Varieties.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 184, 14 December 1868, Page 3

Varieties.

•fnta the menu of a court banquet, given in the Galerie de Diane, on the occasion of the marriage of Prince Humbert with the Princess Margaret, one of the items is that of "filets d'innocents & la Princesse Marguerite." What can filets d'innocents be? The nearest things that we can fancy, even for the banquets of people who were once believed to eat frogs, and actually do eat horse, are slices of sucking pig. Desiderata. — The philosopher's stone. The power of always reasoning rightly. Long life. A knocker that would knock down all disagreeable people who came to visit you — the postman and telegraph boy included. A power of eating three dinners a day. A selfupholding umbrella. A supernatural knowledge of trains, so that you could defy Bradsbaw and all his books. A perfectly wellbuilt house, built after a model of some insect establishment. A winged paper-cutter that would always fly to you when you whistled for it. Never to he sea-sick.

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