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Great Social Questions.

Which is the right side of twenty? What do you say to fourteen? Is twenty-one the wrong side? Should you call twenty-nine the wrong side of twenty, or the right side of thirty? Has forty any right side at all, nearer than some figure under thirty? If there is a right side of forty, is it not that which is nearer to three-score and ten?

PERFORMING PARSONS.

We think the Pit and the Pulpit should not be jumbled up together. When the former is invaded by the latter, we doubt if the pull is altogether on the side of the Church. We shall be having the Beadle going round next, as often as there is a pause in the service, and crying out, “Any apples, oranges, or ginger-beer?”

Quite Enough Too.

There is a new paper called The Dial, which, in its great moderation, tells us it is published only “once a week for the present.” We suppose when it becomes a daily as well as a weekly paper, that it will change its name then to the Seven Dials?

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