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Masonic Chit Chat.
A THEATRICAL MonoEAtr . —Very quaint , civil , and expressive . " The Lessee of the Theatres Royal Drury Lane and Covent Garden , begs to thank the Author of . for the perusal of his MS . " After the most careful examination of the piece , he is compelled to return it , fearing its success , if produced , would not reward the author or remunerate the lessee *
Theatre Royal Covent Garden . " WHO WOULD BE AN EDITOR ?—A correspondent of a Scottish newspaper , after a long-winded dissertation on the state of the times , subjoins the following pithy P . S .: — " I had almost forgottou to tell you that some o' my neebours dinna like your paper , because there are unco few ' murders' in ' t , and ' accidents / and ' droll stories , ' an' there ' s nae ' births , ' & c . ; but I said it was hard tae please everybody . "
A KNIGHT TEMPLAR . —Some men employed two clays ago in laying gas-pipes at the corner of the Rue Molay and the Rue des Enfans Rouges , found a leaden coffin , which contained the skeleton of a man with the hair still attached to the skull , the hilt of a sword similar to those worn by the Templars , and other articles , which , coupled with the fact of the spot being near the site of the house occupied by Jacques Molay , last Grand Master of the Order , renders it probable that these remains belonged to one of those Knights . If this be so , they must have been in the ground upwards of six centuries , —Galignani , August 22 .
CURIOUS EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENTS AT THE BOARD OF BENEVOLENCE . —A country petitioner to the Board of Benevolence ascribes his misfortunes to the long-continued peace , and other calamities ! Another states , that were it not for tlie cemeteries , he should want the very means of procuring a bare existence !
1 HE LATE ROBERT MILLER . —We have seen the round-robin , importing a desire to place a tablet to the memory of this deserving Mason . But why a round-robin ? if in a feeling of delicacy , so well ; but we like the uniform straight practice . The memory of Miller tlie Tyler will long live in Masons' hearts . It is , we believe , intended to make the office of Grand Pursuivant an honorary office : this is among the improvements long contemplated , by some who have studied what they thought would amend the Constitutions .
A SIMPLE-MINDED OLD DAME , residing near the water of Leith village , was attentively listening , the other evening , to her grandson reading a statistical account of the proportion of females to males in various countries of the world . She easily comprehended how that , in Britain , the Women exceeded the men by six in a hundred , and in Spain by one in a thousand ; but when it was stated that in Sweden the females exceeded the males by seven ancl a half in every hundred , she exclaimed , " God hae a care o' me ! hae they half women in Sweden ?"
CHARITY . — I fear , ' saicl a country curate ( Sydney Smith ) to his flock , " when I explained to you , in my last charity sermon , that philanthropy was the love of our species , you must have understood me to say specie , which may account for the smallness of the collection . You will prove , I hope , by your present contribution , that you are no longer labouring under the same mistake . "
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Masonic Chit Chat.
A THEATRICAL MonoEAtr . —Very quaint , civil , and expressive . " The Lessee of the Theatres Royal Drury Lane and Covent Garden , begs to thank the Author of . for the perusal of his MS . " After the most careful examination of the piece , he is compelled to return it , fearing its success , if produced , would not reward the author or remunerate the lessee *
Theatre Royal Covent Garden . " WHO WOULD BE AN EDITOR ?—A correspondent of a Scottish newspaper , after a long-winded dissertation on the state of the times , subjoins the following pithy P . S .: — " I had almost forgottou to tell you that some o' my neebours dinna like your paper , because there are unco few ' murders' in ' t , and ' accidents / and ' droll stories , ' an' there ' s nae ' births , ' & c . ; but I said it was hard tae please everybody . "
A KNIGHT TEMPLAR . —Some men employed two clays ago in laying gas-pipes at the corner of the Rue Molay and the Rue des Enfans Rouges , found a leaden coffin , which contained the skeleton of a man with the hair still attached to the skull , the hilt of a sword similar to those worn by the Templars , and other articles , which , coupled with the fact of the spot being near the site of the house occupied by Jacques Molay , last Grand Master of the Order , renders it probable that these remains belonged to one of those Knights . If this be so , they must have been in the ground upwards of six centuries , —Galignani , August 22 .
CURIOUS EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENTS AT THE BOARD OF BENEVOLENCE . —A country petitioner to the Board of Benevolence ascribes his misfortunes to the long-continued peace , and other calamities ! Another states , that were it not for tlie cemeteries , he should want the very means of procuring a bare existence !
1 HE LATE ROBERT MILLER . —We have seen the round-robin , importing a desire to place a tablet to the memory of this deserving Mason . But why a round-robin ? if in a feeling of delicacy , so well ; but we like the uniform straight practice . The memory of Miller tlie Tyler will long live in Masons' hearts . It is , we believe , intended to make the office of Grand Pursuivant an honorary office : this is among the improvements long contemplated , by some who have studied what they thought would amend the Constitutions .
A SIMPLE-MINDED OLD DAME , residing near the water of Leith village , was attentively listening , the other evening , to her grandson reading a statistical account of the proportion of females to males in various countries of the world . She easily comprehended how that , in Britain , the Women exceeded the men by six in a hundred , and in Spain by one in a thousand ; but when it was stated that in Sweden the females exceeded the males by seven ancl a half in every hundred , she exclaimed , " God hae a care o' me ! hae they half women in Sweden ?"
CHARITY . — I fear , ' saicl a country curate ( Sydney Smith ) to his flock , " when I explained to you , in my last charity sermon , that philanthropy was the love of our species , you must have understood me to say specie , which may account for the smallness of the collection . You will prove , I hope , by your present contribution , that you are no longer labouring under the same mistake . "