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ar ANECDOTES, INCIDENTS, AND USEFUL INFORMATION, Contributions from subscribers are invited for this column. —: Q:—_—_ ANECDOTE OF A SpipkR.—Mr. Moggridge, in his studies of natural history, has been in the habit of immersing, for preservation, his differ- ent species Of spiders aud ants in botiles of alcohol. He saw that they struggled for a few minutes, but he thought the sensation was soon extin- guished, and that they were free from suffering. On one occasion he wished to preserve a large female spider and twenty-four of her young ones, that he had captured. He put the mother into a bottle of aleoho!, ard saw that after a few moments she folded up her legs upon her body, and was atrest. He then Ge into the*botile the young ones, who of course, manifested acute pain. What was his surprise to seo the mother arouse herself from her lethargy, dari around to and fro, gather her young ones to her bosom, foid her legs over them, again relapse iato insensi- bility, untii at last death came to her relief, and the limbs, no longer controlled by this materaal instinct, released their grasp and became dead. The effect of the exhibition upon him is a lesson to our humanity. Hehas never since repeated the experiment, but has applied chloroform be- fore immersion. How Two Dogs Dinep on A STEAK —The Green Bay (Wis.) State Gazette relates the follow- ing fable :—* a large dog belonging to one of our citizens, and who usually accompanies his master to maket in the capacity of porter, was intrusted with afine steak, securely wrapped in paper, to carry home. The animal grasped the parcel between his teeth and trotted ead beside his master. A short distance from the butcher’s the gentleman entered another store, leaving the dog with the parcel standing on the sidewalk. Shortly two vagabond-looking curs arrived on the apot and began sniffing about. Finally, the larger of the two curs began growling and barking at the guardian of the steak; who stood this sort of thing for come time, in a calm and dignified manver, till finally, bis bullying tor- mentors probably having applied some oppro- brious epithet to\him, he opened his mouth to reply, and, of coursé, dropped thoi steak on the ground. The vagabond cur retreated, and the other dog, now fully exasperated, set off in pur- suit of him. In an instant vagabond cur No, 2, who had been standing off a short distance, ap- parently a silent spectator of the scene, prang forward.and seized the steak in his mouth, and put off in an opposite direction. Not long after, and in an alley not far from the fcene of this little episode, were two curs holding a high festival over a rich, juicy steak, and these two curs were the identical ones engaged in the transaction previously related. Who can aay that this was not a put-up job botween these two outcasts of canine society ?”’ A FRiGHTENrp SLEBPER.—TDhe Galt House, io La Fayette, Lonitiana, last fall was infested with a number of cats, given to nocturnal ram- bling». The clerk and a brigand-looking old fel- Jow named White, under command of Captain Nat Long, undertook to exterminate them. One night, shortly after teelve o’clock, they locked the front door and proceeded up -stairs in quest of the cats. Oid White had a Jantern, Long wie'ded abnog-starter, and the clerk a club, Just as they reached the head of the stairs they saw a huge Sir Toomas dodge into a room. They all tiptoed up, and opening the door, slipped in’; and closing it after them, White raised the lantern and caught sight of the cat in one of the windows, under the curtain, with bis tail sticking out. To grab the tail and throw the cat on the floor wis the work ofa moment. Then all three of them commenced poundisg and yelling. “Kill him! kill him! Don’t iet him get away !’’ they roared. Now it happened that a ‘‘ young man from the country” was in bed in the room, and the noise awoke him, I suppose he had been readiag a book of murders before retiring, for he gave one hasty look at the party, and fell back in bed, exclaiming ‘Great heaven! ’’ and pulled the clothes over his head. Io the morning he was downstairs at daybreak and paid his bill. he clerk, on learn- A YOUNG GEN'TLEMAN’S JOURNAL ing the number of his room, informed him that they had killed a cat there the previous evening. “Well you may have killed a cat, but I thought you were killing a man, and us soon as you buried bim would come back and Kill me,’? REMARKABLE Jury AT Huntinapon.