Show living by ones wits nine persons sailed from basle down the rhine A jew who wished to go to Sch alampi ropi was allowed to come on board and journey with them on condition that he would conduct himself with propriety and give the captain eighteen kreut zera for his passage now it is it true vrue something thing jingled in the jews pocket when he struck his hand against it but the only money there was therein was a twelve kreutzer kreut kreul zer piece for the other was q a brass button notwithstanding his this he accepted accented the offer biter with gratitude for he thought to himself something may be earned even upon the water there is many a man who has grown rich upon the rhine during the first flut part of the voyage the pas fengers congers were very tal tai talkative kalkati kati katl ve and merry and ana t the e jew with his wallet under his arm arin lor for for he lie did not lay it aside was the object of or much mirth and mockery as alss alms is often the case with ahse of his is nation but as theve tha the vessel asel sailed onward and passed and saint veit veil the passengers one after the other grew silent gazed down the river until one spoke out come tome jew do you know any past fasttime time that will amuse us your fathers lathers must have ean many a one during their long stay in the wilderness now is the time thought thou glit the jew sto to shear my sheep and he proposed that they should sit round in a circle and propound curious ques lions to each other and he with their fermis mission would sit gudown down with them those who could not answer the questions i should hould pay the ope one who propounded them i a twelve kreutzer kreuter piece ennd and those who answered them pertinently should receive a piece I 1 the proposal pleased the compa com piny ny and hoping to divert them themselves es with the jew s wit or r stupidity each one asked at random whatever entered his head thus thur fd example the first olie one asked ed how many mapy soft sort boiled eggs could the giant goliah eat tp tipon on an empty Jor stomach all bat sat saad id that it was impossible 1 ibie ible to answer that question and each paid over his ig twelve kreutz ers era but the jew said one for he lie abo has eaten one l ialy aly aey cannot eat a second one on an empty stomach and the other oilier paid him twelve kreutz er the second thought walt wait jew and I 1 will try tty y yon you ou out of the new testament and I 1 think 1 I hall rhall win my 11 hy by did the apostle paul write the second epistle to ahe the be corinth iari lari ian lan P the jew bald said because lie was not in corinth otherwise he would llave have spoken to them so he be won on another twelve kreut Kreul kreutzer zer piece men when the he third found ahejew the jew so well vers berged verged ed in the bible dible he tried him in a different way 1 who prolongs his hia work to as great a length as possible and yet complete completes slit U in time the rope maker if he is industrious said the jew in the meanwhile they drew near to a village and one said to the other that I 1 is 4 bandach Ba Bani danl mach ach then the fourth asked in what month do the people of bamlach ballach eat the least the jew said in Feb few febuary nary mary for that has only twenty eight days the fifth said there othere are two natural brothers and still only one of them is my uncle the jew said the uncle i is s your fathers brother and your father is not your uncle A fish now jumped out of the water and the sixth asid what fish haye have their eyes nearest together F the jew said the smallest the seventh asked how can cam a man ride from basle to bern in the shade in the summer time when the sun shines the jew said when he comes to a place where there ishoi 1 TT shade h dismount and ga go on foot 1166 0 the elgh eighth th aided whenn mn arthe in the w winter I 1 I 1 time fromberg from Bern dern tp toBa Basle seand and has forgotten his must he imm iro anage manage BO so that his hia hands shall not freeze 1 the jew said he must make fists out of 1 I 1 them I 1 I 1 the ninth was vas the last this one asked how can five persons divitti eo so that each man shall receive one and still one on remain in the dish the jew jelv sald said the me last must tak take e the dish with th the egg and aad can let it lay there ai as long iong ong as I 1 he plea piea pleases sef seq but hut now it came to h rs turn and he deform ined tried to make a good sweep sweep after many m any pr preliminary compliments lle lie asked with at an airoff air of 1 im is chievous friendliness how can a man fry twp trouts i in three pas pans eo so that a trout may lay an fn each p pan a n no one louid coid answer this and one after the ather gave him a twelve kreutzer kreutner p piece alece i i but when the ninth desired th that it he should an answer it himself he frankly acknowledged i that he lie knew liot not how the trout could be friedin fried in uh buch a way then it was maintained that this was unfair I 1 in the jew but he stoutly affirmed that there was no provision for it it ift the ag agreement re ement save that he who could not answer the questions should pay the kreutzer sand fulfilled theatre the gree e ment by paying that sum on the ninth of his comrades who iad had asked him lo 10 solve it himself r but they all being bein rich merchants and 91 grateful for the amusement which had passed an sit hour bour or two very pleasantly for anem laughed heartily over their loss and at a he le jews cunning NEW neit WAR projectile A remarkable se ries rles dies ries of oft expedit experiments enad were made madil yesterday in he grounds adjoining chelsea hospital by captain disney the inventor of a new war projectile w which bich he states has been brought before the notice of the proper authorities nhut but does not yet yet vet appear aphea r to have been adopted in the service the invention is one of a very simpli simple description and there seems to be no good reason why it should not be used with great advant advantage a ge in the he contest in which we are now engaged with russia it consists jn in fitting fit fitting tine tint shells with a it bursting charge of powder contained in a metal cylinder and filling the krestof rest of their space with a highly combustible fluid which upon exposure to the air ignites everything with which it I 1 as is brought into contact this fluid does not act upon the substance of the shell is i s not of itself explosive and being prevented from leaking by a nicely fitted brass screw plug enables the missile to be carried about without much risk directed against ships or houses or masse masses bof of troops the new projectile prokep tile tiie would have all the destruct destructive ive properties of the rocket w its uncertainty uncertainty taint of aim water only temporarily extinguishes its ts incandescent power which is is so 1 great as to make even woollen materials bur burn n w with ith a quick flame captain disney als ais also aiso that by a similar use of another chemical fluid he can cause blindness fess ress for several hours to all troops coming with in in P a quarter of a mile of its operation but this portion of his experiments was for obvious ous reasons is omitted applied to hand grenades the he substance u which he exhibited yesterday would be found very destructive but its chief use would probably be as a chargo chang for large shells A As the select committee of the ordnance has now no been reformed and enlarged the attention which it pays to this and other inventions of apparently a parent ly a practical character will be owr watched by the public throes Ti roes moes gathe dathe the preparations made by the allies for wintering I 1 in n the he C crimea ma ae of truly atoni aloni astonishing sli ing proportions I 1 kariesch kamiesch Ka Xa miesch balaklava lupa toria and Yeni kale kaie llave ilava hav become military establishments of immense importance the I 1 works at the two first named places more par ticul arly ariy are ot a character to retain their importance m I 1 even if the siege of sebastopol sevastopol Seba were abandoned the possession of these positions will compel tile the russians to keep p a large arge army in tile the crimea it is believed believe d thit the arrangements for the campaign of 1856 include the poli ron centra tion lion of an army at verna burgos and on the while the field artillery cavalry and means of transport will be stronger than that in the crimea and to which detachments of the army now in the crimea would be added preparatory to operations in a new field whether erthe the Karabel naia nala suburb be taken and the russian fleet destroyed or the next assault be repulsed the siege will equally be raised and 1 the four points above named be occupied bocc u pled pied vienna military gazette THE WINGED TORTOISE r A letter from paris 1 tates states that th the e existence of that curious phenomenon the winged tortoise has at length been fully I 1 y established two of these curious creatures have been received from surinam by M de caillard they evidently belong to some hitherto deser i bed thear a species e cies cles of 0 f the shell being divided b by v an apparent or false suture and the sides pies presenting enting projections which resemble feet |