Scriptural Memoranda.—­Verse 18, chap. xii. of the first Book of Maccabees, will make an excellent motto for a seal.  The 21st verse of the 7th chap. of Ezra, contains every letter of the alphabet.  The 19th chap, of the 2nd Book of Kings, and the 37th of Isaiah, are alike, as are also the 31st chap, of the first Book of Samuel, and the 10th chap, of the 1st Chronicles.  T. GILL.

“Caviare to the Multitude,” is as good a simile as Shakspeare ever made, for where is the artisan, but after having tasted it, began to spit and splutter as though he had been poisoned, while the aristocrat, the one in a thousand, licks his lips after it, as the greatest delicacy.  This article is the roe of the sturgeon, salted down and pressed, and is imported into this country from Odessa.  S.H.

Man-killing and Man-eating.—­I really do not think the New Zealanders are half so barbarous as the Russians, whatever other folks may say of it, and I’ll abide by what I’ve said too:  it is true they sometimes indulge a little by eating a man for dinner, as a delicacy; but leaving eating out of the question, one Russian chief caused more bloodshed last year, than all the New Zealanders put together; and after all, it is an undoubted fact, that a couple of Russians will eat up a rein-deer at a meal! (that is, they will not give over till they have finished it,) so they do not want appetite; and if they were in New Zealand, and a man were to fall in their way, it is very likely that they would eat him.  S.H.

Generosity of Marshal Turenne.—­The deputies of a great metropolis in Germany, once offered the great Turenne 100,000 crowns not to pass with his army through the city.  “Gentlemen,” said he, “I cannot, in conscience, accept your money, as I had no intention to pass that way.”  T. GILL.

Spain.—­It is remarkable that the Carthaginians having established colonies in Spain, drew their riches from that country, as the Spaniards themselves afterwards did from South America.

Breakfast.—­It has been observed, such is our luxury, that the world must be encompassed to furnish a washerwoman with breakfast:  with tea from China, and sugar from the West Indies.

Bamboo.—­The largest and tallest sort of bamboo, known In India, is about half the height of the London Monument, or 100 feet.

Brick-building was practised largely in Italy in the beginning of the fourteenth century; and the brick buildings erected at this period in Tuscany, and other parts of the north of Italy, exhibit at the present day the finest specimens extant of brick-work!

Nothing Impossible.—­Mirabeau’s haste of temper was known, and he must be obeyed.  “Monsieur Comte,” said his secretary to him one day, “the thing you require is impossible.”  “Impossible!” exclaimed Mirabeau, starting from his chair, “never again use that foolish word in my presence.”—­Dumont’s Mirabeau. (This brief anecdote should never be forgotten by the reader:  it is more characteristic than hundreds of pages; it is, to all men, a lesson almost in a line.)