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There's a lad inclined to marry,
He's searching for a wife,
And he says that he no longer,
Will lead a single life;
Don't you think his resolution,
Is worthy of much praise,
And think you not old bachelors,
Have very stupid ways?

Now this youth has found a maiden,
That is suited to his mind;

Though she boasts not of great beauty,
She is loving, fond, and kind.
And he vows that he will love her,
As long as he doth live;
'Ere long, unto my first, he adds,
My second he will give.

And he says when he has done so,
She will become his wife;
May they both be truly happy,

And free from care and strife!
My whole's a living creature,

No doubt well-known by you, Which I for your amusement have, Divided into two.

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My first is underneath my whole. My second is above my whole. And my whole is an article of

W. H. H. clothing.-LILLIAN MAY.

On Alma's heights my first was seen,
It was indeed a bloody scene;
In every room my next is found,

Some eight or nine feet 'bove the ground.
An adjunct next, I now must place,
And just fill up a little space.
With weavers now my next is seen,
My next in yards, or on the green.
Young ladies high in air will fling
This last a very simple thing,
And with my first they strike me sore,
If I attempt myself to lower;
Now gentle ladies tell my name,
My whole's a very pretty game.

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A. G.

I am a large, lifeless, domestic quadruped, and am composed of 10 letters. I can produce my 4 7910, which has my 9 7 4 10. I am always to be found at my 5 1 10 8 3, where I oft accompany my 9 10 4 5 8. My 63 4 is an instrument made of my 1 31 10 8, and used by ladies to move my 3 2 8, when they are my 6 3 2 4 9. My 1 10 3 8 is a very nice fruit when it is my 8 2 1 10. My 93 8 is the juice of my 1 2 4 10, which is my 9 8 10 10, of which my 8 7 5 9 is a part. Although I am a noisy quadruped, I never suffer any of my 1 3 2 4, nor do I ever shed any of my 9 10 3 8, though my 6 10 10 9 oft get kicked with the feet of my 6 3 2 8, with whom I am a great favourite. APPRENTICE.

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8. A lawyer's clerk, because good deeds are better than fair speeches.

9. Because they must needs be conveyed by the

line.

10. Because he is generally seen in sheep's clothing.

11. Because "All is well that ends well." 64.

Slumber-lumber-umber. 65.-His-tory. 66.-Famine.-67.- Glove-love. 68.-Sap-ling. 69.-Sir-i-us. 70.-Tar-tar. 71.-D ARK. 72.-MENTAL SCENE FROM ENGLISH HISTORY. Edmund stabbed by the robber Leolf. 73.-Front-is-piece. 74.-Friend-ship. Whale-hale-ale. 76.-Man-if-est.

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ARITHMETICAL PUZZLES.

TROUBLE-WIT.

Take a sheet of stiff paper, fold it down the middle of the sheet, longways; then turn down the edge of each fold outward, the breadth of a penny; measure it as it is folded, into three equal parts, with compasses, which make six divisions in the sheet; let each third part be turned outward, and the other, of course, will fall right; then pinch it a quarter of an inch deep, in plaits, like a ruff, so that, when the paper lies pinched in its form, it is in the fashion represented by A; when closed together, it will be like B; unclose it

again, shuffle it with each hand, and it will resemble the shuffling of a pack of cards; close it, and turn each corner inward with your fore-finger and thumb, it will appear as a rosette for a lady's shoe, as C; stretch it forth, and it will resemble a cover for an Italian couch, as D; let go your forefinger at the lower end, and it will resemble a wicket, as E; close it again, and pinch it at the bottom, spreading the top, and it will represent a fan, as F; pinch it half-way, and open the top, and it will appear in the form shown by G; hold it in that form, and with the thumb of your left hand turn out the next fold, and it will be as H.

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cut those triangles into two equal parts, in the direction of the lines E F, and G H. You will then have two triangles, and two four-sided irregular figures, which you are to place together, in the manner they stood at first, and in each square you are to draw the figure of a piece of money; observing to make those in the squares through which the line A D passes, somewhat imperfect.

figure, you will count thirty pieces of money only; As the pieces stand together in the foregoing but if the two triangles and the two irregular figures be joined together, as in the two last annexed figures, there will be thirty-two pieces.

THE WOLF, THE GOAT, AND THE CABBAGES. Suppose a man have a wolf, a goat, and a basket of cabbages, on the bank of a river; that he wishes to cross with them, and that his boat is only big enough to carry one of the three besides himself. He must, therefore, take them over one by one, in such a manner that the wolf shall have no opportunity of devouring the goat, or the goat of devouring the cabbages.-How is he to do this ?

