The New Rowing.

"Give a last pull at the oar with clenched teeth and knit muscles."—The Young Man.

The Cork Examiner on Sir Percy Scott's letter:—

"'If a battleships is not safe either on the high seas or in rabour,' he asks, 'what is the use of a battlesh?'"

To be more accurate, this is how one puts it to one's neighbour after dinner, when—the ladies having removed themselves, and the necessity for mere social chit-chat being over—we men are at last able to devote ourselves to the affairs of empire.