OLD PLAY.

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The Gatherer.

A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.

SHAKSPEARE.

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FASHIONABLE ODDITIES.

Lady Morgan, in her Book of the Boudoir, says, “The late Marquess of Londonderry was a liveable, cheerful, give-and-take person.”  Again, “Vitality, or all-a-live-ness, energy, and activity, are the great elements of what we call talent;” which occasions a critic to observe, “What a prodigious quantity of this “all-a-liveness” her ladyship must have in her composition.”

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What burns to keep a secret?—­Sealing Wax.

When is wine like a pig’s tusk?—­When it is in a hogs head.

C.J.T.

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The young Duke of Rutland, when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in a drunken frolic knighted the landlord of an inn in a country town.  Being told the next morning what he had done, the duke sent for mine host, and begged of him to consider the ceremonial as merely a drunken frolic.  “For my own part, my lord duke, I should readily comply with your excellency’s wish; but Lady O’Shannessy!”

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EPITAPH ON MARSHAL SAXE.

N.B.  The figures are to be pronounced in French, as un, deux, trois, &c.

Ses vertus le feront admire de chac 1
Il avait des Rivaux, mais il triompha 2
Les Batailles qu’ il gagna sont au nombre de 3
Pour Louis son grand coeur se serait mis en 4
En amour, c’etait peu pour lui d’aller a 5
Nous l’aurions s’il n’eut fait que le berger Tir[3] 6
Pour avoir trop souvent passe douze, “Hic-ja” 7
Il a cesse de vivre en Decembre 8
Strasbourg contient son corps dans un Tombeau tout 9
Pour tant de “Te Deum” pas un “De profun"[4] 10

          
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He died at the age of 55

[3] Tircis, the name of a celebrated Arcadian shepherd.

[4] A great personage of the day remarked, that it was a pity
after the marshal had by his victories been the cause of so many
“Te Deums” that it would not be allowed (the marshal dying in the
Lutheran faith) to chant one “de profundis” over his remains.

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ROUGE.

A lady consulted St. Francis of Sales on the lawfulness of using rouge.  “Why,” says he, “some pious men object to it; others see no harm in it; I will hold a middle course, and allow you to use it on one cheek.”