venomed fury on the floor with wooden
hammers. This observance was but very lately forbidden in the Grand
Duchy of Baden.

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TRAVELLING FOLLIES.

"Many gentlemen," says an old English author, "coming to their lands
sooner than to their wits, adventure themselves to see the fashion of
other countries; whence they see the world, as Adam had knowledge of
good and evil, with the loss or lessening of their estate in this
English Paradise; and bring home a few smattering terms, flattering
garbs, apish carriages, foppish fancies, foolish guises and disguises,
the vanities of neighbour nations."

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The Spaniards are infinitely more careful than the French, and other
nations, in planting trees, and in taking care of them; for it rarely
happens, when a Spaniard eats fruit in a wood or in the open country,
that he does not set the stones or the pips; and thus in the whole of
their country an infinite number of fruit-trees of all kinds are found;
whereas, in the French quarters you meet with none--_Labat._

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PAINTING.

It is painful to think how soon the paintings of Raphael, and Titian,
and Correggio, and other illustrious men will perish and pass away. "How
long," said Napoleon to David, "will a picture last?" "About four or
five hundred years!--a fine immortality!" The poet multiplies his works
by means of a cheap material--and Homer, and Virgil, and Dante, and
Tasso, and Moliere, and Milton, and Shakspeare, may bid oblivion
defiance; the sculptor impresses his conceptions on metal or on marble,
and expects to survive the wreck of nations and the wrongs of time; but
the painter commits to perishable cloth or wood the visions of his
fancy, and dies in the certain assurance that the life of his works will
be but short in the land they adorn.--_For. Rev._

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A Chinese novelist, in describing his hero, says, "the air of the
mountains and rivers had formed his body; his mind, like a rich piece of
embroidery, was worthy of his handsome face!" Pity he has not been
introduced among our "fashionable novels."

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PHRENOLOGY.

In 1805, Dr. Gall, the celebrated phrenologist, visited the prison of
Berlin in the course of his experimental travels to establish his
theories. On April 17, in the presence of many witnesses, he was sh