Acknowledged.—Godey had the most beautiful cover on his Magazine for January that we have ever seen. Having beaten him in our Paris Fashion, we submit and are penitent.
We shall start a bank with Godey on the profits of our January numbers—notes to be kept at par for thirty days. There is no joke in this—it is as serious as Sartain’s fun.
Curious, Isn’t?—They intend, in Kentucky, to blacken the noses of all convicts, so that if they escape, they may be detected. Pike, of the Flag, suggests that the operation be extended to all delinquent subscribers to periodicals and newspapers—he knows.
Graham lays down and expounds the law as it ought to be applied to those who forget to pay up once a year.
“Lives there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,”
This is the paper—and ’tis read—
I’ll go and pay the printer.