_Making Something of Nothing!!_--Lord Mayor KNILL has been created a
Baronet. Sheriffs WILKIN and RENALS, as being next to Nil, have been
knighted.
"Nobodies" have been Baronets, but still
'Tis wondrous to create one out of _Nil_!
The Middlesex Artillery Volunteers
Will "make the _Wilkin_ ring" with hearty cheers.
And for the last, he'll bear his honours meekly,
He's RENALS "going strong," not "_Renals Weakly_."
(For the last, understand _Reynolds' Weekly_.)
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GOOD EGG-SAMPLE!--One egg was sold the other day for L60 18_s._ _Vide
Times_ of Wednesday last. The egg was a perfect specimen of that _rara
avis in terris_, the gigantic _Aepyornis Maximus_ of Madagascar. What
did Mr. STEVENS do with it? Did he have it made into several omelettes
for a breakfast-party of a dozen? Of course it was a perfectly fresh
egg, and the only thing at all high about it was the price.
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FROM THE CAMP.--Just now Riflemen are Bis'ley engaged.
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