Major R---- was not long since riding near a building which presented to his admiring gaze a fine specimen of antique Saxon architecture. Desirous to learn something respecting it, he made some inquiries of a man, who as it happened was the _souter_ of the village. This learned wight informed the inquisitive stranger that the building in question was reckoned a noble specimen of _Gothic_ architecture, and was built by the _Romans_, who came over with Julius Caesar. "Friend," said the Major, "you make anachronisms." "No, no, Sir," replied the man, "indeed I don't make _anachronisms_, for I never made any thing but _shoes_ in my life." The same gentleman, one day fitting on a new under-waistcoat, which he had ordered to be made of a material that should resist rain and damp, said to the tailor in attendance, "But are you sure that it is impervious." "O dear, no, Sir," replied the man, with a look of astonishment, "I certainly can't pretend to say that it is _impervious_, for it is _wash-leather_." M.L.B. * * * * * Some men make a vanity of telling their faults; they are the strangest men in the world; they cannot dissemble; they own it is a folly; they have lost abundance of advantage by it; but if you would give them the world, they cannot help it. * * * * * ARLEQUINS. In Paris, small lumps of mixed meats sold in the market for cats, dogs, and the poor, are called _Arlequins_. They are the relics collected from the plates of the rich, and from the restaurateurs. * * * * * By love's delightful influence the attack of ill-humour is resisted; the violence of our passions abated; the bitter cup of affliction sweetened; all the injuries of the world alleviated; and the sweetest flowers plentifully strewed along the path of life. * * * * * At the meeting on the Covent Garden stage, the other day, a gentleman inquired for Mr. Kemble: "He's just _gone off_," replied another, evidently connected with the theatre. Such is the force of habit. * * * * * The late Murgravine of Anspach wrote an impromptu charade, and presented it to her husband, Lord C., as the person most interested in the subject of it, and most capable of judging of its truth:-- "Mon premier est un tyran-- mari- Mon second est un monstre-- age; Et mon tout est--le diable-- mariage." * * * * * A farmer applied to a county magistrate for a warrant:--"A warrant, for what?" says the magistrate, "To _take up the weather_, please your worship." P.T.W. N.B. Warrant refused. * * * * * CONVERSATION, (from Swift.)