Subscribers may compete for all the Prizes, but they will be eligible to receive one only. Each prize composition must be sent in a separate envelope, marked on the outside -PASTIME. DEFINITIONS. VALUE. That which should be set upon all things tending to the improvement of the mind, body, and estate.-IAGO. The vows plighted at the hymenial altar. ANNA GREY. Upon its quality, rarity, or utility, Depends the value of a commodity. EMMA BUTTERWORTH. That which education has over ignorance. J. J. GORTON. Money's worth. The juste milieu between exaggeration and depreciation.-HEATHERBELL. A word rich in its own significaney. A stamp printed by the Creator on the most minute objects. MIGNONETTE. True friendship.-TERRA COTTA. The feeling with which we look on the gift of a dear friend. What the miser's gold is to him. A good character is of great value.-FORGET-ME-NOT. 1. The value of a thing is just as much as it will bring. 2. The differential standard by which man estimates all things. 3. A mental pair of scales.-"I hold the world but as the world" (Shakspeare).-ZANONI. The chameleon price of friendship.-GIPSY. 1. The supposed worth of anything, but often a very false estimate of anything dear to us. 2. A price differing according to the different eyes that behold it. 3. Twenty shillings for a sovereign.-IMOGEN. A fluctuating standard fixed by the imagination. FLORIAN. Priceless gems. Caroline. A faithful, loving, constant wife, on whom no man can set too high a value, whose price is above rubies.-EMMA S. P. A memento is greatly enhanced coming from one we love, and we estimate it accordingly. STANTONVILLE. Circumstantial worth (1); an oyster shell, when containing a large pearl (2).-KATRINE. What every member of the Family Council ought to do to the F. F.-SAM. Equivalent worth (1); the value of a thing is said to be what it will fetch, so that the best retriever dog may be worth an old glove (2). GORGONIA. 1. Inherent or circumstantial worth. 2. A wave, rising or falling according as desirableness and scarcity blow. Shifting sand of the desert, raised by famine's keen blast. The weight of exchange. 3. "Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.”—BUSK, The estimate a man places on his own performances. One pennyworth for one peuny; what a thing will fetch in the market. The decree of fashion.-BLACK DWARF. Worth for worth, or cent. per cent.-good seed sown will yield a rich harvest-a sincere and true family friend. Truth and honesty in all your dealings-charity and religion in all your actions-benevolence and sympathy to your fellow-creatures, are gems of more value than abundance of riches. SPECTATOR. A diamond of small size, but of great worth. HATTIE. 1. The extensive worth of the great Koh-i-noor. 2. What an affectionate and good wife proves herself.-JUSTITIA. The fragrant flowers which follow the Christian's path through life, perfuming the highway for other passengers.-CALLER HERRIN'. The increase of principal(ple).-TERRA COTTA. What a good man will use benevolently.-A wand, whose magical power attracts ail within its The works of nature testifying that the hand that reach.-A golden key to place and position. made them is divine.—ELLIE. The support of faith; the testimony of witnesses upon which the judge forms his decision. LILY H. The tell-tale rivulet that betrays the hidden spring.-HEATHERBELL. The herald of proof-TERRA Cotta. Testimony in a court of justice (1); which we value when in our favour, but dislike when not (2); what a prisoner longs for yed dreads to hear (3). FORGET-ME-NOT. The wings that lift theory to the standard of fact; a light that shows truth wherever its beams fall; the sword, suspended but by a hair, that hangs over the guilty; a lamp which holds the oil of truth; truth's standard-bearer.-ZANONI. Rumour solidified; a picture of facts.-GIPSY. The net that entangles the criminal's feet. FLORIAN. A good heart gives birth to good actions. Thus, high and noble acts are evidence of a noble disposition.-CAROline. The blush on the criminal's cheek which speaks too plainly of his guilt.-EMMA S. P. The increased circulation of this or any other work is proved by the addition of new subscribers. STANTONVILLE. A light by which we read the history of facts. KATRINE. What Miss Blanche Alsington gave against Edward W. H.-SAM. A certification.-Adela. Seeing is believing; proof makes plain; the guide in a court of law.-BLACK DWARF. Sometimes it causes freedom, sometimes slavery; circumstantial evidence has too oft proved fatal. Without convincing proof should never be given, freely express your opinion when you are armed by truth and justice.-SPECTATOR. What a witness is called forward for; by which many dark deeds have been brought to light. HATTIE. That which too often has sent the innocent to the gallows; a proof of the pudding is in the eating. JUSTITIA. Appearance leads to doubt, but evidence is proof. DE LA SAUX. Proof. Thus we have evidence that our little "Friend" is a welcome guest wherever he visits. AMELIA. INTEREST. Apathy's spirit reviver.-MIGNONETTE. Love's postillion.-HEATHERBELL. FORGET-ME-NOT. Ten poun is given for the loan of fifteen pounds for one week.-What the bill-discounter clutches at -The merchant's wheel of fortune.-Justitia. Piling up the agony uncommon.-FLORIAN. How many persons act from entirely selfish motives, not even hesitating to sacrifice the happiadvance their own interests; and how few, on the ness of their best friends, if, by so doing, they can welfare of others!-CAROLINE. contrary, take any loving, kindly interest in the 1. A thing well understood by bankers. 2. Often the cause of a successful candidate's good fortune. 