Answer.-First he takes over the goat; he then returns and takes the wolf; he leaves the wolf on the other side, and brings back the goat; he now takes over the cabbages, and comes back once more to fetch the goat. Thus the wolf will never be left with the goat, nor the goat with the cabbages,

THE EDITOR TO HIS FRIENDS. ADDRESS:-9, BELL SQ., FINSBURY, LONDON. It is very encouraging to find that our efforts to amuse are responded to in good earnestness by those Friends who devote themselves to our Pastime. The game of "Conglomerations" has excited unusual attention, and some very clever little sketches (embodying the proposed words) we have received in reply. This game will be found an efficient aid to composition, and we trust that our friends will continue to give it the attention they have already bestowed on it. All are at liberty to propose words who are prepared to send at the same time a good embodiment of them. With the hope that the same talent may be shown in our second "Conglomerations" as in the first, we submit the following words for a sketch, grave or humorous, as the fancy of our friends may dictate. We shall do ourselves the pleasure of publishing the best in literary excellence and purpose:

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Narissa (you perceive that the error has not been persisted in).-Evelina (to all, our sole object being to develop the intellect).-Marie and Elise.-Amelia (we are often the victim of deception).-J. C. L.-M. W. Merritt.-Chorley (no name sent, so we give the address).-Juanita.Lizzie E. R.-Tabitha.- Estelle.-Assurance. D. M. R.-Will-o'-the-Wisp.-F. L. Mills.-Rolando (your poetic "conglomerations" are both clever and amusing, but not, in style, suited to our sober "Friend").-H. A. J.-W. H. H.-Iago. -Fanny.-Lily H.-Agnese.-Irene.-Nellie. M. A. and S.-Little Giggie (a bustling time, and we sympathise with you; enigma faulty in composition).-Azile.-Undine and L'Eclair.

SECOND CLASS.

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R. Dumville.- Mary Anne.-W. G., jun.L'Esperance. -Eliza. Florence. -Blue Peter (your gratifying note shall have due attention).Wilhelm.-Kate (we have two "Kates" in the Classes; choose some other nom de plume, or there will inevitably be confusion).-Ethol (the Certificate is in preparation).-J. Greenfield (you are entitled to a second-class Certificate; send address, and it shall be forwarded.-Marguerite.Bertha S.-Ruthenpharl.-G. W. R.-C. M. S.Filbert and Sophia (new subscribers have the same privileges connected with the Pastime as old ones).-Captain J. R.

QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

42. J. C.-HARDCASTLE.-DEFINITE PROPORTIONS.-A term invented by Dalton, to express the even multiples and regular proportions with which elementary bodies always combine. Thus, copper combines with oxygen in 8ths and mul

tiples of 8ths; with sulphur in halves; and with lead in multiples of 74; and, in general, if 100 of a metal combines with any proportion of oxygen in the lowest state, all other combinations are 2, 3, 4, or 5 times that proportion; and the gases combine also in regular proportions, 57 parts of oxygen gas combining with 100 of nitrogen, and its multiples by 2, 4, and 5, forming successively nitrous oxide gas, 100+57; and 100+57×2 nitrous gas; or 100+57× 4 nitrous acid gas; and 100+57 x 5 nitric acid gas.

43. PATRIOT. THE PROFESSIONS IN LONDON.-According to the returns of the last census, the gross number of persons living by the exercise of their talents in London, amounts to 47,746; and this out of a population of 2,362,236; so that the proportion is just upon one-fiftieth of the whole. Hence we find that, whereas there are eleven people in every thousand belonging to the intellectual classes throughout Great Britain, or rather more than 1 per cent. of the gross population, the ratio in the capital is a fraction beyond twenty to the thousand, or about 2 per cent. of the entire metropolitan people. Included in the gross number of metropolitan professionals are 5,863 lawyers, 5,631 doctors, 2,393 clergymen and ministers, and 11,210 "subordinates," making altogether 25,007 persons belonging to the socalled "learned" professions; whilst to these must be added the sum of 22,649 persons connected with the "unrecognised" professions; and including 1,195 literary men, 17,241 teachers, 156 professors of science, and 4,057 artists and architects.

of the other four orders of architecture, as repre44. COMPOSITE ORDER.-A rich combination sented.

orders; the composite was not considered by them Strictly speaking, the ancients had but four as a distinct production. Vitruvius expressly tells various kinds were employed, which, nevertheus that upon Corinthian columns other capitals of less, ought not to change the names of the cosame. The moderns, however, have ranked the lumns, because the proportions remained still the Composite with the four orders mentioned by Vitruvius, having among the great number of capitals to be met with in the remains of antiquity, chosen for a model that which had been used in the triumphal arches in the temple of Bacchus and the baths of Dioclesian, rather as agreeing more with the description of Vitruvius, (who observes that they were composed of the Ionic, Doric, and Corinthian,) than from any preference in point of beauty to many others. It does not appear that the ancients affected any particular form of entablature to this capital.

