" A Yorkshire name for the quaking grass (Briza media) is "trembling jockies," and according to a local proverb: "A trimmling jock i' t' house, An' you weeant hev a mouse," This plant being, it is said, obnoxious to mice.

A Gloucestershire nickname for the Plantago media is fire-leaves, and the hearts'-ease has been honoured with all sorts of romantic names, such as "kiss me behind the garden gate;" and "none so pretty" is one of the popular names of the saxifrage.

" As shaking is one of the chief characteristics of that tedious and obstinate complaint ague, so there was a prevalent notion that the quaking-grass (Briza media), when dried and kept in the house, acted as a most powerful deterrent.

Just over twenty years of age, her youthful beauty and grace, the tender, yearning love which lit up her expressive features, the ready utterance and sweet voice, and the charm of manner which never left her, were no unfitting media to convey the tidings of mercy to many a benighted seeker after rest and peace.

But to see this scientifically, is like a survey of this highest part of the heavens by the astronomer; for he by knowing the height of the media between us and it, knows also scientifically that it transcends in altitude not only the loftiest tree; but the summits of air and aether, the moon, and even the sun itself.

All things indeed are ineffably unfolded from him at once, into light; but divine media are necessary to the fabrication of the world.

The abstracted media of dreams seem no ill introduction to that spiritual presence, upon which, in no long time, we expect to be thrown.

Only to the few, the favoured, does she grant rare glimpses through media which she has provided for the use of the initiatesuch as this crystal here, in which I was studying your future, when you came in, the high future I plan for you.

Prior to this time it was comparatively unknown and unimportant, and was one of the dependent provinces of Media, whose religion, language, and customs were not very dissimilar to its own.

Persia was a small, rocky, hilly, arid country about three hundred miles long by two hundred and fifty wide, situated south of Media, having the Persian Gulf as its southern boundary, the Zagros Mountains on the west separating it from Babylonia, and a great and almost impassable desert on the east, so that it was easily defended.

Before the conquest of Media the whole nation was distinguished for temperance, frugality, and bravery.

The Persians were ruled by independent chieftains, or petty kings, who acknowledged fealty to Media; so that Persia was really a province of Media, as Burgundy was of France in the Middle Ages, and as Babylonia at one period was of Assyria.

According to this legend, Astyagesa luxurious and superstitious monarch, without the warlike virtues of his father, who had really built up the Median empirehad a dream that troubled him, which being interpreted by the Magi, priests of the national religion, was to the effect that his daughter Mandanê (for he had no legitimate son) would be married to a prince whose heir should seize the supreme power of Media.

The herdsman had a tender-hearted and conscientious wife who had just given birth to a dead child, and she persuaded her husbandfor even in Media women virtually ruled, as they do everywhere, if they have tactto substitute the dead child for the living one, deck it out in the royal costume, and expose it to wild beasts.

Persia arose in rebellion against Media.

This battle ended the Median ascendency, and Cyrus became the monarch of both Media and Persia.

Deioces reigned fifty-three years wisely and well, bequeathing the kingdom he had founded to his son Phraortes, under whom Media became independent of Assyria.

Indeed, Media now became the residence of the Persian kings, whose palaces at Ecbatana, Susa, and Persepolis nearly rivalled those of Babylon.

Even modern Persia comprises the ancient Media.

The reign of Cyrus properly begins with the conquest of Media, or rather its union with Persia, B.C. 549.

We know, however, but little of the career of Cyrus after he became monarch of both Persia and Media, until he was forty years of age.

The king of Media accepts his reproofs and admires his wisdom; the nobles of Media are won by his urbanity and magnanimity.

The king of Media accepts his reproofs and admires his wisdom; the nobles of Media are won by his urbanity and magnanimity.

Betwixt this river Indus, and another to the west called Tigris, both of which empty themselves into the Red Sea, are the countries of Orocassia, Parthia, Asilia, Pasitha, and Media, though some writers call the whole of this land Media or Assyria.

Betwixt this river Indus, and another to the west called Tigris, both of which empty themselves into the Red Sea, are the countries of Orocassia, Parthia, Asilia, Pasitha, and Media, though some writers call the whole of this land Media or Assyria.