The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-08-27

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squads like drowning rats, for safety
this musf have good effect . and
when this Object is accomplished, then
"know Nottingham will be forgotten.
-Taglioni, the great Taglion'
whose brilliant career as a 3nnceuse.
has never been out e1nalle1. is thus
spoken Of by traveller 81 passed The
villa Of Taglioni. When within q
few yards Of her window glided SO
npisleasly, that ! could see her al
most as plainly as if in The same room
She looked falnh, wrinkled, palid
md old. oh who could believe her
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| Ahhr Reilly NOW, Is lring low
F,rfnssnr Stowe has gr,e tn Ie,rir
| tie vrwe 'i,r 1rve he will mt shave,
| Az lnng ~ there exists slave
The gentleman is represented now,
as looking "ratriarchal hillygotish-
Cosmeti3ue MIR has no effect upon
him - The Angel Gabriel is
still at large, adding more brass 10
his trumpet wherever he goes. He
was at PALMYRA New York. at last
account. Denmark has decln
81 to arraIe to the Auslrlp rrus-
sian treaty. and the Western Pow
ers have rejected uneonditionally all
The propositions Of the tzar. What
them We wait lmpatlent'v for fur
tl'er news over the grape vine line
which we hope to be able to spread
before or readers photographed es
rressly for The Comet" Tomorrow
ORrHoppArrlv. The following
structures on Webster. " against whose
rules for spelling. we snWetiWes run
counter. is from the pen Of that learned
philosopher nr bowler. Every one
fools sinshly. the silly changes made
from time TO time, in English orthog
raphv, ~ it would seem for no other
purpose. Than to call ont now edition
Of "WehEter." Judge If the business
Of the these remarks for yourselves
IN nrthouraphv Webster was a pro
Tossed inovator lie came forward 10
the work Of innovation wholly unlnv'-
tel and his bold attempts which it
successful. would have wholly corrup-
ted and polluted the language. have
received the countenance Of no one
who loves the language of Milton,
Shakespeare and the American Const'-
tuition. The venerable photographer
was indeed mortified and Disguised
with his own wretched tinkerlng and
hotcL work in his early efforts. and
" ebstey Mgau to utter Webster, in
hopes Of compromising and making
a treaty with offended good taste. but
without success. There was still n
cnsus beUi unsettled The latest
Of l,is mutations are embodied in the
Merriam Qnartn. Here he shows him
self content to write sort reign and not
surcyan h,1degyoom and not hr,ge
goom and such like vast concessions
are made, lie however, prefers in
place Of an in chemistry. though no
practical chemist does. and ho will
by no means, allow the to join the 2
in ccnfre, mefte, and Hcatye; al
though he is obliged to unite the di-
vorced letters, II, again in tho deriva-
tives. ceuftni. meft,cni. and thcart-
cal, in order to avoid constructions
which are no more nor less than the
legitimate consequences Of his altered
orthography; namely, mrferica/. zen
tcyaf, and thenfcy,cnI. These are
only . sample Of the great m's.speller
OF English.
Hy-Mr. Fry Dramatic critic who
writes for the New York Tribune ex-
presses himself in the following man
ner in reference to Women playing
male parts in the Drama
We have q constitutional horror of
seeing the worst Of farces that of wo-