There is a curious duel now pending in Boston which began ten years ago. Mr. A., a bachelor, challenged Mr. B., a married man, with one child, who replied that the conditions were not equal--that he must necessarily put more at risk with his life than the other, and he declined. A year afterwards he received a challenge from Mr. A., who stated that he too had now a wife and child, and he supposed, therefore, the objection of Mr. B. was no longer valid. Mr. B. replied that he now had two children, consequently the inequality still subsisted. The next year Mr. A. renewed the challenge, having now two children also; but his adversary had three. The matter when last heard from was still going on, the numbers being six to seven, and the challenge yearly renewed. THE MILLENNIUM AT HAND.--625. An editor of a Boston paper thinks that the millennium is at hand, and gives his reasons. He says that an inspector of long and dry measures in Baltimore, while going his rounds, cut a full quarter of an inch from a yard-stick in a dry-goods' store in that city, it being that much _too long_. SAYINGS WISE AND WITTY.--626. It iz highly important that when a man makes up hiz mind tew bekum a raskal, that he should examine hizself clusly, and see if he aint better konstrukted for a phool. I argy in this way; if a man iz right, he kant be too radikal; if he iz rong, he kant be too consarvatiff. "Tell the truth, and shame the Devil;" i kno lots ov people who kan shame the devil eazy enuff, but the tother thing bothers them. It iz a verry delikate job tew forgive a man, without lowering him in hiz own estimashun, and yures too. Az a gineral thing, when a woman wares the britches she haz a good rite tew them. It iz admitted now bi evryboddy that the man who kan git fat on berlony sassage has got a good deal of dorg in him. Wooman's inflooenze iz powerful, espeshila when she wants ennything. Sticking up yure noze don't prove ennything, for a sope biler, when he iz away from his hum, smells evrything. No man luvs tew git beat, but it iz better tew git beat than tew be rong. Don't mistake arroganse for wisdom; menny people hav thought they wuz wize, when tha waz onla windy. Men aint apt tew git kicked out ov good society for being ritch. The rode tew Ruin iz alwus kept in good repair, and the travelers pa the expense ov it. If a man begins life bi being a fust Lutenant in hiz familee, he need never tew look for promoshun. The only proffit thare is in keeping more than one dorg iz what you kan make on the board. Young man, study Defference; it iz the best card in the pack. Honesta iz the poor man's pork, and the rich man's pudding. Thare iz a luxury in sumtimes feeling lonesum. Thare is onla one advantage, that i kan see, in going tew the Devil, and that iz the rode iz easy, and yu are sure to git there. Lastly, i am violently oppozed tew ardent speerits as a bevridge; but for manufakturing purposes i think a leetle ov it tastes good.