cts contrary to ordinances and statutes in such
case made and provided. It will occur to the stolid mind that the offer
of a stipend of old clothes is not likely to attract any clerk of
experience, beyond that of a Jew salesman. But the true man of figures,
he who understands the language of Fancy, revelling in metaphor,
perceives at once that the proposition which seems so stingy is, in
fact, very liberal. He discerns that by cast-off clothes is meant a
share in the business, consisting in those suits, which though
considerably profitable, are not of sufficient importance to be attended
to by the head of the establishment. It is pleasing to find the language
of poetry thus obtaining, in a profession of which the phraseology has
hitherto been so very unimaginative.

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WASHING MADE AGREEABLE.

There is no washing, after all, like gold-washing. It is the kind of
washing that pays the best, and the only one that a gentleman can, with
credit, put his hands to.

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[Illustration: A BIT OF HIS MIND.

_Edward (to his Military Cousin)._ "NO! I SHAN'T! I SHAN'T GO AND SHOOT
BLACKBIRDS; AND I TELL YOU WHAT, MASTER CHARLEY, YOU DRAGOON SWELLS
WON'T HAVE QUITE SUCH A PULL UPON US CIVILIANS NOW, FOR WE ARE ALL GOING
TO GROW BEARDS AND MOUSTACHIOS."]

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CLASSICALITIES FOR THE NEW COINAGE.

In adopting the decimal coinage, it would be desirable to alter as
little as possible the existing nomenclature of the QUEEN'S cash. The
idea of the decimal may be expressed by the slightest variation of a
term in vernacular use to denote a certain piece of money. By the change
of a letter in the word "Tanner," the sixpence might, nominally, be
retained to the great bulk of the people; whilst, by the conversion
alluded to, namely, into "Tenner," the new elements of its constitution
would be at the same time signified. The novel word "Mil," should be
rejected; and for it might be substituted the similarly sounding but
more familiar name of "Bill," the adoption of which may be recommended
on the ground of analogy, as the shilling has been already long stamped
with the popular diminutive of "Bob." If the somewhat fanciful
expression "Mil," or "Mill," is employed, the principle of its
derivation should be consistently carried out. The words "Winder,"
"Bender," "Twister," "Topper," and "Stunner," might be borrowed to
designa