“What, Father!” said the young prince, “were all the evils shut up in that box?”

“Yes,” answered the preceptor.

“That cannot be,” replied the prince, “since Curiosity tempted Pandora; and that evil, which could not have been in it, was not the least, since it was the origin of all.”

J.G.B.

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SQUALL AT SEA.

The other evening a surgeon in the navy stated the following curious circumstance:—­

While off Madagascar, in the ship Scorpion, he with the other officers of the ship were dining with the Captain (Johnson) who had just looked at the glass; it being a very fine day no one had any apprehension of a squall.  The dinner was hardly over when the captain’s eye caught the glass:  he suddenly rose from table and hurrying on deck, ordered “All hands to turn up, and furl all sail immediately.”  They had just completed the order and were descending, when the ship was laid on her beam-ends, most of the men had a ducking, but that was all the mischief that happened.  Three or four East Indiamen had already been destroyed by the same accident; and if the above order had not been complied with immediately as it was, nothing could have saved the ship, it being only a quarter of an hour since the first notice of it.  The captain was afterwards made commissioner of Bombay, where he died.

GEO. ST. CLAIR.

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