Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-06


an opening sufficiently to upset the gravity
of the great navigator's dearest friend.
Addison lays it down as a maxim that
when a nation abounds in physicians it
grows thin of people. F~iIlibuster Hem
ningsen seems to have agreed with the es-
sayist, or he would hardly have informed
General Walker, in one of his dispatches,
that Doctors Rice and Wolfe died of the
cholera, and DIR. Lindley sickened, after
which the health of the camp visibly i'm
proved Intentionally or not, the stout
hearted soldiers suggests that the best way
10 get rid of the cholera is to make short
work Of theadOctors. Among the obituary
notices in a weekly paper, not many
months ago, there appeared the name of a
certain publican, with the following eulo-
GUM appended to it.: He was greatly
esteemed for his strict probity and steady
conduct through life, he having been a
subscriber to the Sunday Times from its
first number
aThis is a worthy pendant TO Miss
Hawkins story of an undertakes writingto
the corporation of London. 4 am desired.
to inform the Court of Aldermen, Mr.. AL
derman Gill died last night, by order of
AIRS. Gill and not fan. short in point of
absurditr. Is Mrs. Tussaud's announcement
of the exhibition, Of the efigy of the motor
ious Palmer, 9whO was executed at Stafford
with two hundred other celebrities The
modern fashion for naming florists flowers
must be held responsible for the very du-
biOus paragraph We extract from a gar
dening paper: Mrs. Legge viii be looked
after: she may not be SO certain as some,
but she was nevertheless very fine in the
early part of the season. Lady Popham
is useful, one of the old fashioned build,
not very round in the outline, but makes
up we'll ltg
"ThackeFayseems to have had an intense
dislike to the trouble Of revision, for his
popular works, especially those published
periodically, abound in trivial mistakes,
arising from haste, forgetfulness and want
of care. The novelist mortally wounds an
old lady with a candle instead of a. can
dlestick, and afterwards attributesher death
to a stone staircase. NeWcome senior is
Colonel and Major at one and the same
times Jack Belsize is Jack on one page
and Charles on another; Mrs. Raymond
GRAY. introduced as Emily, is suddenly
rechristened Fanny; and Philip Fermin
on one occasion becomes transformed into
the authors old hero, Give. Withrespect
to the last mentioned gentleman, author
and artist seem to have differed, for while
Mr.. Thackeray jests about Gives beauti-
full whiskers and handsome moustaches,
Dir. Doyle persists to the end in denying
young Ne~comb's possession Of those
tokens of manhood.
1t is not often that an author is satiri-
cal upon his own productions; but Charles
Dickens has contrived to be so. Describ-
/ ing the oldsinn Of the Borough, in his
Piekwick Papers he says they are queer
places, with galleries, passages, and stair
eases wide enough and Anticipated enough
to furnish material for a hundred ghost
stories, ~supposing ice should euer be reduced
to the Ian7eRtabJe necessity Of ~inveHting
ann, Howl little could Boz have antiei-
pated certain charming Christmas books
witching the world a few years later! So