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Portfolio.

APPEAL.

Fly, little swallow,

Flity and fly over

The fields of brown olover, And bid my one lover

Come quickly to me. I'm woary with waiting, Bome wind is belating

That blows on the sea.

Fly quickly, O swallow,

I would I could follow, And toll my late comer He knows not the summer

Was ever so fair, He knows not, my rover, How all the days over I only am lonely,

I only despair.

Why lingereat, swallow,

When sune are so mellow ? Till swost days are sweeter, And fleet winds are flester Than those on the sea P O wait not, 'I need him: Bid swift winge to speed him, Dolay not, I pray not,

But bring him to me.

O tardy brown-winger,

O alotbful news-bringer,

Tre you can discover

And call my one lover,

He smiles at the door.

No more the drear waiting Though winds are belating, He is safe on the share.

AT GIRUR,

This is the holy hill of Sheik Fareed.

та рава,

And begged for alxas. The pert knave

mooked at him And had gone by, but that the hermit prayed That he would tell him what those eacks

contained

And all the sacks on-all the bullocks burst. And dinged with doleful rattle to the ground There had been spices in them-betelnut, Nutmegs and pan and many a costly clove, But all were made as flint and flaked the

ground!

Nor long the trader wayored, but his head

dropped,

And prone ho prayed and grovelled. Then

my lord

disoera

Took pity on the humbled, sinful man, And said "0, blind-one, now dost thou The power of God-go, fill thy eacks with And learn that hermit's will has heavenly

leaves,

streza."

No sooner said than heeded, and the trece,

bags full.

Stripped leafes, coon bestowed the strained

As the last bullock staggered to his feet Bobold a wonder baylked him, for leaves

rent,

a

THE CHIKA MAIL.

SKETCHES FROM SHADY PLACES, SuNDAY, IN A COMMON LODGING Houan; WITH SOMETHING ÜYEURENING ZUR FLAGS

(No. 4754.-SEPTEMBER 28, 1878,

quantities of beer the latter at short Intervals. The beds in general, indeed, are in use all through the day. It is no un- common thing for one of the Berger shoroughs" to reach his he plus ultra thries on a Bunday twice before closing time--and to be carried as often to bed to sleep it off, or at least its more neute passes. After these siceps he staggers down again in a dazed way to resume his drinking, and to suoonmb to it again more qutokly than before. All through the day, bar, taprooms, kitchen, and bedroom and in fine weather the narrow yard—are crowded with knots of bookers that it is difficult to make ones way among them; As the evening wears on, what with boozing and sleeplog and boosing ngala by turds, there is a pallor in the complexion, a bad mess in the eye, a dazedness in the whole face, and an uncertainty in the carriage of everybody which painfully striking Under the disa and smoky light, and amid

Miscellaneous.

Tan work of establishing an underground talograph between Frankfort-on-the-Main and Strasburg is being rapidly pushed for ward, and the wires have been laid dowa an. far as Mannheim.When the trench In which the cable has been laid is filled in, certain marks are made at fixed places along the line, so sa to enable the engineer to discover, in the event of any rupture of communications, the point which repairs are required. The wire will be brought into Strasburg by way of Kehl and the Austerlity gate, and will terminate. wh the building in which the Central Adminis tration of Telegraphs has its headquarters. The Frankfort and Strasburg cable in the seventh of the kind which has been laid down by the German Administration of Telegraphs, and it has been constructed upon in improved plan. The sevens con ductors contained in the cable are all formed of seven copper wires, 23 inches* La diameter, twisted together, each wire being

The woven conductors, then holated from one another, are placed together and twisted. lengthways. The protecting armour of the cable consists of twenty-four wires about the twelfth of an inch thick rolled round the conductory next comes an iron tube, then a layer of asphalte, with a liniig of hemp and a second layer of asphalte over a The alloy of the metals used, the composition of the isolating materials, and even the degree of electric resistance, are all determined with mathematical predalon.

