hatch 'em gladly,
But doubt _you_ sadly!"

Meanwhile complacent PARTLET sits and broods,
Blandly anticipative.
As for the Public, well, of all the moods
They clearly love the dative;
And, so the brood be good, won't greatly bother
As to who's mother!

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Shall Women Smoke?

I SEE, by an advertisement, that a cork tip put to a cigarette
prevents tongue irritation. I have no objection to my wife's
smoking, if she will use these cigarettes. Her "tongue irritation"
is something too trying to

Yours truly,

SOCRATES.

P. S.--Might call these cigarettes the "Xan-cork-tippe Cigarettes."

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STREET MUSIC.--If the sole musical solace of the children of the
back slums be the Italian organ-grinder, let him remain there; but
don't let him emerge thence to worry and drive to distraction
authors, composers, musicians, artists, and invalids. It was mainly
the organ-grinding nuisance that killed JOHN LEECH.

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"HOLY Trinity Church," said the _Pall Mall Gazette_ recently,
"contains many notable memorials of past times." Among others,
appears to be the head of the Earl of SUFFOLK, who was beheaded in
1554. This though a memorial of times past, can hardly be pronounced
a relic of pastimes, except by those to whom beheading was good
sport.

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[Illustration: ONE MAN CAN TAKE A HORSE TO WATER, BUT TEN CAN'T MAKE HIM
JUMP.]

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THE SOUNDS OF THE STREETS.

MR. PUNCH'S Special Nuisance Commissioner continued yesterday afternoon
this adjourned inquiry, which, having now arrived at the stage of
dealing with "street-music," at present attracting so much public
notice, invested the proceedings with an unusual amount of interest.

The Commissioner, on taking his seat, said that, since they last met, he
had been rather puzzling himself with the distinction that might be
drawn between a "particular" and a "general" or a "pretty general"
nuisance, and he had come to the conclusion that he much doubted whether
this latter kind had any definite existence, as there were always to be
found disagreeable people, themselves the most intolerable nuisances,
ready to support and encourage anything that might prove a source of
annoyance or eve