ANECDOTES AND RECOLLECTIONS.
Notings, selections,
Anecdote and joke:
Our recollections;
With gravities for graver folk.
FASHION.
Pignotte places the temple of this deity in the moon; and it may therefore be presumed that it was the walls of this edifice that Professor Grinthausen, of Munich, lately mistook for an immense fortress. The error of the German astronomer would seem to corroborate the hypothesis of the Italian poet, who doubtless did not assign that local habitation to the goddess of fashion without mature reflection. Indeed, it cannot be denied that that planet possesses some mysterious influence over female fashions, analogous to that which it has over the tides; hence the cause, for we really know of none better, of monthly fashions. Let not however any malicious wit suppose that the moon has anything whatever to do with monthly periodicals!