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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1808, 19 October 1874, Page 2

The Fbench People.—Albany Fonblanque, writing of the election of Louis Napoleon as President of the French Eepublic, said:—" It is idle to rail against the caprices, more seeming than real, of the French choice We must not get into a rage with the nature of things, as did Sir Joseph Banks when he boiled fleas, and was wrath when they did not bear out a theory by turning red; ' Fleas are not lobsters, d-— their eyes."'

A Wokdebfcl Thing.—What wonderful things professors discover now-*----days. One of them ha 3 found out lately that " Nystagmus, or oscillation of the eyeballs, is an epileptiform affection of the cerebellar oculo-motorial centres." We have given some attention to the subject ourselves, but we confess that we didn't know it was so bad as that. No doubt it hurts, too. Cut it out, and paste it in your hat, so you won't forget what sort of a thing a nystagmus is.— ? American paper. Still Something Needed.—-A piously inclined Oakland gentleman, while going down stairs in the dark, stumbled over a slop-bucket, water-pitcher, or something and immediately indulged in a *' spontaneous ebullition of felling," as he afterwards called it. His mother-in-law, who is very deaf, was at the other «nd of the house, and remarked that" John still needed the refineing influence of*chureh socials." ; Bishops.—Doctor Paris somewhere observes that the originals of the cabbage and the cauliflower are not to be recognised in uncultivated nature. \ A bishop of the present age has no more likeness to a bishop of the New Testameat and the Primitive Church than a cauliflower or a red cabbage is like any spontaneous production of the field. It-has taken 1,800. years to bring bishops to their present figure. The horticulturist can show nothing like it in the aggrandisement of gooseberries. The cultivation is simple enough, too—-hot housing and the manure of mammon.—Albany Fonblanque.