her back,
I cry, in sore distress, "Alack!"
She showed a dainty waist when dressed
In jacket; true, the size confessed
That whalebone had its shape compressed.
Still was her form sweet as her face,
But now what change has taken place!
This "sack coat" hides all maiden grace.
Although men's clothes are always vile,
The coat, the trousers and the "tile"!
Some sense still lingers in each style.
But women's garments should be fair,
All graceful, gay and debonair.
And if they lack good sense, why care?
O JULIA, cease to wear a sack,
A garb all artists should attack,
In which both sense and beauty lack!

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DRINKS AND DRAMAS.

("HENRY THE EIGHTH is a Soda-water Play."--Mr. Irving's
Evidence before the Committee.)

Mr. Irving has now completed his list of refreshments suited to
performances. They can be obtained, like Mr. GOSCHEN's reserve of
shillings, "on application," which does not mean gratis.

_Macbeth_.--Very fine old Scotch.

_Hamlet_.--Bitters.

_Romeo and Juliet_.--Rum and Milk.

_Othello_.--Dublin Stout.

_Merchant of Venice_.--Port(1 A.).

_Charles the First_.--Bottled Ale (with a fine head).

_The Cup_.--Tea.

_Faust_.--Ginger Brandy.

_Much Ado About Nothing_.--Benedictine.

_Corsican Brothers_.--Half-and-half.

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A BERLIN CITIZEN'S DIARY.

(TRANSLATED BY OUR FIRST STANDARD BOARD SCHOLAR.)

["It is stated that the soldier who, on Friday last, fired
at and killed a man who threatened him while on sentry duty
before the barracks in the Wrangel-strasse, Berlin, has been
promoted to the rank of corporal, for what is described as his
correct conduct on the occasion. The passerby, who was wounded
at the same time, still lies in a precarious condition."--_St.
James's Gazette_, April 6.]

_April 1._--I go walking near barracks; see man looking quietly at
building. Suddenly fires the sentry with his long distance rifle, so
that the straight onward through the harmless onlooker's heart and
through my never sufficiently to be regretted right arm passing bullet
in the remote distance a child kills. Long live our good Emperor and
his glorious army! Carried home insensible.

_June 1._--At last am I from arm-amputation recovered and walk again
out. The sentry was for his on the first April quite courageous act to
be Sergeant promoted. Here comes a