An Acrostic Elizabeth it is in vain you say“Love not” — thou sayest it in so sweet a way:In vain those words from thee or L. E. L.Zantippe’s talents had...
X-ing a Paragrab As it is well known that the ‘wise men’ came ‘from the East,’ and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East, it follows that Mr. Bullet-head...
Von Kempelen and his Discovery After the very minute and elaborate paper by Arago, to say nothing of the summary in ‘Silliman’s Journal,’ with the detailed statement just published by...
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade Truth is stranger than fiction — Old Saying Havingx had occasion, lately, in the course of some oriental investigations, to consult...
A Tale of Jerusalem Intensos rigidam in frontem ascendere canos Passus erat. — LUCAN DE CATONE. A bristly bore. — TRANSLATION. “Let us hurry to the walls,” said Abel-Shittim to Buzi-Ben-Levi and Simeon...
The Spectacles Many years ago, it was the fashion to ridicule the idea of “love at first sight;” but those who think not less than those who feel deeply, have...
Why The Little Frenchman Wears His Arm in a Sling It’s on my wisiting cards sure enough (and it’s them that’s all o’ pink satin paper) that inny gintleman that plases...
A Succession of Sundays “You hard-hearted, dunder-headed, obstinate, rusty, crusty, musty, fusty old savage!” said I, in fancy, one afternoon, to my grand uncle Rumgudgeon — shaking my fist at him...
