your life till come,’ she added, pushing him into a dark room.

‘Are you going away ?’ demanded the Major.

‘ For a minute.’

‘For heaven's sake, be quick! returned the Major,‘ or I'll die of love before you return,’

‘Hush—hush! for mercy’s sake or some one will hear} you,’ replied Ellen, as she shut the door and fastened it outside, while she went to consult with George as to the next step they were to take.

‘What shall we do with him now ? asked she.

‘Call the shaver, to be sure,’ said George.

‘He has a fine head of hair — it will be a pity to cut it off,’ replied Ellen.

‘Oh, never mind that. There’s many a fine head of bair been cut off here,’ replied her lover; ‘it will soon grow again.’

‘ Very well,’ said Ellen; and she immediately went to inform the shaver of the establishment that there was a patient just come, who imagined himself Nebuchadnez- var, and who was to have his head shaved.

‘ Very well,’ replied the person addressed ; and call- ing one ofthe keepers, they went with Ellen, who car- ried a light to the room where the Major was sitting in the dark.

‘Good evening, Nebuchadnezzar,’ said the shaver as he entered.

‘Good evening,’ said the Major willing to keep the character he had assumed, ‘ [ am always glad to see my subjects in good health.’

‘ {’ve come to shave your Majesty's head,’ returned the shaver, az pleasantly as he could.

‘Eh !—what?’ demanded the Major, stretching his eyes to their utmost limit, and at the same time forget- ung his assumed character.

‘Shave your Majesty’s head,’ said the man.

‘ll be d—d if you do” responded the Major, mak- ing for the door, and looking rather alarmed.

‘It will be a practical lesson in humility for your subjects,’ said the keeper, who was standing by.

‘A practical lesson be d—d!’ roared the Major ;— ‘and I'll knock the first down that lays a finger on me.’

‘Oh, very well, your Majesty,’ replied the keeper. ‘If you will not take the lesson quietly, we must adopt our usual plan, and make you.’

‘Let me out? roared the Major.

‘You were not brought here for that.’

‘Let me out, [ say, or I will call for assistance,’ said the Major.

‘It’s no use calling here—no one will listen toa mad- man’s voice.’

‘But [ tell you [ am not mad.’

f* Ha! ha!’ replied the keeper. ‘They all say so that Gome here, and believe themselves the most sensible 2ople on earth.

* But [tell you I am in my sound senses.’

‘What were you brought here for ?

As the Major could not well answer this question, he looked rather stupid.

‘It is no use standing talking to him,’ said George, who now entered. ‘Why don’t you shave him at once, according to orders? He’s as mad as a March hare, and wanted to fight me at the gate just now for a hap’- orth of marbles.’

‘Ha! ha! ha! laughed all, Geo. and the keeper at the same time approaching the Major, who, being despe- rate,and seeing himself in a predicament he could scarce- ly. account for, began to show fight in real earnest, us he was attempted to be seized by three powerful men.

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ns ga was not half so respectable a looking chap ee ee he placed his hat upon his bald pate, —"* _ 1g his arm to his wife, departed from the asy- ‘Oh! oh? groaned the Major, in the deep agony of|lum, breathing a volume of anathemas against the his spirit, while his head hung upon his breast in the/treachery of woman. Among his aquaintances the most abject dispondency. Major trumped up some story to account for the loss of When the operation was finished, he was carried to a{his hair ; but Ellen never saw him in the vicinity of the ward in another part of the building, and as he showed |asylum again. some resistance, wag strapped down to an iron bedstead, where, after many fruitless endeavours to release him- self from his unpleasant situation, and wearied out with

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lowing morning the principal of the establishment w : g alk- Y - ed into the ward where the Major iay with his head Gaty-uaoe May.—The. poor man of the. wenern

close shaven, and to whom the latter bitterly complain- forest—he who has encountered the troubles and toils of ed of the treatment he had received. an early settlement, and struggled for an humble home - Pk a ae = rel ‘don’t distress} —who has trained his children to learning, and inspiring y Fe ae ay ee ge them with reflection, may yet behold the blooming son

‘ But I tell you, Sir, there is some mistake. I am not the individual you owes te bu? that follows him to the plough field, shining in the

_ ‘LU know it, my good man,’ replied the Doctor, sooth- |temples of learning, or adorning the halls of Legislation. ingly, willing to humour what he considered some par-| The world is filled with bright examples of unaided

ticular whi , jac’ tell ed pee Major of her Majes-(2°"™ who have arisen from the dust of indigence, and,

; é aed - . . . : ty’s service,’ in the vigour of their native strength, unbound the

‘Nothing more likely,’ replied the Doctor, ‘than for shackles that environed them, and burst the bands that gentlemen in your unhappy condition to fancy them-jfettered them. What else took the daring Colambus

