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Masonic Reminiscences.

of high excitement , and when asked by that gentleman "if he had been at Elysium ? shouted No , sir , I've been at , pandemonium , and have been suffering the tortures of the -. " Mr . Simpson said he had heard a great deal about all the fine things ¦ which ornamented Mr . Johnson ' s chief rooms . " I tell you what , sir , " said the Colonel , " the whole house is the most

outrageous heterogeneous jumble I ever saw in my life—a small museum in a stale of insurrection , nothing in its right place , here you try to steer between and Indian Pagoda ancl a Chinese Mandarin , and stumble over something like an Egyptian mummy , knocking over the model of a three decker in glass , fully rigged , or getting all at once immersed in the depths of Entomology , by tumbling into a case of preserved spiders , or some other abomination of the sort , lucky if you escape with a few flesh wounds , I ' m sure

the fellow is an infernal conjuror or Avizard of some kind , for the whole carpet seemed crawling witli what seemed to me , in the comparative darkness , to be young crocodiles . Fancy two malignant curs all the time I was there kept piercing my ears with the most sharp and discordant yells , and my body with their teeth wherever they could reach it . Altogether , the place looked for all the Avorld like what you might fancy to be a sort of

hospital for sick and Avounded upholstery . The sofa looked in a state of Anascarca-, portions of its tumid fio-ure peeping out here and there through a sort of Avhite reticulated covering , the easy chairs looked like obese nurses , holding within their arms IAVO fat babies in a state of repose , covered over with the same eternal white veil , the piano ( not the screamer ) had its legs bandaged up like a broken kneed

hunter , the pier and chimney glasses seemed all afflicted with the jaundice , closely enveloped in a vile gauze covering of gaudy yellow , stirring up unpleasant memories of bile , and burning suns .

" I feel so ill , and such strong symptoms of an attack of gout , that I must leave this evening , I shall return as soon as possible , and , somewhat better prepared , pay another visit to your friends , Avhen I hope to save gentle Sappho the trouble of ending her days in a ' lover ' s leap , ' unless my hand shake more than usual . " ( To tie continued . )

The New Constitutions Of The French Masons.

THE NEW CONSTITUTIONS OF THE FRENCH MASONS .

THE relation between England and France at the present moment are such as should foster sentiments of the sincerest fraternity between us . The IAVO countries are linked together by every tie which can unite nations to each other ; they have common dangers , common difficulties , common losses , and common aspirations in the present ; and , Ave do trust , that ;> common triumph and a common glory aAvaits them in a-not far distant future . There is happily , however , not . the slightest need for such ad-

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UNIFORMITY OF RITUAL. Article 1
FREEMASONRY IN ENGLAND. Article 4
MASONIC REMINISCENCES. Article 11
THE NEW CONSTITUTIONS OF THE FRENCH MASONS. Article 17
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 21
LONDON LODGES. Article 24
PROVINCIAL LODGES. Article 25
ROYAL ARCH. Article 42
SCOTLAND. Article 43
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 50
SUMMARY OF SMEWS FOR SEPTEMBER. Article 53
NOTICES. Article 59
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Masonic Reminiscences.

of high excitement , and when asked by that gentleman "if he had been at Elysium ? shouted No , sir , I've been at , pandemonium , and have been suffering the tortures of the -. " Mr . Simpson said he had heard a great deal about all the fine things ¦ which ornamented Mr . Johnson ' s chief rooms . " I tell you what , sir , " said the Colonel , " the whole house is the most

outrageous heterogeneous jumble I ever saw in my life—a small museum in a stale of insurrection , nothing in its right place , here you try to steer between and Indian Pagoda ancl a Chinese Mandarin , and stumble over something like an Egyptian mummy , knocking over the model of a three decker in glass , fully rigged , or getting all at once immersed in the depths of Entomology , by tumbling into a case of preserved spiders , or some other abomination of the sort , lucky if you escape with a few flesh wounds , I ' m sure

the fellow is an infernal conjuror or Avizard of some kind , for the whole carpet seemed crawling witli what seemed to me , in the comparative darkness , to be young crocodiles . Fancy two malignant curs all the time I was there kept piercing my ears with the most sharp and discordant yells , and my body with their teeth wherever they could reach it . Altogether , the place looked for all the Avorld like what you might fancy to be a sort of

hospital for sick and Avounded upholstery . The sofa looked in a state of Anascarca-, portions of its tumid fio-ure peeping out here and there through a sort of Avhite reticulated covering , the easy chairs looked like obese nurses , holding within their arms IAVO fat babies in a state of repose , covered over with the same eternal white veil , the piano ( not the screamer ) had its legs bandaged up like a broken kneed

hunter , the pier and chimney glasses seemed all afflicted with the jaundice , closely enveloped in a vile gauze covering of gaudy yellow , stirring up unpleasant memories of bile , and burning suns .

" I feel so ill , and such strong symptoms of an attack of gout , that I must leave this evening , I shall return as soon as possible , and , somewhat better prepared , pay another visit to your friends , Avhen I hope to save gentle Sappho the trouble of ending her days in a ' lover ' s leap , ' unless my hand shake more than usual . " ( To tie continued . )

The New Constitutions Of The French Masons.

THE NEW CONSTITUTIONS OF THE FRENCH MASONS .

THE relation between England and France at the present moment are such as should foster sentiments of the sincerest fraternity between us . The IAVO countries are linked together by every tie which can unite nations to each other ; they have common dangers , common difficulties , common losses , and common aspirations in the present ; and , Ave do trust , that ;> common triumph and a common glory aAvaits them in a-not far distant future . There is happily , however , not . the slightest need for such ad-

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