arge of that agreeable duty.

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SYNONYMOUS SLANG.

The opinions of a certain eminent member of the Peace Society respecting
the British Lion are calculated to render the phrase "Honour Bright,"
equivalent in popular estimation to "Hookey Walker."

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THE DYE OF GUILT.

The Kentucky Legislature have resolved--

"That the keeper of the Penitentiary shall procure a suitable
chymical dye, such as will stain the skin perfectly black, so that
it cannot be removed, until time shall wear it away, and Nature
furnish a new cuticle or surface."

When the dye is obtained, the nose of each male convict is to be painted
thoroughly black; the paint to be renewed until about to be restored to
the world, when the convict shall be restored to society with a clean
nose. We hardly perceive the moral and social use of this nose-dyeing;
it may also be difficult to obtain the dye of sufficient blackness. In
which case _Punch_ advises Kentucky to apply to MRS. STOWE for the use
of her ink-bottle: for that lady has dyed not only the noses, but the
whole faces of the LEGREES with such well-merited blackness, that Nature
must find them not only new skins, but new hearts, ere they can show
even tolerably white again.

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AN ARMY OF RESERVE.

The foreign correspondent of the _Times_ announces that the Porte has
issued an address, "calling on those troops whose courage may fail them
to avow the fact without hesitation, so that they may be employed at a
distance from the scene of combat." For our own parts, having more of
the civil than the military in our composition, we should expect the
invitation to be rather generally responded to, as the scenery of a
combat is of that kind with reference to which "distance lends
enchantment to the view." If the majority of the troops of the Porte
should make a "candid avowal" of their desire to remain at a respectful
distance from the scene of action, the whole affair might become "void
for remoteness"--as the lawyers expressively have it.

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AN ARCH IMPOSTOR.--Temple Bar.

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[Illustration: A CAUTION TO IMPERIAL BIRDS OF PREY.

_Mr. Bull (to his French Friend)._ "THERE, I DON'T THINK HE'LL WORRY THE
TURKEYS ANY MORE."]

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THE PRIDE OF ENG