Avone many other things of infinitely greater practical importance, there is one event noticed in the papers just to hand) iving-dying bed The Ish of great nation, when its head death for th d, and yet Russian ladies are the greatest of smokers. Pope Bia grealait of Ganiodd "Pen onte, ut Ve Mong the streets Be's Titan and King James the First of Eng-stricken Lo, along the streets he
Pale, thro' ranked crowds, this grey land both condemned tobacco, and fought sang SRUANNE OTH September morn, rows unbonnetea, TET against it, But tobacco has vigorously against it And reverent speechlessness '-a "people's oN the day against all ite opponents, and voice Nay, puta peopl Of the wide world it brother nation En Is with thee; God willis doubtless, says the writer, there will come a day when Worth will always add to his Aresses a dainty little tobacco-pouch or cigarette-pocket. One other item from the World must not pass unnoticed. We which has an interest all its own. The old Throbb'd with thy pain, shall with thy joy are sorry to sev that Stanley, the discoverer Polytechnic Institution in Regent Street of Livingstone, is ill, and dying, on the exists no more. It finally closed its doors The articles in this week's Spectator re on Saturday the 10th September, having chiefly political, and do not lend themnsely banks of the Congo river. The Saturday has a very curious article upon French been crammed, says the World, with a most Very easily to summary. But we are glad dt, which is at least as piquant as enthusiastic audience.
What a pity it is to notice a paragraph touching to notice ching uponamost English slang. It would almost seem as not to be kept open!" said an old zentleinteresting and extraordinary experiment though slang were a modern innovation, man, with tears in his eyes, to one of the recently made by Dr. Siemens, and brought jy Franco, at any rate, As far back as the directors. Ah he added, '1 cane here by him before the British Association in time of the First Empire, argot appears to fifty years ago."—** And you've the form of a paper on the subject. It have found its way into the drawing rooms hero since answered the director. appears that the idea had occurred to him of tte upper ten,' M. de Beaumont, who replied the old gentleman, "And never whether plants and animals were alike in vay then Chambeclain to Napoleon, an. brought any of your eight children here both requiring a regularly-recurring period nounced one croning, at a reception at the pursued the director. Never," acknow-of rest and darkness to promote their pro-'Tuileries, "Madame In Maréchiale Leedged the aged man, Then," retorted per growth, To test this, he brought clecfebyre!" The Emperor advanced courte-the director, "how the—diving-bell do you tric light to bear upon certain vegetables ously, and said with marked emphasis, suppose we can keep up the stitution?" {all through the night, for a considerable "Bonjour, madame In Duchesse de Daut-The diver, it seems, had died ly a week time, so that they should never be in darkzick On this the Dutchess turned to the or ten days previously, Leavis little ness fora moment. He placed a lamp of tov laconic official and said, "AN! ga te fortune of three hundred pounds, the result 4,000 candle-power inside a glass house of coupe, cadet!" which may be freely trans: of the half pence with which he had been 2 18 cubit-feet capacity, and suspended lated, "that's one for your nob, young polted by the visitors. The Spectator has another like it over some sunk greeuman."—There is another anecdote that is an obituary article upon the defunct houses, We quote from our contemporary. her funny. A very ignorant but would-establishment, pathetically headed 'In Li ems of clear glass were placed round Biomoriam,' "The attractions of the place the lights, and they were then burnt con-arp young undergraduate being asked are very amusingly summed up tinuously all night except on Sunday, the PY a" examiner, " Who were the slaters of Phon the fat, wheezy porter, the very gardener, Mr. Buchanan, being presumably Bethany placed his forefinger beside his buttony cent, steppd out of the front of the Scotch, and doubtful of the orthodoxy of Bose and retorted, with a knowing wink, gallery in the ball, and announced by voice and ring of bell each new in the way of the Creator in allowing the sun to shine on "Who was the father of Zebedee's child-Sabbaths. The result was extraordinary, t?" To pass on, however j—there are Peas which had been sown at the end of two articles worth reading, one on Breal tic key, with wheezy October produced a harvest of ripe fruit fast'—to which the Neciew devotes three he fat porter ill now om the 16th of February. Raspberry-stalks printed columns, and another on shure on the polar put into the house on the 16th of Decem- 'The Art of Political Consolation.' The words jerked out very lous, ber produced ripe fruit on the Ist of March, Aticneum reviews a book recently pub-hed pant; then another and down Use a ae other Fi0e Vand strawberry plants put bout the jungle, There you might hear the seedy-same time produced ripe fruit of excellent entitled Introduction to Buglish History, looking Professor, who, under the mask of a flavour and colour on the 14th of February. lecture on batluli, or something of that sort, Vines which broke on the 26th of Decem-gave a funny monologue and musical enterlity, breadth of view, soundness, and in ch acter," more ber produced ripe grapes of stronger flavour all respect for facts which characterise or leas, One character was an old daueingthan usual on the LOth of March." The Then we have a translation of master, who had broken or pawned his kit, anid hud to ving tunes to hie pupils cereals did not flourish under the Ewald's Counentary on the Books of Haygai, Right foot, left foot, down the middle stalks proving too we i, Your, Bardkh, and [spoken in a pussion to the dancers. but they loutished What can a man do without his tiddle?
to the tune of *Voutez-vous dauser, the light. "Dr, Siemens' conclusion is that picherto unpublished lines by Sit Walter
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