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by continental physicians for pulmonary consumption, skin 
affections, and other maladies. Frog oil has been extracted 
by some of our leading chemists, and used externally against 
cancer. The ancient heraldic device of the Parisians was three 
Frogs, (or toads), and their city was Lutetia (the land of mud). 
As becomes a true Hohenzollern, the present Kaiser always 
wears the talismanic ring of his ancestors. It is a quaint old 
ting set with a stone of no intrinsic value, the legend connected 
therewith relating how a toad hopped into the room of the wife 
of Elector John of Brandenberg, and deposited this stone on her 
bed. The toad then mysteriously disappeared, but the pebble 
was zealously treasured among the Hohenzollern Archives. 
The father of Frederick the Great had it mounted in a ring, 
which has ever since then been worn by the Head of the House 
as a medieval Mascot. On May 12th, Anno Domini 1827, 
Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C. (General Chairman, and 
Member of the Pickwick Club), communicated a paper (received 
by the Association with feelings of unmingled satisfaction, and 
unqualified approval) entitled, “Speculations on the Sources 
of the Hampstead Ponds, with some observations on the Theory 
of,Tittlebats.” 
FRUITS. 
‘No part of the diet in any season is so healthful, so natural.,. 
and so agreeable to the stomach as good and well-ripened fruits.” 
Thus Sir Wm. Temple taught (About Beautiful Gardens, 1685). 
“T can say it for myself at least, and all my friends, that the 
season of summer fruits is ever the season of health with us, 
which I reckon from the beginning of June to the end of 
September ; and for all sicknesses of the stomach (from which 
most others are judged to proceed) I do not think that any who 
are like me (who am most subject to them) shall complai 
whenever they eat thirty or forty cherries before meals, or the 
like proportion of strawberries, white figs, soit peaches, or grapes 
perfectly ripe. Now whoever will make sure to eat good fruit 
must do it out of a garden of his own; so that for all things out 
of a garden, either of salads, or fruits, a poor man will eat better 
that has one of his own, than a rich man that has none. The 
best fruit that is bought has no more of the master’s care than 
how to raise the greatest gains ; his business is to have as much 
