Anecdotes which are apparently trifling in themselves, are often of importance, as exhibiting in a striking light the dialect and social condition of the people, and the period they refer to. An instance of this is the following, which has been recorded as the bellman's cry at Ripon, on the occasion of a great frost and fall of snow, about 1780:-- "I is to gie notidge, that Joanie Pickersgill yeats yewn to neit, to moarn at moarn, an to moarn at neit, an nea langer, as lang as storm hods, 'cause he can git na mare eldin." _The Translation._ I am to give notice, that John Pickersgill heats his oven to-night, to-morrow morning, and to-morrow at night, and no longer as long as the storm lasts, because he can get no more fuel. INSTANCE OF MANY AGED PERSONS DYING ABOUT THE SAME DATE. The following is taken from a copy of Nile's "Weekly Register," published at Baltimore, in the month of January, 1823. It is the list of deaths which had been notified to the paper within one week, and we give it, as a singular instance of the decease of so many persons above one hundred years old being announced in the same paragraph. "In Franklin co. Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Campbell, aged 104--several of her relatives had reached 100.--At Troy, N. Y., Ann Fowler, 100.--At Tyngsboro', N. Y., Abigail Hadlock, 104.--At Somers, N. Y., Michael Makeel, 103.--At Rutland, Oswego, N. Y., Mrs. Buroy, 110.--At Brunswick, Maine, Gen. James W. Ryan, 107--his wife is yet living, aged 94; they were married together 75 years before his death.--At Georgetown, Col. Yarrow, a Moor, (supposed) 135!--At the city of New York, a woman, a native of St. Domingo, 106. At Sargus, Mass., Mrs. Edwards, 101.--In Edgecomb county, N. C., William Spicer, aged about 112.--In Boston, William Homer, 116." CORPSE BEARERS DURING THE PLAGUE.