all sorts of puffing hand-bills setting forth the virtues
of some new inventions for puzzling the weak agricultural mind, and
making a demand on the agricultural pocket. We fancy we see a little
turn for irony in one of the announcements put into our hand, which
invited our "particular attention" to an article called the "Farmer's
Friend," which has proved "an efficacious cure of fret and cholic." If
the farmers have not yet left off fretting, here is a friend indeed; and
it is to be had as low as 1_s._ 8_d._ a bottle. We should suspect that
the proposed antidote to "fret and cholic" among the farmers would be
found, if analysed, to contain a good share of alcohol. Among the
"drinks for cattle" advertised at the Bazaar, we find one of a rather
startling description, which is recommended "for the disease called
Hoven Blown Blasted Fog sickness"--a malady which we hope neither man
nor beast is likely to be afflicted with.

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THE RELIGION OF THE HEELS

We cultivate sacred music; but until recently, from a remote period of
antiquity, we have had no sacred dancing. A gentleman, however, has just
brought out an "Evangeline Waltz," which he advertises in conjunction
with a "Flirtation Polka." The gentleman probably conceives himself to
have a "mission" to diffuse the Evangel of CUPID by the instrumentality
of capers.

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USE AND ABUSE.--The Cab and the Driver.

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[Illustration: WHAT A SHAME!

_Young Lady (inclining to Embonpoint)._ "I SHALL WANT HIM AGAIN THIS
AFTERNOON--FROM TWO TO FOUR."]

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THE HERO OF A HUNDRED HURDLES.

Two gallant officers, a Lieutenant and a Captain of the Fusileers, have
lately been running a flat race and a hurdle race against each other.
The amusement was manly enough, and quite unobjectionable; though there
is something at the first glance rather odd in the idea of two British
officers competing which can run the fastest, when we recollect that
never to run is the usual practice of our soldiers. We are quite sure
that the competitors on this occasion will never use their running
powers in the field of action, except in pursuit of an enemy. The races
were well contested; the flat race being won by the Lieutenant, who
"beat his opponent by three feet," which seems rather unfair, as no man
ought to be allowed more than two feet to c