Our colored brother will have his wild hilarity.

He died in Ohio more than forty years ago, and it is said that the immediate occasion of his demise was an overdose of hilarity.

Another old timer entitled to a good position in the hilarity column was J.Q.A. Ward, commonly known as Jack Ward.

But there is certainly nothing in the study of physical science to interfere with genial hilarity; though, indeed, some solemn persons have been wont to reprove the members of the British Association, and specially that Red Lion Club, where all the philosophers are expected to lash their tails and roar, of being somewhat too fond of mere and sheer fun, after the abstruse papers of the day are read and discussed.

Arjásp had enjoyed the banquet exceedingly; the music gave him infinite pleasure, and the wine had intoxicated him; but in the midst of his hilarity and merriment, he was told that Isfendiyár had reached the gates, and entered the fort, killing immense numbers of his people.

The young folks arrived without any idea of receiving more than a good dinner and the pleasure of mingling with the cordial, kindly household at the farm; but the general air of hilarity and good fellowship pervading the family circle this evening inspired the guests with like enthusiasm, and no party could be merrier than the one that did full justice to Mary's superior cookery.

Peter was very far from feeling any inclination towards displaying the hilarity which an outdoor meal is supposed to provoke.

He was as indifferent to money and luxuries as Socrates when he walked barefooted among the Athenian aristocracy, or Basil when he retired to the wilderness; he rarely gave vent to extravagant grief or joy, seldom laughed, and cared little for hilarities; he knew no games or sports; he rarely played with children or gossiped with women; he loved without romance, and suffered bereavement without outward sorrow.

China then enjoyed hackney coaches, tea gardens, and hilarity; while the delights of European capitals were processions of monks among perpetual dunghills in narrow crooked lanes.

He was a country squire, a gentleman farmer, though not much given to fox-hunting or dinner hilarities, preferring to read political pamphlets, or to listen to long sermons, or to hold discussions on grace, predestination, free-will, and foreknowledge absolute.

He wasted his time, and gave himself up to pleasures,riding, boating, bathing, and social hilarities,yet reading more than anybody imagined, and writing poetry, for which he had an extraordinary facility, yet not contending for college prizes.

Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, he sheds over the universe.

Finally there was a general outburst of hilarity which taught the young man a needed lesson.

But the hilarity of the others as they piled into the canoes to be towed up the river by the launch lured her down to the dock to see them offMiss Judy standing at the wheel of the launch and Tiny Armstrong in the stern of the last canoe, as the head and tail of the procession respectively.

Hilarity increased during the meal, as the absurdity of eating cereal and fruit and toast at eight o'clock in the evening overcame the girls one after the other, and the room rang with witty songs made up on the spur of the moment.

" After a few words, the stately Mr. Windham bowed himself out, leaving Sandford rubbing his hands with increased, but still gentle hilarity.

Had the wild hilarity of his speech and demeanor in the evening been merely a new phase of disorder in an unsettled brain?

6. and that which is more, it will perform all this in an instant: "Cheer up the countenance, expel austerity, bring in hilarity" (Girald. Camb.

"It begins with sorrow" (saith Montanus), "it must be expelled with hilarity.

" The Assistant Paymaster had no cause to complain of lack of hilarity at dinner.

The most notable thing which I observed was that the reserve of the host increased in direct proportion with the hilarity of his guests.

Such an enterprise very properly commences with "The Pickwick Papers," the work in which the hilarity, humor, and tenderness of the author's humane and beautiful genius first attracted general regard; and it is to be followed by equally fine editions of the romances which succeeded, and, as some think, eclipsed it in merit and popularity.

I feel, myself, quite an unusual hilarity.

" The youngsters frequently put the lessons of freedom and individual rights they heard so much of into practice, and relieved their brains from the constant strain of argument on first principles, by the wildest hilarity in dancing, all kinds of games, and practical jokes carried beyond all bounds of propriety.

The entire detachment came out of the thicket, and their hilarity knew no bounds.