The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-17

LA LANrERNE.-M. Henri Rochefort is
obliged to fly from France to Prussia, Prussia
TO Amsterdam, Amsterdam to Geneva and
many other places before the number appears,
dodging about like Feu FoLIet, or, as we
should call it in English, a Jack o'Lantern.
The MINIMUM OF INDUsTRY.-Lollius is not
the idle fellow his enemies and tradespeople
assert. The other day his "features worked"
THE A. P. u. C.-The Rev. +. G. Lee, who
was once a most energetic advocate for the
celibacy OF the Anglican clergy, but has some
time since dropped the subject as one of minor
importance (perhaps he will drop everything
gradually for the same reason), gives slap at
the Haydock Ecclesiastics, and then gets up a
ceremonial in his own Church on the anniver-
sary of the A. P. U. G. Do these letters mean
the Association for Promoting Useless Cere-
monies
NOT THIS TME.-Trimingham the great
Army Reformer, seeing an article in the Pail
Mall GaSette, with the heading "Mlitary
Messes," was greatly disappointed at finding
II was not an exposure of more Horse Guards
Huddes.
WHERE TO GO FOR YOUR HoLIDAY.-Idlebsrg.
SLANG oATECHIsM.
Q. What is an Aristocrat?
A. Swell, Mob.
Q. Is there a distinction between a Swell
and NobY
A. Rayther SO. All Nobs are Swells, but
Swell amt necessarily Mob.
O. Give an example.
A. The Marks O. Astings, he's Mob and
he's Swell; Mr.. Augustus Smith, in some
Government hoffice or other, as goes about
with Markisses and dresses no end-he's a
Swell, but he amt Mob
Q. Whence do you derive the appellation
NobY
A. From door-handle. AS there's always
Almost knob to a handle, so in society it's
the handle to the name as makes the Mob.
Q. Into what classes do you divide Society
A. Into Nobs, which includes regular NObs:
Swells, which includes Tiptoppers, Regular
Swells, Cheap Swells, Gents, Snobs, and
Cockywaxes.
Q. What is a Regular Mob?
A. As aforesaid. Handle to name tin, togs,
and all complete.
O. What is Tip-top SwellY
A. Mostly Coves in four-in-a ands. From
twenty to thirty-fve.
@. A Regular Swell3
A. He is older cove-from thirty five to
fifty. He rayther runs to fat, but there amt
speck on him anywhere, and his boots and
tile are out-and- out.
@. The terms Cheap Swell, Gent, aud Snob
require no. explanation. What, then, is a
CockywaxY
A. It's term of endearment, and may in
CA0NS
itself, without swell or mob in it. Cocky-
wakes are any age. If addressing a Cockywax
you qualify it by prefxing "old'' or "young."
Q. You mention Toys; whence is this word
derived?
A. Undoubtedly from the Latin Toga.
"Togs" means dress.
@. When was the word Cove first usedY
A. 1t was imported by the Romans, and was
first used in an abbreviated form by the Br-
tish whenever they saw. CovinariuS, i. g., a SOL
dier in sOor-chdriot.
Q. Explain and give derivations of the words
Trump, Brick, Chap, Gg6in, and Bloke. Also
in each case give your reference.
A. will Walker! ETit AnSwerer.
HEYDAY HAYDooK The Papists have long
taunted us, quite unjustly, with Nag's Head
COnsecration. But we fear we can't refute
the tsunt against Pigs Head Ritualism.
Was it a tithe-pigf
QUEER TAsTE.-What strange ways foreign
ers have Congress (the latest Variety
has just been held at Amsterdam, of Glow
German authors'' Only one writer is men-
toned by name as having had the Conscience
to be present.
AD IMPERAToREM.-What the French Gov
ernment ought to do with La LanterAe A?
Make light OF it.