e, any body who comes into the work-house. The
Poor Law is administered by three Commissioners, who spend their time in
diluting gruel and writing reports; trying experiments how little will
suffice to prevent a repeal of the union between the soul and the body.'
We have this information concerning the clock heretofore complained of:
'PUNCH has been accused of hitting this clock very hard when it was down;
and it certainly must be admitted that it was wholly unable to strike in
return. We are happy to say that the wound has been followed by the clock
being at last wound, and we now offer to take it by the hands in a spirit
of friendship. We have been told that the long stagnation has been caused
by the absurd scruples of the pendulum, which refused to go from side to
side, lest it should be accused of inconsistency.' Under the different
months, 'PUNCH'S Almanack' gives many important directions, one of which
is for the proprietors of the public gardens: 'Now trim your lamps, water
your lake, graft new noses on statues, plant your money-taker, and if the
season be severe, _cut your sticks_.' The following '_Tavern Measure_' is
doubtless authentic: Two 'goes' make one gill; two gills one 'lark;' two
larks one riot; two riots one cell, or station-house, equivalent to five
shillings.' For office-clerks, as follows: Two drams make one 'go;' two
goes one head-ache; two head-aches one lecture; two lectures 'the sack.'
To those gentlemen who are lovers of the Virginia weed in its native
purity, a list of prices, 'furnished by one of the first _Spanish_
houses,' is published. It includes 'choice high-dried dock-leaf regalias,'
'fine old cabbage Cuba's,' 'genuine goss-lettuce Havana's,' and
'full-flavored brown-paper Government Manilla's!' Two scraps under the
head of '_University Intelligence_' must close our quotations: 'Given the
_force_ with which your fist is propelled against a cabman, and the
_angle_ at which it strikes him; required the _area_ of mud he will cover
on reaching the _horizontal plane_.' 'Show the incorrectness of using
_imaginary quantities_, by attempting to put off your creditors with
repeated promises to pay them out of your Pennsylvania dividends.' . . .
MANY German physicians and surgeons hold that there remains in the brain
of a decollated head some degree of thought, and in the nerves something
of sensibility. It is stated by his biographer, that in the case of Sir
EVERARD DIGBY, executed for a participa