"'The policy of worry' shan't be strained;
They'll drop it in my gentle reign next Session."
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[Illustration: "AN OPPORTUNIST."
_He._ "OH, EMIL----MISS CRUMPCHER--CAN--HAVE YOU EVER LOVED?"
_She._ "N--NOT THIS SEASON!"]
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A WOULD-BE "LITERARY GENT."--The following is from the _Daily
Telegraph_:--
LITERARY.--A gentleman who erst wrote for recreation, is driven,
through cruel misfortune, to resume his pen for a livelihood.
Fugitive lines, reviews of English, French, and Italian literature,
topics of the day.
What a condescension! How good of him! He "first wrote for
recreation"--whose?--his own probably, and that of his friends who were
as easily amused as were those of Mr. PETER MAGNUS,--who signed himself
P.M., or afternoon, for the entertainment of his correspondents,--and
now he is "driven through cruel misfortune to resume his pen." Very
cruel! Perhaps already his friends are beginning to suffer from this
spiteful freak of Fortune. But as he can knock off with ease a variety
of literary work, he is rather to be envied than pitied; and already he
may be on the high road to literary fame which he will despise, and
solid wealth which he will appreciate.
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THE NEW SIXPENCE.--On the face is to be the QUEEN'S effigy with
inscription, and on the reverse its value inscribed, surrounded by an
olive-branch and an oak-branch. More appropriate for the face would have
been the QUEEN'S effigy surrounded by olive-branches.
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M. PASTEUR is the man for the successful treatment of hydrophobia. Does
the Australasian Government appeal to him for assistance because it
finds itself in a rabbit state?
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