Something in a Name after all.
We see by the French papers, that an umbrella called The Mushroom has been lately patented in Paris. We are not aware what new peculiarity of construction its inventor has discovered, but we think the the name he has selected is a highly appropriate one, and might with exceeding fitness be applied, not to his alone, but to umbrellas generally. For as mushrooms naturally belong to that class of things which are "here to-day and gone to-morrow," we think their name may very properly be used to designate so fugitive a possession as an umbrella.
Cranks and Crotchets.—The introduction of crank labour into gaols has tended to corroborate the opinion, which is widely prevalent, that prison disciplinarians are apt to be what is vulgarly called "cranky."