.... The following report of an autopsy is of peculiar interest to physicians and Christians:—Case 81st.—_Felo de se_. Yow Kow, yellow, male, Chinese, aged 94; found dead on the street; addicted to opium. _Autopsy_—sixteen hours after death. Slobbering at the mouth; head caved in; immense rigor mortis; eyes dilated and gouged out; abdomen lacerated; hemorrhage from left ear. _Head_. Water on the brain; scalp congested, rather; when burst with a mallet interior of head resembled a war map. _Thorax_. Charge of buckshot in left lung; diaphragm suffused; heart wanting—finger marks in that vicinity; traces of hobnails outside. _Abdomen_. Lacerated as aforesaid; small intestines cumbered with brick dust; slingshot in duodenum; boot-heel imbedded in pelvis; butcher’s knife fixed rigidly in right kidney. _Remarks:_ Chinese immigration will ruin any country in the world. MUSINGS, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL .... Seated in his den, in the chill gloom of a winter twilight, comforting his stomach with hoarded bits of cheese and broad biscuits, Mr. Grile thinketh unto himself after this fashion of thought: I. To eat biscuits and cheese before dining is to confess that you do not expect to dine. II. “Once bit, twice shy,” is a homely saying, but singularly true. A man who has been swindled will be very cautious the second time, and the third. The fourth time he may be swindled again more easily and completely than before. III. A four-footed beast walks by lifting one foot at a time, but a four-horse team does not walk by lifting one horse at a time. And yet you cannot readily explain why this is so. IV. If a jackass were to describe the Deity he would represent Him with long ears and a tail. Man’s ideal is the higher and truer one; he pictures Him as somewhat resembling a man. V. The bald head of a man is a very common spectacle. You have never seen the bald head of a woman. VI. Baldheaded women are a very common spectacle. VII. Piety, like small-pox, comes by infection. Robinson Crusoe, however, caught it alone on his island. It is probable that he had it in his blood. VIII. The doctrine of foreknowledge does not imply the truth of foreordination. Foreordination is a cause antedating an event. Foreknowledge is an effect, not of something that is going to occur, which would be absurd, but the effect of its being going to occur. IX. Those who cherish the opposite opinion may be very good citizens. X. Old shoes are easiest, because they have accommodated themselves to the feet. Old friends are least intolerable because they have adapted themselves to the inferior parts of our character. XI. Between old friends and old shoes there are other points of resemblance. XII. Everybody professes to know that it would be difficult to find a needle in a haystack, but very few reflect that this is because haystacks seldom contain needles. XIII.