ANACHRONISMS IN PAINTING AND SCULPTURE.

In a painting in a country church in Germany, intended for the Sacrifice of Isaac, is represented Abraham with a blunderbuss in his haud, ready to shoot his son, and an angel, suddenly coming down from heaven, pouring a certain water on the pan. In a painting at Windsor, by Antonio Verrio, he has introduced himself, Sir Godfrey Kneller, and Bap. May, surveyor of the works, in long periwigs, as spectators of Christ healing the sick.'

A painter of Toledo once painted the story of the Three Wise Men of the East coming to worship at Bethlehem, where he represented them as three Arabian r Indian kings; two of them were white, and one of hem black; but, when he drew the latter part of hem kneeling, he made three black feet for the negro ng and three white feet for the two white kings. In the monument of Sir Cloudesley Shovel, in Jestminster Abbey, he is represented rising out of e sea, with a full-bottomed wig well powdered and iffed.

A lady once told St. Foix, that in her will she had was afraid of being buried alive. ordered her body to be opened after her death, as she

AN ENTERTAINING JOURNEY.

Dodd the comedian was very fond of a long story.

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In a church at Bruges is a picture of the Marriage-Being in company one night, he began at twelve Jesus Christ with Saint Catherine of Sienna, by o'clock to relate a journey he had taken to Bath: Dominic, the patron of the church. The Virgin and, at six o'clock in the morning, he had proceeded ary joining their hands, and King David playing no farther than the Devizes!-The company then rose, harp at the wedding. to separate; when Dodd, who could not bear to be curtailed in his narrative, cried, "Don't go yet; stay and hear it out, and upon my soul I'll make it entertaining!"

Albert Durer has represented an angel, in a nced petticoat, driving Adam and Eve from

Paise. is Cigoli painted a picture of the Circumcision he Holy Child, Jesus, and drew the high priest, san, with spectacles on his nose.

12 picture painted by F. Chello della Puera, the sed Virgin is placed on a velvet sofa, playing a cat and a paroquet, and about to help herself ve from an engraved coffee-pot.

another picture painted by Peter of Cortona, senting the reconciliation of Jacob and Laban, in the French Museum,) the painter has repreda steeple or belfry rising over the trees.

POSTHUMOUS GRIEF.

Philips, in his Pastorals, makes shepherdesses tear their hair and beat their breasts at their own deaths: "Ye brighter maids, faint emblems of my fair, With looks cast down, and with dishevell'd hair, In bitter anguish beat your breasts, and moan Her death untimely, as it were your own."

PRUDENT PORTRAIT.

A married intriguing lady insisting on having her lover's portrait, he remonstrated on the absurdity, alleging it would amount to the proclaiming their Oh," said she, "but to prevent a discoyery, it shall not be drawn like you,'

al Veronese placed Benedictine fathers and soldiers among his paintings from the Old Tes-amour.

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THE LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER

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THE LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER.

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Mrs. Angel's an absolute fury,
And meek Mr. Lion met fierce Mr. Lamb,
Tweak'd his nose in the lobby of Drury.

At Bath, where the feeble go more than the stout,
(A conduct well worthy of Nero,)

Over poor Mr. Lightfoot, confined with the gout,
Mr. Heaviside danced a bolero.

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In me

Found nothing but sorrow await her:
She now holds in wedlock, as true as a dove,
That fondest of mates, Mr. Hayter.
Mr. Oldcastle dwells in a modern-built hut,
Miss Sage is of madcaps the archest;
Of all the queer bachelors Cupid e'er cut,
Old Mr. Younghusband's the starchest.
Mr. Child in a passion knocks down Mr. Rock,
Mr. Stone like an aspen-leaf shivers,
Miss Poole us'd to dance, but she stands like a stock,
Ever since she became Mrs. Rivers.

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ly varies

e, and calling, surnames
contraries.

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Yet in me no fuel,

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at hazard or whist, 1 a duel.

ng is a whig,

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O'er cragged Town in a gig

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He moves as though cords had entwin'd him;
Mr. Metcalfe ran off upon meeting a cow,
With pale Mr, Turnbull behind him.

