Speeding the Parting Guest.
"Oban is proving an attractive centre, for Lord ——, Lady —— and many others have departed thence during the last day or so."—Daily Paper.
We think it only kind to suppress the names.
"All new demands for capital, whether for private or public purposes, had been met out of the sayings of the people."—Daily Paper.
Mr. Punch may perhaps be permitted to mention that he has himself given currency to a number of capital stories.
"It is to be hoped that, now that their unhappy country is in the throes of the most ghastly terror of her history, the irreconcilable elements in the Irish nation will see an all-compelling reason for exercising the demon of strife.—Indian Paper.
Unfortunately they seem to be doing so only too freely.