"It is with infinite pleasure we hear, that the Bishops in their respective dioceses, in conjunction with the opulent pluralists and other beneficed Clergy, are advancing the stipends, and making contributions, for their necessitous Curates, in these times of scarcity. A liberality (or rather an act of justice) which most probably originated with the Bishop of London, who declared in his Charge to the Clergy of his dioceses, as long since as the year 1790, that he would licence no Curate to a single church under £50, nor to two under £70 per an."--(_Times, Aug. 13, 1795._) * * * * * "That practical bulls are not confined to Ireland, take the following specimen: A tradesman of this city, out of charity, took a French boy into his family, who was sent out one evening in a great hurry for butter. His haste threw him into the kennel, butter and all. This was an unfortunate mishap: the dirt he could scrape off, but that partial adhesion of water to grease could not so easily be removed. At last he hit upon an experiment: The maid was bawling out for the butter--'Well, well,' quoth _Jaques_, 'you shall have it quickly. I had the misfortune to wet it, and have just hung it up on a string, before the great stove--it will be dry in a moment, for it dripped before I came away.'"--(_Times, Aug. 21, 1795._) * * * * * "What would our forefathers have thought to see a board with this inscription:--'_With the nicest taste, and by men most exquisite for their professional abilities_' over a _Barber's shop_?"--(_Times, Aug. 21, 1795._) * * * * * "EPIGRAM. In utramque paratus. "How shall we Dr. Drawl obey, His different counsel keep: Whose _Text_ advises 'Watch and pray,' Whose _Sermon_ bids you 'Sleep.'" --(_Times, Aug. 27, 1795._) * * * * * "In an advertisement addressed to a young lady who has eloped, she is _most earnestly_ requested to return to her most _disconsolate parents_: but it is added, that if she does not choose to come herself, she is most particularly desired to send the key of the _tea chest_!"--(_Times, Sept. 4, 1795._) * * * * * "The grand match of Cricket, for one thousand guineas, between Kent and All England, was some days since terminated at Dandelion,[21] in favour of Kent."--(_Times, Sept. 15, 1795._) [Footnote 21: Dent de Lion, Margate.] * * * * *