AN UNUSUAL NEW YEAR’S GIFT.
An Imperial patent is published in the Vienna Gazette, regulating the financial system of Austria on a perfectly new basis. The patent acquires the form of law on the First of January. This is a New Year’s gift worth its weight in gold, though perhaps we are too hasty. It will be as well not to go on so quickly. Suppose we say worth its weight in copper. We will begin first with kreuzers, then work our way cautiously up to florins, and end gradually, a small Louis d’or at a time, with gold. The grandsons of the present Boeotian population may probably come in for the latter some hundred years hence. We cannot have everything at once. However, the poor Viennese are delighted at the opening of the new prospect before them, and perhaps it is extreme distance of it that lends an additional enchantment to the view. The are so tired of the paper currency, that they are glad a la Charles Mathews, to tale “anything for a change.”
Ignorance in High Life.
Fashionable Lady (to her Husband). “I wonder how the children are? I haven’t seen them for ever so long, and I declare I am getting quite anxious. I say, Henry, dear, I wish you would show me the way up to the nursery.”
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