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NEW AND OLD TERMS.--"Slate, Slite, Slote, Slitten," is the title of
an amusing article in the _Saturday Review_, on the derivation of the
verb "to slate." How "slote" comes in is not quite evident, but that
when the pages of a dull book are "slitten" by the paper-knife, it
will be read and slated by a critic, and then "slited" (or "slighted")
by the public, is quite sufficient without "putting a penny in the
'slote'" on the chance of getting something better.

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SO LIKE HIM!--Tuesday last week was the seventieth birthday of
Professor VIRCHOW. He has refused all titles and emoluments, observing
that "VIRCHOW is its own reward."

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VERY POP-ULAR!--Through the _Times_ came the information that, since
the famine, the Russian Officers have given up drinking champagne.
Their conduct is really quite Magnuminous!

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[Illustration: "GRANDOLPH AD LEONES."]

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"ADSCRIPTUS GLEBÆ."