THE TIN TRUMPET; OR, HEADS AND TALES. LAMPS.-When these were brought in at night, the ancient Greeks used to salute them with the words, Xape, pidov pws-Salve amica lux!-The human owls of modern times, when the intellectual light is spreading around them, are so far from hailing it with a blessing, that they retire to their cells and lurking places, and hoot at it as a pestilent innovation. While stabbing at the liberties and happiness of mankind, they would rather cry out, with Macbeth,— "Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, LANDSCAPE GARDENING-Artificial nature: the finest of the fine arts. He who lays out grounds and gardens, calling new beauties into existence, not only for his own gratification, but for that of his contemporaries and successors, is exercising a benevolent power which makes him a species of creator. Like all the pure and simple pleasures, this is an enjoyment which rewards itself, and retains its attraction under all circumstances, and at every period of life. The word Paradise is synonymous with garden, and the Elysium of the ancients consisted of sylvan fields. Happy the man who can secure a living apotheosis, amid the beatitudes of a terrestrial garden! LANGUAGES-in several instances have derived their names from a single word. Sismondi writing on the literature of the Trouveres, says, "The Provençal was called the Langue d'Oc, and the Wallon the Langue d'Oil, or d'Oui, from the affirmative word of each language, as the Italian was then called the Langue de Si, and the German the Langue de Ya." Not only to a whole language, but to a whole life may the word yes give its colour and character, as many an unhappy wife has found to her cost. Language, which is the uniting bond and the very medium of communion between men, is at the same time by the great variety of tongues, the means of severing and estranging nations more than any thing else. In this respect it may be compared to the Ourang-outang, which according to the travelling showman, "forms the connecting link which separates mankind from the human race." LAUGH a horse.-The sorry hack upon which buffoons and jesters are fain to ride home, when they want to make a retreat, and are at a loss for any other conveyance. Such Merry Andrews save their credit as the Romans did their Capitol, by the cackling of geese. To succeed in this object all expedients are considered fair; to win the laugh, is to win the battle; if you cannot, therefore, check-mate your adversary by reasoning, dumb-found him by your superior learning, or surpass him in the brilliancy of your wit, knock him down by a poor pun, the worse the better; set the example of a hearty laugh, for this is catching, though wit is not, and make your escape while the company are exercising their risible muscles; they will generally be with you, for they like to see a conqueror capsized. The late Jack Taylor, of pleasant memory, who was no mean proficient in thus turning the tables upon his opponent, when he found himself losing, has recorded one of his exploits. He was rapidly losing ground in a literary discussion, when the opposite party exclaimed, "My good friend, you are not such a rare scholar as you imagine; you are an every day man." Well, and you are a weak 66 one," replied Taylor, who instantly jumped upon the back of a horse laugh, and rode victoriously over his prostrate conqueror. LAUGHTER.-A faculty bestowed exclusively upon man, and one which there is, therefore, a sort of impiety in not exercising as frequently as we can. We may say with Titus, that we have lost a day if it have passed without laughing. The pilgrims at Mecca consider it so essential a part of their devotion, that they call upon their prophet to preserve them from sad faces. "Ah!" cried Rabelais, with an honest pride, as his friends were weeping around his death bed, "if I were to die ten times over, I should never make you cry half so much as I have made you laugh." ""Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est," says an anti-risible reader; but if laughter be genuine, and consequently a means of innocent enjoyment, can it be inept? LAW-English-see Hocus Pocus, and Chicanery. The following character, or rather sentence of condemnation was pronounced upon it, by one well acquainted with his subject—the lecturer over the remains of the late Jeremy Bentham. In answer to the question, what is this boasted English law, which, as we have been told for ages, renders us the envy and admiration of surrounding nations, he |