Bah! Politics are a bad joke.
To get up steam about 'em's silly.
The Tory pabulum is stale "toke,"
The Liberal beverage sloppy "skilly."
_My_ business, whilst they storm and splutter,
Is to earn beer and bread-and-butter.
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THURSDAY, JULY 18. FOR TWO KNIGHTS ONLY!--Sir HENRY
IRVING and _Sir John Falstaff_. Hitherto Windsor Shakspearianly
associated with Merry Wives and washtubbing (with "brown Windsor") of
Fat Knight. Henceforth memorable for Royal reception and dubbing (also
with the best Windsor) of Thin Knight. Reported that Sir HENRY
was invited to represent a Constituency! He _has_ represented two
single gentlemen rolled into one, such as _Corsican Brothers_, and
_Dubosc_ and _Lesurques_. But to represent a Constituency of some
thousands!! No rapid act of "quickest change" could effect it. _Vive_
Sir HENRY!
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"IN NUBIBUS."--WRIGHT, the convict and ex-solicitor
of the Liberator Building Society, said in the course of examination at
the London Bankruptcy Court that he was "formerly tenant of Cloughton
Castle in Ireland. That was only a small place, but it was customary in
Ireland to call almost everything a castle." Quite Wright. Home Rule is
now one of these _Châteaux d' Espagne_ in Ireland, and "to let."
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