(_Voice, Vote, and Veto._)
[What the brewers want is a Reform Bill by which "every adult
resident with a throat should have a vote."--_Westminster
Gazette._]
"When wine is in the wit is out"
Was once held wisdom past all doubt;
But now 'twould seem that every throttle
That hath capacity for the bottle,
Must have it also for the suffrage.
No more need rowdy Rad or rough rage.
Throat-suffrage should please everybody
Who lets out noise or takes in toddy,
By way of a capacious throat
Can drink and shout--One Throat, one Vote!
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FROM MR. CORMORANT, ST. JAMES'S PARK.--"Thank you, Sir. Mother and
child, Master CORMORANT and Mrs. CORMORANT, are doing uncommonly well.
Hope for the best. But permit me, accidents will happen, and I should
like to make provision--you understand. How? In my newspaper I see
advertised 'Eagle Insurance Co.,' 'Pelican Life Insurance Co.' Why are
the Eagle and the Pelican to be benefited, and not the Cormorant--and
others? But never mind the others. I speak for myself, and am yours
Devouringly, Captain CORMORANT."
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SOMETHING IN A NAME.--Most appropriate official to make a "Budget
Statement"--Sir GEORGE "DIBBS."
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