From reptiles and fishes to birds we ascend, And quadrupeds next their dominions extend, Till we rise up to monkeys and men, where we end, - Which nobody can deny. Some creatures are bulky, some creatures are small, As nature sends food for the few, or for all, And the weakest, we know, ever go to the wall, Which nobody can deny. A deer with a neck that is longer by half, -- try not to laugh By stretching and stretching becomes a giraffe, Which nobody can deny. A very tall pig, with a very long nose, Sends forth a proboscis quite down to his toes, And he then by the name of an elephant goes, Which nobody can deny. The four-footed beast that we now call a whale, Which nobody can deny. Pouters, tumblers, and fantails, are from the same source, An ape with a pliable thumb and big brain, Which nobody can deny. As a lord of creation established his claim, Which nobody can deny. But I'm sadly afraid, if we do not take care, Which nobody can deny. Their lofty position our children may lose, Their vertebræ next might be take away, When they'd sink to a shell-fish, or spider, some day, - Which nobody can deny. Or the pitiful part of a polypus play, - Which nobody can deny. Thus losing humanity's nature and name, And descending through varying stages of shame, They'd return to the Monad from which we all came Which nobody can deny. not the glorious JOHN Who wrote the book we all have pondered on But other BUNIONS, bound in fleecy hose, To" PILGRIM'S PROGRESS" unrelenting foes.-O. W. HOLMES, Ulysses' Dog Aryus. -- When wise Ulysses, from his native coast The Names of Twenty Cities. 1. A wine that's red, you will declare, a remedy for "mal de mer." 2. An animal almost extinct, but once it roamed a great precinct. 3. A work in cleansing that abounds, a weight that means 2,000 pounds. 4. A necessity of life to all, a sheet of water, sometimes small. 5. An organ of the human frame, a highly interesting game. 6. A vegetable species green, a farmyard beast, with face serene. 7. 8. A kind of game a workman knows, a crossing where a river flows. a very common christian name. an ordinance in an abbey found. to here deccribe as just a stopper. 9. An adjective of slang makeshift, a weight that's very hard to lift. 10. Someone deceased of goodly fame, 11. An instrument of pleasing sound, 12. A city whose whole name 'tis proper 13. An ointment, soothing in its touch, a name that's given to girls so much. 14. A vegetable that's small and sweet, the relatives we like to greet. 15. Places of safety from great storms, an entrance having many forms. 16. A city where the flowers must bloom. its very name tells of perfume. 17. A substance of transparent hue, a verb that follows an adieu. 18. A word that means the same as spoil, things at which the sailors toil. 19. An explosive of deadly strength, a stretch of water of some length. A place whose name a verb suggests, in it a peaceful ruler rests. 20. Four-and-Twenty Birds Baked in A Pie." WHAT ARE THEIR NAMES? An old woman went to the mart in haste, In her hand a crook, and she said: "Well, I say, She had over two miles from her home to speed, And a brave, noble pie they shall have," quoth she. She in a panic ran ever so quickly, Where the ground with rushes was covered thickly ; Just where one can a rye-field espy, And through the oak tree a gleam of pure sky, Her heart did throb in dismay and fear ; A fall doth befal conceit, that is clear; This comes of being roused, for variety's sake, At length up she scrambled: how rent was her gown! To go, O severely, my limbs it will try! Yet a parsnip, eggs, bacon, and birds I must buy. However, she managed to hobble away, And for twenty four birds all her money did pay; In a wonderful pie then the birds did she cook; To the first person who sends to this office the correct names of the twenty-four birds in the above pie, the name to be wove into rhymed verses, we will send the numbers of NOTES AND QUERIES for 1900 (Vol. XVIII). Some Curios Among Our Books. DOCTOR PAULUS Magicon. Wonderful Prophecies Concerning Popery and its Impending Overthrow and Fall, together with Predictions Relative to America, the End of the World and the Formation of the New