A SUBMARINE torpedo bost, the history

servedly great reputation, there came to a professional kind of felination. A Di

played in perfection-namely, Sunday, Bartholomew's a Lancashire lad, who had Robert Brown and the Baron von Eton were

then, though the bar a closed to the

Dr. Carver, the wonderful markemen, is been studying at Edinburgh at the feet wanding their way to Naples to a meeting

general public like other bars, it is open to creating an immense farore in the East with ... ANTIH EAVIRONS, F of Dr Jameson and Dr Robert Barclays of alianzatura lite he docsimplifica chem

the lodgers all day long until the usual his rife. He appears to shoot even betterTM Already imbued with an enthusiastic ad and visited the principal cities and snegums The common lodging-hows la altuated in hour of shutting up skúlght. The whole there than he did on the Excific coast, jud. miration for John Hunter, the young Len of Italgrat Romp her was the guest of one of the old-fashioned courts which time place is as quiet as a mausoleum abou, ging from the following, accounà given by a eastrian hand, during his studentship at Charles Inción, Bongpheta at the Falazzo and circumstances have degraded. It has aight colock in the morning. The numerous vergeions New York raporter: 46 2 o'clock Edinburgh, assisted in founding the Hunt Bonaparte, besilau period containing the annexed tenement after tenement until it tenants are cleeping off the preparatory. Dr. Carver stepped into the field. I was erian Society. After a suscessful entrées of Natural History Collations of the wither of extends over at least one fourth of its own debauch of Saturday night, which merely raining hard. He began firing at the drops hospital practice, Richard Owen bethought Faune Risikou. Alimitibe Professor Uwan side of the narrow tortuous street on which shots the sppetite for the grand one of the and in five minutes had shot a dry space of him of beginning the world on his own was the gust of the Grand Duke who tabula. This street, which is in one of the day following. Few of them open their half an sore around him. Ink account, established himself at No. 11 Cook presented hind with the magnificent series of busiest parts of the metropolis, contains eyes before nine o'clock on the Sabbath. A LAWYER once asked the late Judge court, Lincoln's-inn-flelds, and speedily wax models since handed over by their half a dozen large factories, and has a score then those who care for breakfast, forming Pickens, of Alabama, to charge the jury that found clients gathering round him. Few owner to the Museum of the Royal College of others several being monister establish- perhaps twentieth part of the whole, it in better that nimety and blue guilty ments in the immediate vicinity. One of crawl downstairs by twos and threes. The men should escape than one-innocent man men havo commenced the up-hill path of of Surgeons. surgical practice with better chances of Combining a steady and systematic devo- the old unreformed thoroughfares, ift has great mass, however, never think of stizzing should be punished, 21% You,!! sald "the rivaling the success of his master, Aberne- tion to the study of paleontology and com- behind it on each side a perfect labyrinth before twelve. Up to that hour they re- witty judge, Ewill give that charge; but thy, and his pupil, Sir James Paget, ont parative anatomy with incessant observation of narrow alleys with fonnumerable entrances main in bed, but not to sleep. Knots of in the opinion of the Court, the mindly and Fate and his own clear judgment dictated of the habits and structure of living animals, and exits. Many of these alleys are long, boon companions always coopy contiguous nius guilty men have already:ssasped in another course for the exercise of his extra Professor Owen lost no opportunity of com- gloomy, careous passages, four feet in coughes ; sad every group, has, its jars of this county,!, and food, Paddiy yok ordinary ability. Not lang after the Lancet paring the Hunterian preparations with width at most, covered over in great part, bear stowed sway handy. As the membera A LONDON Correspondent wilting to us, was started by the late Mr Wakley, a tre recent dissections of exotic animals supplied and winding shout and splitting off into open their eyes, ope after another, then say It is much to be regretted that mandone attack was made by that journal by the Zoological Gardens. This perpetual branches in the most purplexing manner. jars are brought into requisition and handed upon the Hunterian Committee of the Royal oparison of Hunter's work with his own. Here the monotony of the dead walls on round, while fest, story, and practical joke some of the highest loaders of debate in the land should not the eromile or the College of Surgeons. It was urged that, and the explanation of fossils by the light either alde is broken occasionally by a dusty,the last at the expense of the heavier use of such language; the habit seemingly notwithstanding the very general deter of living structures, is the key of Owen's Ironbound door, with a very prison-like sloepers go on without Intermission. It mination towards the more scientific teadh-secret of acquiring the profound knowledge appearance the back entrance of some is only when the vessels are drained (some is infections, for even in legal circles it Now and again, too, on where about twelve) that the main body ation being reported as having occurred in seemne quite as bad; the following oðhver- ing of surgery, nothing had been done for which he is fantous. That terror of place of trade. towards turning the Hunterion Collection spelling-boes, the ornithorhynchus para- turning a corner one drops unexpectedly turn out" (of bed) and tumble down

