(_The Rajah of Bobbili arrived by P.& O. at Marseilles, where he
was received by Col. Humphrey on behalf of the Queen._)
There was a gay Rajah of Bobbili
Who felt when a steamer on wobblely,
"Delighted," says he,
"Colonel HUMPHREY to see,"
So they dined and they drank hobby-nobbeley.
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IS THE _TIMES_ ALSO AMONG THE PUNSTERS?--In its masterly, or rather
school-masterly, article last Saturday, on "The Divisions on the
Home-Rule Bill," written with the special intention of whipping up the
Unionist absentees, the _Times_ said, "There is an opinion that, with
a measure so far-reaching in its character as the Home-Rule Bill,
pairing should be resorted to as sparingly as possible." The eye
gifted with a three-thousand-joke-search-light power sees the pun at
once, and reproduces it italicised, to be read aloud, thus--"_Pairing_
should be resorted to _as pairingly_ as possible." What shall he have
who makes a pun in the _Times_? Our congratulations. Henceforth, to
the jest-detectors this new development may prove most interesting.
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IMPERIAL INSTITUTE NOTICE AT THE RECEPTION.--"Guests must retain
their wraps and _Head Coverings_." Evidently no bald men admitted.
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AUSTRALIAN SONG IN MINOR KEY FOR ANY NUMBER OF VOICES.
--"_I Know a Bank!_"
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