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nerves like a schoolboy's screaking pencil upon a | going to dinner, and tells every one a very long and slate ; he resembles one of the patent fire extin- rambling story in precisely the same words, from guishers, pouring a heavy but invisible stream of which it is impossible to extract any particular morpoisonous gas upon any remaining sparks of vivacity. al till he gets to the end, exemplifies the modus opeIt is a melancholy truth, indeed, that every man is randi of the bore in the most striking manner. potentially a bore, as preachers occasionally tell us The moral which the mariner endeavored to enthat we have all within us, in a latent state, certain force, was really a good one, and there can be no evil propensities which ally us to the basest male-doubt that his victims might remember it to the latfactors. A man in love, especially if he is youthful est hour of their lives. At the same time, the maand confiding, is an undeniable bore; so is a poor nia might have taken a different form. The Anrelation, or a gentleman with a grievance, more par-cient Mariner was evidently the sort of person ticularly if the grievance is in any way connected who, if his voyage had been more successful, might with India, and involves an explanation of Eastern have gone about enforcing with equal pertinacity terms, and a short sketch of the relations of some some theory about those scientific nuisances, the deceased native prince to the East India Company. trade-winds of the Gulf Stream, - phenomena which

But from such temporary lapses into the condition no doubt have their advantages, but which have of boredom, there is at least a possibility that a man become as wearisome in the mouths of popular may be more or less speedily delivered ; whilst on philosophers as the eternal New Zealander, or the other topics he may even be agreeable, as a mad- German who evolves things out of his inner conman frequently appears to be perfectly sane in every sciousness. Other circumstances, again, would respect but a certain tendency to steal, or com- have led him to put forwards eternally some mit murder. The temporary and accidental bore crotchet about the Danubian Principalities, or to is only worth notice because the personal experi-expound the rights of women or the advantages of ence of every man who has ever fallen into this eating horseflesh, or to demonstrate that the one condition will convince him of the most striking pe- way in which mankind could be seriously improved culiarity about bores, - that is, their total uncon- was by adopting a new system of sewerage. sciousness of their own enormities. A leper knows The most characteristic peculiarity of the genuine that he is the object of disgust, because he is judi- bore, next to the thickness of his skin, is that he is cially separated from his race; but as no paternal possessed by one idea which haunts him like a nightgovernment has hitherto carried out that measure in mare, and that he is only capable of looking at it regard to the analogous pests of society, the bore is from one point of view. . And from this follows the generally convinced in all sincerity of his own at-danger which sometimes counterbalances his numertractions; he mistakes the silence which greets him ous merits. It is of immense value to every new for respect, and fancies that the resignation with agitation that the adherents of the cause should be which judicious persons submit to an inevitable nui- preceded by a sufficient body of bores, to act as sance, really means a complacent deference to his skirmishers or pioneers, to overcome some of the wisdom. From which there follows the horrible preliminary difficulties of the route. Unfortunately, suspicion that any one of us may be bores without it is impossible for any one who possesses even a ruknowing it; and that, like some unsavory animal, dimentary sense of humor to avoid laughing at the we alone may be unconscious of the secret which uncouth behavior of these clumsy auxiliaries. If the shocks the nostrils of all our neighbors. It would, bore was even passively accessible to humor, he therefore, be cruel kindness, if it were possible, to should welcome attacks which tend to keep him in point out any test by which a man might determine the right direction. As, however, it is a primary infallibly, whether he was or was not a bore. He condition of his nature that he has no more humor would discover the moral plague-spot only when it than a rhinoceros, he fails to give credit to these was too late to be of use, and his pleasant dream of benefactors in disguise. He denounces them, with complacency would be rudely broken up. As the virtuous indignation, as cynics to whom nothing is Ethiopian cannot change his skin, it is better that he sacred, and who sneer at the holiest causes. The should go about under the pleasant illusion that it is phenomenon of intense and unreasoning bigotry is of spotless whiteness. Hence, it is really more lu- by no means peculiar to religious sects. The advomane to point out some of the undeniable virtues cates of woman's rights are as much scandalized by which belong to this horrible character, and deter- any one who makes a little fun of their extreme mine his use in the economy of the world. As no tenets as if he were in favor of polygamy or the one will be anxious to claim them, it cannot lead to sale of wives at Smithfield. If any one laughs at conceit; and it may to some degree temper the Dr. Mary Walker's peculiarities of costume, he is an aversion which we feel for some very estimable per-| infidel and a heretic who should be expelled from sons. The main virtue of the race is obvious enough. the synagogue, if not stoned at once upon the pubThey perform, for example, in political life, the lic streets. It must be admitted, as a concession to function which elephants used to discharge in an the bores, that people with a keen sense of humor cient warfare, - huge pachydermatous animals who have generally some characteristic faults. They are crush their way, by sheer weight and insensibility, apt to find it difficult to swallow any set of dogmas through obstacles calculated to repel the more thin- whole, and may too frequently be indisposed, in conskinned races. It is true that, like the elephants, sequence, to even a reasonable amount of enthusiasm. they sometimes render very ambiguous service. We do not, or at least we should not, laugh in They require to be skilfully guided into the right church, if it were possible to be always in a proper path by more intelligent leaders, for, once started in state of mind; and the people who carry their any direction, their only notion is to go straight church-going frame of mind about with them everyahead. If the object is a good one, they may, of where have some undeniable advantages. If we course, be of excellent service. The Ancient Mari- were all so desperately in earnest that we could ner is the most perfect, though unintentional, alle- never find time to laugh, a good many changes gory of the true philosophy of a bore. The terrible might be effected more quickly than is at present old gentleman who interrupts people just as they are probable. Whether the world would be a tolerable

