"_That._"--I lately met with the following grammatical puzzle among some old papers. I forget from what book I copied it many years ago. Perhaps it may be new to some of your readers.
"I'll prove the word that I have made my theme, Is that that may be _doubled_ without blame, And that that that thus _trebled_ I may use, And that that that that critics may abuse, May be correct.--Farther, the Dons to bother, _Five_ thats may closely follow one another-- For, be it known that we may safely write Or say that that that that that man writ was right; Nay, e'en that that that that that that has followed Through _six_ repeats, the grammar's rule has hallowed, And that that that (that _that_ that that began), Repeated _seven_ times is right! Deny't who can."
_Corporation Enactments._--In the town books of the Corporation of Youghal, co. Cork, among other singular enactments of that body are two which will now be regarded as curiosities. In the years 1680 and 1703, a cook and a barber received their freedom, on condition that they would respectively dress the mayor's feasts, and shave the Corporation, gratis!
_Jacobite Club._--The adherents of the Stuarts are now nearly extinct; but I recollect a few years ago an old gentleman, in London, who was then upwards of eighty years of age, and who was a stanch Jacobite. I have heard him say that, "when he was a young man, his father belonged to a society in Aldersgate Street, called the 'Mourning Bush;' and this Bush was to be always in mourning until the Stuarts were restored." A member of this Society having been met in mourning when one of the reigning family had died, was asked by one of the members how it so happened? His reply was, that he was "not mourning for the dead, but for the living." The old gentleman was father of the Mercers' Company, and his brother of the Stationers' Company: they were bachelors, and citizens of the old school, hospitable, liberal, and charitable. An instance occurred, that the latter had a presentation to Christ's Hospital: he was applied to on behalf of a person who had a large family; but the father not being a freeman, he could not present it to the son. He immediately bought the freedom for the father, and gave the son the presentation! This is a rare act.