—Ir the 16th century, when figure aid fortune, or quality and wealth, were more considered than wisdom or probity, or justice and equity, in our courts of law, Judge Doddridge took upon him to repri- mand the Sheriff of the county of Huntingdon, for impanneling a grand jary of freeholders who wero not, in his opinion, men of figure and for- tune. The sheriff, who was a man of sense, and of wit and humour, resolved at the next assizes to try how far sounds would work upon that judge, and gain his approbation. He presented him with the follo wing pannel, which had the desired effect, for when the Hames were read over em- phatically, the judge thought that he had now indeed a jury of figure and fortune. A truecopy of a Jary taken before Jadge Dod- dridge, at the Assizes holden at Luntingdon, July, 1619. Maximilian. ,King—of Torland. Honry ..,,..Prince—of Godmanchester, George......Dukte—of Somersham. William ..,, Marquess -of Stukely, Edmund ,.,,Harl—of Hartford. Richard ....Barot—of Bythorpe. Stephen ....Pope—of Newton. Stephen .,,, Jardinal—of Kimbolton, Humphry.. .. Bishop—of Bugden. _ Robert...... Lord—of Worsley. Robert..,,..Knight—of Winwinck. William ....Abbot—of Stukely, Robert...... Baron—of St. Neot’s, William ....Dean—of Old Weston. Jobn,...,..,Archbishop—of Paxton, Peter ......Sqnize—of Haston. Edward ....Friar—of Hllerton, Henry ...... Monk—of Stukely. George...,,.Gentleman—of Spaldock, George......Priest—of Graffham. Richard ..,,Deacon—of Oats worth. 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Lt is a blessing, however, to know that all these sufferings may be completely and expeditiously subdued by Holloway’s remedies, The Pills much assist in banishivg the tendency to rheuma- tism and similar painful disorders ; whilst the Ointment cures the local ailments, tue Pills remove the constitu- tional disturbance and regulate the impaired functions of every organ throughout the human body. The care is neither temporary nor superficial, but permanent and complete and the disease rarely recurs, so perfect has been the purification performed by these searching preparations.—ADVT, : _ PUAAILHS. $i Contributions to this column must be strictly original ; written on one side of the paper only,in a fairly legible hand; and have a correct solution duly attached. Solutions to the following willappearin No 424, All solvers must send in their answers within a week of publication. Correct solutions oaly will be acknowledged. 30. DIAMOND PUZZLE. My first will state, One- fifth of crate, ‘ A vessel next will show ; An Italian town, In this is shown, Its name perchance you know A famous ganae, This will pEcontea— ’Tis played in summer time ; This lake I ween, By tray’llers seen, In Afric’s sunny clime, An English stream, Tis famed for bream, And many kinds of fish ; Fur last please take, One fifth of steak, Tnoat savoury English dish. From North to South—from left to right, A famous game will come to sight. ~ O. A. W. ErDRinGs, él. ' CENTRAL DELETIONS. I, A mechavical power, the centrals delete, And the slyest of glances your vision will meet. ai. A substance whose poison will often cause death, The centrals delete, and you're gasping for breath. III. Take the centre away from a part of your frame, And a spar of a ship it will instantly name, IV. On the roof of old houses my name you will find, The ceutrals delete, and I’m only the wind! ©. A. W. ELDRIDG 5, 32. CHARADE., By my first your peas arg boughi, My second is by géurménds sought, , Combine the two, And then you'll view, A London suburb known to you. C. A. W. ELpripesr. 33. DIAMOND PUZZLE. My primal is one-sixth of throat, Serrow or grief this will denote ; Now search Italia’s map, and you This river’s name will quickly view. In Afric’s hot and sanny land, This creature often takes ae stand ; In minds of young and old, I ween, This outlaw’s name for years hath been. A Christian name next bring to view— \¢ may, perchance, be borne by you; And now an English poet’s name, Whose works have won undying fame. A title, and a river, too, My next will surely show to you; As for my last, I much deplore, The fact that it is nothing more. I trust that wit you will not lack, That you with ease this nut may crack ; *Tis very simple, as you’/1 own, When to you the solution’s shown. O. A, W. ELpringer. 34, CHARADH. My first is often used by my second, And my whole is s London suburb reckoned, O. A, W. ELDRIDGH, ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 419. 11.—Rajah, Agave, James, Avers, Hesse. 12.—Hesse, Hllen, Start, Serge, Enter, 13.—Hesse, Waten, Siart, Serge, Enter, 14.—Nerve, Trial, Evade, Relet. So-use (Sonse). Keys. 6, Zodiac, Odessa, Deccan, I-scorn, Asa-ror, Canned. 7. Flower Garden—FiG, LlamA, OctobeR, WanD, Exil®, RobiN. 8. Fir-man. 9. D, Pig, Piano, Diamond, Gnome, One, D. 10. Stone, Tone, One, Ton, To, O. 2. Temper. 3. 4. Moth-Hriu-law (Mother-in-law). 5. CONMIEOOOKS (©)