o
pull his nose! We hear that a pair of silver gauntlets have been
presented by the Christian ladies to their champion who pulled the nose
of the stout GARRISON. Indeed, he pulled it so vigorously, it was at
first thought he had quite carried it.

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BURGLARY AND BRONCHITIS PREVENTED.

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According to the ingenious MR. JEFFREYS, nobody should be without a
respirator in his hand to clap on his own mouth by way of extinguisher
to an incipient cough, or to pop on any unfortunate child who exhibits a
tendency to choke. The respirator seems to be of two kinds; the one
simply oral, which is calculated to check equally the wheeze of asthma
or the whistle of age, and the other, ori-nasal, adapted to nose and
mouth, so as to make it impossible either to sneeze or to snore.

According to the assertion of the inventor the Respirator is, in fact, a
warm climate for five and sixpence; a portable Madeira that may be
always put to the mouth like an inexhaustible bottle, at the mere price
of the wine. Many gentlemen and ladies seem to have been starting for
warmer latitudes--one individual seems to have been on the top of the
'bus bound, _via_ Paddington, for Barbadoes, when, somebody having
recommended him a Respirator, he descended from the knife-board of a
City Atlas, rushed into a shop, where he laid out a few shillings, and
became the fortunate possessor of a warm climate, to be put on or taken
off _ad libitum_.

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But perhaps the most valuable feature of the Respirator has been
hitherto overlooked, for it is as a defence against Burglary rather than
Bronchitis, that it will obtain the highest renown. Let any family go to
bed wearing Respirators, and we defy the boldest burglar to execute his
purpose if the family should be disturbed. JACK SHEPPARD himself, or any
other romantic ruffian, would start back with terror at the aspect of a
household armed all in Respirators, and presenting such a picture as one
of our artists has supplied. Or suppose the midnight marauder to have
made his way into the bed-room of a pair of parents lying with an infant
between them, the entire domestic trio wearing the frightful appendage
invented by MR. JEFFREYS, we are convinced that the panic-stricken
miscreant would shrink out of the "Chamber of Horrors," and proceed to
give himself up to justice at the nearest Police Station. We are
convinced that a Respirator would be as ef