The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 404, December 12, 1829

SOUP

Is manufactured in great abundance in Paris from the bones of butchers' meat. At one of the hospitals upwards of 1,000 basins of soup are furnished daily.

ABYSSINIAN CATTLE

Are remarkable for the extraordinary size of their horns, some of which are four feet long, seven inches in diameter near the head, and hold ten quarts.

ECCENTRIC INVITATION

Paul Spencer exhibits the following distich on his door, in Glasgow:—

 
"Entertainment here for all that passes,
 Horses, mares, mules, and asses."
 

C.J.T.

CANALS

According to a calculation recently made, there are 103 canals in Great Britain—extending 2,682 miles, and formed at an expense of thirty millions sterling.

C.J.T.

"Do you know what made my voice so melodious?" said a celebrated vocal performer, of awkward manners, to Charles Bannister. "No," replied the other. "Why, then, I'll tell you: when I was about fifteen, I swallowed, by accident, some train oil." "I don't think," rejoined Bannister, "it would have done you any harm if, at the same time, you had swallowed a dancing-master!"