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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 111, 12 May 1868, Page 2

Mr (Dickens, on visiting the Boston school ship, made a speech to the apprentices winding up with, 'Boys, just do all the good you can, and don't make any fuss about it.' 4 English ladies,' says Erasmus, 'are divinely pretty, and too good-natured. Tbey have an excellent custom among them, that wherever you go the girls kiss you at intervening opportunities, and their );*•>,_ are soft, warm, and delicious.' Pretty well that for a priest. ' What do you mean by a cat and dog !i r e ?' said a husband to his angry wife. 'Look at Carlo and _£itty, asleep on the rug together ; I wish men lived half as peaceable with their wives.' ' Stop,' said tho lady ; ' tie them together, and see how they will agree.' Chignons have fallen; those abomina-':i-OS have at last come to grief, and there is scarcely oue to be seen in all Paris. The fiat of fashion has gone forth, and •chignons are abolished. The new way of doing the hair is to roll it up into a large flat cart wheel on the top of the head, coming to withiu an inch of the forehead. It requires no artificial aid. An excellent bon mot is attributed to a right reverend prelate, who for eloquence cannot be excelled in or out of the pulpit. Some one asked the' bishop how it waß that a noble lord, whose auricular faculties are unhappily deficient, should have been put on the Ritual Inquiry. * Why,' responded his lordship, 'you see that the .overnment in appointing the eommiskr.most needs put something def-in-it.'