The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-03 00:00:00

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CHE•P MEAT FOR BRIGHTON. —The public will
be gratified to learn that there is an immediate prospect
of their being able to obtain first class butcher's meat at
prices which will bring It within the means of the hum-
blest. Messrs. D. Russell and Co., the well-known
*arcane butchers, from Leadenhall-market, have announced
their intention of opening premises in Brighton on Satur-
day next, for the sale of first class meat at the following
prices :—Mutton, 40. per lb. ; pork, sd. ; beef, 6d.—
Surrey Standard.
THE " PERPETUAL Dane."—The chief and most
remarkable characteristic of him is that his chatter is
ineeesant, and that there issues from his mouth • perpetual
dribble of words which convey to those who hear them no
sort of information worth having, no new thing worth
knowing, no idea worth listening to. These talkers are
found in the British Islands in great numbers. There is
no difficulty in meeting with specimens. If you live in •
street, and will only sit at your window for • sufficient
length of time, one of them is sure to pass. He has a
companion with him, the recipient of that small dropping
talk. Perpetual Drop points with his stick, calling his
friend's attention to a baker's shop—what is he saying ?
He is saying, " Ah. German, you see : Frantsinson,
I German name. Great many German bakers in London :
Germans and Scotch. Nearly all the bakers are either one
or the other." You continue to watch, and you observe
that this loquacious gentleman is again pointing. " Where
you see those houses, he is saying sow, " there were
nothing but green fields when I was • boy. Not a brick
to be seen anywhere." And so be goes on commenting on
everything. Whatever his senses inform him of he seems
obliged to put on record. " Piebald horse," he says, as
one goes by him in an omnibus ; or " Carious smell," as
be puma the fried-fish stall. This is the man with whom
we lases all travelled in railway trains. He proclaims to
his companion—a person much to be pitied—the names of
the stations as the train arrives at each. " Ala, Croydon."
be says ; or, " Ab, Redhill, going to stop, I see." He
makes his comments when they do stop. " Little girl
with fruit," be says ; or " Boy with paper's." Very likely
he will imitate the peculiar cry of this last, " Mornin.
papaw," for his friend's benefit. This kind of talker may
be dialed very advantageously in railway trains. He is
familiar with technical terms. He remark*, when there
is a stoppage, that we are " being shunted on to the on-
line till the express goes by." Presently there is a shriek.
' and a shake, and a whirl, and then our friend looks round
with triumph. " That was it," be says, " Dover express
—down-line." This is a very wearying personage. He
I cannot be quiet. If he is positively run out and without
• remark to make, he will ask a question. Instead of
telling you what the station is, he will in this case ask you
to tell him. " What station is this r is • favourite in-
quiry with him. He doesn't went to know •, he is not
going to stop at it : he merely asks beoatme his mouth is
full of weeds, and they must needs dribble out in some
form or other.—Coraha Maya:int for December.