NOVEYBEB 2, 1861.]


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 GREECE,-ITS HUMOUROUS HISTORY,
 BY M'ASSA HOYLE.
 Illustrated with Sketches taken n t1h Sot.
 CHAPTER THE SEVENTH.
 TAKING an eighty years' jump, we come to the next circumstance
of great importance in the early history of Greece,-namely, the
Dorian migration. The Arcadians, led by the beadle of the period, at
first opposed, but eventually assisted the invaders. Some of the city
walls were too high and mighty for them, and in these cases they had
to resort to stratagem, and forming themselves into two parties-the
front Dorians and the back Dorians-waited at the gates until they
were opened, and then sneaked in. They then played oldlucifer with
the heavy troops, who were-on the lucus a non lucendo principle, we
suppose-termed Hop-lites. After things were settled-that is, after
the inhabitants were settled by the Dorians-matters went on very


pleasantly; the Greeks continued to be one people, divided into
separate communities, but still regarding themselves as of coumnon
origin, which they decidedly were, uncommonly common origin.
They now set about visiting the neighboring coasts and islands,
and as in many instances they stopped, they may bo said to liavo
commenced colonizing and semi-colon-izing. The most distinguished
man of the age on which we are writing was Lycurgus, the law-giver
of Sparta. His elder brother dying, the title of king by right belonged
to Lycurgus, but as a posthumous child was born, Lycurgus resigned
,the office to the rightful heir, although his brother's widow was very
much put out of the way, and wished the inlint to be put out of the
way also. He was seated at supper with several of his magisterial
friends, when a servant announced the arrival of the male. Lycurgus
ordered it to be brought in, and named him on the spot Charilaiis,
telling the attendant to leave the young gentleman for the present,
and ordering his perambulator at eleven. This act is supposed to
have set the fashion of having in the children to dessert.


LYCURGUS INTRODUCES THE RIGHTFUL HEIR TO TIHE SPARTANS.


 TO MR. AND MRS. BOUCICAULT.
On Colleen Bawn, why leave us pining
 So sadly for the Octoroon ?
We hope that you intend resigning
 Your perilous position soon.
The public always has its eye on
 That wondrous picture which beguiles;
Oh! give us something fresh, do, DioN,
 We're weary of your Irish miles.
We've heard the Cruislceen Lawn, until we
 Vowed not again to stand the cram "
Around those dreadful doors, nor will we:
 And CHARLEY MOUNT" ad nause-ams;
The piece has brought no end of profit,
 And is a well-deserved success,
But, oh we are so weary of it,
 Withdraw it and we'll ever bless
 You, Colleen Bawin, sweet Colleen Bawn.


 SPORTIVE.-MR. THOMAS SAYERS, ex-champion of England, has just
closed his lucrative engagement with MEssRt. HOWss and CiUHINGs s s
circus. The gallant fellow has lately been trying to improve his
mind. He took out a ticket at Muni,'s, and the first volume hoe
asked for was the famous treatise "On Liberty," by MInu. As this
did not happen to be in, he took PRorEssoi CltllAsY's F'iftOen Deci-
sive Battles."
 A BEND SINISTER.-A bow from a dun.
 FLOWEns have their language, why not their religion ? Of course it
would be Buddhism.
 CAN a man who is charged with not having a right to a work
because he has copied it, justifiably plead that lie has a copyright
 CAN a man who has been fined by the magistrates again a and again,
be considered a refined man.
 WHY does a confectioner resemble one of the West India Island. ?
Because he's a jam-maker (Jamaica).


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