An Oriental Proverb.—You can't pre

Evening Post, Issue 126, 5 July 1865, Page 2

An Oriental Proverb. — You can't pre-

vent the birds of sadness from flying over your head ; but you may prevent them from Stopping to build their nests there. A Swiss Fatalist. — Lucerne papers bring intelligence of a denunciation in the pulpit of Hergyswill, by the lecal incumbent, against the practice of insuring farm houses or other property, such an act being " a defiance hurled against Divine Providence, and an attempt to frustrate the purposes of the Almighty." It hns recently been determined by the Prussian authorities that marriages concluded simply by Dissenting clergymen and not by ministers of the Evangelical or Catholic Church have no official validity. All the children of such marriages are declared illegitimate. The French national hymn, La Marsellaise, is one of the features of Mermet'sjnew opera. Roland a Roncevaux. In the same way Auber has introduced God Save the Queen , in his opera Jenny Bell, and Arditi, Hail Columbia in La Spia. Lord Seaford, who wa9 deaf and dumb, was to dine one day with Lord Melville. Just before the time of the company's arrival, Lady Melville sent into the drawing room a lady of her acquaintance, who could talk with her fingers to dumb people, that she might receive Lord Seaforth. Presently Lord Guilford entered the room, and the lady, taking him for Lord Seaforth, began to ply her fingers very nimbly ; Lord Guilford did the same ; and they had been carrying on a conversation in this manner for about ten minutes, when Lady Melville joined them. Her female friend immediately said, " Well, I have been talking away to this dumb man."—" Dumb 1" cried Lord Guilford ; " bless me I thought you were dumb." Mrs. Partington ssys that " money ought to be ashamed of itaelf for remaining tight so long." " Roads has but one object," said the Blandford waggoner to a Dorsetshire magistrate, • and that's waggon-driving 1"