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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. 



THESE 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 