Earth; also, concerning the True Beginning and Future of the New Church called the New Jerusalem; with 44 Magic Figures. The New Great Republic of the World. Pp. 152. New York, 1868. ELDER TRIPTOLEMUS TUB. Adventures; comprising Important and Startling Disciosures Concerning Hell Its Magnitude, Morals, Employments, Climate, all very saci factorily authenticated. Illustrations. Pp. 198. Boston, 1854. [EUGENE BATCHELDER.] A Romance of the Sea-Serpent, or Ichthyosaurus. Also, a collection of the Ancient and Modern authorities, with letters from distinguished merchants and men of science. Pp. 172. Cambridge, 1872. "To all those who reside at the sea side, preside at the fireside, or ride on the blue tide, over the ocean wide, this little book is respectfully dedicated by the author. Extract: "In serpentine mazes this story will stray, to scare you by night and alarm you by day; if you read it at eve when the bat slowly flits, it may possibly frighten you out of your wits, and unless you've strong nerves, just throw down the book, and never once dare in its pages to look." JOHN THINKINGMACHINE. (James Ferdinand Mallinckrodt.) Novissimum Organon. The Certainties, Guesses, and Observations of John Thinkingmachine. In which he presents the development of a new thought-method, with its application to the events of the past twelve years, 1870 to 1882. Pp. 114. "The essence of things is numbers." St. Louis, 1882. 1 First Principles. 2 The Machine. 3 The Problem of the Times. 4 Garfield vs. Hancock. 5 Which is the Christ, Jesus or Judas? Has Adam the Third arrived? "If there had been no Judas, there could have been no Christianity. If Jesus had attained the age of Socrated, he would not have attained more power. Without the principle of death when life is most valued, to excite the sympathy of beholders, there could have been no Shakespeare. If Hosea Ballou, perhaps a very relative of Garfield, was at all right, there must be at least some chance of salvation for Judas." JOHN P. WEEKS. Narrative of John P. Weeks, who was sick; whose Spirit left the body, was conducted to Paradise by an Angel, looked over into Hell, and returned to the Body again ; the Body recovered health, and related the Adventures in both Regions, totally disproving the Advent doctrine of the Soul's Sleeping in the Grave and the Annihilation of the Wicked. Pp. 42. Newport, Vt., 1890. LORENZO ALTISONANT. (S. K. Hoshour.) Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, by an Emigrant to the West For the benefit of the inquisitive young. By a Lover of the Studious. "Tolle et lege." Fourth edition, enlarged and improved. With a Vocabulary of the unusual words in the Altisonant Letters. Pp. 164. Indianapolis, 1870. ( Dr. Franklin's advertisement which appeared in the New England Courant, 1726.) "If there be any person that has imposed his surreptitious digits on the globular rotundity of an hat, tinctured with nigridity, let him convey his intelligence to the preconic potentate, where the sonorus jar of his tintinnabular instrument, by a tremulous exagitation of the minute aerial particles, affecting the auricular organs, make an impression on the cerebral part of the microcosm; and shall receive a donation adapted to the magnitude of the benefit, whether the hat has titulated his manual extremities, or only struck the capilliments of his optic nerves!" - Page 75 of "Altisonant Letters." G. W. MITCHELL, REV. X+Y=Z; The Sleeping Preacher of North Carolina. An account of the most wonderful mysterious mental phenomena, fully authenticated by living witnesses, of intelligence and unimpeachable veracity. Pp. 202. New York, 1876. SOLON CURRIER. The Wonderful Wheel of Fortune. Foundon the Life of Solon Currier. "A book of remembrance was written" (Mal. iii, 16. They run like little snakes into the old one's mouth. Pp. 128. Laconia, 1867. PIANG PU. Revolution in Orcus, and the Establishment of a Democratic Republic Headed by the Hero of a Thousand Fights. An Epic in four cantos. Published for — Fun. Pp. 112. New York, 1848. THINKS I-To-MYSELF. WHO? A Serio Ludicrus, Tragico Comico Tale, written by Thinks I-To-Myself, Who. Two volumes in one. Pp. 138. Boston, 1837. |