not quit the house, till she shall have married the object of her love." Sometimes the parents persist in their refusal; but if the girl be obstinate, and have patience to stay a few days or weeks in the house, they are not only forced to give their consent, but frequent ly to persuade their son to marry her. Besides, the young man is generally moved by her perseverance and affection, and gradually accustoms himself to the idea of making her his wife; so that the young female peasants of the Ukraine seldom fail of being provided with a husband to their mind, if they do but possess a tolerable share of constancy. There is no fear of their being obliged to leave the house of the youth they pre fer: the parents never think of employing force, because they believe, that, by so doing, they should draw down the vengeance of Heaven upon their heads; and to this consideration is added the fear of offending the girl's family, who would not fail to resent such beha viour, as a grievous affront.

ANTICIPATORY EPITAPH.

ABOUT twenty years ago, an ancient maiden, named Mary Baker, a domestic in the duke of Dorset's family, at Seven Oaks, caused a tomb-stone to be erected in Ticehurst church yard, bearing this curious inscription-"Mary Baker intends to lie here."

DR. RADCLIFFE,

THIS physician, the founder of the magnificent library at Oxford, was a person of a singular character. He told Dr. Mead, "I love you, and now I will tell you a secret to make your fortune-use all mankind ill.” It was certainly his own practice. He owned that he was avaricious even to spunging. He would, whenever he any way could, borrow a sixpence or a shilling among the rest of the company, under pretence of hating to change a guinea, because it slips away so fast, He could never be brought to pay bills without long running; nor then, if there appeared any chance of wearying them out. A paviour, after many fruitless attempts, caught him just getting out of his chariot,

at his own door in Bloomsbury-square, and set upon bim. "Why you rascal," said the doctor," do you pretend to be paid for such a piece of work? why you have spoiled my pavement, and then covered it over with earth to hide your bad work." "Doctor," said the paviour, “ mine is not the only bad work that the earth hides." "You dog you," said the doctor," are you a wit? You must be poor, come in"--and he paid him. These anecdotes are told by Dr. Mead himself-the worthiest of men, who never adopted the principle of" using mankind ill," but who, by using them well, was infamously ill used by many.

HOW TO DISAPPOINT A WIFE. THE following curious entry is inserted in the register of Lymington church, under the year 1736. "Samuel Baldwin, Esq. sojourner in this parish, was immersed, without the Needles, sans ceremonie, May 20:" that is to say, his remains were deposited in the English Channel, a small distance from the Isle of Wight. This was performed in consequence of an earnest wish he had expressed to that effect, a little before his dissolution, from a determination to disappoint the intention of an affectionate wife, who had repeatedly assured him, in their domestic squabbles, which were very numerous, that if Providence permitted her to survive him, she would revenge her conjugal vexations by occasionally dancing on the turf that covered his grave.

DR. DAMPIER.

IT is said, that the facetious counsellor, Mr. H. Dampier, an old Etonian, always attended the Westminster plays, for the purpose of detecting the annual false quantity in the prologue or epilogue. A few years since, however, a defiance of discovery was thrown out to him: and he attended the two first nights without catching his game. On the third, however, when almost in despair, his ear caught the wished for sound, and he started up, crying out (to the no small wonder and amazement of the audience,)" there we have it by G-" The word, we believe, was professori, the pro made long.

METROPOLITAN CHANGES.

AN old writer, speaking of the metropolis in the reign of Elizabeth, says that, "The citizens be famed and noted for their industry, and warilie abide by their shoppes, and sticke untoe their merchandize like unto leeches, except on the Sundaie, whenne they doe snuffe the fresh air, and perambulate unto the Pinder of Wakefield, and Islington, whereare to be sold sugared cates and well frothed syllabubbes. These be their principal summer delights, though some of the bettermost sort do on the last even of the week sleep at the surrounding villages: but thenne these be only they whose bagges are well filled, and they would be deemed most unthrifty, and get into doubtful credite, where they absent from their shoppes at nine o'clock on Monday morning.

UNDERSTANDING AND MEMORY.

THE understanding may be so perfect and mechanical, as to survive even the loss of memory itself. f will give two instances. De Lagny, the mathematieian, had been for two days in a deep lethargy, and had not known even his own children. Maupertius abruptly, and with a very loud voice, asked him what was the square of twelve?-144, replied a feeble lingering remain of the expiring intellect. The celebra ted physician Chirac was much in the same state, and without any power of recollecting those near his death bed. His right hand mechanically laid hold of his left, and, feeling his pulse, be exclaimed, “They have called me too late. The patient has been bled, and he should have been evacuated. He is a dead man. The prediction and the prognostic were soon after verified.

AN OLD ENGLISH CUSTOM.

"THE women of England not only salute their relations with a kiss, but all persons promiscuously; and this ceremony they repeat gently touching them with their lips, not ouly with grace, but without the least immodesty. Such, however, as are of the blood royal,

LAURENCE ECHARD.

THIS writer, however slightly he may be regarded, on account of his credulity, and for the little spirit of discernment and observation displayed in his History of England, merits respect for his modesty, and for the mass of materials which he has compiled and faithfully exhibited. He was a man of great amiableness of manners, and most unaffected simplicity, as the following anecdote will evince. During his residence at Louth, in Lincolnshire, he used to ride every Sunday to his cure in the neighbourhood. One winter morning, a shoemaker's boy, carrying a pair of shoes

to the same village where Echard was bound, overtook the parson, and bluntly asked him to take the shoes for him, and deliver them to the farmer, for whom they were made. The good natured pastor readily accepted the commission; but afterwards thought proper to ride after the boy, and ask him what he should do with the shoes if they did not fit? Why, then, measter," says the boy," bring them back again."

A gentleman once asked Mr. Echard whether he was a Whig or a Tory? to which he pertinently answered, 66 I am an Historian."

KENILWORTH CASTLE has been long celebrated in the annals oft his kingdom; in former times as one of superior strength; and, in latter days, as having been the scene of one of the most sumptuous entertainments that was ever offered by a subject to his sovereign.

It was built about the year 1120, by Geoffry de Clinton, a Norman, who was lord chamberlain and treasurer to Henry the first, of whom he obtained a grant of land for this purpose..

But though it seems to have been in possession of the son and grandson of the founder, it did not continue uninterruptedly in the Clinton family; for, in the 11th of Henry the second, the sheriff accounted to the crown for the profits of the park, and in the 19th year of the same reign, (A. D. 1173) it was garrisoned by the king, on his son's rebellion: at which time it appears, by an account of the stores laid into the castle, for the use of the garrison, that wheat was about twopence halfpenny a bushel; barley nearly the same price; and the carcase of a cow salted, was charged at two shillings; a cheese was fourpence; and other articles in proportion.