le to break HENRY of smoking by continually tempting him
with little bits of something very nice to eat?--the worst of it is that
filthy practice has quite spoiled his taste for cake and tart. Reward
for no smoke I have offered in vain. I should be _so_ much obliged to
you, _Mr. Punch_, if you _could_ suggest any plan by which I could
manage to wean my child from his cigars by frequent feeding in small
quantities; indeed, indeed, it would be quite a charity to

"A MOTHER."

*** The frequent feeding in small quantities might, in all
probability, be accomplished easily enough. An occasional kidney--if
devilled, so much the better; a broiled bone now and then; from time to
time a sausage; an anchovy toast after dessert: later in the evening,
perhaps, a poached egg, a Welsh rabbit, or a few scalloped oysters:
these and similar delicacies substituted for pastry, would most likely
very much simplify the difficulty of getting HENRY to take small
quantities of food at short intervals. But experience unfortunately
proves that such a system of diet is not generally accompanied, on the
part of young men, by a discontinuance of smoking; whilst it is almost
always attended with an excessive consumption of malt liquor.--_Punch._

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[Illustration: BLIND CHARITY.]

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INFALLIBILITY AT KING'S COLLEGE.

The Council of King's College have dismissed PROFESSOR MAURICE from his
lectureships, because those theologians disapprove of his views on a
question which is left open by their common Church. The point in
dispute was not settled at the first Council of Nice; but it has now
been decided by a modern Council of Nice Men.

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FAS AB HOSTE DOCERI.

A leading journal says that the CZAR, in calculating upon crushing
Turkey, "reckoned without his host." Rather, we should say, he reckoned
upon his host; but a few more defeats, and NICHOLAS will be driven to
the solitary reckoning in question, and be unable to discharge the shot.

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THE DEARNESS OF BREAD.--A Political Baker attributes this to the war in
Turkey, for he says "it is all owing to the rise in the (y)East."

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THE LAST JOB FOR THE CITY.--Having tolled every thing else that they can
the civic body have now only to toll their own knell.

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