NOVEMBER 16, 1861.,F 1 ;

 PirrAcus first brought himself into notice by the artfulness hio
 GREECE,-ITS HUMOUROUS HISTORY. displayed in a fight with PIIRYNON, an Athenian. 11o concealed a
 net under his shield, and in the course of the combat managed to get
 BY M'ASSA HOYLE. his adversary in a number of" lines," and having thus rendered hin
 Illustrated with Sketches taken on the Spot. incapable of using his arms, dispatched him in the bravest, ninuncr
 CHAPTER THE NINTH. imainable. His countrymen were so charmedl with his miaginanimnity,
 that they elected him governor, a post which he gave lup after holding
 SOLON died at the age of eighty, and considering everything, it is it ten years. His people wished to present him with a quantliy of
surprising that he lived so-lon. The only blot on his character is, land, and they tried to force a large tract upon him, but lie refused
that he amused his leisure hours by writing poetry, of a nature it like a man. One of his most sagacious laws was, that every mian
" unfit for publication," as the police reporters have it. This certainly who committed a crime when intoxicated was to receive double
derogates somewhat from the' esteem in which we should otherwise punishment. As people under that condition are supposed to see
have held him: in these highly moral days we can scarcely imagine a double, their crimes must, of course, have a magnified enormity, so
great legislator doing such a thing. Only fancy LORD DERBY corn- that PITTAcus's punishment was just one.
posing comic ditties of a doubtful character, or Sin E. B. LYrroN BIAs, who was not, as his name suggests, a one-sided person, but a
reading his last novel to the populace in Trafalgar-square. SOLON is very fair specimen of the philosopher.
also known as one of the seven wise men of Greece." From this CLEiOBULUs was remarkable for his handsome figure. His limbs
one may infer that there were six other wise men of Greece, and the were Leotard-like, and he wrote a very few verses, which nmay
remainder decidedly otherwise. THALES, pronounced by CICERO to account for his being considered one of the seven wise men.
be the most illustrious of them all, was a great geometrician and PERIANDER, a tyrannical ruffian, who said that "a man should keep
astronomer. He declared that water was the principle of all things, his word upon every occasion on which it did not clash with his own
and it would be unfair to contradict him in his absence. When in interest." Really, if the delivery of such astute observations as this
Egypt, he took the height of the pyramids by an exact measurement endowed the speaker with the title of a wise man, it becomes foarl'tl
of the shadow, which proves that he was very particular to a shade. to think of the intellectual qualifications of those who were not con-
CHILO *as a very curt and reserved philosopher, who, because he sidered wise.
seldom opened his mouth, and when he did, always said something To those is occasionally added the name of ANACIrAlSIS. Iie is
very rude, got the character of being a great man. His speciality supposed to have invented the potter's wheol,-pottcd woal was a
consisted in making remarks highly suggestive of the texts in later discovery,-and the second fluko of the anchor is ascribed to himi;
children's copy books; the most remarkable, and, indeed, the only seeing the first one, he is supposed to have said "Ancore," and lhavo
one which has become a household word, being Know thyself." We added the second. Anyhow, he achieved greatness by a fluke. After
may be absurdly obtuse, but we really cannot see that the composition calmly reflecting upon the necessary qualities requisite in tlhe days
of this remarkable sentence should give a man a niche in the temple we are writing of for the achievement of the title of wise man," we
of fame. We conceive the inventor of that great moral aphorism, cannot help wishing, for the sake of the Greeks and ourselves, that
" You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear," to be a much greater MR. MARTIN TUPPER did not exist in that caln and proverbially
man than CHILo. philosophic age.




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