I read your story of the cherry-coloured cat. The clergyman with whom
I was educated astonished me when a child, by saying, when at his
living at ----, he preached in a cherry-coloured gown and a
_rose_-coloured wig (white.)

AN OLD ONE.

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PROPHECY OF LORD BYRON.


In his journal, under the date of January 13, 1821, Lord Byron writes:
"Dined--news come--the powers mean to war with the people. The
intelligence seems positive--let it be so--they will be beaten in the
end. The _King-times_ are fast finishing. There will be blood shed
like water, and tears like mist; but the people will conquer in the
end. I shall not live to see it--but I foresee it."

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HARDHAM'S 37


Snuff-takers generally, especially the patrons of Hardham's 37 will
read the following record of benevolence with some gratification:--"In
1772, Mr. John Hardham, a tobacconist, in London, a native of
Chichester, left by his will the interest of all his estates to the