DE OMNIBUS REBUS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 355, 2 August 1875, Page 4

DE OMNIBUS REBUS.

The allowance of the Viceroy of India is thirty thousand a year; that of the LordLieutenant of Ireland is twenty thousand. If you wish for success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. With these you can hardly fail. It may not be generally known thaLcoffeewith milk and chocolate, makes a most ex, cellent and refreshing drink. It was a favourite with Voltaire, and much liked by the late Emperor Napoleon. It is said that in Denmark and Sweden there was a mode of keeping people wide awake in their pews, authorised by the ruling power, fand in general use as late as thirty years ago. The instruments used to secure attention were called the rousing staves. They consisted of two long sticks, with round nobs at the end, neither very light nor smooth ; and with each or both of them the docker or beadle of northern churches, a man in considerable authority, had a right to punch or poke up any person who might appear to be sleeping during the long Lutheran service.