Leibnitz and the Sailors.—

Leibnitz finding himself overtaken by a tempest in the Adriatic sea, whilst passing from Venice to Mesola, heard the pilot of the bark, who did not imagine he was understood by the stranger, propose to throw into the sea the German heretic, whose presence on board was, he conceived, the sole cause of the squall. Leibnitz, without appearing to have heard any thing, or betraying the slightest emotion, drew from his pocket a chaplet or rosary, and commenced telling the beads with great seeming devotion. This quiet artifice saved him; one of the crew observing to the pilot, that as the man was not a heretic, it would be of no use to throw him into the sea.—Ency. Brit.