> e m ° selves somebody else. from his loom, and made him the navigator of seas and

‘He said he was Nebuchadnezzer last night, Sir, + as said the keeper, who was standing by. oii > Ithe digscoveror ef Continents? What else raised Sir

‘ Poor fellow,’ returned the Dr.; ‘see that he is kept Cloudsley Shovel from the tattered bench ofa village very low after I have bled him.’ shoemaker, and made him Rear Admiral of England ? ‘Merciful God,’ exclaimed the Major; ‘you surely|What else unlocked the chains of bondage and slavery do not intend what you say!” from a Terence, and distinguished him as a scholar and ‘Hush! hush! be tranquil. You are now ina high|poet? What else elevated Prideaux trom the humble fever. ¥ will visit you in half an hour, replied the Dr.,|condition of a college cook, to the high honours of a re as he deliberately left the room, leaving the Major to/ligious prelate and teacher? What else called forth the speculate on the benefit he might derive from his next|powers of a Hogarth, the most scientific artist of his visit. ' ~ Itime, and made him exchange the work-shop of the The doctor had scarcely left the ward when the realjmechanic for the cloister of the author ? What gave the maniac appeared, led in by Mr..Lucas himself, who|celebrated Dr. Mountain, the son of a beggar, ecclesi- had brought him in a-coach., astical honours ?—what diverted the inquiring mind of» ‘Here is eurely some mistake, said Dr. Milman, ¢ for the illustrious astronomer, Ferguson, to a contemplation I conjectured the patient you were to introduce to me of the mighty heavens—to gaze upon the stars, and to,

was bronght here last evening, and is now lying up allot them their stations ?—what made an unrivalled stairs, where he has commenced his course of treatment. |philosopher and statesman of Benjamin Franklin, the

‘This is the individual I alluded to” said Mr. Lucas, |roving Boston printer,—and converted the inimitable ‘There is something that requires some explanation,’ | Burns, the poor ploughboy o: Ayrshire, into the sweetest

| «Come up stairs into the ward, and perhaps you may Bard that ever played or sung + know the gentleman when you have seen him; it may; Aycren~ Pounrry.—“Speakine of goose,” said a ‘unravel this seeming mystery, said-the Doctor. wag to his-companion, last Thurs tay, “1 a nla my” Having secured the night manize, they both went to| mother roasted one of them birds once : "twa 3 so tarna- the place where the Major lay. _ ,. * |tion tough that we could not carve it,. but had to chop | ‘This is the gentleman,’ said Dr. Milman, pointing to up the creature with a broad axe, then boiled, broiled, the bed. ‘Do you know him? and fricasseed it; but ‘twas no go—we couldn’t eat it *T have not the most distant knowledge of him,’ re-| any how ; I reckoned it might have been the same one plied the other, whose cackle saved Rome.” “ Very like,”. replied the *‘ Have you any friends,’ asked the Doctor of the Major. other, “our folks undertook to cook a rooster—we ‘Plenty, replied the other, hadn't the true record of his age, but I verily believe he ‘How come you here—who brought you” was the same old cock which crowed to Peter; he was ‘No one.’ a devil of a fellow for crowing any how—for after boil-

r ” ; oe ove oe ‘ You come alone: ing him a whole day, when tie lid was taken off at night, | © Yea, blow me if the varmint didn’t fly out of the pot, light on

‘ How did. you gain admittance? the crane, flap his wings, and scream—cock-a-doodle- ‘T came with—that is I—came by mistake,’ at length! 4,, °_ 4merican Paver. stammered the Major, ashamed, and unwilling to publish 2 7 ae beneateanal - his own folly. Inow ror Butepine.—The introduction of iron for

| ‘Here is sometning,’ said the Doctor, ‘ and before I the first story of stores, is becomming very COE part with you I must make inquiries.’ At the corner of Centre and Dunane streets, New York,

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Major. entirely of cast tron.

‘Hold him by the legs,’ said the keeper.

‘That's it,’ replied the shaver.

‘Get the waistcoat,’ called George, ‘ while I hold his arms.’

‘Cursed villains” roared the Major,with a tremendous oath, while he plunged and kicked violently, ‘do you want tomurder me? J’jl make you pay for tt’

‘Hold him tight,’ said the keeper.

‘Get him into the chair and strap him down,’ said George.

‘Put that arm into the waistcoat,’ cried the keeper.

‘That’s it, said one.

‘ All right,’ said a second. :

‘And now you may kick as long as you Jike,’ remark- ed the third, as they got the Major on the floor, his legs strapped together, and his arms made fast and confined behind him by the strait-waistcoat,

‘ Now let’s have him in the chair,’ said the shaver,

and immediately the unfortunate Major was placed in’

the chair, and strapped down, while the shaver prepared to clip his luxuriant curls. :

After two or three attempts, he found it was imposst- ble, for the Major kept swearing and rolling about his heed, as if he would shake it off his shoulders.

