Haarlem offered prizes for tulip-growing; and this fact brings us in the most natural manner to that celebration which the city intended to hold on May 15th, 1673 in honour of the great black tulip, immaculate and perfect, which should gain for itsdiscoverer one hundred thousand guilders!

Besides, this idea of Jonah's weathering the Cape of Good Hope at so early a day would wrest the honor of the discovery of that great headland from Bartholomew Diaz, its reputeddiscoverer, and so make modern history a liar.

"This intrepiddiscoverer proposes to traverse all Africa from east to west IN A BALLOON.

It was a very simple-hearted fraud, and it was all done with an innocent trust in the popular ignorance which now seems to me a little pathetic; but it was certainly very barefaced, and merited the public punishment which thediscoverer inflicted by means of what journalists call the deadly parallel column.

"Has anything happened to Professor Bumper?" Tom demanded, a wild idea forming in his head that perhaps some one of the Beecher party had tried to kidnap thediscoverer of the lost city of Pelone.

The last voyage of that renowned but unfortunatediscoverer, Captain Cook, had made known the vast quantities of the sea-otter to be found along that coast, and the immense prices to be obtained for its fur in China.

I have learned since that, so far from my being the firstdiscoverer of the Martian overthrow, several such wanderers as myself had already discovered this on the previous night.

It was somewhere near the Cape - THE Cape being, of course, the Cape of Good Hope, the Cape of Storms of its Portuguesediscoverer. And whether it is that the word "storm" should not be pronounced upon the sea where the storms dwell thickly, or because men are shy of confessing their good hopes, it has become the nameless cape - the Cape TOUT COURT.

Humans do this very thing, and some of them call it "free will." Cocky, staring at the open door, was in just the stage of determining whether or not he should more closely inspect that crack of exit to the wider world, which inspection, in turn, would determine whether or not he should venture out through the crack, when his eyes beheld the eyes of the seconddiscoverer staring in.

So old seemed these relics, these vestiges of vanity and memorials of affection and piety, so battered and worn and stained--so neglected, deserted, forgotten the place, that I could not help thinking myself thediscoverer of the burial-ground of a prehistoric race of men whose very name was long extinct.

Does it seem incongruous to you that a Middlemarch surgeon should dream of himself as adiscoverer? Most of us, indeed, know little of the great originators until they have been lifted up among the constellations and already rule our fates.

O perpetualdiscoverer of the antipodes, torch of the world, eye of heaven, sweet stimulator of the water-coolers!