[88]: For there is no great event from a little cause, but only great events from a million little causes, of which one always assigns the last as the mother of the great result. Is then the priming the charge of the cannon?
[89]: Thistle-knobs.—Tr.
[90]: That is to say, no sculptor could make a second nose to fit this statue,—for the first had been broken off. At last, after four hundred years, a child found in a great fish the marble one which belonged to it. Labat's Travels, Fifth Part.
[91]: Old designation of a Russian or Polish Prince.—Tr.
[92]: Dionysius the Little, a Roman abbot, invented the Christian era.—Tr.
[93]: Working-man's holiday.—Tr.
[94]: Mummies,—one of the titles of the "Invisible Lodge," given in allusion to mixing up of serious and jocose scenes and ideas, as the Egyptians introduced a skeleton at their merry—makings.—Tr.
[95]: Financial speculators.—Tr.
[96]: According to Scheuchzer, Alps are the best remedy for constipation.
[97]: Horæ are the matins in the Catholic convents.—Tr.