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by far the most ingenious we ever met with, was that about *' rescuinij 

 a fellow-creature from the grave." It ought of itself to immortalize the 

 fellow : this, we know, that many a person has been immortalized who 

 never said anything half so clever. When we first read his statement of 

 having been tried for " rescuing a fellow-creature from the grave," our 

 admiration of his humanity was only equalled by our regret that he 

 should ever, by so meritorious an act, have got himself " into trouble." 

 Judge of our confusion, when, in answer to the next question, the 

 rogue, with the most consummate impudence imaginable, admitted he 

 had been tried for stealing a dead body, which was what he meant by 

 " rescuing a fellow-creature from the grave !" 



Matrimonial Advertising. — The practice of advertising for wives 

 is beginning to be revived. In a morning paper, a few days since, we 

 see a couple of these " ads," as the printers call them, together. This 

 shows the taste of the person who " makes up " the paper. In both cases 

 there is the usual notification that " the dust" is indispensable; but 

 from the wording of the advertisements, it is obvious, that if the matri- 

 monial candidates be only satisfied on that point, they will not be over 

 scrupulous on others. In fact, it would be a perfectly fair inference 

 from the advertisements, that the " monish," as a Jew old clothesman 

 would say, is the only qualification which either of the aspirants at do- 

 mestic bliss considers in the least necessary. It is a pity that persons 

 who can thus sacrifice all the better feelings of human nature to their 

 passion for money, should not, by mistake, run their necks into some 

 matrimonial halter, which they would find anything but agreeable. 

 There are still a goodly number of Xantippes in the world, and it is to 

 be hoped that this brace of adventurers may each in the end be united, 

 for better for worse to one. In the meantime, why dc not the fair sex, 

 when they see such advertisements, rise en 7nasse to revenge themselves 

 for the insult thus offered to them ? They are not lacking in spirit nor 

 deficient in ingenuity in other cases. Why not give an illustration of 

 both these qualities in the present instance .■* It would be no difficult 

 matter, if a dozen or so of the ladies were, as the representatives of their 

 sex, to put their heads together, to devise some scheme for inveigling 

 these devoted lovers of money into a place in which, in the true Ameri- 

 can fashion, they might be tarred and feathered from top to toe, and 

 then turned out into the streets, to be barked at by the dogs, pelted by the 

 boys, and laughed at by all. Windsor had its " Merry Wives" to vin- 

 dicate the honour and honesty of their sisters in matrimonv, and to 

 revenge the attempts meditated against their own nuptial fidelity, in 

 the days of Falstaff, And has not London its " Meny Maids," in 

 January, 1836, to 'punish these insulting speculators on their simpli- 

 city and good nature ? If a few good examples were made in the way 

 we are recommending of these " fellows of the baser sort," female sensi- 

 bihty would soon cease to be wounded by such advertisements as those 

 we have referred to. 



