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Between nose and nose a strange contest arose
Concerning the smells from a brewery.
Some thought them like Eau de Cologne, whilst their foes
Denounced them as sickly and sewery.
'Twixt the Rhine, which (see COLERIDGE) washes Cologne,
And that sweet "Cologne water" that scents it,
How now shall the difference truly be known?
Strange comparison! Reason resents it!
Oh! what _is_ an odour, and what is a "stink"?
(As the outspoken schoolboy will dub it.)
If man's nose is asked to decide, well, I think,
In puzzlement pure man must--rub it!
If the fragrance of "grains" will to some suggest drains,
And to others bright Bendemeer's roses,
Sanitation's big problem a puzzle remains,
Since it all seems a question of noses.
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NEW DIRECTOR TO ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC.--"Who would succeed Sir GEORGE
GROVE?" that was the question. The answer to the inquiry was, "Who but
PARRY?" Whereupon HUBERT PARRY was appointed. Now, all music at the
College, of whatever nationality, will be taught _à la mode de Parry_.
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