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Minor Notes.
_Doings of the Calf's Head Club._--In an old newspaper called _The Weekly
Oracle_, of Feb. 1, 1735, is the following curious paragraph:
"Thursday (Jan. 29) in the evening a disorder of a very
particular nature happened in Suffolk Street; 'tis said that
several young gentlemen of distinction having met at a house
there, calling themselves the Calf's Head Club; and about seven
o'clock a bonfire being lit up before the door, just when it
was in its height, they brought a calf's head to the window
dressed in a napkin-cap, and after some huzzas, threw it into
the fire. The mob were entertained with strong beer, and for
some time hallooed as well as to best; but taking a disgust at
some healths which were proposed, grew so outrageous that they
broke all the windows, forced themselves into the house, and
would probably have pulled it down, had not the guards been
sent to prevent further mischief. The damage is computed at
some hundred pounds. The guards were posted all night in the
street for the security of the neighbourhood."