immediately afterwards the white of six eggs. The coagulated mass will not remain on the stomach more than two or three minutes. So effectual is this remedy, that it has been known to remove no less than twenty-four pins at once. TO KILL COCKROACHES. An infallible means to destroy them will be found in giving them the root of the Veratum Vireæ, commonly called black hellebore, which grows wild in our country marshy grounds, and may be got of our market people. Strew the roots about the floor at night, and next morning you will find all the family of the cockroaches dead or dying, from having eaten it, which they will do with much avidity. They will never fail to eat it while they can get it, and will as surely die. It causes them to froth at the mouth, and to split in the back frequently. The method of preserving eggs, by dipping them in boiling water (which destroys the living principle), is too well known to need farther notice. The preservation of potatoes by a similar treatment is also a valuable and useful discovery. Large quantities may be cured at once, by putting them into a basket as large as the vessel containing the boiling hot water will admit, and then just dipping them a minute or two at the utmost. The germ, which is so near to the skin, is thus "killed," without injuring the potato. In this way several tons might be cured in a few hours. They should then be dried in a warm oven, and laid up in casks or sacks, secure from the frost, in a dry place. NAPOLEON'S TABLE TALK. [Continued from page 286.] CONDUCT OF FERDINAND.-If the abdication of Charles IV. had not been a forced one, I should have acknowledged Ferdinand as King of Spain. The transactions at Aranjuez could not be indifferent to me: my troops were spread all over the peninsula; as a sovereign and neighbour I could not suffer such an act of violence. THE CONSULSHIP. When the lawyer Goyer, the apostate Sieyes, the attorney Knobel, the old-clothesman Moulins, had made themselves kings, I might well make myself consul; I had taken my license at Montenotti, Lodi, Arcole, Chíbreisse, and Aboukir. HIS REASONS FOR ABDICATING.-Instead of abdicating at Fontainbleau, I might have sought and carried on a civil war for three years-my army remained faithful. But I never wished to shed French blood for my individual cause. IMITATIONS OF HIS INSTITUTIONS.— In Europe they copy my laws, imitate my institutions, finish my works, ape my policy, even to the ton of my court: my government must not then have been so absurd and bad as they say. HIS CORONATION.-No crown, since that of Charlemagne, has been given with so much solemnity and good will as that which I received from the French people. THE COUNCIL OF STATE.-With the exception of a few chameleons, which (as every where else) had crept into my council of state, it was composed of honest and really meritorious men. WOMEN.-A handsome woman pleases the eyes, a good woman pleases the heart; the one is a jewel, the other a treasure. INVASION OF SPAIN.-I committed the fault of entering Spain because I did not know the spirit of the nationthe nobility called me, and the rabble drove me back. THE DUKE D'ENGHIEN AND CAPTAIN WRIGHT.-Many base things have been written about the deaths of the Duke d'Enghien and Captain Wright;-the first was not my work, and of the second I know nothing. I could not prevent an Englishman seized with the spleen from cutting his throat. THE KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA.-I committed a fault by not striking out Prussia from the map. continental system was to ruin English THE CONTINENTAL SYSTEM.-My trade, and give peace to the world. Its only defect was, that it could not be strictly executed; few people here understood this system. STATUE IN THE PLACE VENDOME. My statue upon the Place Vendome, and the pompous inscriptions of my reign have been much criticised. Kings are obliged to let artists do as they choose. Lewis XIV. did not order the slaves to be put at the feet of his statue, nor did he wish La Feuilladi to write "to the immortal man.” And if there should be seen any where "Napoleon the Great," people must know that it was not I who invented this title. I only suffered the world to speak their sentiments. [To be continued.] THE MUSES' WILD WREATH. That crowns give virtue-power gives ON THE DEATH OF RIEGO. Priests, and inquisitors, and kings, They drugg'd the bowl with coward art Lest he should tell them from the tree And yet it booted not that he wit, That follies well on proud ones sit; That 'nointed kings no longer do,- To say a dull and sleepy warden That wisdom's bought and virtue sold; Should warn the recreants of the doom For court a garter and a star, Vengeance is bringing nigh. That doom is on the rolls of Fate, 'Tis register'd and seal'd, And like the Assyrian pestilence Should blast them unanneal'd. The seed is sown by Freedom's