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itp FRENCH EXECUTIONS. 
PRUE method of shortening the pains 
¢ of death when hanging, as prac- 
- tised in France, bad a truly tragi-comic 
effect. Every culprit had a separate gal- 
Jews, made like a gibbet. The culprit 
ascended before the executioner, who, 
having adjusted the cap and the rope, 
‘the hands ‘being already fastened before 
the culprit one under the other, pushed 
him off the ladder, and stepped. into his 
hands, took hold of each shoulder, and 
wriggled the-body violently to and fro 
ull it was lifeless. A’ wit observed, on 
this, that the French were so fond. of 
gancing,; that they made their criminals 
g° a-capering into the other world. 
. |. THE SCOTCH AND IRISH. 
rhe Liliputians despised ail the world 
but their own little island. The Wha. 
_want-m -trotters, a nation of Indians tu 
me the North, hold the Liliputians in so 
_ fittle estimation, that they would scalp 
them all for a bawbee, and sell their 
king into the bargain, for French claret 
and brandy. The Erin-go-brahs, ano- 
ther nation of Indians, united now to the 
Lilipatians and Wha-want-me-trotters 
preter a potatoe, salt, and liberty, to all 
the forced meat.of an union. 
P SCOTCH MODESTY. 
_ J was in company with a wit, and 3 
tchuman; the conversation turued upon 
Uva 
- 
national courage, &c. The latter ob- 
served, “that a Scotchman dare show 
his front where an Englishman dare not 
show his rear.” “That is very true,? 
replied the wit, “ because an Englishman 
bas more modesty in his - than a 
Scotchman has in his face.” 
BRIMSTONE, 
An out-rider to a druggist, being in 
Bristol; was recommended to a person 
who was said to deal very largely in the 
article of brimstone. He waited upon 
him, expatiated-at length on the superior 
quality of his brimstone, and wished for 
ap order, The doctor, surprised, assured 
him he ‘was mistaken, -he did not deal 
in the article, being a minister of the 
gospel, and complained of the insult 
offered him; adding, that if the rider 
would come to his shop in the evening, 
he would furnish him with a large-stock 
of spigjtual hrinstone. . 
SGOTCH COURAGE. 
¢*Scotchmen will face the enemy; they 
will meet death at the point of the bayo- 
net and the cannon’s mouth!” “ Yes,” 
observed a wit, “‘ they prefer death to 
the chance of returning to their barren 
native country.” ; 
Wak, 
Why don’t the people petition against 
wars in thelr commencement, rather 
than towards their close? Evils whigh 
’ might 
