PHONETIC SPELLING.
A Woolwich Correspondent of the Post informs us that -
“About 800 girls are employed at a building in the laboratory department of the Royal Asenal for the purpose of making cartridges.”
It may be questioned whether the word “Asenal” in the above is a misprint, or a true indication of the writer’s spelling and pronunciation of “Arsenal”. There are grounds for suspecting it to be a specimen of military orthography and manned of speech; but on the other hand we find the word cartridges correctly spelt: and the young officer who would write “Asenal” for Arsenal would, instead of “cartridge,” probably put “catridge.”
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Q. Why Mrs. Howard Paul like a twenty-pound note?
A. Because she is the double of a Tenor (P.S. In allusion to her life-like imitation of Mr. Sims Reeves).
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The Demand of the Irish Patriot. – We want to be free to be slaves.
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