But the Chevalier is now determined to make assurance doubly sure; and demands a written agreement to marry him, under penalty of the forfeiture of half her fortune, in case of refusal. To this the lady consents: and the ardent admirer leaves the room to order a carriage to convey her to her hotel. She seizes the opportunity to make her escape. On the day following, the adventurous Chevalier involuntarily makes the acquaintance of the Intendant of Police, and finds that his "bold stroke for a wife" is like to entail upon him certain disagreeable consequences in the shape of abundant opportunity for reflection, while a compulsory guest of the public authorities of Genoa. Ought not the Chevalier WYKOFF to have been a Frenchman? Editor's Drawer. The following anecdote of a legal gentleman of Missouri, was compiled many years ago from a newspaper of that State. There is a racy freshness about it that is quite delightful: Being once opposed to Mr. S----, then lately a member of Congress, he remarked as follows to the jury, upon some point of disagreement between them: "Here my brother S---- and I differ materially. Now this, after all, is very natural. Men seldom see things in the same light; and they may disagree in opinion upon the simplest principles of the law, and that very honestly; while, at the same time, neither, perhaps, can perceive any earthly reason why they should. And this is merely because they look at different sides of the subject, and do not view it in all its bearings. "Now, let us suppose, for the sake of illustration, that a man should come into this court-room, and boldly assert that my brother S----'s head" (here he laid his hand very familiarly upon the large "chuckle-head" of his opponent) "is _a squash_! I, on the other hand, should maintain, and perhaps with equal confidence, that it was _a head_. Now, here would be difference--doubtless an honest difference--of opinion. We might argue about it till doom's-day, and never agree. You often see men arguing upon subjects just as _empty_ and trifling as this! But a third person coming in, and looking at the neck and shoulders that support it, would say at once that I had reason on my side; for if it was _not_ a head, it at least occupied the _place_ of one: it stood where a head _ought_ to be!" All this was uttered in the gravest and most solemn manner imaginable, and the effect was irresistibly ludicrous. * * * * * Washington Irving, in one of his admirable sketches of Dutch character, describes an old worthy, with a long eel-skin queue, a sort of covering that was "a potent nourisher and strengthener of the hair." This was in "other times;" and here is a "Tail" of that remote period: "A Tale I'll tell of "other times," Because I'm in the mind: You may have seen the tale before, I've seen it oft behind.