y the allegation that Lord GLADSTONE, when he
was booed upon his arrival at Waterloo from South Africa, remarked
gaily, "Ah, I see I have not done with my friends the Booers yet!"

* * *

It is nice to know in these days of lost reputations that Oriental
hospitality, at any rate, shows no signs of decadence. A correspondent
has come across the following announcement in a tailor's shop in
Tokio:--"Respectable ladies and gentlemen may come here to have fits."

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Illustration: "DO YER LOVE ME, 'ERB?"

"LOVE YER, 'LIZA, I SHOULD JEST THINK I DOES. WHY, IF YER EVER GIVES ME
UP I'LL MURDER YER! I CAN'T SAY MORE'N THAT, CAN I?"

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COMMERCIAL CANDOUR.

"The lasting delightful perfume of the age. One who can prove that
the perfume of _Otto Mohini_ is not lasting for four days by putting
five drops on the handkerchief will be rewarded Rs. 100 cash. Try
only small tube and get the reward."--_Advt. in "The Hitavada."_

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"Dr. Roux, head of the Pasteur Institute, has made a communication
to the Academy of Science showing microbes is not only possible, but
would be far better."

_Rangoon Gazette._

But we don't quite see what the Academy can do about it.

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"MINIATURE & PORTRAIT PAINTING

MR. ALFRED PRAGA, R.B.A.,

President of the Society of Manicurists."

_Advt. in "The Studio."_

We know an artist whose work gives us the impression that he might be
President of the Society of Chiropodists.

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"Lord Provost Stevenson is proving a serious rival to Principal
MacAlister as a linguist. Sir Daniel yesterday addressed public
gatherings in English, Italian, and Spanish."

_Glasgow News._

Now that he has mastered English, he must have a try at Scotch.

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IMPERIAL CANDOUR.

"You are Germans. God help us."

Berlin Castle. _Signed "WILLIAM."_

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PRO PATRIA.

England, in this great fight to which you go
Because, where Honour calls you, go you must,
Be glad, whatever comes, at least to know
You have your quarrel just.

Peace was your care; before the nations' bar
Her cause you pleaded and her ends you sought;
But not