From the top of the head to the bottom of the hoof ... 10 8
  Length of the head ... 1 9
  From the top of the head to the neck root ... 4 0
  From the neck-root to the elbow ... 2 3
  From the elbow to the upper part of the knee ... 1 8
  From the upper part of the knee to the fetlock joint ... 1 11
  From the fetlock joint to the bottom of the hoof ... 0 10
  Length of the back ... 3 1
  From the croup to the bottom of the hoof ... 5 8
  From the hock to the bottom of the hoof ... 2 9
  Length of the hoof ... 0 7-1/2

From the period of its arrival to June last, the animal grew 18 inches.  Her usual food was barley, oats, split beans, and ash-leaves:  she drank milk.  Her health was not good; her joints appeared to shoot over, and she was very weak and crippled.  She was occasionally led for exercise round her paddock, when she was well enough, but she was seldom on her legs:  indeed, so great was the weakness of her fore legs for some time previous to her death, that a pulley was constructed, being suspended from the ceiling of her hovel, and fastened round her body, so as to raise her on her legs without any exertion on her part.  When she first arrived she was exceedingly playful, and up to her death continued perfectly harmless.—­Abridged from the library of Entertaining Knowledge.

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The Anecdote Gallery.

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YOUTH AND GENIUS OF MOZART.

(Concluded from page 256.)

On the 10th of April, 1764, the family arrived in England, and remained there until the middle of the following year.  Leopold Mozart fell ill of a dangerous sore throat during his stay, and as no practising could go forward in the house at that time, his son employed himself in writing his first sinfonia.  It was scored with all the instruments, not omitting drums and trumpets.  His sister sat near him while he wrote, and he said to her, “remind me that I give the horns something good to do.”  An extract or two from the correspondence of the father will show how they were received in England:—­

“A week after, as we were walking in St. James’s Park, the king and queen came by in their carriage, and, although we were differently dressed, they knew us, and not only that, but the king opened the window, and, putting his head out and laughing, greeted us with head and hands, particularly our Master Wolfgang.”