The first was a man who married a supposed widow, whose husband came back and drowned him self to be out of his wife's way. The second was a showman, with a dwarf in his van. The dwarf drew a prize in a lottery, spent his money, and returned to his van in disgust. The third was an } ' artist who, married a silly wife, to the disgust of his sister. The brother died, and his sister's lover returned; the brother's widow married him, and then the lister died. Th« fourth and last tenant is' a small child, living surreptitiously in the house, and kept out of the way by a wicked grand father, who turns out-td be the cousin of the old lady who teilsttte^story, and who is watched by an old woman and' Her son — a debauched doctor- Each of these stories is in itself too trifling to tell. Th6y are mere specimens of a style, the great element of which is simple grotesquendss— thie >hibit of describing the

Story op an Artificial Leg.— A surgi cal instrument maker, named Bechard, on Friday, brought an action before the Civil Tribunal against Mma. Alexandresko, a Wal lachian lady, to obtain payment of 1055f., for two artificial legs. He represented that the lady having had one of her legs amputated, had ordered him to make two artificial ones. He made one, and it answered very well ; but she was not satisfied, and almost every day wanted some alterations made. He humoured all her whims. He frequently hinted that he should be g*ad to receive payment, but she al way scarefully avoided the subject. At length he heard that she had run into debt with several tradesmen, "had not paid one, and was about to leave France. Ho at once hurried to the Hotel Louvois, where she was residing, and asked for his money ; but she said that some new alteration was necessary in the leg, and he took it away. When he returned, two days after, she positively refused to receive either him or the leg, and notified that she had got another leg made by another maker. He therefore claimed payment both for the leg she had tried and the other she had ordered In answer to the action, Madame Alexan dresko, through her counsel, represented the facts in a very different light. 