Star.
London, England, 1831-06-28 00:00:00

SCINT!LL

LITTLE JACK.
Freely translated from Me German.
Of all the Seandal-mongers here,
There, none like little Jack—
He'll scandal you before your face,
But worse behind your back !
Paul Pry himself ne'er pried like him,
Nor put his brains to rack
One half so much to spread a lie,
As noted little JACK !
Yet blame him not—'tis so well know
His head doth greatly lack
A fair supply of sense, that thou
Should'st pity little JACK !
For let the lie be e'er so vile_
However sharp the attack—
You need not care—for all will cry
• 'Twas made by little JACK !"

A new machinery for puffing has lately been .
vented. Puffs are now sent out by the whole sheet at
time, or as a pastrycook would say, by the entire batch of
puffs. A man makes a book of 3or 400 pages, containin4
as much that is worth ready as would extend to two or thee:
columns of a newspaper. These tid bits then he picks out
and prints separately on one sheet as extracts, sending i•
among the newspapers, and the editors, to save trouble, bore
their readers with them, even to nausea.—Thence it is " puff!
puff ! puff!—all puffing !"

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THE Bt LL ANTICIPATION.—A correspoutlent
vouches for the correctness of the following young
woman last week applied to a respectable family in Chip.
pcnharn for a situation u servant, then vacant. The lady.
having inquired into the girl's character, and finding it U.
tisfactory, told her that she would engage her for a twelve.
month. " A twelvemonth, ma'am ! (the 'girl ejaculated
with great apparent astonishment)—a twelvemonth ! cc,.
tainly not. I would not on any account engage even fot
♦is months ! For three months, 1 have no objection ; but
before the expiration of that time, I expect the bill will pus ;
and when we have reform, I anticipate I shall be a mistress
myself."

HOME, AUTHOR OF DOUGLAS.--There could
I not be a livelier or more agreeable companion than the au.
thor of Douglas; and his merits as a dramatic author are
well known. By his talents, he was early in life introductd
into the best company that Scotland afforded. Claret wa.
at that time the favourite liquor ; and, owing to Its ben!:
admitted it.to the port of Leith on Spanish instead of Frem:
duties, it was cttrap, and was drank in great quantities. A
naval officer, who happened to be stationed in the Frith o.
Forth, by transmitting information to the Treasury, put
stop to this illegal advantage. The price of claret was so
much increased, in consequence of this additional duty, than
many bons iron: were obliged to renounce it, and betake
themselves to port ; and, in despair, at one of their convi•
vial inectings, they applied to their friend John Dome, to
write some verses expressive of their feeling-. He imn•r-
diately produced the following 7.
Bold and erect tt.e Caledonian stood ;
Old was his mutton, and hi, claret good ;
" Make him drink port!" an EnAlish stattsman cried;
He drank the poison, and his spirit died.

LAUGHABLE CURE FOR FITS.—OR Saturday,
a gross impostor, who is in the habit of exciting public
sympathy by falling down in tits, pursued his avocation in
Holborn, when a wag came out srd exclaimed, " Hang in,
the poor devil will ewe!' cold, put him on this straw ." The
man was laid upon the straw, when he kicked and distotted
his countenance in the most violent manner, until the person
who provided the Lea brought a light and set fire to it, tlit
beat of which caused the sudden recovery of the nifieted
man, who, as if by magic, jumped up and mated oft with .1
rueful countenance, and all possible speed.

ROOM FUR AN INFERENCE.--.Whell Curran
went to College, he wrote to his mother for eleven shirt..
stating that he found every gentleman in College was ex.
recta to bav: a dozen.
Young Austin, who some years back was well
known to the public in connexion with the inquiry relative
to the late Queen, is at this moment quite insane, and under
confinement in a madhouse near Milan.
Burns has said in one of his beautiful songs.
when referring to Dame Nature's manufacture of the ador-
able sex—

" Her 'prentice ban' she tried on man,
And then she made the lasses, 0!"
lip the general returns of the population list, it appears
that she was so struck with the beauty of her handy work.
that the construction of those semi-divinities has been a po.
pular employment ever since. By the returns from Exeter,
we find that old &taper Filch. has not been forgotten, for
so bountiful is the supply, that the number of the ladies of
the creation in that city, surpasses the lords by nearly three
thousand.

ANECDOTE OF PitOitNlNlo--We have beard
an anecdote of this extraordinary man, which speaks vo
lumes for the goodness of his heart. One day, while wali•
Mg in the streets of Vienna, he saw a poor boy playing
upon his violin, and, on entering into conversation with bitr,
he found that he maintained his mother and several little
brothers and sisters by what he picked up as an itinerant
musician. Paganini immediately gave him all the money
he had about him, then taking the boy's violin, commenced
playing, and when he had collected a vast c,owd, pulled off
his hat, made a collection, and gave it to the poor boy amid
the acclamations of the multitude.—Athisneum.

MISS LAN DON.—Miss Landon, better known
as LIS.L. the initial poetess, is a young lady. whose age, at
a glance you might estimate as some four or five and
twenty; short of stature, a figure light and elegant, with
" the twin►ling feet so small and sylph-like." If you du
not consider her pretty, why, you have no taste—though, it
you analyse the features, it would be difficult to say where
the beauty is situated ; but it is the mind that flings i-s
charm over all, and the intelligence that beams upon
her face is the true secret of its attractions She
dresses somewhat singularly ; her hair is tied back
so as completely to display the forehead, which, how•
ever, is not a high one, though remarkably broad,
intimating a great degree of animation combined with
inferior reasoning powers. A bright pair of grey eyes
occasionally betray the spirit of song that dwells within.
notwithstanding her laborious efforts to conceal it. A re•
markably small nose, pretty mouth, rather hectic cheeks,
and a dimpled chin, complete the inventory of her features.
If a stringer were to converse with her, ignorant of her
poetical powers, he would scarcely believe that the "
provisatriee" and the " Golden Violet" were the productions
of the gay being with whom he had been quadrilling. Her
poetry breathes disappointed love and broken hearts ; nature
is its frequent theme, yet the write never felt the one ncr
liked the other. Her volumes art the very excess of the
sentimental ; she is herself the very reverse of it. The
dance and the crowded assembly are the elements in which
she lives, and beyond which she has not a wish or a hope.
She prefers the atmosphere of a square or a crescent to the
sweet and fresh breezes of spring, and the odours of Eau de
Cologne to the delicate fragrance of the May flowers. Pity
it is that a mind of so high an order as Miss Landon's
should be chilled into very heartlessness by over much con.
tact with the world, in which feeling is accounted folly, the
heart voted a bore, and the head only valued as the medium
of uttering soft nonsense, and ridiculing all that is good and
great in human nature.—biserborne Journal.