one hundred and twenty pounds each, equal to 80 million bushels; in raw and wrought silk one million pounds. The rest is taken in salt, wines, cotton, and other fruits of labour and industry, at a certain ratio per cent. and deposited in stores over all the empire. The perishable commodities are immediately sold, and the Mandarins and army are paid by bills on these magazines. In no part of the world are the inhabitants less oppressed than there. _Massachusetts Gazette,_ Sept. 29, 1786. * * * * * _Religiously Inclined_.--A gentleman perceiving a fellow leaning against the front of St. Paul's church yesterday, who was unable to stand without some such support, asked him if he was going to join the church. 'No,' replied Bottlenose, 'not edzactly to jine, but I'm only lean--leanin'--that way.' _New Era_ [1837]. * * * * * Meaning of the word. GENTLEMEN. How the signification of words alter in the course of a century. There was a time when all persons in England, below the rank of an _Esquire_, were divided into _Gentlemen_, Yeomen and _Rascals_. The former word is now used to signify the individuals of the first order--those whom you would take by the hand in the street, and sup with of an evening. The second term retains pretty nearly its original meaning. But to make an application of the latter appellative at this time, would operate as an invitation to be knocked down. 'Gentlemen,' is used in opposition among the old chronicles to 'simple man,' and neither in any very exalted sense. It is on record, that the French Princess, De La Roche Sur Yon, receiving a sharp reply from a Knight, to whom she gave the epithet of '_Gentilhomme_,' was told by the King, to whom she complained, that she deserved all she got, for so offending, herself, in the first instance. The lower people in England were commonly '_the Rascality_'--equivalent to the '_Canaille_' of the French, or our own significant _Rabble_ of the present day. In what sense do they use the word 'Gentlemen' in Congress--Eh?--_Charleston Gaz._ _Salem Observer,_ April 3, 1820. _Professional_ ANECDOTE _of Dr._ FRANKLIN.