The most striking novelty of the time of George I. was the "Ramilies" tail, which was a tail plaited to the wig, with an immense bow at the top and a smaller one at the bottom. The pigtail, the favorite ornament of sailors, in later years, first appeared in the reign of George 11., and it banished the Ramilies tail and tie. In our time false hair has a very different office to perform, and by the skill of our artists in that commodity, we are enabled to wear that article so as almost to deceive pur very selves. This is particularly seen in the modern chignon, familiar to all ladies and to all gentlemen in these days ; but the very perfection of the. artificial chignon makes it easily dis tinguishable to .practised eyes. Most persons have read the anecdote of the gentleman who purchased a hairdresser's chignon, and riding in Rotten-row with it at the hour when fashionable ladies take exercise there, held it out on the end 'of his riding-whip, pretending by his, ges tures that he had just picked it up and was anxious to discover its owner. It;is, related that on the occasion of this un kind practical joke at least one-half-of the young lady riders instantly raised their hands to the backs of their heads, thus involuntarily betraying the secret of those magnificent masses of hair which they delight to display in that resort of fashion. But it is only just to remark that the commonness of false chignons is chiefly due to the fact that it is very diffi cult to arrange the natural hair in this style with the orderly neatness of the wigmaker's substitute for it, or. to keep it so arranged when done. Only very cyni cal people will maintain that ths wearing of false chignons is entirely due to female vanity.—" Wigs and Human Hair," by Moy Thomas, in Cassell's Magazine,

The best entrance to the open Polar Sea, says M. Gaistave Lambert, is Beh ring's Strait. He sailed through it: in 1865, says the Athenceum, on board a French vessel, and spent three months in high_ latitudes, making observations on j the ice, which have led him to" the con- i elusion that there the best chance to entex the sea and reach the Pole is offered. 