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Maximilian being requested to grant an individual a patent of nobility for a certain suin-'I can make you richer,' said Maximilian, but none can ennoble you but your own virtue.'

The late Lord Jeffrey, when pleading one day before old Lord Newton, the judge stopped him, and asked him in broad Scotch, 'Whaur were ye educat, Mr. Jeffrey?' 'Oxford, my lord.' 'Then I doubt yo maun gang back there agin, for we can mak nocht o' ye here.' On another occasion, the advocate, in stating his case before the same judge, happened to speak of an itinerant violinist. 'D'ye mean a blin' fiddler?' asked Lord Newton. 'Vulgarly so called, my lord,' answered the spirited advocate.

The only kind of mistakes we are in favour of, is when an old bachelor gets married, Such miss-stakes are popular among the ladies.

Lord Braxfield (a Scotch judge) once said to an eloquent culprit at the bar, 'You're a vera clever chiel, mon; but I'm thinking ye wad be nane the waur o' a hangin.'

Why should Joseph Ady be a leading man in the education movement?-Because he has all his life had a decided passion for the universal diffusion of letters.

We notice the marriage of Mr. Day to Miss Field, which presents this singular anomaly, that although he won the Field, she gained the Day.

Some things come by odd names. The most uncommon quality in nature is called 'common sense;' a paper half a mile long is a brief;' and a melancholy ditty, devoid of sense or meaning, is a 'glee.'

The following bull appears in the American President's message recently delivered:-'We are at peace with all the world, and we seek to maintain our cherished relations with the rest of mankind.'

When James Beresford, author of The Miseries of Human Life,' was at the Charterhouse School, he was a remarkably gay and noisy fellow; and one day, having played truant to attend a concert, the school (says Southey) was so quiet without him, that his absence was at once detected, and brought upon him a flogging.