8. Is it proved to satisfaction that SHAKSPEARE was a tailor
from the fact of his having written _Measure for Measure_?
9. Whether, for the next International Yacht Race, the tailors should
enter a cutter?
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GOOD BADMINTON.--Among the contents of LONGMAN'S
_Badminton Magazine_ is an article by the Markiss o' GRANBY
on Grouse; SUSAN, not Black-eyed nor Rebellious, but Countess
of Malmesbury, writes cleverly on her perch, and on the matter of
salmon the Countess would count for a lot in any ex-salmonation. Lord
ONSLOW on slow and on quick bicycling; capital. C. B.
FRY, not one of the Small Fry, gives his ideal of a cricketing
day, which is to be known as a "Fry-day." Then who is it writes a
florid account of fishing in Florida? O'TIS MYGATT. The
question of "What's on at Newmarket?" is pleasantly answered by
ALFRED WATS-ON at Newmarket. On "Old Sporting Prints,"
PEEK writes with point. And on "The Alpine 'Distress Signal'
Scheme" there is a paper by C. T. DENT, who has been, more or
less, a Re-si-dent on the spot, as this in-denture witnesseth.
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"TO THE RANK OF MAJOR-GENERAL HAVE RISEN!"--_Critic._ From a
paragraph in last week's _Truth_ we extract the following:--"Another
scandalous 'selection' job has just been perpetrated at the War
Office. Colonel TROTTER, who has been promoted to the rank of
major-general, has seen no war service, and has no professional claims
whatever upon the authorities." If this information be correct, the
colonel should be remembered by the distinctly Dickensian title of
_"Job" Trotter_.
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