On Monday, July 29, Sir AUGUSTUS HARRIS, bidding farewell to
a typical '95 Covent Garden audience (house crowded in every part),
seized the opportunity to present one of his lightning conductors with
a "_bâton_ of honour." In a spontaneous speech, DRURIOLANUS
declared that Signor MANCINELLI had "worked like a Trojan,"
and the announcement was received with sympathetic applause. Still,
it was thought possible by those present that the pleasant and
prosperous _impresario_ was in search of something that he had
seemingly lost--"a little poem of his own." We have no hesitation in
publishing the following lines, entitled _Sans Adieu_, found in the
neighbourhood of the C. G. orchestra. If they are not from the pen of
DRURIOLANUS, they ought to have been:--
Not farewell, my MANCINELLI!
MANCINELLI, _au revoir!_
As harmonious _fratelli_
We shall meet again! _Espoir!_
Take, oh take this shining _bâton_.
You're a marvel! _O, si sic!_
When you've got it, with your hat on.
_En vacance_ you'll cut your stick.
You will wave it, you will wield it
Always, my conductor prime,
Never up again you'll yield it,
Ever living to beat time!
Grasp it, use it, MANCINELLI!
Highest praise to you is due!
With it beat Old Time to jelly,
Till Conductor Time beats _you!_
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More Honours.
Motto for Sir WILLIAM DUNN: "_Ce qu'il fait c'est bien fait._"
Likewise "Just Dunn enough."
For Mr. JOHN TOMLINSON BRUNNER, M.P., a Brunneretcy.
Motto for Sir A. B. FORWOOD: "_En avant! et plus en avant que
jamais._"
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"H.M.S."--Should H.M. the King of the BELGIANS ask H. M.
STANLEY, M.P., to return to Congo-land, the inquiry wired will
take this simple form "_Congo?_" and the answer must be "_Can't go_."
_On dit._ The H.M.'s have settled satisfactorily.
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MEDICAL CONGRESS.--Explanation:--The "Anti-toxin" party is
against the use of a dinner bell or gong. They do not agree with Lord
BYRON, "The tocsin of the soul, the dinner bell."
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[Illustration: THE NEW KEEPERS.
SQUIRE BULL (_to_ S-L-SB-RY _and_
CH-MB-RL-N). "WELL, MY MEN--NOW I'VE TAKEN YOU ON, I SHALL
EXPECT BIGGER BAGS THAN I'VE HAD LATELY."]
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[Illustration: REMINISCENCE OF A RECENT POLITICAL CONTEST.
_Harmless Individual_ (_who has suddenly and unexpectedly been
assaulted and battered by inebriated party_). "YOU SCOUNDREL!
WHAT'S THE MEANING OF THIS?"
_Inebriated Politician._ "'LECKSHUNS, OLE F'LA!
'LECKSHUNS!--(_hic_)----"
[_Comes a cropper himself._ #/ ]
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