made shift to victual hitherto my little garrison, but then it
has been with the aid of my good friends and allies--my clothes.
This week's eating finishes my last waistcoat; and next, I must
atone for my errors upon bread and water.

'THEMISTOCLES had so many towns to furnish his table, and a
whole city bore the charge of his meals. In some respects I am
like him, for I am furnished by the labors of a multitude. A wig
has fed me two days; the trimming of a waistcoat as long; a pair
of velvet breeches paid my washerwoman, and a ruffled shirt has
found me in shaving. My coats I swallowed by degrees. The
sleeves I breakfasted upon for weeks; the body, skirts, etc.,
served me for dinner two months. My silk stocking have paid my
lodgings, and two pair of new pumps enabled me to smoke several
pipes. It is incredible how my appetite, (barometer like) rises
in proportion as my necessities make their terrible advances. I
here could say something droll about a good stomach, but it is
ill jesting with edge tools, and I am sure that is the sharpest
thing about me. You may think I can have no sense of my
condition, that while I am thus wretched, I should offer at
ridicule: but, Sir, people constituted like me, with a
disproportioned levity of spirits, are always most merry when
they are most miserable; and quicken like the eyes of the
consumptive, which are always brightest the nearer the patient
approaches his dissolution. However, Sir, to show you I am not
lost to all reflection, I think myself poor enough to want a
favor, and humble enough to ask it here. Sir, I might make an
encomium on your good nature, humanity, etc.; but I shall not
pay so bad a compliment to your understanding, as to endeavor,
by a parade of phrases, to win it over to my interest. If you
could, any night at a concert, make a small collection for me,
it might be a means of my obtaining my liberty; and you well
know, Sir, the first people of rank abroad will perform the most
friendly offices for the sick; be not, therefore, offended at
the request of a poor (though a deservedly punished) debtor.

'GEO. A. STEVENS.'

AMONG the facetiae of the 'Centinel' we find a clever hit at two prominent
official characters of the name of DAY: 'TITUS, a Roman emperor, we are
told, once lament