IT 1037. T is the custom that every counsel, on being called to the degree of a serjeant-at-law, shall present to the judge a ring. Once, in the presence of the late Mr Commissioner Fonblanque, of the Court of Bankruptcy, a question was raised as to the most appropriate motto for rings of this description. Some one suggested-To Wit; whereupon Fonblanque very promptly and wittily said, "But it should be in Latin-Scilicet!" 1038. ONCE upon a time a poor man came to London to speak to Scogin, and Scogin walked with him to St Paul's Church to talk with him, and they both walked round the church. The poor man said, "Here is a goodly church." "Yes," said Scogin; "what do you think it cost making?" The poor husbandman said, "I trow it cost vorty shilling." "Yes," said Scogin, "that it did, and vorty shilling put to it." Now, then, not so fast," said the poor man. WHEN 1039. 66 THEN Isaiah Thomas, the printer of Massachusetts, was printing his almanac for the year 1780, one of the boys asked him what he should put opposite the 13th of July. Mr Thomas being engaged, he replied, "Anything, anything." The boy returned to the office, and 2 A set, "Rain, hail, and snow." The country was all amazement when the day arrived, for it actually rained, hailed, and snowed violently. From that time Thomas's Almanac was in great demand. MRS 1040. RS BROUGHAM, mother of the late ExChancellor, was a most excellent and thrifty housewife. On one occasion she was much troubled with a servant addicted to dishbreaking, and who used to allege, in extenuation of her fault, "it was crackit before." One morning, little Harry tumbled down-stairs, when the fond mother, running after him, exclaimed, "Oh ! boy, have you broke your head?" "No, ma," said Brougham, "it was crackit before." THE END. PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY EDINBURGH AND LONDON INDEX. B, Baron, 105. Bacon, Captain Robert, 197. Baldwin, Samuel, 218. Balls, Charles, 343- Banister, Charles, 60, 310, 319. Barbauld, Mrs, 305. Beaubourg, 321. Beaumont, Sir George, 46-47. Bedingfield, Sir H., 66. Brooke, Fulke Grevill, Lord, 102. Buckingham, Villiers, second Duke Brougham, Lord, 249, 302, 347, 370 Burnet, T., 50. Bishop, 75. Buonaparte, Napoleon, 202. Busby, Dr, 272, 324. Cæsar, Sir Julius, 275. Campbell, Admiral, 332. Chamberlain, Robert, 13-14. II., 22, 75, 129, 190, 236, 307, 324, 362. V. (of Spain), 156, 251, 356. Chesterfield, Lord, 98, 120, 129, 131, 138, 200, 244, 289. Clare, Lord, 270-271. Cornwallis, Lord, 179. Daiglin the Singer, 88. Destuniga, Don Franc., 252. Doddington, Bubb, 97, 352. Drury, Sir Drue, t03. Dryden, John, 161, 187, 244, 341. Ducrow, 53. Dudley, Governor, Dyce, Rev. A., 102. 93. Dunning, 204. Dyer, Sir Edward, 346. Fontenelle, M., 233. Haines, Joe, 91. Ha kerston, Lord, 111. Hal', Robert, 57. Hamilton, Sir James Stuart, 357. Handel, 61, 160, 327. Hanway, Jonas, 172. Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor, 293. Henley, Anthony, 144. Hermonville, M. d', 84. Hobson, William, 33. Foote, S., 140, 142, 145, 148, 168, Hood, Thomas, 52, 71. 193, 216-217, 283, 333. Fox, Sir Stephen, 78. C. J., 78, 138-139, 169. Francis I., 82, 296, 337. Hook, Theodore, 56, 71, 306. Horsley, Bishop, 297. Howe, Lord, 161. Huet, Bishop of Avranches, 298. Hume, David, 203. Hunt, Leigh, 183, 191-192, 228. Impey, Sir Elijah, 209. James I., 27, 36, 45, 90, 115, 290, 294, 302, 314, 345. 347-348. Jeffreys, Judge, 210, 247. Jennings, Mr, 292. Jerrold, D., 38-39, 70, 101. Jonson, Ben, 22, 33-34, 302, 338- |