The Elephant

Perhaps the reader would Hkc to have a diary of an elephant when not on acive service. At what time the animáis gct up who never lie down withouL being ördered, tt is not easy to say. The elepants are stalled at the foot of some large tree, which shelters them during tho day from the extreme heat of the sun; they are chained by the hind legs. Early in the morning the keeper makes his appearance from the hovel, andthrovs the respective keys down to the elephants, who immediately unlock the padlocks of the chains, cast themselves loose, in the politest manner return the keys to the keeper; the}' will then march with him to the nearest foresta and on their arrival commence breaking down the branches of trees, selecting those which are most agreeable to iheir palates, and arranging them in two enormous faggots. When they have collected os much as they require, they make withes and bind up their two faggots, and then twist another to connect them so as to hang them over their back down on each side, and having thus made their provisión, they-return home; the keeper mny or may not be present during this performance. All depends opon whethér the elephants are well trained, and have been long in servitude. Upon their return, the elephants pass the chains again round their legs, lock the padlocks, and present ihe key as before; they then amuse themsetves with their repast, cating all the leavesand tender shoots, and rejecting the others. Now, when an elephant has had enough to eat, he generally selects a long bough, and pnlling off all the lateral branches, leaves a bush at t!ie end, forming a whisk to keep off the flies and musquitoes; for although the hide of an elephant is very thick, still it is broken into crannies and cracks, into which the insects insert themselves. Sometimos they have the following curious method of defending themselves against those tormentors; they put the end of their trunk down in the dust, draw up as large a quantity as ihey can, and turning their trunk over their heads, put it over their skin. powdering and filling up the interstices, after which they take the long branch I have before mentioned, and amuse themselves by flapping it right and left, in all directions about their bodies, whereverthe insecís may settle. - Diary of a Blasé. 'Wife! why in the name of goodness didn't you make the washerwoman put starch in ïny shirt collar?' Why, my dear, I thought it a useless waste of the articlc, for I can get your cliolcr up so easy without it.' The Ice Thade. - The shipping List says, the Ice shipped from Boston last year, was 55,000 tons. It isdelivered on ship board at $2,25 per ton. It is regularly shipped to Bombay, Cantón, Madras, Calcutta, Mauritius, and allother ports of consequence in warm climates. So much saw-dust is required in packing the Ice for shipment, that it sells for $3 a cord; and one vessel is constantly employed in freighting it from the saw milis, on the Pennobscotto Boston. "Why don't your father take a newspaper? said a man to a liltle boy whom he caught pilfering his newspaper from his door step. ':Coz he sends me todo it," answered the urchin. Quarrels do not last long when the fault is but on one side. - RbchefoueauW s Maxims.