Sometimes the cornice is entirely plain, as in the temple of Bacchus; at others, as in the arch of Septimus Severus, it is enriched with dentils, differing very little from the Ionic, and in the arch of Titus there are both dentils and modillions, the whole form of the profile being the same with the Corinthian, as executed in the antiques of Rome. The height of the column is twenty modules, and that of the entablature five; the base is Attic, and it measures the same as in the Doric and Ionic orders, but as the module is less, all its parts are of course more delicate. The shaft is enriched with flutings, which may be to the number of twenty-four, as in the Ionic

order, for there is no reason why their number | in the possession of a well-known reverend com. should be augmented.

The module is less; the flutings will therefore be less likewise, and correspond exactly with the character of the rest of the composition. The capital is of the same kind that all the moderns have employed in this order, and enriched with leaves of the acanthus, as all the antique capitals of this sort are. The parts of the entablature bear the same proportion to each other as in the Ionic and Tuscan orders.

poser of Worcester, who has satisfactorily traced the composition-not to Luther, nor Douland, nor Ravenscroft, nor Purcell, to all of which composers it has been attributed, but to William Franc.

46. CHURCHMAN. - BELLS were first introduced into English churches in the year 700, and used to be baptised and named before they were hung. The number of changes may be found by multiplying the digits in the number into one another; thus four bells will give 24 changes, and six bells 720; and ten changes may be rung in a minute.

The architrave is nearly the same with those of Palladio and the basilica of Antonius. The frize is enriched with foliages in imitation of those of Nero's frontispiece, whose most prominent parts ought never to project beyond the uppermost-Many of our most popular vulgarisms have 47. TOM THUMB.-"HIE, BETTY MARTIN." moulding of the architrave. The Romans used their origin in some whimsical perversion of lanthe Composite order more frequently in their triumphal arches than in any other buildings, guage or fact. St. Martin is one of the worthiest of the Roman calendar, and a form of prayer commences with the words, "O mihi beati Martin," which was corrupted to "My eye and Betty Martin," and still further to "Hie! Betty Martin.”

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meaning, as Serlio supposes, to express their dominion over those nations that invented the orders of which this is composed. "It may," says Le Clerc, "be used with propriety wherever elegance and magnificence are to be assembled, but it is more particularly adapted for buildings intended to commemorate any signal event, because the ornaments may be composed of illusive representations, which is agreeable to the custom of the ancients."

Most authors give the last place to the composite order, as being the last invented, and a compound which ought to be preceded by all the simples.-LEONATUS.

45. MUSICALE. -THE "OLD HUNDREDTH" PSALM.-The composition of the Old Hundredth psalm tune has lately been ascribed to some unknown French writer, a "French psalter printed in 1546," containing it, having recently been found in Lincoln Cathedral library. If the date of the publication could be depended upon, this discovery is of great importance as affecting the disputed history of this well-known tune; but there is every reason to believe that, by a mistake of the printer, the last two figures of the date were transposed, and that the actual date of the publication was 1564-not 1546. The earliest known copy of the tune bears the date 1561, and was printed at Geneva; the second in point of date bears in the imprint 1562, and this latter is

48. E. S. M.-RHEUMATISM IN THE HAND.One raw egg, well beaten up with half a pint of vinegar; one ounce of spirits of turpentine; quarter of an ounce of spirits of wine; and a quarter of an ounce of camphor. Beat these well together, and put it in a bottle and shake for ten minutes, then cork it down so as to exclude the air. In half an hour it will be fit for use, and should be rubbed in two, three, or four times during the day.-FANNY.

49. LEONATUS.- DITTO, or aforesaid, from dette, participle of the Italian verb dire, to say.D. M. R.

50. EDWARD BRIDGES.-PALME.-The 25th class of the Linnæan system of plants, consisting of trees and shrubs, with a stem, bearing leaves

at the top, being the most magnificent specimens of the vegetable kingdom, of which the date is one.

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EASTERN RAMBLES AND
REMINISCENCES.

RAMBLE THE SIXTH.

WEARIED with my long walk over the plain of Baalbec, the conference with the Emir Hangiar, and my rambles through the ruins of the "City of the Sun," I retraced my steps to the convent where we lodged, and after taking some refreshment, courted sleep upon the floor of my

Whether my slumbers were sweet, or troubled, they were soon aroused by a violent barking of dogs, which, causing my companions to start to their feet simultaneously, and to rush violently against each other in the dark, had the effect of bringing two of them upon my chest by the concussion they sustained, and raising a most disagreeable and confused noise of Greek oaths from the muleteers; Arabic blessings possibly-but more probably maledictions from the porter; sleepy incoherent queries from my reclining companions: a howl from our Newfoundland dog, who shared in the confusion, by having his foot or tail MRS. HEMANS. trodden upon; and a desire, on my part

BAALBEC-ITS RUINS BY MOONLIGHT
AND SUNRISE-METAWELI WOMEN-
POPULATION -DEPARTURE FOR BEY-
ROUT RUINS OF THE TEMPLE OF
HERMES NIEHA-ARRIVAL AT BEY-

ROUT.

Here, where the moonlight, quiv'ring beams,
And through the fringing ivy streams,
And softens every shade sublime,
And mellows every tint of time.'

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