. Harper's weekly. direct control o in by the gallant knight Hudibras: .? hi-Liond. What a con- aw would be to some India-ruMn^ Other writers of the period had moon-calf—that is, alight mi the scum oancient and iMi-Iilte smelt; a kind of, not of thenewest. So, too, Neocles of Crotona believes thatArgive Helen, the cause of the Trojan war, was bornfrom an egg that fell from the moon, and henco herextraordinary fairness. And YVerenfels, speakingof a superstitious man—He will not commit hisseed to the earth when the soil but when the moonrequires it. He will have his hair cut when the


. Harper's weekly. direct control o in by the gallant knight Hudibras: .? hi-Liond. What a con- aw would be to some India-ruMn^ Other writers of the period had moon-calf—that is, alight mi the scum oancient and iMi-Iilte smelt; a kind of, not of thenewest. So, too, Neocles of Crotona believes thatArgive Helen, the cause of the Trojan war, was bornfrom an egg that fell from the moon, and henco herextraordinary fairness. And YVerenfels, speakingof a superstitious man—He will not commit hisseed to the earth when the soil but when the moonrequires it. He will have his hair cut when the he lion- -hug, or in Aries thairams horn. Whatever he \o sets, about it when she is in ! i Taurus he nevi Lid should make h rior with > superior is salutary ami such wui the opinion of lawyers and literaryen, doctors v. ere no better. The Honorable Rob--t Boyle (who poor Tom Hood says wrote Boil i Steam) relates how an ingenious, while almost all will agree that it is certainly asbig as a plate. One is about as far from thetruth as the other, the real size to the naked eyethat of a pepper-corn. The only as-


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