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At last, however, he did find it, and was struck | to say that at last the conviction gradaally att for a moment speeebless.

lished itself that the fact was literally true: the * Well, by Jove," he said at last, - this is some- Bog, having married some mere child froin a board thing. But I don't believe it. Here's Bog gone ing school, — baring, in fact, probably run off with and put a notice in the paper to make us believe be her for the sake of her inoney, and knowing that has got married. Listen, here it is."

could not possibly conceal the fact of her being a ** Same day, at St, Ambrose in this city, by the child, had 'impndently determined to brazen Rev. Edward Wheeler, the rector, Mr. Thomas misdeed out in this way before them and the world Frederick Bog, of lighbury, to Emily, only daugh- And poor Mr. Bog accordingly fell not a little a ter of the late Theodore Phillips, Esq., of Kingston, the opinion of his fellow-clerks. They were agreed Jamaica.'” And then, as if that were not enough, one and all, that he had done a thing which, ina here's a note appended, editorial apparently. man at his time of life, was un pardonable - po

" Unusual interest attached to this wedding from tively immoral — and surely must also be illegal; a the fact of the bride being married - as we are per- thing, in short, for which it would behoove them all mitted to state --- on her tenth birthday.']" lon Mr. Bog's return to give him the cold shoulder

" Very fair, indeed, Mr. Boy," said Rasper, as and the cut. he finished ; " very creditable for a first joke, -- only “I'll be bound he'll bring her down to the it's a little overdone. You'll do better next time office in a short frock," said Mr. Rasper, 5 and Now, my merry men, what do you think of it?” carry her in on his arm."

Not one in the office believed a word of it of In anticipation of which very remarkable adres! course. " Neither do I," said Rasper; “but it really is I will, for a little while, leave Mr. Rasper and the very fair for Bog. I must go and show it to Splutter." office.

But at that moment Mr. Splutter came in, and on being tendered the newspaper waived the offer,

While his own character was thus suffering, ap! and said, " Ah, ah, I know all about it. Bog's wed-while his fellow - clerks were thus discussing the ding, - that's what you want me to look at, is n't chances of their finding in him on his return any it? Bless you, I've known of it for more than a small remains of honor and morality, Mr. Bog's weck. Bog told me and Mr. Charles, but made travels with his bride were drawing near to an end. us promise to keep the secret till it was all over.

