The frightfully long money-pouches—“like the Cucumber called the Gigantic”—which have come in vogue among our belles—are _not_ of Parisian origin, as many suppose, but are strictly indigenous here. The fact is, such a fashion would be quite out of place in Paris, where it is money _only_ that women keep in a purse. The purse of an American lady, however, must be large enough to carry both her money and the soul of its owner. 16. I can see no objection to gentlemen “standing for Congress”—provided they stand on one side—nor to their “running for Congress”—if they are in a very great hurry to get there—but it would be a blessing if some of them could be persuaded into sitting still, for Congress, after they arrive. 17. If _Envy_, as Cyprian has it, be “the moth of the soul,” whether shall we regard _Content_ as its Scotch snuff or its camphor? 18. M——, having been “used up” in the —— Review, goes about town lauding his critic—as an epicure lauds the best London mustard—with the tears in his eyes. 19. “_Con tal que las costumbres de un autor sean puras y castas_,” says the Catholic Don Tomas de las Torres, in the Preface to his “Amatory Poems,” “_importo muy poco qui no sean igualmente severas sus obras_:” meaning, in plain English, that, provided the personal morals of an author are pure, it matters little what those of his books are. For so unprincipled an idea, Don Tomas, no doubt, is still having a hard time of it in Purgatory; and, by way of most pointedly manifesting their disgust at his philosophy on the topic in question, many modern theologians and divines are now busily squaring their conduct by his proposition exactly _conversed_. 20. Children are never too tender to be whipped:—like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them the more tender they become. 21. Lucian, in describing the statue “with its surface of Parian marble and its interior filled with rags,” must have been looking with a prophetic eye at some of our great “moneyed institutions.” 22.