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same boat as though it were to be a mutual sacrifice. No, no 

 " I'll bury yourn" was decidedly in bad taste. 



THE BATH ROAD. Travellers bent upon reaching any particular 

 place, are sometimes at a loss to know the shortest cut to their de- 

 stination. In various parts of the country convenient finger-posts 

 have been erected with minute directions, the following of which is 

 in most cases productive of the required success. It has been deemed, 

 however, of some importance to the traveller to make plain unto him 

 that such and such roads are not the direct way to any given spot. 

 Let the following exemplify : There is a sign-board on the turnpike- 

 house, at the entrance to the Frome road, at Warminster, with the 

 following inscription " Poor Travellers will please to take notice, 

 that Frome is not the direct road to Bath. Persons applying for as- 

 sistance will not be relieved, but committed to prison/' 



We have frequently heard an answer given to a poor wayfarer on 

 the world's highway, who has craved assistance " Go to Bath ;" 

 but we do not remember it to have been coupled with the important 

 caution, " Do not go by the way of Frome." The generous church- 

 wardens and overseers of this place form but an epitomized abstract 

 of the world at large. When a poor man requires assistance he is not 

 relieved, and frequently finds himself under the necessity of going to 

 prison. 



BAREFACED IMPUDENCE. We are indebted to a country paper 

 for the following legal decision by one of our judges. Important, if 

 true ; and,, if true, we shall ascribe it to Mr. Justice Parke. 



" Some short time ago, a prosecutor, bountifully furnished with 

 whiskers,, applied to the Court over which Mr. Justice P. presided, 

 for his expenses. ' I won't grant your expenses/ replied the Judge. 

 ' I am astonished you should ask for your expenses a man with 

 such whiskers ! Never saw such whiskers in my life. Sir, your 

 whiskers are disgraceful they're indecent the Court won't grant 

 expenses to a man who wears such whiskers shameful scandalous ! 



It may not be out of place to inquire, if large whiskers do not carry 

 costs, what may be the legal admeasurement of such capillary or- 

 naments, entitling the wearer to beneficial results of that nature ? 

 How may the prosecutor be instructed in the mystery of abridging 

 his whiskers " to a hair ?" It may be well also to ascertain whether 

 beards are unpropitious towards that end how wigs stand affected, 

 and whether bald heads are at a premium ? 



ORANGE EXTERMINATORS. Ireland is the only country in the 

 world wherein the old and unextinguishable hatred between Catholics 

 is fanned and made to burn fiercer. The case lies within a narrow 

 compass : a religion is planted upon the Irish soil which centuries 

 have not made to take root, and because the people have resisted its 

 introduction from the beginning to the present time, they are stig- 

 matised as all that is vile ; because the sheep refuse to be shorn by 

 any other than their own shepherd, they are contumacious : if they 