court yesterday between Vice Chancellor to practical use. The specimens collected doxus, supplied him with the material upon a sepulchral-looking tavern or beer (stairs) which they do in heapsto pre Malus and Queen's Counsel Gloss Mr during a life of marvellous activity and the for his first paper for the Boyal Society. house which stands alone in ita dusky nook. pare and swallow a heaty dluner: the only Glosse remarked on the idadegasty of the superb series of preparations were useless Then the kangaroo opened to the sager Many of these alleys have llacs of althy meal during the day for this thorough court to deal with busindhed The V. for educational purposes without a catalogus, investigator a long series of interesting looking and filthier-smelling hovels on drinker, the real taper, nerar, thinks of and this important work had been delayed studies of the marsupialia, whose habits each side-standing so near that the tenants eating when once he has entered on his That is a very improper remark for you, as leading conneel of the court, to make. Mr for an unreasonable length of time. Again were very little understood till Owen ar- might easily shake hands across them. The drinking bout There are still some left la the public will judge. The V. O and again the Lancet returned to the attack plained them forty years ago. Following walls are dilapidated and the windows are bed number, not less than a slath of Your remarks are of an infamong desorip- until the authorities were at last gonded out his idea of studying such organ in patched and shattered, while notwork of the whole, prefer, to lie no, thote baoka for tions. I wonder you have the audacity to into action. It was agreed on all hands various animals, and particularly the cor-strong beats is interposed horizontally to hours longer, in the seventh heaven of

Mr G. (who spoke with that the catalogue should be prepared. relations of the cerebral with other systems keep them from tumbling into one another. Indolence, while their chuma supply make them

suppresed excitement): I, standing here, The hour had confessedly arrived, the only in the mammalia, he was led to adopt a now So long as daylight lasts these places in them with a little food and unlimited will not condescend to tell your lordship difficulty was to find the man. There were soheme of classification, according to the crowded with archins, unkempt, unwashed,

what I think of you eminent surgeons, but they were too busily convoluted or non-convoluted structure of and almost unclothed. Here they gambol engaged in inorative practice to give up the verdict of Cuvier as to the comparative about like rabbits, until somebody rals their time to a purely scientific object, nor rank of the great apes, and placed the the cry, "Nix the chunk "-(the slang was it possible to confer a sufficient peau- chimpanzee: above the orang-outang in the term for school board officer; chunk being He watched one morn upon its haggard browniary attraction. The curatorship of a law scale of intelligence. In 1847 a new quadru ookney for plece of wood or board) Nit Gazing from Girar towards Hinganghat, library would hardly induce a successful manous competitor appeared in the shape of the chunk! the chunk !" is re-echoed on Whence much trade pours; and saw a pack-bazzister to abandon the law-courts, nor the gorilla, of which a skull and a drawing all aldes; for every one of the brobins eould it be imagined that a popular surgeon arrived from the Gaboon. Owen at once knows the sahoal-board officer by instfact, would give greater proof of self-sacrifice. compared the new animal with the ohim and abhors him even more than their an- Abernethy was consulted, and after some panzee, Papuan, and negro, and concluded giant terror, the bobby" "copper consideration said, "There is one man who that, in opposition to Mostre. Geoffroy St. "kid," "blue-bottle, peoler," or police might undertake it an odd studione fellow, Hilars and Wyman, it was entitled to the man. In an instant the throng scampere a Scotchman," as he inaccurately designated highest place among the apes.

off and vanishes in every direction, to The which his jingling bullosks gaily bora.

