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 LOOK AT HOME.
IN Fro. I. WE SEE SOMETHING WHICH DISGRACES THE STREETS OF PARIS. VERY GOOD! BUT ARE THE OBJECTS DEPICTED
 IN FIG. II. ORNAMENTAL TO THOSE SAME STREETS?


 PARIS FASHIONS FOR OCTOBER.
 (According to the Times.)
 Now that our countrymen and countrywomen are flocking into the
French capital in droves, we are enabled to give a brief sketch of the
prevailing smodes as displayed upon the persons of our fellow-subjects
before the eyes of the Parisians.
 In gentlemen's costume we have principally to notice the pantalon
( la Billy Barlow. The garment is made loose to the figure, the
knees very much projecting in front, giving an elegant baggy appear-
ance; in one respect it may be looked on as a revival of the old
Elizabethan style, being "slashed" in various places; the bottoms of
the legs are fringed all round aux chiffons, allowing the boot to be
seen. The boot itself, known as the solventt savetd," is of a dull
brown lino, onamented with irregular patches 4 discretion. Coats are
much worn, especially at the elbows. Shirts couleur de tabac a priser,
with collars de la semaine passe, are all the rage. Wristbands are
worn (if at all) doubled back out of sight. Gloves remain on the
hands of the dealers, instead of on those of the public. In hats we
have the "chapcan du roulicr chantant," or "warbling waggoner"
head-dress; the "tris mauvais," or "shocking bad;" the "bien-edveilld,"
or wide-awake;" the Guillot-le-coq," or Billycock;" the "usd,"
tho "jcrasi," the "sans-poil," and a host of others. In gentlemen's
dress generally we notice a startling variety of colours, and a charming
effect is produced by the discarding of that monotonous gloss, insepa-
rable from new broad-cloth, which once shone over the whole figure,
and the artistic substitution of isolated shining spots (picking out the
high-lights as it were), a result we believe chiefly produced by variously
situated dabs of grease.
 In ladies' dress the robe 4 draggletail is very fashionable upon the
Boulevards. Bonnets d la Saircy Gamp, chaussures i la Tilly Slow-


boy, and pattens d la blanchisseuse, mako up the tout ensemble of our
English belles when out of doors.
 For evening costume, for the theatre, the opera, or the concert, the
principal novelties are, for gentlemen, corduroy pantalons, velveteen
shooting-jackets, Belcher handkerchiefs wound round the neck in a
charming neglige manner, cab-drivers' overcoats, and hob-nailed
Blucher boots. For ladies, either washed-out print dresses, or faded
silks, that ought to have been given to the poor, or (if ready money
be an object) sold to the old-clothes-man months before, are considered
Ie fromage.
 The correspondent of the Times, who favours us with this informa-
tion of how the English dress abroad, has not yet seen a London
leader of fashion driving a donkey-slant along the Rue de Rivoli and
smoking a short clay pipe; nor have we yet heard of a lady patroness
of Almack's being discovered taking home the washing. But some
days yet will elapse before these lines are before the public, and who
can tell what will occur by then ? Should any such discovery as those
we have alluded to be revealed before our number is published, we
shall, regardless of expense, stop the press to give the full and further
particulars.

 A HAPPY BAND.
 WE see a song advertised bearing the title'of "The Cheerful
Drum." We understand it will be immediately followed by The
Light-hearted Penny Whistle;" The Happy-go-lucky Ophecleido;"
"The Contented Clarionet;" The Benignant Bassoon;" The
Delighted Double-bass ;" The Frisky Fiddle;" The Well-to-do-
Cornet;" The Slightly Elevated Cymbals;" and The Intoxicated
Bagpipes."


PUR-BLIND.-A newly-born kitten.