R. P. MIÈGE, S. J., St. Stanislas:
Dear Father in Christ.- I learned with grief that my friend and brother in Christ, Bishop Miege, had become bilious. Without a minute's delay I applied to the great Doctor El Sol, renowned all over the world, who commissioned his agent, Jose Cresencio Barges, to send by me to m•• friend a box of most exquisite pills, with the following directions: These pills are not to be swallowed or chewed. One end is to be placed between the lips and the teeth; the patient must draw in his breath slowly; blow it out again majestically; he must sit in his room in the rays of the sun, and admire whilst he is puffing the ascending curling clouds, till the whole pill has melted to his very lips. A strict attendance to these prescriptions will have a most salutary effect on the patient and he will soon be rid of his bile.
Believe me to be with profound respect and esteem, Dear Father in Christ, etc.,
Another Relaxation.
St. Louis University, NOV. 21, 1861.
Reverend Father DE COEN P. C.
Reverend Dear Father.- I received your kind favor of the 12th instant. I bought Wooster's 8vo dictionary, upon the advice of Reverend F. Murphy, a man well versed in the English language. He says, and he ought to know, that it contains thousands of words more than Walker ever dreamed of. Walker died long ago and Wooster walked into his dictionary, and as he walked along supplied all \Walker's deficiencies. Your Reverence, of course, according to the advice of our Reverend Father Provincial, will