Chips From A Masonic Workshop.

is in the old Market , surrounded by one hundred different smells , and only ono of them is Maria Farina ' s Eau cle Cologne , all the rest can never be introduced or oven mentioned iu polite society . Perhaps that has something to do with making them so exceedingly inharmonious .

However , to give you a slight idea of their doings , I translate an article on the subject which recently appeared in the " Zeitschrift dec Freimaurerei" ( Masonic Times ) , published in Brunswick vvitli the sanction of the Grand Lodge of the

" Three White Eagles ; " but not to speak too broadly out of school , I shall utilize one of Mr . Lear ' s amusing ' burlesques , and throw the veil of Masonic charity over the sins of omission and commission , shortcomings and backslidings of our loss

civilized Brethren . Whoever reads tho great Shakespeare Will learn something of old Kin ^ Lear , AVho tells us all those doleful stories About his daughters and his worries , When in his sober mind .

But sometimes ho goes in for Pegs , Gets quite unsteady on his legs , And when in that hilarious state The drollest tales he does relate , As you beloAV Avill find :

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Two old cantankrous /! asons Were living in one house ; Tho one he bought a Muffin , The other caught a [\/} ouse . " Let's cook that little Rflouse , "

Said he who had the JVjuffin , " And have a grand carouse ; We only Avant some stuffin ' . " " 0 yes I—with Sage and Onions We could do very well ; But how to get tho Sage ,

'Tis difficult to tell . " They sallied out together And met an Onion-seller , Who said he hacl no Sage ! The cunning story-teller . Where can ire find the Sago ?" Asked he AVIIO OAVUCCI the jyjufEn " We want him A'ery much , To put him in our stuffin ' . "

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The Sage resides on yonder mountain , He ' s reading an enormous book , THE ANTTENT LAW OF MASONRY ; As you are Masons—go and look . Up Avent tho pair instauter

To catch the Sage alive , And cut him into mince-meat With one big carving-knife . "You earnest Sage , " they boldly cried , " your book you ' ve read enough in , Wo Avant to chop you up in bitsand mix

, you with our stuffin ' . " But that old Sage looked calmly up ; with his enormous book , At those two jy | asons' addled heads a certain aim he took ,

And over craig ancl precipice they rolled promiscuous clown , Heads o ' er heels , an' tops an' toes , just like a circus clown . Thoy never stopt at bush or tree till on the level ground , And then they felt their heads ancl limbs ,

but found them safe and sound . With bated breath they Avhisper'd , " That Sage is rather queer , Let ' s toddle quietly homewards , "lis dang ' rous stopping here . " At last they reached their house

Without the stuff for stuffin' ; No harm !—the R / jouse had fled , After eating up the ( MUFFIN . Yours fraternally , MAX MAURER , COLOGNE , 28 . / t December , 1876 .

Notes On Literature, Science And Art.

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE AND ART .

BY BRO . GEORGE MARKHA 5 I TWEDDELL , Follow of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries , Copenhagen ; Corresponding Member of the Royal Historical Society , London ; Honorary Member of the Manchester Literary Club , and of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society ,

& c ., & c . WE sjjeak or write glibly now of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes , by Louis XIV ., in 1685 , but how few of us at this day see the misery it caused then , or the great