JANUARY 18, 1862. F Tj 1N-


 same rash jester to whom we have alluded would probably describe
 GREECE,--ITS HUMOUROUS HISTORY. these separate sets of student as as e ll 'erry -ltlties aid the Out-
 BY M'ASSA HOYLE. ciders. As the exercise in which tih pupils were constantly kept
 must have done them good, Aais-ro'iri:, may be certainly said to have
 Illustrated with Sketches taken on the Spot. benefited the human race, and as hie went, ahead himself, his disciples,
 CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH. who found it difficult to keep lup with hiin, imy boe with truth described
 as his followers. He wai ani excellent, arliilmet, ciat, and when his
 ARISTOTLE-a life-like portrait of whom embellished our last chapter pupils asked which system tlycx should s ludy, iito al ways wsggested
 -was the most famous philosopher of PHILIP'S time. He was a very WALKio'E-I. Ilavingbeen accused of irreligion, le settled in' Elsyu't,
 early riser, and also a pupil o' PLATO.*- He lived with this other great though an old halo party, and never made any return to his native
 philosopher twenty years, and, unlike many modern riflemen, he was a and, to which he said good night" ait the ago of sixty-thrne, leaving
 credit to his score. He was twice married, and had issue NICOMlACIIus, much deep lore and many to de-plore him.
 who had his shoes. His physical stature was middling, as were his AuLEXANDER TaII GREAT succeeded P'imi. u'. Ot Ie night of his
 morals; he had small eyes, which were dotted with eyebrows, and a birth L EROSTRAT U set fire to the Tttpllto of l)iai, at Ephesus,
 nose which.was as elevated as his notions. In order to propound his thinking so warm an act of friendship would per.etl ate his imaie, and
 philosophy, he took the Lyceum,-in fact, for much the same reasons that he would go down to posterity in thle same category as the lun-
 that MR. FALCONERa did the like in later years; and as he kept on the mortal BUNS ;" instead of which, however, hl o only achieved lhUiNs'
 trot during his discourses, his productions may be said to have had a Justice, and thojust-hiss of every sano mana. ilouring Al.'XAli. e's
 good run. His school of philosophy was called the "peripatetic," absu co in the nort, e Thans killed all thae iceltnian- wo
 and the only modern disciples of that school are the medical were nearly writing Mnssacrt n-doninlis- in tlhe city. AsttheN- wer
 students who "walk the hospitals." From his continually keep- all as innocent as lambs, it was one of tlo direst hill-lamb.itiet oi
 ing on the move, a profane joker might go so far as to speak of him as record; and ALEXANDER took a trilling revenge by slaying six
 A.ISTODDLE, but such a remark, we are sure, would bo construed thousand, and selling thirty thousand as slaves. On of OALE.SXAND.'S
 as wrongly as have been many of the famed philosopher's treatises. great martial features v-as ili phalanx, which was tIho it)invent ill of
 PHILIP was so delighted at his son ALEXANDER being born in time his father, and was a body of soldiers forming a sort, of tipshy-aenlo of
 to receive instruction from this great creature, that he penned a note pikes-a square which it was impossible to get round, and which was
 which he sent by the penny post to engage him as tutor (as-tuter he as ll of points s a thorough-bred pony or a iStrand burlcsque.
could scarcely have been) in humble and fawning phrases, thereby ALEXANDERI entirely routed the Persians in three great battles. At.
lowering himself and hiring ARISTOTLE, who replied in high terms, the last one DARliIs fled to nBatriana, by way of trying' a back out,
which he also asked. There were two classesadmittedtothe Lyceum, where ho was treacherously killed by a donkey of the name of IBFssUs,
the esoteric or private pupils, and the exoteric or general body. The who thereby proved his ass-assy-natur' I Moro about ALEXANI), E
 must be reserved for another chapter. About his lengthened siego of
 If the irreverent historian means tp late, oh, all we can say is, that he is a Tyro, where he eventually made the inhabitants dance-the mothers
 disgrace to his profession. and the pas Tyrian.


 ALEXANDER'S REGRET.
"HERE'S A JOLLY G O THERE AINT NO MORE WORLDS TO CONQUER!"


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 A DOUBLE SENSE.-Can a man with only two eyes be gifted with WItAT was the most coruscating triumph of scenic effect over
foresight? known ?-Tlle chorus skating in the Irophbitc.