Mr. Barker's as mute as a fish in the sea,
Mr. Miles never moves on a journey,
Mr. Gotobed sits up till half-after three,

Mr. Makepeace was bred an attorney.
Mr. Gardener can't tell a flow'r from a root,
Mr. Wild with timidity draws back,
Mr. Ryder performs all his journies on foot,
Mr. Foot all his journies on horseback.

Mr. Penny, whose father was rolling in wealth,
Kick'd down all the fortune his dad won;
Large Mr. Le Fever's the picture of health,
Mr. Goodenough is but a bad one.

Mr. Cruikshank stept into three thousand a year,
By showing his leg to an heiress.

Now I hope you'll acknowledge I've made it quite

Menage gives us the following specimen of French badauderie (cockneyism.) A gentleman who coul not swim, one day in bathing got out of his depth, and would have been drowned, had not some swa

mers been at hand to save him. On recovering, be protested that he would never venture into the water

C. Not so; he may break his neck in a short again, till he had learned to swim.

C. Yes; he may call till his heart ache, but it procure a 30w of the breed and size she particularly will never come.

THE LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER.

Q. Why is the Temple church so much like Hea- | Mrs. Drinkwater's apt to indulge in a dram,

Mrs, Angel's an absolute fury,

A. There none are married, or in marriage given. | And meek Mr. Lion met fierce Mr. Lamb,
The church in the Temple was founded in the reign |

Tweak'd his nose in the lobby of Drury.

of Henry II., upon the model of that of the holy At Bath, where the feeble go more than the stout, sepulchre at Jerusalem, and is extra-parochial.

4 man having business with a magistrate, who was an auctioneer, gave much offence, by neglecting o call him-his worship; on which he committed im to gaol for contempt. When the man obtained is discharge he constantly attended his worship's les, bidding for almost every lot: "threepence, aur worship; sixpence, your worship," which insed such scenes of laughter at the auctioneer's pense, that he was glad to give the man ten guineas ver to attend his sales any more.

SURNAMES.

in once were surnam'd from their shape or estate,
(You all may from history worm it,)
ere was Lewis the Bulky and Henry the Great,
John Lackland and Peter the Hermit,

now, when the door-plates of misters and dames Ire read, each so constantly varies

the owner's trade, figure, and calling, surnames Sem giv'n by the rule of contraries.

Box, though provok'd, never doubles his fist, G. Burns in his grate has no fuel, Playfair won't catch me at hazard or whist, Coward was wing'd in a duel. We is a dunce, Mr. King is a whig, r. Coffin's uncommonly sprightly. huge Mr. Little broke down in a gig bile driving fat Mr. Golightly.

(A conduct well worthy of Nero,)

Over poor Mr. Lightfoot, confined with the gout,
Mr. Heaviside danced a bolero.

Found nothing but sorrow await her:
Miss Joy, wretched maid, when she chose Mr. Love,
She now holds in wedlock, as true as a dove,
That fondest of mates, Mr. Hayter.
Mr. Oldcastle dwells in a modern-built hut,
Miss Sage is of madcaps the archest;
Old Mr. Younghusband's the starchest.
Of all the queer bachelors Cupid e'er cut,
Mr. Child in a passion knocks down Mr. Rock,
Mr. Stone like an aspen-leaf shivers,
Miss Poole us'd to dance, but she stands like a stock,
Ever since she became Mrs. Rivers.

Mr. Swift hobbles onward, no mortal knows how,
He moves as though cords had entwin'd him;
Mr. Metcalfe ran off upon meeting a cow,
With pale Mr. Turnbull behind him.

Mr. Barker's as mute as a fish in the sea,
Mr. Miles never moves on a journey,
Mr. Gotobed sits up till half-after three,

Mr. Makepeace was bred an attorney.
Mr. Gardener can't tell a flow'r from a root,
Mr. Wild with timidity draws back,
Mr. Ryder performs all his journies on foot,
Mr. Foot all his journies on horseback.

Mr. Penny, whose father was rolling in wealth,
Kick'd down all the fortune his dad won;
Large Mr. Le Fever's the picture of health,
Mr. Goodenough is but a bad one.

Mr. Cruikshank stept into three thousand a year,
By showing his leg to an heiress.

Now I hope you'll acknowledge I've made it quite

clear,

Surnames ever go by contraries.