. "You're out," says Dick; ""Tis a lie," says Nick, "The fiddler played it false;" "'Tis true," says Hugh, and so says Sue, And so says nimble Alse. The fiddler then began To play the tune again; Trip it to the men, "Let's kiss," says Jane: "Content," says Nan, And so says every she; "How many?" says Batt; "Why, three," says Matt, Did give them half a score, FIGURE 3.-LACE SLEEVE. WE present a very graceful EQUESTRIAN COSTUME. During the summer months it has been made of white dimity; but for a later season it may be of habit cloth. Dark green is perhaps the most becoming color. The corsage is a basquine, cut high, and buttoning up midway in front, with a revers and collar, turning down like that of a man's coat. A brace is formed by a small bias, which envelops the top of the sleeve, beneath which it diminishes behind. On the shoulder it is an inch in width, but grows narrower as it is prolonged on the lappet. The lappet is sewed upon the body in front, as far as the side-pieces of the back. The body is cut rather pointed in front, giving a graceful turn to the figure. ButFIGURE 2.-LACE tons form the trimmings. The sleeves, which are half tight, are rounded below FICHU. at the outside seams of the cuffs. Pockets give an appropriate finish. The skirt is of Amazon cloth. A black silk cravat and small standing collar harmonize with the remainder of the costume. The LACE BODY is composed of white and black lace, with transparents of pink ribbon and bows. The FICHU is of tulle, with puffings, quadrilled with narrow ribbons and lace, as represented above, with which the SLEEVE is en suite. "At Indianola, and within the first month after 'the outlandish brutes' were landed, some hay being needed at the camel-yard one day, a tenant David D. Porter of the navy, was assigned the special duty of procuring in the East a sufficient number of the finest animals to conduct the experiment to conclusive results; the store-man was sent to the quarter-master's forageship Supply was fitted up by Lieutenant Porter house, with a camel, to bring up four bales. to receive and safely transport the camels to When the submissive brute was made to kneel, Texas, his arrangements to that effect being and two bales, weighing together 613 pounds, most admirable. In two expeditions, camels were packed upon him, doubts were expressed and dromedaries of choice breeds were pur- by several by-standers as to the camel's ability chased in Egypt, Tunis, and Asia Minor, and to rise under them. When two bales more with remarkable success landed at Indianola were added, making the gross weight of the in Texas; in much better condition, indeed, load 1256 pounds, the gaping crowd gave noisy than mules or horses could be expected to pre-expression to their astonishment and indignasent in like circumstances. After a sufficient interval allowed for recruiting, a series of experiments was instituted by the sagacious and zealous conductors of the expedition, which, so far as they have gone, abundantly prove the adaptability of the camel to military and "express" purposes in the waste and scantily-watered regions of the Southwest; that they can be transported on long voyages with safety; that the atmospheric changes of Texas are even less unfavorable to them than those to which they are often exposed at home; that they find in Texas abundant subsistence; that they can be reared and trained there, as easily and as well as in Arabia or Egypt; that they can bear even greater burdens in Texas, because better fed and more intelligently tended; and, finally, that a knowledge of their management is not more difficult to Americans than to Orientals. tion, and gentlemen who had never been to Camel-land were willing to bet considerable that the critter couldn't git up under the heft o' that.' But when the camel arose, without a strain, and quietly walked away with his four bales, as one who felt himself master of the situation, there was a sudden change of publie sentiment, most flattering to the outlandish brute and encouraging to his military sponsors. A Texan poet chronicled the event in verse, and A Node' in honor of the occasion was given to the world in the columns of the Indianola Bulletin." The brusque, eccentric Waterton, with his characteristic irreverence and truculence, wrote Buffon down an ass; and Captain Mayne Reid pronounces him a "parlor naturalist," because he speaks of the lion, not ' as he found him," but as he read of him. Certainly, if we were inclined chivalrously to defend that oracle of menagerie-men against his brace of scoffers, we would desire some better footing than we find in his account of the camel; for he tells us the "camel" is the two-humped species, and distinguishes the one-humped by the term "drom At least, these are the conclusions at which those who have participated in this novel enterprise, or who have watched its progress with impartial and instructed interest from the first, have clearly arrived. The complete success of the experiment, and the acknowledged estab-edary," as a scientific classification. Now Johnlishment of the practicability of rearing and working the camel in the United States, so as to procure to the fullest extent the advantages of its docility, strength, endurance, powers of abstinence, patience, speed, and, of course, economy, are, they think, only a question of time. To realize these expectations, five or six years of practical investigation will be required. son, in his "Physical Atlas," defines the limits of Camel-land as extending from the fifteenth to the fifty-second degree of north latitude, and from the fifteenth degree of longitude west of Greenwich to the hundred and twentieth east, and embracing the Canaries, Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, the Great Desert, and Egypt, in Africa; Arabia, Turkey in Asia, Persia, Cabool, Beloochistan, Hindostan, Birmah, Thibet, Mongolia, a small portion of the southern part of Siberia, and Independent Tartary, in Asia; the Crimea, and a not extensive tract around Constantinople, in Europe; to which may be added Tuscany, where the camel has existed for two 66 Four months since, Major Wayne wrote to the Secretary of War: "So far the results of the experiment, within the limits time has permitted it to be carried, have fully sustained the views we entertained in regard to the usefulness of the camel, and which induced us [Major Wayne and Lieutenant Porter], in our respect-hundred years—not in general use, but on the ive spheres of action, to press it upon the attention of Congress. In conducting the experiment I have endeavored to act with great caution, and rather to err on the side of excessive care than to jeopard success by any effort at display. I know what the animal is capable of doing, and does, in Asia and Africa, and I am firmly convinced that it can do as much in America. The prejudices, fears, and objections of all classes are to be met only by successful demonstration." And of this, Major Wayne relates an amusing example: private estates of the Grand Duke, at Pisa. 'Adopting this definition," says Linant Bellefonds (Linant Bey, engineer-in-chief of dykes and bridges to the Viceroy of Egypt), "the camel would not be known any where on the African continent, and only in a small part of Tartary, in Asia. Yet throughout Camel-land the one-humped animal is universally known as 'gimel,' 'djimel,' or 'gamel,' and the word dromedary,' or any thing like it, is never heard." Moreover, the term "dromedary," derived from the Greek, opouevs (runner, racer, |