it is
left for the public to decide whether the 'Acting Editors' are in any
respect entitled to the name they have assumed for their paper.

ONE OF THE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE.

HUMOROUS.

=To my Sweetheart.=

You're a broth of creature,
In form and in feature,--
It's myself that now tells you that same,
And sure, by my troth,
I'll not be very wroth.
If you'll plaze me by changing your name

What a swate little wife,
As a partner for life,
My darlint, 'tis you might be living;
And I'm just the boy,
To wish you much joy,
When your heart it's to me you'll be giving.

I'm half dead--botheration!
With sad consternation--
Of your flirting it is that I'm speaking;
So plaze to be thinking,
When you're winking and blinking.
It's my own honest heart that you're braking.

The divil a haper,
Will I stand of a caper,--
'Twould kill me to find you deceiving;
By my sowl and I'd die,
And that same is no lie,
Before I'd be kilt by me grieving.

Then spake but the word.
My nate little bird,
That you're niver a man's but mine;
And straight to the praist,
It's myself that'll haste,
To make you my _swate waluntine_!

[_Teddy Magowan._

=Boys and Men.=

A youthful volunteer, the other day, out in Arkansas, was taunting a
married gentleman, who had a wife and three small children depending
upon him, for not rallying to the standard of his country, soon after
the requisition upon that State arrived. 'Tom,' said our friend, 'you
_boys_ can whip the Mexicans, but should old England take a hand in
the pie, _I'll_ join, for it will require _men_ to whip the English.'

=Trusting too Long.=

We recollect that a weekly paper was started, some years ago, in one
of the Western States, the terms of which were $2,50 in advance, $3 at
the end of the year--to which the editor jocosely added in a
paragraph, 'and $5 if never paid.' We think that most of his
subscribers took the paper upon the latter terms, since it has been
non est. He played a joke upon himself.

=Business Stand.=

A Frenchman, being about to remove his shop, his landlord inquired the
reason, stating, at the time, that it was considered a very good
stand for business. He replied, with a shrug of the shoulders, "Oh,
yes, he's very good stand for de businis; by gar, me stan