The reader would, indeed, have been able to inlle goes mooning with his bride for two or three fer this much had we, without explanation or comweeks, and then he takes her with him on his round. ment, merely commenced this closing chapter with You won't see him here again this six weeks. He the following letter which Mr. Bog wrote from one was married the very morning after he left here. Lof his restinc-places. He asked me to be present, but I could not go. Now Mr. Rasper, how do you feel now? Your “My dear Mr. Splutter, -I purpose being in occupation's gone. You will have nothing to chaff town again on Tuesday evening next, but shall not him about." And Mr. Splutter, chuckling very come back to business until the beginning of the loudly, and rubbing his hands with glee, was retreat- following week. Will you oblige me and my wife ing to his own apartment.

by giving us your company on the Friday evening, (), but stop a minute," cried Rasper. “Do and by inviting for me all my confrères of the office you know all about this, too?” And he read him for the same evening. I hate the ceremony of card the editorial note about the "tenth birthday." ing, and calling, and sitting in state to receive visite It was Mr. Splutter's turn now to be surprised.

from old friends, and so does my wife. If they will "Nonsense ! " he said: "let me see." And, all take it, therefore, in this informal way that we taking the paper, he read it for himself. " It must

shall be glad to see them, - well, glad we shall be; be a mistake. It can't be true."

and if they won't, we shall be sorry. ". Late of Kingston, Jamaica,' Who is she?” “Friday evening at seven; for what we will call asked Kasper

our small and early'; being, in fact, for office peo "Some family connection, I understood him," | ple only.

Yours ever, said Mr. Splutter. “They do marry very young, I

“T. F. B." have been told, in those hot climates. But in Eng! This letter, which came on Monday morning, was land, - it is impossible; it would not have been dealt with by Mr. Splutter in his usual proinpt and allowed. And Bog would not have done such a business-like way. thing. It is all nonsense, -- nonsense!" And he He simply turned up one corner of it, wrote on shut himself into his own room.

the back of that corner in red ink, I shall go, and And, in short, that was the conclusion to which hope you all will," and sent it out to Mr. Rasper to all in the office ceme, namely, that this editoriall be handed round. Wule was a piece of very ridiculous fooling, which The decision come to unanimously, in spite of the Bng had purposely had inserted for their mystitica sentence of condemnation passed on poor Bog, was tion. (unsillering which Mr. Rasper, who, o long that they woull go, all who could, if it were only sels he had disbelieved the marriage itself, bac portor the sake of having an early sight of the bride. Dounced thu whide to be pretty fair for Braid, and giving the bridegroom one chance of reinstating - • bow that the marriage was an established fact, himself in their good graces. - set the joku a but the bride's dy Wayu paly When the evening eume. therefore, they took a in baltus, but why a jude was leo quia nulla souple of cabs, and all went down together, - Mr. bide', though Dhu's Picha

Sputter iny tacher, Rasper, Gibbs, and all the rest During the six following Workout Atr. Best of them, they having greed on a convenient spelle ! la lunghe blure con letton folder wil ni v neving before they left the office. and the subject on muu jika's muthu ulle ma lt w Jr. Boss biitself who received his company Vh. R eid'Philhan it hu lich su u ubis way, well-turnished drawing-room up stain,

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" Well, Rasper,” he said, after the first hand-day at’so and so, you never carried your eye up shakings, “ your constant dropping has worn away to look what day that was?the stone at last. I could not stand it any longer, “ No," said Mr. Rasper; " but what matter could you see. Is it to be peace between us now, or that make?” war ?

