inspector is satisfied with these
particulars, and with the personal appearance, an interview takes place,
and the bargain is struck.

* * * * *

Captain Basil Hall has addressed a letter to a Scotch newspaper, stating
that the story of his _walking_ 16,000 miles in fifteen months, is
a hoax--the whole journey being performed in land conveyances and
steam-vessels! Not a line is written of the "Book" of these exploits,
said to be "in the press;" the latter is by no means so great a blunder
as the former.

* * * * *

A facetious _gourmand_ suggests that the old story of "lighting a candle
to the devil," or as it has been corrupted, "_holding_ a candle to the
devil," probably arose from the adage of "GOD sends meat, and the devil
sends cooks,"--and was an offering to his Infernal Majesty, by some
epicure who was in want of a cook.

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GERMAN MODE OF PREVENTING TIPPLING.

The following is a late order from the mayor of a department in the
Isere:---"All persons drinking and tippling upon Sundays and holidays,
in coffee-houses, &c. during the celebration of mass or vespers, are
hereby authorized to depart without paying for what they have had."

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[*.*] ERRATA at page 189--for _Quoites_ read _Quoties_, and in the same
line insert hyphen--thus, _mori_.

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