Read-y Wit.—­A young man, in a large company, descanting very flippantly on a subject, his knowledge of which was evidently very superficial, the Duchess of Devonshire asked his name. “’Tis Scarlet,” replied a gentleman who stood by.  “That may be,” said her Grace, “and yet he is not deep read.”

CANTON.

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Anti-free Trade.—­An odd instance of the restrictive system occurred in the embassy from the emperor Otho to Nicephorus Phocas.  The Greeks making a display of their dress, he told them that in Lombardy the common people wore as good clothes as they.—­“How,” they said, “can you procure them?”—­“Through the Venetians and Amalfitan dealers,” he replied, “who gain their subsistence by selling them to us.”  The foolish Greeks were very angry, and declared that any dealer presuming to export their fine clothes should be flogged.

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