“ All the matter,” said Mr. Bog. “We were “I don't quite know,” said Rasper, laughing; married on the twenty-ninth of February; that is " we shall see.”

my wife's birthday, and you know it only comes " You had better not make it war," said Mr. once in four years." Splatter, “ for Bog's holiday seems to have put him 1 “Well, Bog, upon my word I never thought of in rare fighting order; better say peace."

that; and I have been nursing all manner of wrath Whereupon Bog, in his clumsy way, sparred at against you." Rasper on the hearth-rug, as if to demonstrate with "Splendid !” said Bog, “splendid! I did not what ease he could double him up.

think it possible to swindle the swindler so com“I shall think about it,” said Rasper ; "and, pletely. The longest life I hoped for my joke was before deciding, should like to see the 'teterrima a life of about five minutes; and in the hope of that causa belli,' if that is what my old Latin grammar I got my friend the editor to print me that one copy used to call another fair one."

of the paper with a note specially intended for you." “Here,” said Mr. Bog, "in good time she comes. “O then Mrs. Bog's age is not proclaimed to Friends, allow me. My wife, Mrs. Bog, and her all the world,” said Rasper. cousin, Miss Wheeler." And in came the two “Not exactly," said Bog; "though for that matter ladies as he spoke.

she would not in the least have cared if it had been.” One was of middle age, or apparently somewhat “Not at all,” said Mrs. Bog; “I'm long past over the middle age, wearing spectacles, with a ma- caring who knows how old I am.” tronly look and a good-tempered face that was very That is the story of how Mr. Bog married his wife pleasant to look upon. “The cousin," said Mr. on her tenth birthday. Rasper, “ who comes to keep house till the child-wife “Really, Rasper," said Mr. Splutter, as they is of age. Just as I thought.”

walked home together, " that was very good indeed The other was a merry, laughing young girl, seem- for Bog." ingly of sixteen or seventeen, though possibly she And Rasper admitted unreservedly that it really might be younger.

was very clever indeed, considered as Bog's first. Rasper shook his head and looked grave at sight of her. « Exactly as we predicted," he said to his neighbor ; "she's quite a child. Really this is a bad

SIR DAVID BREWSTER. business; but it's always so when men put off too SCIENCE is held to be not generally conducive to long. Ah, Bog, Bog, she'll be a handsome young long life; but the eminent man whose death is rewidow, my old friend, when you and I are gone." corded this week was an example of length of days

He went over, nevertheless, and made small talk combined with devotion to the study of Nature's to the young girl by the piano.

laws. Lord Brougham is another instance, still “ Been long in England ?” he asked her, among spared to us, and yet more might be cited, proving other things.

that the rule (if it exist at all) is not without nu“No," she said ; “only about a month before the merous exceptions. In the case of Lord Brougham, wedding.”

however, science has not been the chief pursuit, or " Known Mr. Bog before ?” Mr. Rasper supposed the most powerful influence. Law, statesmanship,

“ No; she had only seen him for the first time and literature have varied the occupations, and by when she was up in London with her cousin about turns stimulated the mental energies, of tbe venera fortnight before the wedding. Her cousin had | able ex-Chancellor, and it may be said that he has known him many years."

fed in many pastures, and tasted the air of many “ You will find England very different, I suppose," intellectual regions. But Sir David Brewster was went on Mr. Rasper," from Jamaica ?”

almost wholly a scientific man, literature with him " Jamaica ?” she said, laughing; “I dare say I being little inore than a means of diffusing the should if I had ever been there. I'm only from knowledge of physical philosophy. From his earEdinbro'."

liest years he gave himself to the investigation of the “O, indeed," he replied; “I beg your pardon: material forces of the universe, and of the conditions Then I suppose the late Mr. -"

by which they are regulated, and to the end of his “I say, Rasper," called out Mr. Bog from the life he devoted his attention mainly to those great other side of the room, "I want you to come and subjects. He was, indeed, educated for the Church say something clever to my wife.”

of Scotland, of which he became a licentiate; but * Your wife: exclaimed the startled Rasper, “I the natural bent of his inind led him in another dithough:: I was "

rection, and it cannot be doubted that he chose that "Di talking to her ? ” said Mr. Bog. “Don't pursuit for which his abilities were the most conspicsay, now, that you thought I had married little Ro- uously adapted. Brewster, like some of the other sy," and he went off into a fit of laughter of long able and laborious scientific men of the early part duration. “ Rasper," he said, on getting his breath of the present century, was a Scotcbman. He was agais, " you really did not think that, - 0, 0, 0," born at Jedburgb, on the 11th of December, 1781, and then went off into a longer laugh than ever, in and had consequently entered on his eighty-seventh which we all joined him.

