makes me mad."

    A New Orleans

   paper states, there is in that city a hog, with his ears so far back, that he can't hear himself squeal.

    Dr. Parr

   had a great deal of sensibility. When I read to him, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, the account of O'Coigly's death, the tears rolled down his cheeks.

   One day Mackintosh having vexed him, by calling O'Coigly "a rascal," Parr immediately rejoined, "Yes, Jamie, he was a bad man, but he might have been worse; he was an Irishman, but he might have been a Scotchman; he was a priest, but he might have been a lawyer; he was a republican, but he might have been an apostate."

    During

   a recent trial at Auburn, the following occurred to vary the monotony of the proceedings:

   Among the witnesses was one, as verdant a specimen of humanity as one would wish to meet with. After a severe cross-examination, the counsel for the Government paused, and then putting on a look of severity, and an ominous shake of the head, exclaimed:

   "Mr. Witness, has not an effort been made to induce you to tell a different story?"

   "A different story from what I have told, sir?"

   "That is what I mean."

   "Yes sir; several persons have tried to get me to tell a different story from what I have told, but they couldn't."

   "Now, sir, upon your oath, I wish to know who those persons are."

   "Waal, I guess you've tried 'bout as hard as any of them."

   The witness was dismissed, while the judge, jury, and spectators, indulged in a hearty laugh.

    The

   following story is told of a revolutionary soldier who was running for Congress.

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