.

The same painter, in his scene of Peter denying Christ,
represents a Roman soldier very comfortably smoking a pipe
of tobacco.

A Dutch painter, in a picture of the Wise Men worshiping the
Holy Child, has drawn one of them in a large white surplice,
and in boots and spurs, and he is in the act of presenting
to the child a model of a Dutch man-of-war.

In a Dutch picture of Abraham offering up his son, instead
of the patriarch's "stretching forth his hand and taking the
knife," as the Scriptures inform us, he is represented as
using a more effectual and modern instrument; he is holding
to Isaac's head a blunderbuss.

A French artist has drawn, with true French taste, the
Lord's Supper, with the table ornamented with tumblers
filled with cigar-lighters; and, as if to crown the list of
these absurd and ludicrous anachronisms, the Garden of Eden
has been drawn with Adam and Eve in all their primeval
simplicity and virtue, while near them, in full costume, is
seen a hunter with a gun, shooting ducks.

Another famous mixture of periods occurs in a picture of the
Crucifixion, by Fra Angelico. In the foreground are a
Dominican monk, a bishop with a crozier, a mitered abbot,
and a man holding up a crucifix.

A PIN SCRATCH LED TO NELSON'S VICTORY.

DISCOVERY OF THE FRENCH FLEET.

The Noting of the Distress of a French
Maid by Sir John Acton Had a
Strange Result.

The good points of pins have been generally appreciated, but never did a
pin point to a greater result than the one that made possible Nelson's
great victory of the Nile on August 1 and 2, 1798.

It was at this fight that Nelson, with his usual intrepidity, forced a
passage with half of his fleet of fifteen vessels between a small island,
near Aboukir in Egypt, and the French line of battle, while the other half
attacked the enemy in front, completely defeating the French fleet and
capturing or sinking thirteen of its seventeen ships.

The part that the pin played in the story came about in this way:

Sir John Acton, then commander-in-chief of the land and sea
forces of Naples, happened to be in his wife's dressing-room
at the moment she was preparing for dinner.

Lady Acton's French maid was also in the room, and was so
startled at receiving a letter from her brother, a sailor
in the French navy, whom she had believed to be de