HOW THINGS WILL OUT.
(The Judge is not at home, and Brown, Q.C., asks permission to write him a Note.)
Mary Elizabeth Jane. "Would you like this Book, Sir? Master always uses it when he writes Letters!"
[Heavens! it's an English Dictionary!
TOWN AND GOWN.
The Standard, giving its account of "Speeches," at Eton, on Fourth of June, said, "The speakers were attired in Court dress, the Oppidans wearing their black school gowns." Since when have Oppidans worn "gowns," black or otherwise? Those who used to wear gowns were the Collegers. Surely the custom, sanctioned by some centuries, has not been changed. The "Oppidans," or Town Boys, could not possibly be metamorphosed into Gown Boys—at least so writes to us
The Tug of Warre.