Richard Owen. The offer of the curatorship Almost as interesting as the studies which reappear again the moment the chunk has "Stones!" scoffed the aburl whereat all of the Hauterian Collection was made to the ruffle the pride of the imperious bimant passed on. Every one of the wretched

quietly

rising young surgeon; but be at once pointed are the researches of Owen, which finally holes lodges as may human beings a dan The Sheik said, "Sooth-they are but worth-out that a mere suretorship would not established the existence of the gigantic he thrust into it. The doors are eternally

lebs stones!"

recompense him for abandoning his pro ostrich-like birds of New Zealand, whose open; and, traverse the alloy at what hour fession. Hereupon the Committee wisely eggs justified the fable of the roo. The in the night you may, you are sure to ese offered better, but still moderate, terms, and opinion of the comparative anatomist was half-a-dozen bags seated on as many door were fortunate enough to secure the very originally based upon the fragment of a steps, all very culet while the policeman on best possible man for the work. Assisted by single bone, the consideration of which the beat is striding heavily by. When his Mr William Clift, he at once undertook his indused the daring statement that there step has died away in the distance they the offensive exhalations, the whole band difficult task, and performed it with the existed, and perhaps still exists, in those resume their conversation, which is not looks like a detachment fresh from the Plainb like a stone between the saint's feet/thoroughness of scientific devotion. Fread distant islands, a race of struthious birds of sweet by any means at its best, but which prophet's Valley of Dry Bones, as yet only covered with a coating of feslating materia

and for life-from the drudgery of every more colossal stature than the ostrich or any becomes perfectly fiendish in Its combative hall recalled to life. day professional toil, he at ones plunged other known species. So far as my skill in phased.

as strange a part of the soone as any is inte pusly scientific work, and projected interpreting an osseous fragment may be Buch streets, with their subordinate vast undertaking, of which the Odonto eredited, I am willing to risk the reputation alloys, may still be found by the dozen in the isolation which reigns among the groups: graphy is perhaps the most perfect portion. for it on this statement. In 1848 ample any of the metropolitan boroughs The Never by any chance does a toplo extend o truc is it that work honestly and faith confirmation of the exactness of this theory rents of these dans are, as they always have from one to another, except to be scoffed fully done is a legacy of good to posterity, ose to hand, and since then several species been, simply enormous. These route would at by the members of the intruding group that John Hunter'e Collection was the means of Dinarnia have been made out and fully be large under any circumstances, but here and thus to become the ground of a quarrel

described,

there are peculiar dircumstances to swell of these groups it would be easy to find of preserving Richard Owen to sojence.

