The members of the various Clubs have come to the determination to put
down this atrocious custom. In the event of not being able to form a
court of honour, from the scarcity of the principal ingredient, they
have decided that all future quarrels shall be adjusted by the Carrara
Water, in a gallery suited for the purpose. And, moreover, that the
Carrara Monument Company, shall erect a tablet, to perpetuate the social
death of all who may he worsted in the meeting: anybody being corked, to
be ranked, like claret in the same state, as worthless.
[Illustration:
AQUARIUS—Jolly Young Watermen.
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THE ZODIAC.—JANUARY
AQUARIUS.—THE JOLLY YOUNG WATERMAN.
OUT DOOR INSTRUCTION.
The common water-plug offers a capital medium for illustrating the
leading principles in hydrostatics and hydraulics. When opened, the
effort of water to find its own level may be turned to account, in
diverting and instructive methods by the young professors of the
neighbourhood in the absence of the police, who are, generally speaking,
inimical to science. To produce a jet, the water must either come up or
come down. In the case of a fire-plug, it comes down from the New River;
and if the rates are not paid, the company come down as well upon the
delinquents _for_ the money, until the latter come down _with_ it. In
the Trafalgar fountains, it comes up to the surface, but not at all to
the expectations. In either case the force is the same. This increases,
in an inverse ratio, to the opposition offered; and by compressing it at
the orifice, it may be thrown in any direction by a little judicious
management of the sole of the foot. In this manner, benevolent boys may
frequently be seen distributing water gratuitously to the passing
pilgrims.