From a cattle-auction advertisement:--

"NOTE.--Pigs and Calves are requested to be forward by 11

o'clock."--_Kirkendbrightshire Advertiser_.

_Vive la politesse!_

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"The hereditary privilege of remaining covered in the presence

of the Monarch was granted by Henry VIII. to John Forester of

Watling Street, in 1570."--_Observer_.

We wonder what GOOD QUEEN BESS thought about this posthumous

interference on the part of her papa.

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