The immediate object of the meeting, which is now called by the undersigned, is the collection of sufficient funds from said heirs and descendants to defray the expenses of a committee (composed of the undersigned) who shall be charged with the duty of visiting England, Normandy and Palestine, and obtaining such evidence and such copies of record in relation to this portion of the estate of the said LION, as shall make necessary a speedy and equitable division of paid property among the members of the family in this country.

Lineal heirs who may not be able to attend this meeting in person will have their interests taken in charge by the undersigned, on the receipt of twenty-five dollars, which will be due from each heir as the primary instalment on account of necessary expenses.

Punctual attention to this notice is requested.

(Signed)

  JACOB RICHARDS,
  PETER MCCURDY,
  EBENEZER LYONS. 
  JAMES MCLEON,
  L. J. O’LYNN,
  HENRY RICHARDSON,
  Rev. THOS.  DICK,
  DICK E. DICKQUE DOUT.

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RECOGNITION OF NILSSON.

    Not that we mean to “patronize,” fair Swede;
                No, no, indeed! 
    ’Tis homage, honest homage that we bring;
                For you can sing!

    Pray, do not think we build you any throne
                On skill alone;
    There’s nothing regal in a music box—­
                In simple vox!

    But when an ardent spirit warms the strain—­
                When it is plain
    The artist feels the passion of the scene—­
                She’s then our Queen!

    But, dear CHRISTINA! we should still declare
                The Fates unfair,
    Unless she lived as chastely as the rose;
                As NILSSON does!

    Still, still we hesitate!—­We will confess,
                (For you’d not guess!)
    We’d have her—­that the likeness be complete—­
                Young, fair, and sweet!

    In fine, (and now we’ll tell you everything,)
                If she can sing,
    And act, and feel, and look, and be like you,
                Why, that will do!

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[Illustration:  THE YOUNG DEMOC-RATS, ENCOURAGED BY THE OLD RAT DANA, COME TO GRIEF IN TRYING TO PUT OUT THE HOFFMAN LIGHT.]

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A New Pierian Spring.

The Principal of the “Student’s Home,” at V------, N.Y., advertising
the advantages of his school, makes the following telling appeal, which
we should think would be hard to resist by such as find study interfere
with digestion.

“COME TO V------.  Its Mineral Water strengthens the body, and its
Seminary the mind.”

The hope of eventually leaving those classic shades in such a state of two-fold invigoration, should prove inspiring to the dyspeptic and studious.