"Every one to their liking,
As the old woman said when she kissed her cow--
Is not the picture striking,"
_is the refrain of a song which was very popular some thirty or forty
years since._
LLAW GYFFES. _The motto of the extinct Viscounts Mount Cashel_,
"Sustenta la Drechura," _is Spanish and signifies_ "Maintain the Right."
_The Davies Queries in an early number._
G. CREED. _The Newcastle Apothecary, of whom George Colman records that
he_
"Loved verse and took so much delight in it,
That his directions he solved to write in it."
_was, we believe, altogether an imaginary personage._
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Solomon's Temple.
The only Drawings that have been made of the Interior of the
MOSQUE OF OMAR, standing on the site of the Temple of Solomon,
were made by Messrs. Bonomi, Catherwood and Arundale, in 1833:
from them has been painted the view of the Interior of the Mosque
of Omar, in the Diorama of the Holy Land. It is the only painting
of the Interior yet executed, and presents all the Architectural
Detail. The GREAT MOVING DIORAMA OF THE HOLY LAND, EGYPTIAN HALL,
Piccadilly. Daily at Three and Eight. Admission, 1_s._; Pit, 1_s._
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