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inches and a half long, and is composed ot nine joints. This piece of mechanism is one of the most wonderful in the animal world. It is composed of a horny material, very thin, and is almost as transparent as the sheets of gelatine in which bon-bons are wrapped. It is difficult to explain its ultimate structure in words. The rattle before me is formed of nine different sections, fitted one into the other in a more ingenious way than any puzzle made by human hands, even those of the Chinese; they fit one into the other so that it is impossible to get them apart without breaking them. Number one (say the lowest) passes right through a hollow in number two, and then bulges out, forming a kind of projection, around which number three holds on firmly, not unlike the ball-socket joint. The rattle is rather more than half an inch across. The snake does not carry it with its broad side to the ground, but with one edge up and the other down; when shaken with the human hand, the noise it makes is very like the noise from a child's rattle; but when the snake plays upon his own instrument, its sound is quick and sharp, like shot when dropped upon a tin plate. There can be no doubt but that this curious musical instrument, is given to the snake in order to enable him to get close to his prey. Imagine a blazing hot day on the deso. late prairie, no noise, everything is silence itself. The whirr-whirr of a rattlesnake's rattle would, under these circumstances, attract the notice of a bird or small animal, who could easily escape from his enemy by flight if he knew where his enemy was. He remains however, still to listen

the institution, the doctor strolled up stairs into the top gallery of the large rotunda of the building, to view the city and surrounding country. While absorbed in the view from his high elevation, a robust madnan, who had eluded his keepers, came suddenly upon the doctor, to his no little astonishment and bodily fear. But keeping perfectly cool, he bade the maniac "good day" and was turning about to go down stairs. "No, you don't, said the man, clutching the doctor firmly as a vice, "I want you to show me something; they say you do everything: cut off heads, legs, and arms; put them together, take a man all apart, and mend him up as good as ever; and I know you can, too, but I want you just to jump down this hole, (the opening of the rotunda, surrounded by the long spiral stairway,) away on the pavement Come on?do it you mustl" And the fellow exerted himself to drag the doctor up to the railing, to which the poor doctor clung with the tenacity of a tick. The mo ment was one of peril to the doctor, but his presence of mind completely floored his antagonist. "It would not be very hard for me to jump down there, sir," said the doctor; "but I can do a greater feat than that for vou. if vou wish to see me trv."

UUitClQ "Doctor M., are you acquainted with Captain G?" "Yes, I know him well," replied the doctor; "he is one of the new set. But what of him?" "Nothing in particular. I hate just received a letter from him, and I will wag' er you a dozen of old port that you can' not guess in six guesses, how he spells cat." "Donel it's a wager." "Well, commence guessing." said 8* "K, a, double t." "No." * "K, a, double t, e." "No." "K, a, t, e." "No! try again." "C, a double t, e." "No, you have missed it again." "Well, then," returned the doctor, 4<CJ, a, double t" "No, that's not the way; try again?it* your last guess." ?C, a, g, t." "No, that's not the way} you've lost your wager," said S. "Well," said the doctor, with much petulance of manner, "how does he spell it?" "Why, he spells it c, a, t," replied S, with the utmost gravity of manner, amid the roar of the mess, and almost choking with rage, the doctor sprang to his feet.

And built, as Thebes to Ainphlon's strain, To songs of cheer thy wall again! flow shrivelled in thy hot distress The primal sin of selfishness! How instant rose to take thy part, The angel in the human heart! Ah! not iu vain the flames that tossed Above thy dreadful holocaust; The Christ again lias preached through thee The Gospel of Humanity! Then lift once more thy towers on high. And fret with spires the western sky. To tell that God is yet with us, And love is still mHMnftus! [Atlanticfor December, m The Game of Confidante. Let each plaper provide himself with paper and pencil, and write according to the instructions of the leaders, commencing with: Let each boy write a lady's name. Now any past time. Tbe name of a place. Either Yes or No; Yes or No again. Mention a place. Tell us your favorite color. Set down any number not exceeding ten. Another color. Yes or No. Let each write a gentleman's name. Each boy write a gentleman's name, each girl a lady'8. The name of a clergyman. Now any sum of money. The name of a place. And lastly a number. When all have Qnished, each player must read aloud what he or she has writ- J

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1 'Can you, eh, old fellow? Well, try it What is it?" "Why, sir, I will go down there to the bottom, and with one spring, sir, I'll jump clear up here." "Ha! ha!" laughed the maniac, "that would be worth seeing; go down, doctor and jump up?I'll catch you when you come up." The doctor lost no time In going down, and sending up the keepers, who nabbed the poor deluded man. (jHeen Elizabeth. Margaret Lambrun, who had been in the service of Queen Marv, having lost her husband almost at the same time that her mistress was decapitated by Elizabeth's order, gave herself up to so lively a grief that she resolved to avenge on Queen Elizabeth her double loss. She disguised herself as a man, took two pistols, resolving to conceal herself in the crowd, till the Queen was going to the chapel, and then discharge one at the Pueen, and with the other slay herself to avoid punishment. But it happened that as the Queen was promenading in the gardens, this woman wishing to pierce the crowd t*f 1 Vi f rvA nrt ?inV? iam 1 am a aT 4 V? a

gut eyeo iu nee wuat mey are uuiug. A Detroit paper accounts for the intemperance of a prominent senator by the fact that he was "brought up on the bottle." "Tom, who did you say our friend B. married?" "Well, he married forty thousand dollars?I forget her other name." The women who have been admitted to the Michigan Agricultural College are said to behave in a very "gentlemanly" manner. "Have you much fish in your bag?" asked a person of a fisherman. "Yes, there's a good eel in it," was the rather slippery reply. A gentleman the other evening objected to playing cards with a lady, because he said she had such a winning way about her. A young man in town, who is wrestling with his first mustache, proposes to name it after two leading baseball clubs, because there are nine on a side. The drum major who ran away from Chickamauga, when reproached with cowardice, remarked: "I'd rather be a coward all my life than a eorpse fifteen minutes " A California man requested his wife, in

w11*11 ixiuxli jnctipiwuuu, leiuuc ui mu pistols fall. The Guards perceiving it seized her on the spot. The Queen wished to examine her in person. She ordered her to be brought in, and interrogated her, taking her for a man. "Madam," boldly replied the woman, ' 'though I am thus attired, I am a woman;" my name is Margaret Lambrun. I was for several years in the service of Queen Mary whom you have unjustly put to death. I resolved at the peril of my life to ayenge her death by yours. Elizabeth listened to her calmly, and replied: "You thought it your duty to attempt my life; what is now my duty to you?" "Is it in the capacity of Queen, or that of Judge, that your Majesty asks my opinion?" answered the woman. "As queen I ask it," responded Elizabeth. "Then your Majesty ought to pardon me." "But what assurance will you give me," rejoined the Queen' "that you will not, a second time, make a similar attempt?" "Madam," replied the woman, "a par -