A FACT FOR "MURRAY."
London Cousin. "See them things, Bill; them's what the swells in Ancient Days put out their veeds with. Nobby move, wasn't it?"
GREAT SUCCESS OF CLAIRVOYANCE.
It is perfectly well known, and firmly believed by many of the gullible, that some clairvoyants, by the mere inspection of a lock of a patient's hair, are able to ascertain his complaint and also to prescribe for it, without having acquired any knowledge of medicine. We are informed by a person of quality, on whom we can depend, that a certain clairvoyant having had a portion of hair shown to him the other day, instantly pronounced the individual it had belonged to a lunatic, and recommended that the whole head should be shaved. The declaration of the somnambulist was remarkably verified, and the propriety of his advice demonstrated, by the fact, that the individual who had owned the hair turned out to be a gentleman who had been sending conscience money to the Chancellor of the Exchequer "for omitted Income Tax."
A Present for Aberdeen.
The Times correspondent writes that English sailors are dying, poisoned by the miasma and mosquito bites at the mouth of the Danube, blocked up by the atrocity of Russia. And what says Aberdeen? Nothing. We have heard of such visitors as a flea in one's ear; now, by way of a memento of dying British tars, we wish Lord Aberdeen had just one mosquito in his night cap.