A most curious plant has been dis covered recently in Arabia, where it is known by the natives as the “ laughing plant/' It docs not do any laughing itself, as might bo inferred from its title, but it causes those who eats its seeds to break out into fits of most uncontrolled and immoderate .mirth. j, ...v* i

LITERARY NOTES.
I would rather be a poor ra&a in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not lore rending.”—Lord JMacaolav.
