C. FORBES.

Temple.

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MISCELLANIES.

_Epigram by La Monnoye_.--It has been ingeniously said, that "Life is
an epigram, of which death is the point." Alas for human nature! good
points are rare; and no wonder, according to this wicked, but witty,

EPIGRAM BY LA MONNOYE.

The world of fools has such a store,
That he who would not see an ass,
Must bide at home, and bolt his door,
And break his looking glass.

S.W.S.

Mickleham, Dec. 10. 1849.


_Spur Money_.--Two or three years since, a party of sappers and miners
was stationed at Peterborough, engaged in the trigonometrical survey,
when the officer entered the cathedral with his spurs on, and was
immediately beset by the choristers, who demanded money of him for
treading the sacred floor with armed heels. Does any one know the