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The Reporter.
duties acquitted themselves most efficiently , and without a blemish , - we must not omit to remark that the office of P . S ., as performed by Comp . Goreing , was a perfect representation of the part . Among those present were Comp . W . H . White , Grand Scribe E ., Comp . J . C . McMullen , Grand Scribe N ., and Comps . B . Bond Cabbell , Biggs , Barnes , Evans , Graham , Levick , & c . An elegant dinner and an evening spent in social and truly fraternal intercourse , concluded the proceedings . Several
excellent speeches were made ; Comp . White on behalf of the visitors on the dais , and Comp . John Savage for the visitors below the dais . Comp . Zaba returned thanks for the newly elected companions , in a speech replete with eloquence and feeling .
Chit Chat.
CHIT CHAT .
THE YEAR 184-9 . —THE 1849 TH YEAR OF CHRIST . 5849 Anno Lucis ^ et Latomite . 5798 th after the Creation of tlle World , according to Scaliger ' s computation ; but the 5353 rd year , according to Usserius . IT IS THE
< 5562 nd of the Julian period . 2625 th year of the Olympiad . 2502 nd year of the building of Rome . 5610 th year of the Jewish computation , which begins with the 17 th of September . 1265 th year after the Hegira . 7357 th year according to the modern Greek calendar .
783 rd year of the Norman line in England . 695 th year of the Conquest of Ireland by England . 685 th year of the Plantaganet line . 450 th year of the line of Lancaster . 388 th year of the line of York . 364 th year of the line of Tudor . 332 nd year since the Reformation of Luther . 224 th year of the Stuart line . 135 th since the accession of the House of Brunswick . 13 th year of our Sovereign Queen Victoria .
FREEMASONRY EXTRAORDINARY . —During the past summer a certain countryman , who had never seen Paris , came up to one ofthe Republican fetes , and wandered about at an early hour , gazing at all he could see . Many things seemed to puzzle him , and seeing a respectable young man by him on one occasion , he asked him several questions . The young man responded politely , " You are a stranger , I observe ; allow me to do the hospitality of my native city . " The old gentleman from the
country accepted heartily , and was delighted beyond measure when his new acquaintance ^ offered to take him to a somnambulist seance at Alexander Dumas ' s house . They started at once , and soon reached a magnificent mansion on the Boulevards . The young man entered , and went into tbe porter ' s lodge . Pie immediatel y returned with the information that Dumas had put off the seance until next day , because of VOL . VII . i
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The Reporter.
duties acquitted themselves most efficiently , and without a blemish , - we must not omit to remark that the office of P . S ., as performed by Comp . Goreing , was a perfect representation of the part . Among those present were Comp . W . H . White , Grand Scribe E ., Comp . J . C . McMullen , Grand Scribe N ., and Comps . B . Bond Cabbell , Biggs , Barnes , Evans , Graham , Levick , & c . An elegant dinner and an evening spent in social and truly fraternal intercourse , concluded the proceedings . Several
excellent speeches were made ; Comp . White on behalf of the visitors on the dais , and Comp . John Savage for the visitors below the dais . Comp . Zaba returned thanks for the newly elected companions , in a speech replete with eloquence and feeling .
Chit Chat.
CHIT CHAT .
THE YEAR 184-9 . —THE 1849 TH YEAR OF CHRIST . 5849 Anno Lucis ^ et Latomite . 5798 th after the Creation of tlle World , according to Scaliger ' s computation ; but the 5353 rd year , according to Usserius . IT IS THE
< 5562 nd of the Julian period . 2625 th year of the Olympiad . 2502 nd year of the building of Rome . 5610 th year of the Jewish computation , which begins with the 17 th of September . 1265 th year after the Hegira . 7357 th year according to the modern Greek calendar .
783 rd year of the Norman line in England . 695 th year of the Conquest of Ireland by England . 685 th year of the Plantaganet line . 450 th year of the line of Lancaster . 388 th year of the line of York . 364 th year of the line of Tudor . 332 nd year since the Reformation of Luther . 224 th year of the Stuart line . 135 th since the accession of the House of Brunswick . 13 th year of our Sovereign Queen Victoria .
FREEMASONRY EXTRAORDINARY . —During the past summer a certain countryman , who had never seen Paris , came up to one ofthe Republican fetes , and wandered about at an early hour , gazing at all he could see . Many things seemed to puzzle him , and seeing a respectable young man by him on one occasion , he asked him several questions . The young man responded politely , " You are a stranger , I observe ; allow me to do the hospitality of my native city . " The old gentleman from the
country accepted heartily , and was delighted beyond measure when his new acquaintance ^ offered to take him to a somnambulist seance at Alexander Dumas ' s house . They started at once , and soon reached a magnificent mansion on the Boulevards . The young man entered , and went into tbe porter ' s lodge . Pie immediatel y returned with the information that Dumas had put off the seance until next day , because of VOL . VII . i