Gin And Pine

Mr. Ben P. Shillaber has reoently visited the Isle of Shoals, and had ocuasion to investígate the mysteries of gin and pine. In a note to the Boston Transcript he thus explains the results : " I was a guest at the Appledore, and feit considerably under the weather from the great shaking up I had endured in going thither. A friend of many years whispered in my ear, ' Try gin and pine.' It was a mysterious proposition, and I looked to him for an explanation. He led me down stairs, and then he demandcd of the man who stood behind the counter, ' Gin and pine ! ' The gin waa poured into a glass, and then a dark looking bottle was taken down - the sanie, I am told, that Smith discovered - and about a teaspoonful of a dark semi-fluid added. The tumbler was then filled with water and sweetened, and it was given me to take - as a medicine. I drank i t with faith and waited the result. The Atlantic Ocean immediately overflowed its bank. I never saw so much of it before. The main land becauae invisible ; Whale's Back Light was in a state of great commotion ; the Appledores were as larga as f rigates ; the veranda on which I walked was at an angle of 45 degrees, up which I stepped with difficulty ; there were two entrances to the house, between which I struck ; the oasters and the goblets on the table were dancing to the accompaniment of knife and fork, and the chowder that a naiad handed me was immense - the only thing that seemed natural. But soon the feeling wore off, and health was restored. I am thus prepared to speak of the great Appledore reuiedy, one dose of which is enough for the worst cases. I would not recommend more than one, because further phenomena might ensue, which would reaot on the reputation one might wish to maintain."