Dr.
-- -- is rubbing his hands professionally over the fearful tales of the surgeon of a New York regiment, just from Key West, who has had two hundred cases of the fever.

"I suppose he is a skilful, highly educated man," said I."Yes," he responded with enthusiasm.

"Why, he had seventy deaths!"-- as if that proved his superiority past question.
January 19.
"And first, sitting proud as a lung on his throne, At the head of them all rode Sir Richard Tyrone." But I fancy that Sir Richard felt not much better satisfied with his following than I to-day.

J.R.

L.said once that nothing was quite so good as turtle-soup, except mock-turtle; and I have heard officers declare that nothing was so stirring as real war, except some exciting parade.