Here, just hold his head,’ said the shaver to his companions, and immediately they laid hold of their Victim's ears, one on each side, while the shaver clipped of hig glossy curls in a twinkling.

‘Til bring an action against you all,’ groaned the Major, in the anguish of his spirit.

*Oh, don’t bother, answered. the shaver, as he latherad his head, and passing his razor over it, the noble Major became as bald ag a barber's block, grin- ning most horribly during the interesting process.

‘He won't want these mustachios here, continued the

‘When F have sufficient proof of your sanity, I will”! Nypozeon.—Mr. Walsh, the intelligent Paris corres- ‘replied the Dr.; ‘and am convinced you have not escap-| nondent of the Living .Ige, gives the following interest- led from some other asylum. Where do your friends ing account of of the late Presidential election : | . ] - ° ° reside : The peasantry of the interior marched to the polls

Tha Be wae pnd aes at 17 ,-————; with their Napoleon ticket at the end of cleft sticks, 2 a s = *

\ « ) —s nbs - rote. , z repel wy f lrums beating; in many districts, when | As this did not unravel the plot, the Dr. sent George et ‘her choice “they en. "’ We pip ort ito 17, , Where he found the Major’s wife}: , : .

ote fi epublican; we had enough of the repub- ‘inthe greatest alarm at her husband’s absence; and |! Vole me 88 Nae € repub

os lic.” “ Well, then,” they were told, “ if you do not want rming her whe was, she immediately!" ~* ‘re a, ’ . jupon his informing hi ere he was, she mumediatply) republic, vote for Bonaparte.” Yesterday, I asked jset out in search of him. Upon arriving at the asylum, hin etinieiledl } , bed loved ff :

ishe found her husband in the state described, and was) he worthy tailor WHOM > Rad OMployed sur many yeate, . . and who is an officer in the National Guards, how he had ‘equally at a loss to discover by what means he contrived | # tees Wapponn tas Tage ‘to get into such a scrape voted. “ For Napoleon, to be sure.” When he perceiy- | c .

1g if o a... } . | Are you quite sure, my dear Madam,’ asked the Dr. ied that I was not edified, he added, Possibly it was ‘that this is your husband stupid on my part; but, in truth [ could no longer bear ‘Quite with this cursed republic.” Such was the feeling of the : | . iui oe ’ ‘And are you convinced that he is of sound mind ?” bourgeois Pe —puspe the E ‘ He was so yesterday,’ said the lady, ‘though I have| Of the memory of the Emperor Napoleon, among the

ne o 'French, Mr. Walsh writes: some doubts of him now : > | You must have travelled over France as I have done ‘What could induce him to come here? leet datdeeh gilietalaliee ory : ‘I really cannot say, unless some mad freak has taken |/P Every rection, to comprehend how mementos, in | possession ofhie brain.’ ‘the forms of pictures, busts, inscriptions, almanacs, nar- ‘My dear wife, exclaimed the Major, ‘I am in my ratives, songs, local honours, are rnultiplied and ai perfect senses, and will tell you all? ‘fused ; not a private or public edifice in which his name

y, . m3 0 ‘Then jet’s hear this strange affair, said the Doctor, {2d image do not predominate. Thirty-three years have elapsed since his reign; his omnivorous and iron

‘ ‘ow. replied tl ior: * fi ’3 sake releage | ene? ipped he Biya eer. ee roleaze Jespotism is forgotten; his veterans and all the retired

‘Upon the testimony of your wife that you are of |Soldiery spread in the rural districts have constantly sound mind, ! will release you,’ returned the Doctor; turned the national spirit, enamoured of war and glory, ‘but I will not be answerable for the treatment yon/t the homage which makes nearly the business of their have met. With at my servants’ hands, unless you state; !!¥&- | frankly what brought you here, as itremains with you} A Corncrpence.—Since 1789 all the revolutions in to explain it Release the gentleman,’ he cotinned, to! France have taken place under Popes of the name of an attendant. Pius. Louis XVI. was dethroned under Pius VI; the

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teiwer, ‘they had better come off; it will make him look turee times more respectable. ‘There,’ he said, as he,

‘ e . a . ‘ % out og bis whiskers and shaved his upper lip—* Ne-!

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‘ For God’s sake, release me,’ piteously ejaculated the | Jarge edifice 1s going up with a front on each street,

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The Major was then released, and upon rising from|directory was overturned under Pius VI. ; Napoleon fell. — the bed shook himself like a large Newfouudland dog,'under Pius Vil; Charles X. under Pius VILL. , aud 7 to ascertain if be still had the use of his limba. Upon Louis Philippe under Pius 1X.