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    • JVHEJV GREEK MEETS GREEK.
    • A KEY TO THE " COURT CIRCULAR:'
    • LEGISLATIVE LUMBER.
    • SA VJS HIM FROM HIS FRIEJVDS.
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      Marseilles In Sight, Feb. 14, 1870. The ...

      religious fellow at bottom , and that ever since he has been on board , he has said his prayers regularly , sometimes three times a day . The only thing is he worships the funnel , and seems most devotional when they put coal on . 10 a . m ., i $ th Feb ., 1870 . Here we are at last at Marseilles / My luggage is comparatively limited , all that is left me from the wreck , being a hair-brush and the hyaena . Somehow I seem unable to rid myself of the hyaena . Whether it is that it has a great tenacity that of life nobod , or is y a will very take faithful it off sort my of hands brute at , or any whether price , I it can is ' t really say ; but the fact remains , that I cannot get rid of it ! Spagmore says I am sure to get an offer for it in London , possibly from a Music Hall proprietor , or a pastry-cook , but that my best plan 011 arrival will be to send it as a loan to the South Kensington Museum , where they are sure to take it in and label it till do I want the same it . He thing means with , his if he Indians can't open for he with says them they at might once find , to , plenty of room for them among the ferns , and that " Cole likes something new , and ¦ that there's an idea for him . " * .. ? * . ? * * In the Custom . House .. They speak wretched French here at Marseilles , and can ' t understand half I say , though I learnt French thoroughly of a real Parisian professor in Islington some years ago , who charged only , eighteenpence a lesson , but would undertake to make you master of the language in four lessons for a guinea , paid in advance . I tried the last , but it seems no good here . The people talk as fast as if they were talking English , and don ' t go through the verbs when they come to them . -ii -H V * * * * *

      Spagmore is in a great state about " passing" his Indians . him He says get he them is , sure on shore the duty without will be their heavy being , and noticed wants . me I to do hel not p think it will be easy , but he insists he has so often " done " the Custom House at Folkestone with cigars and eau de CologneihaX . , he will undertake to manage it , if I will t > nly lend him a hand ^ . He wants to know whether I could get the Chief round my waist . I have told him , I don't think I can , but I will try . He is to lend me his over-coat , and is jokingly , to say to the Douani ha er / at ha the J mats top of the voules ladder vous , " Ce avec Monsieu le sea r air esi ? 7 in I peu am gross then , to hurry through que and sit down till he gets a course . But this only a small portion , of his plan , and , of course , only lands one . The others will have to be packed away somehow . Two , Spagmore thinks , might be got into a linen chest and put at the bottom with the pillow cases ; but there is an obvious risk about this . As to the remaining nine , the best idea as yet is , that they should take an opportunity of jumping overboard , and then swim out of the port , rounding the pier head , and make for some point half a dozen miles do \ yn the coastj where Spagrnore will meet them with a towel and a one-horse omnibus . It appears that they are-.. quite , accustomed to the water , and that in the South-East centre , of ^ Africa they live in the river half the day .. Spagmore say sphere is . one . of" them of a rather surly disposition , wjio always goes to : bed in a cataract . They ought , therefore * , to man * age * the , six . # miles .. . easily * .. . . *• * . * I am about to land the chief being round my waist at last . It was a very , troublesome business , and it was only by Spagmore assuring . him that it was the European way of showing respect to royalty ( represented ! by # ie ticket collector at the top ) , and giving him a rap or two over the ear . s with a bludgeon that we attracting pould get attention him to double j but , J up onl , y hop I am e the afraid chief my will appearance not come is undone . More by my next .

      February 26, 1870.] The Tomaha Wk. 77

      February 26 , 1870 . ] THE TOMAHA WK . 77

      Jvhejv Greek Meets Greek.

      JVHEJV GREEK MEETS GREEK .

      Poor Archbishop Lycurgus Has Been Presen...

