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"HAPPINESS IN ----."--Professor ST. GEORGE MIVART will be glad to learn
that a telegram from New York, dated the 19th instant, contained the
following interesting item of intelligence.--"A vast quantity of ice is now
at Hell Gate."

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DEPRECIATION OF GOLD!--"Guinea Fowls" were sold in the Market last week at
from 2_s._ 5_d._ to 3_s._ 6_d._! and a Plover Golden, was to be had for
ninepence!!

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What with _The Daily Bourse_ and dustmen who refuse to remove the
Drury-Lane refuse, our Sir AUGUSTUS DURIOLANUS has been, of late,
considerably Harris'd.

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MOTTO FOR THE LADIES WHO BECOME MEMBERS OF MRS. STANNARD'S "ANTI-CRINOLINE
LEAGUE."--"All hoops abandon ye who enter here."

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GREAT BRITAIN is a country _per se_--so is every Island, as it is only _per
sea_ it can be reached.

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[Illustration: MAKING THE BEST OF IT.

"GOOD MORNING, UNCLE CHARLES! DID YOU SLEEP WELL? I'M AFRAID YOUR BED WAS
RATHER HARD AND UNEVEN; BUT----"

"OH, IT WAS ALL RIGHT, THANKS! I GOT UP NOW AND THEN DURING THE NIGHT, AND
RESTED A BIT, YOU KNOW!"]

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MISCHIEF!

["As regards Home Rule, I did not, of course, say that there were
only three Home-Rulers in the world--Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. MORLEY,
and myself. I said that ... there were no stronger Home-Rulers,
except myself, than Mr. GLADSTONE and Mr. MORLEY in
Parliament."--_Mr. H. Labouchere, in a Letter to the "Times."_

"Monkeys and parrots show much analogy in character and habits;
they both possess extraordinary powers of imitation, which they
exercise in copying man and his peculiarities. Monkeys 'take off'
his gestures, and parrots his speech."--_Napier's "Book of Nature
and Man."_]

Oh, a merry mime was Jacko!
He could wink, and whiff tobacco,
Like a man (an artful _homo_) and a brother.
And the Parrot--ah! for patter,
And capacity for chatter
On--no matter much _what_ matter,
That gave scope for clitter-clatter,
The world could hardly furnish such another.
The Parrot was a bird
That could talk great bosh with gravity;
The Ape could be absurd
With an air of solemn suavity;
And which to take most