CHAMBERS' EDINBURGH JOURNAL
CONTENTS
MONETARY SENSATIONS.
THE POSTHUMOUS PORTRAIT.
SAMPLES OF UNCLE SAM'S 'CUTENESS.
MRS GRIMSHAWE'S TREATISE ON HOLDFASTS.
A DAY'S PLEASURING IN INDIA.
THE LONDON PRISONS OF THE LAST CENTURY.
LIFE-ASSURANCE OFFICES OF RECENT DATE.
ANECDOTE OF BURNS IN THE '93.
CURIOUS EXPERIMENT IN WOOL-GROWING.
A DIRGE OF LOVE.
CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS, EDITORS OF 'CHAMBERS'SINFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE,' 'CHAMBERS'S EDUCATIONAL COURSE,' &c.
| No. 454. New Series. | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1852. | Price 1½d. |
MONETARY SENSATIONS.
The poorest and most unlucky dog in the world either has or had somesmall portion of money. No matter how small, how hardly, or howprecariously earned, he has seen, from time to time, a glimpse of thecolour of his own cash, and rejoiced accordingly as that colour wasbrown, white, or yellow. It follows, therefore, that even the poorestand most unlucky dog in the world has experienced monetary sensations.It may appear paradoxical, but it is no less true, that it is the veryrich, born to riches, the heirs to great properties, or no end ofconsolidated stock, who have never enjoyed or feared the sensation towhich we allude. To them, money is a thing of course; it pours in uponthem with the regularity of the succeeding seasons. Rent-day comes ofitself, and there is the money; dividend-day is as sure as Christmas,and there lie the receipts. These are the people who know nothing ofthe commodity with which they are so well endowed, or, at most, theirknowledge is but skin-deep. They take and spend, just as they sit orwalk. Both seem natural processes; they have performed them since theywere born. Their money is a bit of themselves—an extra and uncommonlyconvenient limb with which they are endowed. It is only when somesudden catastrophe bursts upon and cuts off the supplies, that thisclass of ladies and gentlemen experience, like the shock of a thousandfreezing shower-baths, their first 'monetary sensation.'
But the men and women who work either with head or hands—who fighttheir way—who plan to gain and plan to spend, so that the lattershall counterbalance the former—who lie sleepless in their beds,intent on how