* * * * * "Campus Nautica may be sailor-latin for a pleasant exhibition, though not quite concordical. A sailor at Oxford some time ago, wished to prove the whole University to be sailor-like, and he managed it in this way. 'The Gownsmen are _Puppes_, the Tradesmen are _Naves_, and the women are _nautoe_.' What though the puns don't quite spell, they are not less true for all that."--(_Times, Feb. 29, 1796._) * * * * * "Lately died, in Scotland, _James Anderson_, a well-known itinerant tinker, at the astonishing age of 114, after carrying his budget since his 14th year."--(_Times, March 12, 1796._) * * * * * "We learn from Chester, that the Grand Jury at Conway Assizes found an Indictment against the Bishop of Bangor, his Agent, Chaplain, and two other Divines, for a riot; and also another Bill against the Bishop for an assault!!!"--(_Times, April 5, 1796._) * * * * * "There was a Bank Note came into the Bank the other day, the interest of which, calculated from the time it had been in circulation, amounted to more than £4300."--(_Times, April 26, 1796._) * * * * * "Mrs. Mills had fourteen rooms open at her famous Rout and Supper, in Piccadilly, the other night. The bill for green-peas was seventy-five pounds."--(_Times, May 18, 1796._) * * * * * "At one of Lady B----'s elegant Entertainments at Ham-Common, amongst other amusements provided for her refined company, were a pig with a soaped-tail and a smock-race. A Great Number of young women were collected by curiosity, but none of them could be prevailed upon to contend for the last prize. They declared ingenuously, that they only came for curiosity, as they thought her Ladyship and her Company were to run for it."--(_Times, June 29, 1796._) * * * * * "'I should like to be an _emigré_,' said Mr. V----n the other day. 'Why so?' answered a gentleman present. 'Because,' he replied, 'the emigrants are the only people in town who know how to amuse themselves.'