~ Z .tr 3? J ± .5-4- JV: 1857' 1-ID ~~_ Kemar^aMe days. 1 Length of day in Edinburgh, 17h.3]m. 2 Sir R. Peeld ., 1850 3 Dog Days begin 5 4th Sunday after Trinity 6 Postage reduced to Three Pence throughout the B N. A. Provinces , 1851 7 Showers, with 8 warm weather 9 First General Assembly met at Charlottetown , 1773 10 Thunder and Lightning. 12 5th Sunday after Trinity 13 Government House and Cen¬ tral Academy erected 18 J 4 14 Length of day at London, 16h 11m. At Edinburgh, 16h 24m 15 St. Swithin 16 Length of day in Dublin, 16h 24m. warm 6f sultry. 19 6th Sunday after Trinity. 20 Pr . Augusta born, 1822. 22 Mary Magdalen 25 St. James 26 7th Sunday after Trinity 28 Occasional showers. % L ''».£. Serio Comic.—Q,uite a laugh was raised in one of the Courts, by an official, who, when the judge called out for the crier to open the Court, said " May it please your Honour, the crier can't cry to-day, because his wife is dead !" "Because he is the first ark itect we read of." Anger anl- Short Life —Excessive labour, expo^ sure to wet and cold, depri vation of sufficient quanti¬ ties of necessary and whole¬ some food, habitual bad lodging, sloth, and intem¬ perance, are all deadly ene¬ mies to human life; but they are none of them so bad as violent and ungoverned pas sions. Men and women have survived all these, and at ast reached extreme old age; but it may be safely doubted whether a single in¬ stance can be found of a man of violent and irascible temper, habitually subject to storms of ungovernable pas sion, who has arrived at a very advanced period oflife Said a gentlemen the other day to a servant a the hotel where lie was stop ping: —" Bless my soul Sambo, how black you are how in the name of wonder did you get so black ?" "Why, look's here, massa de reason am dis—de day dis child was born dere was m-i, i ■&■ 0-0 - J ', Ebony receiv¬ ed -a shilling for his satisfac- school-ma'am of a bright lit-to,7 .^pjanatior, and after, tie girl on examination day. S™S thanks, continued : 0,1, don't know, ma'am, hut"1 teH J 7™ wha^js'm? ,sa' Lthink Noah did." «.« Why?1* nl-,ger ™y fl$rac!<'but do you think so, my dear?;';he aln C Sreen . no hmv- i < \~t 1 n .1 c .an eclipse. Who built the first ,-n- house?" asked an ambitious lool-ma'am of a bright lit- girl on examination day. S™S th lon't know, ma'am, bit'.1 te." ^ ,ki.* J Gy : i «:*3«4««iUiis.v*flifflti*;-sjji. 7fj->: fi /H s us ■ ■■■..-/--..- :. i ;^t^iifa;^.a Kg^ I "- N » C roi c Aw