Interesting Anecdotes

In our clippines from our exchange we hare come upon several interestin anecdotea of eelebrated personages, whic we republish ia this forin. The first i of John Howard Paine, the author o Home, Sweet " Home" - John Howan Paine, the author of t!ie sweetest song embracing the purest sentimenis, eve penncd b) man. How many swee homes are cheered by this song, and ho many turn to home and its fond remem brances as thcy hear it when absent, have heard t iu the far west, in the sunny south, and never without feeliog of deep eyrnpathy Jor its author, for h had no home ! I knew him well, anc when he was first appoir.ted Consul a Tunis, he was a constant visitor at my bouse. He was poor and complained ol neglect. I well remember of an evening walk in New York, when we heard voioes singing ' Home, Sweet Home.' We stoppel under a window, and at the conclusión he gave a hearty sigh and rorparked, - ' How Httle they kuow of the author, who has no sweet home.' " The next concerns Chas. Lamb . ' Lamb once convulsed a company with an arjeodote of Coleridge, which, without doubt he hatohed in liis hoax-lovig jrain. ' I was,' he sa:d, ' going from my ïouise at Enfield to the East India House one morning, when I met Coleiidge on lis way lo pay me a visit. He was brimul of some new idea, and, in spite of my assuring bira that time wís precióus, he drew me within the gate of an unocou pied garden by tlie roadside, and tliere, shel!ered irom observaron by a hedgo of evergreens, he took me by the button of my coat, and olosing liis cyes, cotninenced an eloquent discourse, waving bis right hand gently as the musical words flowed iu au uubroken stream f'rotn his lips. I listened entranced ; but the triking clock rccalled uio o a sense ot luty. I saw it was of uo use to attempt o break away ; so, tukiug advantage of lis absorption in his subject, and, with my penknife, quietly severing my buttoa 'rora my coat, I decamped. Five hours fterwards, in passing tbe same garden on my way home, I heard Coleridge's voice'; and on looking in, there he was with closed eyes, tho button iu his fiugers, and the right hand gracefully wa- ving, just as when I left bisa, lie had never misled me." A third we found in one of our State xchanges iu an obituary notice of the ate Deacon Eben Bartholomow, who ied recently in the township of Crockry, in Ottawa county. The noticu ays : " He was a man of great decisión f character, and always maintained enre control over himself. One or two nstanees will illustrate this. Many 'ears ago ho was at work with hia son at 'ie bench, and took a pinch of snuff. lis son said, 'Fatber, it seems to me 'ou will iujuie yourself taking so ruuch nuff.' He at once took the box from lis pocket, without a word, laid :t upon beam, and never touched it again. 'he writer of this once dined at dis sou's louse, and had a scat next to him at the able. He was then an old man of ighty. Observing that he took no tea, . remarked : ' It is very unusual for ersons of your ge to decline a cup of ea.' Said he, ' I shall never drink u cup of tea again wliile it remains so ligh." (Naming the price.) ! But do 'ooi not feel tbe need of it ?' ' Sir,' sitid ie, with emphasis, ' I am a man - and will have no habits that 1 can uot control ! : will !' Iiown deep in my heart I aid, ' That is manhood !' " In the chapter entitled " The Mysteries of the Ballet," iu a recently pub lished work on theairical and operatic matters, we have an anecdote of a young girl whose fatlier was her instructor, a::d who used to lock her and himself in the room where she received her lessons, so that he might not be overeóme by the importunity of his wife, imploring bim to spare their daughter. After a two hour's lesson sho would lall exliausted on the carpet, and lie there lili she was undressed, sponged and resuscitated, being all the time in a state of insensibility. Her father had determined, cost what it might, that his daughter should be the first in her profession. Such she became ; for was she not Taglioni ? A fifth anecdote we find iu an English paper. lts substance is as follóws : The late Dean Buckland is said to have been so intimately acquainted with the properties of all the seologioal formations of Ètjgland, that being one night belated, and not knowing where he was, ho alighted from his horse, took up a clod of earth and tasted it. He immediately exclaimed, " Uxbricge !' and proceeded on his journey. A last one concerns the celebrdted Lord Tbere is an anecdote circulated that ho was met leaving the House by a brother Peer, who had two very beautiful girls on his arm. "Sorry i to eee you leare," waa the romark, " as tbese young Jadíes carne expressly to hear ynu speak." Lord Brougham, as a preux chevalicr of the old school, c.'eclared they should rot Ie dfcapp inted, returned to ihe House, ar;d, asking some Cjuestion on foreign politics, was srrnled ofl' by Lord Mclbourne, wlio wns unpreparfd ; whoreupon was delivcred one of bis Lordsbip's mot uiemoraljle pbilippics, that shook the vcry foundation of the Ministry.