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WHISKY.

From official documents it appears that long previous to 1690, there had been a distillery of aqua vitae, or whisky, on the lands of Farintosh, belonging to Mr. Forbes, of Culloden.

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TRAVELLING INCENTIVES.

If there be a sudden accession of fortune, the earliest use of it is in passing over to the continent; if misfortunes occur, the first suggestion is that of seeking solace in another land.  The assumption of the toga virilis by our youth, may be practically translated, the putting on of the travelling cloak.  Marriage, instead of being the means of more extended family union, is the plea for immediate separation; and the newly-married pair drive from the church to the packet-boat.  If the elders of a family are snatched away by death, the first idea which occurs to their successors, is that of distant removal from home.  Sorrows are not endured, but fled from; and misfortune becomes the signal for dispersion to those who survive it.—­Q.  Rev.

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Christoval Acosta, speaking of the pine-apple, says that “no medicinal virtues have been discovered in it, and it is good for nothing but to eat.”

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SMOKING.

Joshuah Silvester questioned whether the devil had done more harm in latter ages by means of fire and smoke, through the invention of guns, or of tobacco-pipes; and he conjectured that Satan introduced the fashion, as a preparatory course of smoking for those who were to be matriculated in his own college: 

As roguing Gipsies tan their little elves,
To make them tann’d and ugly, like themselves.

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LAW

Must be kept as a garden, with frequent digging, weeding, turning, &c., for that which was in one age convenient, and, perhaps, necessary, becomes in another prejudicial.—­Roger North.

THE GATHERER.

“A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.” 
SHAKSPEARE

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THE WIFE’S COMPLAINT.

Havard, the actor, (better known from the urbanity of his manners, by the familiar name of Billy Havard) had the misfortune to be married to a most notorious shrew and drunkard.  One day dining at Garrick’s, he was complaining of a violent pain in his side.  Mrs. Garrick offered to prescribe for him.  “No, no,” said her husband; “that will not do, my dear; Billy has mistaken his disorder; his great complaint lies in his rib.”

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HOW TO SECURE A COACH.