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nocent festivities ; ' and did they become evidences of 'dogged , wilful , systematic resistance of everything like denial of self , ' when devoted to the ulterior purpose of increasing the funds of the Devon and Exeter Hospital ? " NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN . —An ancient Greek manuscript ( of the sixth century ) has been discovered at Athens , which besides a
treatise on Byzantine painting , is said to contain an account of the Daguerreotype process , and hints for the manufacture of gun-cotton . In this manuscript the art of produing photographic pictures is called " Heliotype . "—Caledonian Mercury , 1847 .
A PREPARATORY STUDY . —Before any man sets out to invent perpetual motion , we recommend his practising tlie trick of getting into a basket and lifting himself by the handles . When he succeeds at that , he can go a-head with perpetual motion with some prospect of success . HER MAJESTY ' HOUSEHOLD . —The following order has been issued by the Lord Steward of the Queen ' s household : — " Her Majesty , taking into consideration the present high and increasing price of provisions
, and especially of all kinds of bread and flour , has been graciously pleased to command that from the date of this order no description of flour except seconds shall be used for any purpose in her Majesty ' s household ; and that the daily allowance of bread shall be restricted to one pound per head for every person dieted in the palace . By her Majesty ' s command . FORTESCUE . Board of Green Cloth , May 12 , 1847 . "
FAMOUS ADVICE . — The King of Holland has strongly recommended the Emperor of Japan to throw open his country to Europeans , so as not to run the risk of being bombarded into civilization like the Chinese . A CURIOUS DISCOVERY . —There was lately discovered , in opening a quarry at the island of Grand Canary , the skeleton of an enormous dog , in a good state of preservation . It was purchased by the consular agent of France and sent to the Museum of Natural History at Paris . It is
an object of the greater interest to science from the fact that it belongs to that enormous race of dogs which , according to Pliny , gave the name to the Canaries , and which , for some centuries , have disappeared from the face of the globe . —April , 1847 . FACTS . —A t twenty years of age the will reigns ; at thirty the wit ; and at forty the judgment . QUITE TRUE . —To be afraid of death is to be long a-dying . To live well is the best and only safe preparation for dying well .
CONTRADICTION . —Men resent nothing more than contradiction on a point which they themselves feel uneasy about . Truth may be disputed with impunity , a sophism can only be torn from out the mind with a violence that lacerates and embitters . —Ranthorpe . JEWISH EMANCIPATION . —Berlin . —We have already informed our readers of an address being circulated here , thanking the Chambers of Baden for their vote in favour of Jewish Emancipation ; we now learn
, that the address has received numerous signatures , among which there are some Christian firms of the highest respectability . It is gratifying to observe , that similar addresses are set on foot in all parts of Germany , and that all the people , without regard to difference of creed , take a deep interest in promoting the object of the address , viz ., to demonstrate that the equalisation of the Jews with their Chris-
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Chit Chat.
nocent festivities ; ' and did they become evidences of 'dogged , wilful , systematic resistance of everything like denial of self , ' when devoted to the ulterior purpose of increasing the funds of the Devon and Exeter Hospital ? " NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN . —An ancient Greek manuscript ( of the sixth century ) has been discovered at Athens , which besides a
treatise on Byzantine painting , is said to contain an account of the Daguerreotype process , and hints for the manufacture of gun-cotton . In this manuscript the art of produing photographic pictures is called " Heliotype . "—Caledonian Mercury , 1847 .
A PREPARATORY STUDY . —Before any man sets out to invent perpetual motion , we recommend his practising tlie trick of getting into a basket and lifting himself by the handles . When he succeeds at that , he can go a-head with perpetual motion with some prospect of success . HER MAJESTY ' HOUSEHOLD . —The following order has been issued by the Lord Steward of the Queen ' s household : — " Her Majesty , taking into consideration the present high and increasing price of provisions
, and especially of all kinds of bread and flour , has been graciously pleased to command that from the date of this order no description of flour except seconds shall be used for any purpose in her Majesty ' s household ; and that the daily allowance of bread shall be restricted to one pound per head for every person dieted in the palace . By her Majesty ' s command . FORTESCUE . Board of Green Cloth , May 12 , 1847 . "
FAMOUS ADVICE . — The King of Holland has strongly recommended the Emperor of Japan to throw open his country to Europeans , so as not to run the risk of being bombarded into civilization like the Chinese . A CURIOUS DISCOVERY . —There was lately discovered , in opening a quarry at the island of Grand Canary , the skeleton of an enormous dog , in a good state of preservation . It was purchased by the consular agent of France and sent to the Museum of Natural History at Paris . It is
an object of the greater interest to science from the fact that it belongs to that enormous race of dogs which , according to Pliny , gave the name to the Canaries , and which , for some centuries , have disappeared from the face of the globe . —April , 1847 . FACTS . —A t twenty years of age the will reigns ; at thirty the wit ; and at forty the judgment . QUITE TRUE . —To be afraid of death is to be long a-dying . To live well is the best and only safe preparation for dying well .
CONTRADICTION . —Men resent nothing more than contradiction on a point which they themselves feel uneasy about . Truth may be disputed with impunity , a sophism can only be torn from out the mind with a violence that lacerates and embitters . —Ranthorpe . JEWISH EMANCIPATION . —Berlin . —We have already informed our readers of an address being circulated here , thanking the Chambers of Baden for their vote in favour of Jewish Emancipation ; we now learn
, that the address has received numerous signatures , among which there are some Christian firms of the highest respectability . It is gratifying to observe , that similar addresses are set on foot in all parts of Germany , and that all the people , without regard to difference of creed , take a deep interest in promoting the object of the address , viz ., to demonstrate that the equalisation of the Jews with their Chris-