The effects of love are too violent to be the result of an artful passion. Nor is it in the power of fashion, to force the constitution into those changes, which we every day observe. Several have died of it. Few lovers are unacquainted with the fate of the two Italian lovers, Da Corsin and Julia Bellamano, who, after a long separation, expired with pleasure in each other’s arms. Such instances are too strong confirmations of the reality of the passion, and serve to shew that suppressing it, is but opposing the natural dictates of the heart. * * * * * AUTHENTICATED ETYMOLOGIES. When the seamen on board the ship of Christopher Columbus, after a series of fatigues, came in sight of St. Salvador, they burst out into exuberant mirth and jollity. “The lads are in _a merry key_,” cried the commodore. _America_ is now the name of half the globe. The famous Hannibal took his name from that of his mother, _Hannah Bell_, a poor Scotch garter knitter at Carthage. Dionysius Hallicarnassus derives the word _Mediterranean_ from this event: Two girls of Syracuse used every morning to pour tea and other slops from an upper window into the street: Whenever, therefore, the neighbours heard the sash of their apartments lifted up, they would cry, “_Maid or two rain on!_” The learned very well know how soon a word is combined, and becomes general. * * * * * * * * * Interesting History Of THE PRINCESS DE PONTHIEU. _Translated from the French._ (Concluded from page 83.)