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introduced at the court of Angola. It took sur- 

 prisingly ; shortly, no woman thought her toilette 

 completed, unless she had used some of this oint- 

 ment. Pounding children became all the rage ; 

 and ladies who aspired to be the leaders of fashion, 

 pounded their own. 



April 20. 



EPIGRAM. — (From the French.) 



66 Whose can that little monster be? 



Its parents really claim one's pity ! " 

 " Madam, that child belongs to me." — 

 " Well, I protest, she 's vastly pretty ! " 



April 21. 



The weather gets no better, the apothecary gets 

 no worse, and both are as foul and as disagreeable 

 as they'can well be. As to the man, it is wonderful 

 that he is still alive, for he has swallowed nothing 

 for the last three weeks except drams and laudanum. 

 He drinks, and he stinks, and he does nothing else 

 earthly or celestial. The quantity of spirits which 

 he pours down his throat incessantly should, of 

 itself be sufficient to finish him ; but he seems to 

 have accustomed himself to drams, as Mithridates 

 used himself to poisons, till his stomach is com- 

 pletely proof against them ; or like the Scythian 

 princess, who was fed upon ratsbane pap from her 

 infancy, for the express purpose of one day or 

 other poisoning Alexander in her embraces ; and 

 who arrived at such perfection, that although the 



