The School Committee in Boston have ordered that the following Books be used in the Reading Schools of that town, viz. The HOLY BIBLE; WEBSTER's SPELLING-BOOK; The Young Ladies' ACCIDENCE; Webster's American SELECTION of Lessons in Reading and Speaking; The CHILDREN'S FRIEND; MORSE's GEOGRAPHY abridged; and The NEWSPAPERS, occasionally. _Salem Gazette._ * * * * * ANECDOTE. WHEN Oliver Cromwell first coined his money, an old cavalier looking upon one of the new pieces, read this inscription on one side, _God with us_; on the other side, _The Commonwealth of England_. I see, said he, _God and the Commonwealth are on different sides._ _Salem Mercury,_ June 26, 1787. Two different ways of telling a story. _Anecdote_. A CLERGYMAN, who in the Matrimonial Lottery had drawn much worse than a _blank_, and, without the patience of Socrates, had to encounter the turbulent spirit of Xantippe, was interrupted in the middle of a _Curtain Lecture_, by the arrival of a pair, requesting his assistance to introduce them to the _blessed_ state of Wedlock. The poor Priest, actuated at the moment by his own feelings and particular _experience_, rather than a sense of canonical duty, opened the book, and began: "_Man, that is born of a Woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of trouble, &c., &c.,_" repeating the _burial_ service. The astonished Bridegroom exclaimed, "Sir! Sir! you mistake, I came here to be _married_, not _buried_!" "Well (replied the Clergyman), if you insist on it, I am _obliged_ to marry you--but believe me, my friend, you had _better_ be _buried_." _Columbian Centinel,_ March 12, 1791. * * * * * ANECDOTE. It is doubtless recollected that Dean Swift, though a great favorite among the ladies, was (no doubt for good and substantial reasons) nevertheless a bachelor. His opinion of the married state seemed to be not very much exalted. On one occasion, he had been called upon to marry a couple, and after getting them properly arranged, commenced as follows: "Man, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery," &c. "My dear sir," interrupted the bridegroom, "you are reading the burial service, instead of the matrimonial." "Never mind, friend," whispered the Dean, "_you had better be buried than married_." _Salem Observer,_ 1834. * * * * * AN OPPOSITION.