It was not long before an opportunity For half a century Professor Owen, hus them to the atmost. A rookery is always dosen the five or six members of ench of arose to demonstrate the value of true been working in the front rank of science, in the hands of a few persons, who never which have between them traversed every internight when applied to previously and it would require many pages to give let their holdings house by house, buss and visited nearly every shore's and misunderstood phenomena. At the period an idea of the scope of his "investigations invariably by the room. I have stood in this under an astonishing variety of on referred to, the progress of surgery was and achievements. Taking up comparative such a room on the third floor, eight feet cumstances and with a variety of adventure necessarily impeded by the frequent ignor-anatomy and paleontology where Cuvier left by ton; the rent was half-a-rown a week. no lean astonishing. Here is a sketch of of which has tiot yet been traced but which ance of dissectors concerning the previous them, his industrious life forms, as it were, on the first foor it would have been four one auch group which I spent the greater it is supposed was bullt by the Confederates Turned gold, and dribble, drip from every life of the subjects' brought to them. The a bridgs between the older world of science shillings; on the second three at least portion of a Sunday afternoon in studying during the War of Secession, has been re- Pattered a gleaming showenef broad mohare! difficulty of obtaining subjects was great, and the new. When he began to decipher in one of these dark alleys there is a little The principal figure of the group was that contly recovered from the bottom of the Bismiliah how the buckster brightened up and from the manner in which they were the records of animal life inscribed upon our shop of about the same ares as the room of a large-boued, brawny, middle-aged man, asnal at Spanish Fort, near New Orleans. procured operators were often loft completely globe, the charming works which have just mentioned, with a sleeping apartment whose countenance displayed lines-uncom The vessel, which is constructed of Iron They say he turned a saint, and left bis in the dark concerning the causes of death. uvested geological study with all the charm of the same size above; the rent is sixteen monly harsh and deep. The complexion boiler-plates a quarter of an inch thick, One day a 'subject was brought to Bar of romance were unwritten. To the great shillings a week. No repairs are ever done was of the swartest, and the anal exprba riveted together, somewhat resembles in On Girar-well, amen, and peace to him-tholomew's--the body of a man who had died world the language of science was unin- in these hovels. When one of them begins sion stern in the extreme. Altogether I ahapo, it is stated, a sun perch, although it The hillside grins his heir in ourious stones.suddenly. In the course of dissection the telligible. Since that time we have been to show digus of workness it le buttresed, rarely saw a more powerful faos. Strangely is pointed at both ends. three-bladed knives of the operators were blunted by indulged with theories in plenty. The and stays are put up on the outalde until enough the voice of this man who was as screw is attached to the screw for propelling some hard substancos disseminated through famous hypothesis of Lamarck has appeared there is no room for another; then the rough-looking in dress as in feature was the boat by manual power, while as the bow the muscular tissues. These minute objects in ever-changing forms, speculation having edifice is left to collapse at its own time. very musical, his accent refined, hle lang are two sets of steering apparatus consisting were discovered to be calcareous, and their ahifted from time to time to accommodate The inn tarned common lodging-house aga polished, and his conversation scholarly of fans which, being set at certain inolina- PROFESSOR OWEN AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM, formation explained the resistance offered itself with facts; but through all the storm which may be considered the social contre and Interesting. His sentiments were tons, force the vessel upwards of down- Richard Owen secored some of controversy one patient student has held of the district just sketchedis one of the strong, original, often startling, but seemed wards, or to the right or left. In the point The superintendent of the Natural His-by-them, tory Department lives in a snug room near specimens, and refusing to consider them as steadily aloof from hasty guesses and sweep largest of its kind, accommodating hundreds always well thought out. He expressed of the bow le & socket, now plugged with of single men." And were it double the the utmost contempt for all religions and wood; and from this it la inferred that the His vices were torpedo to be used by the boat was BUS- the skeletons of the great clephant and the mere cysts, broke them opon, applied the ing generalisations, confining himself to

wooden pole fitting into this giant armadillo, and is as thoroughly at microscope, and discovered the since well-severely scientific method, and the applios-size it would still be thronged thanks to most conventionalities. home there as at his dwelling by the Sheen kaown and dreaded trichinia spiralis, the tion of that method to well-ascertained fasts. the position of the house in the first place. many; but there was a frank robustness pended from Gate of Richraund Park, At the Museum abundant cause of death in German villages, That luminous exposition and eloquent Its chief attraction, however, lies in the about them that gave them a sort of re- hole. Through the upper deck, or rather where uncooked ham and sausages made of description may make the most abstruse of facilities it affords for getting drank at all spectability. Then he was fearless, haughty, through the back of the vessel, rises an iron and fall of good-humour, despite the uncooked pork are frequently eaten. The subjects interesting, he has proved aband-times without trouble or risk. Here, once and energetle; impassioned for excitement pipe 6 inches in diameter. This Is now seventy-four summers which have mellowed, famous paper on this insidious parasite antly in his lectures; but his calmo spirit of the bon vivant gets home from his labours, and insatiable in its puranit. Wherever he broken short off, but originally it was, it is instead of acianlating, this genial man of at once brought its writer into European thorough investigation of seeking for truth he need not stir out again for the rest of the went he was a leader; and here he was one believed, several feet in length, and was science. Around and in front of him are reputation, and revealed the cause of net to support a theory, but for trath's sake eventog. The bar is just at his elbow, and of the uncrowned kings of the house. The doubtless deed to permit aroult of every alone can only be appreciated by a study he may swill away until he is senseless and man, educated by Dissenting parents, had fresh air to pass through the vessel while pyramids of books, and innumerable odds symptoms previously referred to

Indirectly of his more serious works.

