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."

* * * * *

What burns to keep a secret?--_Sealing Wax_.

When is wine like a pig's tusk?--When it is in a hogs head.

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