the want of one, declared, with great indignation, that an Englishman's
only spitting-box was his stomach.


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_Awkward Honour_.--A medical gentleman has written a letter to Sir Henry
Halford on Cholera, in which he takes to himself the credit of being "the
first to discover the disease, and _communicate it to the public_." The
public is much obliged to him.--_Globe_.


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_Newspapers_.--We wish Lieutenant Drummond would calculate the miles of
newspaper columns which every club-haunter daily swallows, and the price
he pays for the same to the proprietaries and the revenue.--_Examiner_.


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_Scandal_.--The tell-tale trumpery and eaves-dropping with which the "Tour
of a German Prince" is trickseyed out, reminds us of an observation by
Lady Morgan: "Admit these fellows into your house, and the only return
they will make you is to put you in their book."

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