hands, Then life's last agonies no more Shall glut a tyrant's hate, Nor ignorance cowl'd, nor perjury crown'd Curse Spain's unhappy state. Then from some mighty intellect, The banded kings shall fly, O deem not that the patriot's blood It cries to Heaven-it cries to Earth- The light'ning bears it on its wing, 'Tis seen upon the cloud, It bids upbraiding from the dust Shake off their chains, and dare assert And valour fit for peace or war, That's true-that's true! They must be gagg'd who go to court, The scourgers when they're men of The humble, poor man's form and hue But wond'rous favours to be done, That he who in the courts of law Defends his person or estate, Upon the mighty river Plate ;* To sow of pure and honest seeds, And to pretend our care and toil THAT'S A LIE THAT'S A LIE! As 'twere just-and ask it why? TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH. Riches will serve for titles too That's true-that's true! And they love most who oftenest sigh- That's a lie-that's a lie! • Rio de la Plata-Silver River. A THOUSAND, THOUSAND TIMES I SEEK. A thousand, thousand times I seek My lovely maid; But I am silent, still afraid That if I speak LOVE'S WREATH. It is an April wreath: blue violets, Sapphires from a moss mine; pale primroses, Wearing a yellow and forsaken dress, And yet too beautiful to be forsaken; The maid might frown, and then my And daisies, simple daisies,—surely love May trace its likeness in the gentle flower [how, That blossoms every where and any Bearing alike with storm and shine, with still The same fair summer-face,-seen on the grave, The heath, the field, the garden; cowslips, too, Tall and green turrets for the fragrant bells Which the bees love so-bound with the young leaves O MEET ME ONCE. O meet me once, but once again Beside that old oak tree; It is not much of all thy vows, O meet me when the evening star Shines on the twilight grey, Just while the lark sings his last song,— I have not much to say. I know that when to-morrow's sun You'll lead your fair bride to the church, And cannot meet me then. But this last evening is your own,— Aught like reproach from me. I do but ask to pardon thee, Their heads must be cramm'd like a booth in a fair, And, like barber's, must suit every man to a hair; And when, which is frequent, involv'd in dispute, They must flourish away, their foe to confute. Dithyrambics-And Iambics, Any weight-From Pennyweight, Author Oh the life of an{ } Editor than a slave's. is worse Upon his brow The damps of death are settling,—and his eyes Grow fixed and meaningless. marks the change She With desperate earnestness; and staying even Her breath, that nothing may disturb the hush, Lays her wan cheek still closer to his heart, And listens, as its varying pulses move, Haply to catch a sound betokening life. It beats-again-another--and ano ther, And, now, hath ceased for ever! What a shriek A shrill and soul-appalling shriek peals forth, When the full truth hath rushed upon her brain! Who may describe the rigidness of frame, The stony look of anguish and despair, With which she bends o'er that un moving clay. "We ought not, like the spider, to spin a flimsy web wholly from our own magazine; but, like the bee, visit every store, and cull the most useful and the best."-GREGORY. THE IDLE AND INDUSTRIOUS APPRENTICES. THE INDUSTRIOUS APPRENTICE OUT OF HIS TIME AND MARRIED TO HIS MASTER'S DAUGHTER. Proverbs, chap. xiii. verse 4. THE reward of industry is success. Our prudent and attentive youth is now become partner with his master, and married to his daughter. To shew that plenty reigns in this mansion, a servant distributes the remains of the table to a poor woman, and the bridegroom pays one of the drummers, who, according to ancient custom, attend with their thundering congratulations the day after the wedding. A performer on the bass viol, and a herd of butchers armed with marrow bones and cleavers, form an English concert. A cripple, with the ballad of Jesse, or the Happy Pair, represents a man known by the name of Philip in the Tub, who had visited Ireland and the United Provinces. From those votaries of Hymen, who were honoured with his epithalamiums, he received a small reward. The base of the Monument appears in the back ground. A footman and butcher at the opposite corner, compared with the other figures, are gigantic; they might serve for the Gog and Magog of Guildhall. THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA, OF ISPAHAN. [Continued from page 342.] But, strange enough, Hajjî does not lend himself to the habits of his order, and acquires the reputation of a paragon of temperance and integrity. The picture of the scenes into which he is carried by the duties of his new office is uncommonly well drawn, and represents, we have no doubt, with the greatest fidelity and force, the customs of the Persian court. A very pleasing A a |