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 ALMANAQK AND DIARY.

 NOVEMBER.

Open-air meetings in Westminster Abbey.
Grand Cattle Show of British Bulwarks at Cowes.
Gunpowder Plot sent in (A.D. 1G05), and rejected by the manager
 of the Theatre Royal, Westminster, on account of its vaults.
FUN rises-in popular favour.
First night of a new classical ballet at the Tuileries, in honour
 of the French Emperor, entitled Paris and L. N."
Inaugural meeting at DAr and MARTIN'S to sympathize with
 the Polish nation. 33BAIRN MARTIN on the bench.
LORD MAYOR'S Day. Morning rejoicings will commence with
 "Appeal to the Public" by the bell-ringers of St. Paul's.-
 AfPcr breakfast, Saturday Review by H.R.H.-Fusiliers,
 Coldstreams, and Grenadiers will shout continuously until
 they are hoarse guards.-The Blues will fire their horses at
 intervals during the day.-Prisoners will be let of by the
 magistrates from ton till four.-Bliud Man's Buff by rush-
 light on the banks of the Thames by DR. LION PLAYP'AIR
 and the Fellows of the Royal Society.


 IWINDow GARDErNING FOR NOVEMBER.-Rise early, and commence
training the garden roller over the dining-room window. The junior
members of your family will doubtless assist you; the effect is novel and
pretty. Cuttings from slate pencils are also pleasing to the eye, but are
scarcely worth the trouble of rearing as late as this.
 KITCHEN GARDEN.-If the frost is at. all severe, run a warming-pan
lightly over the celery beds.
 SFiowNVE AND FANCY GARDENING FOR WINTER.-There is more amuse-


 PEAK-CULIAR PARAGRAPH.
 Ix the synopsis of the scenery in the suc-
 cessful Surrey melodrama, The Idiot of the
 Mountain, we find the following line:-
 "Peak of the Eagle at the Hut of the Idiot."
 Now, not having seen the piece, we cannot
 imagine what this means, but we suppose,
 either that the first word is misspelt, and
 that what is intended to be conveyed is,
 that the eagle, who is a Palmerstonian in
 his architectural ideas, is piqued at the
 Idiot's having employed GILBERT SCOTT in
 the erection of a Gothic hut; or, that.
 "Peak" is a gentleman from the City-
 road who has gone to spend a pleasant
 lunatic evening with his idiotic friend, in
 which case after the words" of the Eagle,"
 as they say in the Latin grammar, subaudi
 "Tavern."

 LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.-The Critic of
 last week tells us that the new periodical,
 Robin Goodfellow, is dead. We are not
 much grieved. Its shape, size, and gene-
 ral arrangements were so completely stolen
 from All the Year Round, that it should
 have been called, not Robin Goodfellozo,
 but Robbin' Dickens.
 IMEM. FOR MOssoo.-Why is the lassitude
 which must sometimes come over the
 leader of the Pre-Raffaelites be like one of
 the most charming of French romances ?
-Because it is the Millais ennui (Mille et
une wuits).
 A CON. FOR THE KURDs.-What is the
difference between the most productive
Alderney in the PRINCE CONSORT'S model
farm, and a gentleman who is so convinced
by MR. JOHN STUART MILL'S logical deduc-
tions, that he yields to him in argument ?
-The one gives milk, while the other
gives way.
 HINT to country cousins who wish to
see the gorilla without the expense of a
trip to London.-Buy a looking-glass.


ment to be got out of your garden now than at any other time. Fancy
gardening in November may be carried to any extent by cultivating your
imaginative powers, and perhaps going through a course of fancy biscuits.
If the weather is very cold, sit before the kitchen fire, and fancy it is
summer. Look out of window, a'nd fancy that your two pair back is a
desirable residence standing in its own park-like grounds." Fancy your
back yard a garden filled with roses, fuschias, and carnations. If you can't
fancy the above, fancy that you can; in short, do whatever you fancy.


 SOMETIIING LIKE LEATHER.-A patent has just been taken out for
making boots and shoes of wood by what is described as the
"Zopissa" process, and which is promised to render those useful
article more enduring and infinitely cheaper. Who would have
thought when we go to be measured for our Wellingtons, that we
should ever have to ask for two feet of timber ?
 IN the puff-paragraph obituary of a recently deceased alderman,
we read: He was originally a miller, but soon quitted the business."
It is gratifying to find that theworthy man was not cut offin the flour
of his youth.
 EX'ASPIRATING.-In Somerset House there is a clerk (we beg his
pardon, an employee) named Hill, who does not pronounce his h's.
The wags of the office have christened him the Malade Imagiairc-
because he calls himself'Ill when he is n't.
 PRovERB ADAPTED TO THE USES OF SOCIETY, BY A MATCI-MAKING
MOTHER.-Position is nine points of the law.
 OUR COBBLER'S LAsT.-Anomaly in shoe-making.-A boot is gene-
rally soled before it's bought.
 JUDICIAL JOKE.-Torture for card-sharpers-the card-rack.


London: Printed and Published (for the Proprietors) by CHABLES WHYTE, at the Office, 80, Fleet Street, E.C.-Saturday, November 0,1301.


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