192 HOLLAND AND FRENCH. 



The darkest day in drear December's 

 That's lighted by their glowing embers. 



The Hon. " Sunset " Cox in his lecture on American 

 Humor alluded to the national characteristics of the French, 

 Spanish, German, and other nationalities, says : 



"The highest enjoyment of a Frenchman is to hear the 

 last cantatrice, the Spaniard enjoys the most skillful thrust of 

 the matador in the bull arena, the Neapolitan the taste of the 

 maccaroni, the German his beer and metaphysics, the darkey 

 his banjo, and the American 



' To the American there's nothing so sweet 

 As to sit in his chair and tilt up his feet, 

 Enjoy the Cuba, whose flavor just suits, 

 And gaze at the world through the toes of his boots. 1 " 



This would seem to be a feature of the Dutch according to 

 a late traveler, who says : 



" I like Holland it is the antidote of France. No one is 

 ever in a hurry here. Life moves on in a slow, majestic 

 stream, a little muddy and stagnant, perhaps, like one of 'their 

 own canals ; but you see no waves, no breakers ; not an eddy, 

 nor even a froth bubble, breaks the surface. Even a Dutch 

 child, as he steals along to school, smoking his short pipe, has 

 a mock air of thought about him." 



The following epigrams for tobacco jars from " The 

 Tobacco Plant " evince much " taste, wit, and ingenuity." 



Fill the bowl, you jolly soul, 

 And burn all sorrow to a coal. 



Henry Clay. 



That man is frugal and content indeed, 

 Who finds food, solace, pleasure in a weed. 



The " Weed. 



Behold ! this vessel hath a moral got, 

 Tobacco-smokers all must go to pot. 



Epigrammatic. 



A weed you call me, but you'll own 

 No rose was e'er more fully blown. 



Sic Itur ad Nostra. 



Great Jove, Pandora's box with jars did fill 

 This Jar alone has power those jars to still. 



In Nubilus. 



