MARCH.
The formation of volunteer rifle corps, with a view to the protection of life and property, will be strongly recommended.
The rate of cab fares of the metropolis will continue at 4s. 6d. per mile. Drivers, as heretofore, will be encouraged to enforce its payment from a parsimonious British public.
Greenwich Fair will present the usual endless variety of intellectual recreations.
APRIL.
GREAT SELLS OF THE FIRST.
A gentleman, invited out to dinner, will wait patiently in the belief that his tailor really means to send home his new coat by four o'clock.
The same gentleman's bootmaker will wait patiently in the belief that his debtor really means to call and settle that little matter by four o'clock.
The printer's boy will be sent to our residence to ask for copy.
Our boy will be despatched on an errand to the printer's to inquire for proofs.
The strictest discipline will be enforced among the Railway Companies' officials.
He hears, moreover, that the gold lies twenty-five feet below the surface of the soil, and thinks he had better try if he could dig a hole that deep. He takes up two flag stones in the back kitchen, and makes the experiment.
Nor is he quite sure that his constitution will stand living in a tent. He judges it expedient to contract for a month's residence with a distinguished Egyptian family on Blackheath, by way of probation.
Great Irish Fête on St. Patrick's Day.