INTERESTING TO PERVERTS.
We learn from the Times correspondent that, in consequence of the Alps hemming in foreign trade, and the Apennines interrupting internal traffic, “Italy has been about the last country in Europe to have roads.” Then, let us ask of the old proverb what, in the name of the Holy Poker, it means by telling us that “every road leads to Rome?” It is clear that the assertion must be thoroughly groundless, when we are told that there are scarcely any roads in Italy at all; and there being no roads, how is it that Rome is to be approached in all directions, no matter whether a person takes St. Paul’s, or St. Barnabas, or St. George’s in-the-East, or Oxford, as his starting-point? We suppose that every one who has made up his weak mind to go in that direction generally finds a way of his own. In the meantime, if we Protestants are all to be carried over to Rome some day, as the Wisemen of that hopeful sect are always telling us, we only hope that they will take good care to pave the way for us. The journey may as well be made comfortable, with as little injury to our soles as possible.
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The Unprotected Female’s best Friend.- Sir C.Cresswell.
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