And enjoy the feast of reason,
Coupled with the flow of tea.
Walker!
Women—they so like matches of any sort—have taken to walking-matches. A Mrs. Dunn, of Hartshill, is walking 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours. Another lady, one Miss Mew, of Cateaton Street, has also offered to do the same distance in the same time with this additional difficulty—she offers to walk in walnut-shells. Friends who know her best back her at long odds.
AN AUSTRALIAN CLIPPER.
Lighting accidentally on an Australian paper, we were struck by an advertisement of a steamer for sale at Sydney, which really seems worth attention. It professes to be so complete in every department that, if it should happen to go to pieces, there are ample arrangements on board for building another vessel as a substitute. There is "a double set of machinery;" and, in fact, there appears to be everything in duplicate, so that, if the vessel should unhappily go down, there is a counterpart on board to supply the defect.
We do not quite understand the mode by which this desirable state of things has been effected, but we have long ceased to be surprised at anything, and should not be astonished if we were to see the announcement of a ship with a double set of officers, and even a double supply of passengers, so that if anything happened to either there would be sufficient substitutes at hand. Considering that the announcement comes from a land in which the gold mania is at its height, we cannot wonder at the duplicity of the speculation, since double-dealing is thought nothing remarkable where all are thinking of nothing but getting gold.