Thackeray's Verses on Dr. McCosh

1895

Most persons seem to have forgotten Thackeray's allusion in verse to Dr. McCosh. When the discussion over the doctor's appointment to the lordship of Queen's college, Belfast, was at its height, Thackeray wrote in his characteristic Irish brogue a poem purporting to be by the hand of Master Molloy Mollony, aged 15. The opening stanza runs thus:

As I think of the insult that's done to this nation
Hot tears of revinge from me fatures I wash,
And uphold in this pome to the world's daytistation
The sleeves that appointed Professor McCosh.

— New York Sun.

Old Ladies Say Ballet Posters Too Risque

1910

Members of Home Resent Billboard Pictures of Women Scantily Dressed

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. — Opposite the Old Ladies' home in this city is a dead wall, which is used to advertise attractions at some of the local theaters. A bill poster put up a number of posters of ballet dancers clad in gaudy and scant attire. The inmates of the house, who saw them from their windows, were indignant.

They held a consultation and then resolved on action. They procured a number of newspapers, and with paste and pot made their way to the opposite side of the street and covered the lower limbs of the dancers, and were much pleased with their work. One of them remarked: "There now! I guess decency will not be outraged."


Lord's Prayer on Coin

New York. — A curious specimen of the fine work of a famous old American engraver, A. W. Overbaugh, has come to light in a little Staten Island town. The relic is an ancient gold dollar, in the center of which, in a circle one-sixth of an inch in diameter, Overbaugh engraved the Lord's prayer. The inscription cannot be seen with the naked eye, but is distinct with the aid of glasses. The engraving was done on a wager.