COFFIN OF KING DUNCAN.
A coffin has been discovered among the ruins of Elgin cathedral, supposed to be that of the royal victim of Macbeth.
AN IMPERIAL ENCORE.
When Cimarosa's opera of Matrimonio Segreto was performed before the Emperor Joseph, he invited all the singers to a banquet, and then in a fit of enthusiasm, sent them all back to the theatre to play and sing the whole opera over again!—Foreign Review.
Dinner is a corruption of decimer, from decimheure, or the French repast de dix-heure. Supper from souper, from the custom of providing soup for that occasion.