Again, a children's name of common henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) is "loaves of bread," an allusion to which is made by Clare in his "Shepherd's Calendar": "Hunting from the stack-yard sod The stinking henbane's belted pod, By youth's warm fancies sweetly led To christen them his loaves of bread.

She will shortly be to christen, And papa has made the offer I shall have the naming of her.

"It is now time, I ween, to christen our bonny babe, is it not so, merry boys?"

When thou livedst not thou wast called John Little, but now that thou dost live indeed, Little John shalt thou be called, so christen I thee."

Had I a little son, I would christen him NOTHING-TO-DO; he should do nothing.

Certainly there is a jealousy in unparallel subjects, which is little less heart-rending than the passion which we more strictly christen by that name.

" There was a brief moment of confusion from the coming and going of barges,a short delay which brimmed their excitement to the fever pitch,then the waters cleared again of their floating craft, and the Senator Marcantonio Giustiniani stepped forth on the deck to christen the gift of his child.

In honor of Don Custodio, I christen it the soup project!" "Gentlemen," said Makaraig, who had prepared the menu, "there are three courses yet.

I was ready to christen the road anew,Redbird Road.

"'Ah, Sir Lancelot,' said hee, 'thou were head of all christen knights!

So the child was delivered unto Merlin, and he bare him forth unto sir Ector, and made a holy man christen him, and named him "Arthur."

Men of a more flamboyant sort, such as M.W. Philips, contemning such "ruffle-shirt cant," would christen their strains with attractive names, publish their virtues as best they might, and offer their fancy seed for sale at fancy prices.

M.C.H. BROEMEL, FEST-TANZEN DER ERSTEN CHRISTEN.

Thus we write jalap from Jalapa, hermetical from Hermes, hymeneal from Hymen, simony, from Simon, philippic from Philip; the verbs, to hector, to romance, to japan, to christen, to philippize, to galvanize; and the adverbs hermetically and jesuitically, all without a capital: and perhaps judaize, christianize, and their derivatives, may join this class.

If I had to christen a pup now I should naturally call him "Jellicoe the Brave.

[Sir Thomas More] "not come begging for the clergy from purgatory, with his supplication of soulsnor the poor soul and proctor been there with his bloody bishop Christen catte, so far conjured into his own Utopia.

" I take the word to be Christencat; but its two parts are so divided by the position of Christen at the end of one line, and catte at the beginning of the next as to prevent it from being certain that they form one word.

He said that he desired to do no act That men might christen with an ugly name.

You are wedded to your state-craft, to your patriotism, to your self-advancement, or christen it what you will.

We'll christen her the Infunt Fernomerner, an' gin a lib'rul investor a crack at her.

he piped out, addressing one of the women; "an' if you want a name for your seventh, you may christen 'en after the engine here, the Wonder of the Age.

And to these their spirits, they give names, and they meet together to christen them (as they speak)....

But you shall christen it yourself.

"It's a pity your Indian friends did not christen you 'Wild Mustard' or 'Clover,'" she said satirically, "that you might have had some sympathies and longings for the open fields instead of these horrid jungles!

I did not dream that I should ever stand beside it with you, and have you christen it yourself.