MIND OVER MATTER.
Cheapside at four o'clock, Gower Street on a Sunday, the Ancient Concerts, a Jury-box in the dog-days, a pantomime in July, a Blue-book on a wet Sunday—anything, confound it! is better than this Great Desert. On my word, I never saw, since I have travelled, a place with so little in it.
"Here, Bou Maza, bring my camel to the door. I'm off to London."
Unpublished Dogma of Doctor Johnson.—"The man who wears a moustache has no right to eat vermicelli soup."
CAPITAL OFFENDERS
A woman who says "my love," and "my dear," and "my pet sweet," to her husband in public, and pulls his hair, probably, in private.
A young man who is studying statistics, and tells you "the number of quarters of bonded corn there were in Hamburgh in 1835 was 10,000 more than any other year," and quotes voluminously about refined tallows and prime Muscovados from
"PORTER'S PROGRESS."