SHOCKING LANGUAGE.
"Sir,—The papers inform us that Mr. Phillimore, the other night, asked the President of the Board of Control why the returns given in the case of 'Rustomjee Viccajee and Viccajee Pestonjee' were incomplete? That a subject, evidently surrounded with ease, should be attended with difficulty is certainly strange. But I want to know, if you can inform me, who or what 'Rustomjee Viccajee and Viccajee Pestonjee,' aforesaid are? I thought at first that these words were specimens of the 'foul language' used by cabmen and others as complained of by Colonel Sibthorpe. Am I right? By the bye, while on the subject of bad words, may I ask (indignantly, as the father of a family) how it is that Professor Gregory and other chemists are not restrained from circulating such words as the following: Methylethylamylophenylium, Ethylopropylamylamine, Methylethylamylophenylammonium; 76 letters in three words—my hand aches with writing them. To be sure, as a set-off, these professors sometimes give us something more euphonious; 'Margarate of Glycerine' sounds like the title of a novel, but then whoever heard of 'Glycerine?' Where is it? What did Margarate there, and is she a descendant of Margaret of Anjou? I trust that you will be able to give me some information, or, at any rate, give your assistance in the cause of monosyllabic simplicity.
"Buzfuz."
"P.S. 'What's in a name?' is a question that has been often asked. I find that 'Margarate of Glycerine' is not so pretty as her name—she's Fat."