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Article THE MASONIC VOLUNTEER'S COAT. ← Page 2 of 2 Article COLLECTANEA. Page 1 of 4 →
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The Masonic Volunteer's Coat.
As now , so then , people lived by their wits , —people poach in London as well as in the country , a hare and a coat are equally enticing when the fit is on . It so chanced , that quite by accident , for our brother of the two to one , certainly never intended it , having left his coat unmilitary upon the counter ; the said garment attracted the notice of a passing stranger , whose vocation strongly exciting him to liberate the said coat from its apparent neglectand place under proper careso hastil
, , y -snatching it from the counter , walked to one of the certain little comfortable snug boxes , not Opera , but what formed part of the very premises , and in the tone of mercy , not un frequently assumed , solicited a guinea thereon . The coat was examined by the foreman , the texture and fabric scanned with all possible scrutinity , the more needful from the master ' s absence , its merits disavowed , and its demerits enlarged
> upon , until after a suitable bargain , fifteen shillings were counted and advanced upon the masonic volunteers coat . The drill over , the heroes of die day dispersed to enjoy , after the fatigues of military duties , the happiness of that home they might be called upon to protect . Our kind friend , for kind he ever was , whistled himself into the shop to the tune of the " Downfall of Paris . " Folded up his scarlet jacket in apple-pie order , and plaeed it , " odds bobs , " by the side of the coat he had but a few hours before donnedand
very , which was just ' waiting to be hoisted into the upper chamber , properly ticketed , to wait for redemption . We have told enough , he knew his own coat although his man did not , and laughed outright at the misnomer of the balls , it being clear to him , that one could occasionally heat two—a fact . Finns .
Collectanea.
COLLECTANEA .
TUB IMMENSITY OF THE UNIVERSE . —The space in which the systems ¦ composing the universe move is illimitable . Were we to attempt to assign its limits , % vhat could we imagine to be beyond ? The number of worlds is infinitel y great ; it is inexpressible , indeed , by numbers . A ray of light traverses 180 , 000 miles in a second of time . A year ¦ Comprises millions of seconds , and yet there are fixed stars so immeasurably distantthat their light would require billions of years to reach
, our eyes . We are acquainted with animals possessing teeth , and organs -of motion and digestion , which are wholly invisible to the naked eye . Other animals exist , which , if measurable , would be found many thousands of times smaller , which , nevertheless , possess the same appararus . These creatures , in the same manner as the larger animals , take nourishment , and are propagated by means of ova , which must , consequently , be again many hundreds of times smaller than their own
bodies . It is only because our organs of vision are imperfect , that we do not perceive creatures a million times smaller than these . — Liebig ' s Letters on Chemislrg ( Second Series J . QUITE THE GENTLEMAN . —The phrase is altogether unknown but in that class of society which holds a midway station between the middle and the low . There " quite the gentleman" is a pet phrase , because there is existing always a disagreeable supposition of the scarcity of the gentlemanly article . "Quite the gentleman , " then , among persons
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Masonic Volunteer's Coat.
As now , so then , people lived by their wits , —people poach in London as well as in the country , a hare and a coat are equally enticing when the fit is on . It so chanced , that quite by accident , for our brother of the two to one , certainly never intended it , having left his coat unmilitary upon the counter ; the said garment attracted the notice of a passing stranger , whose vocation strongly exciting him to liberate the said coat from its apparent neglectand place under proper careso hastil
, , y -snatching it from the counter , walked to one of the certain little comfortable snug boxes , not Opera , but what formed part of the very premises , and in the tone of mercy , not un frequently assumed , solicited a guinea thereon . The coat was examined by the foreman , the texture and fabric scanned with all possible scrutinity , the more needful from the master ' s absence , its merits disavowed , and its demerits enlarged
> upon , until after a suitable bargain , fifteen shillings were counted and advanced upon the masonic volunteers coat . The drill over , the heroes of die day dispersed to enjoy , after the fatigues of military duties , the happiness of that home they might be called upon to protect . Our kind friend , for kind he ever was , whistled himself into the shop to the tune of the " Downfall of Paris . " Folded up his scarlet jacket in apple-pie order , and plaeed it , " odds bobs , " by the side of the coat he had but a few hours before donnedand
very , which was just ' waiting to be hoisted into the upper chamber , properly ticketed , to wait for redemption . We have told enough , he knew his own coat although his man did not , and laughed outright at the misnomer of the balls , it being clear to him , that one could occasionally heat two—a fact . Finns .
Collectanea.
COLLECTANEA .
TUB IMMENSITY OF THE UNIVERSE . —The space in which the systems ¦ composing the universe move is illimitable . Were we to attempt to assign its limits , % vhat could we imagine to be beyond ? The number of worlds is infinitel y great ; it is inexpressible , indeed , by numbers . A ray of light traverses 180 , 000 miles in a second of time . A year ¦ Comprises millions of seconds , and yet there are fixed stars so immeasurably distantthat their light would require billions of years to reach
, our eyes . We are acquainted with animals possessing teeth , and organs -of motion and digestion , which are wholly invisible to the naked eye . Other animals exist , which , if measurable , would be found many thousands of times smaller , which , nevertheless , possess the same appararus . These creatures , in the same manner as the larger animals , take nourishment , and are propagated by means of ova , which must , consequently , be again many hundreds of times smaller than their own
bodies . It is only because our organs of vision are imperfect , that we do not perceive creatures a million times smaller than these . — Liebig ' s Letters on Chemislrg ( Second Series J . QUITE THE GENTLEMAN . —The phrase is altogether unknown but in that class of society which holds a midway station between the middle and the low . There " quite the gentleman" is a pet phrase , because there is existing always a disagreeable supposition of the scarcity of the gentlemanly article . "Quite the gentleman , " then , among persons