helpless without fear of the police, and with been a very Puritan up to bla oighteenth moving beneath the surface of the water. and ends of skulls, and the grim jawbones cause but the right one.

as well as directly, says Professor Owen, Professor Owen is hardly more revered as full certainty that he will be carried off to year, when he sailed as a missionary to The entrance to the interior of the boat that he is so fond of reading and decipher this lucky discovery was useful, for it a philosopher than loved as a man. En-bed by somebody or other when hela in a Polynesia, Here, temptation and unlimit is through a small hole in the deck, ing-building-up an animal from one of his back teeth. The skulls of a couple of polar showed among other things how completely dowed with a buoyant temperament, his sufficient state of intoxication. This same ad opportunity rousing his fierce passions, the aperture being closed by an Iron bears grin over the fireplace, and near it is one may be misled by symptoms. The never-failing good-hamour and genial spirit state is seldom seen out of such places that he broke through all restraint in conduct, lid whiloh man be hattened down so as posted the armchair in which sits the Pro-symptoms of trichinians are or were sin-have made him the friend of those whose it will not be amiss to give a few lines to it, and cast of simultaneously all the fetters to be air-tight. Inside the vessel, in the fessor, robed in a suit of brown woollen,gularly deceptive. In its early stages it study has been rather living man than fossil It varies according to temperament; some of thrown round his mind by early education, bow, is an air-pamp, with a pipe plarsing topped by a well-worn black-velvet cap may easily be mistaken for diarrhes and mammalia. In pleasant sheen Lodge men the thorough drinkers who go to this extreme Then the spirit of adventure seized and the starboard side of the boat above the pauled down over bis capacious forehead, dysentery. In its third stage it may take of letters have ever been as welcome as men. drink on quietly and steadily, seldom speak sent him hither and thither through wild water-line, intended presumably for uss The gold-rimmed eyeglasses are cast aside the form of several diseases adorned with of science, and the cosy room in which his ing, and without a single change of mood lands for a number of years. By turns he when sailing upon the surface of the water for a pair of substantial spectacles; for the the longest and hardest names to wit, predecessor entertained Sir Walter Scott has for hour after hour, until they risk, all at hunted whales on the Pacific, cattle over and for forcing a supply of air into the boat great paleontologist is at work this morning pericarditis, pleurisy, and pneumonia and echoed the laughter of Dickens and the once and all of a heap" like a sack, in a the Pampas, Katire in South africa, and before descending, säge on some choice marsupials, comparing the in its later form, for acute rheumatism, Allquist chuckle of Thackeray, I am sorry, heavy enoring sleep under the table. This gold in California and Australia. Aftewards Tan Empress Enge is is in Vienna, and dental peculiarities of an Australian fossil this is now perfectly well known, and my Professor. Owen tells us, that I have no is what is called "dead drunk.". Other he was a frontier man in Texas, a slate is receiving much, attention: both from Kangaroo with those of a species still extant contribution to practical medicine has been more claret of Thackeray's particular bin the jolly scala these keep up. thale poto driver in Alabamas, and lawyer, dost z, official circles and from the inhabitants. in New Guinea, and considering the value very handsomely acknowledged by German left. He was, as you know, an accomplished tons until, every Impulsa save that which clergyman, 40, in various other States. The day after her arrival she received a of the evidenge before him in establishing scientific men, who yet-so hard is it to gourmet, loving good olaret as the choicest impals to merriment being laid asleep, they Over and over again had he accumulated visit from the Emperor and the Archduke the former existence of a Fapuan continent change the food of a people-cannot restrain of delicacies. Once, to please him, I obtain become uproariously happy. This is being large sums beyond the verge of divilisation Albrecht; and the chief State dignitaries, Probably no man more thoroughly enjoys the great body of their countrymen from ed some of the best through the kindness of drunk as lord Others, of more me to throw them sway In its great centres in with Prince Hohenlohe, Count Andrassy, life devoted to scientifle pursuite, to the eating their beloved Wurst and Schinken, a sometime fellow student at the Jardin lancholy temperament, drink until every forest disalpation. By his sido Bata Prince Reuse, the German Ambassador, entire exclusion of the rough-and-tumble Village after village has been decimated by des Plantes, whose parents were wine thing in life nasames the darkest hue, and personsgo of very different stamp, Be Prince Metternich, and Connt Beast, have element of the busy noisy world.