year when death terminated his labors. Whep a " Then what on earth," said Rasper, rought to youth, studying at the University of Edinburgh, he bay, " what on earth was the meaning of that news- had the advantage of associating with, and being per note?”

guided by, such men as Robison, tee then Professor * Eh, what? No? Now you really don't mean of Natural Philosophy; Playfair, Professor or Mathto say you've never guessed what that meant? ematics; and Dugald Stewart, Professor of More! You don't mean to say that when you read • same | Philosophy. The lessons of these celebrated think

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ers must have confirmed in him the original disposi- tinction, the reward of successful tallow-chandles tion of his mind towards exact studies, and we find who present an address to Royalty. Not, howete. that his diligence as a student was not long in meet- for such ends did Brewster work. He was a ? ing with recognition. As early as 1800, when he devotee of science for its own sake, and his discover could not have been more than nineteen years of ies in the polarization of light, in the analysis of the age, if so much, he received from his University the solar beam, and in the properties of crystals to honorary degree of M. A.; in 1807 he received the gether with the invention in connection with Este distinction of LL.D. from the University of Aber- houses to which we have already alluded, and it deen ; and subsequently the degree of A. M. was others, will hand down his name to posterity as core conferred on him by Cambridge, and that of D. C. L. of the most distinguished investigators into 'dbye by Oxford and Durham. While yet at Edinburgh laws which the present century has produced. Los University, Brewster gave great attention to the to him that we are indebted for that beautiful instem study of optics; and it is especially in this branch ment the kaleidoscope, and for the no less ingenier of science that he made his name. Subsequently to spectroscope. The kaleidoscope he gave to to quitting the University, and while editing the “ Ed-world as long ago as 1816, and, as may be suppo inburgh Encyclopædia," -- a task which extended it became popular at once. Besides presentinza over two-and-twenty years, viz. from 1808 to 1830, most interesting illustration of optical laws. it is

- his thoughts were strongly directed towards the provided the young with a charming and fascinatie subject of lenses, partly by his writing the article on toy, in which one might suppose some invisible furt, “ Burning Instruments” in the Cyclopædia in ques- with a taste for graceful and gorgeous effects, w tion, and partly by a suggestion from Buffon to con- at work, weaving phantasies of forin and color with struct a lens out of zones of glass, each of which out end. The germ of the idea may be discovered might be built up out of several circular segments. in the writings of Baptista Porta, Kircher. He proposed the application of this idea to an ap- Bradley, but in so slight a degree as to leave the paratus consisting of lenses and mirrors, by which credit of the invention almost wholly with Bremsa the light of the sun could be collected into a burning Though not often, we believe, applied to usefal ve focus, or condensed into a parallel beam of light. poses, it is capable of being employed in the des The invention is now used in lighthouses, and is ing of patterns and of ornamental work; and ca found to produce a much more intense and far- tainly the endless combination of beautiful for reaching radiance than the ordinary reflectors, so which it produces by a mere turn of the wrist guides that the danger of shipwreck is proportionately well throw into despair the most ingenious Sarze diminished. It took a very long time, however, to that ever elaborated geometrical figures for the bring the invention into actual use. Brewster pub adornment of harem or mosque. Unfortunately ty lished a separate treatise on the subject in the year Brewster, his patent right in this inventive 1812, but it was not until 1833 that our lighthouses evaded, so that, although large sums of moder ver were fitted up with the improved apparatus, al- made by the sale of the instruments, but little we though Brewster's contrivance was introduced into into his pocket. Franee at an earlier period by Fresnel. That which | In the course of his long life Sir David wrote i finally determined the English authorities to adopt published many books in connection with scient the polyzonal lens was a series of experiments made besides editing one or two philosophical paišas in Scotland from Calton Hill to Gulan Hill, a dis Perbaps his most popular work, because writte 3 tance of twelve miles and a half, which showed that a popular style for general readers, wat one polyzonal lens, with an argand burner of four "Letters on Naturul Magic," a most attractive concentrie circles, gave a light equal to nine para- ume, which has found thousands of admiss. We bolic reflectors, each carrying a single argand burner. recently be entered into a coitroversy That France sbould have anticipated us in the utili- time raged hotly, and, in answer Préer zation of this admirable discovery, though the credit well's “ Plurality of Worlds," m iled of the idea belonged mainly to our own countryman, Worlds than One, the Creed of is only one of numerous instances of the strange hold the Hope of the Christian " (1864

