The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-25 00:00:00

COMFORT AT THE SEA SIDE.

The most intense sensation was occasioned this
last season at an English watering-place by the
discovery in a lodgingbouse that of 13 bedroom
windows there were no fewer than three that had
not their sashlines broken, and as many as one
even that after much persuasion you could open
at the top. Of 11 bedroom candlesticks no fewer
than four were provided with extinguishers, and
three bore some faint traces of having actually being
cleaned within the present year. t)f course every
chimney smoked when a fire was attempted ; but in
two out of eight rooms yam could escape suffocation
if you only kept a window open and the door ajar.
Out of half a score of looking glasses there were two
which were not cracked, and three of the remaining
eight, if you only proppe. d them properly, did not
twirl round more than six times while you shaved
and brushed your hair. Of a dozen doors not more
than 11 had loose handles that came off at a touch,
and one was so well hung upon its binges that it
actually could be locked. It was also ascertained
that of the leash of easy (?) chairs which had been
liberally furnished, there was
one that you could
sit in without much inconvenience, if you didn't
mind the chance of tumbling backwards once an
hour or so, through a ricketty hind leg; and another
which might possibly have been found a softish
seat if it had not been that somebody had broken all
the springs in it. One of the three carving-knives
was, after a day's sharpening, made capable of cut-
ting, and of a dozen silver (?) forks five had some
faint vestige of their pristine plate upon them, and
no fewer than six had their full complement e`
prongs.
.It was discovered, too, at tea time, af,t,e„r
mans, patient trials, that, if probed and poked 1'1,1;d"
frequeney, the teapet spout would pour ; and prurvl"
per
that the te,:maker was careful to retain
angle of inclination, she might possibly. more
filling a teacup w; thout dropping the lid into
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succeed
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than half a dozen times. It Wati 11111:tee:only had
tamed that of half a score of cups:leaky ; and of
their handles, off, and only AIX Weerven were of the
11 wine glanalas as many as t,7o°liiae were chipped.
same pattern, and not more th
very
one of the two
By similar good hou.sewiteqea supper, and of the
ours bad actually a lid.
decanters were provided
aid to the comfort of our
four dishes for vegetani"
rioed to hear that
When such careful beednisueP
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seaside visitors, who c 5
feature trip they never go
when people want a 'PP„ket- Book br 1864.
abroad for it. —Pinich, s

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EXETER HALL.--T°-night the performance of
c bells by the National Choral Society, will
66 nalg instead of h I '
.71(1,5t eight o'clock,, a t-past seven. Miss
crTemp'a, r Miner, Sims Reeves, and Mr. Santley
will take part in the oratorio.
DIE OLDEST gARRIED COUPLE IN THE WORLD.
—There are living in Alarulan, in this colony, two
persons, husband and wife, aged respectively 111 and 107
years. They are extremely feeble and bedridden, but are
in possession of both sight and hearing. The old man ar-
rived in the first fleet in 17-38, and has consequently been
75 years in the colony i 4 New South Walea,—Sydney
(YAW) Empire.