MR. PUNCH'S PROVERBS UP TO DATE.
An acre of land in Melbourne is better than two miles in the bush.
Not enough at the Aquarium pays better than a feast.
You may start a train punctually from the terminus, but you can't get it to keep its time en route.
You can't make an English purse out of an Irish Land Bill.
A Tea Duty will annoy for ever.
It is the early Tram-man who holds the morning meeting.
Look after the wire-fences for the horses and the hounds will take care of themselves.
A man may go nine times to Holloway for contempt, and after the tenth visit come before the Official Receiver and be broke.
A School Board is soon parted from its money.
Give a dog a muzzle and you needn't chain him.
"Nothing when you're Roose'd to It,"—We've heard plenty about diner à la Roose, and the Here and There and Everywhere and Fare of London Life, but now we are to have Fasting à la Roose. Vide article in May number of New Review on Fasting, by Dr. Robinson Crusoe,—beg pardon,—should have said Dr. Robson Roose O. Article not variation on Roose O's Dream, but thoroughly practical.