vindictive rage
In warlike rival's breast,
It is well to preach in the softest speech
If at peace we wish to rest.
But arm meanwhile!--enlist!
Draw gauntlet upon wrist;
And in friendly grasp he soon may clasp,
And shake your doubled fist.

* * * * *

A RAILWAY DOG.

The papers contained the other day an account of an eccentric dog, who,
it seems, is in the habit of frequenting the railways, and travelling
about the country from station to station in company with different
engine-drivers. Surely this must be a very unhappy dog, who is afflicted
with a suicidal turn, and whose instinct directs him to the railways as
the surest mode of terminating his existence.

We should like some philosopher to take the matter in hand, and
ascertain whether the dog is a sad dog, a reckless dog, or a mad dog,
that is thus risking the shortening of his dog-days by pursuing such a
line of life, or rather such a line of death, as a line of railway.

* * * * *

EAGLES AT A DISCOUNT.

France has lately superseded the jolly old Gallic Cock, and mounted the
Eagle on the dunghill of national vanity. Eagles have, however, fallen
terribly low in France, and they are being publicly exhibited in every
variety of form and substance, from the Spread Eagle cut in paper, at
three sous, to the Eagle ready to seize on its prey, carved in gilt
wood, at one or two Napoleons. It is quite true that the French have
found their master not at all earlier than they wanted him; and we can't
help recognising the wisdom of substituting the Eagle for the _Egalite_
humbug that was, for a time, permitted to predominate.

* * * * *

THE TUNE CHANGED.

For the first day RICHARD COBDEN was supreme at the Peace Congress: the
bagpipers played nothing but _Oh Richard, oh man Roi!_ On the second
day, however, after old ADMIRAL NAPIER had fired off his speech, nothing
was heard but--_Charlie is my Darling._

* * * * *

"THE COMING STRUGGLE."

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The speculations about the "Coming Man" have amused us for some years;
but expectation having been tired out by waiting for the "man," who,
though always "Coming, coming, coming!" never came, a new dodge has been
started, and we are now called upon--in a pamphlet, price 6_d._--to
prepare for the "_Coming Struggle_." According to the