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Chit Chat.
Esther , sobbing ; " would you send me away ? Can I quit you , when you so much need my services ? Have I asked for my wages ? AVhen you were rich , you treated me as your child ; and now you are aged , poor , ancl sick , I will regard you as my mother . You cannot work ; but never mind , I am young and strong , and can strive for us both . " For ten years Esther fulfilled her generous terms . She supported Mrs . Goldsmith by the work of her handsancl with so much
cheerful-, ness , that she always appeared the obliged party , and exercised so much delicacy , that no person suspected her heroic devotedness . At length , in 1815 , peace was proclaimed between France and England , ancl Mrs . Goldsmith collected some heavy debts clue to her late husband . She passed the latter years of her life in calm and easy circumstances , which she doubly enjoyed in sharing them with her faithful domestic , in whose favour her will ran thus : — " I give and
bequeath all I possess to my well-beloved daughter , Esther Levi ; and I desire she may hereafter bear the name of Goldsmith , to preserve thc remembrance of her exalted conduct , in what concerns a family who will never cease to pray to the Eternal that she be rewarded as she merits . "
SCRIPTURAL CALCULATIONS . —A calculator has given in English measurement the following dimensions of Noah ' s ark : —Length , 252 feet ; breadth , 87 | - feet ; ancl depth , 52 ^ feet . The same cal culator says , that Goliah was 11 feet 4 ^ inches in height , and that his shield weighed 3 , 793 lbs . He states that Solomon ' s revenue figured . £ 3 , 639 , 214 ; and gives the following as the dimensions of the New Jerusalem , viz ., length of the four city walls , 1 , 590 miles 1 , 606 yards ; height of the walls , 253 feet ; area of the city , 2 , 499 , 271 square miles , which is about 300 , 000 less than that of all Europe .
DRUIDICAL TEMPLES IN SCOTLAND . —Several of the Druid places of worship are still to be seen in the Highlands . Of these temples , at which the ancient Caledonians were wont to worship , the largest we have seen in the north is one in Morayshire , and those at Leys and Torbreck , near Inverness . In our own neighbourhood , above Dochmaluag , there is a pretty large one , thestones of which , it is maintained by many ofthe peasants in the district , are said to have been at one time human beings , which were overtaken with judgment for dancing on the Sabbath-day , ancl that the position of the stones exactly correspond with the different attitudes of the dancers . Hence the name Clachan Gorach , or foolish stones . —Rosshire Advertiser .
It is stated that the Commissioners of . Woods and Forests have appointed Bro . James Sheridan Knovvles , the dramatist , to the charge of Shakspere ' s house at Stratford-on-Avon , at a salary of £ 250 a year . — Globe ., THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS IN PARIS . —You would scarcely believe , in sober England , what is going forward here ( Paris ) . The broken remnants of the Knights Templars have their head quarters in Paris .
They lately assembled at the Pont Neuf in solemn celebration of the anniversary of the martyrdom of the Grand Master , Jacques Molay , in 1314 . The annual custom is to walk round the statue of Henri Quatre , which occupies the exact spot where stood the funereal pyre , and then to .the fountain in the Place elu Dauphin , where it is said the ashes of the hero were scattered to the winds . The Revolution has given them also a renewed hope , and their assemblage was more numerous than it has VOL . vi n „
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Chit Chat.
Esther , sobbing ; " would you send me away ? Can I quit you , when you so much need my services ? Have I asked for my wages ? AVhen you were rich , you treated me as your child ; and now you are aged , poor , ancl sick , I will regard you as my mother . You cannot work ; but never mind , I am young and strong , and can strive for us both . " For ten years Esther fulfilled her generous terms . She supported Mrs . Goldsmith by the work of her handsancl with so much
cheerful-, ness , that she always appeared the obliged party , and exercised so much delicacy , that no person suspected her heroic devotedness . At length , in 1815 , peace was proclaimed between France and England , ancl Mrs . Goldsmith collected some heavy debts clue to her late husband . She passed the latter years of her life in calm and easy circumstances , which she doubly enjoyed in sharing them with her faithful domestic , in whose favour her will ran thus : — " I give and
bequeath all I possess to my well-beloved daughter , Esther Levi ; and I desire she may hereafter bear the name of Goldsmith , to preserve thc remembrance of her exalted conduct , in what concerns a family who will never cease to pray to the Eternal that she be rewarded as she merits . "
SCRIPTURAL CALCULATIONS . —A calculator has given in English measurement the following dimensions of Noah ' s ark : —Length , 252 feet ; breadth , 87 | - feet ; ancl depth , 52 ^ feet . The same cal culator says , that Goliah was 11 feet 4 ^ inches in height , and that his shield weighed 3 , 793 lbs . He states that Solomon ' s revenue figured . £ 3 , 639 , 214 ; and gives the following as the dimensions of the New Jerusalem , viz ., length of the four city walls , 1 , 590 miles 1 , 606 yards ; height of the walls , 253 feet ; area of the city , 2 , 499 , 271 square miles , which is about 300 , 000 less than that of all Europe .
DRUIDICAL TEMPLES IN SCOTLAND . —Several of the Druid places of worship are still to be seen in the Highlands . Of these temples , at which the ancient Caledonians were wont to worship , the largest we have seen in the north is one in Morayshire , and those at Leys and Torbreck , near Inverness . In our own neighbourhood , above Dochmaluag , there is a pretty large one , thestones of which , it is maintained by many ofthe peasants in the district , are said to have been at one time human beings , which were overtaken with judgment for dancing on the Sabbath-day , ancl that the position of the stones exactly correspond with the different attitudes of the dancers . Hence the name Clachan Gorach , or foolish stones . —Rosshire Advertiser .
It is stated that the Commissioners of . Woods and Forests have appointed Bro . James Sheridan Knovvles , the dramatist , to the charge of Shakspere ' s house at Stratford-on-Avon , at a salary of £ 250 a year . — Globe ., THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS IN PARIS . —You would scarcely believe , in sober England , what is going forward here ( Paris ) . The broken remnants of the Knights Templars have their head quarters in Paris .
They lately assembled at the Pont Neuf in solemn celebration of the anniversary of the martyrdom of the Grand Master , Jacques Molay , in 1314 . The annual custom is to walk round the statue of Henri Quatre , which occupies the exact spot where stood the funereal pyre , and then to .the fountain in the Place elu Dauphin , where it is said the ashes of the hero were scattered to the winds . The Revolution has given them also a renewed hope , and their assemblage was more numerous than it has VOL . vi n „