trichinierie whole families have died from growers in the Gironde, and whees friendship their sympathetle tears overflow in isrepress was a little and rather quiet man, who once called upon her. A Court dinner was given Never for one instant, exclaims the it but people go on eating just the same. outlasted our studies under Curiers Nothingsible inundation, which is "crying drunk. upon a time had published a small volume in her honour at Schönbran. On Tuesday, Professor, still firmly grasping the Austro-

Meanwhile the work of cataloguing the gave me greater pleasure than to waton Others yet atlaik to their cups until, lasing of poems, never after doing any good for a Vienna telegram gives a denial to state. Han fossil, never for one instant have I Hunterian Collection steadily advanced. Thackeray's thorough enjoyment of the the use of legs, arms, and tongues, while himself or other people. Here he earned a ments which have been made that the regretted leaving the regular practice of my The magnitude of the undertaking was magnificent wine my friend obtained for me. still retaining some glimmering of consalonse anty livelihood as a copyist. By some Empress has been endeavouring to promote profession for the calm of a scientific life. napresedented in sofentific history. John He insisted on its being treated with the testy they mope and morlike so many means or other it had leaked out that he a matrimonial alliance for Prince Louis It is probable that if I had clung to surgery Hunter had left thousands of specimens, and reverence due to its exalted rank. He loved superannuated apeas. condition known as was a post, and he became the general butt, Napoleon at Vienna Har Majesty, it is I should have fared well enough-perhaps numerous drawings of animal and vegetable to observe the battle placed within moderate drunk as a fiddler." Lant and wordt of consequence, until the giant, taking pity said, has been paring the way for a formal have made a large fortune, and been organe; but hardly one of these had a record range of the fire, and to note that the corks these ne plus ultre variations is that of the on him, gathered bim into his own peculiar visit of the Prince to the European Courta, baronet, by this time; but consider the of its species. Nevertheless, the 'Descriptive were drawn at the proper interval before thoroughgoer, whose debauch seiminates group, after which the little rhymer suffered According to a Copenhagen letter, the Success in my profession signifies and Illustrated Catalogue was completed in the wine was put upon the table. And in a fit of violence which is frautis or no further persecution. Next, in stained Prince has had an athusiatic reception In incessant work, increasing work, and, 11840, after twelve years of severe toil, Mr then the expression of his face at the second treacherous, according to the character of and well patshed working garb, sat anez Sweden, At Gothenburg, the crowd closed admit, good pay but is this any compensa Owen, who had from time to time published glass Sugh thorough appreciation, such the individual, and which respecte neither soldier, who had run away from school and in on the carriage in which the Prince drove various works on comparative anatomy, now compiste satisfaction. I was a greater persons nor things, bus does its atmost to enlisted in a marching regiment when he off to the hotel, and were with difficulty savourite pritement of all one's became Hunterian Professor of Comparative pleasure to ass him drinks his favourite blares Bestroy whatever comes Erst to head. This was fifteen. He had served in India during prevented from taking the horses out and favourits pursuits? I think not. Perhaps Anatomy and Fhysiology to the Royal than to taste it myself.

