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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1988, 19 May 1875, Page 4

' jßecipbocity.—(The arts are borrowing each, other's vocabulary—painting has its and "symphonies," music is beginning to return the compliment)— First Lovely Being (to clever pianist, after performance)—" O, how charming, Herr La Bemolsld! There's such color in your, fortissimoes ! " Second Lovely Being—" Such roundness of modelling in your pianissimoes! ■' Third Lovely Being—" Such, perspective in your crecendoes! " Forth Lovely Being—"Such chiaroscuro mL your diminuendoes I" Fifth-Lovely Being—"Such anatomy in your legatees!" &c: (Clever pianist is bewildered, but'not displeased.)— Punch.

" GmNE Ig-NOTTJM PBO Ma&NIFICO !"—- ---(A fascinating young Irish lady, with a lovely' brogue, is warbling characteristic popular ditties in the Neapolitan dialectj encouraged thereto by the consciousness that' her. enraptured audience doesn't know a word of even ordinary Italian.) Enthusiastic Youth : How awf!ly your sister sings, Mr O'Dowd.!, How awf'ly .vividly she recalls to oneV mind the—a —tke—-the Chiaja, you know -—and Vesuvius— and — the deep blue Italian', sky ! Mr Q'Dow.d : ' Ah, thin doesn't she sor! _ Ye've been in Italy, sor ?' v Enthusiastic Youth V A.—a—a— n —n—no- 1 Mv O'Dowd: Wo more have Oi! No more has me sister !—Punch. An Indiana man made a bet that he could ride the fly-wheel in a saw-mill, and as his widow paid the_ bet, she remarked, " William was a kind husband, but he didn't know much about flywheels." : , <

It has been discovered, says a Boston paper, that the jointed fishing rod was invented because one cannot hide a long cane'pole under one's coat on Sundays. The politeness of the American people is well illustrated by the readiness with which tfip^'giye room iii a crowd to the man who carries a paint pot. A New Orleans paper offers the sentiment thus:—" George Washington — First in war, first in peace, and last in getting a monument." We are told that "the smallest hair throws a shadow." And so it does. It throws a shadow over your appetite when you find it in your victuals. . Thei death of a lady " celebrated for her purity of character and complection," is announced in a western newspaper.