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DOMESTIC MANNERS OF TUE PBOSSIANS.

English, would sound about as rational to piain British ears aswould the designation of " Mr, Purveyor-of-Asses'-Milk-to-the-Royal-Family Dawkins," or "Mr. Dust-and-Rtjbbish-

COLLECTOE-TO-THE -UnITED-PaEISHES-OF-St. - PANCEAS - AND-

Maey-le-bone Gore.

Even a German writer—though tlie people are sad, dulldogs at a joke, being about as funny as mutes—has endea-voured to show the absurdity of the practice by thc inventionof such a denomination as,

Heer Hühneraugen-und-TJeberbeinen-Vektreibungs-Mit-tel - Lehrbuchs - Stampel - Kosten- Ebsatz-Berechnungs-Kom-missions-Assessor Schmidt ; *

which, literally translated, means—

Mr. Assessor - of - a - (Kommission - foe - Estimating - the -Amount - of - (Kompensation -dhe- foe-the-cost-of-a-Stamp-on-as chool - book - conceening - the - me ans - of - eradicating-corns-and-Bunions Smith.

The death-blow to the Bloomer agitation for universalpantaloons, was the introduction of some fair damsel in inex-pressibles behind almost every public-house bar; as well as alike means of attracting custom being adopted—"to extend thecause," as the announcements ran,—at each of the more enter-prising eel-pie shops and sweet-stuff establishments throughoutthe metropolis; for such bigots to " fashion " are mankind,that the sure way to blight even a far more righteous objectthan the attainment of trowsers for the ladies, is to put thetaint of vulgarity upon it. Hence, as titles have got to be" low " in Germany, we may soon expect to see every real gen-tleman in the land (for such prodigies must spring up shortly—even among their Teutonic " Excellenzes" and "Magnificenzes")begging to be allowed to bear a name as piain and unadorned

* Jean Paul Richter—but witk a slight altcration, for the sake of decency.