pounds. With that singular simplicity and inattention to forms which
characterize a country life, thus he himself read the burial service
over his mother, he married his father to a second wife, and afterwards
buried him also. He published his own banns of marriage in the church,
with a woman he had formerly christened, and he himself married all his
four children.

W.G.C.

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THE POPE PUZZLED.

Pope Alexander the sixth asked the Venetian ambassador at Rome, "What
right his republic had to the dominion of the Adriatic See?" "It will be
found," replied he, "on the back of the donation of the patrimony of St.
Peter to his successors."

W.A.R.

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CHANGING SIDES.

"I am come from Naples to support you," said one of the old opposition
one night to a member on the ministerial benches. "From Naples!" was the
ready rejoinder; "much farther--you are come from the other side of the
House!"