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urgent entreaties, Jupiter felled him with a thun- 
derbolt into the river Po, where, I understand, he 
got pretty well cooled. 
Would that we had a Jupiter here in England, 
with a birch rod in his hand, to tickle some of our 
zoological Phaethons! I would willingly act the 
part of mother Earth; and I would undertake to 
show, by sundry documents, which have reached 
me through the medium of the press, that, if they 
be allowed to drive their new-fashioned vehicles on 
our good old zodiac much longer, they will disfigure 
it in such a manner that, at last, we shall not be 
able to distinguish the Bull from the Ram, or the 
_ beautifully tapering fingers on the hand of the Vir- 
gin, from the rough and crooked claws which arm 
the shell-bound body of the Crab. 
ON MUSEUMS. 
TueEsE are the times for scientific discoveries. 
Till lately, we went fastest on a race-horse; but 
now we go faster still upon a rail. In our days, 
an Italian has put many thousand pounds of English 
money into his pocket, for imparting to Mr. Bull 
the important secret that we can have as good music 
with one fiddle-string as we formerly had with four. 
Witches can now go through the air without the aid 
of broom-staffs, by applying to Mrs. Graham, the 
aeronautess. A piece of stamped paper from Thread- 
needle Street is as eagerly sought after as the 