Creed of the Phare which prescription has acquired over most persons fessors of exact science, Sir David in Great Britain. In no country has science more

| opponent of all forms of superstition and all illustrious servants than in this; but in none, or few, charlatan tricks. In common have scientific men greater obstacles to encounter, sor Faraday, he set himself against um in the shape, not of persecution, but of a certain dull and spirit-rapping nonsense of thirt. conservatism of habit, which shrinks instinctively years ago, and was on that account from contact with fresh ideas. Among his many by the "spiritualists." All this contributions to scientific literature, Sir David wrote forgotten, and he leaves behind him a book entitled “ The Martyrs of Science,” as exem- ling achievements, and the memory of a c hte plified in the lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahé, and Kepler; and to these he might have added some

FOREIGN NOTES. instances from among his own countrymen. We no longer put people to the rack for opening new re- Punch prints the following me gions in the immense territory of knowledge; we no young married woman: "The La longer subject them to penal consequences, or even My husband !" to obloquy; but we not unfrequently wear out their hearts by prolonged neglect, or force them to take

or force them to take tion in Shanghai, that they have learned

It is cited as an evidence of increasin

on in their inventions to other lands, less oppressed than

brew good beer there. ours by the weight of routine and the inert stupidity of precedent. Throughout his life, Brewster was Mr. TENNYSON is paying one of

ME. TENNYSOX is paying one of the Day more signally recognized by foreign countries than reputation, as well as being paid by his own. It was not until 1832 that he was for his music. He has again been on 171761 knighted, and he never got beyond that petty dis- the press to state that he "regrets tha t e!

Christian" (1854). Like

is David was a

In common with the late lay, he set himself against the table>

nsense of thirteen or 1 on that account coarsely "All this, however

hehind him the fant

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regrets that it is 1101 possible for him to answer the innumerable letters, rooms are let singly or in suites as unfurnished apartor to acknowledge the MS. verses, which he is in ments, each tenant having the liberty, of course, to the habit of receiving from strangers.”

furnish and fit them up as he pleases. The comThe Emperor has sent Queen Angusta of pa

of Ipany provides all necessary service, and there is a Prussia a pair of Sèvres vases, for which her

coffee-room for the use of the tenants. There is no Majesty had expressed great admiration at the

obligation, implied or understood, that the tenants Paris Exhibition.

should take their meals in the house; they are free

to live just as they like, and can procure their wine, MRS. COBDEN announces in the Manchester Ex- tea, coffee, and everything else wherever they choose, aminer that she proposes to arrange, with a view to - in short, it is proposed that they shall enjoy as publication, a collection of Mr. Cobden's letters on much privacy and independence as if they were in public questions, commencing with those on national a house of their own. Much will, of course, depend education. Mrs. Cobden asks that any of her late on the way in which such establishments are conhusband's friends who have letters suitable for this ducted, but there can be no doubt that there is a collection will oblige her with the use of the origi- want to be supplied, and that the club system is canals.

pable of useful development in this direction. THE Irish have a very particular way of boiling THE London Star says: “ That eccentric individtheir potatoes. They never boil them. A large pot ual Mr. George Francis Train has been the hero of is always on the fire, - a steady, slow fire, -and another ridiculous presentation. Five little girls, on every occasion when the contents come up to the eldest of whom was only ten or eleven years the very verge of boiling point, cold water is dashed of age, waited on him with an artificial bouquet for in, and the operation is, in Irish kitchen phraseol- his daughter, and a high-flown address for himself. ogy, " backed.” The process is continually repeated This address professed to embody the political opintill the potatoes are cooked. You get, by this means, ions of the young ladies themselves, and was therean admirable potato.

