Our own country can boast of some great smokers. Dr. Parr was regarded as the greatest smoker of his day. Wbately, Archbishop of Dublin, boasted ol being " above Parr.'' He afforded a singular exhibition as he sat on the chains in front of his boose in St. Stephen's Green, smoking a long clay pipe. Lord Broug ham, too, loved the common clay pip*, and amoked it regularly until be was past 90. Sir Walter Scott not only amoked himself, but advised bis son, who was an officer in the irmy, as to the best kind of pipe. Tennyson, Thack eray, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin were all devotsd to the weed. Mr. Spurgeon wat ofttn taken to task about his inveterate indulgence in tobacco. Once, when tackled by a pious lady, who asked him if be found anyth ng in the Bible about smoking, be answered, " No, but we do read of the people passing through tie Valley of Baca !"

A KING'S EXECUTION.
