(_CONFERRED BY HIM, WITHOUT_ "_OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION_.")
_To Her Most Gracious Majesty_.--The Queendom of his heart.
_To the Duke of Clarence, and the Princess May_.--A Bridal Quick
March.
_To Prince George of Wales_.--A Clean Bill of Health.
_To Prince Christian_.--"Eyes right!"
_To Mr. Gladstone_.--Freedom _from_ the City, its fogs, and politics.
_To the Duke of Devonshire_.--A Peerage, and the right successor in
Rossendale.
_To Mr. Chamberlain_.--His Cartoon for the week.
_To Mr. Balfour_.--An Irish "Order."
_To Lord Randolph Churchill_.--"Something new _out of_ Africa."
_To the Peerage_.--General Sir FREDERICK ROBERTS. (The greatest
"honour" of the lot, by Jove!)
_To Henry Irving_.--"A Health to the King" (HARRY THE EIGHTH), and any
number of Nights' (run).
_To Johnny Toole_.--Rapid recovery, and "another kind love" from
_Toole-le-Monde_!
_To Mr. Punch's Young Men_.--Privy Councillorships (to the Public) all
round.
_To Everybody_.--A Happy New Volume!
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A QUESTION OF PRECEDENCE, BUT NOT A PRECEDENT.--It is a gracious act
on the part of a Cabman, when, at a dinner-party, he gives the _pas_
to an Omnibus-driver, at the same time courteously explaining this
waiver of rights by saying that "at the present moment he is not
standing on his rank."
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"THE COMPLEMENTS OF THE SEASON."--Christmas Boxes.
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[Illustration: SUPERIOR EDUCATION.
_Page Boy_ (_to Jeames_). "WHERE SHALL I PUT THISH 'ER DISH OF
AMMONDS?"
_Jeames_ (_with dignity_). "I'M SURPRISED, HARTHUR, THAT AT YOUR HAGE
YOU 'AVEN'T LEARNT 'OW TO PERNOUNCE THE _R_ IN HARMONDS!"]
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