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WINE AND WATER.

The same quantity of wine diluted intoxicates sooner than the same quantity drank in the same time without dilution; the wine being applied to a larger surface of the stomach, acts with proportionably greater quickness—­though wine diluted sooner intoxicates, its effects are sooner over.—­Dr. Kitchiner.

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NEW SOUTH WALES.

Of the total population of New South Wales, which, in round numbers, may be taken at 40,000, the Free Emigrants

amount only to about ............ 7,000
Native Children ................. 5,000
Emancipated Convicts............. 8,000
Convicts in Servitude .......... 20,000
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40,000

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OMEN.

As Cooke, the solicitor-general, was beginning to open the pleadings at the trial of Charles I, the king gently tapped him on the shoulder with his cane, crying “Hold, hold!” At the same moment the silver head of the cane fell off, and rolled on the floor.

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COTTAGE GARDENS.

The comforts and benefits to be derived from a well cultivated garden, by a poor man’s family, are almost beyond calculation.  What a resource for hours after work, or when trade is dull, and regular work scarce!  What a contrast and counteraction is the healthy, manly, employment which a cottage garden affords, to the close, impure, unwholesome air, the beastliness and obscenity, the waste of time, the destruction of morals, the loss of character, money, and health, which are the inmates of too many common ale-houses!—­Gardener’s Mag.

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PAINTING.

Painting, were the use of it universal, would be a powerful means of instruction to children and the lower orders; and were all the fine surfaces, which are now plain, and absolutely wasted, enriched with the labours of the art, if they once began to appear, they would accumulate rapidly; and were the ornamented edifices open to all, as freely as they ought to be, a wide field of new and agreeable study would offer itself.  A person, who thoroughly understood the well-chosen subjects, and was qualified to explain them to a stranger, could not be devoid of knowledge, nor could his mind want food for constant contemplation.  The sense of beauty has hitherto been little cultivated in Great Britain; but it certainly exists, and shows itself principally in laying out gardens and pleasure-grounds with unrivalled skill.—­Edin.  Review.

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Spirit of Discovery.