      Poor Archbishop Lycurgus has been presented at Manchester with a Polyglot Bible in eight languages . Of course this is meant for a cheap and delicate attention ; but why the Archbjshop , should be treated as . a sort of Ecclesiastical OHendorf we cannot see , £ > ince he ha ; S been in England he has been beset by people , who have insisted on making him a target at whjch their srnattering of Eastern languages may safely be ai , me . 4 . W believe the Archbishop takes it . pretty kindly ; but we would rather see h . in } made a subject for true British hospitality than Billingsgate Greek .

      A Key To The " Court Circular:'

      A KEY TO THE " COURT CIRCULAR : '

      Lord A. Purposes Remaining' At His Seat ...

      Lord A . purposes remaining' at his Seat in Loamshire till after the Easter recess . Explanation . —His lordship's account at his bankers is overdrawn . The Earl of B . has arrived in town for the season . Explanatioji— . The noble Earl has taken a furnished house in Brompton at 3 ]? guineas a week , and has had an interview with a second-rate pastrycook in the neighbourhood , with a view to a couple of contract dinner-parties . Viscount C is still on the Continent . His Lordship ' s mansion in Mayfair is undergoing a complete repair . waiting Explanation for a lette . — r The from Viscount , a confidential is hang friend ing about to let him Boulogne . know , that it is safe to come back . There is an execution in his house . And so on to the end of the alphabet .

      Legislative Lumber.

      LEGISLATIVE LUMBER .

      Imagine A Modern Metropolitan Police Mag...

      Imagine a modern metropolitan police magistrate making a conviction under an Act of Parliament passed in the reign of tradesmen Charles the were Second fined ; yet five , at shillings the Mary each lebone for having Police Court their , shops three open on Sunday . The public , it seems , are indebted for this curious and interesting event to a parcel of people styling themselves " The Society for Promoting the Better Observance of the Lord's Day , " who make it their business to spend their Sundays in loitering about the streets in church time , getting up charges against harmless shopkeepers . The magistrate at the Marylebone Police Court , of course , had no alternative , the as cases it stood having . But been it sets broug one ht reflecting before him as , to but how to it carry comes out that the such law antediluvian enactments should exist unrepealed . It probably is that it is not thought worth while to upset old Acts of Parliataken ment , advantage which are of too . It outrageous seems , thoug and h absurd , that the now Leg -a- islature days to has be counted too much on the common sense of the public . So long them as bad for laws their exist own , we purposes suppose ; there so , failing will be any found legislation fools to to utilise rid the an earl country y opportunity of this latter of clearing race , we off advise a number Mr . Gladstone of ridiculous to take and should-be obsolete Acts , the existence of which we only become aware of when they are proving themselves , if not dangerous , at least perplexing .

      Sa Vjs Him From His Friejvds.

      SA VJS HIM FROM HIS FRIEJVDS .

      The French Government Last Week Made Its...

      The French Government last week made its first mistake in its dealings with M . Rochefort and his friends . It seems that M . Ulric de Fonvielle was imprisoned with his conjreres of the out staff any of The assi Marse gned reason illaise , . but It was would shortl appear y afterwards that M released . de Fonviclle withis far more indignant at his liberation than his arrest , " for , he police arrested argues true facts , officer reasonabl ? and of the took if y he case upon enoug was probabl himself h guilty , if y he , are wh the was , y responsibility that was innocent some he released , over wh of y -officious was ? M . The he de the Fonvielle reward ' s det his enti over on , and -zealous by this interference time has . probabl Of course y met not with the smallest doubt exists that the liberation of the prisoner , was enap a tirel ffair parent y j on and account weakness the Rochefort of of his the connexion Government party have with made in the being cap Pierre swayed ital out Bonaparte by of such the considerations . The attitude of the French Cabinet ( it is pleasant to write of a French Cabinet with a really responsible poin pity existence t that of attack ) a has slip been . should However so dignified hav , b e y been this in its time made late the , trouble which Emperor opens that must it out is be a a accustomed to finding his most implacable enemies in the ranks of his friends ; so we will not further waste our sympathy .

      Co Query Le End In For Smoke A Certain ?...

      Co Query le end in for smoke a certain ? Co-respondent . — -Will that naughty

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Feb. 26, 1870, page 77, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_26021870/page/5/