3. England's concern for the wounded Danes. IMOGEN. The aim of the selfish and sordid mind.—ADELA. Ten per cent.-What servant-girls feel in a lovetale, and old ladies in murders.—Black Dwarf. What the usurer takes care to secure for his gold and to many ruin.-A kind feeling that should ever attend our pursuits, and assist us to complete whatever we may undertake.-SPECTATOR. miser is always wishing for; and that which is the What the man of business strives for; what the world's chief study.-HATTIE. What everybody takes in everyone else's business. EMMA S. P. Concern for the well-being of our friends.-A beneficial result of true friendship. STANTONVILLE. 1. Participatory benefit. 2. "There is that scattereth and yet increase th." 3. "Peace (piece) and plenty." Being honest through mere policy.-BUSK. Heart linked to heart, and soul with soul, A tribute the borrower pays to the lender.-The yield of use.-The life and soul of all enterprises. -Oil for the wheels of industry.-A piquant relish for otherwise dry and unpalatable duties.-The prop that supports the student's excelsior banner.A care for melancholy.-LILY H. The union of will with power.-AMELIA. We should all value highly the love of our friends. It is an evidence that we try to deserve the kindly interest they take in us.-BLACK DWARF. Value derives its source and is felt in various ways; a faithful friend of good and kind moral riches is value, but a bane to the gamester. What fearful evidence we frequently have of its direful effect, evidences of ruin to once happy homes, young wives made widows, infant children fatherless, all are gone? Now the kind and good feel the value of their riches; their hearts are warmed with interest towards the distressed; they extend with generous hand their benevolence, and by their influential means and interest in the hearts of many that value them for their worth, having had frequent evidence of their truth and honour, that whatever interest may be required in any case will be sure to meet with success.-SPECTATOR. From a natural love of approbation we generally set a high value upon the interest which our friends evidence in our pursuits whether they be in learning or pastime.-KATRINE. The interest is the evidence of the value of the capital.-GORGONIA. The rough unpolished weights in the diamond scales of justice; changeable as quicksilver, and the chamelion in its form and hue, and requiring wisdom and experience rightly to estimate its true worth.-LIZA. To obtain evidence we should use all the interest that is of value to the cause.-DE LA Saux. VOL. V.-NEW SERIES. My first, a name to memory dear, And bade my sorrow cease; But, ah! what anguish wrung my breast From England sail'd away; I watched my second out of sight, But though the fates have prov'd unkind It is a feeling of the mind, Love, passion-led, may fickle prove, 121. IAGO. I journey so fleetly o'er land and o'er sea, From southern climes, where the palm-trees grow, 122. My second in my first may find IAGO. And on her cheeks, which were fair I ween, This bunch of my whole, which I plucked by 124. a. A species of fuel. b. A musical performance. c. A playful domestic animal. d. A portion of time. e. A species of grass. DAPHNE. In the Bois de Boulogne Monsieur Victor Vean- First set eyes on the charming Annette de la He met her next night at a ball, and most luckily That he twirl'd his moustache with a satisfied air, The initials and finals give the names of two necessary articles of household furniture, seldom far apart from each other. HEATHERBELL. But a rival he had in one Captain Sangfeu; Poor Victor Veandoré! And says he, "Polisson! retirez vous, Or else with my first I'll run you through, With my carte, oh! tierce, oh! thrust, oh! and pierce, oh!" So away went Victor Veaudoré. So he rode and he rode on the diligence' top And he said, "Morbleu! a visit I'll pay He has pack'd his portmanteau, he stands on the But the sight of the waves made him feel rather queer; Let those who prefer it," he said, "go to sea; There's no place so charming as Paris to me." FLORIAN. b. Daughter of Aer and Tellus, who pined away c. A celebrated Latin poet. e. A musical composer. f. To form a camp. The initials make the Christian name, and the finals the surname, of one who encourages literaSTANTONVILLE. ture. 129. Adam had my first, 'tis true, So had Mother Eve; You may in my second see. IAGO, Though poor, not unlettered, and really can boast My coats, I confess, very often are torn, I am changeable, therefore, you see. I search after knowledge of different kinds→→ He can learn many things by my aid; I travel about, and am always third class, And often am much knocked about; tors old Dzok qzt kzj 7mj bpc jbhhop, n!m dzok qzt kzj 7mj bpc jmhdcrmk; zcq zj pd qhsp cdzh mb mkd o?bjd bx din 8b!hedt mkd jbhhop qdohdzjdj zcq mkd jmhdcrmk 7cohdzjdj. ST. CLAIR 140.-A BUNCH OF KEYS. 1. What key is suggestive of festivity? 6. What key is supposed to be "here, there, and everywhere"? 7. What key is only required by "fashionable: people "? 8. What key is useful in punishing crime? CARACTAGUS, 141.-CAPITAL EXCHANGES. I am what laundresses often use; change my. head, and I am a large hole; change again, and I am a fluid; change again, and I am what we do most days. 142.-CONUNDRUMS. SAM. 1. In what respect ought street-music to resemble an article sold on credit? 2. What is the difference between a post-horse and a dupe? 3. What is the difference between a passionate man and a glutton? 4. What is the difference between arranging a thing, and simply "putting two and two together"? 5. Why is a stylish bonnet like a church clock? 6. Why can a Highlander never "go ahead"? 7. Why is a drunkard a paradox? 8. Why is a provoked dupe a paradox? CARACTACUS. |