The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-16 00:00:00

QUIDDITIES.—Wh
strom

Because it is not easily sounds

young man, and a capital prospectls;elore. me"—as Sinbad
the sailor said when he was lifted into the air by the eagle.
I blush for you," as the rouge-pot said to the old dowager.
" I SHALL never be able to make this passage out," as Sir
John Ross said when he couldn't find his way to the North
Pole. " Messages carefully delivered," as the ear-trumpet
said to the old maid ; " please to remember the name and
address."—A disappointed play-wright has had the malice to
write over the door of the Dramatic Authors' Society—" /ci
on parle Francais." " With all thy faults I love thee still,"
as the alderman said to the decayed Chester. " Your good-
ness overpowers me," as the gentleman murmured to the
champagne, when he couldn't rise from his chair.—Punch.

THE EYE.—" He thl
is a quaint old quibble
course he could not s
optics undoubtedly have

Lt bath one eye sees the better for it,"
ind a truism ; for if he had none, of
!e at all; but the old original two

had the mental w

'e must confess we r

two, and
curious but

speaks of the " poet's e
poets frequently in their
bath a beaming eve,"

this adoration really po
of Garric'
board

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11 in Bentley's 31-ISeel,

)M MY FRIENDS

a person dropped down in an apo_
front of the post of the municipal guard, opposite the March
des Innocens, and he was immediateiv ,•arr;.,l

guard-house. Ina minute ,
through the crowd gathered round the door, exclaiming " my
husband !my poor husband ! Clear the way, and let thr
air." She then busied herself by
vat, and performing other little offic,
surgeon arrived and bled the patien,
vered his senses. On this the officer o,
that it was a happy relief for his distr
himself. "My wife!" excic,;.--

!ter, a v

Dat his pe

an's cra-
son till a
Ily reco-

le guard obs

why, I am

bachelor." " She may be your mist
bitterly." On seeking for her. holi

s, then, for she wept

she had disappeared, and

patient, whiCli she had adroit
eyes of the guard.—Galignani

the ver

A LITERARY CIIRIOSITY.—A poetical friend of ours, says
tha Boston Transcript, has a paper-folder with the following
line from Gray marked on it :

" The ploughman homeward plods his weary way.'
On looking at the quotation, it occurred to him tha.
be expressed in various ways, without destro-'
or altering the sense. In a short time he
lowing eleven different readings. We doni.
line can be found, the words of which will admit of so man
transpositions, and still retain the original meaning :
The weary ploughman plods his homeward way.
The weary ploughman homeward plods his way.
The ploughman, weary, plods his homeward way.
The ploughman, weary, homeward plods his way,
Weary the ploughman plods his homeward way.
Weary the ploughman homeward plods his way.
Homeward the ploughman plods his weary way.
Homeward the weary ploughman plods his way.
Homeward the ploughman, weary, plods his way
The homeward ploughman weary plods his we,
The homeward ploughman plods his weary

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