"_I'm sure you will be a great acquisition to my little company_;"
_i.e._, "Awful stick, but a _pis aller_ I'm afraid."
"_Now if there's_ anything _you notice not_ quite _the thing_, pray
_mention it_. I'm _not above taking a hint_;" _i.e._, "Nor _you_ up to
giving one--of any value."
"_Oh, no doubt you're right, though it's not the way_ CHARLES MATHEWS
_did it_;" _i.e._, "That's a nasty one for you, Mr. MEDDLER."
"_Ah, yes, I was a little off colour, perhaps; but I shall be all right
on the night, you bet!_" _i.e._, "Not going to be dictated to by _you_
anyhow."
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"STANDS SCOTLAND (YARD) WHERE IT DID?"--Yes; only more so. And how kind
and thoughtful of the Government to order that the materials for
building the new Police Offices should be found and fashioned by the
Dartmore convicts. Quite a labour of love!
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Correspondent, in _Times_ of Saturday, showed that, in Spite of increase
of population, there has been a decrease of drunkenness. In 1884-85
there were 183,221 drunken Police-court cases; but in 1887-88 only
166,366. Anti-temperance persons will look upon this as "a Drop too
much."
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PICTURES OF THE YEAR THAT NO PATRON OF ART CAN POSSIBLY OVERLOOK.--Those
that are sky'd.
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"SCOTS, WHA HAE."
(_New Version. Sung at the Opening of the Edinburgh International
Exhibition, May 1._)
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Scots, wha hae at Paris bled,
Scots, wham COOK hath aften led,
Welcome to the white, green, red,
Of your ain Great Exhibition.
Now's the day and now's the hour;
Though you have no Eiffel Tower!
See the bawbees pile and pour;
All the world shall crowd to see!
Wha will want to pinch and save?
Wha to see it will not crave?
Wha will not declare it brave?
Far from Edinbro' let him flee!
Wha will wish to see the sight
Of the graund electric light,
And the "Kiowatt" of might?
Caledonian! on wi' me!
Ninety acres on the plain!
Almost apes the Show by Seine.
Won't folk flock by tram and train
To our International Show.
Let the Incandescents glow,
Sixteen thousand, row on row!
SANDY all the world will show
He will beat the best--or die!
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