A RESERVED SEAT.
Mistress. "Well, James, how did you like the Show? I hope you got a good view."
Jim. "Yes thankye, M'm; I saw it first-rate. There was room fur Four or Five more where I was."
Mistress (surprised). "Indeed!—where was that?"
Jim. "In the Park, M'm,—up a Ches'nut Tree."
ODDS BOBBILI!
(The Rajah of Bobbili arrived by P.& O. at Marseilles, where he was received by Col. Humphrey on behalf of the Queen.)
There was a gay Rajah of Bobbili
Who felt when a steamer on wobblely,
"Delighted," says he,
"Colonel Humphrey to see,"
So they dined and they drank hobby-nobbeley.
Is the Times also among the Punsters?—In its masterly, or rather school-masterly, article last Saturday, on "The Divisions on the Home-Rule Bill," written with the special intention of whipping up the Unionist absentees, the Times said, "There is an opinion that, with a measure so far-reaching in its character as the Home-Rule Bill, pairing should be resorted to as sparingly as possible." The eye gifted with a three-thousand-joke-search-light power sees the pun at once, and reproduces it italicised, to be read aloud, thus—"Pairing should be resorted to as pairingly as possible." What shall he have who makes a pun in the Times? Our congratulations. Henceforth, to the jest-detectors this new development may prove most interesting.
Imperial Institute Notice at the Reception.—"Guests must retain their wraps and Head Coverings." Evidently no bald men admitted.
Australian Song in Minor Key for any Number of Voices.—"I Know a Bank!"