Some men's sole notion of improvement
Is simply to arrest all movement.
This craving crass the spirit stirs
Of Tsars and of Teetotallers,
Eight-Hour fanatics, and the like,
Friends of the dungeon and the dyke.
"_Dam it!_" That is their counsel's staple.
(Mark, LUBBOCK; also, BLUNDELL-MAPLE!)
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NEWS FROM AIX-LES-BAINS.--"_Fireworks were let off._" As mercy is the
Royal prerogative, we are glad to learn that it was exercised in the
case of FIREWORKS on the birthday of the Princess BEATRICE.
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BY ORDER OF F.M. COMMANDING-IN-CHIEF, PUNCH.--The Grand Military
Exhibition, Chelsea Hospital, to be known as "The Sodgeries."
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