Stewart and Company, merchants of Philadelphia, about two hundred dollars for articles which she had used personally.  This debt, she had no means of liquidating.  However after the lapse of twelve years, and when the creditors had of course looked upon the debt as lost, Mrs. C. was able to take the principal, add to it twelve years’ interest, enclose the whole in a note and address it to Messrs. Stewart and Company.  Messrs. Stewart and Company, upon the receipt of the money, addressed a note in reply to Mrs. C., in which they requested her acceptance of the accompanying gift, as a slight testimonial of their high appreciation of an act so honourable and so rare as to call forth unqualified admiration.  Accompanying the letter was sent a superb brocade silk dress, and some laces of exquisite texture and great value.

Costume of the Sisters of Charity.—­The Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul, at the time of their re-establishment in their house, in the Rue du Vieux Colombier, after the Revolution, wore black dresses and caps.  On the fourth Sunday in Advent, 1804, Pope Pius the Seventh visited the community.  He seemed surprised that the Sisters had not resumed the habit of their order; but he was told that no community had dared to show the religious habit abroad.  He then spoke to the emperor, saying to him that the good daughters of charity “looked like widows.”  The emperor, at his request, gave authority to the Sisters to wear their habit, and they resumed it in the spring of 1805.

China-ware.—­An English gentleman wanting a dessert-service of porcelain made after a particular pattern, sent over to China a specimen dish, ordering that it should be exactly copied for the whole service.  It unfortunately happened that in the dish so sent over the Chinese manufacturer discovered a crack; the consequence was, that the entire service sent over to the party ordering it had a crack in each article, carefully copied from the original.

Dreaming.—­It is a custom among the Canadian Indians, that when one dreams that another has rendered him any service, the person dreamed of thinks it a duty to fulfil the dream, if possible.  A chief one morning came to the governor, Sir William Johnstone, and told him that he had last night dreamed that Sir William had made him a present of the suit of regimentals he wore.  The governor readily presented them to him; but as the Indian was going out, “Stop,” said Sir William, “I had almost forgot, but I dreamed about you last night; I dreamed that you gave me such a piece of land,” describing a large tract.  “You shall have it,” said he, “but if you please, Sir William, we will not dream any more.”

Lessing was remarkable for a frequent absence of mind.  Having missed money at different times, without being able to discover who took it, he determined to put the honesty of his servant to a trial, and left a handful of gold on the table.  “Of course you counted it?” said one of his friends.  “Count it!” said Leasing, rather embarrassed; “no, I forgot that.”