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, pasquinades: This name, which Is given to hutßOUrotu ibels, originated in this way '.—At the stal'i >f a cobbler named Pasquin, at Rome, a lumber of idle persons used to assemble tc isten to the pleasent sallies cf Pasquin and .0 relate little anecdotes is their turn, indulge hemselves in raillery at the expense ol passers-by. After the cobbler's death in tht sixteenth century, the statue of a gladiatoi ivas found near his stall, to which the people *ave his name, and on which the wits of his iime affixed their lampoons upon the state, and Iheir satirical effusions on their neighbours, secretly at night. Small poems and writings af a similar kind from this obtained the name of Pasquinades, about the year 1533. FOR HIS NOB.. • The lawyer had been badgering the wit. ness for some time, and finally asked " Was any member of your family "ever hanged " Yes, sir." - Ah, ah I I thought as much. Now. '• Yourself I Do you mean to say you bave been hanged, and are alive to tell it ?" "Yes, sir." . " Come, now, no trifling. Tell the jury what you were hanged for, and how you happen to be alive to-day." " Well, sir, a man was killed, and I was suspected of having committed the crime. A mob took me out, put a rope round my neck, and just hauled me up to the limb o( a tree, when some one in the crowd shouted that the murdered man was a certain lawyer. They couldn't cut me down quick enough! I was filled up with the best whisky the place afforded, and given a banquet as the greatest public benefactor in the history oi the town." - BUCKJOMPER. Mark Twain once bought a horse by auction. "In the afternoon," he says, " 1 brought the creature into the plaza, and certain citizens held him by the head, and Dthers by the tail, while I mounted him. As soon as they let go, he placed all his feet in a bunch together, lowered his back, and ihen suddenly arched it upward, aiid shot me straight into the air, a matter, of three Or four feet. I came as straight down again, lit in the saddle, went instantly up came down almost on the high pommel, shot np again, and came down on the horse's neck all in thespace of three or fourseconds. Then he rose and stood almost straight up on his hind feet, and I ciasping his lean neck desperately, slid back into the saddle, and held on. He came down, and immediately hoisted his heels into the air, delivering a vicious kick at the sky, and stood on his fore feet; and then down he came once more, and began the original exercise of shooting me straight up again. The third time I went up, I he4rd*a stranger say, 'Oh, don't he buck, though!'i While I was up, somebody struck tjie horse a soundthwack with a leather strap t and when I arrived again ' the horse* was not there." PEERAGES FOUNDED ONJTRADE. In olden times, the wealth and commerce Of London, conducted as it was by energetic and enterprising men, was a prolific source of peerages. Thus, the earldom of Cornwallis was founded by Thomas Comwallis, the Cheaps':de merchant; that of Essex by William Capel, the draper; and that of Craven by William Craven, the merchant tailor. The modern Earl of Warwick is not descended from " the kingmakers," but from William Greville, the woolstapler; whilst the modern Earls of land find their head, not in the Perries, but In Hugh Smitlison, a respectable London apothecary. The founders of the families ef Dartmouth, Radnor, Ducie, and Pomfret were respectively a skinner, a silk manufacturer, a merchant tailor, and a Calais merchant; whilst the founder of the peerages of Tankerville, Dormer, and Coventry, were mercers. The ancestors of Earl Ro'mney and Lord Dudley and Ward were goldsmiths and jewellers; and Lord Dacres was a banker in the reign of Charles 1., a: Lord Overstone is in that of Queen Vic toria. Edward Osborne, the founder of the dukedom •' of Leeds, was apprenticed tc William Hewet, a rich cloth-worker 01 London Bridge, whose only daughter h< courageously rescued from drowning bj leaping into the Thames after" her, anc eventually married. Among other peerage: founded by trade are those of Fitzwilliam Leigh/ Petre, Cowper, Darnley, . Hill, anc Cypngton. :h

consumption It Can be Cured. There is no doubt about it. Begin early, take out all impurities from the system, enrich the blood, and recovery is certain. If your child is thin and pale give Ayer's Sarsaparilla at once. Consumption only attacks the 'weak. Mr. Alfred G. Stevens, of Parnell, Auckland, N. Z., sends us the photograph of his daughter and says: m m i "My daughter Emily, 17 years of age, was in a very low state. She could not sleep because of her violent cough. Two doctors said she -was in the first stages of consumption. She was so weak she could not go out hy herself, A friend induced me to try AVER'S In less than two weeks our daughter could' sleep well at night. Her mother and I would gointo her room at all hoars of the night, it seemed so good not to hear that awful hollow cough. She raised great quantities of blood, yet notwithstanding all this X cau now say she is entirely cured." Take Ayer's Fills with the Sarsaparilla, Prepared by Dr. J. C. Aytt & Co., LowtU* Mam<» U.S.A*

TRADING STAMPS UIVEN ON ALi CASH PURCHASES. SOLE BROS., TABAHAKI BUTCHERY. kill anly the PRIMEBT OF MEAT .grazed on the beat fattening forma In the district. OR OUALiTY • • • WE DEFY CONPETITION JOUBTOMEBS WAITED ON DAILY. SOLS AGENTS P. ANDREWS' WELL KisOWN BACCIN THE BEST IN THE MARKET I

A Commercial Christenings. The wellknown Liebig Company's Extract now beaia, in addition to the bine signature J. v. Liebig, a new name made from the Liebig's Extract of Meat Co's. initials. LEMOO—Such a simple device to prevent mistakes we wonder was uoi thought of before. I