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ready rejoinder; "much farther--you are come from the other side of the
House!"

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TO MOLLY.

Mollis abuti,
Has an acuti,
No lasso finis,
Molli divinis.
Omi de armistres,
Imi na distres.
Cant u discover,
Meas alo ver.--SWIFT.

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KINGS OF FRANCE.

It is worthy of remark, that none of the Kings of France have been
succeeded by their sons for nearly two centuries. Phillippe, the present
King of the French, succeeded to the regal sway in consequence of the
dethronement of Charles the Tenth; who succeeded his brother, Louis
the Eighteenth; who succeeded his brother, Louis the Sixteenth; who
succeeded his grandfather, Louis the Fifteenth; who likewise succeeded
his grandfather, Louis the Fourteenth, when only five years of age.

H.B.A.

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PANDORA'S BOX.

The Prince of Piedmont was not quite seven years old, when his
preceptor, Cardinal (then Father) Glendel, explained to him the fable of
Pandora's Box. He told him that all evils which afflict the human race
were shut up in that fatal box; which Pandora, tempted by Curiosity,
opened, when they immediately flew out, and spread themselves over the
surface of the earth.

"What, Father!" said the young prince, "were all the evils shut up in
that box?"

"Yes," answered the preceptor.

"That cannot be," replied the prince, "since Curiosity tempted Pandora;
and that evil, which could not have been in it, was not the least, since
it was the origin of all."

J.G.B.

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SQUALL AT SEA.

The other evening a surgeon in the navy stated the following curious
circumstance:--

While off Madagascar, in the ship Scorpion, he with the other officers
of the ship were dining with the Captain (Johnson) who had just looked
at the glass; it being a very fine day no one had any apprehension
of a squall. The dinner was hardly over when the captain's eye caught
the glass: he suddenly rose from table and hurrying on deck, ordered
"All hands to turn up, and furl all sail immediately." They had just
completed the order and were descending, when the ship was laid on her
beam-ends, most of the men had a ducking, but that was all the mischief
that happened. Three or four East Indiamen had already been destroyed
by the same accident; and if the above order had not