Madam Cutts, at the last of these entertainments, wore a black damask gown, and cuffs with double lace ruffles, velvet shoes, blue silk stockings, white and silver stomacher. The daughter and granddaughters in rich brocades and yellow satin. Old Major Cutts in brown velvet, laced with gold, and a large wig. The parson in his silk cassock, and his helpmate in brown damask. Old General Atkinson in scarlet velvet, and his wife and daughters in white damask. The Governor in black velvet, and his lady in crimson tabby trimmed with silver. The ladies wore bell-hoops, high-heeled shoes, paste buckles, silk stockings, and enormously high head-dresses, with lappets of Brussels lace hanging thence to the waist. Among the eatables, a silver tub of the capacity of four gallons, holding a pyramid of pancakes powdered with white sugar. The date assigned to all this about 1690. * * * * * What is the price of a day's labor in Lapland, where the sun never sets for six months? * * * * * Miss Asphyxia Davis! * * * * * A life, generally of a grave hue, may be said to be _embroidered_ with occasional sports and fantasies. * * * * * A father confessor,--his reflections on character, and the contrast of the inward man with the outward, as he looks around on his congregation, all whose secret sins are known to him. * * * * * A person with an ice-cold hand,--his right hand, which people ever afterwards remember when once they have grasped it. * * * * * A stove possessed by a Devil. * * * * *