fore a good joke. Mr. Train told the youthful depWHEN Malle. Lucca made her debut at St.

utation that his daughter was being educated at the Petersburg as Marguerite in Gounod's “ Faust,” the

Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York. But enthusiasm she created was so great that she was

his account of a buffalo hunt, in which his little girl called before the curtain twenty-two times. She

rode upon a pony while he valorously slew nine bufhas since song in the “ Africaine" and in “Don

faloes, is one of those stories which a man had alGiovanni.” When singing Zerlina she was encored

ways better tell three thousand miles from his own twice in the second aria, and the demands for a country.

country.” double repetition of a later song were so vehement A PRETTY epitome of feminine fickleness appears that the Emperor had to give the signal for the month by month in a certain domestic magazine patperformance to proceed. The demands for encores ronized by the women of England. The editress continued to be so frequent that a public notice was has opened her columns as a medium for the barter issued by the management to say she could sing of all sorts of articles between her fair friends. In her music only twice.

one number of the journal there are thirty-two ofACCORDING to the Paris correspondent of the

fers of exchanges, and very droll and suggestive Examiner, the Emperor Napoleon, in playing at

are some of them. Of course, dress and adornment questions and answers at the Tuileries not long ago,

are at the bottom of a good many : for instance,

Dora offers “a large handsome Astrakan cloak said that his favorite occupation was “ seeking the solution of insoluble questions." The whole of the

(real) for a small seal-skin jacket (real)”; and M.

B. “ three sets of Cluny lace collars and cuffs for a answers made on the occasion by the Emperor and

Cluny berthe.” One dear creature has to go into ror ypress were respectively as follows: “ What 1. Tout do you prefer?" "Gratitude," and

mourning, and wants fourteen yards of black silk, - the Pation." — “ What are your favorite occupa

with a long list of jet ornaments, for which she will nitiLk=" Seeking the solution of insoluble ques

give sixteen yards of blue silk, an opera-jacket, a

new fan and some other articles. Mabel's tastes are Dau! wis 3 d “Doing good.” — What should you toonud!""My grandson,” and “ What I am."

canine: she sighs for “ a tiny black and tan terrier, as the lo historical personage do you most bate ? "

and will give her sable muff for one weighing no met pirn Exterietable de Bourbon," and " Lopez.” —

more than two pounds.” Adriana goes in for comthirapp from Taie do you most easily pardon ? "

fort in lieu of appearance, and tenders gold and qy voara thich I profit," and " Those which

coral ear-rings for a seal-skin muff and cuffs. The literary dames and damsels veer capriciously in

their tastes. Miss A. R. shows her present apprecithe Pall Mall Gazette, a social ex-ation of the poet Laureate by offering a complete my a inter

interest is now being tried in Lon- set of his poems for the four volumes of Thacknany people in good circumstances, eray's Miscellanies." Nora Dama wishes to change ladies, or married couples without Miss Procter for Jean Ingelow. Mary S. laudably afraid to face the trouble and ex- desires "a good book on ladies' gardening"; but she ng householders, especially as small | unblushingly exposes her disloyalty by offering "all

that would suit them are rarely to the royal family photographs for one." Mr. Punch good situation, even at a high rent; would hardly feel flattered if he knew that two of · other hand, find an irksome sacri- | his mighty tomes are proffered for Mildred's Wedence in ordinary lodgings. An at-ding. The editress of the magazine has, herself, ring made with what success re- however, to eat the leek by publishing an offer of a n to provide accommodation for whole year of her precious journal for Mrs. Beeton's what after the French fashion. A Book of Household Management. Sewing-machines

Idings called “ Belgrave Mansions" are in great demand; postage-stamps are at a dis- - ' n Lord Westminster's estate. The count; music is very brisk.

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