ut from _The Field_ of last week:--

R. ---- ---- WANTS some friend to give him a small BULLDOG
with a smile, for a house pet.--To be sent for inspection to,
&c.

It is to be hoped that the advertiser will not get an animal that (to
quote from _Hamlet_) "may smile and smile and be a villain!"

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IGNOTUS.

Prate not about Fame! I've addressed half the world,
In Court and in cottage, in Castle and slum!
I've been warbled, and chorussed, and tootled, and skirled,
Yet, for _kudos_, I might just as well have been dumb.
Though familiar to all men, I'm wholly unknown;
You're inclined to pooh-pooh, and to say I am wrong?
Nay, listen, and you my correctness will own:
'Tis I wrote the _words_ of a Popular Song!

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NEW AND INTERESTING WORK.--As a companion to Dr. WRIGHT's _The Ice
Ages in North America and its bearing upon the Antiquity of Man_, will
shortly appear _The Penny-Ice Age in London and its bearing on the
Youth of the Metropolis_.

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A BRUMMAGEM BOLUS.

(_BY AN ELATE LIBERAL-UNIONIST._)

An "ill-starred abortion" WEG christened our party;
At present, as JOE hints, that sounds quite ironic.
True, lately our health did appear far from hearty,
But Aston has acted As-tonic!

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NOTE FOR CRITICS.--How can any of us expect the truth from a historian
who himself tells us that he merely "_transcribes from MSS. lying
before him!_"

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WHAT THE ITALIANS SEEM TO WANT IN LOUISIANA.--An _un_fair field, or no
FAVA!

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[Illustration: PICTURE SUNDAY.

(_What Our Artist has to put up with._)

_Fair Damsel_ (_to Our Artist, who is explaining the beauties of
his Picture_). "CHARMING! CHARMING! BUT, OH, MR. FITZMADDER, WHAT A
_DELIGHTFUL_ ROOM THIS WOULD BE FOR A DANCE,--WITH THE MUSICIANS
IN THE GALLERY, AND ALL THE EASELS AND PICTURES AND THINGS CLEARED
AWAY!"]

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A FAIR EXCHANGE.

HOSEA BIGLOW _speaks up on the situation_:--

Here we stan' on the Constitution, by thunder!
State rights won't be hurried by any one's hoofs;
UMBERTO, old hoss, would _you_ like, I wonder,
To 'pologise first, and then bring up yer proofs?
Uncle SAM is free, and he sez, sez he:--