Like the Nightingale, it "sings darkling," and like the woodpecker, is much addicted to tapping the bark of Limbs and Trunks for the purpose of obtaining grub.

Not strange, perhaps, for Mr. MCLAUGHLIN, whose very youth in New York, where he was an active politician, found him a frequent nightly familiar of the Tombs; but strange for the organist, who, although often grave in his manner, sepulchral in his tones, and occasionally addicted to coughin', must be curiously eccentric to wish to pass into concert that evening with the dead heads.

Had it been disclosed to her that Wilbur Cowan, under the chaperonage of EdwardSpikeBrennon, 133 lbs., ringside, had become an addict of these affairs, a determined and efficient exponent of the weird new steps"a good thing for y'r footwork," Spike had saidshe would have considered he had plumbed the profoundest depths of social ignominy.

The situation, calmly reviewed, was one probably never paralleled in the history of adventuremore like the dream of a hashish-smoking addict than cold reality.

Sometimes, through a capricious fit of piety, all this is studiously dispensed with, and the body appears clad in the habit of some religious order, to which the deceased was especially addicted during life.

Nature is more addicted at the North to the habit of classifying her productions and of assembling them in uniform phalanxes.

Women, dice, hunting and drinking to which people become addicted in consequence of temptation, have been regarded as the four evils that deprive a man of prosperity.

It was curious to see him peep into her bottle-filled satchel, with an old man's freedom; and to hear him audibly wonder thereat, whether, after all, men were any more addicted than women to the social glass when they wanted to put a better face on affairs.

The Fijians also appear to have taught them cannibalism, to which, however, they never became so addicted as their teachers.

Hubert had always been his mother's favourite, and the scorn of his elder brothers, two rough boys, addicted in early youth to robbing orchards, and later on to gambling and drinking.