is being mad drunk. Here the inebriate the Mutiny, in Canada, and in the Mediter dragging the carriage. At Obristan's he also purely coientific men are necessary. They have certainly done much to rains College of Surgeons, and not long after Far from self-indulgent, Profasear Owen conocives himself beset by enemies, and if anean fortresses, chiefly as clerk in the was received by the King's Court Marshal medisine from an empirical to a scientific received his appointment as Superintendent yet regards dinner as the last great event of courageous falls foul of the Bret Ban or orderly room, and was of a mercurial and a number of the highest military and profession to get rid of the old rule of of the Natural History Department of the the day. Anxious, as his life testifies, to post that comes in his way. Otherwise, he character, abounding in anecdote and fest. civil authorities, as well a by a large crowd thumb, and teach the reason why, I am British Museum, No sooner was he get as much work out of himself as possible, provides himself with a weapon, and, creep. The fourth was roundfaced, careless of people, who loudly cheered the Prince, old enough to recollect the time when installed in this honourable ofies then he he believes that this result is best obtained ing slily behind the person or thing that he seaman, with the bras Norte lock--the fair while the Indian threw flowers lose his medical men judged almost entirely by egeln set to work upon a catalogue, and the by confining working hours to the daylight. Idantiles with the object of his terror, desis faced, afrong physique, and bold bearing of carriage from the windows in the klepeta task lengthened by its very delebrity. Eals and hearty at his advanced age; he his blow. In this the patient is more the Vikings After learning his trade in a through which he passed. In the evening symptome, and wore frequently deceived by Specimens poured into the Museum; some as sttributes much of his vigour to perdistant | dangerotis when be awakes from his first Liverpool Guineaman, he had joined the | he dined with the King. On Saturday, the Immense advance tour the dig of a donations to that institution, others in the abstinence from the midnight oil, self sleep after a protracted drink than at English and American navies, to desert in 27th of July, the Prinos, in the company

towards dignity a science, with results the value of which to form of private gifts to the Superintendent day's work, broken by no heavier lunchton Bay ofbes pood. Fortunately, this kind turn from both. Afterwards he led o loose of the king and the Crown Prince of sen life, doing a good deal of smuggling, a Sweden, visited some of the sights of mankind is hardly calculable.

These latter he invariably declined, save or than a bisonis and a glass of claretsande of drunkard in the rarest of all, que It is not easy for men whose active life the condition of permission to transfer the water, le closed by dinner and early bed. All the tenants of this particular common good deal of slaving, and a good deal of Christiania, and its environly and in the has been passed in the letter half of the gift to come public museum.

In the morning he is swaks and abroad, a lodging house are thorough in their drink filibustering it's good many quarters. Heavening the Royal party drove to the present contury to realise, the condition of It was not until he reached the rips age diligent disciple of Innes Walton Rod in A mere ordinary Uppler would be frightened bailed last from Japan. The remaining "Frogneraster, to well known to all medione. when Abernethy and others were of forty-one that Profesor Owen omsidered hand he may be seen making for the water out of the place in a week by their terrible member of the group, a theatrical super souris, where they spent the night, pro struggling to cast off the thraldom of old himself entitled to a holiday, when, fesling side--not in quest of strange fishes, but earnestness at the plan and pewien was shot stontly built stiloyed seeding early on Sunday morning to the fashioned practice. It is true that John the effect of continued exertion tomat of a harry Basket-not in the spirit of an * Thirteen plut! In the usual sllowance Trishiman. A printer by tradu, greatly equally well known. Tryvand hill to Hunter had left behind him a monument of severely, he determined on a two months ighthyologist, but of a sportsman World, for one of these people between five clock Americanised by residence in the states, witness the rising of the sun. On Mon and night with that amount under my of comme he was then, as it was hinted in Crown Prince Gustaf left Christiania on s

and a member of the great Trish donspiracy I day Prince Louis Napoleon and the his genius in the magnificent collection visit to Italy But, like the immortal wafter

Flanket, 7. -explained one of them, to me, which bears his name, and in a mass of at the Albion, whe, having a holiday, spent Two Tiina-Little Girl i Figane, air | manuscript; but the one was uncatalogued, it in helping a professional brother employed would you tell saber the thus albe should go to bedtober as a judge cantions whispers, confined to this oblegre exqurdon to the allvar inner å Kongsberg

thes if to say, perfscily cane and stondy; lodging and equally obscure profession in, and to the Toloma kes, the Switserin and the other destined over to see the light, at the London Tavern, like all members Twe o'clock, my deals Why I told you on did he sangguate in the less. There consequence of some connection there. Scandinaria The Frines Jolor the en at least in its original fores, When | of the Baskirical profession, without szcep- | not ei mipulo, men! +Little Girir. “Yes, Akercseby was as the belabs of his datiem, the great naturalist took ears to select air, but that was for aniser wees one day in the works, and only one, on ens mose of loafford tumbling in his prom Eugenie as Aronenbers shout the oth

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