Lent.—To ascertain its beginning and end, you have only to become security for a friend at a Loan Office.
Bartholomew.—One of the reduced fairs.
Christmas.—The Earl of A-db-r-gh presents all his servants with Christmas Boxes—of Holloway's pills.
Old Lady-Day.—The only lady whose age is known to a day.
THIS IS WHAT LADIES CALL A MINIATURE BROOCH!!!
FASHIONS FOR 1849.
The rage for flounces in ladies' dresses will grow deeper and deeper. Two noble Duchesses will compete as to the greater number. They will continue each time bidding one flounce over one another, till their dresses will be nothing but flounces. The fashion is evidently borrowed from the hackney-coachman's cape.
PORTRAIT OF A LADY OF RANK AS SHE WILL APPEAR AT THE HORTICULTURAL FETE NEXT YEAR.