ister MUNDELLA,
(Who's under Old GLADDY'S umbrella.)
For he's a jolly good fella,
And so say all of _hus_!
With a 'ip, 'ip, 'ip, 'ooray!
We hope the Bureau may pay.
Of course it might well have been better,
But then--it might have been _wus_!

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EMPHASIS GRATIA.--What a difference a slight emphasis makes in an ordinary
sentence! The _D. T._ when giving, in advance, an account of a marriage to
be solemnised the same afternoon, spoke thus concerning the costumes of the
very youthful bridesmaids. "They will wear dresses of very pale blue silk,
made up with ivory-hued lace." Now, had the second word been in italics, it
would have read thus, "They _will_ wear," &c., as if everything had been
done to prevent them from so arraying themselves, "but, in spite of all
efforts, they _will_ wear dresses of very pale blue!" So obstinate of them!
Such nice little ladies, too!

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"The Liberal-Unionists have resolved to abstain from pairing during the
present Session." So _The Times_. "Birds in their little nests agree,"
quoth the eminent Dr. WATTS; but these Parliamentary Birds will belie their
name of "Unionists" if they refuse to "pair."

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TELEGRAM FROM HAWAIANS TO AMERICAN PRESIDENT.--"WE would be U.S."

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THE ANTI----?

Your aid let me ask in a difficult task, _Mr. Punch_, with the greatest
submission;
To win for my name a well-merited fame was always my ardent ambition,
And clearly to-day the least difficult way is to send an appeal to the
papers,
To form an intrigue for creating a league against fashion-designers and
drapers.

Thereby shall I reap an advertisement cheap, and writers, with much
perseverance,
Will furnish as news their apocryphal views on my appetite, age, and
appearance;
They all will revere my conviction sincere, and loudly re-echo my
praises,
But the thing which, as yet, I'm unable to get, is a novel departure in
crazes

The idea shall we float that a swallow-tail coat is only adapted for
Vandals?
Write pamphlets, designed to enlighten mankind on the duty of taking to
sandals?
Would a hatred of hats, or crusade on cravats, secure us a sympathy
louder?
Or shall we assert it is time to r