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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 20, 23 December 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

"The Reign of Napoleon til.," says a letter from Paris, ** has been remarkable for the vigils made by the diplomatic representatives of semi-barbarous and distant nations, leaving in the shade even the court of Louis XIV., whose boast jt was to have summoned from the extremities of the globe some of the most outlandish ambassadors that civilized soptety ever received. We have, for example, had the Montenegrins, in picturesque costumes, their waists being encircled by mauy lire arms and jewelled daggers. We have also witnessed in the streets of Paris the Japanese plenipotentiaries, who considered the ballet of the Grand Opera a paradise on «arth. The children of the desert, chiefs with unpronounceable names, have visited us from the sandy wastes of Africa. At the present day wo have the Annamita ambassadors." $eep your eyes open before marriage — hajjf shut afterwards. ■ >'Mts Grimes, lend me your tub." " Can't do it, ■ All the hoops are off — it's fyll of suds;/jb«sidea, I never bad on« ; I washes in p-tinnl,'*